qbasic_forever

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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
It doesn't have to increase prices, it could decrease executive pay (which has grown far, far faster than worker pay) instead!
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
If you're terminated you still get benefits like COBRA healthcare and can in almost all cases file for unemployment (which is money you've already paid into the system anyways). You have protections and a basic safety net. Gig w
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Yeah the law should be gig work is illegal and the OP should have been classified as a part time or full time worker who would have been paid for the entire time on the clock during the work day, including the time wasted while the company
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
No they can't. Do you really think someone who is working multiple gig jobs just to make less than minimum wage can decide instead of paying rent or putting food on the table they'll instead allocate that money to their brokerage
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Flexibility in working hours does not mean all other employee benefits are forfeit!
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
The "innovation" is not paying or treating their employees well--sorry, their "gig workers"--and pocketing the saved money so it can go to the shareholders.
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
This is just tap dancing around the fact that "gig work" is _work_ and should have all the benefits and protections of full time or part time jobs.
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Web workloads aren't super CPU intensive on their own. You take some bytes from the network, parse them, make some calls to services on an internal network, then serialize and send network bytes. Most of that workload is waiting for
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
If ARM wasn't more efficient for Amazon then they wouldn't be aggressively moving their entire internal AWS infrastructure to gravitons. I've heard from folks in the know there that every single new service big or small inte
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Microsoft has been abysmally slow to move towards ARM. They hitched their wagon to Qualcomm and snapdragon... which does not seem like a smart decision now (especially as Qualcomm seems to be moving to RISC-V lol). Windows on ARM for serv
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Yes, I understand what is happening here with interactivity. Like I said I don't follow why I want some implicit generation of an interactivity scene graph (i.e. what points are connected or move relative to other points) when I can j
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Yes, it has full interactivity support: https://p5js.org/learn/interactivity.html P5 has an imperative/immediate mode style of graphics API so you have to code the result of your interactivity (moving a point, etc
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
You're trained on a massive dataset that includes tens of thousands of practice exams with nearly the exact same questions and answers, just slightly different words/template to adjust for your answer.
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Because for this work it's cheaper for the company to hire a new person with a lower starting wage vs. keep employing and paying higher wages to more experienced workers. It's not the worker's fault they can't learn the
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Amazon won't find other people in this labor market--the service sector has been absolutely on fire with hiring, employment, and wage growth now and throughout the pandemic. Letting COVID rip has killed and disabled millions of worker
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Is that a city that TSMC is already throwing under the bus and saying the American workers there are lazy and not cut out for their harder Taiwanese business/work ethic? https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/29/tsm
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
You don't need laws to enforce this change or behavior, you just need the Amazon drivers to show solidarity and unionize. They can demand (and get!) far more change than the government will ever legislate. The threat of a strike and l
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Yep the first movie. It's so good and similar to the original series episodes (with much higher budget though) that it's easy to confuse with them.
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
The original Cosmos series with Carl Sagan has an awesome episode all about the Voyagers: https://vimeo.com/291415990
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
I'd go for XP or Windows 7 instead, it uses the NT kernel and is much, much better than 95 in every way (performance, security, multitasking, etc). Win 95 is still just a glorified DOS shell. After win 7 the only innovation in windows
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Run a modern web browser with an up to date and secure networking/https stack.
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
No the very top bucket has not lost any money in the economic downtown, and actually they've gained significant wealth (because they can take aggressive and short risks on falling stock prices). See this: https://www.oxfam.
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
You have to be able to put the device in developer mode to load non-google signed OS images. I'm not sure it's mandated that this be possible for every device so I would absolutely do some research to make sure the device I'
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
They have random sampling surveys for their customers that offer gift cards and cash. Every time I check out at brick and mortar stores I'm accosted by the cashier to go online and fill out a survey on the receipt. It's how they
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-retains-wealthy-cust...
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Everything is ratcheting down a notch and the 'premium consumers' are driving all of the economy right now. We don't see contraction in overall spending because when someone suddenly is too poor to afford stuff the richer pe
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
There's also been a ton of quietly revising numbers down months later. I don't think GDP has revised down negative much yet, but stuff like unemployment and hiring numbers have been extremely volatile and sometimes revised to com
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Ehh slots have issues too, particularly that if you use them they punch through and totally ignore your shadow DOM to inherit the main body styles. Sometimes you want this behavior and sometimes you don't, but either way you only get
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
ChromeOS is still using the plain old monolithic mainline Linux kernel.
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by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Web components are really only useful for stuff that's dynamic, like a sortable table that fetches data from an AJAX request. They require javascript and have no fallback or graceful degradation in functionality at all, which means us

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