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- Comment on German court: ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics 1 day ago:
But the court rulings / precedence wouldn’t care about that distinction, it just covers learning from copyrighted material in general.
- Comment on German court: ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics 2 days ago:
What if you read a copyrighted engineering textbook, and then build something for profit with that knowledge?
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 2 days ago:
Valve innovated a package manager, a store, strict DRM, and gambling / third party cosmetic markets.
Very recently they built the Proton compatibility layer.
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 2 days ago:
No, they wouldn’t.
Anti-trust law exists to prevent companies from overcharging consumers, something they can do when they don’t have competition.
Valve keeping their prices far higher than costs is something that can open them up to anti-trust scrutiny. Competitively lowering their prices while still maintaining profitability cannot, as that is the exact goal of anti-trust laws in the first place.
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 2 days ago:
That means that gamers have been ripped off for decades.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 2 days ago:
Nope, night owl who likes to sleep in.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 2 days ago:
I mean, I broke my hand and it never healed properly, I have pretty bad tendon damage in one ankle, I got shin splints like crazy when I started running, and I have previously herniated a disk, though not that major.
I’m not saying every single major injury is recoverable from, but look at the history of most athletes and you’ll see a lot of major injuries that they were able to recover from.
Again, not saying this is the case necessarily for your back, but I know people who have gotten relatively minor injuries, gotten terrified of them and/or used that as an excuse not to do any more exercise on that body part ever, and then got severely injured again because now the muscles and muscle control for that body part is severely undeveloped, putting more strain back on the tendons / ligaments.
The general recommended approach for most injuries is physio, i.e. reducing your exercises back down to zero weight, but still doing them, and continuously adding weight to re-build and strengthen those muscles and joints, not to avoid using them forever.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 2 days ago:
Burnout isnt a thing, it’s just situational depression.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 2 days ago:
Honestly cannot fathom this. Are you pushing yourself at the gym? Are you eating healthy and enough protein? Resting enough?
There’s literally never been a period of my life where going to the gym regularly hasn’t made me feel better. I havent gone for like 6 months because I’ve been brutally busy, but I honestly cannot fathom how you could be going and not getting something positive out of it.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 2 days ago:
If you force yourself to run a little bit one day, then a little bit more each day after that, then eventually 4 miles will feel like a short run.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 2 days ago:
By forcing yourself to do stuff.
It sucks at first, and you feel exhausted and like you’re not that effective and your brain will keep coming up with excuses and rationalizations as to why you should just rest, but you ignore them and force yourself to do the stuff you don’t feel like doing.
Do that for a while and you’ll suddenly have a higher energy level and it won’t seem like a big deal.
You’re basically at the point where you just took up a new exercise every day, and that’s just tapping you out. If you keep doing just that exercise and nothing else, your fitness / energy will eventually rise to the point of being able to handle it and nothing else. If you force yourself to do more, then eventually your fitness / energy level will rise to working + after work stuff being the baseline.
Give yourself time and give yourself rest days, but most people online will advocate for too much self care and don’t realize that the only way to actually change and improve is to continually push yourself a little past your comfort zone.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 4 days ago:
Haha Doug Ford bad man.
Thanks for the commentary, so insightful and helpful. Totally not just edge lord polarizing bullshit.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 4 days ago:
Everywhere does, but Canada has a post secondary education rate of ~66%, and typically votes 66% sane. America has a post secondary education rate of ~50%, and typically votes 50% sane.
There are other differences between the countries, but I think it’s impossible to argue that a substantially more educated population hasn’t led to a stabler and more thoughtful political climate.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 4 days ago:
You are right, all the comments replying to you are making vacuous individualist arguments like ‘it won’t work every single time’, when what’s important is that ‘on average, it will raise intelligence and the ability to critically evaluate situations’.
The internet loves to just regurgitate what they heard before and only deal in absolutes, so right now it’s that they would have made more money in the trades, so suddenly college and higher education is meaningless and provided no value to them. It’s honestly embarassing how much they’re just buying into right wing propaganda.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 4 days ago:
It does. Look at Canada.
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 5 days ago:
Lol the reliance on diesel generators is not negligible.
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 5 days ago:
They are still a waste of resources compared to a purely collective solution like you’re advocating for.
