I’m gonna be looking for a new job soon and I’ve been reading stuff like this more & more. Makes me really scared. I guess reaching out to recruiters directly via LinkedIn is more important than ever. I also hope the AI software hasn’t made its way down to small/medium-sized companies yet, since those are the ones I’d rather work for anyways

I was hoping this would allow me to take over Bluetooth speakers that people use while skiing and replace their music with a PSA about how no one wants to hear their music

Most annoying people on the mountain

Jesus this isn’t a comic strip, this a 4 panel graphic novel

Windows + . to bring up emoji keyboard

Various Linux DEs have emoji keyboards too, I know KDE does

The ORIGINAL source code is copyrighted, but decompiling does not give you the original source code. Decomp tools give you generic variable names like unsigned_int_4 and then it’s up to you to decipher what the purpose of the variable even is and give it a relevant name. So it’s virtually impossible you’ll get a character-for-character match to the original.

Also, decomps have different levels of accuracy. You may get something that is a perfect behavioral match, even though there’s differences in the instructions being run. You may get an instruction-perfect match but not a byte-perfect match between the binaries.

IANAL but this is what I’ve learned from following decomp projects on YouTube

Computer science is more of a math degree than anything else

I imagine they poached a lot of Spacex engineers by simply telling them “we won’t make you work ungodly hours, nor will we subject you to a narcissistic manchild with no engineering education dropping in on your meetings and trying to tell you how to do your job”

Not sure if you noticed, or if sorghum noticed, but the link about dried beans they had in their reply refers to another blog post about your question. The author found that yes, homemade bread is cheaper when considering electricity costs, but obviously YMMV depending on power costs and the price of equivalent store-bought bread

https://healthyfamilycookin.blogspot.com/2011/12/is-making-homemade-bread-saving-me.html

This happens to me too, especially when it’s a computer that I haven’t used in a while, which makes me think that yeah it’s the arms race. It stops once my browser is open long enough for uBO to update

The porn industry, like many industries, is very exploitative of those who do the actual work.

A lot of the other replies here are very cynical about simps, loneliness, etc but a much more optimistic view of it is adult performers gaining complete control over their careers. They get to decide their own schedules, exactly what kind of content they want to make, keep (almost) all of the money that their content generates, and maintain ownership of their content.

There’s a documentary called “Rise of OnlyFans” that was pretty shittily produced, but I learned some pretty wild things from the interviews in it, e.g. when they did a shoot for a normal porn studio, they would only get paid $100 FLAT for a video that would take several hours to make. Like yeah, that’s more than minimum wage, but they’re certainly not shooting every day and that’s peanuts compared to what the video generates in revenue

AI is such a loose term that calling anything with if-else statements “AI” wouldn’t be lying (I learned about decision trees in my university machine learning class and those are just giant nested if-else statements)

I like front ends so I have a record of what I have and have not played, and so I can easily pickup where I left off with series and playlists, but to each their own

the French and English like being separate

Ah right, history. Shoulda seen that one coming

Conferences for URC could work I think, just gotta make sure traditional meetups and rivalries are maintained, e.g. provincial Irish teams playing each other

I wouldn’t say college football is necessarily a step down from pro, at least when it comes to Top 25 teams playing each other. In fact there’s lots of football fans that care more about college than pro. At top programs like Michigan, tickets can be on the same level as pro - I mean, lookup pics of their stadium, it rivals some pro stadiums

It’s a beautiful hat, gorgeous hat. Some are even saying it’s the greatest hat ever made

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(This comment written by an American who’s only watched rugby for ~5 years, from the outside-looking-in, so feel free to tell me to frig off)

I want to say that this kind of greed has ruined live sports over here in the US, but the numbers that you see in the stands during the TV broadcasts would disagree with me. To give you an idea of what it’s like to attend an NFL game, you’re looking at $250 for the worst nosebleed seats in the house, $20 for a beer, and $15 for a small hotdog with a bun that’s still slightly refrigerated. $120 for an official jersey at the team shop if you want a souvenir. For the MLB, a league which plays 10x the number of games as the NFL, the prices are the same except for tickets, with the worst seats in the house being more like $70 (varies a lot more per team than the NFL tho).

What you end up with are crowds that are there for the experience, rather than actual fans - think families just wanting to get out of the house for an evening, businesses entertaining clients, etc. It’s a shitty atmosphere for faithful sports fans, but it keeps the leagues afloat I guess. I have to wonder how much longer this can continue with millenials and zoomers knowing how to use streaming sites (legit or not) and being perfectly content to watch the game at home with some pizza and legal weed.

If you look at the NFL, they were broke for the first few decades of their existence but they stayed alive by merging with other leagues. My ignorant question to Europe is do yall really need so many leagues? Why not merge the URC, Premiership, and Top 14? Make it the Champions League instead of the Champions Cup? And maybe reduce the international test interference during club season? (keep the 6N as is though, I think it’s a cool midseason tourney, sorta like how the MLB has the allstar break midseason).

??? the Mario movie was good. I think Hollywood as a whole is doing a lot better with video game adaptations now (let’s not talk about Borderlands), like everyone expected the Minecraft movie to crash & burn but it turned out to be a fun movie for anyone who played the game a decent amount

I found about him from the documentary “Searching for Sugar Man”. I now play his two albums quite often. His first one is nice & upbeat, while his second one is more melancholy, so I play whichever fits the mood

My favorite song is probably Hate Street Dialogue