Semi_Hemi_Demigod
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world
I’m just this guy, you know. Except on Lemmy.
- Comment on Solar farms are booming in the US and putting thousands of hungry sheep to work 16 hours ago:
If those electric mowers refueled as they mowed then we’d really have something.
- Comment on Solar farms are booming in the US and putting thousands of hungry sheep to work 20 hours ago:
The methane they create is a greenhouse gas, but relatively short lived compared to the CO2 from lawnmowers
- Comment on Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search 23 hours ago:
No, you could submit a request and just parse the HTML. This allowed people to write search proxies and then filter the results. Not as good as an actual API but it worked.
- Comment on Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search 1 day ago:
If you set your user agent to Lynx it won’t need JavaScript
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content 1 week ago:
Yeah but you’ll want full gold plating and nitrogen-infused insulation for the best picture.
- Comment on Apple, Google, and Samsung will accept Matter certification for their own Works With programs 1 week ago:
Not even going out of business, just them discontinuing the product.
glared at my smart plug
- Comment on Americans Need to Party More 2 weeks ago:
Andrew WK, come to us now in our time of need.
(Seriously, though, finding a local social club has done wonders for my social circle.)
- Comment on Thanks agent 2 weeks ago:
The first date I went on after separating from my ex was probably a government agent.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 2 weeks ago:
I’m not disputing that VR is cool. I’ve tried it and it’s fun to walk with dinosaurs and visit the space station and sculpt in 3D. I’m saying it’s not useful. For a game console it’s great but it’s not a computing platform.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 2 weeks ago:
If you think “The technology isn’t ready yet” is shitting on it then you need a thicker skin
And saying “Just go back to college, get a masters in software engineering, and build the useful app yourself” is a perfect example of why it’s not ready yet.
- Comment on He should have kept smoking 2 weeks ago:
It’s like rain on your wedding day
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 2 weeks ago:
I agree that using it as an unlimited display would be a great application. The only problem is that the device itself is too heavy for long-term usage, which goes back to the technology not being ready yet.
Maybe if all that you put on your face was a screen, and the rendering and power were offloaded to a desktop it could be made light enough to wear for hours at a time.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 2 weeks ago:
There’s the butthurt VR bro who shows up every time I point out the tech for VR isn’t ready yet. There’s always one of you.
And it’s obvious you didn’t read my whole comment because I said that it’s got games. But that just means it’s a game console. What I want is an application that does something useful and productive.
- Comment on 79% of Americans feel burned out as they put most vacation time toward errands, doctor visits, and family care 2 weeks ago:
It is a fine amount of work as long as I don’t let it pile up
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 2 weeks ago:
In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 2 weeks ago:
It’s an ugly dud just like every VR headset because the technology for displays, processing, and batteries make them look like gigantic, heavy ski goggles.
Plus there’s no applications. Games are cool, socializing is cool (I guess), and porn is porn, but what can I do with it? It’s like releasing the first Macintosh without MacWrite or MacPaint.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 2 weeks ago:
“No wifi. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.” - Slashdot reacting to the first iPod
- Comment on Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles 2 weeks ago:
So a guy is found shot in the head of a car that advertises self driving features and nobody’s got their tin foil on?
- Comment on What is the origin of aliens looking like humans? Why and when did it become the norm? 2 weeks ago:
Even death is an ᴀɴᴛʜʀᴏᴘᴏᴍᴏʀᴘʜɪᴄ ᴘᴇʀꜱᴏɴɪꜰɪᴄᴀᴛɪᴏɴ.
GNU STP
- Comment on What is the origin of aliens looking like humans? Why and when did it become the norm? 2 weeks ago:
One of the many things I liked about Hail Mary Project was that the aliens are extremely non-humanoid, but you still develop empathy for them. It’s my favorite Andy Weir book by far.
- Comment on 79% of Americans feel burned out as they put most vacation time toward errands, doctor visits, and family care 2 weeks ago:
Because it keeps piling up, and the pile will be even larger the next day because everyone knows I’m back from vacation
- Comment on 79% of Americans feel burned out as they put most vacation time toward errands, doctor visits, and family care 2 weeks ago:
You’d think that. You really would. But there’s so much stuff where I am apparently the only person who can do it that it just piles up.
- Comment on 79% of Americans feel burned out as they put most vacation time toward errands, doctor visits, and family care 2 weeks ago:
I’ve done it but the glut of work when you come back isn’t worth it.
One summer I just took every Friday off and that was nice. I could have short trips away or long, lazy weekends without feeling swamped.
It helps that I hate travel.
- Comment on Old fashioned 2 weeks ago:
Define “own”
- Comment on Too dumb to understand where the gas tank opening is 2 weeks ago:
People like this are why I support walkable communities and convenient, free mass transit.
- Comment on If you are a young person you have no idea how bad everyone and everything smelled until at least the 1990s. 2 weeks ago:
Better to have an ashtray than to let someone who needs to light up set the bathroom trash on fire
- Comment on If you are a young person you have no idea how bad everyone and everything smelled until at least the 1990s. 2 weeks ago:
I still remember when it was okay to smoke inside hospitals. Fun times…
All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 2 weeks ago:
You’ll be glad to know that populations around the world, particularly in energy-intensive nations, are starting to decline. Some, like the US, are propping this up with immigration (for now) but places like South Korea, Japan, and a lot of Europe have been below replacement for some time.
And to a lot of people this would be a good thing. Fewer people means less impact on the planet and more to go around for everyone. But a lot of our systems are predicated on eternal population growth. For example, a lot of countries have pension systems that require there to always be more young people paying into it than there is old people taking payment.
Then you have the problem of who does the jobs that these retired people rely on. If there are fewer young people to do all the jobs in society, how will the non-working elderly buy groceries or get medical care or have packages delivered or clothes to wear? Automation can solve some of this but not all of it, plus who’s going to develop and build the robots?
It’s going to be a very drastic change in how societies are organized, especially combined with how the Internet and climate change are going to affect society. Hopefully we’ll come out the other side a little smarter.
Goddamn ancient Chinese curse, stupid interesting times…
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know, I think OP is making A Modest Proposal
- Comment on "An all-powerful space frog" 4 weeks ago:
