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- Comment on Fun 11 months ago:
That sounds like something Jackass would do.
- Comment on UK workers ‘should get day off’ if workplace is hotter than 30C 11 months ago:
Seen it far too often unfortunately.
And in some cities they got air conditioning banned or de-facto banned (made so expensive with additional hurdles that it’s unaffordable for most, ironically often leading to people using extremely inefficient hose-out-the-window monobloc units that you can buy without asking anyone for permission).
- Comment on UK workers ‘should get day off’ if workplace is hotter than 30C 11 months ago:
Of course companies will be against it.
Not sure why climate activists would want people to suffer.
Some because they think it’ll make people more aware of the problem and create more pressure to act, others because they think suffering is a virtue, people deserve it for what they have done to earth, and similar nonsense positions.
- Comment on UK workers ‘should get day off’ if workplace is hotter than 30C 11 months ago:
I’m wondering how long it takes until climate activists start advocating against it (because it would increase the use of AC and thus emissions/energy use, and decrease the amount of people suffering from the heat).
- Comment on Stonehenge campaigners’ last-chance bid to save site from road tunnel 11 months ago:
Are there any hidden interests (e.g. environmental activists trying to make traffic a nightmare to discourage cars, someone able to profiteer from the current situation somehow, NIMBYs wanting to block the project due to some other location it affects and attacking it here because it seems easier)?
- Comment on Stonehenge campaigners’ last-chance bid to save site from road tunnel 11 months ago:
So one of the complaints seems to be… that you won’t be able to see it from the road anymore, suggesting that the tunnel entrances will be out of sight of the monument. I haven’t seen arguments that it’ll disrupt the stability of the site or anything else either, so from the limited info I have, the complaints sound quite spurious.
- Comment on How The Password Game was beaten in 59 characters 11 months ago:
Skipping the wordle by messing with the system clock feels like cheating.
- Comment on If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...? 1 year ago:
Why would that be a problem? We already often only use the last two digits to refer to the year, that’ll probably not change.
- Comment on How well do Swedish fish keep past their best by date? 1 year ago:
Since you already received the genuine answers:
You need to be really careful. The expiration date isn’t exact, but after that, they’ll quickly ferment and turn into Surströmming on the inside.
- Comment on Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9? 1 year ago:
I guess it could be done as a Bandersnatch-style experiment on one streaming platform, but it’s so far from the regular way things are done that it seems unlikely.
- Comment on Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9? 1 year ago:
It works well enough to be shown for a few seconds at a keynote for static pictures in some cases. It won’t yet work well enough to be permanently known as the official “remastered version” for moving video consistently.
Now, someone uploading a watchable version on YouTube? That will happen in the next years if it hasn’t already. But that version would be widely ridiculed if released officially because something, somewhere will be off and fans will notice.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
As harsh as it is, the color aspect definitely plays into it, but part of it is also expectations. Israel is expected be a developed place that’s at peace and not committing genocide. “Country X in Africa is in a state of {war, civil war, Warlord war, genocide, famine}” happens so frequently that it feels like “county X in Africa is currently stable and prosperous” would be newsworthy. That’s probably not reality, but that’s common perception, I think.
- Comment on Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9? 1 year ago:
Adding imagery that reliably looks good is currently beyond what AI can do, but it’s likely going to become possible eventually. It’s fiction, so the AI making stuff up isn’t a problem.
Upscaling is already something AI can do extremely well (again, if you’re ok with hallucinations).
- Comment on What is going to happen when people realize climate change is rolling in? 1 year ago:
That’s why I provided the ranges I was able to find.
- Comment on What is going to happen when people realize climate change is rolling in? 1 year ago:
Countries with resources won’t have a reason to “devolve into war”. Countries without resources won’t affect much beyond that country. Why would logistics get disrupted?
I also think you’re overestimating the effect. Optimistic studies claim something like 8% impact in 2100, pessimistic 18% in 2050, which is a tiny effect per year.
Again, humanity deals well with slow changes. We’re mostly talking about “the economy grows by one percentage-point less quickly than it would without climate change” for the worst affected countries in the absolutely worst long term estimates (something like -65% by 2100), and a fraction of that for most countries. Just to be clear, we’re not talking about “x% less than now”, we’re talking about “x% less than it would have been without climate change”. It’s likely that over time, despite climate change, the standard of living even in those countries will continue to increase, unless they, as you said, devolve into (internal/local) wars for mostly unrelated reasons.
