Dark_Arc

Dark_Arc, 26 days ago

a bucket full of any small species of saltwater fish you can find.

LOL

Dark_Arc, 26 days ago

Always buy the best stuff you can get for your money, don’t give a fuck about the companies.

I’d add to this but just performance per dollar … but also things like:

• performance per watt
• how it works as part of the overall system you’re building (e.g. if you’re going to run Linux does it run well there)
• will this decision hurt my ability to reuse other hardware in a timeframe I care about (a compelling point for AMD to me is you can reuse the motherboard much much longer than Intel)
• what does warranty/repair look like for this? Is that something I need to worry about?

You can (if you’re in a comfortable position to ask this) also ask:

• Where is it made?
• Does that country have strong labor laws?
• Does that country have strong environmental laws?
• How does the company treat its employees?
• How does this compare to the competitors?

If we collectively decide to punish bad companies by not buying their product just because they made their product a slightly better deal … I think we’re all a bit better off.

Dark_Arc, 26 days ago

No, it’s literally a different app in China.

Dark_Arc, 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago)

Yup, vine ripoff with some tweaks and the same monetization issue

Dark_Arc, 26 days ago

Douyin begs to differ.

Dark_Arc, 27 days ago

I wonder if you had a time machine and went to McConnell day 1 as a senator and showed him that video of his future, what his reaction would be.

Dark_Arc, 26 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

I think one of the most surprisingly venomous reactions I ever got personally was on “the other site” for destiny 2. I made some suggestions that basically were “allow people to hide t-bagging, here’s how it could work, and also allow people to disable emotes on their client.”

I’m an anti-fun Nazi cry baby evidently that just isn’t on their level and can’t take the heat. I just don’t get their amazing side game of getting up in my head. I have no business playing a “competitive” game, taunts and being rude are “just part of the game.” Their fun depends on other people being angry and any suggestion that their taunts might be disabled/the other person doesn’t see their taunting is going to ruin the game.

I was mostly posting that because a friend kept getting ticked every time I tried to get him into destiny PVP. So of course they attacked me as if “my friend” is imaginary.

The best part was when the mods removed the post for “not having enough to do with Destiny 2” because I bothered to make reference to I think it was what other games were doing or something like that.

Madness to me. Absolute madness.

Dark_Arc, 26 days ago

I’ve always been a bit skeptical of the “dog temperament” being closely related to the dog breed.

The only real trend I’ve noticed is that bigger dogs tend to be way more chill and happy to engage in petting and cuddling

Dark_Arc, 27 days ago

except for that whole racism thing

And great depression thing … and then the world war 2 thing … and the Spanish flu and world war 1 only about a decade before.

You can imagine a future person looking at a video of someone with a fidget spinner and thinking “life really was easy back then.”

Every generation has different luxuries and problems.

Dark_Arc, 27 days ago

mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-jerusalem-post/

This seems to be a legit paper.

Following the anchor’s comments, footage from an Al-Jazeera interview was played which showed a woman in the enclave complaining that “the aid isn’t reaching all the people” because the aid “is all to their [own] homes. Let Hamas catch me and shoot me and do what they want to me.”

Palestinian civilians complained to the IDF that Hamas stole aid, The Jerusalem Post reported in January, alongside recordings of civilian testimonies.

In one recorded call, a Gazan civilian testified that Hamas murdered his cousin because he tried to seek help from UNRWA. In another conversation, a civilian said he does not leave his home because he fears Hamas will seize it and use the property to fire toward Israel and destroy his house.

I want Israel to stop killing civilians as much as the next guy … but can we acknowledge Hamas is not “the good guys” here either?

Dark_Arc, 26 days ago

The ONLY time I think this is even remotely appropriate is if the parents are grossly negligent … like those ones that were convinced because they bought their kid with all kinds of issues a gun and didn’t take like any measures to ensure he only had supervised access … and then he went and shot a school up with the gun they bought him.

Dark_Arc, 27 days ago

Regarding that last one, my last job actually happened because I was made an offer during the first interview

Probably better stated as a red flag not necessarily “they’re not real.” Usually the folks at the company will want at least a little bit of time to think over the interview and discuss.

