TheBeege

@TheBeege@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pop it in your calendars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The devs themselves are fine. It’s the leadership that’s cancer. Abusive leadership in Korean companies is actually a pretty well known issue. It’s just more self-destructive in game companies, which I have direct experience with. So they did a lot to me and my friends. And said friends shared their stories of other Korean game companies.

  You’re absolutely right to question, especially with my level of anger, but I’m confident this one is justified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pop it in your calendars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re absolutely right. I was too focused. I crossed that out in my comment. Thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pop it in your calendars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Very fair point. I was a bit hyper-focused. Will edit my previous comment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pop it in your calendars⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just gonna copy paste my comment on a related post…

  Similar shit happened when they were PUBG Corporation. Fuck these lying assholes. Player Unknown was a smart, capable dude, and they exiled him to a remote office because he got pissed at the CEO for over-monetizing things in a way that cost them players.

  When they released the battle pass while the game was retail, all of the non-Korean employees nearly revolted. It wasn’t smart, and it was a money grab on the players. When the team lead of market research told the product manager that the feature was a bad idea and would lose them all their Western players, the product manager got him demoted and moved to another team.

  When the numbers didn’t look good, the data analysts were freaking out because they couldn’t deliver bad news up the chain of command, even if it was accurate.

  When they acquired Mad Glory, they promised that the dev team would still be contracted to other game companies to build APIs and tools for them, keeping the game industry tooling ecosystem healthy (think op.gg). When PUBG Corporation acquired them, the company canceled their contract with Bethesda for the API they were in the middle of building and forbade them from working with other companies.

  Fuck Bluehole. Fuck PUBG Corporation. Fuck Krafton. Fuck game studios in Korea. Don’t play Korean games. Kpop and cosmetics and whatever are chill. Don’t play Korean games. Korean game companies are fucking cancer.

  Don’t buy Subnautica 2. The Subnautica franchise died when Krafton became the publisher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Krafton Delays ‘Subnautica 2’ Game Ahead of $250 Million Payout⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Similar shit happened when they were PUBG Corporation. Fuck these lying assholes. Player Unknown was a smart, capable dude, and they exiled him to a remote office because he got pissed at the CEO for over-monetizing things in a way that cost them players.

  When they released the battle pass while the game was retail, all of the non-Korean employees nearly revolted. It wasn’t smart, and it was a money grab on the players. When the team lead of market research told the product manager that the feature was a bad idea and would lose them all their Western players, the product manager got him demoted and moved to another team.

  When the numbers didn’t look good, the data analysts were freaking out because they couldn’t deliver bad news up the chain of command, even if it was accurate.

  When they acquired Mad Glory, they promised that the dev team would still be contracted to other game companies to build APIs and tools for them, keeping the game industry tooling ecosystem healthy (think op.gg). When PUBG Corporation acquired them, the company canceled their contract with Bethesda for the API they were in the middle of building and forbade them from working with other companies.

  Fuck Bluehole. Fuck PUBG Corporation. Fuck Krafton. Fuck game studios in Korea. Don’t play Korean games. Kpop and cosmetics and whatever are chill. Don’t play Korean games. Korean game companies are fucking cancer.

  Don’t buy Subnautica 2. The Subnautica franchise died when Krafton became the publisher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self starter⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bwahahahha you guys are spectacular. Thank you for making my evening :D

  And I’ll take that ork house. Might need more dakka, though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s very sensible. Thank you for the explanation. A part of me is thinking “hard means opportunity,” but I do computers, not physics

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So… yes and no. Yes, most corporations aren’t mitigating their impact as much as they could, even if trying to maximize profit.

  But something like consuming red meat… if people aren’t buying it, they’re gonna downsize operations. But that requires a huge change in the diet of a lot of people. So like… yes, but no? If enough people change, yes, but reality suggests that won’t happen, so no. I try to avoid beef, but I’m just one dude.

  Here’s what I don’t get: methane is energy rich. Why the hell don’t they capture the methane and sell it? Yes, combusting it produces CO2, but CO2 has a lesser impact than methane, as I understand. So it’s a (minor) help for the environment and theoretically profitable. Why hasn’t this been done yet???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self starter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m with you on this. I generally disfavor candidates that are clearly telling me what they think I want to hear. I used to favor candidates who mentioned “I gotta get paid.” Unfortunately, the new boss does not like that, so I gotta ditch that :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self starter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the winner for me.

  I’m a manager, and I do my best to make things fulfilling, productive, physically and psychologically safe, and minimally stressful. I’m not the capitalist, so I don’t have full control. But if those of us closer to the ground try to make the way we work more bearable, it can have an impact on the immediate surroundings.

  But yeah, we do need to fix the overarching system, since we don’t have full control in this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to petty lane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This.

  Lived in Korea for awhile, and they generally seem to not have this kind of vindictiveness or self-righteousness. They’re usually like, “I dunno. Either they got a reason, or it’s not worth the effort for me to do something about it.”

