klankin

@klankin@piefed.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If college is a scam, where do you go to get better education?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I just think like making hard drugs and pyramid schemes illegal, its important as a society to support those vulnerable, as ‘fend for yourself’ individuals we only stand to lose. Especially when they’re children making massive financial decisions.

  Its a moral failing in my opnion to not critically notice the current market, and adjust your opnion accordingly, otherwise your lack of effort will be abused, even though you won’t have to feel the damage.

  So when the only connection required to get a job are explicitly befriend people who inheritly have access to money, because experience costs money, its not surprising that valuable connections are correlated to nepotism proximity (as it’s more common to inherit wealth than achieve it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If college is a scam, where do you go to get better education?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but it still sucks when a 10 year old is hit by a car, so there’s at least some nuance to it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If college is a scam, where do you go to get better education?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean the market can even change so aggressively in the period of time it takes to get an education, that its a bit crazy to blame the students. Most are 18/19 year olds who won’t be able to accurately preduct the economical situation 4+ years from now. Like 4 years they were in elementary school, probably not tracking Nvidia’s proclivity to prediction market schemes.

  Follow that example it very well could be top of the like A+ kids getting competitive software educations, but again they didn’t predict the governments gulability to ‘shiny new tech’ so now they’re left with limited opportunities (but years of increased competition).

  And even nonprofit schools have the ability to do a non-insignificant amount of creative accounting that makes their financial bias an important consideration. Just the way grad students are universally treated is a great example, most do skilled, unpaid labour while being responsible for a profs emotional management. Thats obviously financial abuse, it reads like a 1950s married couple

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If college is a scam, where do you go to get better education?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope none of this comes off as rude, but I have a very different perspective.

  I think the ratio of the investment to most incomes is enough that it responsibility requires looking at the subscription as a financial investment. (except nepo babies but I’m rounding off the 1%)

  Under that lense, its concerning how parallel some educational institutions run to MLM schemes. Like you could nearly word for word write your comment under a Facebook Omnilife® group, just swap college for Omnilife®.

  They puts a lot of focus on an individuals ‘worth’ and how the experience will elavate only the worthy to financial security.

  They both have to put a lot of PR effort distancing themselves from responsibility, cause inevitability some percentage of people were coerced into making an irresponsible investment and regret it (hell humans are so susceptible to this that pyramid schemes were illegal before asbestos and lead paint).

  The stark contrast that entire risk of the investment is carried by the student/employee, yet the quality of education is guided by the institutions financial preferences is ripe for abuse. I’d argue its even a larger threat in postsecondary institutions than MLMs because of their cultural significance.

  And like I said this can easily be a life changing amount of money, especially that early on in someone’s life that even irresponsibly investing could have better returns. Honestly its almost guaranteed cause this job market is identical to MLMs profit margins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If college is a scam, where do you go to get better education?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think its more just the pay to enter a raffle for the job market 4 years down the road can really read as a prediction market these days (Or enter a raffle to make friend with a nepo baby in your class).

  Its entrenched in law that (and tradition) that many high paying jobs/projects require a signature from the owner of a specific sheet of paper. This creates a situation where the supply never actually has to cater to an artificial demand, which will always open the door to the abuse of power.

  Funding research education is incredibly important, but at some point you wouldn’t be crazy to feel youre funding your move up an MLM administration department instead of actually funding any research.

  Also I think its important to note the inherited accessibility concerns in postsecondary institutions. For example if its a massive benefit to network and its a large part of the reason to go to post secondary, do we just accept introverted people are systemically repressed? Its a small thing and far from the most egregious, but I don’t think things are as black and white as you make it seem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If college is a scam, where do you go to get better education?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Statistically postal code matters orders of magnitude more than effort

  So its more like middle class ‘wealthy’ (BMWs, Gucci, Apple class consumer) families aren’t nearly rich enough to coast off of for life, but most actual rich families can and do.

  Those are the families the old 50’s get a collage degree and become a millionaire ideas were based off of, before the imitation rich class existed as it does today.

  That being said telling poor people that they’re not working hard enough and thats why they’re poor is a story as old as time. The motivation for that has always been to extract more work for the same pay, so I’d be surprised if the current trend is anything else than propaganda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why dont we say "WWW" in front of website URLs anymore?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Could also be the amount of processing time strings take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure you could fit 150GB of uncompressed assets on a CD though right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Home assistant voice?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hates C++⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Expecting even a medium to large team to waste resources on essentially reinventing the wheel would probably result in shittier games, IMO.

  And with their new engine no one is stopping them from adding dlss the entire way, so performance never once has to be a consideration (minus on their test rig of 2 5090s, 128GB of ddr5, and the latest threadripper of course).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America's First *Real* Transcontinental Railroad might Happen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I really need to, but its pretty expensive for long range travel and I’m poor tbh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America's First *Real* Transcontinental Railroad might Happen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe its just my autism, but sickeningly so yes, I’d kill for the oppritunity to see north america by train

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former NFL coach Mike Tomlin is sharing a massive Minecraft city he spent twelve years building⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Create aeronautics be looking at me like heroin some days

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capcom aims to enhance its propriety RE Engine with AI to accelerate efficiency in QA, debugging, and data processing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean 9x increase in bugs for a 10x decrease in QA cost is an increase in efficiency.

  Hell, fire the whole department and unlock infinite efficiency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America's First *Real* Transcontinental Railroad might Happen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Im glad you were able to identify the source of the problem, and reason its not improving

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have to ENABLE the DISABLE of AI features in Firefox.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Blocks the news too, because they know its all ads so they built in the adblocker

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky 10th anniversary Cosmos update is here, and that means orbital bases, space station ownership - and yes, you can finally fly to the sun⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t coop still bugged out the ass?

  Its my kinda game, but the management seems like they bit off way more than they could chew, and even after a decade still can’t handle it all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canada should make the USA pay for this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds good to me, let’s make America pay for 11/12th of the cleanup and Canada can cover the last 1/12 as per their emission ratios

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is using an ssd as a cache to speed up a harddrive still a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes sense, so its hibernation not a disk cache (kinda a workaround to the same concept, but won’t have any impact gaming)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Aren't there More Fem-Focused Werewolf Stories?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d theorize it’d to not sound like theyre shitting on periods too much

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is using an ssd as a cache to speed up a harddrive still a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’d consider that an unusual setup, most users probably aren’t using that combo of hardware (and possibly outdated software with its windows 7 screenshots in the link).

  Also notably it only supports up to 64GB cache drives, so the OS/filesystem implimentation case would include OPs situation - regardless of the CPU/manufacturer theyre using.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is using an ssd as a cache to speed up a harddrive still a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not too familiar with with windows’ internals, so you youre probably right, but swapping a ramdisk would be an… interesting way to solve the problem. (Which is entirely like windows devs lmao)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is using an ssd as a cache to speed up a harddrive still a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats a ram cache, not a disk cache (linux automatically uses ram caches - much cleaner than windows too)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is using an ssd as a cache to speed up a harddrive still a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Disk caches are usually implimented at the OS level, not bios

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to New York City⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but the driver would probably just run him down, road rage is crazy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On an emergency power supply with AC and DC electrical plugs, which do I use to charge or power appliances?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  General rule of thumb, for a DC battery backup you want to charge via DC, and power appliances via AC.

  This is because any additional conversions comes with losses, but if it has some weird DC plug that isnt easy to convert or something you can just eat the losses (~10-15%) and use AC to DC blocks for charging too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On an emergency power supply with AC and DC electrical plugs, which do I use to charge or power appliances?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Converting AC to DC for most of them, with the associated <100% efficiency

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not at all experienced this stuff so sorry if this is obvious - but how is that different from hardware?

  Its not like valve is reimbursing cash for the hardware after bought, theyre both just some materials (that can be sold elsewhere for cash) right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dont the cards have value?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨systemd⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah how am I supposed to fit systemd on a milkv duo of ram? My gen z brain can only handle compiling a kernel to minimize its footprint, hardly even scraping the surface of linux experience.

  (Non sarcastically though, why would anyone under 30 not know about systemd? Sure mainstream OS’ have more users than ever, but thats cause the world is techier than ever - growing up with fiber makes getting distro and tutorials trivial. I theorise youre getting pulled into the boomer mindset of “this person online does this so is an accurate representation of an entire generation”, which is kinda foolish.)

  (PPS I know some gen z’s who dont even know what a file or folder is, so I’m not saying everyone is techy, but just that is almost statistically gaurenreed some people will be with a gen z population of almost billion people).

  (PPPS, yeah Im talking about the 64mb milkv duo. No its not fun. But fuck is it informative.)