Omgpwnies
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- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 2 days ago:
Train an AI model to produce new shows with him as the host
- Comment on Parasitic Isopods 2 weeks ago:
I am currently reading The Apocalypse Codex, and immediately thought of that :) Great series so far
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 3 weeks ago:
Doing interviews when you know you have nothing on the line is a good way to practice, because you don’t need to care if you do badly. Bonus is, you might end up getting an offer for something better :)
- Comment on Proud globohomo 3 weeks ago:
Do what I do and stash an emergency bottle in the ol’ prison wallet
- Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship 1 month ago:
This is a bad move. The more Russian citizens have access to outside information, the better chance they can learn what’s actually happening in Ukraine and the amount of damage the government is doing to their own country. The more Russians that have exposure to that information, it becomes more likely that the people will show their dissatisfaction. Without VPN, the people only have access to the internal propaganda.
- Comment on "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely 1 month ago:
WFH + satellite internet + solar panels = If you want to threaten violence, you’ll have to find me
- Comment on "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely 1 month ago:
GM also has tons of union employees which has some impact on the non-union portion (i.e. better benefits etc), so seeing first-hand what unions can do for you might make them more likely to support one even if their current working conditions are great.
- Comment on Home Depot 1 month ago:
Best part is, there’s a hitch on the back, so buddy has used it with a trailer, just not this time when it would have been the ideal solution
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 2 months ago:
If your job involves typing to any degree and you’re shit at it, your overall performance will suffer because typing will become a bottleneck to your productivity. If nothing else, typing fast means you can have more downtime in between tasks because you’re not spending all day hunt-and-pecking
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 2 months ago:
The someone else’s eyes are your eyes a few months down the line when you have to fix something
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
bet they didn’t save anything and it’s the same chip just artificially limited
- Comment on DuckDuckGoose 2 months ago:
Are you saying his income will be … ahem … a goose-egg?
- Comment on Cords 2 months ago:
In household wiring polarity does matter, especially if you are assembling plugs. Only one of the three wires is carrying live current (hot), the other two are the neutral return path, and ground which is for safety. If you accidentally switch polarity, you can cross hot to neutral and cause a short circuit.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
Psychos aren’t the ‘scream in your face and belittle you’ type of people, it’s the silver-tongued devils that talk about family values and the environment and how their thing helps people, all while making backroom deals and lobbying governments to pass laws in their favour or any other number of shit. Psychos will appear on the surface as the nicest goddamn person you ever met, and you won’t think otherwise until you find the knife in your back.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
Precisely. Maybe small companies have decent owners, but anything with a value of over a few million is likely to be run by one of these types.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
You don’t work with them, you work for them. The only capitalists in capitalism is the ownership class, the rest are just slaves to the system under which they are born.
- Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? 2 months ago:
Sounds like mods and admins can already do this, and if the barrier to entry to being an admin is firing up a Docker container, I don’t see the purpose in restricting users from seeing it
- Comment on Just do it ✅ 2 months ago:
Fiskars sells splitting axes and mauls fiskars.com/…/fiskars-pro-isocore-wood-splitting-…, I have the x11 splitting axe and it has a reasonably sized wedge head on it
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
The “intuitiveness” of imperial measurements is that they’re sorta human-scaled, at least for human-sized measurements. An inch is about the same length as the tip of my thumb, a foot is about as big as my foot, a yard is a single pace if I stretch a bit, etc. which makes it easier for a person to picture it.
Once you get out of that scale it really starts to break down though.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
The really neat thing about those changes to the meter is that it didn’t really change how long a meter was (-ish), it changed the precision of that definition, as well as the ability to reproduce an exact meter, reducing the need for a specific piece of material to define the meter (which changes length based on environment). Now, an exact standard meter can be reproduced independently in any lab with the proper equipment.
- Comment on First-time buyers spending 40% of pay on mortgages 3 months ago:
Pay went down? Rent still go up
- Comment on Americans Are Sharing The "Normal, Everyday" Aspects About The US That Are Actually Dystopian, And I Can't Believe We Tolerate Some Of These 3 months ago:
From their perspective, they make nothing off of people who don’t pay interest or fees. Thus, it only makes sense that the “best” customers are the ones carrying a balance, because they’re the ones who generate profits.
- Comment on You can't act fabulous after a hip surgery. 3 months ago:
- Comment on Are cars with AWD worth it compared to FWD. 3 months ago:
Fully agree on FWD vs AWD, but on a side note, I have a RWD pickup and while I’ve never gotten myself stuck to the point of needing assistance, there’s at least a few times every year that I think ‘this would have been way easier with 4x4’ to the point that my next truck will be 4x4.
- Comment on Why haven't car manufacturers standardized automatic brake lights when a built in accelerometer detects deceleration? 4 months ago:
I always figured red and red strobing would make sense, since amber is used for turn signals. Not sure if that would fly for epilepsy and such though, but there are plenty of other bright flashy/flickery lights when driving as it is.
- Comment on Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage 4 months ago:
I’ve yet to find more than a handful of pages that have had issues, and most were fairly poorly coded to begin with
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 6 months ago:
For as long as Google is part of FAANG, they will have a nearly unlimited supply of fresh grads to burn through, and fresh grads still line up to work there to get that name on their CV.
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 6 months ago:
This doesn’t fight gentrification, it is gentrification. The people who would be able to pay into this scheme aren’t the types who need to worry about their neighbourhood becoming so ‘improved’ that they can’t afford to live there anymore.
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 6 months ago:
and keep the taxes too
