Trainguyrom
@Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 2 days ago:
it is a book which is long enough that its broken into “chapters” so that you have a good stopping point to pause your reading for the day.
Or in the context of OOP, a book containing many^1^ pages of text and no pictures^2^
- greater than 30
- more than 0.5 pages of text per image
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 2 days ago:
If I was as bad at reading and responding to emails as the folks I support…
- Comment on What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now? 1 week ago:
Yeah I’ll frequently pop a private window when watching something I don’t want mucking with my recommendations and I’ve only ever been prompted to sign in for age verification
- Comment on Choose wisely 1 week ago:
Yeah I lost my job a couple of months ago as a mid-level IT person and I’ve been struggling to even get an interview. I had one interview 1.5 months ago and that’s it. Heck I’m even starting to struggle to find positions to apply for to begin with, and I’m scanning as far as 100 miles away.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 week ago:
- My area had upgraded to DTMF exchanges too soon for me to use a rotary phone, and my parents were to cheap to own an encyclopedia when you could just go to the library to read one, although we did have a few of those encyclopedias on CDs over the years
I literally just wrote a check today to pay for a vehicle inspection. And a couple recently to pay some contractors for some house repairs
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
When I was younger and worked at a grocery store, I had a coworker confide in me that they stop home on their breaks for a shot of vodka. At the time I saw it as “whatever you have to do to survive!” But now I see it as the massive red flag that it is that she’s a functioning alcoholic.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
How is being a school bus driver? I lost my job recently and I’ve been struggling to land another thanks to the current job market. There’s a part of me that’s hedging and looking at what else I might be able to do for work if I can’t land another IT role quickly enough
- Comment on im frend :( 1 week ago:
Naaah it’s more fast typing and not correcting. The only abbreviation I see is shorting “have” to “hv” which honestly could also be a typo
- Comment on EA reportedly shelves Need For Speed completely to focus on other projects 1 week ago:
Project Rene was literally the biggest news in the Sims space a couple of years ago, it’s not hard to find info about it.
But you know what is hard to find? Anything supporting the wild story you spun to dunk on people who are trying to be decent to their fellow human
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 1 week ago:
That’s what I was trying to say is they have everything they need mechanics-wise built into these game development environments. The difference between AAA and indie is more on the scope of how much artwork, sound design, writing, voice acting, Foley work, etc. goes into the game
A solo independent developer can pretty easily recreate the mechanics of GTA V in Unreal for example, but they can’t realistically recreate a selectively compressed representation of the entire LA and San Bernardino counties plus a 14 hour (or however long it is) single player campaign
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Surprisingly enough it’s incredibly technically feasible.
The biggest challenge is actually maintaining good standing with the federal government because over the last 20 years or so they’ve been racking on more and more income taxes on foreign income, and if you live abroad as a US citizen you’re still legally required to pay income tax. Then once expats started renouncing their citizenship because of the rapidly increasing cost of maintaining a citizenship they no longer needed the federal government started throwing more and more barriers up to make it harde and more time consuming to renounce your citizenship
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I mean, most of the time they don’t really check. At worst you might get a company which wants a paystub or two to verify income but those are just PDF files that can be edited. If you’re already planning on breaking some laws and contracts, nothing to stop you from breaking a few more
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Because of that time horizon my wife briefly had no credit score at all. She trashed her score at 18 then never tried to touch credit again because “I already know my credit is trash” then it all fell off and she effectively had a clean slate with no credit history
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Its all part of the risk calculation that’s made by the loan companies that make these credit offers to those deemed to be high credit risk.
Who they really are trying to hook are people who live paycheck to paycheck and keep rotating a balance of old loan balances and newer loan balances because between origination fees, interest, late fees and any other BS fees they decide to tack on they can make absolute bank indefinitely off of folks who struggle with budgeting and are constantly one surprise away from taking on more debt. Alternatively its folks who think in terms of monthly payments and nothing else
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
My wife has had bad credit for a good chunk of the time we’ve known eachother, and its really incredible seeing what circumstances cause the offer letters to start or stop flowing. Basically the only thing that made the offer letters stop fully was when she got a head injury and couldn’t remember to do any weekly or monthly tasks and defaulted on all 3 of her credit cards. That stopped the letters for a few months until the first couple of cards were paid off in full from collections and then the credit offer letters started flowing again.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 1 week ago:
To be fair, an indie dev just tossing stuff together on the weekends and evenings has everything needed in these accessible game engines to build a AAA title of 15+ years ago.
