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- Comment on wish 1 hour ago:
Is she the one with the superpower to make things slightly warm? Like heating up a cup of tea?
- Comment on I'm tired of teen superheroes! 2 days ago:
Green Lantern Hal Jordan was 23 when we got the power ring from Abin Sur. While even he was rebooted many times to keep him in that 20s-30s age range, there were a couple of decades of real passage of time when they allowed him to age into his 50s and 60s including gray hair:
Bruce Wayne was an old man in The Dark Knight returns. There’s even the Batman Beyond storyline that is a old Bruce Wayne coaching a new younger man to be batman.
The Justice Society has golden age heroes with natural aging making them senior citizens.
- Submitted 1 week ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Not rule 2 weeks ago:
As you get older, something else happens. The people that were present at that cringy moment of yours die off. You may find yourself the only living person witness to the event. It helps. Not as much as it should but it does help.
- Comment on Gen Z job crisis: Maybe there are just too many college graduates now 2 weeks ago:
I like what you posted here and agree with about 95% of it. I’m also at the high end of tech and frequently get asked by juniors which is the most important knowledge:
- Experience
- Certifications (Education from a vendor/profession)
- Degree (Education from academia)
I agree with you that, of those 3, experience is the most important, where we might diverge is that experience alone has limits. Someone that has experience, but no certs or degree will eventually likely hit a ceiling in their career where they can advance no further, and worse, it could eventually (after decades) be the reason they are fired.
The best answer is “Get all three!” However, I agree with you that if you have the opportunity for experience, seize it. Use it. Make mistakes. Learn from it, but don’t stop with just experience. Expand your knowledge through education (certs) and seemingly unrelated subjects (business, accounting, marketing, etc) because these are ultimately what the technologies we support are driving. . If you know what your organization is trying to accomplish (via college education) you can bring the best solutions to bear (via industry certs), and be able to communicate that to the organization effectively (via college education) to be able to implement them (via experience).
- Comment on BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said America could dodge a ‘retirement crisis’ by encouraging people to work longer 2 weeks ago:
I don’t see many pure sysadmin roles listed anymore. Companies seem to want to squish two or more roles together so we have DevOps roles or SREs.
- Comment on Gen Z job crisis: Maybe there are just too many college graduates now 2 weeks ago:
Since we’re plugging community college more, I’d also like to add that quite a few community colleges offer bachelors degrees now! Many of these are a small fraction of the cost of a traditional 4 year school (even far cheaper than 4 year state schools from what I’ve seen).
I wish these were a thing when I got my Bachelors degree.
Here’s an example of a Bachelor of Applied Science, Electrical Engineering Technology for less than $12,000 in tuition! (tack on another $2k for books I’d guess for 4 years), but $14k for a bachelors is damn cheap!
Search your state to see what schools near you offer these and in what programs:
- Comment on Gen Z job crisis: Maybe there are just too many college graduates now 2 weeks ago:
There were entire generations told diplomas were the only path to success and only “stupid people or drop outs” would do trades or jobs without a degree.
I wouldn’t go as extreme as saying “diplomas are the only path to success” but even today, over time, a college degree is a better predictor of being employed than non-degree. The graph in the article shows this:
That dark orange line at the lowest measurement of unemployment is folks that have had a college degree and older than 27 years old. Keep in mind, the graph is covering about 35 years, so those earlier on the chart, in say the beginning in 1990 as the blue line with higher unemployment than older college grads join the older college grad statistic in 1997.
Further, the article is focusing on recent college grads being unemployed, but the graph shows that even this group has a significantly lower unemployment than “all young workers” which presupposes that group doesn’t have a degree.
So even today “get a college degree instead of not” is good advice if you’re looking for future employment. The extra advice I’d give on top of that is “don’t go crazy into debt to get that degree”. Folks graduating with a six figure student loan debt with only their bachelors are likely decades behind their peers that didn’t take on such a large debt load. Community College people! Use it!
Trades can also be good, and I don’t want to discourage that, but recognize the physical toll on the body it takes over a career and make sure to plan accordingly to transitioning to leadership or a lighter desk role as you advance in your trade career.
