entropicdrift
@entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on The cost of college in USA makes no sense anymore 1 week ago:
I would say that in most cases a person’s commitment to continuous education is more important than what they went to school a decade+ ago. There have been plenty of SWEs that I’ve run into with relevant degrees that never bothered to study since getting their degree and most of them were mediocre at best.
- Comment on The cost of college in USA makes no sense anymore 1 week ago:
Meanwhile I’ve been a professional software engineer for 9 years now with no college degree.
In tech, it pretty much is a scam, or at best a classist gatekeeping requirement that anybody interested in getting real work done will ignore or handwave away. At least till you get up to the level of having “publish x number of papers per year” as part of the job requirements.
- Comment on What is your favorite Robin Williams role? 2 weeks ago:
Bicentennial Man. What a great film
- Comment on IMDb's Top 10 Most Anticipated Movies of 2025 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t hear about it, not shocked though. I’m just a fan of that actor
- Comment on IMDb's Top 10 Most Anticipated Movies of 2025 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, 7 8 9 and 10 all look like almost certain trash lmao
- Comment on If you begin the Voyager episode "Spirit Folk" at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. 3 weeks ago:
Or at xx:49:35 and see if it’s right on the hour when it happens at any hour of the day
- Comment on Should you bother with... mini PCs? 3 weeks ago:
I use one as a Jellyfin server and to stream my main gaming PC to my home theater setup via Moonlight. Works great and since it’s all wired LAN the latency added is under 10ms end to end
- Comment on Amazon: The same 31 products you don't want, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again 3 weeks ago:
UBlock Origin works on Firefox Mobile for Android the same as on Desktop. It’s only Apple users who eat shit.
- Comment on Crush 40 singer sues Sega over Sonic Adventure 2's 'Live and Learn' theme song 4 weeks ago:
Poor guy. I mean he’s ridiculously lucky to be as famous as he is and to have been compensated fairly for the rest of his Sonic/SEGA music but it sucks that one of his most famous works has effectively been stolen by a corporation’s sense of entitlement.
- Comment on Is there any (single player playable) game under $10 or equivalent which has made you point any go "ha" or given you an equivalent feeling because it was that enjoyable for every moment you played it? 5 weeks ago:
A number of the best games of all time are quite cheap:
Tetris (pretty much any version)
Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 (use OpenRCT2 to run it well on a modern PC)
Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic 2 (use The Sith Lords Restored Content Mod to add back in the stuff the devs had to cut for time, otherwise the ending is disappointing)
Balatro ($9.99 on mobile or $19.99 when bundled with Slay The Spire on Steam)
Slay The Spire
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (free and open source)
DOOM (the original, not the 2016 game, very cheap and there are literally millions of mods and community made maps)
- Comment on Which were the worst movies of 2024? 5 weeks ago:
Megalopolis was a waste of time and money
- Comment on As an American we are taught to believe the the Oscar is the pinnacle of achievement in acting or whatever. What Award is on the level of the Oscar in different countries like the Palm De Or? 1 month ago:
I mean in Japan they have their own Academy Awards
- Comment on Tech companies put on notice as Australia passes world-first social media ban for under-16s | CNN 1 month ago:
About time somebody tried it
- Comment on "TRON: Ares" Director Talks Post-Production - Dark Horizons 1 month ago:
Huh, maybe I read that back then and only remembered subconsciously?
- Comment on "TRON: Ares" Director Talks Post-Production - Dark Horizons 1 month ago:
Agreed. And if we’re not getting a heavy hitter on the level of, say, Trent Reznor it’ll probably be a disappointment
- Comment on A re-edit of M Night Shyamalan's 'Trap' becomes a film about a frustrated dad at a Taylor Swift concert. 1 month ago:
No, sorry, what I mean is it’s terrible. “Meh”, at least in my mind, means middling. Not terrible, but not actively good either.
- Comment on A re-edit of M Night Shyamalan's 'Trap' becomes a film about a frustrated dad at a Taylor Swift concert. 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t call that a “meh” movie, no.
- Comment on Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive 1 month ago:
It truly is bizarre to me how smartphone aesthetics have somehow outweighed practical usage and ergonomic comfort.
It’s kind of like the main “screen rectangle” smartphone evolutionary tree has largely gone down the road of the “Red Delicious” apple, which is bitter, mealy, mushy, has a leathery skin and is a terrible snack overall, but keeps being bred and bought in large numbers simply because it’s the iconic “pretty” red apple.
- Comment on A re-edit of M Night Shyamalan's 'Trap' becomes a film about a frustrated dad at a Taylor Swift concert. 1 month ago:
Feels like a good summary of most of the “meh” Shyamalan movies
- Comment on The Walking Dead, The Expanse and more in the Telltale Collection Humble Bundle 2 months ago:
I loved the Walking Dead series
- Comment on Blue 2 months ago:
Weirdly it’s much more clearly BLUE when read in reverse, whereas forwards it looked more like BULB
- Comment on Hidden razor blades 2 months ago:
Neither, just wild speculation for the hell of it
- Comment on Hidden razor blades 2 months ago:
How is the consumer meant to know if they’ve rusted in their packaging?
- Comment on How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it) 2 months ago:
I don’t think they’d do much better besides being safer, eventually. Just saying that’s the only place where they’d make sense to go.
- Comment on How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it) 2 months ago:
Inner cities are better served by trolleys/buses anyhow. Self-driving taxis would work best at the edges of a city, or to fill gaps between train stations in suburbs
- Comment on ‘Star Wars’: Simon Kinberg to Write, Produce New Trilogy for Lucasfilm 2 months ago:
At least it’s grassy plains instead of a desert
- Comment on Robert Zemeckis wants to make another Back to the Future movie (with a twist) 2 months ago:
Joker 2 was also pretty much explicitly a “fuck you, we don’t need a sequel” of a movie
- Comment on New Godzilla Movie in the Works from 'Godzilla Minus One' Director 2 months ago:
Shin Godzilla. Go in blind.
- Comment on New Godzilla Movie in the Works from 'Godzilla Minus One' Director 2 months ago:
The American Godzilla movies are hit and miss, but the last two Japanese Godzilla movies fucking slapped.
- Comment on Where can I find the highest quality Star Trek: The Original Series? 2 months ago:
I’m sorry, I misread your previous comment. For some reason I was thinking you didn’t like the blu-rays because of the remastered effects.
Sorry for the awkwardness, 100% my bad