WigglyTortoise
@WigglyTortoise@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox 11 months ago:
Firefox doesn’t explain how to do this at all, bjt it is possible. Make a bookmark with the URL you want, and set the keyword to whatever symbol you want ti start it with.
For example,
- Name: Scryfall (or whatever you want)
- URL: scryfall.com/search?q=%s&unique=cards&as=…
- Keyword: s Then type “s Birds of Paradise” to get the result you want.
I did the same with Reddit and it worked on my end. If it doesn’t work for you I’d be happy to help you figure it out.
- Comment on It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox 11 months ago:
I don’t know exactly what Chrome does but Firefox lets you sync tabs, history, bookmarks, and saved logins and card information.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 1 year ago:
Albert Einstein is dead. You couldn’t run at all.
- Comment on Do you feel, as I do, that this adblocker ban by Youtube will harm all of Alphabet's companies? [discussion] 1 year ago:
They actually had this in Europe and just discontinued it.
- Comment on Military Time vs 24hr? 1 year ago:
Probably Sectograph. I’ve used it for a couple years and I like it a lot. You can even have it on your smart watch.
- Comment on Military Time vs 24hr? 1 year ago:
The point is that GMT isn’t changing, the region is switching to an entirely different time zone, BST (British Summer Time). If your time is based on GMT, it won’t change due to British daylight saving time because GMT never changes.
For a similar example, in the part of the US that uses Mountain Time, states observe MST (Mountain Standard Time) in the winter, and most switch to MDT (Mountain Daylight Time) in the summer. However, Arizona doesn’t observe daylight saving time, so they remain on MST. MST always stays the same (GMT-7), the time is only changing because the states are observing a different time zone. The same happens with GMT and BST, it’s just harder to see because you can’t pick out areas that remain on GMT all year.
- Comment on Antarctica has lost 7.5tn tonnes of ice since 1997, scientists find 1 year ago:
Judging by similar articles, it’s “7.5 trillion tonnes.” I assume metric tonne because of the spelling (usually I’ve only seen short or long ton spelled ton, although it may vary by region).
- Comment on “AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator 1 year ago:
There’s lots of stuff that could be considered innovation that is intentionally stifled due to competition laws or security concerns.
I agree that some innovation can be harmful. I guess what I meant was “we should avoid disincentivizing innovation unless necessary.” The way I see it, though, job lots from automation is both inevitable and fairly easy to fix (as you said, UBI), so there’s no reason to try to stop it from happening.
Really, I think automation should be encouraged. It frees people from usually-undesirable jobs and allows them time to pursue different careers or other interests. As long as we have ways to deal with the unemployment I think it’s a huge positive for people.
they should have to continue paying taxes for those roles because the newly unemployed will need government support.
I fully agree that there will need to be a tax increase to cover support for the newly-unemployed, but why not make that a general increase on businesses and wealthy individuals? If anything, this would be and incentive for automation as a way to decrease rising business costs.
Innovation has removed jobs before, and we dealt with it. I don’t see businesses being taxed for using computers instead of human calculators. I don’t see why this innovation is different.
- Comment on “AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator 1 year ago:
I disagree. We shouldn’t be disincentivizing innovation. Taxes on business and the wealthy should increase regardless of their use of automation.