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BlackScythe0 posted...

What icy slush?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl9mvGwmPps

adjl posted...

The claim: We're going to use brain scanning to monitor your happiness and comfort levels to make sure you are as happy and comfortable as possible so you can work better, since actually paying attention to our employees and employing managers with basic empathy and an understanding of normal human interactions is less attractive than investing in highly experimental, cutting-edge technology.

The reality: We're going to shock you every time you get distracted

Oh yeah I have no reason to believe that

I've seen the nature channel, so I know what a meat eating predator looks like.

"Your brain waves have shown that you're not very productive, you've been scheduled for a talk about your recent activity"

Honestly shame on the researchers for not realizing how what they're making will be horribly abused.

"You don't have to wear the headset, but we're really looking for cooperative team players to consider for promotions"

So ok great, now we have to fight for legal protections against these things, thanks researchers, brilliant gift you've brought to the world.

You said you met her at a club?

Eat my shit

DirtBasedSoap posted...

yeah it was the first week of June.

Its gonna suck for a while but it really does start to hurt less after some time. People kept telling me that because i was fuckin miserable and i didnt believe them at all but they were absolutely right, time does heal ya.

i also convinced myself Id never meet anyone again lol but you will. Give yourself some time to heal, like at least a few months and then force yourself to go out and do shit outside of your comfort zone (within reason) i met this new girl by performing at open mics which is something i definitely wouldnt have ever done if my ex didnt dump me.

Thanks for your thoughts, I know you're right about everything.

I can't handle this pain, it's too much. I feel like I'm burning alive with this depression. I'm setting up a psychiatrist, I've never gone before, but I need to get medicated asap.

NickMullen posted...

lol pokemon fans will complain about anything

The opposite imo. Pokemon fans have been acclaiming their games despite being obviously rushed since gen 6.

Maybe they'll extend that 1 year development cycle.

Remind me to avoid gay night clubs

Jesus Christ

They didn't want to keep working on it anyway.

I see is as a positive thing maybe.

Fun

He will ideally split the republican voter base

Desantis is being smart by staying on his good side, but if trump goes to jail or gets banned (lol) desantis can make a martyr out of him

Honest question, why does having control over $16 billion make someone a billionaire if you're essentially a bank holding $16 billion of other people's money? At least with normal money if a billionaire usually actually owns the shares that make them rich.

All he had to spend was the cut he got from the fees?

He's also the biggest thief in all of history, probably.

Yeah all those dumb microservices got shut off and I keep getting the same 30 tweets over and over

What did we expect from the guy who created the unholy fusion of mickey mouse and bart simpson?

It'll be capitalism in general.

Unless you believe capitalism is the second coming of Christ, then capitalism will save us and everything will be ok.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

mead.

and then got pissy later on when I bashed his posts as if I had started things

Pretty sure mead is mtf

DirtBasedSoap posted...

shit sucks bro. I got dumped after five years like six months ago but after dating new people it kinda made me realize my ex was a fuckin stick in the mud lol

how long were you together?

Was that really six months ago? I felt like you only recently posted about it.

Idk like a year or two. It wasn't really a concrete thing until the end.

Fucking depression is real. Just hurts no matter what. Just need to stop thinking about it.

I also cannot meet new people. Don't have any clubs or circle of friends anymore.

I don't know how you would even manage to get a virus on your Android.

It's a very secure OS that sandboxes everything.

Wow, good job. I got dumped.

Yellow posted...

I prove to them that the charts and patterns they use to trade are 100% random. There is no method to apply to the charts that could yield any results. And I have some great graphs I made that I might dig up, but they really are fascinating what I found. It all amounted to typical not-financial-advice crypto streamer chart-watching gibberish. Cup and handle. Death spiral. Breaking resistance. Witchcraft.

Here are the charts I made, btw. I showed them to each of them and asked them to find patterns, tell me which way the line was heading. They had a definite prediction, and recommendation on whether to buy or sell each time.

