BussyCat
@BussyCat@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 1 day ago:
He has dementia which is an easy enough word for most people to be able to say. If you want to know the location of the dementia it’s in the frontotemporal area of the brain. But why that complex word well the front of the brain is called the frontal lobes which is a fairly logical name then the temporal lobe is the part that’s near your temples which is also kind of logical.
Historically medicine has been bad about being less specific with names and instead just naming things after people which while they are easier to say don’t actually describe what’s happening
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 days ago:
I was just as confused when I first heard the terms lol
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 4 days ago:
Can you describe what you mean by “disconnect with the image of masculinity you’ve been taught”
That is a very interesting statement but does not align with how it’s been described to me which is men can’t get laid and are horny and give up on women and just watch porn
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 4 days ago:
Cis means same as opposed to trans which means opposite it’s commonly used to describe the shape of molecules in chemistry but is also used to say if a persons birth sex is the same (cis) or different (trans) then their gender
Het is short for hetero which means different vs homo which means the same so if you had homogenized milk it’s all uniform and the same vs a heterogenous mixture which would have some areas of extra fat. Those are used as hetero and homo sexual where a homosexual likes people of the same sex and heterosexuals like people of the opposite sex
So a cis het male is a dude whose not trans who likes banging chicks
- Comment on Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms? 4 days ago:
Being the size of current reddit is bad but having more content would be nice
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 2 weeks ago:
Because if it’s a closed loop then the heat doesn’t leave the system so at some point you need to open the system. Your options for getting heat to actually leave the system are: evaporate water, air coolers (not efficient with large systems or in warm climate), or water coolers.
The water coolers sound good but then you are heating up a local water supply which can kill a bunch of local wildlife
- Comment on Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons? 3 weeks ago:
My engineering classes had one time option a year (not just per semester but only offered once a year) and none of them were offered later than 2pm
- Comment on Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons? 3 weeks ago:
High schools run early because one of their primary functions is childcare while parents work and parents commonly leave for work between 7-8 so kids need to be on the bus before then. They then stagger primary, middle, and high school so they can use the same bus drivers for all of them and high schoolers leave first so that they can arrive home first without parents. This is being changed as high schoolers need more sleep but it’s not for sports.
In college you need professors to teach classes and most of them want to work a more traditional schedule so want to be there from 7-3
- Comment on Stanford Professor: The idea that Stanford University owes its graduate students a "living wage" is preposterous 4 weeks ago:
I worked at a university, did research at a university and was a student. There is obviously waste and definitely some amount of grift but the auditing requirements in place to prevent grift are arguably so strict that they cause as much or more waste as they save in grift.
- Comment on Stanford Professor: The idea that Stanford University owes its graduate students a "living wage" is preposterous 5 weeks ago:
They are paid for by meal plans that count as income and are paid out as an expense… that’s how a budget works
After you mentioned the private chefs I tried searching for private chefs at Stanford and there was no prior job histories for it or current job openings for it. They have an executive chef but that is a dining hall position.
They aren’t hosting constant galas and most schools have contracts with companies like Sysco that require all catering events on campus to be supplied by Sysco so it’s not like it’s super high quality food either
- Comment on Stanford Professor: The idea that Stanford University owes its graduate students a "living wage" is preposterous 5 weeks ago:
They get regularly audited which is why the scandal was caught, they still can’t misuse tuition funds either. Travel and food expenses mimics gsa travel expenses but then they also have multiple dining halls and catering. Why are you trying so hard to make mountains out of mole hills it’s like you are begging for everything to be a giant conspiracy
- Comment on Stanford Professor: The idea that Stanford University owes its graduate students a "living wage" is preposterous 5 weeks ago:
You know you can just look at their budget right?
- Comment on Stanford Professor: The idea that Stanford University owes its graduate students a "living wage" is preposterous 5 weeks ago:
They also have 12.8 square miles of campus to maintain… which requires a lot more than just the 2300 professors. They also have adjunct professors, lab managers, researcher techs, facilities, and a ton of other expenses that are required from an R1 research university.
The grad students while they don’t get a “livable wage” do get their tuition comped and get a housing stipend. Like we can always do better but undergrad students are being done much dirtier than grad students as they are going into huge amounts of debt to try and even afford tuition
- Comment on Stanford Professor: The idea that Stanford University owes its graduate students a "living wage" is preposterous 5 weeks ago:
It’s an endowment, they can’t just empty that pool of money they take around 4% of the money each year that they get from investments which ends up being around 10% of their budget
- Comment on How does AI use so much power? 1 month ago:
It is also a very large data set it has to go through the average English speaker knows 40kish words and it has to pull from a large data set and attempt to predict what’s the most likely word to come next and do that a hundred or so times per response. Then most people want the result in a very short period of time and with very high accuracy (smaller tolerances on the convergence and divergence criteria) so sure there is some hardware optimization that can be done but it will always be at least somewhat taxing.
- Comment on Ever think of the inconsistency of airlines weighing luggage? 1 month ago:
It’s both, weight starts to become a bigger deal when you factor in that you have to keep it in the air for thousands of km. If airlines could charge people by weight they would in a heartbeat
- Comment on How much spacing while stopped at a red light? 1 month ago:
I usually flash my high beams first as a more gentle “look up” and then do the horn if they don’t notice that one
- Comment on If corporations are the GOP and the GOP are corporations why isn't it assumed that corporations will stem inflation due to tarrifs while the GOP is in power even if its at loss? 1 month ago:
You would need all the companies to work together which is unlikely since they are all individually financially motivated. Then public companies also need to report their revenue and profits and if a bunch of companies started showing losses people would take money out of the stock market causing a recession
- Comment on Arts & STEM 2 months ago:
So I’d that just all college degrees besides business?
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 2 months ago:
Then you don’t get elected…
What I find funny is I have the exact opposite opinion that the left spends more time trying to appeal to voters than actually communicate what they are trying to do. So we end up with things like 250B to boost American manufacturing that got completely ignored
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 2 months ago:
That’s why it’s important to be able to convey your message so people know what you are trying to accomplish with the 2000 page bill
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 2 months ago:
People regularly vote against their own interests
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 2 months ago:
Which is why it doesn’t search within an instant and it uses a bunch of energy and needs to rely on evaporative cooling to stop overheating the servers
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 2 months ago:
Computers for all intents are purposes have perfect recall so since it was trained on a large data set it would have much better intelligence. But in reality what we consider intelligence is extrapolating from existing knowledge which is what “AI” has shown to be pretty shit at
- Comment on When you see danger coming 3 months ago:
And how do you keep the wood from being exposed to moisture without petroleum derivatives? Like technically it is possible but to build enough homes to that standard for even 1/1000 of the population is unreasonable
- Comment on When you see danger coming 3 months ago:
We also cover wood in hydrocarbons to stop it from being broken down, if a bacteria can break down long hydrocarbon chains we are kind of fucked
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 3 months ago:
It’s a chance for you to explain what you were doing. If you spent that time taking time off between jobs because a job fell through, you got laid off, you quit spontaneously, etc those are all very rational things that an employer may want to know.
It’s up there with innocent questions like “where did you work before here”, and “do you have reliable transportation “
- Comment on The new AMERICAN pope doesn't even speak AMERICAN 3 months ago:
He’s in charge of the Catholic Church why is it a surprise that he follows the status quo of the Catholic Church?
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 3 months ago:
You can say something like “I was attending to personal matters” that still gives no information but doesn’t come off as rude to what could be an innocent question
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 3 months ago:
And that’s how you don’t get a call back