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- Comment on How does Edward Scissorhands pee? 1 hour ago:
Spray and pray
- Comment on Just reach out 1 week ago:
Sure, to a large extent existing in the US costs money, and you’d need to spend some on transportation or pay a premium to live in a walkable area. But beyond that there are still affordable activities you could do. Some things I’ve done in the US which only cost me the price of transportation:
- Aforementioned frisbee in the park
- Hiking with friends (met one of them at work, joined his group, brought a lunch box)
- Various activities at a local community center or library (not all places have one, some places churches are the closest you can get)
- Attended a weekly meetup about a topic I was interested in
- Chatted with someone while waiting in a line
Sure, a lot of the more affordable activities you’ll probably only be able to do once a week. You can do multiple activities. Sometimes you meet friends who invite you to other activities. Help, I have too many activities!
- Comment on Just reach out 1 week ago:
There are other ways to interact which don’t imply treating people to things. Yes, in this case the person spent money on tickets, but he could have been on his way to any other activity and invited the person to join that. Or he could have offered the person to buy their own ticket and join.
“Hey, I’m on my way to play frisbee in the park, want to come?” – totally free.
- Comment on Just reach out 1 week ago:
It doesn’t, though. He was going to an activity, met a person on the way there, and invited the person to join. Had he been on his way to a free activity the gesture would be free.
“Going with the flow” doesn’t necessarily mean “blow all your life savings”, and it’s kind of ridiculous to claim that it does. I’m sorry you seem to have been exploited by some people you were trying to connect with, but that’s not what is being encouraged here.
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 4 weeks ago:
From what I remember you get pretty close to AC mid-conversion anyway, but I looked it up and there are some other reasons to use DC:
From en.wikipedia.org/…/High-voltage_direct_current:
HVDC lines are commonly used for long-distance power transmission, since they require fewer conductors and incur less power loss than equivalent AC lines. HVDC also allows power transmission between AC transmission systems that are not synchronized. Since the power flow through an HVDC link can be controlled independently of the phase angle between source and load, it can stabilize a network against disturbances due to rapid changes in power. HVDC also allows the transfer of power between grid systems running at different frequencies, such as 50 and 60 Hz. This improves the stability and economy of each grid, by allowing the exchange of power between previously incompatible networks.
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 4 weeks ago:
Why DC? I’ve always been taught AC was better for long distances. What am I missing?
- Comment on Age check 1 month ago:
Technically a cigar, IIRC.
- Comment on I saw what you did there 1 month ago:
You can make your own bootleg track saw out a regular skilsaw and some scraps. Personally I haven’t even bothered doing that, and just clamp a straight edge to whatever I’m cutting when I need to make a long straight cut. It’s a lot slower and more fidgety than having a real track, but I rarely make cuts like that.
- Comment on Not stealing 1 month ago:
I’m not a total asshole: After he’s had his “oh shit” moment I give him one more chance to choose. He’s usually a lot better at picking one of the two options on his second try.
- Comment on Not stealing 1 month ago:
I present two options. If my kid doesn’t pick one of those two options, either by not responding or by requesting a third thing, I’m picking one of the two options for him. And I’m always picking what he’s least likely to want.
- Comment on The Cybertruck Is Not Selling 1 month ago:
What’s enshittified about them? I tried an ID.4 for a few days recently and it was quite nice. I also had a ride in a Model 3 and the oversized screen hit me in the knee. Also I don’t think the VW has overhyped self driving which tries to kill you, like Tesla does. So at first glance I’m leaning towards the VW if I was to buy a car right now. What did I miss?
- Comment on The Cybertruck Is Not Selling 1 month ago:
AFAIK there’s like one Cybertruck in all of Norway, and it got snuck in through some loophole because it doesn’t meet vehicle standards.
Model Y is selling like hot cakes, though. Most likely because they’re getting cheaper due to nobody else wanting to buy them.
- Comment on Can't believe I made this without ChatGPT 1 month ago:
Looks more like misdirection for the sake of misdirection to me.
- Comment on Can't believe I made this without ChatGPT 1 month ago:
Yes, but it’s obviously done that way to make the numbers look more different at first glance
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 2 months ago:
There’s degrees to everything, though. There’s plenty of traits I think are perfectly okay for people to have, but that I’m still not looking for in a partner. So I guess I probably also fail your purity test.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 2 months ago:
They didn’t claim that. They said even progressive women will leave you, meaning they have that issue with all the usual suspects, but also progressive women.
