anal_reactor

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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
Eh. Recently I invited a friend over to play games. I have Linux so it's normal that shit doesn't work but I came across a bug where Steam would just casually take 300% of CPU when Steam Controller was connected and even if I mana
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
> If you couldn't present it in a way such that it's obvious to Bob and everybody else that your solution is better, that's a failure on your part, not Bob's, the other participants', or the meeting organizers. I
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
Not wrong, especially at the time. I excel when I'm given my own chunk of job to work on with certain degree of freedom. I don't butt uninvited into other people's decisions, I expect others to do the same with me. I totally
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
This is one of the reasons why I want to exit the workforce and retire ASAP. I just cannot function in an environment where ignoring the elephant in the room is the expected behavior. I am a dead-honest guy and I've surrounded myself w
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
Once I've been to an interview where first they made us solve a problem in a group and then we had 1-1 interviews. After the group task the guy immediately asked me "Don't you have a feeling that you might've been forcin
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
> You always knew that 80% of the people on any team or in any large company just didn’t care. But now you see who these people are out in the open. The system does NOT reward caring. That's the problem.
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
Big codebases tend to become a mess anyway so if your company has experience dealing with shit, the fact that now shit is AI-generated doesn't substantially change anything. And I'm not joking. Imagine it this way - managing a gro
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
Good that you made the comparison with defense budget because it's becoming evident that AI is the new "nuclear bomb". First, if you have more advanced AI than your opponent, you just hack them and the war is over before it b
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
It works as intended. It's a part of cutthroat capitalism. The goal here is to make sure that basic service is unevenly distributed so that people who don't have it are motivated to work extra hard and get it.
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
It's okay, I can still repurpose it and make a handbag.
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
The problem is that most shopping we do is one-off, as opposed to being a recurring customer. For example, if you're selling bread, your potential customers are 1000 locals and if these 1000 locals decide your bread sucks, your busines
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
Yes, I've heard of this effect in marketing. If you make any reference to Switzerland, it's instant sales bump, even if you hold everything else equal. This is also how you got "Häagen-Dazs" ice cream brand. It's fu
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
It's so weird to me that I'm on same social media as people worthy of targeted attacks. Like, I'm a total nobody, all I get is "Free Spins For You!" and "I am a dying German billionaire...". My favorite em
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
You're joking but done cleverly, it could legitimately be good business. Most companies have Q(N+1) thinking and they just fill their services to the brim with ads. Meanwhile I would honestly pay for AI that recommends me products that
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2024/36/1-op-de-5-mensen-woo... It's basically this graph. In 60's almost nobody was living alone (less than 400k people). In 2024 about 3,3 million people live
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
I've posted it already, but at least in my country (Netherlands) it seems like the problem isn't the lack of housing, but lack of marriages. If people ages 30-60 married each other at the rate they used to in 60's, then there
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
>People always want high trust societies. Disagree. High-trust can only exist in the absence of class disparity. You're not going to steal from your neighbor if your neighbor has exactly the same things as you do. You will if he&#x2
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
Not exactly. I don't really have much interesting to say. I'm trying to use the internet less in general not because of surveillance, but because of overall enshittification. Reddit has become a normie platform at this point and t
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
Are there places in EU that are dark and easy to visit?
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
I specifically remember that my dad brought from work crappy projector and I watched Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix that was RMVB encoded camera rip from cinema. RMVB was all the rage on my 128kbps internet.
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
It's less about how most of them look like different stages of fisting party, and more about the fact that they have zero distinctive elements. Despite the amount of ads being shoved down my asshole, I still find it difficult to recogn
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
1. In some areas AI is extremely proficient, in others it's "two plus two equals three". Your experience with AI will highly vary depending on how knowledgeable it is about the particular problem you're facing. It's
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
The problem is that more convenient corporate-owned options take over, become the standard, and then the cost of running free software skyrockets. Nobody in my friend group uses Signal. I haven't met a single person IRL who has a smart
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
To be the devil's advocate, engineers themselves can be hilariously incompetent too. Engineers have a tendency of assuming that budget is infinite and target audience is other engineers from same specialization. Open-source projects of
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
But it's also true that modern world changes much faster than in the antiquity. If you built a church, a market, and a few utility buildings like tavern and blacksmith in 500BC you could rest assured they'd still remain used in 10
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
The problem with torrents is that they naturally die when people lose interest.
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
I really struggle to find new music. I feel like I've already listened way too many times to everything I have on my SD card, but I really don't know what to look for. When I was a kid I was very much into rock and everything adja
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
1. If multiple companies use given SaaS, then "per company" cost is likely to be lower than in-house solution. Think of tools that have wide range of use cases, like Windows or Photoshop. 2. Even if SaaS has only one customer it m
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
How is that different from having a banking app installed? Or a government ID app?
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by anal_reactor 3mo ago
> only with Android or iOS 99% of people understand this as "you need a smartphone" which is not a problem in 2026, even for the elderly.

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