The most efficient use of resources would be to build massive solar farms in warm sunny areas like Arizona, and then build massive distribution grids to where it’s needed. But this sacrifices resiliency and flexibility.
It’s no different then diesel generators.
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 5 days ago:
Many many many people do have diesel generators for backup power in the case the grid goes down.
And if you’re building out a new solar system, most will build battery backups for the same reason + cost optimizing.
If your point is that fossil fuels are more polluting than electric motors, then sure, yeah, we all agree.
If your point is that we should always optimize for resource efficiency over flexibility and resiliency, then I think you’re a little misguided, as I see no arguments for not building solar microgrids.
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 5 days ago:
Yes you are, and it’s rather embarassing in light of being handily proven to be wrong.
Name a developed country, and I’ll point you to a power outage and a need for backup generators. Here, how about I start:
Canada ✅, Norway ✅, Switzerland ✅, The UK ✅, Belgium ✅, Costa Rica ✅, Japan ✅, South Korea ✅
So please do go ahead and tell us your mythical country that doesn’t ever have power outages due to inclement weather?
Oh what’s that? You can’t name one?
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 5 days ago:
So no country in the world is developed then? Because literally every single country in the world has power outages.
Lmfao, you sweet innocent indoor cat.
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 5 days ago:
Yeah, but that model does not work when you live out in the country. That’s literally a model that only works past a certain population density.
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 5 days ago:
Lmao, no.
It’s because roads get built first because they’re cheap and flexible. It costs nothing to build a dirt road but a bulldozer and a bit of time.
Transportation networks start with desire paths with take the form of cheap and easy roads, then they’re expanded and improved upon or abandoned as time goes on demand calls for it.
Eventually public transit gets added and then eventually trains get built.
Congratulations on being a semi-outdoor cat, how often do you go out to the country, vs how often do you walk around the block before returning to your echo chamber?
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 5 days ago:
So you want me to take a multi wheeled, suspension having, covered, and motorized vehicle?
Congratulations, you’ve invented the Pontiac Aztec!
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 5 days ago:
I have an e bike and bike trailer, but you know what cars have? Covers. And locks. And suspension so my shit doesn’t get rattled to pieces or stolen or rained on.
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 5 days ago:
Lmao.
Bruh I was in Switzerland last year, their rural areas are like 20min from their urban areas. You can literally fit 26 countries of Switzerlands into a single province of Ontario.
Public transit is great, but you’re acting like public transit can cover all the edge cases of country living and it just fundamentally cannot.
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 5 days ago:
Roads are built first, they always have been and always will be because it costs almost nothing to build a dirt road.
Then once there is enough demand on the roads, they’re improved and widened and eventually replaced with higher capacity, more permanent links like trains.
That means that the edge of your transportation network is always going to be based around roads and cars.
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 5 days ago:
At a fundamental level you’re just discussing different system designs.
Public transit systems prioritize efficient resource use, but they do so at the expense of flexibility and resiliency.
Russia can launch a missile and take out the power to a whole Ukrainian neighbourhood because they all efficiently share a power grid. If they each operated on their own microgrid it would be more expensive and less resource efficient to setup, but it would be more resilient in the face of disruption and easier to move.
That’s all your really discussing here and it’s a common trade off in system design.
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 5 days ago:
It is extremely common for people in the country to have massive propane tanks for heating and backup diesel generators, here in Canada.
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 5 days ago:
Those apps don’t guarantee availability. We have them here in Canada, formerly Car2Go, now Communauto, and they’re great, but a) they are still a car, and b) availability is not guaranteed. Most weekends all the cars are gone by 9am.
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 5 days ago:
Not a counterpoint. I bought a bike trailer and it’s far less useful for transport:
a) tippiness / base size: you cannot take any reasonable sized furniture in it, and absolutely nothing tall or top heavy.
b) lack of cover: you cannot transport anything unless the weather is perfect
c) lack of suspension: cars come with massive cushy suspension systems that prevent things from bouncing and breaking. This is also the main factor that limits biking home with groceries like eggs.
Again, I own a bike trailer, it’s mostly used for taking my hockey equipment to close games, it is not the same thing as a car and once you try and make it match the features of a car, you end up with 30 Rock Microwave / Pontiac Aztec situation.