Lyrl
@Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Sprout 🌱 4 hours ago:
Apparently the wild forms are native to Mexico and South America, so none growing in Europe or the US. Also, it is one of the earliest domesticated plant families - cultivated beginning more than 8,000 years ago - so the domestic varieties overwhelmingly outnumber the wild ones. From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucurbita
C. argyrosperma is not as widespread as the other species. The wild form C. a. subsp. sororia is found from Mexico to Nicaragua.
The origin of C. ficifolia is Latin America, most likely southern Mexico, Central America, or the Andes. It grows at elevations ranging from 1,000 to 3,000 meters (3,300 to 9,800 ft) in areas with heavy rainfall.
C. maxima originated in South America over 4,000 years ago, probably in Argentina and Uruguay.
C. moschata is native to Latin America, but the precise location of origin is uncertain. It has been present in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Peru for 4,000–6,000 years and has spread to Bolivia, Ecuador, Panama, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela.
C. pepo is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, domesticated species with the oldest known locations being Oaxaca, Mexico, 8,000–10,000 years ago.
The domesticated forms of C. pepo have larger fruits than non-domesticated forms and seeds that are larger but fewer in number. - Comment on Damn straight! 1 week ago:
Increased unemployment can lead to decreased wages, depending on other factors. I had read your post above as claiming a multipart chain of higher minimum wage -> increased unemployment -> decreased wages, and my post was intended to address the first link (minimum wage -> increased unemployment), not the second.
- Comment on Damn straight! 1 week ago:
Lots of people get degrees in lower-earning fields because they value working on things that are interesting or meaningful to them more than they value the income tradeoff. Growing as a person is its own reward.
- Comment on Damn straight! 1 week ago:
A few percent of job seekers as structural unemployment supports a healthy economy where people change jobs and careers to match changes in labor needs.
That doesn’t mean an increase in minimum wage increases unemployment. There are hundreds of academic studies investigating that question, and it seems the increased economic activity of low-income people having more money generates enough new jobs to at least balance whatever job cuts happen due to the higher labor costs (low-income people tend to spend all their money, so they are more effective agents of short term economic stimulus than higher-income households that tend to save some of it).
- Comment on Damn straight! 2 weeks ago:
Having more than your neighbors is a huge drive to human happiness. House size has no impact on happiness. Having the biggest house on the block is a huge happiness boost. Above the level needed for minimum sustainable food and shelter, wages have no impact on happiness. Making more money than your friends is a huge happiness boost.
It’s something about how we are wired as humans. Many of us have other drivers that are stronger than the drive to have more than others in our community, but to get social support any strategy for raising the living standard floor needs to acknowledge the issue of this hard-wired drive.
- Comment on Gold 5 weeks ago:
If economies were only about hard assets, sure. But human work is a big part of modern economies, and a free base income lets more people pay others for services. It takes time for entrepreneurial-minded people to spin up businesses and grow the economy to absorb the increased income, but done in a thoughtful ramped manner, cash payments have net positive effects.
- Comment on 🫡🫡🫡 5 weeks ago:
It seems to be a common social phenomenon, something about how our human brains are wired. People have expert knowledge - burn the witches! China’s Great Leap Forward, the Cambodian genocide under Khmer Rouge, and on and on. I hate that we as a society haven’t figured out how to avoid this yet.
- Comment on So how would you handle this? 4 months ago:
Or it’s a fake explanation of the picture, or a fake picture (AI or old fashion photoshop).
- Comment on Every job that I was ever trained to do and every job when I trained others was like this 4 months ago:
I work in manufacturing, lots of physical tasks. The work instructions for the physical tasks get out of date with control system and physical machine changes just as much as the non-tangible type work documents.
I have found work instructions that (succintly, no essays) explain when something is a safety protection, or affects quality, are more effective. Most workers want to make a good product, and are genuinely trying to be helpful by making a change, but might not have visibility to the full impact. Explanations can also help reduce change fear: often managers won’t approve change because they don’t know why a rule exists, but are afraid it’s important. Having the explanation right there with the rule can help reasonable arguments prevail over fear.
- Comment on Every job that I was ever trained to do and every job when I trained others was like this 4 months ago:
Aw, thanks. I hope you gain a document savvy coworker!
- Comment on Every job that I was ever trained to do and every job when I trained others was like this 4 months ago:
It’s an unfortunately rare skill set to change documents. If the way it’s being done is better than the document, there is a process to make the document match, but that idea seems to not even occur to most of my coworkers, across multiple industries in my couple of decades working. They usually seem happier if I go through the paperwork and get their training to match what they are doing, though.
- Comment on Wiper malware targeted Poland energy grid, but failed to knock out electricity 4 months ago:
This really veers out of the espionage lane and towards the act of war lane. Acknowledged as a war action when done successfully against Ukraine. Possibly “only” a message if the failure in Poland was deliberate on the hacker’s part, but still awful.
- Comment on Tips 4 months ago:
China’s ten-year presidential terms worked well for their people for a long time. That Xi has gone the dictator for life route is IMO a significant threat to their future direction.
Many countries also seem to be on a fine interim path to building up a combination capitalist/socialist economy and bringing up their median and minimum living standards. China is big and influential, but doesn’t have a lock on that.
- Comment on Tips 4 months ago:
Yup, small percent of people. But those 4% (or whatever it is) are the only possible audience capable of breaking free of living from paycheck to paycheck by following “tips”. And 4% of 300 million people is a reasonably large number of people.
