sexybenfranklin

@sexybenfranklin@ttrpg.network

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but you’re arguing that to someone who already said they did buy. You can make that point but you’re directing at the person you’re responding to, who has already said they own a house. You are going to strain your shoulder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Interest rates in the states are higher than they were five years ago, which means borrowing money to pay those inflated salaries is more expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently they didn’t. Top executives are both pissed at Bob Iger and scrambling to figure out how to right the ship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entering hyperspace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I started getting this after I got diagnosed with diabetes, because I started eating way less junk food, so my salt intake went down. My blood pressure is usually on the low end now. It’s annoying, and I’ve talked to my doctor about it but she mostly said to drink more water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can do timed mutes of keywords, though the times aren’t as customizable as some people might like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clock logic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re on Metric time already, the base unit of measure for time in the Metric system is the second. This is decimal time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more likely that Connecticut comes alphabetically after Colorado in the list of state names and the number of data sets it used for training that were lists of states were probably abover the average, so the model has a higher statistical weight for putting connecticut after colorado if someone asks about a list of states

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny seeing the list and knowing connecticut is only there because it’s alphabetically after colorado (in fact all four listed appear in that order alphabetically) because they probably scraped so many lists of states that the alphabetical order is the statistically most probable response in their corpus when any state name is listed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I had realized how shitty the sound was in the MRI headphones I would not have asked for one of my favorite bands when they asked me what music I wanted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t even given an option for sound, the guy told me the headphones were just for communicating. I just tanked 30 minutes in the tube with nothing but the sound of vibrations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Transparent is Clear Resin in actual use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but this whole post is about resin prints, which cannot be acetone smoothed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Transparent is Clear Resin in actual use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the reason clear 3d prints are cloudy is because layer lines cause scattering, which makes it appear cloudy. Coating the surface with a clear epoxy fills in the tiny gaps that causes light to scatter, improving the optical clarity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Transparent is Clear Resin in actual use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the part in the middle not 3D printed? It says Formlabs Form 3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No justice, no peace.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, human skin is good for blocking alpha radiation, that’s an extremely low bar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing stopping them from firing you, but a one time offense will not get the government to deny you you unemployment, assuming you appeal any denial. Especially if the only other ammo they have is from five years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Extremely doubtful that this would rise to a firing that was justified enough that would preclude the employees seeking unemployment. They would really want to have a longer paper trail than “CEO sent a slack message and then a meeting a week later.” Not saying that this was an illegal firing. This was just power tripping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got laid off about five and a half years ago, at the start of Covid. The meeting was with my manager and his boss (who I was also friendly with). I got a meeting invite and asked if we could push it back an hour so I could drive my wife to work, they said sure. I told my wife on the drive that I was getting laid off. Sure enough, I was. They paid me five weeks severance and gave me resources to file for unemployment. It was due to Covid causing a huge drop in money coming in, which was understandable. Honestly, I didn’t like my job, I had already hired a company to rewrite my resumé. So it worked out. At least my boss and his boss had the spine to do it personally. I’ll always give them credit for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Than 35? No, you’re not going to build a new printer from scratch for less than $35, especially if you don’t have another printer to print parts.

  Buy a hotend, figure out what you did wrong previously, and fix your machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a difference between talking about sex and gender and something being sexual. If a shopkeeper mentions his husband, I can extrapolate that he’s at least bi, but that doesn’t mean the game is sexual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo Is Hoping to Win Over AI-Hating Searchers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It must be exhausting, going through life, being this stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo Is Hoping to Win Over AI-Hating Searchers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically, I left DuckDuckGo and switched to Kagi when DDG announced their AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cookie combs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bees literally do not use hexagons, they make roughly round shapes and the force of the surrounding cells compresses them into hexagons. This is called self-organization and it’s observable in bubbles as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When you use apple or android pay, it generates a temporary card number etc and uses that, which means if that payment terminal gets compromised, your card number etc isn’t exposed. Your bank could probably do something similar without Google or Apple as the middleman, but until they do, mobile pay will remain a killer app.