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paysrenttobirds, to asklemmy in Does AI-generated art posted on lemmy bother you?

I think it’s not cool unless it’s funny. I’m trying to think of a good philosophical reason for that. I agree most of the time I am annoyed and don’t even look at them, scrolling past as if they were advertising.

paysrenttobirds, to privacy in Do I need to be a resident of the EU to get their data protection or can I just be a citizen?

In a practical sense, I can tell you that in mobile apps, some parts of gdpr are implemented based on phone language settings or in the case of websites, the domain suffix of the page (.fr or .de, etc). I’m guessing this is an interpretation of the section described here:

strong indications that a non-EU business is intentionally offering goods or services to data subjects in the EU and may therefore be subject to the GDPR:

  • Use of the language of an EU Member State (if the language is different than the language of the business’ home state);4
  • Use of the currency of an EU Member State (if the currency is different than the currency of the business’ home state);
  • Use of a top-level domain name of an EU Member State;
  • Mentions of customers based in an EU Member State; or
  • Targeted advertising to consumers in an EU Member State.

Most people seem to be leaning toward just applying them to anyone as that’s the way things are headed and once you’ve figure out how to do it technically it’s easier to just do it all the same way. Also, the EU is doing it’s best to set precedent for a broad interpretation.

paysrenttobirds, to memes in Compendium of human knowledge at my fingertips

I’ve heard complaints of senior software engineers who, though they do all carry calculators in their pockets and even usually have laptops open in front of them in the meetings, avoid doing math of any kind (simple order of magnitude multiplication, for example) in front of other people. Which makes group decision-making super obtuse.

So, maybe there is something for teachers to do along the lines of let’s get confident and quick at doing this math however you want to do it. I hope things are changing in this direction.

paysrenttobirds, to asklemmy in Would a perfectly flat, tight sail on a boat be more efficient than a sail like we all know?

A lot depends on the angle you are heading relative to the wind and how strong and variable the wind is and how easily you want to be able to steer or hold your course.

The simplest case that I think you might be wrong is going down wind, especially in light air, you want the sail to catch the wind like a bag and direct it toward a central point to add all the vague forces into one direction instead of just twisting the sail one way or another. Like I didn’t think you actually want the wind hitting the outer edges of the sail straight on as this would just move the sail, not the boat.

Stiff, even hard not cloth sails are useful to go into the wind at a slight angle, where they are optimized in shape like an airplane wing, and they even talk of the force generated as lift.

paysrenttobirds, to memes in California in a nutshell

I like the desert :)

paysrenttobirds, to memes in California in a nutshell

Yes, the yellow is the good part and you don’t even have to be driving anywhere in particular

paysrenttobirds, to memes in It's time to put it up

Is she carrying a bunch of 2x4s out of the woods?

paysrenttobirds, to memes in Are you trying to STEAL entertainment??

Except that second button won’t be there. There’s something weird going on in our economy where the customers can’t actually afford the products but somehow their attention/data is still valuable. I don’t get it

paysrenttobirds, to memes in Early bird

We lived in a city where high schoolers take public transit and that worked well for them, but the district could never hire enough drivers for the elementary and middle schools. Even with the drivers they had, they had to stagger school start and end times so that buses could do multiple routes. Some schools started at 7 and others at 9. Then the problem you highlight comes up, that there are only a few hours between shifts, so it was harder for drivers to have a second job. Many drove Uber between.

paysrenttobirds, to memes in $1 grilled cheese

Gaslamp district in San Diego had a cafeteria like this years ago, guessing it’s no longer a thing, but simple cheap menu would have steady customers, maybe profitable, it’s the business development people who would oppose.

paysrenttobirds, to memes in Calculus? Nah, bro, that's easy stuff

It usually says price per total area, but this whole thing is why I just buy the recycled ones. If someone’s going to cheat me it may as well be for a good cause.

paysrenttobirds, to mildlyinteresting in Dog walker films winds lifting forest floor during Storm Babet in Scotland

This is what I always wonder when they tell me a plant “tolerates clay soil”. Like does it really? Or does it just avoid it by spreading out all its roots in the thin topsoil? This would seem to be the latter.

paysrenttobirds, to memes in *Violet explosion in background*

Haha, I thought you meant the loopmas, which is funny, too

paysrenttobirds, to upliftingnews in Giant kites could pull ships across the ocean – and slash their carbon emissions

But this one’s really big

paysrenttobirds, to mildlyinteresting in Rib vortices forming under a breaking wave

Wait, so you actually swirl around these tendril things? How strong are they?

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