hglman
@hglman@lemmy.world
- Comment on Capital One is set to acquire Discover, merging 2 of the US' largest credit-card companies 8 months ago:
They won’t
- Comment on Cold take: Lower Decks should have colored an Orion's blushing as green instead of red/pink. 8 months ago:
Yes it does, i think there is a tos episode that hints at that as well
- Comment on Can i separate the vines? 8 months ago:
Yes, you can root any length cutting.
- Comment on Christians think gay people are trying to convert them to being gay *because Christians try to convert people to being Christian*. 8 months ago:
It’s sort of true, if you have been raised to suppress your want of people of the same sex, being confronted with things that you find arousing but forbidden makes your suppression hard. That is you are now aware that you are gay.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
How recently did you try this?
- Comment on Business Insider would like Gen Z to know that anxiety is healthy and their problem is that they need more of it. 8 months ago:
Business professors are required to have the ability to have empathy surgically removed.
- Comment on Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day wait 8 months ago:
Sounds like chicago needs to do something about how close those other states are.
- Comment on Indeed it is. 8 months ago:
Maybe they all are
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 8 months ago:
If your start time has a 4 hour swing, how could you just look up your local time and make a choice to call?
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 8 months ago:
Just coordinate via asynchronous communication to schedule a time. It’s not 1935.
You: “hey uncle text me when it would be a good time to have a call”
6 hours later
Uncle: “hey i just got up, lets have a call at 4:50”
You: “thats a bid late for me, im in bed by 4:00, what about 3:30?”
Uncle: “sure sounds great”
No one needed to know anything about when people wake up, where on earth they live, etc.
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 8 months ago:
Exactly, it always requires knowing your uncles habits.
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 8 months ago:
No, timezones don’t make sense everywhere, you clearly have not lived on the edge of timezones where the shift from what would be local time is notable.
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 8 months ago:
Yeah, which makes the points, it’s non trivial to know when to contact people with timezones anyways. The time zone only adds more complexity.
- Comment on Ghost in a car shell: Engineers make self-driving vehicles 'hallucinate' at will — MadRadar is worrying proof-of-concept that should get automotive companies on alert 8 months ago:
They don’t exist?
- Comment on Ghost in a car shell: Engineers make self-driving vehicles 'hallucinate' at will — MadRadar is worrying proof-of-concept that should get automotive companies on alert 9 months ago:
Just build trains…
- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 10 months ago:
What are you using that makes it crash, virtually never happens to me.
- Comment on Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive 11 months ago:
That’s a pretty good analogy, but it’s Fortran and B-52. Fortran is very good at what it does to this day. Cobol was never good.
- Comment on You morons just hung a vacancy sign on your asses and my foot's looking for a room! 11 months ago:
I see Special Agent Bill Patterson, bc [Grotesque]en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotesque_(The_X-Files)?wpr…) is a fantastic episode.
- Comment on Diplomacy win 11 months ago:
This is amazing; I’m dying over here.
- Comment on Tesla's reputation slumps as GM, Ford climb - Tesla ranked 62nd by reputation among the 100 most visible brands, tumbling from 12th last year and 8th in 2021. 11 months ago:
Cars that have never had a style update. Now that they exist in meaningful numbers they look old and tired.
- Comment on Amazon exec says it’s time for workers to ‘disagree and commit’ to office return — “I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better.” 11 months ago:
If getting people back into work makes your property more valuable that the productive losses, it’s not a sunk cost. The leaders might be doing their math wrong, but they are not necessarily making a sunk cost fallacy here.
However, i do agree it’s likely a choice driven by power and personalities, not money. I suspect a lot of talk about how remote workers can be abused and controlled has happened.
- Comment on Amazon exec says it’s time for workers to ‘disagree and commit’ to office return — “I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better.” 11 months ago:
They don’t have leases. They own that real estate. So its value is a considerable line item in the company’s value. If they get people in office, it’s a boost to the company’s value. The property is hit yet sunk in their eyes.
- Comment on Amazon exec says it’s time for workers to ‘disagree and commit’ to office return — “I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better.” 11 months ago:
No, it does not. It means that they think it’s more profitable for shareholders.
- Comment on US broadband grant rules shut out small ISPs and municipalities, advocates say 1 year ago:
Internet should be a public utility and owned by the local government.
- Comment on There's no way for teachers to figure out if students are using ChatGPT to cheat, OpenAI says in new back-to-school guide 1 year ago:
The core issue here is we don’t know how to measure the skill of learning directly.
- Comment on Samuel L. Jackson Claims Strange Film Editing May Have Cost Him Academy Award Consideration 1 year ago:
like 3 of them