NotYourSocialWorker

Agreed. I find it fascinating how hard it is for some people to understand the difference between "lawful" and "morally right".

Many sub contractors live on the mercy of the companies they supply. That forces them to show more goodwill than they want.

I remember a couple years back when Ericsson unilaterally decided that they would stop paying their bills after a month and instead changed it to three months. So, do you want to piss off the biggest company in the region or do you just say "Thank you, sir"?

As an aside, what kind of amoral sod goes around teaching companies what bills they can ignore and how morally bankrupt must you be to listen to them?

I find it interesting that in Swedish the opposite of sunwise is "motsols", i.e. counter sunwise or literally "against the sun". Sunwise is called "medsols", lit. "with the sun".

I feel that this very much depnd on which games you're playing. Competitive or Roblox, Windows is the better choice. Majority of the games I play though works without any issues on Linux.

I've heard that some games even are faster on Linux even when running proton buy it isn't anything I've myself has investigated.

Gaming is one of my main intrests and I've been playing on Linux for at least ten years. It's not for everyone I guess.

You remind me of chatting with a friend from Hong Kong and how surprised she was that I, as a young man, knew how to cook and did it for fun.

Ah but when the prices can't go any higher they can always remove content, paying their suppliers less and getting cheaper hardware. I wish I was joking but these are the options that are left.

As much as I dislike Facebook I really don't agree with the idea that they should pay for linking to news articles.

One could flip the argument in article and ask if having a post on Facebook is worthless for the newspapers, then why are companies paying Meta for ads on Facebook?

I also feel that this goes against the concept of the internet. If Facebook has to pay then why shouldn't I when I'm linking to a page from my blog? Why shouldn't Lemmy?

The problem for the rest of us is that big companies can handle the payment, and they can handle the admin for getting paid. The rest of us won't get paid but we'll all have to pay. The barriers for entry will only become bigger and only the big boys will be allowed to play.

Sure but it doesn't explain why teachers need to flip burgers as a second job, or why doctors and lawyers are drowning under all the debt.

An infuriating part of it is that IMF, money lovers that they are, published research on this at least ten years ago.

But you can teach someone something that their job depends on them not knowing.

My wife is a teacher and often amazes her kids (age 15-18) by doing "ctrl+f". So jepp, they have only surface level knowledge of the tools they are using.

My kids school in Sweden, at least age 6 to 12 have a school day from 8 till 13, or 14 for the older kids, and still no homework.

But long days would be counterproductive. Learning is hard work, that's part of the reason a new job is so exhausting. Doing that long hours for years would only burn kids out even more.

Looking forward to the documentary of bounty hunters trying to catch him 😊

"Hm... Is this help coming or the Flying Dutchman?"

They already have. Been reports of congregations who have complained the the words of Jesus are too woke and weak...

The thing I don't like is that so much of the cost cutting goes to companies. It's not just the office space, it's also furniture, electricity, water and so on.

While the worker save time and costs for transportation they usually don't get any compensation for the wear and tear of their furniture or the need for extra space for work area.

You can't? I find it to be a world of difference between reading a scientific reports and a youth novel for instance. Or some kind of classical literature compared to a comic book.

You probably already know but hacking originally meant to modify a machine for instance (or furniture as in ikea hacks) but it really is a word one should avoid when speaking with people who aren't part of the communities that use it in its original meaning.

My go-to is that I take my coffee like my soul, dark and bitter.

I would probably not say it if it was true though 😊

The first is a problem for the worker, the second is mainly a problem for the employer.

While I bet that the employers claim that it's impossible to do and will lead to the downfall of the economy it has worked just fine in Europe.

I mean, most protestant Christians dislike Catholicism, that's why they are called protestants after all.

The new part is American evangelicals and other extremists thinking that catholicism not being conservative enough...

I'm a Christian but I support the school of thought that says "shit happens".

Another problem with the thinking "everything happens for a reason" is that it can lead to belief in "the just world". When one thinks that life is fair you start to believe that bad things only happens to bad people, ie they deserve it.

