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abraxas, to linuxmemes in Two moods

This seems to be the Windows/Linux yinyang in gaming.

If you go through the effort (or non-effort. It really seems to be luck-based) of getting a gaming rig working in linux, 99% of the time it is simply better at everything, crashes less, etc. The 1% can require hours or more of troubleshooting.

Windows runs slower and worse than linux, and arguably less stable. But you boot up, click play, and (largely) it just plays.

That’s also my recent experience with Ubuntu on a gaming laptop. Every single step of the way gives me trouble, but when I manage to run something in the linux side, boy does it run well. So I’ve got this nice “todo” since I already blew my only free day on it last weekend.

abraxas, to linuxmemes in Linus does not fuck around

The term is “hostile work environment”. HR doesn’t just respond because of strict liability. Just one occurance of something like this can lead to an otherwise solid worker to spiral from discomfort of the situation, both feeling like a prisoner at their job and producing far less value for their employers.

The latter is why HR cares, but the former is why it’s OKay to go straight to HR. If HR is well-trained, things like this shouldn’t escalate just because you went to HR. They should be able to diffuse it productively.

abraxas, to fuck_cars in same bed length

A quick google suggests “real world” use of modern microtrucks is 28ish mpg without heavily modding it or super-efficient variants. Older Kei trucks are lower. Actually, much MUCH lower according to minitrucktalk. 22-23.

I know someone with a 2021 Silverado Hybrid holding at 29mpg. And they regularly lug full loads that would take four trips from a Kei truck. Admittedly the “hybrid” part stops mattering with full loads, but I guarantee Kei isn’t going to have great MPG numbers carrying 1000lbs of cargo.

Minitruck owners (sometimes rightly) lean on a soapbox where they and those around them rarely lug any cargo. IMO, might as well drive a Prius at that point but whatever. But ya gotta stop the circlejerk enough to acknowledge that someone who does regularly carry a full cab worth of stuff is in a better position with a normal truck.

Flip-side, very few people need a truck. And those that don’t need a truck also don’t need a kei truck.

abraxas, (edited ) to programmer_humor in Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive

I think it’s a matter of expertise. I am stuck dealing with people who write Javascript/Typescript like it’s C# because they’re C# senior devs. It’s not world-ending until issues of speed, scale, or other “why we use best practices” raise their ugly heads. Then it is world-ending. I can only help with so many design standards when you still see everything show up in a classes-and-subclasses mindset with hard-to-catch concurrency bugs. I actually caught a developer trying to spin up a child process to wait on a socket response.

So in FinTech, I can imagine it becomes a bigger deal faster.

abraxas, to memes in I'm too high for this

You’re gettin downvoted, but you’re right. It’s the metric we’re coming to use for any group. It’s “okay” if your group has some fringe members that need to be distanced from. It becomes “not okay” when the majority silently accepts the horrible behavior of them.

Similarly, very few cops take abusive actions against minorities, but the number of cops who will defend that behavior in the name of “police brotherhood” closes in at 100%.

People who are downvoting you are out-of-touch with the fact that they are “the good cop who does nothing” in their own group.

abraxas, to memes in Technically it's always the first in China until they get removed from the movie

Parent comment literally explains that LGBT+ is not persecuted in China.

Dishonestly, and they were called on it. Yes. With facts directly related to the movie in question.

Above reply starts with “dear tankie fuck yourself with broken glass”,

While I’ve had some bad run-ins with tankies, that’s more extreme than I would normally have said myself… But

even going on to talk on behalf of “rest of the world”, that aligns with China instead of Anglosphere.

So you are defining “white” as anyone of every ethnicity that isn’t Chinese AND living in China? Seems an odd way to put that word.

He is the whitey perpetrating Sinophobia

The first racist comment in this thread… and it came from you. Do you just hate everyone who isn’t Chinese?

which I point out as being typical white person nonsense

Again. I know Chinese expats who feel this way about China, and black- and brown-skinned people who agree. Are they all “white” by your definition?

And all of you repliers are the defenders of anti-China bigotry.

