Tyfud
@Tyfud@lemmy.world
- Comment on Good luck today, Americans 1 week ago:
…Months until Jan 20th…
- Comment on There is only 1 choice 2 weeks ago:
Whoever downvoted you, has never seen actual Robin Williams Standup or knows much about his political views.
Robin hated Bush Sr. and Jr., especially Jr., with a passion.
- Comment on There is only 1 choice 2 weeks ago:
He was also doing statutory rape things with a minor.
- Comment on How to improve your Lemmy experience 2 weeks ago:
But then I’d only be viewing 5% of the content Lemmy makes available for me today.
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
Closer to 96/95% now ;) But yeah, your point stands. What’s even worse about this, is I’m working on a dual citizenship with Portugal, so I should have had more self-awareness than I showed ;)
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
Ok, I missed the sarcasm and allusion to the US as the country you were talking about. That’s fair.
I assumed the OP was asking the question for the US. Which of course, is the thing people in my country do. Assume everything is about us ;)
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
There’s “hard” caps, and there’s “soft” caps. When you hit the soft caps with many of these ISP’s, they start throttling your internet usage by a substantial amount.
Relevant Screenshot of caps as of Sept 2024. Image
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
Home Internet usually doesn’t have unlimited internet. There’s usually caps baked in somewhere. Don’t believe me? Read the fine print. At some point, at some bandwidth usage in the monthly cycle, they will throttle the living crap out of your connection. It’s written into pretty much every contract I’ve ever signed, and I’ve been with over a dozen carriers of landline internet over the years.
The reason being that they don’t want you serving websites or business class functionality with residential level internet. They didn’t build their network with those constraints. They want you paying for and using the business internet package, which has dedicated bandwidth and no caps because you’re paying for a dedicated line to be run.
For mobile phones? Old pricing models still trying to be relevant. There’s no technical reason.
- Comment on Half as Hot 3 weeks ago:
Half Kelvins?
- Comment on What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up? 3 weeks ago:
The only correct answer in the thread.
- Comment on Get good. 3 weeks ago:
Are you attacking my cultural heritage of slurring words like a drunk ferret?
- Comment on Get good. 3 weeks ago:
I mean, California, and other states, are 4 syllable words.
- Comment on My wacky indie game has reached 6000 wishlists, I made this meme to explain how it feels 4 weeks ago:
Haha, I feel that! I’ve got dozens of almost games in my wake. 🙂
- Comment on My wacky indie game has reached 6000 wishlists, I made this meme to explain how it feels 4 weeks ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on My wacky indie game has reached 6000 wishlists, I made this meme to explain how it feels 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for that writeup, I suspect you’re right, that’s probably why a few people are downvoting :)
You’re not wrong though. It is a little crazy, I admit.
I have a decent bit of funds saved up to live off of, so I think I could do that for a while, and my company has offered to hire me back if I need (but likely without the aforementioned perks…). Worst case, I could take it and take the step down in comfort/lifestyle and go back to kind of what I’m doing today.
Earlier this year I had a medical disability thing that hit and put me out of work for almost 3 months due to stress related to my career.
I had to make a hard choice of trying to continue down this path I was on in B2B, where to get to where I’m at and maintain it is an easy 60+ hours a week plus a boatload of stress consuming my life.
In the end, I decided to try and follow my childhood dreams. The near death-ish experience has given me a new perspective on what is important and matters to me most in life, before I don’t have any more time left to do it.
Truthfully, I might be able to ride out the remainder of my days no longer working, if I pull in just a little bit of supplemental income. I own my own home, and have a modest lifestyle with no children and live well below my means. I’ve been saving pretty hardcore for over a decade, and while it’s not enough to live off of forever, it should cover me for a good while.
Even if this fails, I get a sabbatical from the job that’s killing me, and some new experiences to throw on my resume.
I sincerely appreciate your concern and advice, and it is well taken. I just don’t know how much longer I can even do my job today, every day is burnout day, I’m hanging in there until next year to get my bonuses and to ensure that my role’s successor-ship plan goes through so my engineering team continues to thrive when I’m gone. I’m also not burning any bridges at work, and for the most part, I’m pretty well respected/liked there so I have no doubts I could come back if I needed in an emergency.
But for now, onward :) Going to give this game dev thing a try for realsies :)
- Comment on My wacky indie game has reached 6000 wishlists, I made this meme to explain how it feels 4 weeks ago:
I sincerely appreciate that concern :)
I am good on funds for a couple years of living frugally with my wife. One of the few benefits of having been in the industry for so long and trading my sanity and health for $$ is: I’ve got a decent bit of that saved up. Which I’ll be trading away for survival during this :) If it makes money, great, if not, I gave it a shot and I can always get a job again doing the B2B thing, even though I’m totally burnt out with it.
Thank you for the well wishes! I’ll be checking out your game when it’s released!
- Comment on My wacky indie game has reached 6000 wishlists, I made this meme to explain how it feels 4 weeks ago:
Heya man, I just wishlisted this because of reading your comments in this post. You’re a good dude.