I agree with you. So many times in the last decades democratic presidents have started their period with the economy in a downswing after the last republican president. They get the economy in order just in time for the next republican president to step in, take the credit and mess things up again.

Yes! Sticks are the best. Nunchucks are just broken sticks with string.

Exactly this.

It's an adjustment of power and privilege, we protect the ones with less power from the ones with the money. And since it goes both ways, in Sweden you usually have at least 3 months termination period. This allows the companies to find a replacement and not being left stranded when an important employee leaves.

The US, for a country being proud of not having any kings they are sure hell bent on creating new ones in every company.

Short answer yes

Long answer it might be a ploy but it'll most likely work. If nothing else you doing your part gives her more time to be attracted to you.

Good on ya.

Exactly this.

When a company can't expand its market share anymore they will make the product cheaper, worse and more expensive.

For tech this means filling the product with bloat, upping the prices for consumers, and lowering their payouts to creators (subcontractors).

I can't understand why crunch time has become so normalised. There's no other software development project where constantly failing to plan for the needed time requirement would be accepted. Crunch is a sign of bad project management, it isn't normal.

Talibans, Christian fundamentalists, they are quite similar...

Sure, but all his money goes to his lawyers. Or maybe not. Only one I know who's actually gotten paid by Trump is Stormy Daniels.

Yes and if you only occasionally print things at home you'll also want to have a laser. Never again experience clogged nozzles.

I still miss Google+, my friends and my sharing is based on the subject not my relation to my friends.

I think he's talking about apples, have you ever seen more than two apples at once? 😉

This doesn't completely match what GN reported or what GN said Billet told them.

In the video, they actually mentioned that Billet's device was intended for a 3090, but "they (Billet Labs) think it should work with a 4090 too."

According GN Billet said that they told ltt that it might work for the other card but that it wasn't tested.

Additionally, the device was sent to LMG without an expectation of return. They asked for it back after the poor review, but when it was originally sent over, there were no strings attached.

This I haven't heard before but I do find that highly unlikely. Most companies aren't willing to permanently part with a prototype considering how expensive they tend to be, trade secrets and the low number they have. Billet labs are apparently a two person start up making it even more unlikely.

and it was likely mismanagement rather than malice that caused them to sell it.

I don't think personally that it was a question of malice as such but most of the criticism from GN was based on LTT being mismanaged where speed was more important than being correct. So still not a good look for them.

I also think that GN probably should have asked for comment before releasing this kind of criticism against arguably their largest competitor.

GN responded to this in a follow-up. I think they said something along the lines that they don't do it for other companies either. I'm personally a bit divided. Most of the information presented was factual and not of the nature "he said she said" with the exception of the Billet question. The size difference (especially when in similar scenes) could also be seen as a reason not to reach out so that the story isn't buried by the larger companies reach and resources.

Important considerations, especially considering Linus first response where I felt he played around with semantics a lot. What I like about GN is that they always seem to back things up with references.

It amuses me that they believe that people who dislike Trump love Biden. They can't seem to grasp that you don't have to be fanatically loyal to the party leader.

The stupidity of that really baffles me. How can you be so low on empathy and understanding that you don't get that this would be the reaction?

I mean, I understand, even if I don't like, the drive some people have to greedily gobble up every dime they can get their grubby hands on. But I can't understand how they could have thought that the people adversely affected by it would applaud it. It's not like I expect cows to give me a high five when I eat a burger...

I agree, it'll also make a mess out of your "shared tab" on your drive. Me opening a document from som random doesn't mean that I want it to bury the documents that has been actively shared with me, from my wife for instance.

And veterans

I wish that I was that optimistic. The data AI:s are trained on can be just as faulty causing them to have "personal beliefs seep in"...

Oh yes, such as "just form good habits"...
Sorry, I'm incapable of making habits.

Or "think how good it will feel when you're done".
Sorry, best I can do is feel enough anxiety over not having done the thing that it will outweigh the anxiety I feel regarding doing the thing".

It's such a joy sometimes...