DahGangalang
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- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 3 days ago:
Being a technical expert != being a good leader
There are a set of skills and attributes that enable one to leader well. An ideal leader will have both technical skills and leadership capability, but it is possible for each to exist independently in a person.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 3 days ago:
A single expert in a team of juniors can do so much more. Because it can delegate the junior work to the juniors while doing only expert work.
This part is definitely true but I think it misses the point. A single expert can be a force multiplier, or they can be overbearing dead weight. There is the possibility a technical expert wants to micromanage and see every step as it is done (thus holding up work that can be done while the expert is elsewhere).
I conjecture that those skills and attributes that separate the two experts we’ve described is what “good leadership” consists of.
I would never trust a leader who has no technical skills, but neither would I trust a leader who has only technical skills.
- Comment on *Honk honk* 6 days ago:
Yeah, I see the industrial revolution as an inevitable consequence of the agricultural revolution.
Which is to say:
The agricultural revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. - Comment on Wowee 4 weeks ago:
Wow, the Pacific Ocean must be really wide, like, that’s gotta be longer than 2 football fields placed end to end.
- Comment on Anon watches redditors talk about bodycount 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on I am not a high drug user. I mean I smoke and drink that's it. But it seems to me that the US president is using uppers midday and keeping him up at night and crashing half thru the day? 1 month ago:
I’d love to have sources on this to shove in my folks’ faces. Can you point me to any?
- Comment on Black men dating Asian women: where is the real conversation about racism, family pressure, and emotional risk? 1 month ago:
I know I’m perfect.
I can’t help if this is intentional and based or just typo. Either way, thanks for the chuckle.
- Comment on If refusing to see your dying parent "wrong"? 1 month ago:
Hey friend, this is c/NoStupidQuestions.Ease up on the tone.
I know I feel for OP’s take since I feel largely the same way about my Mom. I’m hesitant to enumerate my grievances against her, but I don’t think her actions really ever quite amounted to “abuse”.
There’s been a lot of keeping secrets, lying, asking me to keep secrets and lie on her behalf, insisting I maintain relationships with legit bad people in the extended family, feeding the worst tendencies of people in the near family, and just being manipulative in general. And that’s before we talk about her probable (though never proven) cheating on my old man or her heavy marijuana use during mine and my siblings early childhood (older sis talks about her doing things that probably hit the level of abusive neglect while high for days at a time, but that was before I can remember).
So yeah, now that I’m in my mid-late 30’s, I don’t really talk to her much. I don’t think I hit the level of “would enjoy her suffering”, but I don’t intend to go out of my way to see her again.
I hope I’m the outlier in the sense of my story is rare, but I do see why others can not love their parents, even when they weren’t abusive in the strictest sense.
- Comment on Science is iterative 1 month ago:
So skimming through the wiki article, it sounds like it it’s still “throw something out the back” to generate thrust, which is largely the same problem as the Wall-E with a fire extinguisher problem another commenter made.
Ion Thrusters sound significantly more efficient (in terms of velocity change vs fuel), but do I have the right idea on that?
- Comment on Science is iterative 1 month ago:
Yeah. One uses the passage of a gas over rotating blades. The other uses water as it flows.
Neither use the passage of gaseous water, so theyre totally different!
/s
- Comment on Why do we have alcohol advertisements. We don't allow cigarettes to advertise 1 month ago:
Bit of a shot in the dark, but seems like cigarette companies have lied in front of congress / courts saying cigarettes are healthy / not bad for you and have been caught red handed in their lies.
Big alcohol hasn’t ever done anything that egregious. Everyone knows its not exactly healthy to drink, and Big Alcohol doesn’t seem to have ever argued that. I know there’s the occasional “a glass of red wine is good for your heart” stuff, but they’re also not making any attempt to deny a gallon of wine per day will probably cause cirrhosis, ya know?
- Comment on [PlayStation] [DRM] Licenses now requires an online check-in every 30 days. 1 month ago:
Ooooo, I hadn’t heard about this.
Can you link to more info?
- Comment on Borders 1 month ago:
Maintaining healthy trees with urine covering with federal employee benefits and a government pension sounds like a dream job.