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmbBQL1VQwCokkE6Rw1bEkqCyjQ6k2VjNXG92axijhtU36?filename=RandomGraphs.html

On telling them the charts were random, that put a nail in the coffin of the idea they could make money off day trading.

Yes, these charts are completely random. At no point can you make money off any of these fake charts.

Cool.

Microplastics.

Inb4 some dumbfuck fixes this.

Wow, that's great. I wish we had those standards here in the US.

At Kroger we had a great policy if a customer felt like abusing you: bend over.

Personally, I just look at them dead in the eye and that's usually enough to get them to shut up.

OhhhJa posted...

I definitely think that being a politician is one of those things that mostly attracts sociopaths

I mean I don't think they want to constantly sell out, it's just the system we have set up makes it hard to get re-elected without enough funds.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Emo teens are always going to be desperate to find something to rebel against, and religion makes for a good target.

Someone tell both of my grandparents and myself and half my family to stop being emo teens. For someone who's supposedly deep you just laid out the most stereotypical, shallow, and uncritical response.

It's almost like everyone that uses their brain to condemn blatantly obvious propaganda is just "an edgy emo teen that needs to grow up". It's a good thing we live in a part of the world where we won't be killed by it.

Also, I really didn't want to respond to this obvious troll topic from a rookie user.

Yeah, it used to be like 815, then I paid off my one of my loans and it dropped like a rock. Fucking scam.

Nade_Duck posted...

i miss that sound card. :(

I'm sure there's a soundfont that can still be used somewhere

A lot of people are saying they want Trump to run to tear apart the Republican party so Biden can win again. Idk, my gut is telling me the man can't be predicted.

Ideally, he gets locked up for what he did and the keys get thrown away.

Hey, isn't it sad that in this day we still can't fully change the Windows skin with an open-source one?

I mean I would have loved to create a skin for Windows.

Bring back this SOB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs

Windows 11, I tried Linux but it's rough around the edges and I just don't want to think about it.

I love updating all my stuff, unlike most people. I love UI re-skins. It keeps things looking new.

16-bit 3d graphics are cool, idc what anyone says.

papercup posted...

Publicly Russia is going to deny it. Behind the scenes they are probably shitting their pants and trying to talk to whoever they can in NATO to prevent escalation, because it was most likely an accident.

Yeah it's pretty out of place, even for Russia.

Well if they keep doing it, it can't be an accident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ryHyDFCCD8

adjl posted...

I've had Civ 6 for a year or two, since getting it for free from Epic, but I still haven't played it. I should really do that one of these days, though lacking expansions will presumably put a damper on the experience.

It's pretty addictive, that was my first Civ game.

Being an age of empires guy I immediately turn off all victory options except the domination victory.

dud posted...

I'm just your typical web dev JavaScript bitch.

I'm not, so actually you know more about that than I do, making you probably more employable. I use MVC/Blazor for everything, UI, websites, apps, it's too easy. You could call it a C# bubble I have stretched to its limits. I know C++, Python, and even C, but with the little bit of Javascript I've used I wasn't happy.

C is awful to use, btw. A true dinosaur. My idea of "fun" is getting something done quickly. Really only good for programming some obscure custom hardware.

dud posted...

I have thought it would be cool to understand how something like a compiler works or to be able to modify an emulator.

A compiler simply turns your code words into CPU instructions that move memory around.

so for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) { .. }

Converts to

mov 0 into an address that represents i
...
mov i into a cpu register a
mov 1 into a cpu register b
add a and b, output to register c
mov i into a cpu register
mov 10 into a cpu register
do < operation on those, output to register d
do conditional jmp based on whether d is true or false

This is how a compiled language like C or C++ does it. What modern languages do is more complicated, they interpret it and sometimes use a JIT compiler to speed it up while it's running. (Emulation community pioneered JIT)

If you are interested in learning how emulators work you could take a look into CHIP-8, which is a standard learning point for people who want to learn emulation.

