HobbitFoot
@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
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- Comment on Is the world more volatile now or is it just the abundance of news? 18 hours ago:
It is a wave of volatility not seen since the end of the Cold War.
- Comment on *landbastard intensifies at the right of replacing a 2 dollar light switch". 1 day ago:
It depends. If you’re an independent contractor working for a company, you could be considered to be operating a business from your home.
The line has gotten blurry, especially after COVID.
- Comment on *landbastard intensifies at the right of replacing a 2 dollar light switch". 1 day ago:
Depending on the jurisdiction.
No businesses from home is a relatively common condition in a lease and co-op ownership contract, especially if the business involves people constantly visiting the home or turns the mailroom into a warehouse.
It is the equivalent of a lease banning a person from setting up an Airbnb in the unit they rented.
- Comment on Would people like a "X posts per Y" rate limit for this community? 3 days ago:
Don isn’t that annoying.
- Comment on What are y'all's opinions on the Fitbit Air? 4 days ago:
What will probably happen is that Google will finish incorporating Fitbit to the Android/Google ecosystem and kill the independent brand. The Fitbit app has already been rebranded to Google and Google has stopped selling high end Fitbit watches while incorporating the tech to new Google watches.
- Comment on How old is the "world's oldest profession"? 1 week ago:
I’m sure I can but shitty copper from someone.
- Comment on It's becoming widely accepted that it's not safe to put pictures of your children on social media... (cont. in post) 1 week ago:
I don’t want to prove I’m an adult to shitpost.
- Comment on Supreme Court will review Alaska's bid to seize pilot's plane over 6-pack of beer: "This case isn't just about me" - CBS News 1 week ago:
That’s why the Supreme Court case is about excessive fines and not the legality of the stop.
- Comment on Supreme Court will review Alaska's bid to seize pilot's plane over 6-pack of beer: "This case isn't just about me" - CBS News 1 week ago:
Most of the bans are in Native Alaskan communities who don’t have the resources to deal with alcohol, so they ban it instead. The ability to ban is codified in state law, so the state assists with enforcing the ban. It is the reason why an Alaskan State Police officer conducted the search.
- Comment on Supreme Court will review Alaska's bid to seize pilot's plane over 6-pack of beer: "This case isn't just about me" - CBS News 1 week ago:
It wouldn’t be just that island. A significant part of Alaska has a ban on alcohol.
- Comment on Why is it a bad thing for a host of SNL to bring in their own or other writers to help write jokes and stuff? Wouldn't it take some of the pressure off the SNL writers? If they all agree on things? 1 week ago:
The guest usually has a lot of discretion over the monologue if they want it, but the sketches are written by SNL writers.
- Comment on Why is it a bad thing for a host of SNL to bring in their own or other writers to help write jokes and stuff? Wouldn't it take some of the pressure off the SNL writers? If they all agree on things? 1 week ago:
It kind of depends on how it is received. Taylor Swift wrote her own monologue song and it went over very well with SNL writers per an interview with Seth Meyers.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Windows isn’t trying to do what Linux does.
On the server end, Linux beat every competitor out there, including Windows Server, because it was free and development occurred along the lines of educated users making improvements. So, at first Linux was worse to use, but it was cheaper. Then, Linux was about as easy/stable as paid for versions, but it was cheaper. When it became easier to use to educated users and more stable and cheaper, all paid server OS’s died.
That said, I bring up educated users because Linux is only a kernel and Windows by itself does more than Linux does by itself. On the consumer end, no one has been able to threaten Windows without a DRM’d app store. Consumers won’t do bug fixes at the scale that enterprise users will. Consumers generally need more developed on the UI side to make the OS functional while you can run Linux in terminal mode. Most of Windows’ development went into this, making Windows easy/desirable for consumers. In contrast, most Linux development time went to making Linux more easy/desirable for enterprise users/servers.
This is really the first year that Linux for consumers is viable and a lot of that work packaging Linux for consumers came from Valve putting the various pieces of open source software together and sanding down the right edges. In contrast, Microsoft has been doing that for a generation.
- Comment on Why does auto focus work so poorly when trying to take a picture through smudged glass? 1 week ago:
So what makes it try to focus on the near smudge in the glass window instead of the larger scene outside?
- Comment on Why does auto focus work so poorly when trying to take a picture through smudged glass? 1 week ago:
Yes, because the camera focuses on the smudge.
- Comment on Why does auto focus work so poorly when trying to take a picture through smudged glass? 1 week ago:
Yes, because the camera focuses on the smudge.
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- Comment on Once lunar colonies are established, would they attempt to break away? What would independent lunar republics look like? 1 week ago:
The cost of supplying food is going to push colony owners to make the colonies self sufficient with food.
