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- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 hours ago:
Shafting the waitress is not going to end it either. Most people wouldn’t notice this, so they’d still keep doing it if you didn’t tip.
The play here is to tip the waitress in cash if possible and slam the establishment on every review site.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 hours ago:
Are you comparing the waitress not proofreading the math on a preprinted receipt (arguably not their job) to soldiers actively committing war crimes?
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 2 hours ago:
You still have to debug things a cattle approach, though. If anything there’s even more and more complex things to debug. Training will just have to shift from throwing the new hire into the deep end of the kiddie pool to something else. Granted, “something else” is probably going to be offloading it on educational institutions, which sucks for recent grads, so they’ll have to work it out somehow. Probably by creating a market for post-grad practical skills classes, is my guess.
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 2 hours ago:
I started my degree in 2002, two years after the dotcom bust. I figured the market would rebound within five years. Right after I graduated (but thankfully after I got a job) the housing bubble burst. There’s always something happening, but software engineering is still needed and we still make bank. Being unlucky with the timing will set back your career, but probably won’t end it.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 4 hours ago:
Pretty sure the waitress wasn’t the one who fucked with the register. Probably the restaurant trying to ensure they don’t have to pay the difference if the tips come up short and leave the staff below minimum wage.
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 4 hours ago:
The CS jobs market fluctuates like any other market. Right this minute all the dumbass CEOs are trying to replace people with AI, just like they’ve repeatedly tried to have cheaper people in India do the jobs in the past.
Having people in India do it used to be called outsourcing, then off shoring, then a few other names, because every time it fails they have to call it something else to try again. The same will happen with AI.
I’m not the slightest worried about my own job, but it is currently a shitty market for fresh grads. Probably due to all the post-covid layoffs saturating the talent pool with more experienced people, and the aforementioned AI fad.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 3 days ago:
I would certainly check before purchasing, in the age of ad-financed TVs.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 3 days ago:
Never threaten legal action to a callcenter. If they take it seriously (or just don’t want to talk to you) they’ll hang up immediately and demand all further communication goes through lawyers.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 3 days ago:
They might nag you about connecting.
- Comment on Back in my day this MF was .29 cents and was THICK with INGREDIENTS 1 week ago:
What I primarily miss in American bread is texture. Americans think white vs. whole grain are the only variations of flour, and are missing out on a whole world where the flour isn’t ground to dust. Adding some ratio of medium and coarse ground flour is what gives the texture sorely missing in the floppy sadness Americans call bread.
- Comment on Back in my day this MF was .29 cents and was THICK with INGREDIENTS 1 week ago:
As a Norwegian, sandwiches are supposed to be 90% bread. But it’s supposed to be good bread, not this nonsense Americans keep putting up with.
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 1 week ago:
People have been caught with those levels before. You need to be an expert tier alcoholic to pull it off, though.
- Comment on Easy mistake to make 2 weeks ago:
I learned that my coworker was a lesbian three times before it stuck. What made it stick was during a talk she was having about LGBT issues, where she referenced how obviously gay she looks. I guess the short hair with bright dye was a tell-tale sign to other people. I just enjoy chatting with her, and that sort of thing just didn’t come up very often.
- Comment on Gallium 3 weeks ago:
Might have also gotten away with it if they didn’t completely freak out in front of the kiss cam, so everyone started thinking they were cheating and looked into who they were.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 3 weeks ago:
Now I’m curious what that Quake 3 ad was. Just lots of gore?
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 3 weeks ago:
But do you have the Tribal Edition?
- Comment on Spiritual Safety Tip! 3 weeks ago:
They’re also happier when you’re not around, Jimmy.
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 4 weeks ago:
Is it still a DEI hire if it’s also a glass cliff?
- Comment on Made Ya Look... 4 weeks ago:
Makes sense. You don’t get high off your own supply. Norway is all about electric vehicles, too.
- Comment on What would you recommend to fix this home network issue. 5 weeks ago:
Running copper between different buildings like that is risky, because if they have different ground potential you could get current traveling through the cable and zapping the equipment. A lot of people use fiber for those runs for that reason.
If you want to solve your issue as cheaply as possible while eliminating the aforementioned risk, move AP2 to where AP1 is and replace AP2 with a PoE-powered access point. This will ensure all devices are powered from the same house, and you get rid of the failing device.
- Comment on Pleasure from Simple Things 1 month ago:
Uh, Maverick had been retired for like 5 minutes, and not by choice. He was a test pilot doing crazy shit until they forced him to retire and teach at Top Gun. This meme makes it look like the man hadn’t seen a plane for a decade.
- Comment on First/notable 3D games where you could dive below water (and walk on land) 1 month ago:
The first was probably Duke Nukem 3D, released January 29th, 1996:
…fandom.com/…/Water_mechanics_in_Duke_Nukem_3D
If you consider their hacky approach to 3D cheating (they didn’t support one part of a level to be above another, and implemented looking up/down by just distorting the image, so all corners were too pointy), then you’d have to wait a few months for Quake.
The first actually 3D first person game was Quake, released June 22nd, 1996, and it let you swim:
- Comment on Docker is renaming a mounted drive 1 month ago:
It looks like you’re relying on media automounting to access the drive, but this is happening too late for Docker.
I would suggest creating the empty folder and explicitly adding the Mount to
/etc/fstabinstead. This should mount early enough, and even if it doesn’t it needs an empty folder for the mount point anyway. - Comment on Home cooking 1 month ago:
I think it might be boiled.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 2 months ago:
“Was it meant to make you happier? I’m not sure it worked.”
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 months ago:
I never had to do that, because our computer didn’t have a hard drive. We booted DOS right from the floppy.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 months ago:
I’m an elder Millennial, and I remember when we got old enough to use the 386 machines at school. Before that we were using DOS.
Our first home computer was bought second hand and didn’t even have a hard drive, just two 5.25" floppy drives, and also ran DOS. We’d have kids from the entire neighborhood visit to play games on it, because although it was second hand it was also very rare to have one.
I was 12 when Windows 95 came out. All this stuff looks waay newer than that. I’d say this draws the line for old at the older part of Gen Z. Millennials aren’t even on the scale.
- Comment on Parents sue over son's asthma death days after inhaler price soared without warning 2 months ago:
Don’t forget that there are more victims here. Poor Optum and Walgreens are feeling sad that people noticed that they’re shitbags. Giving them more money would make them feel better.
- Comment on Why does (human) organ trafficking exist? 2 months ago:
These people don’t care about ethics, but scamming the billionaire is probably bad for future business. I imagine word gets around.
- Comment on Why does (human) organ trafficking exist? 2 months ago:
People rich enough to pay for black market organs don’t need to worry about health insurance.