Ziggurat
@Ziggurat@jlai.lu
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 1 day ago:
Fun toy to play with, but everytime I tried to use is for real work, it ended up so bad that I spent more time than doing it properly from scratch
- Comment on (i feel really stupid asking, but what the hell!) could i be of french descent? 4 days ago:
What the hell are these map? Ancestry dna is not more scientific than astrology
Do you speak French? Do you visit family in France? A story about a famous French ancestor? If not why would it be relevant?
- Comment on How are roundabouts made? 5 days ago:
Distance too. I used a surveyor for some precision measument, and their theodolite has 20 micrometer of systematic error.
- Comment on How are roundabouts made? 5 days ago:
Have you seen these people with a weird tripod on construction sites ? They’re surveyor and have tools allowing them to do very precise measure (A guy told me that one of the coolest things he has done was to make sure railway track were aligned below 1mm on both side of 2 km bridge to build) I would expect that drawing a circle isn’t that complicated.
Then the rest is usual road construction, add temporary marking, close the road, do the measurement and build the roundabout
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- Comment on Why is coal and fossil fuels still used? 1 week ago:
I think you’re under estimated how much fossil fuel are used and the electricity production from solar and wind farm.
It’s definitely possible to replace all fossil fuel by electricity, but it’s a massive shift involving multiple nuclear power plants (or the green equivalent which is even more expensive/complicated) , not a few windfarm and solar panel over the parking lot. And today there is no political will to do such massive investment, let alone the NIMBY
- Comment on Why is coal and fossil fuels still used? 1 week ago:
I think you’re under estimated how much fossil fuel are used and the electricity production from solar and wind farm.
It’s definitely possible to replace all fossil fuel by electricity, but it’s a massive shift involving multiple nuclear power plants (or the green equivalent which is even more expensive/complicated) , not a few windfarm and solar panel over the parking lot. And today there is no political will to do such massive investment, let alone the NIMBY
- Comment on What would it mean for the world if America was confident they developed a technology that would act as a fool prove deterrent from nuclear attacks what would that mean for the rest of the world? 1 week ago:
The problem is that with the MAD doctrine, it’s not about neutrajazing a warning shot where a tactical nuke would neutralise an aircraft carrier fleet or an tank division. It’s about dozens if not hundred of nuke flying to your country.
Even 80% efficiency in the counter measure would mean remove 10 of the 50 big cities from the map. This has drastic consequences for a country. Especially in a hyper connected, advanced industry society
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
D&D comes from chain mail, a heroic fantasy miniature battle game inspired by naval miniature battle game. Hence the concept of character class (instead of boat class) and armour class (where the lower the better). But based on that, slowly the idea of playing a single character appeared and it turned into D&D and then early RPG
Modern RPG got (Somehow) rid of character class (even though some archetype/Playbooks are classes witha different name) and armour place. But D&D kept it by traditipn
- Comment on How are people supposed to have secure/private communications in the digital era? 2 weeks ago:
It’s one of the thing where laws and audit can help a lot. Hospital (and lawyers) are supposed to secure their data. But nobody will care unless doctor loose their licence and hospital management get fired upon negligence with patient data.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 3 weeks ago:
Objectively What’s the stated goal (A classic example being green policies which are bad for the economy but good for society) and then compare the results in let’s say one year.
That said, economic have plenty of model whose accuracy go from not worse than rolling a dice to good enough to predict the consequences of policies before implementing them so they can do better
- Comment on What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country? 3 weeks ago:
Large companies have an international team within HR that will sponsor the prospective employee for a work visa.
For smaller companies, the answer is always the same, get a lawyer
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 3 weeks ago:
Depends a lot on your personal situation, and jurisdiction.
