HobbitFoot
@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
Reddit refuge
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 21 hours ago:
For consumption of content, phone to laptop use is probably about 70% phone and 30% laptop.
For production of content, 20% phone and 80% laptop, with Lemmy being a large part of the 20% phone production.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 day ago:
Yes it is.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 day ago:
The USA definitely went crazy after 9/11 and has done destabilizing things to the international community. I’m not denying that.
However, the USA has a big stick that has been able to keep most borders frozen. Without the threat of American intervention, I can see a lot of wars between countries start because war became an option.
And this could come to pass with a peaceful China.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 day ago:
This is including the Middle East.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 day ago:
My only concern is that I expect an increase in international conflict as the American security guarantee is gone. The only remaining countries capable of projecting power internationally can’t do it on nearly the scale of the USA. I expect a lot of wars until new spheres of influence get established.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 day ago:
Intensionally, the USA is going to lose its status as a hyperpower. Europe is going to decouple from American defense policy to the point where I can see American military bases close in Europe. An anti-Chinese military alliance will function with or without the USA anchored by India and Japan, but I see that force yielding some territory to China in the near term. There will probably be an increase in the number of wars in general as regions go into conflict without an American threat to maintain borders. Nothing the USA does is likely going to fix this.
Domestically, the administration is the greatest threat to the republic since the Civil War. If Trump is able to be pushed out in the future, there is going to need to be a major re-evaluation of how the American federal government works. This is going to require constitutional changes and the removal of major powers that the President has collected as the federal government grew.
- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 2 days ago:
He didn’t fly away?
I thought he would break apart and his powers would go back to their component rings.
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 3 days ago:
Most people talked about how the system was designed, but I’m going to ask about what you mean from a different point of view. What use would that system be?
Everyone carries around their own personal DNS in the form of an address book. It used to be a physical book; now it is integrated to your phone. There used to be a physical book of most people’s phone numbers, but that practice went away as spam calls became a larger problem and people stopped using the DNS book, the Yellow Pages, for looking up commercial numbers.
Second is phone numbers aren’t as valuable as IP address numbers.
The theoretical limit to phone numbers in the USA and Canada, which has a combined system, is 10 billion while not taking into account special numbers like 911 or that 555 numbers don’t work. That’s still enough for everyone within the USA and Canada to have a personal and work phone number with plenty to spare. If that becomes too much, the system can be changed to add more digita relatively easily.
In contrast, large parts of the Internet still works on IPv4. This is a problem as IPv4 only has about 4 billion IP address and every device has to have an IP address to work. I’ve got at least 5 devices that need an IP address to work while I only have one device that needs a phone number. So, the system of assigning IP addresses gets very complicated and DNS smooths that process to end users.
- Comment on It's Never too Late 1 week ago:
I’d consider it worse than Edison. Edison’s real contribution to technology was the creation of a company R&D lab geared towards new products. He would invest in the development of the product before it became big.
Kroc took over an already functioning business.
- Comment on 3 stars? 1 week ago:
LBJ had one on his farm. He loved to pretend that his car lost control and would crash into a lake to numerous guests.
- Comment on Is there an implemented system of automated trucks anywhere that is fully operational? 1 week ago:
Get from point A to point B without a human.
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I just don’t understand how you can use “intuition” for microeconomics & math applied in economics for example.
If you have an intuition for math, dealing in topics with a math component becomes a lot easier to understand.
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 2 weeks ago:
If you have a good AI model, how could you tell?
- Comment on India lauds Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, plans to host its models on local servers | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Not really. They are going to copy and paste the model for their own use.
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 2 weeks ago:
What’s to stop that from happening to Lemmy?
- Comment on I feel stupid asking this. But cities and countries who have smog and a major amount of air pollution. Why doesn't the wind blow it away or move it overtime? Is there that much pollution? 3 weeks ago:
It depends. Some areas with really bad smog have problems where the air in an area doesn’t mix with the surrounding air, trapping it and making it harder for the smog to dissipate. This is a common issue for cities in inland valleys.
- Comment on Would voluntary euthanasia benefit society? 3 weeks ago:
If someone is an able bodied person who is able to work, voluntary euthanasia would not benefit most societies. There would be to be rampant unemployment to make it near a benefit to society, which is usually more of a sign than the society is such instead of the individual.
Most economic research into the topic have been on those with severe disabilities, deteriorating medical conditions, and when end of life should occur. At that point, there isn’t an economic value keeping someone alive while there is a high economic cost in doing so.
If you’re able to work, it isn’t a benefit for society if you kill yourself.
- Comment on Is there any way our of the US political spiral? 3 weeks ago:
But why is there a two party tango?
Democrats will implement some policies and laws and then see support collapse as Republicans get voted in. Then people who didn’t vote will complain that Republicans got voted in and dismantled what Democrats were able to do.
- Comment on Is there anything stopping constant impeachment votes? 4 weeks ago:
The Speaker of House wields a lot of power, including deciding what gets brought up to vote in the House.
The current speaker is not a Democrat.
- Comment on Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi? 4 weeks ago:
Who decides who is an insurrectionist?
The legal system, which decided to take its fucking time.
- Comment on Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi? 4 weeks ago:
The voters were supposed to be that check and the Framers were explicit in that it was part of how they designed the Constitution.
Even regarding electing a felon, the Framers didn’t want a case where one state pushed through a a felony conviction quickly to keep someone out of office.
- Comment on GTA VI Might Inspire Other AAA Developers to Price Their Games at $100 4 weeks ago:
People didn’t want to pay for it.
- Comment on GTA VI Might Inspire Other AAA Developers to Price Their Games at $100 4 weeks ago:
Yeah. Super Mario Bros. 3 cost $50 on launch. This inflation in game price is horrible!
- Comment on Disappointed. Immeasurably. 4 weeks ago:
Makes sense given he couldn’t condone Jim Carrey’s buffoonery.
- Comment on IT help for the parents; It should be quick – Expectations vs. Reality 4 weeks ago:
It has been a running gag with friends when I had to help my mom save a file on a disc, it took over half an hour, and it still failed.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
They’ve been built up to get angry about specific topics in a way that bypasses critical thought.
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think Nintendo ever tried to be a tech company. They have always been a game company first and foremost. If they were ever a kind of tech company, the closest analogy would be Apple, another company that focused on consumer electronics.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 5 weeks ago:
Nintendo collapsed its console and handheld product lines for the Switch. We’re also seeing large parts of the gaming industry adopt the Switch form factor for their products. I don’t think there is anything that Nintendo could innovate on that would sell.
- Comment on How is the current AI bubble when compared to the .com bubble in the early 2000's? 5 weeks ago:
The AI bubble feels a lot more focused on increasing worker efficiency/replacing workers while the .com bubble felt more like throwing things at the wall to see what stuck.
People had ideas for what you could do online, but no one really knew what it looked like or how it could work. Since no one knew what form the Internet would take, a lot of companies were formed to throw shit at the wall and see what stuck.