nagaram
@nagaram@startrek.website
- Comment on how good are you at lying during job interviews? 3 days ago:
I always tell the interviewer what they want to hear. Its very obviously a game of correct answers.
I lie on my resume too, but not in ways I can’t back up.
For instance, I imply I have a degree because I did go to college for 4 consecutive years for a multitude of degrees. So I have different resumes with different majors depending on what job I’m applying to. I mostly use my CS/Engineering degree now-a-days. I’m able to talk the talk enough that they’ve never checked or asked for a transcript.
But it sounds more like your job wanted to, on paper, be compliant with workers rights stuff
“We offer a break at X and Y hours.”
But had a cultural expectation to not follow it. Which is dumb and they can, in my humble opinion, get fucked. Nursing has a massive burnout rate and shit like that is why.
I think you should recognize you dodged a bullet more than you should think about “lying” in an interview.
- Comment on 248 Legally Deceased "Patients" are In These Dewars Awaiting Future Revival - Cryonics 4 days ago:
I gotta see my spell work damn it!
- Comment on microsoft 5 days ago:
We had users at work who swore by that so hard that my boss bought licenses for “Classic Shell” that just did that.
Usefulness wise, the pinned program and search method is objectively much better.
- Comment on microsoft 5 days ago:
I’m gonna say it.
I thought windows 8/8.1 were very fun
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 6 days ago:
That really adds to the evidence that he’s always been a sell out.
Its obvious in retrospect but now that he’s a right wing grifter its hard to avoid now.
- Comment on Next time I swear bro 1 week ago:
This is Roblox erasure!
- Comment on An Open Letter to My Beavers [of Timberborn] | Remap 3 weeks ago:
Its such a good game.
- Comment on *sniff* *mumbles* 3 weeks ago:
Honestly. Very accurate to his writing. Its less uncertain than the other.
- Comment on Who knew genocide wasn't a winning strategy 3 weeks ago:
What do you mean? The genocide is still happening so its clearly winning.
- Comment on The Final Stretch Towards Release - Skyblivion Development Diary 3 weeks ago:
Censorship?
What is missing from the original?
I’ve only played the remaster.
- Comment on The Final Stretch Towards Release - Skyblivion Development Diary 4 weeks ago:
Fuck yes dude! I’m so excited to play this!
- Comment on The worst thing about Linux is its users 4 weeks ago:
Windows isnt built for you its built for me, a Systems Admin.
It is so easy to get all my corporate logging and compliance software onto that thing. Its objectively spyware but the feds and the insurance companies said to do it so I do.
Oh and copilot, by the gods, its so nice to give Microsoft full access to all my emails, teams messages, and notes so it can so quickly answer questions for me on everything. Only works if it’s ya know spying on you and you’re spending hundreds a year to use it. But it is great.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I got my Vasectomy at 26. I wanted it sooner, but insurance sucks.
I believe firmly that regret is something you make yourself feel or are made to feel. So your family members don’t regret having kids because they haven’t been made to regret that decision.
I haven’t told my family about my snip because I think they would have tried to make me regret it.
That makes sense to me because they want that constant reassurance that their decision was correct. So someone NOT making that decision means it may not have been correct.
If you wanna talk about it more, I’d happily chat with you and be the support you’re not getting.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
Fully agree. I tried to make the SC work and wrote off a lot of it as “I’m just not used to it”, but it really is asking a lot. In its defence, it was a first run product. The fact that it’s still ass usable and as weird is impressive enough to me. But it’s better as a piece of gaming history than a good product. It was just a good try.
I also agree with the Steam deck controls being actually good. I want the SC2 that’s just a steam deck without the screen or computer.
So I guess the opposite of the steam brick.
I’d gladly pay $100 to have a steam deck like control scheme for my desktop. Rechargeable batteries and a Linux first design would be awesome. I don’t mind just using cables all the time, but I would like better wireless options for Linux gamepads (though to be fair, I haven’t tried connecting a wireless controller to a Linux box in 5 years).
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I am personally a huge fan of taking advantage of wealthy people.
