bearwithastick

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Banks: Hold my beer!

  And later blame it on the workers that unionized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your evil deeds may be causing Baldur's Gate 3 bugs⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you played the game though? It’s filled to the brim with content. I already have a lot of hours in and I think I’m only about half through the game. You talk to friends and everyone is telling a different story of how they approached a problem in the game. Almost every conversation in the game has voice lines.

  It’s absolutely not flawless. Controls are clunky, path findinf of your compagnions is weird most of the time etc. But you absolutely see that this game is a labour of love and not a quick cash grab. Plus again, it’s massive and it’s one of the few games where I actually understand them not being able to fix every bug in the game.

  So I wouldn’t say that we lower the bar with them in relation to bugs. They have raised the bar in content and overall quality so high that you are more willing to forgive / overlook a lot of the issues, as long as they are not game breaking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seasonal Affective Disorder⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I recall correctly, it’s not infamous for being super depressing but because it used to be a light hearted web comic about nerds doing nerd stuff and then the author decided to go into this weird dramatic arch of a ongoing love story that just didn’t really fit into the whole thing. The “Loss” strip was the overly dramatic peak of this arch and I think at this point people were already making fun of it. While the topic certainly is pretty depressing, it was more the fact that this whole thing was rather cringeworthy and over the top that started the whole meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old RTX 3080 GPUs repurposed and modded for Chinese market as 20GB AI cards with blower-style cooling⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here, have an upvote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Making plans⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to be harsh, otherwise nobody gets to play. When we started our new group we made sure to inform everyone that playing DnD is not to be treated as a secondary hobby that can just be canceled for other stuff all the time. Make it your priority, plan other things around the sessions if you want to play with that group. Of course, any emergencies excluded but otherwise treat it as if it is your sport club training. If you miss too many sessions, you’re out.

  I know this sounds super arrogant and mean, but it’s the only thing that works consistently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but the guys who made the profit will be hailed as successful business people while the people advising for a responsible approach will be condemned as fucking blockers of innovation and success of the business. The idiots at the top who spew out their shit are glamourized while the people cleaning up at the bottom are the joke of society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goals.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your point with the “great” things is so true. All the “great” people of history that get remembered for a really long time are mostly some despots / royalty / tyrants that have done TERRIBLE things. Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Hannibal etc. and we now treat them like some super geniuses that built great empires. Some of them are even ‘worshipped’ in pop culture. Oh and yeah they killed a bunch of people but eh… price of being a great man I guess.

  I wonder if Hitler will ever be talked about like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft to remove Windows 11 Tips app, following Cortana's demise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What hardcore Linux users don’t seem to really get is this: The vast majority of people who need to use computers simply do not care about anything you just said. They absolutely don’t. They simply want to press a button to boot the device, use the apps they need and maybe even play a game and that’s it. That is what Windows does for them.

  The average user is overwhelmed when the desktop icons have been moved.

  I love Linux and it is on a great way to being used by a wider audience and it’s great to provide the freedom it does. But it still has its quirks that makes it too hard to use for 95% of users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I fucking hate these piece of shit cars. I will never not think that they all have to compensate for something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, it is not relevant for the argument if it is presented as a parody or not.

  Believe me, I get the gist of your point and I understand that even if you look at it in good faith, problems arise with her writing of the house elves slavery.

  However, I have a problem with the statement that just because an author implements something in their world building and does not immediately make it very obvious, in whatever way, that this is a bad bad thing, makes them a supporter of said thing. Of course we never know the true intentions of the author but just assuming they wrote it so they support it is a bit of a stretch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  From this argument you could derive that every author, who builds a world with anything negative in it which is not opposed by the inhabitors of said world, automatically supports this in real life. As a bit of a crude example, in Warhammer 40k, criminal humans are lobotomized and are used as “Servitors”. Almost no other human in this fantasy universe bats an eye at this. Nobody is accusing the authors of supporting slavery?

  I can see where people take issue with the topic and how Rowling chose to write about it. But I think to accuse her of being pro-slavery because of that…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who devoured the books as a kid, I’ve been very disappointed in finding out JK Rowlings is a a TERF. Your post sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole and I’ve read up on some of the issues that people pointed out in the books. To me, some are valid, some seem to be a bit far-fetched…? For example, I’m not sure why she is labeled pro-slavery? Just because she writes that people in her fantasy world don’t seem to have a problem with it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, most of these points just sound like a responsible way to handle all the bullshit wishes from employees. I’m not saying make it unnessecarily painful for employees to request changes. However, I currently work at a company that did the “just do it” approach for years, got big with it and now our department needs to clean up the bullshit of many years to get the company up to code with whatever regulations we are under.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta admits that it trains its AI on your Instagram and Facebook posts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not about AI specifically. It’s about the awareness that, as soon as you post it to social media, your personal information is not under your control anymore. There was and is still a good reason why you should not post personal info on the internet, even on seemingly “safe” spaces like social media pages.

  But people in general don’t care anyway and they won’t care about this headline too.