- Comment on What is going to happen when people realize climate change is rolling in? 1 year ago:
Dealing with it.
Weather gets hotter, more people get A/C. Disasters get more frequent, more people get fucked by disasters.
Areas become less habitable, some people die, some people deal, some people flee. Migration gets more pressing? Borders get closed with increasingly violent measures.
We just had inflation make life 10% more expensive in many countries. That’s about the impact of climate change people in “rich” western countries can expect from climate change, except it will happen more slowly.
As much as climate doomers would hope for collapse, climate change is a slow moving disaster. Humans are adaptable, especially when there is time to adapt. Even the more pessimistic among the realistic/scientific predictions are on the “life will get X% worse” side, not “doom, we all die, no food no water” side.
- Comment on Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate? 1 year ago:
Last time it worked, they got over a thousand prisoners for one soldier.
Taking hostages was the one thing about the entire attack that made some logical sense.
The murdering, on the other hand… that guaranteed a violent response, and doing it in the most brutal way possible and then filming it and bragging about it ensured that Palestine lost most sympanties, and Israel basically got a free pass to do whatever they wanted.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
You probably have limited practical ways to do something about it (aside from freely talking to your coworkers, reporting to the NLRB if you’re in the US, and hoping they care), and anything you do does risk retaliation (illegal, but you need to understand that being right doesn’t mean people follow the law, or that the law will be enforced effectively).
Obviously you should be looking for a less shitty job regardless.
- Comment on Why do people say that "return to office" is about raising commercial real estate prices? 1 year ago:
I think it’s because there just isn’t any sensible explanation so people are trying to come up with something.
The tech companies do have massive real estate footprints, but I think it doesn’t make sense at all, those are a cost center for them.
- Comment on "We Took a 100+ Hour Greyhound From Boston to Seattle" 1 year ago:
Judging by the stories I have heard about Greyhound, the Benadryl is a very nice gesture. That way, the people who steal your kidneys will have to spend less on drugs for you.
- Comment on "We Took a 100+ Hour Greyhound From Boston to Seattle" 1 year ago:
You’re not alone… came here to make a joke about this (and I am still going to).
- Comment on Locked out - Google's absurd security measures won't log me in 1 year ago:
The problem is that they can’t tell who is who, nobody wants the extra hassle of extra security, and in the end the companies have to deal with the fallout (customers asking for account recovery, compromised accounts being abused, …).
- Comment on Locked out - Google's absurd security measures won't log me in 1 year ago:
“Apparently, providing my login credentials doesn’t prove that the account belongs to me” given how bad people are with password reuse, phishing etc. - no it doesn’t, unfortunately.
- Comment on Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used? 1 year ago:
These two specifically - I don’t think I’ve ever seen them.
Hectoliters are sometimes used e.g. for measuring beer consumption for an event, decimeters in some informal contexts, some country commonly describe drink sizes in centiliters or deciliters.
Centimeters are common, I’d say more common than millimeters in informal context.
- Comment on Is It All Right to Plug a Multi-Socket in an Adaptator? 1 year ago:
Technically, you’re probably not supposed to.
Practically, yes, it works and is reasonably safe (unless the adapter is cheap garbage). Make sure the adapter has a fuse.
Long term, you could also consider replacing the plug on one of the multi-sockets with a UK plug.
However, the PC almost certainly uses a standard C13 cable. If the monitor also has a cable like that (e.g. a C13 or C5 going to the power supply), consider just buying replacement cables with UK plugs.
- Comment on So why is 3 nm chip better? 1 year ago:
The smaller it is the less power it needs. That also means it generates less heat, allowing you to do more computation without the device melting.
- Comment on I have an apartment where the dumpster is a car's drive away, and taking trash down involves 4 staircases. What is the best way to ameliorate this situation? 1 year ago:
Window.
- Comment on How can I compare the money saved when buying an item in bulk? 1 year ago:
For cost per unit, you divide the cost by the number of units. $20/(200 units) = $0.10 per unit. $60/750= $0.08, so 2 cents cheaper per unit.
But if you actually only need 50 but can’t resist a “good deal”:
The 200 cost $0.40 per item that you actually need, the 750 cost $1.20 per item that you actually need (plus the cost of storing and at some point throwing out the ones you don’t need).