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- Comment on The Biogeography of Lions 16 hours ago:
There are a couple, but they don’t roam very far.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 day ago:
Yep. Robert Putnam’s book “Bowling Alone” turns 25 this year, and it’s as relevant as ever.
- Comment on 🏹🏹🏹 1 day ago:
Nah, wood is expensive with the tariffs and all. That’s just the new range staffer holding the target.
- Comment on Engineering Breakthrough Opens Door to Cheap Hydrogen Power 1 week ago:
There are two practical ways to make hydrogen:
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Split water molecules via electrolysis. This is thermally inefficient and not cost-effective at scale.
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Strip hydrogen atoms off of hydrocarbon molecules, usually natural gas. It’s much cheaper. Unfortunately, the leftover carbon atoms leave the process as CO2. AFAIK all commercially available hydrogen is made this way.
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- Comment on off to learn themrodynamics and statistcial mechanics 2 weeks ago:
That was glorious!
- Comment on Is it worth selling on eBay in 2025? 2 weeks ago:
It depends what you are selling. It has to be an item valuable enough to make the shipping hassle and seller’s fees worthwhile. Search for the thing you want to sell, and then hit the Completed Listings filter. That will show you what it has been selling for.
I use eBay to but/sell used bicycle parts and miscellaneous outdoor gear. Also sometimes used clothing if it’s niche or higher-end. Getting screwed by other users is very rare in my experience.
Craigslist is still sometimes useful, though it isn’t active like it used to be. It’s best for things you just want gone: post them in the free section and leave them out on the curb.
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 4 weeks ago:
I started with basic goals:
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I want to make enough money that I don’t have to worry about money. Not like “annual tropical vacations” kind of money, but “if my car is stolen tomorrow I can buy a new one without having to worry about covering other expenses” money.
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Do work that is creative and technical.
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Do work that somehow benefits society.
When I got to university I pulled up the list of majors and started highlighting ones that sounded interesting and would likely fit those goals. I ended up going into engineering. And after bouncing around in industry, for a few years, I found a niche that fits me well.
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- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 4 weeks ago:
I’ll third.
- Comment on Why is so hard for musicians to have a good living and be famous? 1 month ago:
To add all the other good comments here…
As a recording artist, it’s nearly impossible to stand out unless you have a marketing machine behind you. That means a record label that can promote your work, get your songs placed on radio stations and streaming platforms, and (in the old days) manufacture and sell physical media through many different retailers.
As a touring performer, you also need a large crew of people working for you: booking venues, marketing your shows, ticketing, managing the logistics of set-up/tear-down/transportation, operating lights and sound during the show, etc.
In both of these scenarios, the musician is only one small cog in a large machine. And there are enough good musicians in the world that they are treated as largely interchangeable.
- Comment on Is WW3 more likely to accelerate or slow down anthropogenic climate change? 1 month ago:
NCD is leaking
- Comment on What is happening on Programming. Dev instance? 1 month ago:
Whatever the issue was, it was short-lived. It’s now back to normal and only a few minutes behind.
- Comment on What is happening on Programming. Dev instance? 1 month ago:
It looks like programming.dev is suddenly falling behind reddthat.com. It’s currently ~40 minutes behind and getting worse. @snowe@programming.dev @Ategon@programming.dev, FYI.
I’m not savvy enough to know what causes this, but it has happened before between instances. @MrKaplan@lemmy.world might have some insight.
- Comment on Which Lemmy instances use Photon? 2 months ago:
If you like Photon, you might like Tesseract. It’s a Photon fork. Here are a few instances that host Tesseract frontends:
dubvee.org
tesh.itjust.works
tess.lemmy.ca
tes.leminal.space - Comment on what fediverse software is similar to lemmy? 2 months ago:
I’ll mention some dead projects, in case anyone gets an itch to pick them up…
lotide/hitide is a minimalist, text-only platform. It has been abandoned.
https://sr.ht/~vpzom/lotide/. https://lotide.fbxl.net/Sublinks was in the works, but it is on indefinite hiatus. As I understand it, the main dev became too busy IRL to continue work.
https://github.com/sublinks - Comment on If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better? 2 months ago:
often a really good option from a functional POV
This right here. Electronic devices are full of plastics because they are often the best, or only, way to make those devices function and remain safe. You’re not going to make a car that meets any modern crash safety standard without plastic materials. Your not going to replace medical tubing with paper or cloth. Etc., etc.