You don’t really have iPhone 16 pro Max and Air pods money to throw away like this without having a one sided relationship with labor, in my opinion.
But that’s my cynical leftist view.
I imagine the biggest reason to not keep it is fear of your son getting spoiled or demanding gifts from you that are this same caliber.
However, he is 16. Certainly not the most rational age for many people, but he can understand the difference in financial statuses between you and his friend.
I think it would be distressing for you to take away this expensive thing on the grounds of “we’re too poor to have nice things” especially since it was a gift from his best friend. But having that discussion of “hey don’t let that get to your head. I still love you I just could not afford such an expensive gift. Here’s a vague breakdown of our expenses”
My dad had a similar discussion with me when I was getting ready to go to college the first time and he flat out told me how much he and mom made and broke down where the money goes. It really helped me understand our economic position instead of just assuming my parents made a good amount of money (they didn’t)
- Comment on Greg Sherman 2 months ago:
Very Greg shaped guy
- Comment on Interview: Kerrice Brooks And Bella Shephard On Why ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Is Not A YA Show 2 months ago:
If there’s anything I’ve learned from my fiance, it’s that there’s both nothing wrong with a piece of media being for younger audiences and theres nothing wrong with consuming stuff meant for younger audiences.
Shit, Prodigy is endlessly shilled by folks on Mastodon with 18+ only in their banners.
- Comment on Amazing. 2 months ago:
This man will repair your car in such a way it will both never break and when you do go to a normal mechanic for something they will gaze upon it in awe and horror.
- Comment on "Official" Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda 2 months ago:
Of the lines I draw in my gun purchasing decisions (you’re right they’re all war profitiers), IWI and the like is the only one that I actively disuade people from.
That being said, the engineering history nerd in me is easily compelled to learn about design philosophies
- Comment on NVIDIA stable driver 575.57.08 released for Linux 2 months ago:
Nice! Maybe I can get that AI server working then.
- Comment on The Human Workforce Behind AI Wants a Union 2 months ago:
Good. Everyone deserves a union.
I do hope they do good things for the greater good of humanity though, which is historically what Google devs have unionized over seeing as they most certainly aren’t hurting for money.
- Comment on "Official" Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda 2 months ago:
I’m sure the people of Gaza are always excited to play the “counter terrorists” on Dust 2 as well.
It took watching a bunch of videos on Israeli weapons development before I learned who uses the fucking Negev
- Comment on "Official" Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda 2 months ago:
Makes sense. The government probably didn’t want to fund 2 games studios when 1 is fine.
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 3 months ago:
I’m a fan generally of LLMs for work, but only if you’re already an expert or well versed at all in whatever you’re doing with the model because it isn’t trust worthy.
If you’re using a model to code you better already know how that language works and how to debug it because the AI will just lie.
If you need it to make an SOP then you better already have an idea for what that operation looks like because it will just lie.
It speeds up the work process by instantly doing the tedious parts of jobs, but it’s worthless if you can’t verify the accuracy. And I’m worried people don’t care about the accuracy.
- Comment on No dont look back! 3 months ago:
I’m pleased with this explanation. And I want this user to know I appreciate their joke that would have been funny 2000 years ago too.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
That feels cursed as a fandom dot com wiki
- Comment on Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth” 3 months ago:
I completely forgot about the Kelvin Klingons.
I had to Google it. They’re not bad. I think there’s some fun to be had with the idea of their weird virus that messed with their ridges.
Like disco Klingons are the original pre-virus Klingon, ToS and Kelvin are some of the variants we get during the virus, and TNG is the Post virus
- Comment on Cox and charter merger announced 3 months ago:
Shit they weren’t merged?
I could have sworn this already happened
- Comment on Why don't these code-writing AIs just output straight up machine code? 3 months ago:
That was a tech demo I’m pretty sure and not just a thing they do btw. A company was trying to make a more efficient sound based comms for AI(?)
- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages' PS5 physical release reportedly has just 85MB on disc, and Xbox isn't much bigger 3 months ago:
Well there’s all the problems then
Asking a AAA studio to make their game sub 128 GB AND optimize it in anyway is a tall ask