HobbitFoot
@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
Reddit refuge
- Comment on Are there any cities in the Phoenix area in Arizona that are a lot like Kentucky cities like Richmond or Versailles? 1 day ago:
You’re not going to find too many horse farms in the Phoenix area. Most animal based farms in the area are for cattle.
And as for a combination of rural and suburban, the divide is a lot firmer in Arizona since farmland tends to get developed in large chunks as suburban communities. The farms don’t have any relationship with the suburbs except as a place to drive through until the land gets developed.
And it is not going to be close to downtown Phoenix. Unlike Lexington, there was never a growth boundary chosen for the Phoenix area. Development has sprawled pretty far, only really limited by mountain parks and Indian reservations.
- Comment on How privatisation is ruining your life and putting the UK out of step with the modern world 2 days ago:
It is really hard for a government agency to switch from self performing to contracting and it requires a very different skill set in setting up contracts and regulations. Hell, it can be very difficult for government agencies to switch between different kinds of contracting.
And usually, it requires very intelligent people and it is hard to keep intelligent people in these roles on government pay.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
& t.
- Comment on Italy’s top court rules against tourist refused tap water in Dolomites hotel 3 days ago:
France is the only country I’ve been to in Europe that does a good job providing water.
- Comment on Italy’s top court rules against tourist refused tap water in Dolomites hotel 3 days ago:
It depends on the tourist place. Europe is very stingy with water, but other tourist parts of the world aren’t.
- Comment on Put your seat back or no? 3 days ago:
I don’t usually, but I get the window seat to give me sometime to lie against.
The rule is that, unless you’re in a first class seat that can impact the person behind you, you can recline.
- Comment on If you managed to create batteries that can last for a century, will charging be redundant? 5 days ago:
But less electronics waste is less profit. If everyone who bought a 2 year phone bought them every 4 years instead, that’s a 50% drop in sales.
- Comment on If you managed to create batteries that can last for a century, will charging be redundant? 5 days ago:
It depends on the power density. A battery with the current power density but increased longevity isn’t going to be as useful as you’d think.
A battery that is able to have the same power output as current batteries but last a century is going to be a weapon of mass destruction.
- Comment on What's your opinions on film critics and film snobs?? 5 days ago:
I like and subscribe to some of them. You just got to pick the good ones to follow, like someone who will tie in his film criticism to a season long plot arc about a talking coconut trying to gain clout or someone who will teach you what dub con hetero Omegaverse is.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
They come with different preconceived notions about your friends than you do.
- Comment on As adults, do you still watch kids’ cartoons, either old or new? 1 week ago:
I watch adult animated shows, but I wouldn’t call them mature.
I don’t think it says that much about me order than my current media consumption doesn’t really include ways to easily watch kids’ cartoons.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You mean electromagnetism? We use electromagnetism all the time. That’s how we get electric motors.
- Comment on What's the solution to Netflix's second screen stuff from a Marxist perspective? 1 week ago:
I’d like to see answers to this question, but the people on Lemmy who would have the most knowledge of this aren’t going to be hanging out in .world.
- Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 81 comments
- Comment on i'mma breed you hotter 1 week ago:
Still not as lucky as avocado.
We kill the animals that can shit out their seeds, but we end up breeding them ourselves because avocados are delicious.
- Comment on Meta is rapidly reorganizing its workers’ jobs around AI: ‘Transfers aren’t optional’ 1 week ago:
Well, what else would those engineers work on? Most of Meta’s product lines are either stable or dead. If they weren’t going to AI, they would just be going away.
- Comment on If Camila comes from a wealthy upper-class family, then why didn’t Queen Elizabeth want them to get married??? 1 week ago:
First, Camille was more “experienced” compared to Diana, and at the time that taint wasn’t seen being fit for a queen mother. There was also never a time when they were both single, leading to possible scandal as one would need to leave their partner for the other.
Second, the question never really was asked until Charles and Diana’s marriage was falling apart. This was a major black eye for the royal family and marrying a divorced spouse had caused a king to resign in Elizabeth’s lifetime, making her very sensitive to the perception of divorce in the public eye.
- Comment on Students Are Learning Less and Getting Higher Grades Because of AI, Study Finds 2 weeks ago:
Colleges haven’t been training people how to read for centuries; it has been assumed that people entering college could read and write with a pen for a long time and college shifted with it.
And the collegiate system wasn’t based on Confucian teaching styles.
- Comment on Students Are Learning Less and Getting Higher Grades Because of AI, Study Finds 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but part of it is because students complained, the current ranking of universities don’t include quality of undergraduate education, and the public didn’t really understand what college was for when providing funding with strings attached.
- Comment on Students Are Learning Less and Getting Higher Grades Because of AI, Study Finds 2 weeks ago:
You can argue that primary and secondary school was about workforce productivity, but college was designed for leadership training.
- Comment on My son job lowered their hiring wage instead of raising it. 2 weeks ago:
Unless the existing staff break down and can’t do enough work to keep the place running, management don’t care.
- Comment on My son job lowered their hiring wage instead of raising it. 2 weeks ago:
They’re greedy, not stupid.
- Comment on How old is "Keeping up with the Jones's"? Who or what are they? And why do I need to keep up with them? 2 weeks ago:
That’s the 10th commandment.
- Comment on Students Are Learning Less and Getting Higher Grades Because of AI, Study Finds 2 weeks ago:
The point of an undergraduate degree isn’t knowledge; knowledge is only the first level in Bloom’s Taxonomy, a set of six levels of how people understand different topics.
The problem with the use of AI in college is that students are supposed to get to the application point in undergrad and that college is supposed to provide that practice. Using AI in college is like using a machine to lift weights. Sure, the weights are moved, but it doesn’t benefit the person who needed the exercise.
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
Don’t you understand, the Fediverse is serious business!
- Comment on Can travel anywhere in late June, not sure where. Anecdotes/advice? 2 weeks ago:
Only speaking to what I know:
Cuba - It will be a pain for you to handle the paperwork. As an American, you have to pick only one of right reasons to go to Cuba and going on vacation isn’t one of them. You also can’t go to fancy hotel since they are owned by the Cuban state and the USA embargo means you can’t trade with the government directly. You also need to keep all receipts for a few years.
Puerto Rico - Pretty stable as a place to visit, especially in touristy areas.
Turkey - Istanbul is a great place to visit and it is easy to get around. I also hear the beaches are great. Only possible issue is that Turkey is rather hilly and I don’t know if your mom can handle the hills.
Scotland - Nice place to visit, but you aren’t going to be going to visit any beaches. Also, you’ll likely be drinking in front of your mother.
Portugal - Nice place to visit. Very hilly. The area is also adjusting to its tourist demand.
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
Well, the Lemmy devs have stated that their goal isn’t to design a system that scales well and it shows. Part of it is that there may be a future where there are too many new users for a mod team to handle, especially if the barrier for signing up is extremely low.
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 2 weeks ago:
I agree that pumping in water at a different temperature can affect the environment. It is just that a lot of people tend to conflate the effluent coming from plants like this as something which needs chemical or other treatment when the issue is thermal only.
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 2 weeks ago:
There are already heat exchanging systems that do this with brackish water already; you don’t need to treat water if all you ate doing to the water is making the water hotter or colder.
- Comment on How plausible is a medical tricorder? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, you probably could produce a medical tricorder right now which could detect if someone is dead.