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- Comment on California May Ban Lyft And Uber From AI Price Gouging Users With Low Phone Batteries 4 days ago:
Don’t even need to compare. Just putting something like zip-9 / location into a machine learning model and it will do it for you. Just using advanced models to reinforce redlining
- Comment on There's nothing like cooking for 2+ hours just to eat in 10 minutes 5 days ago:
There is nothing worse than making a long meal but getting the timing off. Especially since the longer it takes to make the longer any fixes can take. Yesterday I had something at 7 pm and finished cooking at 6:40. So I had to speed run my dinner that took a hour to make. It was a hour or simmering so nothing that difficult but still
- Comment on St. Paul, MN, was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed 1 week ago:
- Comment on St. Paul, MN, was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed 1 week ago:
The national guard here is looking around for men in black masks in front of computers throughout the city. Its crazy
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Why does your ice taste so odd?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
First off, thank you for ejaculating responsibility. If more men ejaculated as responsibly as you the world would be a better place. You might be on the young side but vasectomies’ are now reversible with a 90%+ rate. So freeze some sperm for a decade or so if you are really worried about it. So you have some options if you want kids in the future.
- Comment on Have most people never seen a full starry night sky 1 week ago:
I think its less about people living in the city and more general light pollution. Light pollution spreads a lot further than you think even for places you think are a full starry night sky. I know in my own life, the difference from my urban house, to a more rural cabin is huge, but the jump from that rural cabin to the middle of Boundary Waters Canoe Area is also huge. I assume if I ever get a chance to go to an International Dark Sky PLace there will be another large jump.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 1 week ago:
Agreed. I want to be to join them together. The only real difficulty will be for comments. How do they get federated between different instances
- Comment on Prepare to Plunder the Past! An Epic Mechanical Puzzle Box 2 weeks ago:
I know his older material is available for designs
- Comment on Prepare to Plunder the Past! An Epic Mechanical Puzzle Box 3 weeks ago:
That is correct. I think he typically releases the 3-D models after a few months. I know he has other 3-D Models on his website. This one I think will be later
- Comment on xkcd #3115: Unsolved Physics Problems 3 weeks ago:
Or you haven’t poured enough milk and porridge into your computer. Depends on the tomte
- Comment on Growth narratives on the new social networks 4 weeks ago:
I think with that is an unexpected inflection point that looks inevitable in hindsight where one network dies and another thrives. It happened with Digg and Myspace. You if you focus on long term organic growth it can happen but unknown when
- Comment on How can I start getting familiar with the plants, trees and animals around where I live? 5 weeks ago:
Once I purchased a house I had the same goal starting with my neighborhood. I started with the Seek app which allows you to take a picture of a plant and it will identify. I used it whenever I walk around my block and my house. Start with the ones you see the most. Start with plants since they are static and most common. Start with flowers since those are the most distinctive and easiest to identify via the app.
If you are really interested there are a few books that I found very interesting. First would be a foraging / herbalism book for your region. I can’t recommend what that is since I only know for the Upper Midwest in the USA. I found I could remember a plant best if I knew what it was for and could interact with it. (I.e. use it or eat it)
The second is Weeds: in defence of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants. If you live anywhere where other people live you will mostly see “weeds” the most human plant. The author is from England so it might not be about all your weeds but they are global travelers so you will see lots of overlap. It’s a fun long term project. Good luck
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- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 1 month ago:
That would be fun. Every game would just be a series of different fetch quests with a rotated list of the same enemies. Like a MMRPG but worse and more expensive
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 1 month ago:
ChatGPT give some pretty generic DnD advice. I can’t wait until they make a terrible automated DM. I can’t wait to play the most generic DnD of all time.
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 1 month ago:
I like the changes with weapons properties and I like some of the updates with various classes for some improvements to the weaker subclasses and feats. I overall enjoyed the majority of the changes.
However, from what I have heard and seen I did not enjoy the changes to the Monster Manual and statblocks.
