stoly
@stoly@lemmy.world
- Comment on Financially rewarding and you will always have a job 6 days ago:
It’s almost as if the real problem is opportunity. Hmm.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 6 days ago:
The US subsidizes farms and petroleum.
- Comment on You can only bring back one. Which do you choose? 1 week ago:
Radio shack for sure. Has anything electronic or computer related you need.
- Comment on Even conservatives use to boast the virtue of achieving a higher education. In MAGA times what is the pathway to success? 2 weeks ago:
The MAGA types used to talk about an education when it was a way to insult people who make the minimum wage and make it their fault that they were underpaid. They didn’t actually want peoples’ lives to be better, but rather to find a way to look down on entire classes of humans.
- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 2 weeks ago:
I have experienced some recent schadenfreude with farmers who no longer have workers to harvest because ICE scared them away.
- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 2 weeks ago:
You’ve made a potential error in underestimating just how horrible some peoples’ lives are and how filled with hatred they are over that fact. This is really what drives so much of politics in the world–disgruntled people with no future who choose to hate others who have nothing to do with it.
- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 2 weeks ago:
I love the quote about how it is putting federal agents in danger…and I sort of think that they are doing that themselves.
- Comment on Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans 2 weeks ago:
The real problem becomes when bad or non scientific advice gets regurgitated to people over and over.
- Comment on Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans 2 weeks ago:
Therapy is just littered with bad therapists, that do more harm than good and give the practice a bad name.
This has long been my experience. Although I believe that great therapists are out there, I have yet to encounter someone who didn’t blame me for the problems and cause me to feel rejected. The last person I went to looked over the intake testing and told me that nobody would want me as a client. No joke. I convinced him to let me stay but nothing happened and I burned out after 3 months or so and stopped going.
- Comment on Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans 2 weeks ago:
Part of me is ok with this in that any avenue to get mental health resources can be better than nothing. What worries me is that people will use ChatGPT for this sort of thing and these models will not be good help.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 2 weeks ago:
Back in the day, you scanned the disk. Folder by folder, file by file. If what you were looking for appeared early in your search, you were golden. It turns out, though, that scanning a filesystem is computationally very complex and takes a long time. Not something you might notice so much on a PC, but something that you would notice on a server. So, instead, you want to index the disk, slowly and over time, and then you search against the index. This works well in a server, but no so much on a workstation. Well there’s really no difference between Windows 11 and Windows Server 2024 except for some fine tuning of resource allocation. Essentially, you get the very (for desktops) ineffective server version.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 2 weeks ago:
Sorry I work in tech and may take things for granted.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 3 weeks ago:
Guess we’ll cut food stamps but tell people who can afford to to get a watch
- Comment on Hurdler Wins 400-Meter Race Despite His Dick And Balls Falling Out Several Times 3 weeks ago:
Those are some reasonable parts, congratulations.
- Comment on Sometimes when I think about US politics, I worry. But then I remember this is a country that had gone through a civil war, numerous scandals, a great depression and dust bowl, two world wars, 3 weeks ago:
Helpful to know that the country was markedly different before and after each of these events. Think of things before and after WWII, for instance. We will experience similar over the next 20 - 40 years.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 3 weeks ago:
Of course it was. I had it.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 3 weeks ago:
I have thought about this over the years. If I am in a loop, it’s “which PhD am I doing this lifetime?” or “so I guess I am going to be the world’s best cabinetmaker this round.”
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 3 weeks ago:
holy cow, I lived the afternoon half of that
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 3 weeks ago:
OOOH Look at Mister FANCY PANTS with his dial up internet. You must be rich, Mister Fancy Pants.
I think I had AOL at the time…
- Comment on Who's up for some hotdickle? 3 weeks ago:
Why is the pickle circumcised?
- Comment on As you are doing it you never realize 1 month ago:
I think for me it was before I moved counties and my disc was full so I put all my torrents on a couple DVDs. Early 2009.
- Comment on X Suffers New Outage Following Oregon Data Center Fire 1 month ago:
How are those cost savings going, Elon? Some redundancy would look pretty good right about now.
- Comment on Partner has ADD, do I have misophonia? 1 month ago:
Can’t the conversation be on volume levels? You can say that you find it distracting and difficult to enjoy your own activities.
- Comment on A shapeshifter standing in front of a mirror for hours making subtle adjustments to their disguises like a gamer in the character creator. 1 month ago:
I click the random button several times and move on with my life.
- Comment on Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE 2 months ago:
That’s because Congress defunded Amtrak years ago while giving subsidies to airlines. We’re rebuilding a rail world. Cities and even suburbs are revitalizing. It’s a question of time before there is movement here.
- Comment on We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
Yeah that’s probably the single most useful comment in reddit history
- Comment on Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says Reddit will work with “various third-party services” to verify a user's humanity, after an unauthorized AI persuasion experiment 2 months ago:
#2 is the most likely outcome
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 2 months ago:
Also these first impression moments are good because you can predict how they would treat you if you worked there. I walked away super annoyed and didn’t care that I didn’t get called back in. I was way overqualified for the position but was also desperate for one since I had just moved back to the country and needed to sponsor my spouse for residency.
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 2 months ago:
Based on the context and my own personal experience as a person who has interviewed hundreds as a hiring manager --not syaing I do this, just that I understand-- they said “HEY FRANK WE NEED YOU TO SIT IN THIS INTERVIEW IN 30 MINUTES. K THANKS” and Frank showed up and tried to pretend that he knew what was going on.
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 2 months ago:
An idiot asked me that once when I had just finished my masters. Like did you read my resume?