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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨similar to the word of mouth post, what game did you not expect much from but loved it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bioshock. It was expected to be just another FPS but with an interesting “magic” system. What it turned out to be was a narrative played from the first person. My room mate played it as a standard run and gun, and was rightfully unimpressed. Taking it slow, exploring, and passing attention to all the little bits of story made it amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You just aren’t going to the right websites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of the other comments touch on it, but usually mixed with other items, so let me reiterate. Your metabolism is going to slowly wane. Keep an eye on your weight and reduce your calorie intake now. It’s really easy to think “meh, so I’m 10 extra pounds, I can easily lose that later” but by later you will be 15 extra pounds. If you’re gaining muscle, that’s one thing, but keep yourself from gaining fat as much as you can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead of getting a membership, get a gift card. I don’t think a membership is required to send a gift card.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They can, but the point of OTA setups is that you don’t have to anymore, and you save a lot that way because satiate testing is very very expensive. Old PC platforms had a standard of compatibility in how all the hardware worked. So you could test a few variations, and be reasonably assured, or you had a specific version for a particular price of hardware, like c&c machines.

  So the new paradigm is about testing your most common setup, then slow rolling out and waiting for complaints. If you broke something, you get the details, fix it, and ship again. The problem here is their release cycle takes too long. This is only viable if you can patch things in a day, if it takes you a month to fix a patch that is turning cars into driveway statues, it more than a handful of cars are affected, you need a new strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t delude yourself into thinking they won’t. I had a CTO fire the whole office in a tizzy fit because one of my coworkers commented negatively and rudely about his strategy. I was literally the only person that knew anything about our core home grown CRM. Everyone can be sacrificed on the ego of the C suite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've been alive for the entire narrative of the internet and it's crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I deal with Junior devs that don’t even actually understand how it works now. Much less how it worked in the 90s. Routing is sysops, HTML is designers, storage is for DBAs. All they learn in coding boot camp is how react works, and even then, they don’t actually understand what it’s doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JFC, who did this?!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For reference: handmaids tail was published in 1985, the mist was published in 1980. There are probably examples of that trope prior to the mist, but the handmaids tale isn’t one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel you on a lot of that. Big FAANG and Covid lockdowns changed the landscape hard in the favor of the inexperienced. In late 2020, I had a junior position to fill with a 90k salary. The guy that has accepted called me back a few days later to inform me Disney+ just offered him 220k. I couldn’t even be mad he was taking their offer after he had already accepted mine. I’m sure a lot of that resulted in incompetent people with higher paying jobs and titles than they deserved. Note that it’s setting the other way, well, no one can afford to take a pay cut, so they’re of course applying to jobs they don’t qualify for. My current role clearly says PHP, but I’ve dumped maybe 10% of the candidates already for not even having the term PHP on their resume.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just grads. I have 1 open senior position, 100 applicants. A good 10% of them with 15+ years of experience have had no job in the last year, or have things like “Amazon fulfillment center” as their most recent job. Shits rough if you find yourself laid off or if the company you’re working for went out of business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Serious answer, piefedians, fedians or piens for short.

  Fun answer: pie-one, or of you want to separate the lurkers from the contributors, you have pie-eaters and pie-mongers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's weird that we "take a shit". I don't know what other people are doing, but i definitely leave a shit, not take it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or in other words “shit” is a verb here being used a diminutive of the act which is the noun. Like when you take a run, or take a ride, take a walk, or take a hike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspiring. Innovating.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In AZ and likely Texas, they could be powered by clean energy. They’re not, but they could. AZ can produce an insane amount of solar, and sun farms are continuing to grow. Texas can produce a hell of a lot of wind power if they could quit arguing against themselves. AZ also has some hydro from Hoover, and a nuclear plant.

