Pirasp
@Pirasp@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do people still sculpt? Any sculptors here on Lemmy? 4 months ago:
I mostly agree, but saying nobody ever sculpted in marble is a bit like saying nobody ever painted with oil paint because most of the most well known oil paintings were done according to sketches made with charcoal or pencil.
The finished sculpture is made of marble, and thus it was sculpted in marble. Not at first perhaps, but eventually
- Comment on Do people still sculpt? Any sculptors here on Lemmy? 4 months ago:
Of course there are still sculptors around! Like most art sculptures have gotten more abstract tho. Visit any museum of modern Art and you are sure to find some!
Marble and the like are of course incredibly expensive, and for that reason most people stick to more affordable options like wood or ice. Or do additive sculpting with clay/plaster, welding or something like that. If you really want to work with stone you might want to apprentice with a stonemason.
How did I start? Took a pocketknife in my hand and started whittling. The foundations of working in a subtractive manner are largely independent of material.
- Comment on When a non-binary person uses a computer 4 months ago:
Any computer they use just turns into a quantum computer by sheer force of will
- Comment on Found a good book 5 months ago:
Doesn’t seem to be too good of a book…
- Comment on Researchers invent 100% biodegradable 'barley plastic' 5 months ago:
Probably fairly brittle
- Comment on Don't let people sell you flashlights :) 5 months ago:
In that short period they function more like an incandescent bulb than a LED tho. Also at that power the correct three letter acronym might be IED instead…
- Comment on Life? What do you mean? This ain't life, it's surviving 7 months ago:
Nah, I’ll make my own meaning, thanks. Yours isn’t nearly interesting enough.
- Comment on Life? What do you mean? This ain't life, it's surviving 7 months ago:
Also there being no meaning to it all leaves you free to make one up for yourself.
- Comment on wat 7 months ago:
X/0.5 easy
- Comment on A mere 57 mega polluters 80 per cent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, new analysis shows 7 months ago:
Many forms of powerplants use these types of cooling towers. The real reason usually is, that they make really impressive plumes though. Just makes for a good visual even though it’s not technically a relevant image.
- Comment on One of capitalisms biggest tragedies 9 months ago:
My point exactly. They don’t do anything more than normal library workers, but get significantly more money
- Comment on One of capitalisms biggest tragedies 9 months ago:
Sure very skilled and such. But I’m not talking about librarians. Just library workers with and without a degree
- Comment on One of capitalisms biggest tragedies 9 months ago:
Sure, but one does not inherently include the other.
- Comment on One of capitalisms biggest tragedies 9 months ago:
Sure, but that’s kind of what Bafög is for. Sure that’s also a loan, but one with very favourable terms.
- Comment on One of capitalisms biggest tragedies 9 months ago:
Honestly, it’s not just capitalism. Education is anywhere from free to really cheap in Germany, and we still don’t get many people from poorer families into uni.
I see the main problem here as a sort of class divide between people with university degrees and people without. For example: if you work in a public library and don’t have a uni degree you will never get more money than salary level 9 (4k/mo) just having a degree and not doing any more/different work more or less instantly puts you on 12 or higher (6k+)
This I think understandably makes people without uni degrees kind of resentful of those who do have them. And if you grow up resenting a certain group of people you are much less likely to join them.
So, no. “Just” getting rid of the cost won’t magically get these people into higher education.
- Comment on German Court Bans Sales of Select Intel CPUs in Germany Over Patent Dispute 9 months ago:
I know, source: am native German speaker
- Comment on German Court Bans Sales of Select Intel CPUs in Germany Over Patent Dispute 9 months ago:
En, I don’t know. So much innovation has happened because of parent workarounds. Also they can kind of stop big companies just completely copying some innovation and driving the inventor out of businesses It’s pretty apparent in the 3d printing industry. Companies like Prusa, E3d, Ultimaker, MakerBot and Aleph-Objects brought consumer 3d printing from basically a hot glue gun to better than some $100k+ industry machines. All of them used to be completely open sourced. Ok, MakerBot and to some degree Ultimaker just went off the deep end, but Prusa is now also holding back their design files for a while after release, E3d has released their new hotend as basically closed Source. Why? Well they want to avoid going the path of Aleph-Objects who had to sell out to a holding company because Chinese manufacturers copied everything as fast as it could be developed and sold it for a fraction of the price.
I’d love if it didn’t have to be this way, but it kind of does now.
- Comment on AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium 10 months ago:
Being better than one of the most destructive industries ever is not a high bar. But the most effective way to harvest lithium remains an open pit mine, which are arguably worse than literally anything else.
- Comment on Japan determines copyright doesn't apply to LLM/ML training data 10 months ago:
That’s not the point. If you rip a dvd, you babe the movie, but you can’t sell DVDs with the movie, because it is copyrighted. After the “AI” has recreated it, the copyright is gone, so you can sell that version with impunity.
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 11 months ago:
That would be funny, but it’s more likely because they are about to go under if they don’t change something up. Doing one of the most requested this seems like a good start in that direction.
- Comment on If "infant" means child does that mean that "fant" means adult? 11 months ago:
Also better for your marriage
- Comment on If "infant" means child does that mean that "fant" means adult? 11 months ago:
It sure as shit doesn’t feel fancy
- Comment on Judge: Amazon “cannot claim shock” that bathroom spycams were used as advertised | A West Virginia judge largely denied Amazon's motion to dismiss lawsuit 11 months ago:
Even relatively small amounts of radiation can be problematic when in prolonged direct skin contact. The worst are the ones, that just have thorium oxide powder sprinkled on them tho. Only slightly radioactive, sure, but when ingested that can quickly cause serious harm!
- Comment on every damn time ... 11 months ago:
It most likely stands for raspberry Pi, sorry to disappoint you…