Kage520

@Kage520@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sick days⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile, I got written up for using more than 4 days in a year

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up with the calendar as shown here. Like bookends on a shelf. The week “ends”.

  My wife’s work insists weeks start on Mondays. This allows them to schedule her differently and not get overtime according to their scheduling.

  Mine does the same, but insists the week starts on Saturdays.

  I don’t know why the world cannot decide a proper schema for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still alive?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that I disagree but, have you seen how low effort all of this has been for them? It wasn’t some sort of complicated pizza code like maga thought Democrats were doing, it was literally just emails like “when is the wildest party on your island?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lightbulbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I did buy a super expensive dimmable tunable led strip from Yuji LEDs. It was expensive even before the tariff situation, so really bad now probably. But the LED was top notch. I followed a guide someone had posted to reddit to make a SAD lamp, and used ESP Home to make it so it made a sunrise effect starting all the way as far yellow as it went and ending at the brightest point. It is just a strip with 2 different temperature LEDs on it and it combines them with directions from ESPHome (oh I had to get a controller for the ESPHome connection. It’s just a “dumb” strip that you have to control the voltage to change).

  Since programming it was rough for me, I had some fun experiences where it would just randomly go from super dim to full bright while I was sleeping and hoping for a gentle wake up from a nap. My half asleep brain really thought someone had opened the curtain to the sunny outside. I started thinking of my project as “sunlight in a can”.

  Anyways I happily shipped that expensive project off to my brother who suffers from SAD and he never used it even once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes pizza⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh if it’s Blaze pizza or similar that’s a huge win haha. I go there and load up the toppings too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lightbulbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is the bulb I bought. I want to redo the lighting in my house and I was considering putting these tiny bulbs in the ceiling. It’s pretty bright though, so I was worried it would be annoying to look up at. You are using it now, does that seem accurate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lightbulbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am going to be redoing the lighting in a house I just bought. I went down the rabbit hole of learning about all the options. It’s hard to find but it is possible to find dimmable, tunable LEDs with a high cri and have matter support so I could use them with Home Assistant. I haven’t actually purchased any though so I can’t report my experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes pizza⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It shouldn’t be more expensive than takeout. You have to do everything from scratch for it to be cheap though. Flour, yeast, olive oil, canned tomatoes/spices, and a block of mozzarella to shred yourself. Wait for a good sale on the mozzarella.

  It’s not super duper cheap but even dominoes is getting expensive these days, and making it yourself should be healthier too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We wouldn't listen, anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A Canadian friend told Americans do the same thing, we just put our word at the beginning.

  “Hey, get off my car!” “Get off my car, eh!”

  Not sure if he was being serious though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually would kind of like ai in games. Not slop visuals though. What I really would love would be in a VR game, going up to an NPC, and getting a feel for different cultures of the world I’m in through talking. Maybe you have to have a certain type of conversation to find out the plot for a side quest, or talk to a guard at a bar and work your way to find out the shift rotation as he gets drunk or something so you can infiltrate the castle.

  I feel like ai could be useful like that…but getting rid of artists in favor of ai slop is just the worst way to implement this AI thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yea well it still can't have an existential crisis like humans can! Take that!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have found LLMs are good for getting your bearings and overall idea in place. I just used it for an overview of ESPHome for a specific LED I am trying to program a sunrise effect. It got me some wrong pseudocode, but did in fact point me in the direction of where to go to flash and what to do to compile the yaml file, and the relevant documentation for what I was trying to achieve. And the wrong pseudocode was actually a useful starting point to get a feel for the syntax.

  It’s a useful tool. But it can totally talk you out of good ideas and make you feel like you explored all options when it has absolutely not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't argue that.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure about this. People told me I would not be able to learn piano as an adult, but after 5 years of playing 15 - 30 minutes per night I feel like I am about as good as a child or teenager who put in the same amount of time. I am starting to see how people can sight read at full speed (vs me for an intermediate piece I might be able to get 20% speed, with probably poor accuracy).

  I think you might be comparing someone else’s 20 - 25+ years of experience (eg, someone who has consistently played piano their whole life) to your ability to pick up a new skill from scratch. There is just a huge time sink for a brand new topic and it takes anyone a ton of time. So if you really wanted to pick up some theoretical physics or something, but are currently bad at math, it might take 15 years just to get to the beginning to really be one someone’s level who… Started 15 years ago.

  Unless I guess if there is unlearning time. Like the smarter every day video where they made a reverse turning bicycle that was impossible for people to use unless they spent forever relearning, vs his son who picked it up relatively easy. I think they had to unlearn what they knew so well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a patient say to me “The only vaccine I ever got in my life was Polio, and I regret it. It was about to be eradicated from humanity!”

  Dude totally doesn’t get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. I’m not sure how it ended up so rounded, but getting a degree is more than just “get skills for the job”. When you are getting any bachelor’s degree, you also have to take a certain amount of history, music appreciation, etc, heck my school even required lifetime fitness. It’s also learning alongside your peers to suffer together, I mean work together.