  There’s just a hell of a lot more effective steps we could be doing before trying to get to these capture systems. And even if the capture works and completely offsets the carbon used to build the systems and the power used to run them and 100x more, it’ll just be used as further excuse to continue to do nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Sales Jump 56%, a Sign the A.I. Boom Isn’t Slowing Down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How can it slow down? To get investment, every company has to at least claim to use AI. My company measures and ranks people based on their use of Gemini. It hasn’t made it into our performance reviews yet, but there is shaming for not using it. “Come on, we’re paying for it, make use of it”. I haven’t even figured out how to make good use of it in my normal routine. Which is legitimately 75% meetings. Maybe I need to send bots to meetings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was playing punch out on the switch the other day and 100% this. That game was all about proper timing and reaction speed. All the little latencies add up to it being nearly impossible. I never beat the game as a kid, but I could get to the last fighter, Tyson in my version, Mr Dream? In the non Tyson version? Anyway, can’t even beat the Russian dude that laugh taunts me on the switch. I know what to hit, and when to hit it, but HDMI lag, upscaling lag, blue tooth controller lag, all add up to it being nearly impossible to react.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify to raise prices in September⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No addons that I know of, but they do an annoying thing where they change which specific version/release/album of a song is available, so your playlists end up missing songs even though the song itself is still available and you have to correct the playlist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify to raise prices in September⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazon’s Prime Music? Most people have prime anyway, I think that comes with the ad version. Less than Spotify to switch to add free.

  If you still have access to any .edu email addresses, you can get student rates for Apple Music, and probably others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home sales are down. So why are prices at an all-time high?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Make a new law that a corporation cannot own single family homes and individuals cannot own more than two single family homes, condos, or cabins and the housing issue is solved. People can still have a vacation home, or a single rental property, a few for a married couple, but they don’t get to own 50 homes anymore unless they want to run an apartment complex. I do think there is societal value in rentable single family homes, but it’s gone too far.

  Give them one year to divest, and start charging a tax if they don’t that starts at 25% of the homes assessed value, and raises 25% every year thereafter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please help⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can probably still run doom

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Ford does a good job of offering the features and tech, but not making them required. Even their EVs have settings that can mimic a gas driving experience. Be a Luddite trust what you trust. But don’t pigeon hole your acceptable years of manufacture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft to Lay Off About 9,000 Employees⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s popular because it has an insanely low barrier to entry, so that’s what gets taught in schools and boot camps. Then that’s all Jr devs know entering the work force. Companies don’t invest in mentoring juniors and cultivating talent anymore, so as the seniors get poached, retire, or move into later stages of their career, JS is the only skill left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This California community's water will be shut off if it doesn't approve a stunning 300% rate hike by Monday⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  originally the developers subsidized the water bills to entice buyers

  There’s the bullshit right there. It was always stupid expensive to get water there, but the developers made it seem more reasonable and we can be pretty sure buried that detail deep in contracts. Shady sales tactic to obfuscate the eventual costs in order to offload assets that shouldn’t have been built in the first place.

  Sure “buyer beware” and all, but I have more rage for the builder than the people that got duped and are now stretched beyond their budget.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The powers that be have no fear of ignoring protestors any more. Or education presents civil rights protests as peaceful and effective, that all we need to do is raise awareness and show solidarity and oppressors will relent. Education speaks of the black panthers, but doesn’t go into depth on how they were the armed wing of the movement.

  So now today we’re protesting because we don’t like what’s happening, but what is the consequence to the power hungry? If the protests get anything approaching non peaceful, or even if they just want to, those in charge can escalate to military actions.

  We also don’t have a clearly defined win condition. What is going to make things better? When do we stop? Is the goal just to raise awareness to get people to vote for a change in 1-4 years? Or are we looking for something more immediate?

  Finally how far are we willing to go? If I’m not willing to die for it, or to risk my current comfortable life style, can I ever really push hard enough against current conditions? They’re willing to kill to keep their power, am I willing to kill to pry it from them?

  They don’t fear us because they know we have so much more to lose than they do. We are not yet playing a game with equal stakes.

  I don’t have a solution to this, so I’ll at least keep doing the peaceful thing, because it’s better than doing nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. residential solar on the brink of collapse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  SRP, but they’re pulling the same shit, protecting outdated business models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. residential solar on the brink of collapse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If that person lives where I do, the local power company has stupidly high rates for doing that. The only real way to save is to go completely off grid. There are two plans, one pays you almost nothing for the excess solar produced, the other charges you “high demand” rates if you exceed some arbitrary usage number at your peak even if you produced all the power yourself. It’s so freaking confusing for no reason other than to punish you for trying to offset your power bill with solar energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Press F to pay respects⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy.zip 2nd Birthday Giveaway! 🍰⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for welcoming us Lemm.ee refugees.