HobbitFoot

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, you probably could produce a medical tricorder right now which could detect if someone is dead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello. Nice to meet you too. I hope you like it here.

  It is great to see that people in China can participate in this little slice of Internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explain Stalking to me. I have ex gf's I run into different times at the same stores. Some I keep running into store after store. Just coincidence. At what point is it stalking or something?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually it is intent. Does the stalker show up in multiple places where the stalker knows the stalked is supposed to be? Does the stalker show up to private locations uninvited?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I unrot my brain from AI, and is improv a good enough way to fix an AI-rotted brain?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To answer the second part of your question, yes. Improv is good because it forces you, not an external source, to process a set of information quickly to fulfill a stated goal. It is also good for working on public speaking and interpersonal skills.

  I knew one engineer who took improv as a way to improve interpersonal skills and to be able to respond faster in client meetings. When talking to them and they brought it up, I responded “Yes, and?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if programmers rewrote the English language?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There kind of was some attempts, but more from the point of view to strip down the language as a way to standardize it:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_English

  It isn’t so much a reform on spelling as it is a way to standardize vocabulary to make it as mutually intelligible to non-native speakers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP social media. What comes next is messy.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t dare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI layoffs backfire as cutting staff doesn't cut it, firms warned⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of the issue with off-shoring was that a lot of the work was contracted to different companies. Nowadays, large companies own the satellite offices so they have better control over the work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI layoffs backfire as cutting staff doesn't cut it, firms warned⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it is just failing companies that are doing this.

  COVID fundamentally broke the relationship of cost of living to the salary of certain jobs. You don’t need to pay salaries for people to live in Silicon Valley or Seattle if everyone in the department is full remote. So, if you are going to keep the job as full remote, you can base the salary on a more average cost of living and cut wages. You can use AI as an excuse for senior staff layoffs for investors, then quietly hire workers in more parts of the world with lower salaries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP social media. What comes next is messy.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but the federation as a whole will defederate from instances outside of a minimal acceptable set of politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a person were paranoid about a potential food shortage in the next two to three years, what should they stock up on now?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to define the design event before determining what the correct course of action is. If it is a natural disaster response, you should have enough food, potable water, and fuel for a few weeks. Anything beyond that and you really need to start questioning how the assumptions affect your prep.

  If you’re expecting climate change/agricultural blight, not all crops are going to go at once. You need to select foodstuffs to keep where there aren’t any equivalents in the market.

  If you’re expecting long term war creating embargos, there will be a calorie deficit over months or years. You are also going to have community members and government trying to redistribute any available foodstuffs from hoarders. Unless you are very wealthy, you likely run out of food within a year unless you can grow and keep your food. Even then, you’ll likely be caught as everyone is starving and you still have some fat on you.

  If you’re expecting collapse of supply chains causing mass shortages, security is going to be a major concern. That’s why people are recommending being armed and organized.

  It is the reason why a lot is people don’t take preppers seriously. A sustained food shortage beyond a natural disaster is likely going to result in an issue with a lack of security or the security apparatus has a vested interest in controlling scarce resources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Daredevil just get 'good' rich people to pay off judges and the anti-vigilante task force police, or get them to make sure Fisk doesn't get into office?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think he has the contacts to do that. Daredevil is generally considered a small super hero, he works in Manhattan only and didn’t generally run in the same social circles as the Tony Starks of the world.

  It also potentially puts him into a compromising position. What happens if the billionaire wants something to happen that will harm Daredevil’s community?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we have alcohol advertisements. We don't allow cigarettes to advertise⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A few reasons.

  First, the alcohol industry has been a lot more sensitive to being perceived as selling to kids than the tobacco industry was. Because of it, there was never the push to ban advertising and conduct a mass media effort to control teen drinking as there was teen smoking.

  Second, people still remember prohibition in the USA and how it was a failure. So, you’ve got a lot of people worried about a slippery slope in comparison to tobacco.

