HobbitFoot

@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with breakfast in bed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  do people just wake up and start consuming food/drink without brushing their teeth & washing their face?

  Yes. I also generally eat breakfast before showering or brushing my teeth.

  what’s the appeal? I get liking someone else making your breakfast, but why is having it in bed fun?

  It is an extremely lazy way to get breakfast. You don’t even have to move out of bed to eat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like the commenter has been a thorn in your side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wikipedia has an imperfect process, but it is open to review and you can see how the sausage is made. It isn’t perfect, but the best we have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can she get me winning lottery numbers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Richest American to FAFO?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t fully understand JFK’s assassin, but it is likely not due to Vietnam as Vietnam wasn’t a major issue at the time of Kennedy’s death.

  Lincoln’s assassination could be seen as a defense of slavery and other Southern “rights”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lately? I find it comes and goes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often should moderators post to grow a community?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Once per twelve hours would be ok. It isn’t enough to take over a feed, yet is enough to provide content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Comfort is a deciding factor on how I dress. Within that, I try to pull off looks that don’t look like ass, which I seem to pull off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In some form, yes. However, a lot of it centered around import fees instead of restricting immigration. It would also usually center around cities, bridges, toll roads, and ports rather than open fields.

  If you were the wrong ethnic type in a city, they’d just kill you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft did cozy up to the PC; it just happened to create a console that acted like a PC to hedge its bets and create a new product line.

  The initial development of XBox came from Microsoft’s development of DirectX, which led to Microsoft doing a lot of the heavy development lifting required to make a console. At that point, all Microsoft needed was some hardware and it could ship product. So, Microsoft shipped XBox figuring that PC/XBox compatibility would beneficial for developers.

  At that time, it was unclear if consoles or PC’s would win some forms of gaming. By making the XBox, a developer could develop for both, therefore defending PC gaming with Windows as an option.

  Microsoft also made a lot of money off the consoles, since development costs were lower due to having to update DirectX for Windows as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In regards to #1, Antifa isn’t sold as an “antifascist” organization to the MAGA crowd. It is sold as a “leftist” organization that participated a lot in the BLM protests. This is sold as a big scary group that will make America a bad country.

  If you aren’t steeped in right wing media, you wouldn’t know of this organization because this organization doesn’t exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Corn hollow structural shapes?

  How strong are we talking?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They are a small part of the overall movement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The question was kind of vague in terms of what part of Christianity he was questioning, but it seems to be focused on how churches currently function. At that point, I figured I’d focus on prosperity gospel for some US churches, which is a uniquely American phenomenon.

  To just say “religion has always been like that” may bury understanding on how the current form came into being.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Read up on The Great Awakening in the USA.

  You had large parts of the USA without an established church and a lot of religious freedom. So, you had pastors able to preach whatever they wanted without government intervention. This free market Jesus produced a lot of religious diversity. Some pastors used this as an opportunity to turn religion into a business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The US military rates Japanese as one of the harder languages to learn, with its internal course taking 64 weeks. As others have said, it will probably take you years to learn even with some knowledge of Cantonese and Mandarin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Long is Too Long for a Reply?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever timeframe I’d reasonably expect people to read and respond to my comment. For Lemmy, I’d put that at a day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a series of families moving beyond the land they knew because they were pushed out by other families. The response to your discussion would be “Because I don’t want to get stabbed in the face by Kenny.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Until the 1980’s, the Federal government never shut down if they didn’t have a budget. Instead, it would operate as previously budgeted and departments would forgo large expenditures. An opinion written by the Attorney General changed that.

  I would imagine it could change back to the old system if pushed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't we have a static vintage web?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because people don’t want it compared to the current Internet.

  There is nothing stopping people from creating the Internet of old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would the C suite care about you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies always need to grow?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Valuation of companies is partially dependent on growth. A company that is projected to grow is worth more than a similarly sized company because it is expected that future growth will make the company earn more in the future, which makes the company worth more now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t even need GMO to create a crop that is covered via patent.

  mnhardy.umn.edu/apples/licensing

  The University of Minnesota has a large apple breeding system to create new varieties that it sells licenses to. The university funds the development by selling licenses on the trees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  CEO’s are already using AI as a tool to help them understand their companies by dumping their company data into these models as a way to understand their companies.

  I just don’t see any company creating an AI to replace a CEO in its entirety, yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should my character be 21-23?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on what was written, the relationship age gap seems to be an important part of the character.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long can someone physically walk for?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. It brought about a new hunting strategy that a lot of prey didn’t have a counter strategy for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which career to pursue?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Get a civil engineering degree and go into construction management. Then, crawl your way into international development. You won’t be at home, but that seems like a decent fit for someone with an affinity for STEM and a desire to make money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I get texting and driving being a danger. But back in my day you could eat drink change radio stations etc. Why weren't laws implemented back then?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The standard of safety was far lower back then. You could legally drink alcohol and drive in all states in the 1970s and didn’t face a national ban until 1998.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have said, the issue is transmission.

  There are parts of the world where solar power is deployed to help with the power grid; the Southwest USA uses solar power a lot as peak solar generally aligns with peak electrical demand. However, there isn’t the infrastructure to move west coast power to the east coast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably.

  1. One of the two major employers of programmers, tech companies, have significantly curtailed future development of their products as the cost/benefit ratio isn’t worth it. That isn’t projected to change in the near future.

  2. Companies that have full WFH are no longer constrained by office location in hunting for talent. A Bay Area programmer now has to compete with someone in Tulsa or Mexico City, which have far lower costs of living.

  3. AI slop will probably get good enough to do basic tasks. So, companies who only need a little programming talent may be able to get by on shitty AI code instead of hiring a second or third developer.