ALoafOfBread

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Really well argued and explained, I hope people read and don't just reflexively downvote.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I definitely recommend it! Have to be very careful about staying safe, though. People don't take injuries seriously enough. But it's great exercise and very rewarding

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Guitar: as a kid I just thought it'd be awesome to shred. Now I mostly play acoustic fingerstyle, but shred some. Interest has ebbed and flowed over the years, but been playing forever.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: I wanted a challenge and to get good at something new. It's hard, but I like it and just keep coming back. Been doing it for a couple years and am a blue belt.

Hiking: did it as a kid, now I do it with my wife who pushes me to hike more than I would otherwise which is good

Tech stuff: coding, piracy, stuff like that. Dad was in IT and taught me to look for solutions with tech. Never stopped. I'm not a fantastic coder, but use it for work and also to solve personal challenges, enter piracy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

It's genuinely crazy to me that people don't use the OC. Not using it creates such a huge amount of needless ambiguity

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The interesting thing about this to me is that they're doing it in solidarity with Trump and to draw attention to the assassination attempt, but 1) he wasn't really injured significantly, 2) the assassination attempt seems to not have had a political motive. So, there's not much to show solidarity for, and there's no enemy they're calling out.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think it isn't going to be that effective a phrase. People don't understand why having lots of money (hoarding wealth) is a bad thing, necessarily, and it sort of implies that, if they were to just spend it it'd make the initial hoarding fine.

Gotta also focus on the fact that they essentially stole that money from workers through labor exploitation. The bare fact that they got the money to begin with is the problem, not just them holding onto it. If they were to spend it all on horrible capitalist enterprises rather than hoarding it, that'd be even worse. Even if they spent it all on "philanthropic" efforts, that's still worse than the workers having their fair share and the government being able to actually have that money to spend on social programs through taxes.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Inkjet: uses yellow ink to dye paper.

But what if it's just black text?

Inkjet: USES YELLOW INK TO DYE PAPER

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I'd watch that movie

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Mushroom ID requires a lot more than just immediately available visuals. You've gotta see what the cap looks like, the stem, how the stem connects to the cap, the specific characteristics of the gills, the substrate it's growing in, and the spore print (i.e. leave it on a piece of white paper, covered, for a number of hours undisturbed so it drops its spores). And even then it can be tough if the mushroom is abnormal or is decaying at all.

With enough info, I'm sure you could train an ML model to ID mushrooms. But you'd need to give it a lot of info to make a successful ID.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Dell specifically has been super gung ho on work from home. Michael Dell had some article in Forbes or something a couple years ago that was hyping how great WFH had been for the company. They were actually paying people to WFH since it saved the company money. Dell's business model benefitted heavily from WFH since companies had to buy more computers and peripherals to support a remote workforce.

So, the "return" to office seems like a pretty naked attempt to cause people to quit without having to pay severance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No. This is not legally correct in the US. Discrimination can be direct (women have to RTO, but men don't) or indirect (everyone has to RTO, but women are statistically way more likely to be forced to quit their jobs due to the change). This is called disparate impact and is a serious issue.

Now, is this happening in this case? Possibly. Likely too early to tell.

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