Skates
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- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 3 days ago:
No, he means every opinion you don’t like is automatically a tankie bot. That’s what lemmy is. From tankies, for tankies.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 3 days ago:
Thorbot’s shit hole has expanded to 10x it’s previous size in the past year, thanks to increased usage by members of the public.
- Comment on Starter Guide 5 days ago:
5 years ago
old
Now listen here you little shit
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 1 week ago:
I even got them to secure me a refund against the Australian government after they refused to issue a refund after directing me to apply for a tourist visa with the wrong visa process.
I love this result. It’s really damn hard to protect yourself from government failure, especially in cases where you are owed money. It’s awesome that you not only got your money back, but also got to play the “fuck you, if you take my lunch money you can fight my big brother” card.
- Comment on Country music 1 month ago:
International waters music or gtfo
- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 1 month ago:
“AI”
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 1 month ago:
It’s worse.
Playtest results inhibit you from disclosing things because they are subject to change. They take gamers’feedback, decide if they want to act on it, and at the end of the day the finished product may look different so it makes no sense for people to loudly state “they have feature X, and they kiss feature Y” because by release it may be the other way around.
Whereas this type of contract says “idgaf what’s bad about the game, you can only sing its praises online”.
Silence > dishonesty.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 1 month ago:
Oh, you want only good reviews? It’d be a shame if people reviewed your game like “I apologize, I have nothing to say - I am under contract to say nothing bad about the game, and I have nothing good to say about it either.”
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 month ago:
millions of years of evolution wiring our brains to make sex feel good so we don’t accidentally kill off the human race by forgetting to do it
dumbasses want to play badminton or some shit insteadWell ok.
- Comment on Tell Borts I said "Hi" 2 months ago:
Gotta suck being a teacher for this class when you just know Jorch is gonna end up framed by Tom Riddle for opening the chamber of secrets.
- Comment on Handy temperature conversion scale. 2 months ago:
Americans are out here needing 100 degrees of magnitude between “it’s really cold outside” and “it’s really hot outside” while ignoring the scientific uses of anything outside of those values and you expect them to understand decimals?
How many “it’s really hot outside” until iron melts, or water boils, or meat cooks? Fuck knows. But I’ll be damned if I use punctuation in my maths, this country was founded on addition and subtraction and that’s all the founding fathers ever needed, now gtfo with your letters and periods and symbols in my mathematics.
- Comment on A handy reference 3 months ago:
I have shat upon better people for lesser crimes.
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 3 months ago:
It’s a VERY good spiritual successor to titan quest. I’ll recommend last epoch too, if you like the genre and are interested also in multi-player (it has an offline mode as well)
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 5 months ago:
- Comment on IT support work be like 5 months ago:
Yeah, let me not do my job anymore, so you don’t have to do yours.
Goddamn IT, man. Every single time.
- Comment on IT support work be like 5 months ago:
The company paid me to do exactly the actions I did before the system restore, which I had to redo after the system restore, and then I had to continue debugging and fixing the issue myself. Your cost analysis is fair in some cases, but it doesn’t really apply here. It wasn’t a “undo the changes so they can get back to work” situation, it was a “fix the issue so they can continue working” situation.
Also, restoring the machine to a previous state was not a fix for my issue. I wasn’t in a position where I did not have access, nor was I in one where I couldn’t revert the changes myself (even without the system restore). This was a lazy/incompetent tech, who finished their ticket and went home for the day having done nothing but inconvenience me even more, and cause me to spend even more time on the issue.
I only wish this was the only interaction I’ve ever had with IT where they proved to be more trouble than it’s worth, but sadly that’s not the case.
- Comment on IT support work be like 5 months ago:
Also IT guys:
I have no idea why things don’t actually work and when presented with a core dump I panic like a little girl, so I restored to a previous system restore point, because fuck the changes you made since then, I’m just supposed to close this ticket, not actually fix things.
- Comment on Square Enix’s president says it will be ‘aggressive in applying’ AI 5 months ago:
The ‘why not’ is not from the perspective of the industry - it’s from the perspective of the customer. Can you automate several tasks by using AI during game development? Sure. Will it translate into a better price or a better experience for the end-user? Let’s see.
Let’s say you give AI the unimportant tasks. You manage to reduce a lot of waste and maybe optimize your workflows. You improve efficiency. Maybe you can make more games in a shorter time span. Will you be willing to sell the games for less than the standard $60? I find this unlikely. This impacts me as a consumer - why am I paying for your improved tools with my money?
