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- Comment on GTA6 is gonna be crazy 🔥 1 hour ago:
Probably an insurance job coz no one was buying that shit
- Comment on Typical US worker has less than $1,000 saved for retirement, report finds 16 hours ago:
Don’t you all pay into Social Security?
Isn’t that the mandatory retirement savings system in the US?
- Comment on Can't get better than this 16 hours ago:
Why does he have so much space? Stupid bastard has overcapitalised.
My first place when I moved out of home was a room where I had a couch, a single bed and a coffee table doe my computer.
Clean clothes at one end. Dirty in a garbage bag. Small passage between couch and bed to move back and forth to the door.
Leaves more money for acid, MDMA and nitrous.
Maybe leave the nitrous out of it OP. Being a nitrous fiend is bad.
- Comment on How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A Scenarios? A 172-Billion-Token Study Across Temperatures, Context Lengths, and Hardware Platforms [TLDR: 25%] 16 hours ago:
I understood a few of those words.
Basically you’ve validated the study that LLMs make shit up.
- Comment on Datacenters are becoming a target in warfare for the first time 23 hours ago:
Gulp
I work in a DC as well.
I wonder if I qualify for danger pay now
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 23 hours ago:
It seems like an utterly vexatious, and banal one at that, lawsuit by the PRS.
Definitely feels like they were put up to it by the dark money private equity jackels who want to devour Valve.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 1 day ago:
Yup, the REAL goal here is to get an ID associated with an IP address to remove your anonymity from the web.
Maybe I’m not technical enough but I believe there is some sort of fingerprint at the OS level that they can obtain that in turn they want to map to your identity, thus even if you’re using tor/vpns to mask your IP, you’re still identifiable.
- Comment on Men wanna be me, women wanna be with me. 1 day ago:
That would be such a cool map for a new go karting game
Super market trolley racer
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 2 days ago:
I used to walk around with 3 phones. It got tiring very quickly.
Besides in order receive classified material the gov is already well aware of my kinks
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 2 days ago:
I used to walk around with 3 phones. It got tiring very quickly.
Besides in order receive classified material the gov is already well aware of my kinks
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 4 days ago:
Stuff I and my employer doesn’t want the CCP to know.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 4 days ago:
So who gets sued. The guy who put the chat bot on the server and is running it or the chatbot software developer themselves?
Or both?
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 5 days ago:
Chinese company who has to comply with the CCP is a problem for me, and my work.
- Comment on Paging SpaceCowboy 1 week ago:
Great film, especially the native American language version
- Comment on I know. Somehow, I've always known. 1 week ago:
Wasn’t a jedi knight on the council either.
What a failure.
- Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 1 week ago:
- Filter for Brazilian who are Pink Floyd fans
- Filter for Brazilians who can speak English
- Filter for Brazilians who are left/socialist and who are on alternative social media sites.
And so on
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 1 week ago:
This is really well written. Great post.
- Comment on Kyle and Jackie O’s controversial breakfast radio show taken off air after hosts fall out 1 week ago:
Who the fuck listens to radio?
Let alone these shitstains?
15 years ago I remember being forced to listen two whilst car pooling.
I lasted two trips before I decided was either slitting my wrists (and spraying it over the numpty that listened to this shit) or taking the bus and losing an hour.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Is this a new meme format? I’ve seen several of these in the last couple of days all with them inferring all sorts of craziness by “Faith” from the rationale professor.
- Comment on Yay, milkshakes! 1 week ago:
So they don’t get a blueberry fruit juice shake before they go back to their home?
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 1 week ago:
Or just replace your tyres with ones with non sensor.
That said it is a little annoying. My dash is forever telling me it can’t talk to the tyres.
- Comment on The Sims 4 is going the way of Roblox with a new marketplace where anyone can make moola from their custom creations 1 week ago:
Wait their taking a 76% cut???
Wtf
- Comment on Dangerous, but worth it? 1 week ago:
I don’t want anyone to “eat my ass”, I never have, and I never will. Some things you just know you won’t like.
That’s what I said about boofing morphine.
- Comment on 2022 was a bleak year 😢 1 week ago:
0/10 no animals suffered.
That only applies if you don’t count humans who had to test/taste this crap as animals
- Comment on OP figures out love languages 1 week ago:
I thought this was going to end up where all green text comments end up, choo choo
- Comment on he forgor 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, absolutely agree. But I was utterly maliciously compliant in getting my guys their pay increases and bonuses.
I replied in this thread to another person raising a similar concern. Check it out.
- Comment on he forgor 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, but this is kinda separate: This is literally what labour unions are for?
I would love it if unions entered my workplace but we’re far to complex and technical. Not to mention in my industry we go through a good 2-3 restructures a year (yeah I know it’s bat shit insane)
In lieu of a union I made it my personal aim to get all my under paid employee bumped to much higher pays. Which was a problem because my team generally only took on existing employees who showed aptitude for technical and complex stuff.
In returned they got a detailed and complex training on everything from sql, to parsecing very large amounts of data, to building complex mappings and results.
Under older management they were often left on their previous pay. I found that really fucking disgusting so I made sure to build a rating system that fairly rated them but made sure that rated/scored/reviewed work automatically ended up on their end of year statement. It was all built using MS stuff. It was cool. I could go in, score their work, it graded them, weighed for complex vs simplex (and different roles) generating a single score. I could do it all year around so if something flag I could easily raise it in our catch ups. I had 3 teams across the entire country (I did a lot of travelling so I could meet my guys and hang, coffee, beers, lunch etc)
It basically meant that everything was documented and very fucking detailed, and because they were meeting the straight forward no sneaky lawyer trick KPIs it meant they were able to smash it.
So at EOY where we did peer review the other managers tried to shoot down my ratings for my guys (which gave them 10% bumps and hit their STI (approx $2-4k bonus) however kept coming up against the documentation.
It should be the number one goal for any manager to make it realistic and possible for their guys to get their bonus and pay raises.
Coz a happy team is a good fucking team. As a direct result of this effort we solved over 99% of all the work on our ledger by EOY.
If anything we were a little too successful. But that’s story for another day.
- Comment on he forgor 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact: I had a career in which I was in charge of hiring other people to fill the expanding roles in my department, and was tasked with hiring ‘more of myself’, but I was not allowed to even consider people with my own qualifications.
I had a similar problem. Writing JDs for new roles I had to fill I was constantly getting them knocked back by HR.
Finally HR called me and explained that for what the job entitled we couldn’t possibly pay the market price for it.
I was like but that’s the job. Shit I thought I had made the JDs pretty succinct and austere already.
Nup apparently we’d be paying upward for $100k for a job the guys in team were only getting $60k.
As you can imagine we got a lot of applications but 90% weren’t even close to what we needed.
I was mostly self-taught, and was only allowed to consider people with at least a bachelor’s degree in a field that didn’t even really exist yet.
Same.
I personally don’t like hiring uni graduates. Their utterly lost and difficult to motivate. And almost always what they learned in university does not help whatsoever in the role. Especially dev roles.
I’d much rather find people who can look at the work
- Comment on Don't fancy trying Marathon this weekend? Lucky you, as there's now the chance to have a go at Horizon Hunters Gathering 2 weeks ago:
It looks like they made a game in a different universe. Realised it was going to flop hard so they reskinned it to be part of the Horizon Zero dawn universe whilst not realising how incredibly tone death that is.
- Comment on Steam Next Fest - February 2026 is live with tons of demos 2 weeks ago:
Titanium Court is another big one that sounds and looks amazing.
The intro video song is custom made for steam. It’s fricken hilarious