- Comment on Tips 4 months ago:
Or AI
- Comment on Tips 4 months ago:
It didn’t last. Surely there’s something in the middle that can both lift up the potential floor for standard of living through social safety net and also be sustained long term.
- Comment on Tips 4 months ago:
I don’t think the target audience here is people struggling with groceries.
There are a surprising number of households where both people pull in six figures in low or moderate cost of living areas, and they live paycheck to paycheck because they way overspend. It’s not groceries or the heating bill, it’s the extravagant vacations, the horseback riding lessons, the huge wardrobes for growing kids that need everything replaced in six months. These are all nice things, but if you can’t afford them, it’s OK to do without.
- Comment on Don't believe them 5 months ago:
Do you have other instances of calls or texts not going through? I ask because I had that problem, and it turned out the TMobile towers often take longer to find my phone number (the number itself - this issue persisted through multiple physical phones) than the default 15 second timeout to voicemail. I found instructions on the TMobile forums of how to increase the timeout period, bumped it up to 25 seconds, and haven’t had an issue since.
- Comment on I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this 5 months ago:
The damage thing might be intended in the way packaged things intended to be swallowed say not to use if the seal was broken. I think it means if you open the new product for the first time, and it clearly had a transport accident and is soaked with unknown liquid and covered in white powder, don’t give it to your cat.
If it looks as expected when you open it, and you know later damage was caused by your household and is mechanical only, that’s fine. Like it’s fine to use the sour cream that had an intact seal when it arrived in your house, but if the first time you open it from the store the seal is cut, toss it.
- Comment on TV watch you and... 5 months ago:
I do not like this development. Angry upvote.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 6 months ago:
Obligate ram breathing is kind of mind-blowing. They have to swim to flow water through their gills because their gills have no muscles to flap like most fish have.
Only a few sharks are obligate ram breathers, though. Many species are able to take breaks from swimming.
- Comment on BoM asked to explain ‘what happened here’ after cost of website redesign revealed to be $96.5m 6 months ago:
The website revamp was part of a larger overhaul of BoM’s IT systems dating back a decade that has cost taxpayers $866m after a 2015 “serious cyber intrusion” exposed vulnerabilities in its systems.
You threw out four years as an estimate of the time period involved, but if I am reading the article correctly this was more like ten years.
- Comment on BoM asked to explain ‘what happened here’ after cost of website redesign revealed to be $96.5m 6 months ago:
If the government procurement person doesn’t really understand the deep technical requirements, they are likely to choose the bidder who also doesn’t really understand the deep technical requirements, and is the low bidder because they don’t realize what they are getting themselves into.
By the time everyone realizes how much more is really required, they are already halfway through the project. The government could have saved money by choosing a more realistic higher bidder to start with. But once they have half a program from the low bidder, throwing that away and starting over doesn’t save any money. Better to just finish with the team that’s invested with the project.
- Comment on BoM asked to explain ‘what happened here’ after cost of website redesign revealed to be $96.5m 6 months ago:
I work at a large company that is critically dependent on VAX software written in the 1980s for almost every aspect of functioning. This was recognized as a problem. A replacement coding and testing team was established. It included a full-time team of contractors - a handful US based and I believe dozens located in India - along with a few full-time dedicated employees and maybe a dozen each of people brought part time out of retirement (the people with the 1980s knowledge!) and people with other main jobs who had to start dedicating significant time to support.
It ran for two years, then two more years, then another year. Very much a case of “the more you know, the more you know you don’t know” in that the more functions were programmed and tested, the more edge cases and sub-function requirements were uncovered. This program has been upgraded in pieces by so many people for so many decades that no one realized how hugely complex it had become, and what an enormous undertaking it would be to replace it. But after five years - more than double the original two-year projection - it was coming together, more things being really finalized than new needs being uncovered.
And then the software that the replacement program was being written with lost support. It was too old. Documents were written to try to give some future team a better chance of success, and everything was disbanded and shut down.
Being peripherally involved in that really made me more sympathetic to fiasco large tech projects.
- Comment on spongebob big guy pants okay 6 months ago:
I mean, enough that manufacturing of homgenizers is a thing. improbable.com/…/shakespeare-and-the-whole-mouse-…
The ad features the comforting headline: “Only the Polytron reduces an entire mouse to a soup-like homogenate in 30 seconds”
- Comment on Efficacy unparalleled 7 months ago:
It’s nice for variety.
- Comment on Piping mouse 7 months ago:
Do you think he might like the warmth? Parrot feet don’t have the feather insulation owl feet have, and I believe their circulation actually restricts to barely keep feet above freezing and save most warmth for their torso. Sounds uncomfortable.
- Comment on Piping mouse 7 months ago:
I think I saw a clip of an Australian doing that with a chicken.
- Comment on Who makes up the "serving size" on microwave food? 7 months ago:
Yes, I am in favor of the label having a column for the whole can, but also not all cans are the same size, for example Coke has at least four different sizes of cans: travel67.com/…/coca-cola-serving-sizes-and-an-unu…
Is having two columns of information (one for the whole package, one standard size to compare to other varieties) offensive to people?
- Comment on Who makes up the "serving size" on microwave food? 7 months ago:
There is some value in a standard serving size so we can compare nutrient density between products that come in different sized packages. Often labels will have two columns on the label, one for a standardized amount and another column for the entire package.