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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Linux isn’t quite “there” yet but it gets closer and closer as time goes on. In the last year, Easy Anti-Cheat came to Linux and now we are able to play many multiplayer AAA titles. In my experience the games run as well as PC, though there
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
1978 right before Carter was sworn in or right after? This doesn’t seem like something Carter would have signed.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Naloxone is the generic name for Narcan(TM)
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I can’t tell if this is satire but suffering for the sake of suffering seems senseless
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I don’t see why you couldn’t have a persistent install of something like Tails or Kali Linux as long as the OS drive is encrypted with a password of a particular length. Can we brute force 25-character passwords 20 years from now? Maybe, bu
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Data worth hundreds of millions of dollars? What’s an example of data that an entity would realistically pay hundreds of millions of dollars for? The only thing that comes to mind would be the database backups of user data of a large compan
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I would look at BTUs rather than wattage and o would expect an equivalent heat pump system to use less electricity.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Over the years, MGM has bought up hotel-casinos on the Strip, and now they own most of ‘em. If you’re staying on the Strip, odds are it’s an MGM hotel.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
You can get from your room to the parking lot without a key at the MGM Grand. I’m sure it’s the same for all others per I assume the fire code.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I’ve thought about moving to Germany. I know “the grass is always greener” but god damn is it true you guys can have a 4-day workweek, you just get paid 20% less?
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Careful, your comment might get flagged
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
The employer version is bringing you into a meeting with HR and telling you you've been let go. Sure, sometimes people get severance, but I've never worked anywhere that does that.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I'm not sure that's really an issue in the era of remote work. The word on the street is that it's hard to find a SWE job these days. There's also a lot of talk about RTO (return to office). The two are not necessarily c
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
How large? I don't think Allstate does this and they're Fortune 100. There were layoffs/a reorg back in 2018 in at least Allstate Benefits division but I don't think anyone got severance. I think everyone with more than
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
There's one's own experience, and then there's empirical data. Your comment isn't adding any value to this discussion because it's just one in a sea of hundreds of millions. Hell what about that mortgage company whe
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I'm not sure that's the norm though. FAANG is typically outlier for X Y Z... I would guess that something like 90% of companies don't do severance. Hell, 16 weeks plus 2 weeks per year of tenure is GENEROUS. I'm honestly
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I know someone who is trying to get $300 out of her engagement ring set. It cost around $5K from Zales and the center stone is I believe 3/4 a carat. It’s a real diamond, but unfortunately the clarity is bad. Not to the naked eye of co
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
It’s naive to think that social engineering is so successful due to a lack of training, and that training will thwart it. My old boss and I were recently laid off because my company (Livingston International) has been doing massive layoffs,
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Somewhat related- I’ve always been fascinated by the notion that a “senior” software engineer can have as little as 3 or 4 years of experience. I just have “software engineer” on my LinkedIn headline because anything like “senior software e
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
The attic I would think
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Oh true. Still, if that’s true, I don’t know why the rendering would be whack (which is your point!)
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
OS 9 ran on PowerPC CPUs (like the one in the Wii) and more or less supported ATI and NVIDIA GPUs of the era (90s), but the GPU in the Wii, which can be traced back to the GPU in the GameCube, was created in 2000, so I would guess it’s a sm
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
It wouldn’t have been hard for the author to title the video “installing Mac OS 9 on the Nintendo Wii”, but then people like me wouldn’t have watched the video expecting “macOS”. Obviously getting OS 9 on it is much less difficult and much
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Diatomaceous earth works externally to kill bugs who are uniquely susceptible to a powder that is only sharp at a small scale (eg to us it’s a fine powder, to bugs it’s shrapnel). This seems similar but for internal use, so more akin to asb
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Are there any other known viruses that have “after effects” like long Covid? Perhaps this line of thinking is irrelevant if Covid-19 indeed was engineered in some fashion, but nevertheless the notion that a “cousin” of the flu can have last
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I would quit yes. Life is too short fellas. E: yes yes to the other guy’s point: I would refuse to come back to the office and let them fire me for the unemployment.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I don’t have an employer for which to unionize
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
People like the gentleman in the article are PART OF THE PROBLEM, because they (and it seems most people) seem to have a certain benevolence towards their employer (and US capitalism) no matter how hard they’re fucked by it. He was reassign
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Even software engineers are not guaranteed a cushy retirement. Everyone assumes the stock market averages a return of 7-9% per year, but there have been periods of a decade or more where the return was 0 or negative, not just in other count
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I’ve been a software engineer for around 8 years and have had 5 different employers. One (Allstate) allowed us to buy more than the 15 vacation days, and gave us a few sick days I believe. They upped you to 20 after the first year, which is

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