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- Comment on Quack Quack bitch 1 day ago:
- Comment on The legendary PS2 5 days ago:
Was recently talking to a working student at $DAYJOB about LLMs and wanted to make the point that the pay-per-use model shows they’re still a relatively new/immature technology. So, I likened them to mobile phone calls, which would generally cost you per minute in the early 2000s.
Yeah, she had no idea what I was talking about.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 1 week ago:
Huh, is that also why the western half is relatively unpopulated? It’s not quite the inverse of the population density, but not too far off either…
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 1 week ago:
Someone’s been a
Badweiser
- Comment on lord give me strength 1 week ago:
Don’t you mean …67% ?
- Comment on What to put on a CV when I have nothing to put there? 1 week ago:
Gotta love the dichotomy of “I have no skills” to “Anyways, I considered doing this in LaTeX or plain HTML”.
Mate, even you just understanding what LaTeX and HTML do, that requires so many skills which are not at all par for the course.And I would actually take that quote from their posting at face value. I talked to the main recruiter at our company before and he told me that for entry level positions, the only thing they really care about is why the person believes this to be a good job for them. Have they done something similar as part of a hobby before and enjoyed it, for example?
Because ultimately, you will need to be taught a ton of things, no matter what your grades looked like or how many overachiever prizes you can list. And if you’re likely to quit after a few months, because it’s not the right job for you, then the company invested a lot of time teaching you, which isn’t going to pay off.
So, yeah, whatever made you consider this job posting, I would try to describe. Most of that will be in the cover letter, but if you’ve got specific skills or hobbies that you consider relevant, then throw those onto the CV.
- Comment on What to put on a CV when I have nothing to put there? 1 week ago:
Yeah, usually also means they have lots of skills up their belt, which they didn’t consider listing, whereas folks that do not self-teach will only know what they’ve been formally taught.
And formal education really does not cover a lot of topics.
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years 1 week ago:
That headline completely misrepresents what he actually says.
Personally, I can see streaming gaining more of a foothold again, due to hardware prices, but only for the niche of high-fidelity games. And I rather imagine that niche is primarily going to shrink.
We’ve already got the “friendslop” games gaining massively in popularity. And if people can’t afford new hardware, a streaming service will be just as hard of a sell.
- Comment on Are there any technology-oriented content creators that are still good? 1 week ago:
It’s interspersed with left-wing politics and whatever they feel like, but various bits of Linux and small web topics here: video.thepolarbear.co.uk/a/chris/
- Comment on Correlation == Causation? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, you do still need to subtract this:
Population distribution in the US (it’s an xkcd comic making a joke about this)
- Comment on is there any language that doesn't have four basic directions? 2 weeks ago:
I heard of this before, too, and they also used clockwise and counterclockwise then. So, in effect just a polar coordinate system.
But yeah, also having a hard time finding out which concrete island that was…
- Comment on Beware 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The perfect date 2 weeks ago:
RFC 3339
- Comment on Bandwidth 2 weeks ago:
Bandwidth. The width of your speed metal band. It’s a silly pun…
- Comment on Only boomers can use this bench. Meanwhile, they're trying to get rid of their own property taxes. 2 weeks ago:
Ah, well that’s just fucking lovely. So, presumably they’re legally required to put a bench there, but they would also rather not have anyone actually exist there…
- Comment on Only boomers can use this bench. Meanwhile, they're trying to get rid of their own property taxes. 2 weeks ago:
Surely, that sign is more expensive than any sort of additional maintenance cost from people using your bench…?
- Comment on I don't think I need to bother translating... 2 weeks ago:
excavate a horse from an ass
Maybe they also have some where you excavate an ass from an ass.
- Comment on Best Of Luck To Your Life Everyday 2 weeks ago:
Needs more clipart…
- Comment on Bethesda unveils new logo 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I once heard that in the video game industry, you start pre-production of a title about a year before you get started with proper development (a.k.a. “production”).
So, pre-production means brainstorming the game concept, theme, maybe initial concept art, maybe some prototypes etc…
But to quote Wikipedia:
The game entered pre-production by 2018, formally being announced during Bethesda’s E3 2018 conference. The game entered active production in 2023 following Starfield’s launch.
So, presumably they kicked in pre-production for a few weeks in 2018, specifically to produce that trailer. And then put it back aside and didn’t really get started until 2022 or so. 🙃
- Comment on Game Pass Was Supposed To Save Xbox – Instead, It’s Killing the Company 3 weeks ago:
Starfield’s revenue sits at roughly $300 million across all platforms. […] a figure surely sabotaged by the Xbox and PC-exclusive RPG being readily available on Game Pass from the second it landed.
Well, let’s not forget that it was often not highly regarded, because the content was spread out so much. And that it launched in the wake of Baldur’s Gate 3.
- Comment on Game Pass Was Supposed To Save Xbox – Instead, It’s Killing the Company 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, similarly, you don’t rewatch movies or series all too often, but there’s quite a lot of people that just play one or two games pretty much forever…
- Comment on SBA #191 insp 3 weeks ago:
That speech bubble looks like it’s straight out of Microsoft Visio…
- Comment on ` ` ` ` 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s fucking creepy, that it’s the same expressions, but also she suddenly has really long arms to hold that kid…
- Comment on Are the donuts any good? 3 weeks ago:
Oh, I thought it might be “day/night”, but the imprint on the wall does look like “daylight”. Some folks are gonna be disappointed, if they show up after sunset…
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, the likely reason in this case is AI companies mass-downloading Reddit posts for their training runs. You can’t really cache the internet, so from what I understand, every training run they scrape this stuff anew.
For many smaller sites, it’s effectively a denial-of-service attack, which is why lots of them have put up this thing:
Anubis bot protection screenFor Reddit, it might just be additional traffic that they have to pay for and which doesn’t give them any profit. Although, if Reddit is still as unstable as it was years ago, I also wouldn’t be surprised, if they got DoSed by that a few times as well.
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 4 weeks ago:
With the comic style plagiarized here, I fully expected throwing a baby to be one of the steps…
- Comment on cheating 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, presumably a model similar to this, with the ‘eyes’ serving as status lights:
- Comment on Why do cooks and chefs cook in base 5 increments? For example setting the off at 350 , 375, 450 and so on. Is there a reason for this or is this how it always has been done? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’d also be surprised, if most ovens could even regulate the temperature that accurately…
- Comment on There's never been an easier time to boycott Microsoft, the most boring video game publisher in the business 2 months ago:
Yeah, it always felt like the worst decisions under Spencer were forced onto him by investors. For sure, there’s some leeway in how you please investors, and she will be given more leeway at the start as well, which could get out of a rut and make things somewhat better.
But ultimately, I still expect her to play the CEO role for a profit-driven corporation. Because that’s what she was hired for. She was not hired to be the saving grace of gamers.
- Comment on There's never been an easier time to boycott Microsoft, the most boring video game publisher in the business 2 months ago:
Yeah, still wild to me how they seemingly bought up half the gaming industry and how little output they produce from that…
