HobbitFoot
@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
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- Comment on I get texting and driving being a danger. But back in my day you could eat drink change radio stations etc. Why weren't laws implemented back then? 3 hours ago:
The standard of safety was far lower back then. You could legally drink alcohol and drive in all states in the 1970s and didn’t face a national ban until 1998.
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 2 days ago:
As others have said, the issue is transmission.
There are parts of the world where solar power is deployed to help with the power grid; the Southwest USA uses solar power a lot as peak solar generally aligns with peak electrical demand. However, there isn’t the infrastructure to move west coast power to the east coast.
- Comment on ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments 4 days ago:
It is more identifying where the threat is going to come than anything else.
- Comment on ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments 5 days ago:
South Park isn’t broadcast and the FCC has far reduced powers on non-broadcast television.
- Comment on ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments 5 days ago:
They would have liked that.
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 1 week ago:
The conservative need to burn everything down got Trump elected.
The problems with Charlie Kirk’s assassination is the following.
First, random gun violence hit a conservative news commentator. Worse, it was someone who grew up in a conservative family. So, you’ve got a lot of conflicting emotions playing out in real time.
Second, there has been a lot of push back regarding what kind of commentator Charlie Kirk was. The discussions of who Kirk was outside of the conservative bubble are leaking in and a lot of Kirk’s fans hate it.
- Comment on How popular/important do you have to be for your death by homicide to be labeled as an "assassination"? What if the homicide is for a private matter that's separate from their importance? 1 week ago:
We’re used to kids getting shot.
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 1 week ago:
Which of their product lines could turn dev time into money?
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 1 week ago:
Which makes it work really well for stealth layoffs. If you don’t have a manager willing to bend the rules for you, you either have to show up or the company has a reason for firing you.
And if you do have a manager willing to bend the rules for you, they now have the ability to recind that offer if performance drops.
- Comment on What percentage of the world population ages 30+ do you suppose is capable of financially supporting themselves & living & thriving independently? 1 week ago:
Probably ~20%.
It would be higher if you removed “thriving” from the list.
- Comment on The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. 2 weeks ago:
It is easier to hire a billing specialist instead of a nurse.
There are a lot of positions out there that, due to education and experience requirements, the industry can’t fill.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned? 2 weeks ago:
Smaller community size. It is a lot easier to moderate a small community instead of a large one.
It is also the reason why Reddit moderators fought the API ban. Reddit moderators had developed their own tech stack to help them moderate the very large subs. Lemmy isn’t at the size where those tools are needed.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
For some like Gates, they probably want to keep the list private since they are on it; I feel like this was a big reason for his divorce.
For others, it is likely centered around the idea that Trump will let them do whatever they want as monopolies. It will shoot themselves in the foot as other countries dump US tech, but they will be able to keep their domains within the USA.
- Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 2 weeks ago:
Wikipedia was relatively early in labeling the Gaza genocide.
Also, as others have said, you can clone Wikipedia right now and set up your own structure to edit it. The problem is that most clones end up like Conversatopeda, which generally tends to add a lot of bias to the articles.
- Comment on Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two? 2 weeks ago:
The NBA developed a 3d printed basketball. Does material science count?
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 2 weeks ago:
In general, tech is an industry with high fixed costs and low costs per unit sold. That kind of pricing structure tends to limit competition.
Nvidia was founded at a time when outsourcing chip fabrication was common and viable, so all Nvidia had to do was focus on design. After a series of failures and near bankruptcy, Nvidia was finally able to invent the idea of a GPU and sell it to the marketplace.
After that Nvidia bought several companies to round out its patent portfolio and capabilities, remaining a dominant company in an industry it created. The only real competition was with other companies that had previous chip design experience.
- Comment on Are there "headhunters" that work *for* you? 2 weeks ago:
Not really. The problem is that headhunters earn a lot of money on their end and the market wouldn’t bear having employees give months of their salary for job placement.
An external headhunter would probably be a better choice for what you want.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 2 weeks ago:
It isn’t hypocritical, but I’d question why I would invest in something that I would want to lose value from a moral standpoint.
- Comment on Who could have predicted this? 2 weeks ago:
Eh. I feel like desktops are going to go the way of Steam Decks and Chromebooks for consumers. While Microsoft can’t force an app store, other companies/OS’s can.
For corporate users, I can see a corporate Windows/Office tech stack form, with corporations paying for support per user like current companies pay for Windows & Office 365.
- Comment on Who could have predicted this? 2 weeks ago:
The problem is that the Windows monopoly isn’t worth having any more and Microsoft is flailing in trying to make it worth it.
Microsoft can’t force an app store like Apple and Google can for iOS and Android. No one is going to buy an OS subscription like they do for Office 365. And, I’m sure that Microsoft earns almost nothing on new installs because of how cheap hardware has gotten.
- Comment on Why China has a tech manufacturing advantage over the U.S. 3 weeks ago:
China put a planning halt on building new subways in 2020 and its construction industry is in freefall. It built a lot of impressive infrastructure, but the nation overbuilt a lot and is still processing dealing with it.
- Comment on World Of Warcraft Turtle WoW Servers Hit With Blizzard Lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
But even then, Godot is an engine instead of a game. For various reasons, it appears that the ratio of open source games to closed source games is orders of magnitude lower than other forms of software.
- Comment on World Of Warcraft Turtle WoW Servers Hit With Blizzard Lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
You aren’t going to get corporate nonsense, but volunteer nonsense instead.
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 4 weeks ago:
There isn’t a guarantee that federation protects against enshitification. Email has effectively been captured by a few providers.
- Comment on Why are eugenics bad seen? 4 weeks ago:
Eugenics becomes a way to justify less fair societies for reasons that don’t fully meet scientific rigor.
- Comment on Is This Social Media? 4 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Paused my DS9 rewatch to read "A Stitch in Time" and am so glad I did 4 weeks ago:
Everything is canon.
Even the actor written fanfiction?
Especially the actor written fanfiction.
- Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 4 weeks ago:
Back in my day, we assumed that if it was on TV, it was a lie or likely not the whole truth.
Maybe you as a person, but a lot of society generally trusted broadcast television news. I think that part of the problem with old people going down the MAGA news hole is that they grew up in a time where you didn’t need a lot of media literacy to the level you do now.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, but is this a communist parade because that’s a lot of red flags.
- Comment on Please some more Sir? 4 weeks ago:
Is that Drake?