Downvote me all you want to show you have nothing to say. Return to my comment in 10 years to find I'm right.
No one is going to remember this comment 30 seconds after they click away, and this thread will be absorbed into an AI
Readit Newsbobbean commented on Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement theverge.com/2023/7/9/237... · Posted by u/Tomte
bobbean commented on Why is desalination so difficult? practical.engineering/blo... · Posted by u/mrzool
Can I shower in salt water?
Then all I need to do is desalinate drinking water.
“Distributed” home desalination for drinking water seems like the best approach in my mind, then people can pay as much or as little they need, but I have no real data to back this up.
I'm not even remotely knowledgeable about this, but I'd assume saltwater would wreck plumbing. The connection in and out would probably be degraded much quicker. Then the water treatment plants would have to deal with dirty salt water, which is probably more difficult.
On top of that all the brine that people produce in their homes would have to be disposed of, and I'm sure many people would just end up flushing it down the drain. So the water treatment plant would have to deal with highly concentrated, contaminated saltwater.
bobbean commented on Honda Monkey Breaks World Record Covering 4,183 Km on Single Tank advpulse.com/adv-news/hon... · Posted by u/harambae
1,000km is a tiring drive in a luxury SUV.
I couldn't imagine 4,000km on a knee-high 125cc bike.
They are very cool bikes though. I'd love to buy one, but I want to buy a Rebel first.
https://youtu.be/hAjlV2DdC5o
A bit tangential, but this guy drove from Alaska to Argentina on a c90. It was a few years of sleeping in a tent, some random person's spare bedroom, or the cheapest hotel possible.
bobbean commented on Ask HN: IP cameras that don't require an app or internet? · Posted by u/POCKET_SANDO
Yes, this is solid advice. If you are going to leave it plugged in all the time, check on the battery regularly to make sure it isn't swelling.
Would it be possible to use the phone without a battery?
bobbean commented on Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout join-lemmy.org/news/2023-... · Posted by u/roskelld
It is only silly if you're willing to pay someone who already knows what they are doing to do it.
Are you willing to pay? No? Are you willing to do the work? No? Then you're just being an annoyance.
You aren't entitled to anyone else's effort. No matter how little effort you think it will be. (Hint, your estimates are almost certainly off, generally by orders of magnitude.)
How hard is it to say "that's not going to work" or "maybe one day" or "that's a good idea". If it's something open and collaborative, maybe someone will see the idea and be willing to implement it. Also, on a separate note, why are you so aggressive and belittling?
bobbean commented on Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout join-lemmy.org/news/2023-... · Posted by u/roskelld
We have a saying for that too involving reading the manual.
Investing dozens of hours into learning something deeply enough to be able to modify it is a bit silly when someone who already knows what they are doing could probably do the same thing in half an hour.
bobbean commented on Two men got jobs at Amazon just to steal copies of Zelda kotaku.com/legend-of-zeld... · Posted by u/thesuperbigfrog
So it's okay if the perpetrator thinks the target is rich enough?
Stealing is wrong people. Retail theft is a huge problem right now, and now I understand why: I'm apparently in the minority for thinking this way.
Sure, stealing is wrong. But he paid them back for the theft. In Amazon's eyes, they just made a sale. And probably a bit of a laugh over what the kid went through
And before you say anything about losing money from training the kid or turnover or whatever, Amazon's turnover is horrible. They're used to it.
bobbean commented on Two men got jobs at Amazon just to steal copies of Zelda kotaku.com/legend-of-zeld... · Posted by u/thesuperbigfrog
How would you feel if a maid or technician you hired stole a game from you house? Would it be better if the thief would have gladly paid for the game they stole, but couldn't because was difficult/impossible to buy?
I'm pretty sure the person you're responding to doesn't have billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of the same copy of a game. Because I'm pretty sure they wouldn't care.
Oh wait, that's exactly what happened.
It seems like much of this comes from the shift to remote work. Many Californians didn't really want to be here but moved in order to be part of the biggest commercial developments of the day. Now a California location is no longer necessarily forced on people. This could be good for everyone.
That doesn't make any sense. You really think remote tech jobs are the leading cause of this population decline in a state of 39 million people?
That’s literally detaining him, so I am not sure what you’re objecting to here.