  Third, the alcohol industry is far better at lobbying around specific items that would actually prevent consumption. For instance, alcoholic beverages don’t need to show nutritional information. It will bend in a way that keeps access open.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we have alcohol advertisements. We don't allow cigarettes to advertise⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The law is different in different parts of the world. In some parts of the world, alcohol can only be purchased in specialty stores. In other parts, it can be bought effectively anywhere.

  In line with OP’s question, CVS made a big deal about banning the sale of tobacco in all its pharmacies a decade ago, saying it could not sell tobacco products and be a health care provider at the same time. However, in some states, a CVS will have rows of alcohol for sale because it is legal to sell there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The US isn’t going to get that trust back that it had before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the US so into Israel?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Suez Crisis was the last major diplomatic action that the USA took against Israel, with the USA using its ownership of British and French debt to keep the Suez Canal Egyptian. After that, Israel invested a lot help shape the perception of Israel to Americans and invested in several pro-Israeli candidates in both parties through AIPAC and other means. It worked well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I tell my dad that his mistake almost cost me a fortune?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What would you do if he wasn’t your dad? What if it was another employee that made a mistake like this?

  Even though he is your dad, he is also your employee in this case. If your relationship with him is healthy, this should be something you two can work through in both family and in business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I drink more water?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried various sources of water? I can usually taste the difference between various bottled waters, let alone tap water from different places. Maybe you don’t like the local tap water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is classy and fancy being called "Old Money aesthetic"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Old money isn’t about money, but class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Vladimir Putin a good and professional leader?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He was an improvement on Yeltsin and he was popular. However, his grasp on power beyond term limits have been a net negative on the country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparantly there are some rural places in China that have never seen a white person... So... are there like places in the US I can go where they never seen an Asian person before?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not likely. Chinese migrants in the USA went everywhere to start various small businesses. It is the reason why there is that Chinese family running two grocery stores in Sinners. Chinese families would be rare, but they would be everywhere.

  Your best bet is the rural Mountain West or Appalachia, but even then you’re likely going to find some Chinese people living there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's say hypothetically I wanted to leave the US permanently;⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Australia and New Zealand have a points based immigration system that you can check online. That would be the first place I’d look.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How should a news article website financially sustain itself?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  By turning the content into advertising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people in real life actually care who dates who and who is in or out of "people's leagues"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people do as a way to judge a person’s rank in society. The attractiveness of a person’s spouse is a common metric for how successful someone is. So, if a highly attractive woman is slumming it with a man who appears to be well below her status, it is confusing for a lot of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we know how much apps would cost if we had to replace as revenue with subscription fees?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And it is also bundled with an ad-free music service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we know how much apps would cost if we had to replace as revenue with subscription fees?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux is subsidized by a consortium of major tech companies supporting a common code base as it is cheaper than relying on one vendor.

  Signal is run by a non-profit group which is funded by various grants.

  Mastodon is a combination of above, the code being subsidized by a consortium of developers and individual servers funded by various means.

  To just say “it is free” ignores the economics of why they are free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adult costume for Frozen themed children’s party⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But who gets to play Gunter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s implied in the use of men as a descriptor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don’t tech bros wear suits?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wearing a suit isn’t the only way to show power.

  Tech used to dress up to the same standards as other professions in the 60’s, with their rules for conformity. Some engineers realized that they were too good to need to conform, so they dressed down, daring their bosses to fire them. Given how valuable the good engineers were, they got to keep their jobs even though they didn’t fully conform to the dress code.

  It became a statement of power. Meetings would often be decided on the person worst dressed because they were the valuable tech decision maker.

  Fast forward to when Facebook is trying to get its IPO and Mark Zuckerberg is going into meetings with financiers dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. The financiers were all wearing suits, but Zuckerberg didn’t need to because they needed him more than he needed them. Zuckerberg didn’t need to dress up for bankers, bankers needed to dress up for him.

  The only time Mark Zuckerberg wore a suit as part of his work was when he was testifying in front of Congress. Why? Because Congress had power over him and that power made Mark dress up.