It’s almost as if technical interviews are extremely important in vetting applicants

It depends, good references and prior work can top “technical interviews” in my book. If someone’s done something interesting a conversation about that interesting thing is often far more useful.

Technical interviews are more important when you’re looking at people fresh out of college or a code bootcamp.

Dark_Arc, 26 days ago

As a colorblind person … this is a teachable moment for what we go through with all kinds of charts and video games lol

(and yes, it’s this bad, and yes it happens A LOT)

Dark_Arc, 26 days ago

I might be the only one that’s kind of optimistic this will improve some of the cheapest call centers.

Some of them … the people have such thick accents, don’t get any local references, the connection is bad, don’t know the first thing about the subject matter, etc.

I called my health insurance company one time because CVS said my vaccine wasn’t covered there; the lady on the other end of the phone I could barely understand and I had to explain to her that CVS is a pharmacy. She still didn’t give me any helpful information. Eventually via poking around the website or something like that, I found out my insurance company doesn’t cover pharmacist administered vaccines … which is just insane to me.

Dark_Arc, 27 days ago

You are literally extracting the political token of why universal basic income is helpful, and then claiming that it’s “not political”…?

Dark_Arc, 26 days ago

Helping people via the government is political.

Political isn’t some word for “government action that’s controversial” or “government action that you don’t like.” It’s just the discussion of government actions.

It’s inherently political to discuss universal basic income and acting as if it isn’t, is intellectually dishonest.

Dark_Arc, 28 days ago

No I want to stop moaning that everything “isn’t enough” or “it will just be undone” and just take a win.

People know there’s more to do, that doesn’t need put on every post anytime something actually gets done.

Dark_Arc, 28 days ago

You too, my intention was not to antagonize you.

Dark_Arc, 28 days ago

Look at your behavior. There’s nothing constructive here. There’s no constructive talk about reforms. There’s no proposal for what to do better. There’s no new take or new information. There’s literally nothing of value.

It’s just “police bad” and I’m not here for it. I’m talking about lynch mobs because the ACAB crowd is not contributing anything more than a lynch mob would.

Dark_Arc, 28 days ago

I’d like you and everyone else to stop name calling and start voting. That’s what I’d like.

Here’s the problem, I agree with you on the actual policy you just said you’d like change and I’m pissed off by the name calling. How do you think someone that disagrees with you is going to feel?

Ya’ll aren’t winning anyone over running around generalizing a population of nearly a million police officers as “bastards.” (EDIT: in this case “cowards and bullies”). It’s detrimental to the cause and serious discussions and it’s childish.

Dark_Arc, 27 days ago (edited 27 days ago)

I don’t have time for this nonsense.

I responded to a guy that said police are cowards and bullies because I don’t like generalizations and lynch mobs. Your response was “I agree with the other guy, police are cowards and bullies in my experience.” That’s not constructive, it’s more of your own bias and it’s contributing to the name calling. If you’ve got something constructive to say, go for it. If you don’t, don’t.

Clearly you don’t get that or you don’t actually care.

Dark_Arc, 27 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

And if you’re hiding from a nation state … don’t trust that, smash it to bits and dispose of them at different trash collection locations 🙂

Dark_Arc, 27 days ago

Presumably there’s a risk of damaging the microwave?

Dark_Arc, 27 days ago

That’s better for prevention than after the fact for the wear leveling reasons others have mentioned.

Dark_Arc, 27 days ago

It’s not intimidation because it’s normal for any large crowd. The snipers are not there to arrest anybody. The snipers are not going to assassinate some random college student.

You’re also not going to find “the snipers really saved the day” articles because they’re just going to say “the police” in pretty much any article praising a police response. They also don’t normally shoot their guns and are more to assist the folks on the ground with figuring out where trouble is and how to get to it.

You could do a lot of the same job with a pair of binoculars. I’m sure they don’t because it’s just another expense and then you need to switch from binoculars to a rifle and find the target again if something does go sideways.