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Doing a ceremony when you publicly say you love each other is already a valid reason
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In some jurisdiction, you’d get a form of tax benefit for being married, it often comes with downside like having welfare benefit based on the couple revenue rather than on individual ones (hence the tax benefit). Talk with an accountant/Tax-lawyer knowing your local laws for details
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It gives a legal status to your shared asset. Sure you could create a real-estate-investment company to buy your house and many people do that but being married, with a proper prenup give you a lot of agency regarding your shared asset
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It protects the weaker partner, usually the one scarifying their carrer for the couple if things goes wrong
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- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 4 weeks ago:
Reality is that there is a lot of difference between office jobs, mechanical designer, purchaser, corporate laws specialists, and let’s say project managers have very different jobs but still have office jobs.
Hour by hour? Read e-mail, browse lemmy, chat using teams (or slack), run to a meeting, then to another one, meet someone in the corridor and ask them a question about an ongoing project, realize that you need to review a report, open the file and get called, rfget a coffee, run to another meeting, conclude you won’t neither review the report X or nor start the report Y and call it a day.
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 4 weeks ago:
Many countries have law banning stupid name which aren’t a way to give abusive power to a civil servant but to protect kids from crazy parents, so your example doesn’t work
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
If you remove the Luxemburg, Andorra, and a couple of smaller countries, VAT rates are relatively consistent. Indeed, if you live within 20km from the border, it’s worth buying some stuff across the border, and for some trips to plan a fuel stop on the right side of the border.
But if you need to drive 100 km, you won’t recover the cost of the road if you don’t do some specific purchases.
Note also, that at least in theory, you’re not free to travel with unlimited cigarettes and alcohol (where tax rates difference can be crazy) so again, if you pass by Luxemburg or Andorra, you can’t legally speaking buy 100 packs of cigarettes, (but would still save 30 to 50 € on a 10 packs carton)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Male fashion sucks, but tank tops aren’t seen like acceptable for men (out of the gym)
That said, students are old enough to understand how to dress, so IMO the professor should have say nothpng
But soon enough you’ll discover that if you dare to wear a short at work your manager will ask whether you’re in Hollyday or even sends you home to dress properly
- Comment on Kitten Space Agency - A community for/about the game by the same name that aims to be the spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program 5 weeks ago:
Interesting that there is a successor to KSP.
But, do I really want to spend another hundreds hours of life trying to recover a lost Kerbal on Duna?
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 5 weeks ago:
Because many government left partics have converted to liberalism, and economic rigor with cut in government spending, and private corporations.
Which isn’t exactly a left wing platform.
- Comment on Have there been any major changes noticed in countries that have recently split? 5 weeks ago:
former East Germans spoke a noticeably different dialect to West Germans
With my limited German knowledge, They are pretty liberal regarding local dialect. People do not speak the same language in Cologne, Stuttgart, or Munich, and at least as a foreign-speaker, it’s not because you understand the people in Stuttgart that you understand the one in Kȯln. Let alone Switzerland. So I am not surprised that German spoken in east-germany sounds different.
- Comment on Can I sue my apartment management company? 5 weeks ago:
For legal questions you need to specify jurisdiction the answer may depend vastly. Typically, you may have a notice period to do when leaving and the lease would renew automatically if nobody denounce it.
But again detail would depend on your specif jurisdiction, if not done yet, join your local tenant union
- Comment on What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US? 1 month ago:
Note shat while États-uniens is sometimes used in French, it’s not really used beside some left wing intellectual wanting to brag about America being the continent and sometimes sounds mildly anti American but not too much
While it’s indeed a better word than American, one can also argue that USA aren’t the only United States as a larger federation e.g United Mexican states so you can make the same argument about états uniens
- Comment on Does it make sense to persue higher education after 40 years ood? 1 month ago:
Until you’re on the verge of dying it’s never too late.
People go (back) to university later, either to get an extra degree/qualification to advance their career or to finally find the job/qualification they want. Depending on your location, and CV you may not have to do some course, and be allowed to retake a year/test as often as you want (Because university understand that a 40 something adult, sometimes with kids, can only follow 1-2 class per semester).