Let’s say you give AI the big tasks - you make it write story, generate graphics or code. But AI’s current level doesn’t allow for originality, or even cohesive thought. You’ll be churning out garbage until your AI is actual intelligence. This again impacts me as a consumer - why am I sponsoring your experiments with my money?
So - sure, let the companies throw themselves at this. But I’m not investing my own cash in their research.
- Comment on Do Huawei phones have a secret backdoor that the Chinese government can access? 5 months ago:
If the Chinese government asked any of those other companies to give them all the data they have on you in particular, They probably tell them to get bent.
Haha what? You think there’s any chance in hell that China doesn’t get what they want from any US company? Check out this video, this is what happens when a random American says something China doesn’t like. Now go ahead and picture those companies not bending over backwards to kiss Xi’s ass if it means affecting the bottom line.
- Comment on Task failed successfully? 6 months ago:
Please don’t suggest to people to call 911. Not in the replies to this article.
- Comment on Why does it seem like women are more wont to make noise in sexual situations while men don't? 7 months ago:
Do you think they were busy moaning or?
- Comment on True Story 7 months ago:
Your choice to rely on data collected from internet isn’t wrong because “there are no women on the internet”, or because the sample size is too small. It’s wrong because of two things
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the bias of your sample, which is created by you. You’re the only one reading comments, so you’re only reading them from certain sources. Whether those sources will constitute a sample that is representative to the rest of the world is debatable, and depends a lot on you
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People lie. For example, I am a piranha, and every time I hit a certain region of my tank’s glass, autocorrect selects one of the three words suggested, based on the location of my head bonk. Unfortunately so are most of my colleagues in this thread replying to makeup related questions, as well as everywhere else in your online presence. We’re all just fish bonking our heads on glass. We’d obviously all love makeup on women, if we understood the concept of women. Your polling sample is unfortunately tainted. But hey, at least you know now that most piranhas like makeup on women.
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- Comment on True Story 7 months ago:
Oh, so you base your assumption of “most men” off of comments you see on the internet. Ok, nevermind then.
- Comment on True Story 7 months ago:
Yup, that’s the point I was making as well
- Comment on True Story 7 months ago:
So, a few things:
- No way to prove you’re a dude.
- Post is still not a lie, as your statement followed the post. You can’t say that someone in the year 1900 was a liar if they said “no man has walked on the moon”.
- Technically you wrote it, not said it. Therefore your comment is a LIE
- Comment on True Story 7 months ago:
Men who go out of their way to evaluate women’s appearances and say they like women with no makeup generally mean they prefer it when women are level ten makeup astronauts who make full face look like “I just woke up this way!”
How do you evaluate that? I’m really asking, cause I’ve been in long-term relationships, so I’ve gone to bed next to someone who just removed their makeup and liked their face better without it, so please let me know how you evaluate that “generally” that’s what men mean - that they like full face make-up?
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 7 months ago:
Oh yeah, America is totally gonna use that second amendment to rise up against an oppresive government, not just buy guns from corpos and be distracted from any form of oppression because they just have to buy the newest apple product
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 7 months ago:
You’re one nuke away from getting proven how shit your take is.
This isn’t the 1900s. War isn’t just whose side has the biggest numbers or the fanciest guns. You will die in a confrontation against your government. You and your quickly propelled metal hold no power in the face of the type of destruction that has now been possible for decades.
But yeah, go ahead and hold on to those guns, it seems like it helps you sleep at night.
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
- Comment on Companies lower salaries in job postings as pay transparency laws take effect 7 months ago:
For someone in sales, easy, you can look at the value of the contracts they bring in.
I would argue against this. As someone whose sales guys overpromise just to get the contract signed, in order to see how much they actually bring in I would subtract the number of overtime hours/additional effort we need to invest compared to their initial sales pitch. Oh, you promised feature X is delivered in the first 2 years? Well when the customer doesn’t get it and complains about it, that’s going to go against your bonus.
Listen, I know the job is made so that they bring in the most contracts possible and then the techs need to figure out the rest. But if the company constantly gets in trouble with the same few big-name customers in the industry (making them not want to sign with us in the future because of unrealistic promises), maybe it’s time to consider that Sales’ approach is sometimes detrimental?
- Comment on What's your hobby? 8 months ago:
Charles Darwin applied for an interview, you said? Yeah I’ve heard of him. Tell him to contact us when he’s able to solve some differential equations. Literally unhireable fuck, who does he think he is.