Phil_in_here
@Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
- Comment on On Monoculture 4 days ago:
Grubbing up hedges sounds like a British euphemism.
- Comment on They only come out at night 4 days ago:
You should hear the screams it makes as it keeps trying to break out of the windows…
- Comment on Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company 4 days ago:
“We know people don’t like how poorly we treat our employees, so we’ve laid off as many as we thought we could get away with to reduce the overall number of people’s lives we make more miserable. We’re the good guys here.”
- Comment on At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble 5 days ago:
Its not a bubble. A bubble is when you sink billions into something with no payoff. We’ve sunk trillions. Any people aren’t just uninterested, a substantial amount are actively opposed to it. Its not the same thing at all.
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 1 week ago:
I’m sorry your AI music “career” isn’t taking off like you thought it would.
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 1 week ago:
But there are clues. And those clues are part of the reason some people are opposed to it. Like 30 EPs released in a year.
I think there’s a place for AI music. There are plenty of instances where you need some vaguely musical audio filler. Hold music, shopping background, etc. Well bandcamp ain’t that place.
- Comment on If it fits... 3 weeks ago:
Where I’m from the legal infraction is that the right side wheels are more than half a meter from the curb (I learned this from the ticket I got for parking on the wrong side of the street)
- Comment on Do rich people in landlocked countries have yachts? 4 weeks ago:
For rich people, it’s not about using it or making a practical purchase. Its a way to show others how much you care about them (none).
It’s the yacht that counts.
- Comment on Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026 5 weeks ago:
It that a threat?
- Comment on The Good Old days. Wish I had lived through them. Seems like lots of fun 5 weeks ago:
Wait until you hear about Coca-Cola
- Comment on Having a rough morning. I'm still pondering the question about beavers, and my kid asks me THIS 1 month ago:
And do buried children still have their teeth?
Do you want to go check?
- Comment on French far right wants to reopen brothels and put sex workers in charge 1 month ago:
“… but not for gays, poors, or women! Its just so we can legally cheat on our wives.”
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 1 month ago:
Yes, except “hire enough people”. You can’t staff enough to cover 4 out of 8 employees off from a combination of sick, bereavement, and vacation.
It happens. All you can do is prioritize tasks, make it work the best you can with the resources you have, and manage expectations.
If the work can’t be rescheduled, and isn’t worth paying someone OT to cover, well, then, it’s not worth doing.
- Comment on YSK that Elon Musk now hates California. He lives in West Lake Hills, Texas. He loves to visit Austin. 1 month ago:
I think the worst behaved people are those that conspire to use their immense wealth and influence to actively harm people for the sole purpose of consolidating neverending wealth.
But, yeah, guys who at least put some of their money back into the economy by buying luxury status over basic do get my hackles up.
But that’s damning a snake because the devil looks like you.
- Comment on Hytale won't be on Steam right away, as its devs want to avoid "overindexing on negative reviews" from players who "aren't as well-informed yet" 1 month ago:
Demos, people! Demos!
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 1 month ago:
Have you seen North American public transportation?
Yeah, I have a “choice”, but it’s 60-85 minutes on 3 busses or a 12 minute drive to get to and from work.
- Comment on Insulin 1 month ago:
To be fair, the killing isn’t the point; they’re the product. Its just that profit is God, so killing in its name is justified.
Killing poors for the joy of it? That’s just an evil bonus.
- Comment on This is the type of Q&A that makes the internet so important 2 months ago:
It’s probably fine to reuse it for a few days
My dude, hardly anyone uses a new towel every day. Its much more than “probably” fine. Its perfectly fine.
Is affluence the cause of germophobia because their parents convinced them frivolous luxury was actually important for staying healthy?
Don’t get me wrong, enjoy your fresh towels! That’s nice. That’s a luxury. Luxuries are nice. But don’t fool yourself into believing that you’re any healthier for not using the same towels twice.
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 2 months ago:
Nice rock. Sorry your taxes are so high under there.
- Comment on YSK How to cook a perfect (hard) boiled egg 2 months ago:
That’s a hard steamed egg, though…
- Comment on YSK: A simple trick to keep your bananas ripe for a lot longer. 2 months ago:
Yeah, wouldn’t the increased surface area increase the release of gas making everything ripen faster?
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 2 months ago:
And do you vote in a 2 party system where one of them is following through on threats of dehumanizing immigrants, non-white citizens, and LGBTQ?
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 2 months ago:
Classic conservative math.
Tax rate is 35%? That’s basically half!
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 2 months ago:
He has a trans son, who he supports
No, he objectively does not. Tolerates on a local level, sure, but not supports.
“I love you, son! I’m so proud of you for being your true self,” he yelled from outside the burning building, holding the door shut, “but you’re on the insurance policy, so the payout is better if you die!”
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 2 months ago:
If there’s right wing and/or established American indoctrination to parrot, he sings like a little bird.
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 3 months ago:
That’s fair. Explain how calling out fascists being fascists that haven’t yet realized there full potential is like The Boy Who Cried Wolf?
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 3 months ago:
Which version of The Boy Who Cried Wolf did you have growing up? The one where Peter cries wolf and there’s a wolf but it’s in the woods so the townsfolk do nothing, then the townsfolk call Peter a wolf, and then when the wolf arrives in the village and starts taking people and Peter cries wolf the townsfolk say the word “wolf” is so overused it doesn’t mean anything anymore?
Because I don’t remember that version.
- Comment on "THE CRIME OF PUTTING DHIT IN MY PANTS WILL NOT GO UNPUNISHED AND AS SOON AS WE FIND THE PERPETRATORS THEY WILL BE APPREHENDED AND PROSECUTED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW!!!" 4 months ago:
I always felt like his blank stare was a “Oh fuck, oh god, I have no fucking idea what I’m doing, how did I let it get this far, oh fuck, be cool, they don’t know, oh shit, I’m so completely out of my depth, oh fuck me man, they’re going to find out, every second its getting worse but I can’t back out now, oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck…” stare
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 4 months ago:
I gotta say, you make some fair points.
It’s a lot of memorization that I simply haven’t done and won’t ever have to do.
The fraction reduction doesn’t help intuitive thought. If imperial operated on ‘significant digits’ and marked any set or document with a 64th always as 64ths, as in 16/64ths, I’d be more on board.
We just need to replace out base 10 system of counting with base 12 and we’d get the best of both worlds!
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 4 months ago:
Not only that, but your system, by virtue of being decimal, inherits all the shortcomings of our quite flawed numbering system. You can’t divide something by the second smallest prime number without breaking out repeating decimals.
What’s more 0.203 cm or 0.291 cm? How about 3/8" or 19/64"?
How far is 1/3 of a mile? 1/3 km is 333m. How about 1/9? 1/9 km is 111m How long is 10 x 5/16"? 10 x 3.1cm is 31cm
Yeah, a foot breaks down easy in whole inches with many factors, but that’s about it