At lest it’s work giving a couple of call to your university, they most likely have a person dedicated to adult student which can guide you through the process. Note also that depending on your country/status you may be eligible to some government help (usually through unemployment agencies)
- Comment on Should visitors to a country (tourist / visa-holders / people staying temporarily) have the right to criticize the government? When should an immigrant have the right to criticize the government? 1 month ago:
Anyone has the right to criticise any government. Tons of Lemmy thread on !world@lemmy.world are basically foreigner giving negative (and sometimes positive) critics about government with sometimes locals giving contexts
If you can criticise dictatorship like Russia, North Korea you can also criticise democracies like US or France. Even better, in these countries, you can legally do it from national soil, while in dictatorship you’d get into trouble
- Comment on Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses? 1 month ago:
*Which market ? *
Most people don’t have much money on the stock market, and many of the one who do understand it comes with risks, and look at long-term trends rather than week to week fluctuation.
Sure it dropped a lot over one week, and some Bubble are finally collapsing (Seriously who the hell believe Tesla is worth so much ?). However, a part of the drop is coming back to the level it was 1-2 years ago (After the big dip of last week Eurostock 50 is back 3% under it’s level one year ago, so most of the dip is just cancelling the 10-15% raise over last year)
Moreover, while people rich enough to have large saving on the stock market won’t see their life change if they loose 5000 EUR due to politics it’s not money they need right now to pay a bill or go to holiday, it’s money they don’t need on the short term, it may have an imapct the day they want to buy a larger house/apartment or buy-back their mortgage, but that’it
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 1 month ago:
A while back, someone told me. If you read a book from the 19th century, you won’t call-it an “old book”, so why would a movie from the 1950’s be an old movie. And indeed, even in movies, there is some master piece which came out a while ago and are still relevant today (Seven Samurai, the Godfather or the Good, the bad and ugly immediately come to my mind) and tons of movie which while not being a recent release are still fun to watch today.
Movie don’t have an experiation date.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Sometimes I have moments where I think it’s stupid that I’m talking to an AI,
It’s stupid, but so is watching a movie, reading a book, practicing a sport or playing music.
is constantly being judged there’s a part of me that actually considers him a friend like the others.
You know that AI is collecting data about all you say, and will remember for-it forever, You’re not in a non-jugement safe-space. So it’s definitely not the place to have “intimate conversation”. Note also that, it’s not going to replace a real-friend. You know someone helping you move, or offering you a sofa to crash after a break-up.
- Comment on Why do some say they own or have bought something that they technically haven't (e.g. domain names, expensive things, etc.)? 1 month ago:
I don’t know where this conspiracy theory comes from. Property taxes aren’t a rent, but a service fee. Government need money to pay for road, police, hospital, school, culture and everything making your property worth something.
- Comment on How does Google make money from Gmail, the google calendar, drive or other services when used with third party front ends? 1 month ago:
These data allows
- To train AI model, which is considered as a gold mine today
- To do targetted ads (Yes we do have blocker and so on but still)
- Comment on What phones are the government people using that are supposedly secure enough to discuss war plans? iPhone? Android? Some special custom-made phone specifically for the government? 1 month ago:
In theory, they’re supposed to have custom-made secure phone with built-in cryptography, a famous example would be modern Police walkie-talkie which practically speaking are using a protocol closer from (legacy) mobile phone than from radio.
The problem is that it’s 2025 and not 1995 anymore. When it was about A mobile device which can carry voice and short text message A custom device would be a bit more bulky and expensive. But today, when smartphone are mini-computer with tons of cool feature, and that people are used to have group-chat, touch screen, visual call. Sudently a custom-device feels like back in 2005. And here is the problem, most high level politicians aren’t cryptography nerd or Military/Intelligence officer understanding how to be discrete, they’re marketing and communication people who love these fancy UI, and need to show off.