samc
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- Comment on Ambulances called to Amazon’s UK warehouses 1,400 times in five years 2 months ago:
Thanks, for computing some useful statistics! As much as I believe the implied hypothesis that working at Amazon is bad for one’s health, I think the guardian intentionally tried to present the largest number possible with no context.
Frankly, “Amazon warehouse employees 10x more likely to need an ambulance” is a more impactful headline anyway.
- Comment on Amazon workers narrowly reject union in historic vote 3 months ago:
We have bad/corrupt governments sometimes, that doesn’t mean we should get rid of governments. (Though maybe the libertarian Fraser institute might disagree with me there.)
- Comment on Carnival of Self-Harm 4 months ago:
I suppose a complete history of Tory government was out of scope for what’s already a dissertation-length essay.
Actually, at the end the author begins to slightly contradict himself by arguing that (neo-)Thatcherism is the long-term objective of the conservatives. I suppose the consistent narrative is that the Tories have a long-term commitment to policies that can only ever yield short-term gains.
This does lead to the rather dire conclusion that British politics is stuck in a cycle where Labour slowly rebuilds the British state, only for the Tories to sack it the instant our fickle support for progressive government waivers.
- Comment on Carnival of Self-Harm 4 months ago:
Not that I saw. A nag screen maybe, but it was dismissible
- Comment on Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has 5 months ago:
I always right that people using searx etc over duckduckgo were just gluttons for punishment. Having gone an entire morning without search, maybe now is the time to dive down that rabbit hole…
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 6 months ago:
Thanks, fixed! (TIL you need the https:// bit on Lemmy)
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 6 months ago:
There is, they just don’t publicise it. Actually one of my favourite features of the service tbf. Just load up a web page and all my messages are there, regardless of where they came from.
- Comment on Phil Spencer, long cast as Xbox’s saviour, may be remembered as the man who killed it 6 months ago:
There’s a common thread between a lot of the missteps listed here and Embeacer group’s recent troubles. The idea that you could fund 230 Spiderman 2’s for the same price as buying 1 Activision-Blizzard-King really drove the point home to me.
The problem (in my obviously uneducated opinion) is that when you spend so much money in acquisition, especially of established companies, you’re neither funding nor rewarding innovation. You spend $70B on ABK and some randos in suits get a huge payout that they invest in oil or crypto or whatever. Spend $70B on talent and early career devs and you could unleash a tidal wave of creativity and experimentation.
- Comment on Exanima - Dev Diary - Physics Improvements 7 months ago:
Is this the one that was planning to be a full open world RPG originally? (Sui Generis IIRC) I’m guessing that’s unlikely to happen by this point. Exanima still looks fun though
- Comment on A 2024 Plea for Lean Software (with running code) 9 months ago:
Is that an issue if you need to login first?
- Comment on BMW, Subaru and Porsche drivers ‘more likely to cause a crash’, study finds 11 months ago:
Well it’s 400,000 accidents, so there’s probably every kind of circumstance you can imagine in there.
The point is that owning a BMW shouldn’t affect the chance of you finding yourself in dangerous circumstances, other than ones you create by your own actions. (Unless everyone in the UK is secretly hoping to ram BMW drivers off the road).
- Comment on While you were sleeping, #windEnergy reached 59% of the National Grid's electricity demand 1 year ago:
It is fascinating tbh. Moreover, it’s currently (as of writing) at 42%. Considering 13:30 is hardly “off-peak”, I’d say that’s pretty damn impressive.