HexesofVexes
@HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
Why, a hexvex of course!
- Comment on Blessed be the Civ 2 Gandhi 🙏 20 hours ago:
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 3 days ago:
Amnesty international is a great source for current atrocities nations undertake.
- Comment on Dear Faith II 5 days ago:
Clearly fake - no-one puts first supervisor in their email signature!
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 1 week 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" 1 week 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" 1 week 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" 1 week 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" 1 week ago:
Straight to ad hominem - nothing of value to engage with here.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 weeks ago:
I think you qualify as undead now?
- Comment on At least one of the 7 letters has still some relevante to my life. 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Guinness wasn't proud of this one. 2 weeks ago:
2 short of true headline greatness.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month ago:
Teaching people excel:
- Comment on Huh? 1 month ago:
Sign language bar?
- Comment on High value 1 month ago:
Get the new “Bagarn Bod” today with this simple trick doctors won’t tell you!
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 2 months ago:
One of those little truisms folks forget is that optimising software takes a LOT longer than making something that just works.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 2 months ago:
I’m a very generous marker, generally I look for any merit and credit where I can within the scheme.
A 0 is a very strong statement saying “you produced nothing of value”, and it’s very very rare to hand out. In the case of a deduction, normally you tell them their grade pre-penalty to at least signal what was worthwhile with the aim of helping the student grow.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 2 months ago:
A personal reaction in an academic style is analytic in nature and rarely autobiographical. It links the content to the literature shaping one’s views.
The brief also specified it as critical, which at undergrad levels means exploring literature views and synthesizing rather than just vomiting a stream of consciousness unrelated to the course content.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 2 months ago:
No academic sources Use of first person throughout Academic writing conventions not present More a reflection than reaction
Sorry but unless this is a foundation student they’re getting a 35.
- Comment on The crossover you've been waiting for 2 months ago:
What a terrible day to be literate.
- Comment on Oh boy, rejoin 2 months ago:
Interesting - time to go poke one of the politics lecturers and see what ramifications they had.
To the average person on the street their lack would likely mean little, though I’ll miss the interesting coin designs of the pound.
