HobbitFoot
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- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 1 day ago:
Get work to implement it.
- Comment on How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves. 1 day ago:
Yep. That’s a lot of words to try to seem superior to other people. Did you use ChatGPT to help you write it?
- Comment on How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves. 1 day ago:
I know The Simpsons sends the grunt work to East Asia, but I thought that South Park is so simple that a US team can bang out production with the writing staff within a week.
- Submitted 1 day ago to [deleted] | 23 comments
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 1 day ago:
It has gone to shit.
In some cases like McDonald’s, the ingredients have been on par while the cooking quality has tanked.
For a lot of other places, both the cooking and ingredient quality tanked.
Taco Bell is probably one of the few major chains I still eat at because their ingredients are hard to fuck up cooking and putting it together isn’t that difficult.
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 2 days ago:
I didn’t take the photos.
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 2 days ago:
I know, but my response sparked further discussion so it’s cool.
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 2 days ago:
Both programs were developed to work on high end consumer laptops, which meant being able to work on IBM PC and therefore DOS.
Those programs also were likely 2D in their initial versions in the 1980’s. They were also competing against human drafting, which was considered to be industry standard at the time.
Cost and ease of use were likely more important than other potential users of 3D software, so they went with DOS and made the transition to Windows.
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 2 days ago:
Neither Autodesk nor Bentley had a good economic reason to develop in Linux. Those companies also spend a lot of money on major clients to produce tools for them, which they then force all contractors to use.
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 2 days ago:
At minimum, we would need AutoCAD, Microstation, and Projectwise. We also need these exact programs as our clients require our CAD submittals to be in specific formats.
We also need Bluebeam Revu for other client coordination.
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 2 days ago:
Yeah, but I don’t want to flip through photos in GIMP.
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 2 days ago:
This is a work problem and a lot of software we use isn’t supported on Linux.
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 2 days ago:
It becomes a problem if you didn’t take the photos.
- Submitted 2 days ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 99 comments
- Comment on Is there a 'ama' sub? 3 days ago:
It is common amongst cloned software projects to completely rename a lot of the original software’s terminology.
- Comment on why is mexico not treated the same way as canada?? 3 days ago:
Part of it is cultural while another part is economic.
Culturally, Canada was part of the British Empire well into the 20th century. This meant that having relations with Canada was having relations with the British Empire. Outside of the War of 1812, the British Empire typically negotiated with the USA with respect that the USA could project at least the same kind of land power in the Americas as the British Empire could.
Culturally, Mexico was a successor nation to the Spanish Empire. Mexico didn’t have the level of protection that Canada did nor did it have similar government institutions as the USA had. There was also a difference in approach to colonization between the two nations; the USA engaged in settler colonialism using white Europeans while Mexico had a large indigenous population incorporated into Mexican society.
Economically, Canada has a per capita national wealth on par with the USA while Mexico has lagged behind. This has led to a lot of migration from Mexico to the USA and Mexico being used as a low cost labor source.
- Comment on Somebody has a case of the Mondays... 5 days ago:
There is significant overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans.
- Comment on What is Trump going to do to social security since he is now going to be president? Just wondering because my mom gets SS and she does not want me to support here? 1 week ago:
A 2:1 ratio on Social Security age limits wouldn’t affect a lot of his base, so I can see Trump pushing it.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 week ago:
I expect that the EU is going to have to claim defence competencies to continue the Union’s defense. There are way too many small countries in NATO that can’t contribute meaningfully to a military beyond some basic battalions and the EU needs something more robust than France and Poland.
- Comment on Why doesn't Lemmy have a system like Reddit's Karma? 1 week ago:
A raw number across the whole federation would be useless. Different instances have their own cultures, making a unified number worthless. People could also goose their numbers by creating an instance that gives their account unlimited karma.
Instance karma could be useful, but it is a design decision not to show it. I suspect that will continue until there is a need to use karma for moderation, but I suspect that defederation would be the lower lying fruit for now.
- Comment on Why doesn't Lemmy have a system like Reddit's Karma? 1 week ago:
Karma has become a part of a measure to determine if an account is a human non-troll.
The first step in ban evasion is to create a new account and continue doing what you’ve done before. By requiring an account to be a certain age along with a certain amount of karma, it makes sure the account is less likely to be a ban evader.
- Comment on do you think lemmy will ever be popular? 1 week ago:
I don’t think the form of Lemmy as a federated service will be able to scale.
What I expect is that, if Lemmy is successful, it will be as a platform for various Reddit alternatives, kind of like how Truth Social is Mastodon.
- Comment on Why do different ethnicities/races look different? 1 week ago:
For height and weight, there are links to the climate that the people live in. Typically, hotter climates favor skinny people while colder climates favor more husky people. As for height, my understand is that a dry heat favors taller people as they can take advantage of sweating more than a wet heat.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Not every sector has.
What is showing itself as a major weakness in retirement saving is that a lot of retirement account managers think that bonds are relatively safe when they really aren’t.
The Great Recession went bad because they miscalculated the risk of two unrelated mortgages going bad.
When Covid hit, the increase in interest rates devalued a lot of bonds, something that wasn’t seen since the 1980’s.
Most of the people here who are confused by your accounts’ performance probably have a mix of index funds tied to a basket of stocks.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
That’s messed up.
- Comment on Is there any reason to use the "new" sorting option on Lemmy, except to filter spam? 2 weeks ago:
Now, not really. In the future, I expect subscribed new to be more important as content becomes more abundant and there might be a point where you could miss out on posts that didn’t see the kind of engagement to make it on your stream.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 weeks ago:
But do you need to slow it down all the way? Can’t you just slow it down enough to get the ball in an elliptical orbit where the trash ball gets very close to the ball of plasma?
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 weeks ago:
But does it matter what speed the garbage is going at when it hits the sun?
- Comment on Distribution 3 weeks ago:
I’m saying boo-urns.
- Comment on For states on the coast with excess solar energy why don't they invest in water desalination and pump that water back upstream? 3 weeks ago:
The only state this would be viable in is California. As the state won’t invest in desalinization to provide water for coastal areas, I doubt it will desalinate and pump the water up.