- Comment on Sump Pump - Part 2 2 weeks ago:
While thats true, a digital meter is at about 5x the cost of a one-time disposable test. I didn’t want to scare him off (or delay the test) because of cost. If the disposable test shows a positive reading for radon, I’d recommend skipping the digital meter anyway and hiring a company that does professional readings as well as installation of mitigation systems.
- Comment on Sump Pump - Part 2 2 weeks ago:
One thing to check for your health and family: Radon
Since you’ve now got a pit, you also have the prime location for a mitigation system. At a minimum, you can get a Radon test kit at the hardware store (I know Menards carries these) for about $20 that has a sticky card that you mail away for analysis after a set time.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This photo was clearly taken around the time Arnold was shooting the movie Commando. Though there’s not world tie in between the movie and game of the same name, its a nice historical piece to see they recognized the similarity and memorialized it in this picture.
- Comment on I baked eye ball cookies for Halloween 2 weeks ago:
“eye ball” cookies
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It’s also important to check whether solar overcacity is worthwhile in the UsA. Her3 it is not( anymore).
I’ll say generally speaking in most places it isn’t, however, once you go solar, you may increase your electricity usage as you move away from carbon based energy. Before solar we had natural gas furnace heating and two gasoline cars. Now we have two EVs and a cold climate heat pump with zero natural gas and zero gasoline consumption. So I wanted the larger solar capacity to cover the increases in electricity we knew we’d have.
Its worked out pretty well. We have fairly large electricity bills ($400ish) in Jan and Feb, a small bill in March, and usually a tiny bill (under $10) in April. Then no bills for the rest of the year. Also keep in mind that is TOTAL energy costs, no gas or gasoline bought anymore.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
And buy them according and after you’ve done everything possible to insulate your house, whether in the colder or warmer climates.
In the USA there are silly rules that you can only get 120% capacity of your last years worth grid consumption as solar installed. So if one were to follow your advice and do all the energy efficient improvement prior to solar, then you would be restricted to getting a much smaller array. I understand why they have the rule, but its easy to circumvent by just having artificially oversized consumption for a year in your house, and you can then get the larger array you want before then doing all the energy improvements post-array installation.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Using half-worn car battery packs seems optimal for home use.
I’m not putting cobalt based (NMC or NCA) batteries inside my house. Thats nearly exclusively what car battery packs are. Thermal runaway is too great a risk to bolt that much energy to a wall in the house. I am comfortable with LFP in the house though.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
could be because I told them I’ll buy once I can get net zero.
I’m not following your logic. You aren’t willing to accept any savings unless you can completely zero out your power bill? Judging from your consumption I’m assuming a good chunk of that is for cooling your home? If so that means you’re likely in a pretty great place to harvest solar power. You’d reach payback of your investment on your array much faster than most, and be saving money for probably 35 years or more with little to no additional investment.
Making some guesses for how much your electricity rates are, and how much you’re consuming (assuming much from cooling), you might be a full payback in less than 7 years if you took advantage of the tax credit. Then, every month after that you’d be gaining money back.
- Comment on What use a smart card reader? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on When real life generates the shitpost 3 weeks ago:
The Free Palestine Movement Seinfield’s referring to is the one with mostly Western students protesting on college campuses, not the Free Palestine Movement located in Lebanon that was involved with armed conflict with Syria too. We have proof of this:
Here’s a quote from this article:
“By saying ‘Free Palestine,’ you’re not admitting what you really think. So it’s actually — compared to the Ku Klux Klan, I’m actually thinking the Klan is actually a little better here, because they can come right out and say, ‘We don’t like Blacks, we don’t like Jews.’ Okay, that’s honest,'" the Chronicle reported Seinfeld said.
The KKK has killed literally thousands of people (mostly black, but some Jews, and whites) source
But apparently according to Jerry here, the KKK gets a pass because “that’s honest”.
Fuck off, Jerry.
- Comment on When real life generates the shitpost 3 weeks ago:
Remind me again how many extrajudicial lynchings the Free Palestine movement has performed vs the KKK.