No doubt they’d find a way to make it a bureaucratic nightmare of a job. But I’m down.
- Comment on What a world 1 month ago:
Well I mean people just keeping telling stories about them; the theme just _drag_s on and on
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Wait, Chat, is this real?
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 2 months ago:
So the way to get the $1,000,000 is to be the kind of person who would pick only the first box, but then at the last minute change.
That’s what makes it a paradox.
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 2 months ago:
Yes, however, that doesn’t mean there can’t be utility in engaging with the thought experiment.
The prisoners dilemma is one that I brushed aside for a long time as just a dumb problem when i first encountered it, but over the years, I’ve seen its utility in all kinda of situations.
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 2 months ago:
Hmmm, that’s a good and interesting follow on thought. No idea where we’d land for p, nor how we’d begin to calculate it. But interesting line of thinking.
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 2 months ago:
That’s an interesting take. I think I’ll need to chew over the full implications of my choices affecting everyone else’s choice.
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- Comment on Borger for scale 2 months ago:
Has New Vegas?
- Comment on Fun game 2 months ago:
Oh no surrealist memes is leaking again.
- Comment on Trump threatens to ‘blow up’ all water desalination plants in Iran 2 months ago:
How much of Iran’s water comes from desal operations?
Its my understanding that desalination is crazy inefficient and somewhat detrimental to the environment…but also, I’m not familiar with any large bodies of freshwater in Iran.
- Comment on Anon owns nothing and is unhappy 2 months ago:
That was an aspect, but I think it was how much dumber the AI became. I remember the “conquer everything” objective being doable in the first base game, but your allies act so poorly in the sequel that its basically in doable.
- Comment on Anon owns nothing and is unhappy 2 months ago:
Graphics was in DIRE need of an update on original Mount And Blade. Game came out in ~2010, but the graphics felt like they were early 2000’s.
Sequel did an 8/10 job on bringing those up to the late 2010’s (despite its ~2022 release).
That said, the base game became unwinnable with how impossibly stupid the game AI became. They also tried to build in a “main story” which was busted in multiple fronts and virtually impossible if you ever experienced a party wipe (very common occurrence in the early game).
Even with cheats enabled, my best run at the sequel’s primary objective (conquer the map), I only ever got ~25% of the way there after over 200 hours of game play.
- Comment on Anon owns nothing and is unhappy 2 months ago:
August will mark 10 years of playing Rimworld for me.
Obv its not the only thing I play, but I come back to it every 3-4 months after little breaks. Was the same for Mount and Blade till the sequel came out. The sequel was both such an upgrade and such a downgrade it made it hard to keep interest. It’s been probably 2 years since I booted that up. Maybe I should give it another try.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 3 months ago:
Ew.
So that is to say, as far as you know, the method I describe above more or less still applies for pigs, sheep, etc?
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 3 months ago:
Eh, I feel like the female cow is still getting a raw deal. Less raw than the classic “breed this bull with this cow” arrangement, but still somewhat not good.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 3 months ago:
Trying to be “facts forward” so make of this what you will. Source: I was in FFA in highschool in a beef intense-ish area.
The method of collecting semen I’m most familiar with is when they take a female cow in heat and tie her up, then bring a male bull they want to collect semen from into the same pen. The male will smell the female is in heat, gets erect, and will attempt to mount her.
As the male is trying to mount the female, people in the pen with the cattle will have a large rubbery “sleeve” on a pole (imagine a cow sized condom on a stick) that they will maneuver around the bull’s penis as it mounts the cow. He does his thing in the condom thinking he’s inside the female (usually less than 30 seconds) dismounts and then the ranchers have their semen for artificial insemination.
I’ve been out of that area for over a decade now a new method may have emerged since then, but in my Animal Sciences class, that’s how we were taught semen is harvested for most livestock.
- Comment on Anon is a PC gamer 3 months ago:
Oh, yeah, Atari would have been before my time, so don’t feel so bad about not thinking of that one.
I figured it was in reference to the MMO craze dying down, but that felt more like a strong speed bump than a crash.