I’m a programmer too, been doing it for roughly 27 years. Next year, I’m going to quit my well paying job, where I have a fully remote working position working with some of the most talented engineers in the field for one of the largest privately held companies in the world; and start an indie studio with my brother and another indie dev. I’ve wanted to make video games for as long as I can remember. This is a childhood dream of mine.
Life’s too short, chase your dreams while you still can. It doesn’t get easier when you get older.
Hearing about your passion helps keep me focused on hopefully realizing my own dream one day soon :)
- Comment on Magic Mineral 4 weeks ago:
Asbestos is notoriously cancer causing, dangerous, EPA damning material that many, many homes, farms, buildings, etc. in America (and a few other countries) used heavily because of the properties espoused in the advertisement above.
And many people have suffered premature deaths as a result.
Asbestos was even used in the Wizard of Oz for the snow falling on the cast.
I had Asbestos in my ceiling in a home I purchased and had to pay $12k to remediate it. They wore masks, had negative pressure ventilation suits on, had to get EPA certifications, checks, etc.
It’s brutal stuff.
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 4 weeks ago:
My dude.
I’m a Principal software engineer with 27 years in the industry. I run a team of highly tenured, extremely badass engineers for an extremely large enterprise corporation with 30k+ employees.
I know what I’m on about when it comes to software development.
I’ve watched the musk interviews and behind the scenes brainstorming sessions for the Twitter 2.0 idea. He’s a hack.
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 4 weeks ago:
I hade watched them. He’s just repeating things. He had no grasp of engineering or astrophysics at a fundamental level. He is a sales guy.
The same is true for his software engineering skills. They are novice level, at best. Watching his engineering brainstorm sessions at Twitter was a painful experience. He only knows how to talk the talk. He constantly misuses key tech jargon and design patterns. His engineering group will literally come whenever he makes a suggestion.
- Comment on GRIZZLODILE 4 weeks ago:
That’s not true. And another one.
TL;DR;
They can run up to 35mph over short (20-30ft) distances. Then they can run at a slightly slower (though faster than most humans) pace for a sustained period of roughly 100 feet (30ish meters for the non-'mericans).
In every scenario they can and will catch every human on earth except an Olympic sprinter. And even then, it wouldn’t be a comfortable race for them.
The reason they don’t chase you down and eat you on land, is because they’ve evolved to be ambush predators from water transitions to land. They are lazy. Simple as that. And their food comes to them in most cases. Why would they want to spend all those calories just to maybe get a un-tasty human? They conserve energy so they can perform several ambush attempts for prey, rather than one long chase.
In the end, their current approach gets them more calories for the efforts, which is why they’ve evolved that way.
But they can, on paper, absolutely wipe the floor with you in a sprint over solid, flat land. For 100 feet.
- Comment on GRIZZLODILE 4 weeks ago:
No, sorry, that’s not true. And another one.
TL;DR;
They can run 35mph in that short sprint you’re talking about. Then they can run at a slower (though faster than most humans) pace for a sustained period of roughly 100 feet (30ish meters for the non-'mericans).
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 4 weeks ago:
SpaceX is not run by Elon and he’s kept from being involved closely by a buffer of people that keep him from getting too close to making any “elon” level changes.
SpaceX is successful despite Musk, not because of. And the woman who runs it knows that and keeps Musk away from any important decisions or impacts.
So the stuff they’re doing is legit, cool aerospace stuff.
It’s just not something Musk should take credit for. He does/will. But he shouldn’t. He’s a hack.
- Comment on GRIZZLODILE 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t necessarily matter. They just don’t like running after prey.
They can make swift dashes on land to catch prey sunbathing or something that’s escaping, but that’s the limits of what they’d like to do.
It’s like Pandas. They’re cute as hell, but if it wasn’t for us, they’d have died out already. They’ve evolved themselves to a point where all they eat is one specific plant, and they have such a low sex drive that we can’t even show them Panda Porn to get them horny. We literally have to extract sperm from their balls and inject it into the uterus of the female to make baby pandas.
Evolution is lazy is what I’m trying to say.
- Comment on GRIZZLODILE 4 weeks ago:
Alligators can already outrun a person on land.
They just choose not to. Because they’re lazy and they don’t like running after their prey.
I suspect the same was probably true of whatever it was we killed off back then too.
- Comment on What do sister communities refer to? 4 weeks ago:
Generally, yeah, just related topics. But there might also be mods that mod both communities.
- Comment on Reality? What Reality?!? 5 weeks ago:
We’re practically family now
- Comment on #STOPIT 5 weeks ago:
OK. Where is he. I know he’s in this picture somewhere.
- Comment on Phew 5 weeks ago:
It’s likely an art project. Paper mache sort of thing.
If I had to guess.
- Comment on If Biden wanted to could he have people kill Trump since he is in office and SCOTUS said it was ok? 1 month ago:
Then the same rules apply, but for the people looking to arrest him.