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 1 month ago:
Gross. I was really excited for 5.5 for a while but don’t really want to get it anymore. I liked the PHB class upgrades when I read it but don’t own anything from it yet
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 1 month ago:
I love Christ Perkin and Jeremy Crawford. Who is even running D&D now? They are literally the only people I knew still on the project. They are both great. Were they forced out of WoTC?
- Comment on All this AI nonsense is an attempt to capitalize on the mere act of human thinking 2 months ago:
Rent the Skill for sure. If this is the skill you are expected to be an expert or at least experienced you would avoid it as much as possible to avoid being dependent.
- Comment on respect dandelions! 2 months ago:
Exactly. They can move very far on wind currents as well as the fact they are useful plants for people. It would be very easy to carry some seeds or an entire plant with you when you move somewhere new. As well as the fact they are small enough to get caught on pant legs, shoes, clothes etc. to hitch a ride
- Comment on respect dandelions! 2 months ago:
You think that human developments didn’t occur in the Americas before European came in?
Dandelions are a very human centric plant which makes sense that they traveled with humans as they traveled around the globe. This travel could be accidental or brought on purpose like many other different plants.
- Comment on respect dandelions! 2 months ago:
If you have a dandelion problem I would recommend you mulch / mow the dead dandelions you pull back into your yard. Dandelions are a dynamic accumulator which means they are very good at pulling up vitamins and minerals from the soil which they incorporate into their roots leaves, etc. This means dandelions will contain those minerals when being mulched and mowed back into your yard. If you are having a dandelion problem it likely mean your yard needs one or more of the minerals that they accumulate. So my mowing it back in you will feed your lawn and reduce their appear in the future
- Comment on respect dandelions! 2 months ago:
The gist from what I have read (mostly from Native American herbalists) is that there is a oral cultural tradition for using dandelion for both food and medicine in North America. These oral traditions have various uses for the plant that likely predate European settlement. The basic concept is that Europeans never considered that a plant that they had in Europe could appear in North America unless they brought it. It was never considered to be native in both places even though the people who used in North America have a long tradition of use back by an oral tradition. However, since this was an oral tradition no one thought to consider it valid since it wasn’t written down. Since this has been suggested there is some genetic studies that back up that concept.
I found most of this information on the Dandelion section in Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings. They have a good description and I have seen it mentioned now in a few other books.
- Comment on respect dandelions! 2 months ago:
Dandelions are now basically considered native around most of the globe. There is compelling evidence both ethnobotany and genetic that dandelion are native to both Eurasia and North America.
- Comment on We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
Different kind of crypto nerd but still
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 2 months ago:
I loved my EEEPC. I used while study abroad before smartphones were common. It was great to carry on me at all times. If I needed directions or to check on a website I would sit at a café / restaurant / bar to have a coffee / wine / beer to grab the wifi. It was great and small enough that I could carry it open if needed. I loved it. I thought it was the future until the iPad took over
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 3 months ago:
What they used to saying in the gay marriage rights movement was the rights of marriage don’t kick in the good times but in the bad. It’s all the sickness and death and divorce when it’s needed.
- Comment on Why is the NFL draft day so "special"? 3 months ago:
Its such a big day they made a pretty okay Kevin Costner movie about it
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 3 months ago:
I know there are certain legal situations where an official marriage changes who has certain rights, but aren’t those same rights available if you make other legally-official decisions E.G. a will or trusts, etc?
This is not the case. Marriage gives you a lot of specific rights that can be covered by other legal documents but never together and marriage will override it. This is one of the main goals for giving gay marriage is all of the legal benefits of marriage which are expansive and complete. (This is of course in the USA this is not the case in other locations.)
There was a few legal pushes to separate these legal benefits from marriage into different legal rights that can be granted piecemeal. If you are intersted I would read The Other Significant Others which talks about people who prioritize friendships over marriage and how they interact with their “other significant other” which includes the legal discussions.