- Comment on EA reportedly shelves Need For Speed completely to focus on other projects 1 week ago:
Do you have a source for any of that rage bait so we can laugh at it?
- Comment on EA reportedly shelves Need For Speed completely to focus on other projects 1 week ago:
I think the saddest part was observing a clear wind down of Sims 4 then last second “lol JK we’re not releasing another sims game” and the entire player base seemed to release a collective sigh that some of the structural problems that have plugged TS4 are here to stay
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 week ago:
Before I had kids I would’ve been right there with you, but I am in a completely different mindspace anytime I’m caring for my kids than when I’m not.
When I’m in “dad mode” there’s a significant portion of my attention that’s constantly running through “Are the kids getting into trouble? When did I last see them? When were they last fed/watered/potty breaks? Are we about to pass something that they’ll see and decide they need to go to and therefore cost more time/money than I’ve budgeted for this trip and should I be taking a different route to avoid it? When did I last observe the kids alive, has it been more than 60 seconds I need to check on them again…” And the only way to break out of dad mode is if somebody else has taken over active care/monitoring of the kids or if the kids are both asleep in their beds. It’s a biological state that I seriously did not know was possible, and I simply can’t turn it off.
So when I say I can’t forget my kids in the car, this is what I mean, I’m so actively aware of my kids location and status at all times that I’m the primary caretaker that they can’t even try to wander off in a park or store without my noticing
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 week ago:
IANAL but isn’t that the purpose of a “no contest” plea? Its a plea somewhere between guilty and not-guilty without the bad look of pleading not-guilty on something you’re obviously guilty of
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 week ago:
Also you’re supposed to wait a full year before becoming pregnant again after having a kid so your body can heal and re-normalize. Having kids that close together is hell for parenting and hell for your body
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 week ago:
As a parent myself it always boggles my mind that people can forget that they have kids in the car with them. I’m always in dad mode when I have any kids with me, so I’ve never even come close to forgetting a kid in the car. Forgetting to grab the kid’s backpack for school sure, but forgetting a whole child in the car?
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 1 week ago:
This is my second season. I’m biking about 5 hours a week right now, averaging about 40-50 miles per week. I don’t know how obvious the toning would be to others but I can certainly see it, since y’know I’m the one who sees myself the most
- Comment on Less than 20% of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4’s soundtrack is made up of songs from the original games [VGC] 1 week ago:
It makes sense with how involved Tony Hawk is in the punk music scene to try to mix in some new songs and not just repeat the same soundtrack
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 1 week ago:
I’ve been biking so much lately that my legs are getting hella toned, the rest of my body is starting to tone too and I’m feeling much more alive and healthy than I have at any other point in my life!
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 1 week ago:
Yeah my problem with stardew is I feel too invested in min-maxing my time so I end up stressing over every minute in the game and it’s too exhuasting
- Comment on stock market 1 week ago:
No worries! Have a wonderful day!
- Comment on stock market 1 week ago:
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not but I worked with someone who watched LTT religiously and seemed to get most of his training from LTT. I spent a lot of time figuring out what he did or didn’t do, writing the documentation he didn’t write them fixing what he built incorrectly. LTT tries their best but their background is purely in gaming computers and it really shows, especially with the repeated IT failures that really shouldn’t be happening in an organization of their size
- Comment on stock market 1 week ago:
I wasn’t the one who said to avoid the stock market. I just got the feeling that your comment I was replying to was saying to just place money into a high interest savings account and wanted to throw an alternate opinion out there
- Comment on stock market 1 week ago:
Based on my recent meeting with someone from the retirement planning arm of my bank, high interest savings is ideal for an emergency fund. If you’re keeping 10-20k sitting around it’s just going to keep losing value in any traditional savings account. But having the rest in an IRA or RothIRA (US-specific tax advantaged retirement accounts. Basically one is taxed as money enters the other is taxed as money exits, and there’s limitations to try to prevent abuse by the ultra-rich) can lead to significantly higher interest. He ran a report of “if we took your 401ks that we’re rolling together and they just lived in this account over the last 30 years of markets here’s what you’d have” and the answer was actually a lot more favorable than I expected.