  Also, for something like engineering, you don’t want a job to teach the basics of safely designing a building. You want that in school so when your job asks you to do something dumb, you can explain to them why it is unsafe and correctly refuse.

  I like how my friend put it: “You COULD go to a technical school to get a job, but you wouldn’t be very interesting to talk to.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you encountered this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry to inform you, but I’ve been told recently that 20% is now considered bare minimum and cheap. Yes, I eat out a lot less accordingly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Medium is for burgers. Medium rare is where it’s at for steak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That verse you posted said 7x7 years, so every 49 years, with one year off after, so a 50 year cycle. Then I guess they “buy” land throughout the next 50 year cycle based on how many years remain. Ie, if it’s 25 years into the cycle, the price for a field might be half off. Not a terrible system really, for the age. At the end of the cycle, it all goes back to the “clan” to be resold again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you know the answer?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on previous guy’s logic: D.

  I know A, B, and C are definitely wrong, but I’m not sure I fully understand D. So it’s D and move on.

  Reality is I make a note and discuss with the teacher if they don’t notice themselves when tests come back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Depart, men of education.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Different energy. Bus driver has to deal with many potentially grumpy people in many potentially unsafe areas. Not an easy job.

  A doctor that is specifically specializing in a field where he has to get to know and take care of children as they die in a potentially painful way, has a much different challenge. Less for safety or aggressive people (though maybe parents could be I guess) but more in being the one to watch as the hope fades for each individual child in their last days.

  I wouldn’t love the bus driving job. I don’t think I could do the pediatric oncology one for more than like, one patient ever. I’d be depressed forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s about where you want to put your time in for a career. Not sure how professors are doing right now, but with the department of education budget being slashed, many are seeing the writing on the wall for the future of education here in America.

  Highlighting that they are a country that still values inclusive education, and emphasizing their tenure stuff, shows that their country wants and needs you, and intends to value you long term, vs America trying to show the opposite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or we could do metric time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And leap year?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You overestimate how much nature we step in on a given day. It’s usually basically cement everywhere

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  US didn’t really ban it because they didn’t like it. While there was a women’s group protesting against the alcoholism in the country, I don’t think it would have had any traction were it not for the anti union push.

  Saloons were a great meetup spot to make unions. Everyone from work was already there. If companies could make saloons illegal, it would make it harder to make unions. But there was a problem. The US got a lot of its tax revenue from alcohol taxes.

  So they pitched the idea of replacing alcohol tax with income tax, making the budget balance (in fact much improve!). So it got passed to benefit the US government budget, and help the union situation for companies.

  It was not prohibited for long. As you stated, it quickly went awry. But it didn’t matter. The US government now gets its income tax, plus alcohol tax now. Saloons became less popular since they were gone long enough for habits to change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A handy reference⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Your welcome has expired

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fair trade⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Coolest course I’ve ever been to is just through a forest in the mountains of southern Oregon. No chain link baskets, just coffee cans on a stick to shoot at. But man what an amazing place to spend the afternoon. A small river (not deep enough to lose your disc), up and then down a smallish hillside, huge trees trees fairly widely spaced. Maybe that kind of course is common in certain areas but all the ones by me are at manicured parks. Fun but not the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a good thing they aren't in charge of adult toys...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, a couple years ago one of my brothers gifted another brother a dildo from “Santa”. I have 5 brothers, so no one knew for sure who did it. Much hilarity ensued.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do mean things so small we can't see them with the human eye? Are you crazy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I think once when this was posted they said doctors would see other patients and even perform autopsies then do surgeries with no hand washing between.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Restaurant Bill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked at a pizza shop way back ages ago (early 2000’s), but I think the formula is generally the same. Food costs they would shoot for 33%, labor ended up being around 33%, the rest was overhead for the facility (rent, AC, etc) and profit.

  I think that’s actually a pretty fair amount of profit in that. But that was almost 20 years ago. I feel like the formula is likely similar though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Abortion Rights: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. I would also hope to expand adoption/ward of the state options, particularly for this age. Maybe they could basically write that if the mother is giving up the baby at (let’s just say 24 weeks), the state pays for the procedure to remove the child and care for them until they are able to be released home. That is a big expense but I think they do this a lot anyway.

  But in this case, you would also want to line up an adoption. With many weeks of hospital care starting at 24 weeks, I feel like that would not be terribly difficult. I hope not. A lot of couples want kids but cannot have them. The new parents could take part in visiting the new baby at the hospital until it’s time to bring them home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Abortion Rights: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Viability. If we can safely take care of it outside of the mother then we should do it. That’s bare minimum 20.5 weeks, but realistically probably 23 or 24 weeks. I would like to see discussions about that range from medical professionals and lawmakers in charge of the budget since that early can be very expensive.