- Comment on Google should have called it JIF, not WebP 4 weeks ago:
There’s a pronunciation guide in the original documentation, and that didn’t end the debate.
Humans are even more horrible that this first glance suggests. Imagine, one day, the debate truly ends and a single pronunciation for GIF is universally established and recognized by everyone. A group of humans will start to intentionally mispronounce it (or misspell it) just for the aggravation it will generate in others or for their own amusement.
This is where the meme-like behavior of deliberately misspelling the popular phrase (at the time) “all correct” as “oll korrect”. This was later abbreviated as “o.k.” and then eventually “ok”. A phrase we likely use dozens or hundreds of times a day is meme-speak from 1839. source
- Comment on What would have to happen to make everybody realize we weren't exaggerating when we said Trump would be like Hitler? 4 weeks ago:
The damage to the USA, and the world trump has already done to-date will not be undone in the remainder of life of any person living today.
- Comment on What would have to happen to make everybody realize we weren't exaggerating when we said Trump would be like Hitler? 4 weeks ago:
trump seizing the Sudetenland.
- Comment on Trump invites world leaders to put money in his pocket 4 weeks ago:
I’m kind of confused why trump is still being so openly corrupt in the service of gaining more money. The man is 79. Even out of office he’ll have secret service protection for the rest of his life. According to trump’s own CDC life expectancy for US males is 75.8 years. What’s he even going to spend the money on? As much as I hate to admit it, holding the office of President makes him the most powerful man in the world. He doesn’t even need money because he can just use his corrupt power to take anything he wants from anyone on the planet.
For someone in that position, accepting bribes in the form of money should be boring and belittling.
- Comment on Well, shit. 4 weeks ago:
Mine was replacing a failed hard drive in array.
- Check array health, see one failed member
- popped out the hot swappable old drive , popped in the new one
- Check array health to make sure the array rebuild is underway
- See array now has TWO failed member, and realize I feel the drive in my hand still spinning down
shit.
- Comment on Make America Great! 5 weeks ago:
In the 1950s for white men, America was pretty great. For just about everyone else no one would say it was “great”. So when they say “Make America Great Again” they mean “Make America Suck Again For Everyone But White Men”.
- Comment on Dodged the maga family visitors on 4th July by happy accident, now trapped with them at wife's birthday celebration. 1 month ago:
Though in this case I was granted a reprieve because they couldn’t stay as long as expected.
There must have been some lower income children about to receive needed healthcare or perhaps a nutritious meal that your wife’s relatives had to prevent from happening.
- Comment on Dodged the maga family visitors on 4th July by happy accident, now trapped with them at wife's birthday celebration. 1 month ago:
Pull out a little notebook and write some shit in it, put it back in your pocket, look back at them quickly then continue as if nothing happened.
I like this! If they press you on an explanation for what you’re doing you could say “I have a bet going.” Glance down at the pad, perhaps flip a few pages, moving your pen like you’re counting, then say “It looks like I’m winning!” then smile.
If you don’t mine starting a fight you could even go with “I’m playing MAGA bingo. You could really help me out if you say something predictiably shitty about immigrants or perhaps something laughable about ‘small government’”.
- Comment on Dodged the maga family visitors on 4th July by happy accident, now trapped with them at wife's birthday celebration. 1 month ago:
I’m sorry to hear about your intestinal distress which will make you spend most of the visit in the bathroom with a quick in-person “goodbye” right before jumping in the car.
…or…
which means they get to “accidentally” drop little comments then titter in apology
When they do this just stare right at them, with a blank expression. Keep the stare for about 10 seconds until it starts to get uncomfortable for everyone, and then just say “hmm” while maintaining eye contact.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 1 month ago:
Obligatory West Wing Gall-Peters Projection link
- Comment on Have men really stopped reading? We take a deeper dive into the data 1 month ago:
I read way more ebooks than paper books. The convenience, portability, low light control, and text size manipulation are big wins with ebooks over paper. There’s also simply tons of ebooks available from public libraries.
