HobbitFoot

@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. That’s a lot of words to try to seem superior to other people. Did you use ChatGPT to help you write it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I know The Simpsons sends the grunt work to East Asia, but I thought that South Park is so simple that a US team can bang out production with the writing staff within a week.

• How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t one person that people go onto a micro blogging service for, but a variety of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somebody has a case of the Mondays...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is significant overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bradward Boimler is actually a deceased USS Pegasus Ensign. Prove me wrong!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  William Boimler got sent back in time by Riker to ensure the Pegasus Incident occurred according to schedule.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any reason to use the "new" sorting option on Lemmy, except to filter spam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now, not really. In the future, I expect subscribed new to be more important as content becomes more abundant and there might be a point where you could miss out on posts that didn’t see the kind of engagement to make it on your stream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But do you need to slow it down all the way? Can’t you just slow it down enough to get the ball in an elliptical orbit where the trash ball gets very close to the ball of plasma?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But does it matter what speed the garbage is going at when it hits the sun?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are 'micro-apartments' converted from offices the answer to the housing crisis?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of American municipalities have banned a lot of the cheap and small apartments that could house working people. Offer it as an option; it seems better than sleeping on the streets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Distribution⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m saying boo-urns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For states on the coast with excess solar energy why don't they invest in water desalination and pump that water back upstream?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only state this would be viable in is California. As the state won’t invest in desalinization to provide water for coastal areas, I doubt it will desalinate and pump the water up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does US "early voting" works logistically speaking ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are two types of early voting.

  For in person voting, the local election board opens up fewer voting locations before the election. If approved, you can vote there and then instead. A lot of states eliminated any requirements to early voting after Covid.

  For mail-in voting, the ballot gets mailed through USPS to voters. The ballots are usually supplied with an envelope with a way to verify identity, usually with signature. From there, the voter has the option to either mail the ballot back or directly deliver it to specific drop boxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is my reaction weird?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Natural reaction, but also it is good that you weren’t trying to be a creep in that situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wagon Train to the Stars⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is the reason a lot of Stargate was shot in various temperate rain forests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why didn't the Discovery show-runners believe in the Federation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea of a Federation collapse went back to Gene Roddenberry, who wrote the basics of a story of a Federation starship that got pushed forward through time to a post-Federation future with the goal of rebuilding the Federation.

  The first iteration of that idea was Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda. Kevin Sorbo ruined that series.

  They did better with the idea the second time around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Femboy or FEM-boy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Posts like this make me sick.

  Goddamn doctors shoving finite element models down our throats like every little problem requires a 3D mesh and complicated boundary conditions.

  Not all our problems are that complicated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paradox respond to the accusation that they fix games with paid DLC - "we try to find a middle ground"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The best idea seems to be incorporating old DLC into the base game at a certain point while maintaining a higher price floor for the base game. That way, you can sell a more complete base game and maintenance between different versions becomes streamlined.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Effort require Effort⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like a combination of Covid years being bad for student development combined with school districts on shoestring budgets not having enough teachers on hand done they can’t get enough teachers to take a vow of poverty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the job, but it would be a red flag for my career as projects usually last for at least a year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re like that kinky statistician, you need more than standard deviancy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the tech space is very much innovate or die

  Is it still? The VC funding has started drying up and every tech company has started worrying about profitability now. I think the old innovate or die mantra has played itself out.

  And IBM & Motorola diminished in part because they stuck to older industries where cost became as important as innovation and didn’t lower their cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You also have some newer mods who are controlling the narrative for profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch out, Microsoft Outlook could soon give away when you're sneakily working from home⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not putting any work stuff on by home computer. I’m not giving work admin rights to that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That may be the way consoles go.

  We aren’t seeing the kinds of innovation happening in hardware that justifies dropping backward compatibility and the AAA gaming market hasn’t released games in the quantity they did before.

  So Sony and Microsoft can update the hardware in a way to maintain backwards comparability and game companies have the option of developing to the current generation only, both generations with different graphics, or the older generation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why? Amazon seems to have built an amazing system with AWS, but does it need the same amount of staff time to maintain it that it needed to develop it?

  If Amazon acknowledges that it isn’t going to be developing new products to the scale it did for the past decade, it probably doesn’t need the headcount it had before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does my beard grow back faster after shaving?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve just found that beard growth is easier for me in general as I’ve gotten older.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really.

  The only reason there is one fewer name than expected is because of Bush, which had the father appear on the ballot four times and the son appear twice. The Bush family was a very old school political dynastic family.

  The only outlier on the Democratic side is Hillary Clinton in 2016. She used her husband’s political career to help her, but they were a self made political family. You also have the case where Biden could have been on the 2016 ballot and there would be no change in the number of names.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Metal and grunge still happened in a music video era.

  I think a bigger thing that happened was the collapse of the CD. From that point, the new acts that the industry seemed to focus on were individuals instead of groups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favoirte indepth youtube channels?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Patrick (H) Willems is great movie criticism with plot.