Kethal @ Kethal @lemmy.world

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Countless companies that are not technology companies use these same technologies in the same ways. Using technology does not make something a technology company.

It's a media company. Why are so many people here calling in a technology company - because they have a Web site? They do not develop, produce or sell any technology product. They operate a Web site and sell ad space, just like every newspaper, magazine and TV network. Are we calling the New York Times a technology company?

It's odd how many people in this thread are calling Twitter a tech company. It's a media company, closer to the New York Times and Washington Post than to Google or even something like John Deere.

I see the role of moderators as guiding the flow of people's interests. If you went solely on upvotes, it wouldn't matter what you called the community or whether it had moderators. If you want it to be about technology, make it that way. If you want it to be about the business decisions of social media companies tangentially related to technology, at least do the kindness of changing the name so that people don't mistakenly come here thinking they'll hear about new technology.

I was under the impression that this was a community to discuss technology, not one that discusses the business decisions of companies in the technology sector, and certainly not the decisions of a social media company that is only tangentially related to the technology sector.

The scientific definition of "fruit" is the ripened ovary of a flowering plant. This differs from the normal usage so some things not commonly considered fruit, such as tomatoes and the pods of soybeans, are fruits by this definition. Flowering plants (not all plants have flowers) have male and female anatomical structures. Many species have both structures in one flower. Some species have flowers that contains either male or female structures. These flowers can either be on the same plant (monoecious), like watermelon and corn, or on different plants (diecious), like papaya. The ovary, what will become the fruit, is a female anatomical structure, and it makes no sense to talk about a male fruit for any type of flower. Male flowers produce pollen, which fertilizes the embryo in an ovary, but male flowers themselves don't produce fruit.

My first thought was that a lot of people didn't get your joke, but I got a lot of downvotes for my straightforward comment, so I think you're getting downvoted by both the people who don't get the joke and the people who do get the joke, but think that In N Out has a decent burger.

Because "efficiency" here ill defined, 100% is not the most efficient a heater can be. Heat pumps move more heat than is needed to power them, are much more efficient than electric heaters, and have "efficiencies" well over 100%. Good ones have 400% "efficiency", in that 1 J consumed will put that 1 J into the the substance and move another 3 J from the environment (thus cooling the environment) into the substance.

If you use a heat pump water heater, it will help cool your house. In areas that cool in the summer, it's essentially free hot water. In the winter overall energy consumption to offset the cooling breaks even compared to an electric water heater.

Similarly, air source heat pumps are much more efficient than gas or electric furnaces for heating a building. They're comparable to a typical AC unit for cooling, as an AC unit is just a heat pump.

In many regions, ground source heat pumps are even more efficient for both heating and cooling, because the ground temperature is nearly constant and at a convenient temperature, so it serves as a huge source and sink of energy.

Wow, in some ways this is better than the music apps on android.

When I visited California, there were a few people who were very excited about sharing the In N Out experience. I like a good hamburger, so I was looking forward to it. It was simultaneously disappointing that it was just McDonald's with a different name and off putting that its adherents think anything otherwise.

I mostly second Cree, especially the high CRI versions, which look a lot nicer than the regular versions. The ones I have had lasted a while. However, one went out prematurely not long ago, so they're not immune to poor quality. The generic brands I've bought though look like crap and some barely last two years.

It too is not all that much better than Walmart, Amazon, etc, but at least you keep anyone from dominating.

People here are saying they want to pay Amazon's competitors, and your argument is that they shouldn't do that because the workers should be starting their own Amazon competitors...

eBay is ok for a good portion of what Amazon sells, but it's not a perfect replacement. It's not all auctions now. There are lots of things you purchase outright and they ship very quickly. Watch out for people who resell Amazon items at a mark up though. It too is not all that much better than Walmart, Amazon, etc, but at least you keep anyone from dominating.

Otherwise, sometimes there are small sellers you can find for niche products.

Or when desktop didn't need 8 GB or RAM?

People have given lots of advice about picking up hobbies which I agree with. One thing I'd add is that you can make a list of movies and shows that you're genuinely interested in and try to stick with those. It gives you an outlet when you don't want to work on a hobby, it's more rewarding than passively consuming the crap that Netflix churns out, and when you're mostly watching high quality stuff, you might find the mass produced stuff becomes boring enough to you that you'll be driven to work on a hobby instead.

Part of federation is the ability to choose whom you interact with. Email is federated and everyone accepts that you can block certain bad faith actors. The notion that federation implies that everyone can use it in whatever way they see fit doesn't mean that everyone needs to interact with each other. Facebook is a bad faith actor, and it can go play by itself.

When I see nonsense like this, I then distrust the entire YSK.

What about all of the other technology communities? Forums, Web sites, chat rooms, books, magazines, local clubs? We need a way to clump them all together and subscribe to them all at once.

If you've got a sump pump, check that it's in good condition. It's not a bad idea to have a backup pump and back up power.