Nollij

@Nollij@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A List of Those Who Could Be in Line for Trump’s ‘Retribution’⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you really think that would be any better? I can foresee Vance doing the exact same shit, but more competently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What realistically would happen if someone came back to life from the dead ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While technically true, this really doesn’t change the question. Life is a complex series of chemical reactions; death is what happens when these reactions stop.

  Let’s say you die of heart failure. Your heart stops pumping blood. Then the brain stops getting oxygen, due to the lack of blood. Then rigor mortis, and so on. If these aren’t all fixed, you would also re-die immediately (actually, without the brain function being fixed, you would never really be alive again).

  The premise assumes that all of that has been addressed by them coming back to life. Adding a few external factors doesn’t change that. If it did, the simple fact that most people are buried and would suffocate would render the point moot. Same for decomposition.

  Although cremation would be awfully hard to tackle…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Responds to Leaks: "Not Official"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That also implies that there is more to get excited about. It’s entirely possible that the leaks have completely stolen the thunder of their big reveal.

  I also suspect that when they say “not official”, what they really mean is “not final”. i.e. These are prototypes, and could change by the time it’s officially announced. They could also be contractually limited from statements, in a “we can neither confirm nor deny” kind of way.

  I do agree with your larger point that their press release left something to be desired.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're not attracted to anyone "in your league", but you cannot choose who you are attracted to, then what are you supposed to do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, there is always something else going on.

  Relationships are not 1-dimension concepts formed on appearances. They are complex, with many facets and details that go into it.

  Have you ever seen a couple and wondered “why is someone so hot with someone that ugly?” That’s because it’s not built in looks alone. Maybe he’s confident, or rich, or a good listener, or he’s good with kids, or any of a thousand other good qualities. Realistically it’s a combination of them all, because these don’t exist in isolation. And it applies in both directions. What changes are the criteria (e g. Men aren’t expected to have perfect skin, women aren’t expected to be confident. Generally)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resistor/Capacitor broke off, anyone knows if it matters?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can tell you that they wouldn’t have included it if it didn’t serve a purpose. However, that purpose might be for a feature you don’t use, or possibly even one that doesn’t exist for your board (e.g. if there’s a similar model with features added/removed, they may simply leave components off the lesser SKUs. For instance, you sometimes see solder points for 4 RAM slots, when only 2 are installed)

  While I’m a fan of using things until they truly break, you have to consider what this could mean. If they are for voltage regulation, you could end up with rich, chunky volts to your CPU, RAM, GPU, etc.

  If they are for thermal cutoff, things could melt or even catch fire. It might even happen when you aren’t home.

  And if they are for RGB controls, you could end up with no lights, and that would just be too boring to accept. (/s)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you give employers or managers a second chance?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You have posted enough questions on related topics that I recognize your name.

  I say this with all the kindness in the world, I think it’s time for you to speak with a therapist. This is about more than just your career progression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the endgame when the rich have all the money?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you noticed the rich are suddenly encouraging people to have (more) kids? It’s the only way to put more labor into the system. And labor is what money really represents.

  The rich are stealing your labor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what exercises work for you to avoid back pain?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have chronic back pain (not temporary, and not linked to an activity), you need to see a doctor first.

  No, really. See a doctor. Because ALL of the exercises you see can seriously injure you, even permanently, depending on your exact condition. What works miracles for someone else may work backwards for you. Even if they have a similar condition, or it’s in a similar group (e g. Core strengthening)

  And above all else, listen to your body. If it hurts, stop doing it.

  Source: I’ve been through this the hard way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a new toll I'll have to pay to drive anywhere.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not familiar with NYC, but isn’t this exactly the opposite of their goals? If you are staying within the congestion zone, you should be taking a different form of transportation. It’s only when leaving that area that you have a (potentially) valid reason to take your own car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ohio Is About to Make Queer Kids Miserable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been going on for decades. For example, when you meet someone and they mention they moved here from literally anywhere else, we Ohioans always have the same response:

  (Confused) Why?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one: Laptop. Could this be hardware or software related?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To me, it looks like defective vram. The cursor is rendered at a different physical memory location, which may still be intact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨84% of H-1B Visas Go to India and China: Is It a Scam in Disguise?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone in IT (but not a tech company), Indians don’t really count as diversity anymore. There are a ton of them already. I would estimate there are 3-4x as many Indians as there are women (of any race)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Job application or high school test?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This type of question is common during the interview phase. It’s usually used (by the applicant) to show leadership and accountability.

  It’s weird to see it as part of the application phase. I guess it’s just front-loading the questions, but it does feel like “jump through our hoops”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have diarrhea and you hold it in will your body retain some of the water?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can tell you that this is not universal. I eat very spicy food on a regular basis, and it does not give me diarrhea.

  I can’t remember a time that it did, either. I remember when I felt the burn, twice, but not from diarrhea. Is it possible that it’s not the spice, but the spicy food? For instance, is your body reacting to the greasy chicken wings instead of the capsaicin?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you are a doctor or registered nurse, what's the point of manipulating a patient to stay at your unit even if he wants to leave against medical advice?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This approach becomes extremely problematic once you leave the medical field, and it’s already problematic within.

  The easy example is religion. Is it ok to manipulate them to save their souls? But let’s dial it back a notch. What about if someone doesn’t want kids, but you know they would be happier with them? What about giving up sex, drugs, and rock n roll? What about starting sex, drugs, and rock n roll?