We have Arctic and Polynesian parts of the world imported food prices are already insanely expensive. When you Antarctica like research bases, the food cost gets borne by government entities because the cost is even higher due to shipping. Now, add a zero or two to the shipping cost to get food to the Moon.
So, once a Moon base gets to the size of a McMurdo station, someone is likely going to figure it will be cheaper to build the ability to grow food on the Moon rather than ship everything from Earth.
It doesn’t even have to be a complete meal at first. The Moon could start with basic starches like potatoes and rice to supplement dehydrated meat and vegetables. Over time, more crops get added and some protein like shrimp and chicken are able to be grown on the Moon. You might not get a steak, but it could be enough to make some colonies mostly self sufficient.
- Comment on Once lunar colonies are established, would they attempt to break away? What would independent lunar republics look like? 1 week ago:
Most of the colonization of the Americas was mercantilist in origin. The initial discovery was started as a way to find a trade route to China and many colonization efforts were more about resource extraction than anything else; it took a century before colonies started popping up focused on religious freedom.
As for the comparison to Antarctica, there was an intentional pause put on colonization as it became apparent that colonization was finally within humanity’s technological grasp and there were possible mineral rights that would make colonization worth it.
Colonization will likely be slow, but I expect that economic uses for the Moon will be found.
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 1 week ago:
It’s definitely not healthy, but this isn’t going to fix the birth rate.
- Comment on Once lunar colonies are established, would they attempt to break away? What would independent lunar republics look like? 1 week ago:
Virginia was a colony for over 150 years before declaring independence. A century and a half may be long enough to build out an agricultural base.
The Moon also has some benefits to colonization, including an easier place to launch spaceships beyond Earth.
- Comment on Once lunar colonies are established, would they attempt to break away? What would independent lunar republics look like? 1 week ago:
It is a lot easier to fling a rock from the Moon to Earth than to fling a rock from Earth to the Moon.
- Comment on Once lunar colonies are established, would they attempt to break away? What would independent lunar republics look like? 1 week ago:
Looking at the USA, it would be far more likely that American lunar colonies would be given a path to statehood long before independence came up. The USA already has two states not on the American mainland. The only colony rejected from being integrated was the Philippines and that was because Americans didn’t want to integrate such a large non-white population into the country. I don’t think a lunar colony colonized by Americans would have that issue.
Looking at China, I don’t know. China would likely attempt a similar process of integration, maybe to the point where senior political leaders have a stint running a bureaucracy on a lunar colony.
As to whether the Moon would unify its colonies as they kick out Earth colonizers, likely not. The independence wave in the Americas never united across across colonizing powers. The only way that there would be a united Moon is if one nation conquered the Moon and lost it or post colonization wars saw a post-colonization country conquer the Moon; this would likely not happen given the Moon’s strategic importance to Earth. Earth could accept an independent Mars; Earth could never accept an independent and unified Moon.
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 1 week ago:
I find it works better for staff to come in if they are still learning on a task. I am far more likely to get people to ask me and each other questions in person than over email and instant message.
I’ve literally given a job to two people, broken out the components on who would do what, told them to coordinate with each other, them found out later they never reached out to each other once. Then I had to get involved in redoing the task.
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 1 week ago:
Yeah. The value of having everyone be in the office isn’t the furniture.
- Comment on why is total surveillance suddenly everywhere 1 week ago:
It wasn’t sudden. You’re just noticing it now.
- Comment on Do both games & consoles cost more in the US when you factor in both sales tax and minimum wage? 1 week ago:
Yeah. A lot of people want to complain that games aren’t made like they were in the good old days but don’t want to pay anywhere near the equivalent price.
- Comment on America and it's racism and Israel? 1 week ago:
The White Christian Nationalists are hoping to start the end times.
- Comment on Can an Swedish style draft work in the US? 2 weeks ago:
Border defense for the USA would be increasing the number of customs agents along the Mexican border by a significant number. The USA has never had a Russia like threat in its border who could invade at any time.
The National Guard mainly handles civil defense now, but there were more civilian oriented groups during World War II and the early Cold War. It is mainly volunteer and acts as dual use to support the US Army in times of war. I got my first COVID vaccinations at a National Guard run facility.
To answer your question of if mandatory civil service would help the USA, you would first need to build the institutions needed to use the manpower. There really isn’t a use case on the civil side that could use millions of young people who may not have the drive or the knowledge base to do more than basic grunt work.
- Comment on Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims 2 weeks ago:
Probably. Most mass firings generally have to show that there was a process and that said process didn’t unfairly target certain unprotected classes. So, Meta made AI the process.