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- Comment on ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons 4 days ago:
And he was never heard from again because of The Slog.
- Comment on ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons 4 days ago:
Each book seemed longer and longer but each book took place over fewer and fewer days until it seemed like the last books you’d read a whole book about someone’s day. Then someone’s meal, then someone’s thought about a hill the looked at on the horizon.
- Comment on Microsoft renames "Remote Desktop" to "Windows App". Good luck googling for any help or troubleshooting it. 4 days ago:
It definitely made me think of Jobs when I saw it. Not sure about the mouth part.
- Comment on Microsoft renames "Remote Desktop" to "Windows App". Good luck googling for any help or troubleshooting it. 4 days ago:
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 1 week ago:
That’s the exact kind of thing experienced developers want to do.
They don’t always want to just write easy code again and again. That can get boring and tedious. They want to come into a project with difficult problems and take ownership of them and resolve them.
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 1 week ago:
I’m a senior mobile dev, and I needed a website for the app which I’ve never done before. AI was able to help me make one. Is it a well programmed website? Nope! Does it work? Yep!
With my knowledge I was able to troubleshoot problems the AI created, and fix things that came up, but it would have taken me so much longer to do that on my own, or I may have hired someone to make it for me.
- Comment on Krysten Ritter Officially Returning as Jessica Jones for ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 2 weeks ago:
So I read a bit about the making of it…
The middle was filmed first by a different show runner (eps 2 to 6) and when it was reviewed, something wasn’t sitting right so they brought on one of the original show runners.
They made the 1st episode setting it all up, and then added the last 3 episodes. Then they had to refilm parts of the middle to accommodate some changes.
- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 4 weeks ago:
Slay the spire is really fun and different than what you’ve listed.
It was the first rogue like deck building game. Fantastically done.
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 1 month ago:
Can we skip the ones where he was just a sperm donor with no intention to be a father?
At least those ones don’t have a father and it was intentional…
- Comment on Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking 1 month ago:
Me: ask a question
Ai: wrong answer A
Me: it’s wrong because of X
Ai oh my bad, it’s C
Me: C is also wrong because of X
Ai: my bad, the final absolutely correct answer is A!
Repeat.
- Comment on Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’ 1 month ago:
You know those kids are pretty small as well, I’m sure they can work with chimeys a lot better than an adult.
- Comment on Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 2 months ago:
Has there ever been a finished civ game on launch since DLC existed?
- Comment on Marc Rober shows why Tesla's camera-only self-driving system is dangerous 2 months ago:
Ya AEB is an always on thing.
AEB might not always prevent a crash, but it should slow the vehicle at the very least so the crash has less energy.
You could have a system that never prevents a crash and you’d still get an insurance discount due to the slowing benefits.
- Comment on I wonder if the "money can't buy you happiness" people ever lived in a car. 2 months ago:
There was definitely a point in my career where I was making 50k CAD/year and it was a bigger change than my previous job when I went from 40k to 45k. I’m in a HCOL area.
I was able to have rent my own small 1 bedroom apartment (price has more than doubled since then 🤮), go on small little trips locally, finish paying off me debt, buy a few nice things, and actually save money.
Over the years my salary increased a lot as I retrained as a software developer, and sure, the money is nice and I can buy more nice things and save more, but the big change was at 50k when it finally felt comfortable.
If it was 50k then though, given rent increases and other cost of living increases, I’m not sure you’d get that same experience until 70-75k now though.
- Comment on Size of an adult Moose. And they are not as friendly as Bullwinkle 3 months ago:
I know it’s a typo… but an Ora Mastadon sounds really fucking cool too!
- Comment on The Man Who Met Kit Duncan 3 months ago:
I got ya. This is all it says about her on that article
The actress stars in a buzzy new ad for Emirates Airlines where she wakes up from an awful dream of flying on a plane without luxury amenities, but in reality flying gives her nightmares. The nervous passenger leans on a preflight ritual to make sure any type of in-flight meltdown is avoided.
“If I walk onto an airplane, I always have to go on with my right foot first and tap the outside of the plane. I have always done it. For luck,” she says. “Someone told me to do it, and I don’t remember when that was. But it’s kind of stuck.”
- Comment on Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them? 3 months ago:
I think he edited the almost in based in his edit note.
- Comment on Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them? 3 months ago:
There was no traffic, he was on the road alone.
- Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit 3 months ago:
Profit is revenue - cost of goods.
If you make a widget and it costs you $100 to make, and you sell it for $110, you have $10 profit. Then you have all the other expenses that it takes to run a business, lets say that’s $200.
Your revenue is $110
You profit is $10
Expenses: $200
You NET profit (AKA Net Income) is $-90
- Comment on How do shares work? How does musk control twitter if he only owns 9% of the shares? 3 months ago:
I don’t know if he actually ever did it, or had just said he was going to? As in I’m not sure if there’s was anything to pay off. But there very well may have been an actual real debt there for a short period of time.
- Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit 3 months ago:
It’s like that pretty much everywhere. people just don’t understand.
- Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit 3 months ago:
Yes, nonprofits in the United States can earn a profit, but they must reinvest it back into the organization. Nonprofits are tax-exempt and are formed to serve the public, so they can’t distribute profits to individuals. How nonprofits make money
Donations and fundraising: Nonprofits raise money through donations and fundraising eventsEarned income: Nonprofits generate income through activities related to their mission, such as:
Selling merchandiseCharging fees for services Renting out space Selling food
How nonprofits use their profits
Program growth: Nonprofits use profits to grow their programs, hire staff, and upgrade technology Sustainability: Nonprofits use profits to build reserves for long-term sustainability Fundraising: Nonprofits use profits to attract more support through fundraising efforts
Restrictions on nonprofit profits
Nonprofits can't distribute profits to individuals Nonprofits must reinvest all surplus funds back into the organization Nonprofits must ensure that their revenue is directly related to their mission
- Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit 3 months ago:
This is why you’re wrong
Profit is revenue minus cost of goods
NET profit or net income is after expenses unrelated to cost of goods.
- Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit 3 months ago:
Non profit doesn’t mean no profit.
Non profits make enough profit to pay their employees, or they get money from other sources. They still make money.
For a company to succeed, there must be profit, or have an outside source of funding.
You cannot pay rent with revenue and no profit.
- Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit 3 months ago:
It helps with cash flow sure, but if it’s not profit you’re going into debt to pay that.
- Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit 3 months ago:
Revenue is not profit.
- Comment on How do shares work? How does musk control twitter if he only owns 9% of the shares? 3 months ago:
It’s possible the shares were dissolved and some wholly nee areagement was made.
- Comment on How do shares work? How does musk control twitter if he only owns 9% of the shares? 3 months ago:
FYI he stopped using his stock as collateral for the purchase part way though. He sold more shares, and got more outside investment.
- Comment on The US is actually going to implement a nationwide abortion ban and the measures for how it's gonna be handled are already in the works 3 months ago:
Not an answer, but the Army found that pills (non liquid) were often stable for quite a long time with only minor efficacy loss.
- Comment on My hotel elevator has a toilet 4 months ago:
Any fat person that doesn’t want to be mocked can simply lose the weight.
This is simply not true for everyone. Sometimes they are medical reasons that make losing weight very difficult.