  That said, social pressure is much more effective here, so the vast majority of people fall in line. See COVID

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can AI run a physical shop? Anthropic’s Claude tried and the results were gloriously, hilariously bad⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This. I work at a medical computer vision company, and our system performs better, on average, than radiologists.

  It still needs a human to catch the weird edge cases, but studies show humans plus our model have a super high accuracy rate and speed. It’s perfect because there’s a global radiologist shortage, so helping the radiologists we have go faster can save a lot of lives.

  But people are bad at nuance. All AI is like LLMs -_-

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am two of them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why take this personally…? There are so many ways to perceive this:

  • Maybe the reader is bi
  • Maybe the reader would get a boost knowing someone would be into them, even if they’re not into that kind of person
  • Maybe the reader just finds the image or concept hilarious

  Like… why did you think this was targeting you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am two of them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s gnarly. But thank you for your labor in supporting these communities. We love you for it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker Swarm networking vs Docker Compose⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve worked with Swarm in a startup setting. It was an absolute nightmare. We eventually gave up and moved to Kubernetes.

  That said, your use case does sound simpler. As I recall, we had to set up service discovery (with Hashicorp Consul) and secret management (with Hashicorp Vault) ourselves. I believe we also used Traefik for load balancing. There were other components as well, but I don’t remember it all. This was over 5 years ago, though.

  The difficulty wasn’t configuring each piece but getting them to work together. There was also the time burned learning all the different tools. Kubernetes is great because everything is meant to work together.

  But if it’s just two machines with separate configuration, do you even need orchestration? Is there a lot of overhead to just manage them individually?

  Unfortunately, it was too long ago to remember the details of differences between compose and swarm. I do remember it was a very trivial conversion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wtf⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love this. Thank you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't ask for more pixels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know there was a term for this! Thank you! I try to convey this concept all the time, especially for intelligence and skills, so having a word for it is immensely helpful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is short-sighted. It also reeks of “Fuck you, I got mine!” I know that’s not your intention. I just think you haven’t thought super hard about it. I was the same with privacy concerns.

  So let me throw some edge cases at you.

  You remember the network time protocol vulnerability that was used to power botnets for a little bit? Well, until everyone upgraded their shit, service providers had to just block IP ranges of compromised machines until enough machines in that block stopped DDoS’ing them.

  So what happens when some script kiddy pays for time on the botnet, which includes your box, to smash Wizards while you’re trying to look things up? Or what if someone uses your box as a jump box to go attack some giant corporation, and shit gets traced back to you? Or what if someone decides you’re the unlucky one where their whole goal is to dominate your entire home network, and they get your phone when it’s on your home wifi?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨noyb sends Meta 'cease and desist' letter over AI training. European Class Action as potential next step⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not all AI is equal. Europe does embrace certain types of AI depending on their production and usage. I work at a company pushing our AI throughout Europe, and the reception is generally very positive.

  These LLMs are just shit built in shitty ways. Their problem definition is shit, and the marketing of what they can do effectively is bullshit. There are some LLM efforts that are less shitty, but they’re not very popular yet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that they’re too fucking big. Office used to be the shining star of Microsoft, but now, it’s a total piece of shit. My company recently switched from Google to Microsoft, and holy shit, it’s a downgrade.

  Outlook is the biggest pile of shit software I’ve encountered in years. It’s eventually consistent but without user feedback, it’s very slow, meeting rooms aren’t consistent about meeting room responses, email filtering rules don’t work reliably… I could go on.

  Word sucks, too. Google Docs is way easier to use. In Word, copy and paste doesn’t work as you’d expect, even from Word doc to Word doc, there’s no templating in OneDrive, there aren’t shared folders unless you set up a whole SharePoint site… I could go on here, too.

  It’s this stupid, stupid focus on AI tools. AI ain’t making shit better! AI shouldn’t replace humans or things humans work on: it should augment humans. Products still need development on UX. AI should be incorporated into UX without being shoved down our throats. But these dumbass investors who don’t understand tech are jumping on the fucking bandwagon, and execs are towing the line.

  Sorry for the rant, but Microsoft is more than just development tools.

  Also, they need to get ads out of my fucking operating system. I don’t want my operating system natively communicating with the internet and recommending news stories. Fucking cancer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But this is a bad idea.

  Areas with high property value have higher quality schooling. Area with low property value have lower quality schooling. The rich stay rich. The poor stay poor.

  Maybe education money shouldn’t come from property taxes. Maybe corporations should pay for the education they require their workers to have visa corporate taxes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOGE slashes entire government agency with average salary of $131,000 a year to just ONE staff member⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, you have no answer. I’m not surprised. Thanks for validating my stereotype. A part of me was hoping you were better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOGE slashes entire government agency with average salary of $131,000 a year to just ONE staff member⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell us what you know about charity, economic development, soft power, and trade deals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US fab construction costs twice as much, takes twice as long as Taiwan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in Korea. How do you define “loyal to workers?”