While I don't disagree, this person was also quite clearly mentally ill.
Now who is it that keeps cutting support for... Oh right...
While I don't disagree, this person was also quite clearly mentally ill.
Now who is it that keeps cutting support for... Oh right...
One of my favorite managers once told me while I was struggling with a severe case of imposter syndrome "if you're faking it well enough that others can't tell, you might not be faking it as much as you think."
Fuckin do it, be free
One of the best bosses I ever had once told me that people will stay for the culture but leave for money. His philosophy was to try and ensure that money was not a factor in people's decision, then build as good a culture as he could.
And to be clear, by making money not a factor, I mean he paid well.
The first trillionaire ain't gonna make themself.
If anyone is interested in the actual study, I believe this is it. Only had time to give it a real quick skim. Sorry for the nasty Google link.
Edit to fix link. https://epc2020.eaps.nl/uploads/201146
I never even received an email. I haven't touched Minecraft in years, probably never would have again, but my daughter is getting into it and I thought it would be fun to play with her. I found out about the migration when trying to troubleshoot why I couldn't log in.
I tried to contact support and they told me that they had "widely communicated the migration through email and social media" and that because I had missed the migration window, I would simply have to buy a new copy. I double and triple checked. No emails regarding the migration and I'm not on social media.
I think you're the first person I've seen correctly attribute this to the New Yorker instead of a 4chan green text or copy pasta.
I was fired from a job over an error of about that much. After working there for 5 years.
Then they fought me on unemployment. The judge was not amused with them
Doubt all you like. I checked multiple times after opening a ticket to make sure I hadn't missed something. I would actually be a lot less annoyed with them if I had.
Thanks for letting me know. I was able to pull out the proper link from the mess and edited my post. Please try it again and let me know.
(For ease of reference) https://epc2020.eaps.nl/uploads/201146
"my spoon is too big"
I did. Unfortunately the chain ended with repeated canned responses to me that the grace period had ended and the only way I could get access again was to repurchase the game.
This describes my CISO to a fucking tee.
I used to do penetration testing and only got to dabble in physical penetration testing a couple of times. Hell of a lot of fun.
For anyone reading this chain and interested in hearing more, this is a pretty fun interview with someone known for doing physical presentation testing.
They endanger more than just their own kids.
I loved Orson Scott Card's books when I was younger, even the later Ender books. Unfortunately he's also a pretty terrible person much like Rowling.
Found out a year or two ago that a kid I was kind of friends with was convicted of a murder about three years ago. He and two others killed a guy, chopped up his body, and dumped it in a lake.
Small consolation, the only reason they know about the murder is because the guy I knew had a guilty conscience and made a full confession to the police out of the blue one day. Yes, drugs were very much involved.
Until you find out those were also built by a junior using an llm to help 🙃
Lately I google for someone that should give me a direct, exact result. First five links are fucking paid ads.
They're about raising the sarcophagus. Those things can be heavy.
They actually have a fairly comprehensive training program setup through their "University." They also mix in foreign contractors, usually from China.
I love Takis. One of my guilty pleasure trash snacks is a bag of Takis and a couple hazys.
I've been seriously considering picking up a trumpet and starting a ska band with some of my other middle aged friends just for shits and giggles. Seems like a lot of fun.
GameStop bought them a couple of years ago. That was the deathknell.
I'd second all three.
Neil Gaiman is absolutely one of my favorite authors and from what I've seen, a pretty great human being as well.
So did most of my friends, but I checked multiple times and confirmed that I had nothing. I would have been a lot less annoyed with them if I had received an email and missed or ignored it. For whatever reason, the notifications never made it to me.
You're thinking of American Samoa which is different from the Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa and a sovereign nation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoa https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Samoa
I worked at a grocery store in 2003 in California for a short time. I joined just after a major strike had ended. As always, the company was pushing for lower wages and benefits, the union wanted higher. They came to an agreement with a two tiered system, tenured employees got to stick with a pay scale and benefits slightly better than what they'd had before.
New employees got fucked.
A couple months in I was promoted to cashier from bagger and got to see the two tiers. I was starting at $18 per hour, the original tier started at more than double that and went up pretty high.
Not really related to your comment, but I'm a little drunk after a rough day and seeing those amounts just really fucking pisses me off. My numbers are not adjusted for inflation and wages have gone down for the job I did in the last 20 years. It's fucking maddening.
Absolutely. Anansi boys is my personal favorite of his, but I think highly of all his books.
I saw a quote years ago about "common sense" that really changed the way I thought about it. I wish I could remember now where it came from.
"The problem with common sense is that it is common, not good."
I started off really enjoying the series, but eventually had to abandon it as he kept adding increasingly over the strawmen who's sole purpose was to be blown away by the might of Randian Objectivism.
Already answered more it less but:
https://www.centralcoastbrewing.com/beer/p/p-nut-butter-breakdown-stout
First time I've seen something from my home area pop up on Lemmy. CCB is a solid brewery.
Ooo, I was trying to think of what to answer in this thread and you just reminded me of another Orson Scott Card book, Empire.
Absolute trash. Prior to that I had read all of the Ender and Bean series and loved them. Didn't know much about Card personally, but picked up this book because it was supposed to be tied in with a video game I was looking forward too.
Reading this book is how I found out what a shitty person he really is. It was basically all him hitting you over the head with his shitty fascist ideology while jerking off to a bunch of military porn like a dollar store version of Tom Clancy. I never did play the game.
That was the beginning of the end for me. I think by the time I got to that part the series had already been going downhill but I remember that being a really sharp turning point.
I tried to press on a little further. The introduction of the straw man nation with the innocent child king who's only existence was to be blown the fuck out by the brilliance of objectivism is when I finally decided I just couldn't go on.
Well that just solved the question of "what should I watch tonight?"
Maniac Mansion was the first that came to mind for me. You select a party from a number of characters at the beginning, but unless you pick the exact right party, you'll never be able to finish the game.
Try looking to see if there are any local defcon, 2600, or BSides groups near where you're at. That might give you a good start.
Magic carpet 2, the Netherworlds is one I played a ton and think of from time to time. I wonder what I modern remake would be like.
It's the first game I remember playing with deformable terrain.
I'm one of those people. I haven't played in years. I may never have played again. I only found out because my daughter is now at an age where she asked if we could play together. I received no notice from Microsoft and I don't do social media so it was a complete surprise to me when I couldn't log in, then find out through their support that I had lost access to something I had legally paid for.