The world can certainly use less plastic, and should use less. But eliminating it completely will require either (a) developing some novel new replacement material, or (b) giving up a lot of useful things humans have developed in the past century.
- Comment on How will we deal with all the broken images? 2 months ago:
I assume it’s an intentional trade-off by the devs to reduce the storage burden. If each instance is a complete mirror of all federated instances then hosting becomes that much more expensive.
- Comment on Do people confuse your nationality? 2 months ago:
Texans will appreciate that you refer to them as Texans rather then American.
- Comment on An open (or federated) searchable catalog of hikes and hiking trails (alltrails alternative)? 2 months ago:
I have been looking for the same thing for years. I basically want the WTA Hike Finder but expanded worldwide, and with some map integration to show the routes visually instead of having to interpret the descriptions.
- Comment on Alternatives to Band (group coordination tool) 2 months ago:
Free is good, of course. But I also have some gripes about how Band functions so I’m interested to see what else is out there. Thanks for the Campfire recommendation; I will check it out.
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- Comment on Quotation marks and other symbols are incorrectly rendered 2 months ago:
This should be submitted as an issue to the lemmy-ui GitHub:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui - Comment on Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food? 2 months ago:
It depends on your plumbing. If your sink’s waste pipe is large enough, and has enough slope, and you put enough water down the drain to wash all the solids through the pipe, then you can certainly put food down the sink drain.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 2 months ago:
I think that goes to my point about simple comparisons being difficult. Norway has a high GDP relative to its size, so 4% might be more than enough for their situation. You also have to account for things like the labor cost of teachers, which varies by country.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 2 months ago:
Comparing things like this between countries is not straightforward. For example, Australia spends $14.1k per student while New Zealand spends $8.6k. That’s about 5.2% of GDP for both countries. From those numbers, would we conclude that Australia is overpaying, or New Zealand is underpaying, or that the two countries are comparable?
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/education-spending-by-country
- Comment on Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space. 2 months ago:
While not being exactly what you are proposing, you could consider mastodon.social and lemmy.world the de facto front page for each service. They are by far the largest and best-known instances in their respective networks. Many new users start at those instances, get their toes wet, and then branch out.
I’m not arguing that’s how the network should be structured, though.
- Comment on Why are solar panels and batteries from China so cheap: It's more to do with automation and state-of-the art manufacturing processes than cheap labour. 3 months ago:
The same article could be written about many things China produces, not just solar panels and batteries. China spent decades learning to dominate in high-volume, low-margin manufacturing. They developed massive economies of scale, and lots of manufacturing expertise, both of which translate to labor efficiency that other countries can’t match.
The article also quietly mentions the fact that China has an abundance of cheap coal to power all those factories. That’s a big part of its advantage in “Processing $” in the third figure.
- Comment on Lemmy.one will be shutting down 3 months ago:
Here are a few things off the top of my head.
Deleted accounts leave orphaned posts/comments, which still exist on the site but can be difficult for admins to find and remove: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5525
Private message reports don’t go to all the right people: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4436
We should be getting some vote analytics in the future, which will be great. Lemmy seems to have a significant number of vote manipulation accounts that only exist to upvote/downvote in unison, but they are currently hard to find. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5669
I really should open an issue to improve the reports queue. It’s tolerable if you mod an individual community or a smaller instance, but it is unusable as an admin on a really big instance like .world. There is no way to search or sort the reports. You can filter by posts or comments but then it only shows you 20 entries, which is a weird and unhelpful limitation. All reports have equal priority; there is no mechanism for users to flag reports that should be escalated to admins. And, if something is heavily reported, there is no way to batch resolve the reports after you address the issue.
- Comment on Hot sauce is for Dad to protect his food from scavenging by lesser beings 3 months ago:
This worked until my kids developed a tolerance for heat. They are adapting! It’s only a matter of time before they are completely resistant!
- Comment on Fediverse.com is available for sale 3 months ago:
- Comment on Solar panels cleaning solar panels 3 months ago:
