klankin
@klankin@piefed.ca
- Comment on Apple’s engineers carefully designing the last 60 Hz OLED screens on the planet 1 week ago:
Apples brown at different rates??
- Comment on How to respond to the ‘Gen Z stare’ without looking like a total boomer | CNN 1 week ago:
I’m surprised no one in another generation has stared in silence at you before.
I would assume your attribution to a specific generation is probably sampling bias due to articles like this, because people have been staring at douchebags for at least as long as recorded history, but presumably longer.
- Comment on How to respond to the ‘Gen Z stare’ without looking like a total boomer | CNN 1 week ago:
Gotta be content ragebait with how awfuly that article is written.
They contradict themselves so much with their own examples, what’s ‘polite’ about calling someone fat? And how is a technique thats existed for centuries suddenly more rude than entertaining some asshole in a store?
- Comment on How to respond to the ‘Gen Z stare’ without looking like a total boomer | CNN 1 week ago:
Nah nobody understands cause its just an attempt to create some infighting between generations.
Assholes exist and always have, in all generations.
- Comment on How to respond to the ‘Gen Z stare’ without looking like a total boomer | CNN 1 week ago:
Cheesecake?
Tornadoes?
- Comment on When the dog tips you off 1 week ago:
You see the dog is actually breaking the 4th wall and communicating directly with us, the reader.
This is because (like all dogs) this dog respects ones privacy, and finds it creepy to track another persons body count, or think about them having sex with someone else at all! (unless theyre into that)
- Comment on This map shows where oil and gas is found. Is there no oil and gas under the rockie mountains (circled red) or they just haven't found any because it's too difficult to drill through the mountains? 1 week ago:
I only know about this from fish YouTube so I could be wrong, but that looks like the border to the western interior seaway, a very habitable, shallow sea in north america. I think it would result in an insane algea bloom, some millions of years ago, then seal it in with seabed sediment before drying up.
- Comment on What is behind the current Lemmy meme about 4 being a private key? 1 week ago:
Its a measure of the randomness of numbers in the system, ie the definition of entropy.
People do use it to sound cool, but this use still fits its mathematic definition.
- Comment on What is behind the current Lemmy meme about 4 being a private key? 1 week ago:
It does doesn’t it?
The higher the number of bits, the more entropy in the system.
- Comment on Has Australia considered sharing a firefighting aircraft fleet with a country in the northern Hemisphere such as Canada? 1 week ago:
I don’t know much about these planes, but I imagine it’d be a task to get them across the ocean twice a year.
That plus maintaining it would be hell between jurisdictions.
- Comment on How does one figure out what to do, after getting out and done with high school? 2 weeks ago:
“local movie set”
American?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Lot of liability cutting off someone’s income.
Would be pretty shitty of someone could pay their medical bills cause steam withheld their money due to a AI report campaign.
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 2 weeks ago:
How many trillions did Linux invest in AI again?
- Comment on laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas 2 weeks ago:
Not enough roads up north for it to be possible, but its technically further for me to cross my province than it would be to get to, and cross Texas (the wide way)
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 2 weeks ago:
Smartest windows user be like
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 2 weeks ago:
Not even doing an A/B partition kexec update scheme with VM live migration for all critical services??
Oh wait I’m a stereotype
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 2 weeks ago:
That and BSD was almost BSD™ by AT&T™.
Lost all its momentum at probably its most valuable growth opportunity to a single dev.
- Comment on If college is a scam, where do you go to get better education? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 3 weeks ago:
Could also be the amount of processing time strings take.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure you could fit 150GB of uncompressed assets on a CD though right?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Home assistant voice?
- Comment on Anon hates C++ 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Create aeronautics be looking at me like heroin some days
