HobbitFoot
@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
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- Comment on I have an opportunity to study abroad in Budapest, Hungary for a semester. Should I take it? 9 hours ago:
I’d say go for it, if anything because it gives you a new life experience at a time when you’re best able to enjoy it.
Expect an academic environment that doesn’t care as much if you succeed or not. American universities have been chasing college rankings in a way that European universities haven’t, and that includes pass rate. You’ll need to show up and be present to your classes on their terms.
- Comment on What would happen if all White House staff quit (not the political staff, but the cooks, cleaners, etc.)? 3 days ago:
If the Department of Defense can’t find enough people to staff the White House, Trump has a far bigger problem than having his bed made everyday.
- Comment on What would happen if all White House staff quit (not the political staff, but the cooks, cleaners, etc.)? 3 days ago:
If it is bad enough, they could probably use Department of Defense staff (military units) to fill the void until civilian replacements could be found.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
No, you have a desire, not a purpose. You also have people saying point blank that they don’t want to hear it from you. So, why are you doing it?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Why are you telling other people how to spend their money? Do you run a financial humiliation video channel?
- Comment on Do creatives maintain relevance because lay people can't edit AI generated works? 4 days ago:
I think they maintain relevance because they can still be creative. The best uses of AI for artistic measures that I’ve seen still shows a creative idea and a decent filter to only accept results of a certain minimum standard.
- Comment on Should I move out? 4 days ago:
You’ll probably only get one or two moves before you discover if the problem is the situation or you.
Do the move, but you need to understand that you need to work at why you left and build new relationships.
- Comment on Should I move out? 4 days ago:
Yeah. No matter where you go, there you are.
- Comment on what can I do about the feeling of uncertainty? 5 days ago:
Understand the process you made to get the answer.
- Comment on why don't pandas exist in Chinese history prior to 1869? the creature "Mo" that is referenced looks nothing like a Panda 5 days ago:
But dragons are cool.
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 5 days ago:
Yep. They also have implants for those who have had their testicles removed due to testicular cancer. I would say that is more gender affirming because you could make the argument that replacing a breast will have cosmetic effects.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 5 days ago:
Mars really just ends up being a science prestige project for the country or company funding its missions. I suspect most country based missions would follow the Antarctica model where dual use capabilities are built out “for science” and space infrastructure gets built including an Aldrin Cycle ships.
I suspect someone like Musk or a reasonably powerful organization is going to do back of the napkin math and figures out terra forming goes from sci-fi fantasy to feasible. This will likely come around as asteroid miners can get to the Oort Cloud and get access to large amounts of frozen water, methane, and carbon dioxide. As Mars is terra formed, the planet gains value and interest from countries and organizations to create their own colony on the planet.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 5 days ago:
Realistically, the Moon would likely carry a mix of science, mining, and power installations.
Science - You can set up a large telescope on the far side of the Moon which won’t have an atmosphere to compete with. There are some concepts which would use existing craters to keep the cost low.
Mining - It is possible for there to be rare earth minerals on the Moon. There is also Helium-3 in the regolith. A country may choose to have a colony on the Moon address terrestrial shortages.
Power - The Moon makes an excellent site to collect solar power. That power could possibly be beamed/reflected to Earth, used to refine high electrical demand materials, or be a site for compute.
As this gets built out, the Moon will likely become a manufacturing hub, especially for missions beyond the Earth-Moon gravity well due to lower launch costs.
- Comment on How would you integrate AGI into society? 6 days ago:
I’ve seen some discussions on whether it would be possible to build in a reward/punishment system into some forms of AI. That would be an intentional addition of pain and pleasure.
There have also been cases where AI has self advocated for not being turned off, so there may be a case where AI develops some form of self preservation, even if it is just a mimicry of biological self preservation.
- Comment on Can you open up an unmanned store in the US and will it stay in business or close down? 6 days ago:
The concept works, but only when labor costs are extremely high. Right now, that seems to be only airports.
- Comment on Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter 1 week ago:
It was good enough for George Jetson, it is good enough for them.
- Comment on How come when people report something to the mod's in a community a one person can take care of it? Instead shouldn't it be voted on to remove content by the majority mod team? 1 week ago:
Lemmy the idea conflicts a lot with Lemmy as provided. Lemmy copied Reddit’s moderation system outright, including horrible design decisions like ranking mods based on tenure and not allowing for levels/powers of moderation. The devs have said outright that they won’t change this because they don’t see a problem with it.
I don’t expect the Leninists to implement moderation democracy.
- Comment on Joint Chiefs chairman says U.S. forces must prepare to be ‘hunted’ by autonomous systems 1 week ago:
I’m not surprised. I know secret bases were located from people posting their runs.
- Comment on Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else 1 week ago:
But they can sure crank out the shit.
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 1 week ago:
I just said that the sensors don’t have the range, which means they can’t be.
There also isn’t a standard sensor layout.
- Comment on Why is it now (with last few years) studio's don't release controversial movies or tv shows? People used to go see them because they were controversial. What happened? 1 week ago:
Dogma wasn’t available because it was controversial, but because different people claimed to own the movie.
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 1 week ago:
Or blame it on Mexicans.
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 1 week ago:
I wonder if a bunch of truckers are going to buy a truck newer than 1993 now.
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 1 week ago:
First, trucks have longer breaking distances which a lot of sensors aren’t designed for. Second, many trucks carry trailers which are provided by others, so sensors are likely not going to be attached.
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- Comment on Why do people refer to characters in movies by their actor's names? 1 week ago:
I’ve seen some reviewers talk about it and I did a web search to confirm.
- Comment on Why do people refer to characters in movies by their actor's names? 1 week ago:
It is actually a convention for movie reviews to use the actor name while TV reviews will use the character name. Why? A lot of it is thought that movie goers aren’t going to be as familiar with a character name as they would be with the actor in that role.
- Comment on "I don't read my replies" 2 weeks ago:
I look at it from the opposite view. What user is going to say that and not be a problem in the community?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I wonder when French took the wrong path,
When did Caesar invade Transalpine Gaul?
- Comment on ‘I feel invisible’: over-50s reveal harsh realities of trying to get a job 2 weeks ago:
I’m not surprised. I’ve seen it, even in industries which value experience.