  Yes, people are stupid. And medicine is complicated and difficult to understand. And in systems like American healthcare, there’s a ton of bullshit on top of everything. But it’s very rare to be ok to deny them their agency to make a decision.

  Of course, IME in the US, it won’t be the patient refusing treatment; it’ll be their insurance company that does so. And if not them, then finances in another form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DNA⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m impressed by how much Cunningham’s Law is in the comments. I can’t tell if they don’t get the joke, or if the joke is too deep and I’m the one missing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't have our trash because we don't have a way to charge you for it"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Giving these items to employees could be considered part of their compensation package, like gift cards. Those have to be appropriately recorded and taxed.

  FWIW, a lot of these places now send damaged/surplus/whatever items to a salvage company, who then pays the original retailer “fire sale” prices. These items are usually auctioned off locally for a fraction of MSRP.

  Same for many returned items, BTW. There’s a local auction site that runs like eBay, but it’s overwhelmingly Amazon returns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did people in the 90s/early 00s say that the internet "couldn't be taken down"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A 1993 Time Magazine article quotes computer scientist John Gilmore, one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as saying “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”[7]

  That applied a whole lot more when most connections were using a phone line, and a decent size city could have hundreds of ISPs. But part of the design of a redundant mesh network is that there are tons of different paths to any destination. Cutting any of those links would simply force traffic to other routes.

  The early Internet was decentralized in other ways, too. Rather than flock to corporate platforms like Facebook, people spent a lot of time on federated and independent platforms. This included Usenet, IRC, and BBSes. In the event that the feds, lawyers, etc could take one down, a dozen more could spring up overnight. There was such a small barrier to entry, and many were run by hobbyists.

  It’s somewhat true today. There are countless Lemmy instances that are completely independent. Pirate Bay famously references the Hydra, and it applies to their peers as well. But these are limited in scope.

  Xitter has shown us just how quickly and thoroughly a platform can collapse through hostile admins, and how slowly people will reject it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I work an office job in the US. You need to find a better job. No one here is required or even expected to skip lunch. Scheduling is often difficult, so many of my colleagues put it on their calendars as reserved time/another meeting. You can’t schedule a meeting with John at noon. It doesn’t matter if it’s because he’s in another meeting or at lunch; he’s already booked.

  Yes, there are many terrible employers. If you work for one, you need to leave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This app requires access to your contacts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shares with all of your contacts by default. Also includes a sales pitch to each of them to sign up as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TW: suicide⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That might even just be the “call of the void.” Throw in some very minor extras, like alcohol or a bad day at work, and it’s easy to see someone heeding that call.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I bought an HP Laptop with 8gb of Ram...and was suppose to be 256gb SSD. I downloaded one game and its all the way down to 80. Is there any free software to download to help?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t broadly say that for a brand, especially one as diverse as HP. Some are very easy, mostly the enterprise models. Many are borderline impossible. Without knowing the model, it’s impossible to say. It could require removing the motherboard, or special tools to open the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The answer is actually pretty simple. They all used to, at some point. But then they started having bad experiences, and there were clear trends. Now, because of classical conditioning, they avoid those experiences. Is the filter perfect? No, of course not. But it’s good enough.

  TL;DR: Bad men start by talking the same way you do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless women have taken a very sharp turn towards hookups, or polygamy, that’s only a partial explanation. The desirable men are still taken, just as before.

  I presume your younger colleagues are all men, and of the segment that does poorly with women. Try asking women about their perspectives on the matter. I promise you’ll get a different answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm having second thoughts about quitting my current position, I'm scared and I don't understand myself. What's happening to me?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s become clear that you and the manager are not compatible. It may or may not be a reflection on either of you, but it’s definitely not a good fit either way.

  The best way to resolve a bad fit like this is to separate the pieces. Since they are the manager, that typically leaves it to you as the employee.

  This isn’t even a bad thing, necessarily. Switching jobs brings uncertainty and fear, but also opportunity. Not only do you have a chance to get into a situation more to your liking, you can branch out into new areas. These jumps also usually bring a pay bump, although that depends on how patient you can be and how hard you can negotiate.

  There’s a quote that has stuck with me for a while, and I encourage you to take it to heart.

  “All of the best things in life come when you’re out of your comfort zone, and everything worth doing is scary at first”

  You’re scared of the unknown, and understandably so. But it also doesn’t sound like you’ve even looked into it. I can promise you don’t currently have the only job that would work for you. It’s also very unlikely that you have the best one. You probably don’t even have the best one you could have by Xmas.

  Go explore. The future is rosier than you think, if only you let it happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m confident that someone will get caught and be made into an example.

  Whether they were the one that actually did it is immaterial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How am I supposed to obtain income?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What kind of engineering? Designing what? How’s your local market for those positions? Is it something that can be done remotely, and thus you could apply to positions nationwide?

  The really short version is that if you aren’t finding positions, you’re in the wrong line of work or location. If you’re finding positions and applying, but not getting any responses, then your resume/etc is bad. If you are getting responses but no offers, then your interview technique is bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What positive things do you expect from Trumps upcoming four years?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a possibility that Elno gets EVs mandated, or at least promoted to a greater extent. Of course this will only be for Tesla, but there would be a ripple effect on other brands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come Food Network doesn't show the labels of what they are using? Wouldn't be great advertising for corps who would probably pay food network to advertise on show?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they didn’t already know about it, they’re pretty shitty execs. It’s been SOP for decades

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically... How fucked is the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s little solace, but not all destination countries will care about that. It might force you to stay away, which creates its own issues.