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Comment Re:Pretty simple (Score 1) 46

has its roots in Covid.

It exasperated it, but the hatred of going into the office has been a thing for far, far longer. Ever watch Office Space? (Interestingly, the number of software engineers who actually say Office Space, in spite of being a comedy, accurately reflects the hell they feel trapped in surprised me.)

Comment Re:What A Load Of Horseshit (Score 1) 46

Workers simply do not want to satisfy the job requirements, which includes set hours and physical presence. I also want to get paid without showing up or producing, but that's not the job.

TEr... not wanting to go to an office isn't "not producing," work from home is still working. You're combining two statements (one that is Captain Obvious-ing that people are taking issue with some of the office requirements, and then misconstruing them (while also, I'd argue, missing that the requirements ARE the point of contention and some can be out of date depending on the job).

Comment Re:Should be weighted (Score 1) 64

They did a huge amount of damage, for sure. IMO it already became kinda fucked when we joined the Berne Convention, which IIRC started the ball rolling on copyright durations becoming stupidly long (since (AGAIN IIRC) we extended it to match durations in Europe? Someone please correct me if I got that wrong).

Comment Re:The should be forced to retrain (Score 1) 64

If this means retraining the model then so be it. The difficulty to remove the benefit of using copyrighted works shouldn't have any bearing on this.

IMO the focus on "using copyrighted works" - making copyright **STATUS** the important part - feels like a hell of a red herring - vs if permission is needed, or granted if it is needed. Anything created in a country where copyright is automatic, and not put in the public domain explicitly, is copyrighted, even works where people would encourage using it in X way or Y way, or want it only used in other ways, if used at all.

Comment Re:ID Checks (Score 1) 59

Or... something being claimed to "protect kids" doesn't mean it is immune from having issues that can cause problems / need to be addressed, not pushed through because it is claimed to be needed to protect kids.

Your response reads, IMO, as "a predigested response from those unable to handle, or comprehend, the idea of having criticism for something."

Comment Re:Actual best ways to reduce carbon footprint (Score 1) 118

ut in speed limits for the large aircraft. Right now airline flights fly fast to reduce total travel time. But the wait to get onto the flight is so long, not even counting the wait to get your luggage and/or rent a car means the actual percentage gain in time is not meaningful

Depends on the airport, time of day, route, etc - for much shorter routes , for much longer flights that seems absurdly impossible though.

Why would you include waiting at the airport though in the travel time (boarding and baggage retrieval, which also assumes someone has to be checking on bags too (another potential assumption error))? I mean, if the measure is getting between two points, why not just compare the travel between two points (which can include taxiing to the runway, to the gate, at the airport)?

Comment Modulex (Score 2) 22

I really wish they'd bring back the Modulex line of bricks (which was meant for architects and capable of making proper scale buildings due to the 5:5 width/length ratio (vs LEGO's 6.5:5 width/length). If I want to make scale models using LEGOs currently, I CAN, but there are some tricks I'd need to employ that would blow the size of my model up even more size-wise (and given the size of LEGOs some of the model ideas I want to make can get kinda hefty).

Comment Public Domain Dat is here again! (Score 1) 36

And with it, a slew of comments on YT, Twitter/X, etc, by idiots who exlaime "the public domain is a mistake" or what such fiddle faddle when they see character-turned-into-horror-movie slop (ignoring that good things take time to be made, and that the public domain serves a very important purpose).

Good thing people can't slap other people through their monitors, I'd have very sore hands in resposne to those nitwits.

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