Ahh yes. Respond by classifying everyone as “you people”. Would you put “you people” up against the wall? How about our children? Would you put a toddler up against the wall? Tell me, do you think everyone who isn’t Chinese or pro-China is less than human and have an opinion that doesn’t matter? That’s about 80% of the world.

abraxas, (edited ) to memes in Just sayin

I have extended family that fall into “lower-upper class” but also know their income has an end date (comes from a lucrative career). They saved up and every time one of their kids turned 18, they bought a house to use as a rental property with a “just in case, my child will never end up homeless” gameplan. Not a huge cash expenditure for them and not a huge profit center, it bought them peace of mind a WHOLE lot cheaper overall than adding an apartment to their house for him to move back into as an adult.

I always found that reasonable, and it did in fact keep them from ending up with a basically homeless 30-something.

abraxas, to linuxmemes in Two moods

Yeah, trust me, Linux Gaming used to be real shit. “When it works it works” is lightyears better than it used to be.

I remember in my linux-only years, trying to muddle through linux exclusives. Oftentimes you had to be super careful because linux doesn’t love prepared binaries

abraxas, to linuxmemes in Two moods

I mean, I freaking LOVE linux. And for what it’s good for, it’s the best of the best. I’ve never had a better dev experience than in Ubuntu, mostly because WSL is a pale shadow of a good unix backend (and because Macs, while good, are still subpar for that purpose). But that means I’m already committing 40 hours a week to maintaining and using my machine!

But for gaming? For casual use? I dunno. The hardware has to be hand-picked carefully, as do the games.

abraxas, (edited ) to memes in The system is broken

And #3 - redundancy so a family member doesn’t end up homeless. I have family that does fairly well for itself. When their first kid turned 18, they bought a rental house in case she needed it someday. When their second kid turned 18, they bought a rental house in case he needed it someday.

So they own two buildings “for the purpose of renting it out”. Building number 2 is now perma-“rented” to kid number 2 because he needed it.

Also, bullet point #1. The NDQ typical long-term return is approximately 11%. Due to recent bubble bursts, it’s down to 10.4%. Importantly, that’s almost exactly 1.3mil in 10 years from 500k. Everything I’ve ever read and learned from investing or investors repeats that rental real-estate is a stable investment, not an aggressive one.

abraxas, to linux in Linux reaches new high 3.82%

I wonder at the various nuances of that. My wife and I have 4 phones and 3 tablets between us between home and work. It would seem any multi-person household would be likely to have more mobile devices than PCs due to the variety of the former. So that chart seems to be that there are more mobile devices per person, but perhaps no reduction in PCs.

In fact, PC sales rocketed up in Q3’20 for very obvious reasons, and have largely not come back down to pre-COVID levels.

abraxas, to memes in I just want it to stop

I got through the 2002 burst that kept me un(der)employed for 3 years. Then the 2008 economic crisis.

abraxas, to memes in I lose mine last month :(

Mother fucker. I have one of these that I’ve been playing with all week, swearing to GOD if I don’t put that shit away it’s gonna vanish.

I just put it away where it belongs so I don’t lose it.

abraxas, to memes in I'm too high for this

Dennis Leary described it perfectly. “Meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty goddamn good.”

abraxas, to memes in I'm too high for this

I think anyone who has lived on or around a farm, or has just come to understand everything involved, would have a problem “admitting” that. Non-Factory farming in a modern country is dramatically benefited from having meat livestock alongside the vegetables, not to mention that there isn’t really any better use for marginal land than to have farm animals like cattle on it. In fact, there are arguments that cattle on marginal land are better for the environment than leaving the land unused because they are better able to sequester carbon than nothing. The environmental discussion that is “clearly pro-vegan” requires bringing in countries that are downright backwards and use their behaviors to overwhelm the many countries where animal ranching provide overall benefit.

And there’s as many Ethical arguments for meat eating as there are for veganism. The “big” argument for veganism here is the classic Utilitarian argument for veganism, but it has easily been beaten by Negative Utilitarian and straight-Utilitarian counters.

And since many of us aren’t Christian or adherents to any Divine Command theory, “morality” is itself unethical and unsustainable to us.

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