EnglishMobster

joined 3 years ago
 

"SAG-AFTRA is standing up to tyranny on behalf of its members,” stated president Fran Drescher.

 

"SAG-AFTRA is standing up to tyranny on behalf of its members,” stated president Fran Drescher.

 

"SAG-AFTRA is standing up to tyranny on behalf of its members,” stated president Fran Drescher.

[–] EnglishMobster@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I think a lot of the same API issues are going to hit.

Reddit wants to stop OpenAI from crawling all "their" data (that was given to them for free by their users), so any kind of algorithmic fetching of comments beyond web scraping will be removed.

[–] EnglishMobster@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Likely Project Managers, who are above the day-to-day developers. PMs take any product and squeeze the life out of it.

[–] EnglishMobster@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, they sure can.

[–] EnglishMobster@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Los Angeles has been turning their streetlights into EV charging stations. So if you need to charge - just park under a lamp and plug in.

The goal is that everywhere in the city will have charging, so presuming you can park near a streetlight you'll be able to charge your car. After all - the streetlight needs power anyway.

That said - I bought my Model 3 when I was still living in an apartment. Charging wasn't too bad. My job gave me free charging in the parking garage as a perk, and on top of that I had a Supercharger I could stop at on the way home if I needed it (which I rarely did). Usually I only used that charger if I was eating in that shopping center anyway, and typically my charging would get done before I finished waiting for my food (so I'd have to rush to move my car before getting idle fees).

The challenging part came when the pandemic started. I didn't commute to work anymore, but my car would slowly die in the parking spot (just like how your phone can die in your pocket).

Every weekend, I had to take it down to charge it. This honestly wasn't so bad. There was a charger by an In-N-Out, so I'd stop by and grab something to eat while I charged. There was a mall across the street with free charging as well, but during the early days of the pandemic they originally blocked a lot of the mall off.

After a couple of months I moved to a place with a garage, and now I charge using a regular wall outlet without any problem. But it really wasn't too bad having to charge while in an apartment, to be honest.

[–] EnglishMobster@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When water evaporates, it has a cooling effect - this is why your body produces sweat. As the sweat evaporates, it causes your body to cool down.

The wet-bulb temperature is the lowest temperature that can be reached as a result of water evaporating.

When this wet-bulb temperature approaches human body temperature, then the human body cannot reduce its temperature via sweating. This causes your body to overheat and will eventually lead to death. This is true even in the shade, even with unlimited water to drink.

At some point in the near future, it will be so hot somewhere that the wet bulb temperature will reach 35C (95F). Once this is reached, anyone exposed to that temperature will die after a few hours. The only way to avoid it is air conditioning, and if the power fails due to the heat then that won't work either.

This is most likely to happen somewhere tropical first, but it will slowly happen in more and more places as the Earth warms.

[–] EnglishMobster@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Japan wants to lead the world in AI, so they're pursuing very AI-friendly policies.

[–] EnglishMobster@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm hoping that the DLCs will fix some of the performance issues, but given Game Freak's history I'm not getting my hopes up.

What I was really hoping for was a return to Kalos or something. It seems like an obvious thing to do, especially given that the game seems to be hinting at bringing back Megas and Spain borders France (obviously).

I'm reserving judgement until we know more about the DLCs, but like I said - I'm not getting my hopes up...

[–] EnglishMobster@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

It still seems conceptual, yeah. AFAIK it isn't implemented over there yet.

I just noticed it when I was reading up on the site after it got recommended to me on Reddit. I like the concept of the place, but my turn-off is that they don't allow cute cat pictures or memes. Most of my Reddit day is spent looking at cute cats and sending memes to my fiance.

[–] EnglishMobster@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you go to the Communities tab and hit "All", you can see a list of communities you can subscribe to based on what your instance has federated with. Then you just hit the "subscribe" button and you're good to go.

[–] EnglishMobster@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

One thing I think is interesting is how tildes.net is planning to handle moderation.

Basically - they give you broad powers initially, and take them away from you if you show yourself you can't be trusted. So if you report a user and it's a bad-faith report, they can ding you. If you keep making bad-faith reports, then over time you lose the ability to create reports at all.

By contrast - if you repeatedly prove to make good reports, and your reports are usually actioned upon, you become "trusted" over time and your reports may cause content to be removed as soon as you report it. (And of course - if a moderator restores a post that you got removed, that counts as a ding against you.)

Over time, trusted users get hand-picked to become moderators. This has the ability to create "power users", of course, but a moderator that acts in bad faith can become less trusted over time and potentially loses their privileges. The thought is that the risk of power users is less than the detriment of an unmoderated community.

[–] EnglishMobster@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I wish I wasn't boycotting Blizzard.

I'm not going to bend about it, but part of me is curious what the hubbub is about. I'm surprised they're still capable of putting out a good game tbh.

[–] EnglishMobster@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I'm just waiting for the first "wet bulb" event.

I'm not sure what else it'll take for people to take climate change seriously, but by then it'll probably be too late...

 

I can see that I can follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon (just tried it out with a handful of communities), but I don't see a way to have it work the other way.

There's a few lovely people on Mastodon that post things I'd love to see pop up in my Lemmy feed - like @Curator@mastodon.art, for example. But I can't figure out how to follow them from here?

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