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 2 months ago:
I’m starting to think we’re talking past each other. Your last paragraph seems to imply that legacy systems were more approachable for a newbie to debug. If that’s your point I wholeheartedly agree. It’s not that hard as long as you get over the fear of fucking something up.
I do agree that juniors had an easier time learning on legacy systems, and that’s been true since the dawn of technology. Things get more complicated, and thus harder to get a deep understanding of, the more time passes. It’s a lot easier to understand older and simpler technology.
I’m a little confused why you seem to be arguing both that the issues I mentioned are easy to google, while at the same time saying newbies never get a chance to debug them. Surely, if it’s so easy, the newbie can take a stab at it?
Personally, I like to let the newbies have a stab at non-urgent issues first, and nudging them if they get stuck. They may not be able to solve the problem solo, but they know a lot more about how the system works afterwards anyway.
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 2 months ago:
Just because they passed the class doesn’t mean they retained any of the knowledge.
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 2 months ago:
I’ve maintained both and still do. While you may not be debugging memory leaks on k8s (although you should), you get all sorts of other fun things to debug. Things like:
- Why did our AWS bills suddenly triple?
- Why is that node accepting jobs but just hanging when they start?
- Why is that statefulset not coming back up? Is the storage still attached somewhere else perhaps?
- Why did all the data in our Kafka suddenly disappear?
- Why is everything still down after that outage? Maybe a circular dependency, thundering herd problem, or both?
- What’s wrong with my Helm chart this time?
The list goes on and on. With increased complexity you don’t get less problems, just different ones.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 months ago:
Shafting the waitress is not going to end it either. Most people wouldn’t notice this, so they’d still keep doing it if you didn’t tip.
The play here is to tip the waitress in cash if possible and slam the establishment on every review site.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 months ago:
Are you comparing the waitress not proofreading the math on a preprinted receipt (arguably not their job) to soldiers actively committing war crimes?
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 2 months ago:
You still have to debug things a cattle approach, though. If anything there’s even more and more complex things to debug. Training will just have to shift from throwing the new hire into the deep end of the kiddie pool to something else. Granted, “something else” is probably going to be offloading it on educational institutions, which sucks for recent grads, so they’ll have to work it out somehow. Probably by creating a market for post-grad practical skills classes, is my guess.
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 2 months ago:
I started my degree in 2002, two years after the dotcom bust. I figured the market would rebound within five years. Right after I graduated (but thankfully after I got a job) the housing bubble burst. There’s always something happening, but software engineering is still needed and we still make bank. Being unlucky with the timing will set back your career, but probably won’t end it.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 months ago:
Pretty sure the waitress wasn’t the one who fucked with the register. Probably the restaurant trying to ensure they don’t have to pay the difference if the tips come up short and leave the staff below minimum wage.
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 2 months ago:
The CS jobs market fluctuates like any other market. Right this minute all the dumbass CEOs are trying to replace people with AI, just like they’ve repeatedly tried to have cheaper people in India do the jobs in the past.
Having people in India do it used to be called outsourcing, then off shoring, then a few other names, because every time it fails they have to call it something else to try again. The same will happen with AI.
I’m not the slightest worried about my own job, but it is currently a shitty market for fresh grads. Probably due to all the post-covid layoffs saturating the talent pool with more experienced people, and the aforementioned AI fad.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 2 months ago:
I would certainly check before purchasing, in the age of ad-financed TVs.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 2 months ago:
Never threaten legal action to a callcenter. If they take it seriously (or just don’t want to talk to you) they’ll hang up immediately and demand all further communication goes through lawyers.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 2 months ago:
They might nag you about connecting.
- Comment on Back in my day this MF was .29 cents and was THICK with INGREDIENTS 2 months ago:
What I primarily miss in American bread is texture. Americans think white vs. whole grain are the only variations of flour, and are missing out on a whole world where the flour isn’t ground to dust. Adding some ratio of medium and coarse ground flour is what gives the texture sorely missing in the floppy sadness Americans call bread.
- Comment on Back in my day this MF was .29 cents and was THICK with INGREDIENTS 2 months ago:
As a Norwegian, sandwiches are supposed to be 90% bread. But it’s supposed to be good bread, not this nonsense Americans keep putting up with.