HexesofVexes
@HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
Why, a hexvex of course!
- Comment on Day 615 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
It’s a fun game for short sessions - you can also drop out mid-mystery and easily pick up again a week later!
- Comment on The difference is real 2 months ago:
The fact we have to check tells us a lot about the state of the world.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 2 months ago:
So essentially laying the groundwork to microtransactions for video game guides?
- Comment on Blessed be the Civ 2 Gandhi 🙏 2 months ago:
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 2 months ago:
Amnesty international is a great source for current atrocities nations undertake.
- Comment on Dear Faith II 2 months ago:
Clearly fake - no-one puts first supervisor in their email signature!
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 3 months ago:
That’s an interesting perspective - no promises but I’ll give it a go and audit the stats on those papers.
If true, the price may be worth it.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 3 months ago:
Very true but coffee has a very unfortunate effect on my innards so I’m locked out of that one!
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 3 months ago:
Reduction in waste is also a key step yes, one in which gains are being made. Teaching simple preservation techniques (e.g. oven toasting old bread) is also a good route to doing this.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 3 months ago:
Honestly, I’m in favour of this, but that worries me.
In general, such actions will also raise the price of other goods as demand increase. You’d also need to keep non-meat prices low, and that’ll be expensive, meaning cuts elsewhere.
Making the world vegan isn’t just about stopping the meat industry, that’s rather like pulling cogs from a machine and praying it still runs. It’s about designing a better machine that doesn’t need those cogs, sacrificing to build it, and making sure it really is better.
For the vegan path that means sustainable agriculture (it isn’t at the moment), replicating tastes and caloric density (a key element of human culture), avoiding creating new issues (e.g. overuse of sugar, dietary issues with mycelial/nut sensitivity), and pushing food costs down.
So, if you want the world to be vegan, drop your current life and start working on the above!
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 3 months ago:
Straight to ad hominem - nothing of value to engage with here.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 3 months ago:
Vegan milks are nice to drink, but they are very very different to real milk. Having tea with oat milk is a sacrifice (almond and coconut are worse for tea - they lack the sweetness that counteracts the bitter elements of tea), it doesn’t taste as good but it’s ok. It’s a small sacrifice to make, but a persistent one (given that many of us rely on caffeine to function at work).
There is a moral argument to be made, and the moral argument has the high ground if you avoid looking too carefully (nothing in life is simple).
The real crux of the vegan argument is “can people also sacrifice this”, or is it one sacrifice too many in the world of compromises we endure. That’s a personal choice, and given the state of the world today, it isn’t one many will be able to make.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 3 months ago:
I got mine 2 (or shit, is it 3 now) years ago - 10/10 best laptop purchase in a long while.
GPD have done well for themselves in the small screen laptop space!
- Comment on Not gonna lie, I kind like it 3 months ago:
I think you qualify as undead now?
- Comment on At least one of the 7 letters has still some relevante to my life. 3 months ago:
Lesson 1 - Plot every pair of variables in this file as a scatter plot using Excel. Calculate every pair of correlations possible from the same file in Excel.
Lesson 2 - ggpairs and why R is amazing
- Comment on Not gonna lie, I kind like it 3 months ago:
- Comment on Guinness wasn't proud of this one. 3 months ago:
2 short of true headline greatness.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 3 months ago:
- Shift over to open source.
- Invest 25–50% of what you currently pay for proprietary software into helping maintain and enhance open source software.
- Enjoy the economic benefits well maintained free software brings to every aspect of your digital infrastructure at no extra cost.
- Comment on ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering 3 months ago:
Quality article - thanks for sharing!
I used to make (very bad) ASCII art as a hobby during my PhD (it’s good for relaxing), and a lot of the “smoothing” I learned but I think the method for good contrast would have really helped back then!
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 3 months ago:
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 3 months ago:
Funnily enough, if you actually follow “work to the job, not the clock” you get more work done, and you generally go home early.
You’re also less likely to quit, and more likely to develop and share good practice.
- Comment on Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February 4 months ago:
The internet has many strange rules, one of the unwritten ones is “if little Timmy wants titties, little Timmy is going to find titties”.
No matter how you hard you try, you’re not going to stop this phenomenon. You’ll just push kids to sites that refuse to comply (usually the dodgy ones), or inhabit grey areas (a lot of streamer content counts as softcore), or they’ll get Nd a workaround (current VPN situation), or they’ll just gaslight an AI model into generating porn.
Trying to block access isn’t viable as there is always a work around, what is needed is someone sitting down with a kid to put it into context. That’s not the job of the government, that’s the job of a parent.
- Comment on Womp womp womp womp 4 months ago:
So, if your field appears instantly/imminently monetisable, then the private sector is an option. However, the wider benefits of your research are VERY unlikely to reach the wider public in your lifetime. Yes, you will basically be working to make someone else rich. However, this kind of grant is very likely to succeed in academic settings as universities love patents.
If you’re doing abstract or fundamental research, you’re pretty much out of luck - the private sector does not want anything to do with this. However, it’s little better in the academic sector because you have to spend almost all your time chasing grants, or teaching topics outside your expertise (i.e. the ones industry sees immediate value in) to survive.
In short, there is a lot of options to finish things (because everyone loves intellectual property as an asset), but very few to develop them (no-one likes to pay for the groundwork).
- Comment on Womp womp womp womp 4 months ago:
“I want to make the world a better place at no real benefit to myself”
“Ok, but only if you beg us for the money”
Modern academia in a nutshell
- Comment on They don't pay me enough for this 4 months ago:
Teaching people excel:
- Comment on Huh? 4 months ago:
Sign language bar?
- Comment on High value 4 months ago:
Get the new “Bagarn Bod” today with this simple trick doctors won’t tell you!
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Reply to edited chart - violence against adult was not as common. Violence against other kids however…
Also, 1995–2002 was peak chav ;)
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I’m not from the USA so I don’t really have a clear idea on what a redneck is.
However, going from media representations (dodgy ground) I’d say no. There isn’t the strong streak of racism, and the demographic is uniquely young for chavs (since most grow out of it).
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Chav is not a term to describe a working class person - it’s a term to describe a subset of youths who are pretty much feral.
By feral I mean aggressive and “antisocial” in the “are you looking at me pal” kind of response to eye contact. In essence, a youth whose primary strategy is to escalate to conflict by the shortest possible route in the hopes of winning status.
What that has to do with coming from an honest working family is beyond me!
