SirQuackTheDuck
@SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 3 weeks ago:
The US does pay significantly higher, but with enormous costs. My senior full stack engineer position would be about 60k/year at the government, which is a significant income to Dutch standaards.
My monthly costs are around 1400 per month, the rest used for savings and fun.
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 3 weeks ago:
1 out of 4 is fence?
- Comment on Starfish memory 5 weeks ago:
I installed new blinds on our two roof windows and closed them this evening. I’m not sure a cave gets much darker than that.
Nobody got injured (so far).
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour 5 weeks ago:
It is. If it’s 140 mbit/s (or 15 MB/s), Flight Simulator only uses 54 GB per hour. OP is confusing bits and bytes.
It’s still a shit load of data.
- Comment on Anon uncovers something big 1 month ago:
5G towers do cause covid. Without 5G my WiFi would be far too shitty to book a cinema seat and get nice and infected by Karen her unvaccinaged crotch goblins.
- Comment on Anon uncovers something big 1 month ago:
Racism is a big work in progress in the intergalactic communities.
- Comment on When Comedians Stop Being Relatable 2 months ago:
Not YouTube recommending I’d watch Ricky Gervais after that video
- Comment on What Ticketmaster Doesn't Want You To Know: Concerts Were Cheap For Decades 2 months ago:
If this is true, they’re effectively creating demand by removing a large set of seats from the initial offering pool. This means they can say “tickets are selling fast”, without lying if you include that they’re just referring to the set on sale right now, not the total number of tickets.
This does smell like false advertising though, but I wouldn’t put it past the cracked US legal system for this to be totally legal.
- Comment on Shart, not fart 3 months ago:
That’s just a metal concert though
- Comment on Dutch toilets 3 months ago:
You’d be shit out of luck
- Comment on Hmmm 3 months ago:
Meanwhile, in SVG:
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Bread!
- Comment on Handy temperature conversion scale. 7 months ago:
Kelvin: Zero is the freezing point.
Scientists: Of what?
Kelvin: Yes. - Comment on Anon likes bikes 10 months ago:
most can only support one person at a time.
As a Dutchie, that’s bullshit. Three at the least.
- Comment on Tradition 11 months ago:
What the US calls drunk is just European for an afternoon toast.
- Comment on Its most common use case is interrupting games 1 year ago:
It’s an accessibly feature for those who can’t hold down shift and the key they want to have in uppercase (or the variant, like the exclamation point).
It’s useful for less computer savvy people or those with muscular issues.
- Comment on Facepalm 1 year ago:
2. Use a mental block
Close your eyes for 8s - 25 min, and pretend not to hear anything - Comment on Scrooge mcduck discovers bankruptcy 1 year ago:
Nov 1st?
- Comment on The infamous amazon Union busting video 1 year ago:
They’ve unionised and got fuck you money.
- Comment on Cities Skylines 2 reportedly runs with 7-12fps on an Intel Core i9 13900KS with AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX at 4K/High Settings 1 year ago:
You missed an important bit:
who in the right mind
- Comment on The #1 trick they don't want you to know 1 year ago:
Yeah, sure, as if I’d like to trash all my points I put in IQ.
Become an octopus and keep all that XP
- Comment on Bosses and workers still can’t agree on whether the commute is part of the work day, and it’s creating a $578 billion productivity problem 1 year ago:
Or if we could take nonexistent public transit.
This makes the whole debate so much easier. I work in the train and bike for three minutes. My whole transit is billable and is billed.
- Comment on Well, fuck you too. 1 year ago:
Land of the Free*
*) Free is a trademark of BigCorp Inc. Terms and conditions may apply. Subject to availability. - Comment on Well, fuck you too. 1 year ago:
You can’t just say “nah, fuck it” and not serve the page.
It’s only illegal if you say “nah, fuck it” when users decline to agree with your data collection terms, but offer it when they do.
This is an identical experience, independent of your (dis)agreement with their policies.
- Comment on Well, fuck you too. 1 year ago:
Consent? That’s just some woke word made up to damage family-owned businesses!
Them, probably.
- Comment on Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds 1 year ago:
I’ve had voter ID for as long as I know, and I’ve been with my parents to vote very often (good educating on their part).
It’s never been an issue, you bring your ID, your voter ticket (which gets sent to you by the govt) and cast a vote. No racism issues there.
It seems the UK has somehow fucked it up.
- Comment on Porn is harder to access 1 year ago:
Good on you for weirding out your MP! Let them know how perverted they should really be in the parliament (they’re your representative after all).
- Comment on Starfield players pirate the DLSS mod after the developer locks it behind paywall 1 year ago:
It’s like downloading Limewire Pro with Limewire, totally unexpected.
- Comment on Banksy Encourages Fans to Shoplift From Guess Since Company 'Helped Themselves to My Artwork Without Asking’ 1 year ago:
I’m down to clown
- Comment on Banksy Encourages Fans to Shoplift From Guess Since Company 'Helped Themselves to My Artwork Without Asking’ 1 year ago:
Except when that store is a big multinational that pays their employees the bare minimum for stuff that costs pennies to make but is sold for half their monthly income.