I did a small emu for NES, which was very fun but harder than chip-8. I got donkey kong loading the game and getting into the menu select. You can do all this in Javascript, btw. I suggest using Typescript at the very least.

shadowsword87 posted...

So, help me out.
Is this mostly just people playing pretend being a corporation, or an actual group of people actually making things?

I'm really curious on the hard money side of things, instead of just cryptobros talking about making money, rather than making money.

It's two kinds of people. The first group is just people who see all the money being stolen and wish they could be the ones stealing. The true believers are wannabe Bill Gates who actually think crypto will be an entire sector. I've worked with both of these people. One of them basically begged me to make him his little scam project, but he couldn't pull himself away from PUBG for 3 seconds to learn anything other than Google Sites. I wanted to make a fun game and he wanted to keep explaining his revolutionary new economic plans.

streamofthesky posted...

Binance was just exposed for literally the same thing, having half their assets in their own bs coin (though, they're all bs coins), right? Shouldn't that like...cause customers of theirs to rush for the exits, too?

There are like different levels of crypto believers, each tier stepping further from reality. At tier one there's the bitcoin/mainstream cypto-currency bro. This bro wants cold offline wallets and will only stick to DEFI exchanges, maybe they buy something online with bitcoin for some reason. It is within the realm of reality, but it is the most difficult tier to get into as a layman.

Next step up is the altcoin believer. These bros think that blockchain will provide an entire ecosystem of separate currencies to serve a different purpose for each, they use DEFI swaps to connect to another user (actually a pool of funds used to represent the other user) to trade crypto. This is essentially every issue the bro had with the stock market, except this time the problems are exaggerated sevenfold. There's absolutely no reason you can believe an altcoin creator won't simply... what's the word... ah, yes, "withdraw", your money, and they have every legal right to. This is what happens 99.9% of the time. Realistically, they know this, and these bros treat it like a gambling habit.

At tier three the bro decides to trust an unregulated bank to replace DEFI, looping all the way back to embracing the supposed issues they had with national currencies sevenfold. It includes all the negative aspects of the last two tiers. This is where the bro has officially left reality and it can only end in one way. It doesn't even involve a blockchain for the most part. This is the most common place for a layman to get involved.

Anyway, what FTX did, Binance does the exact same thing. They are a ticking time bomb as well, and when that happens... well, they are currently 8 times bigger than FTX ever was.

Then there's USDT, the same situation where a CEO is shamelessly sticking their hand in the cookie jar, so not even DEFI is safe from this. Eventually, all cryptos should meet their price correction to reach their true valuation, which is $0, the exact value of the service they provide. Can't even safely provide a proxy for the US dollar.

dud posted...

Why did you get into a crypto company if you aren't a believer in it?

/story time

While working at a grocery store with no degree, my friends became rich with safemoon and started a company. I was into stocks and was into building my own trading bots for fun, just as an experiment and for fun with a little pipe dream.

I came up with all kinds of scrapers. I know all the tricks they use to derive public opinion, but the one I was into was deriving sentiment on stocks and analyzing if there was any correlation between the attitudes of traders and the movement of stocks. These traders were indexed as well, so any particular poster that was unusually good was picked up by the scanner.

I don't have many friends as I'd rather spend all my time programming projects, but in one discord channel my friend was in I posted my project. Someone was so impressed (my soon to be boss) that he wanted me on board with his new company.

My first task was to reverse engineer the ETH smart contracts involved for currency swaps. This was the most fun I've ever had programming, and I can't even begin to describe how difficult it was. I surpassed the compatibility of mainstream crawlers, by finding patterns analyzing chunks of hexadecimal. I cannot understate how hard this was, but I figured out every single contract I looked at.

The goal of this company was to make a 10% return every month investing. This was nonsense. No one can do that. I am frustrated and bewildered at this point, but I keep my mouth shut. Months go by and the only other employee gets fired for being downright useless. I am not let go, of course, I have promised no such thing. I can deliver software, not profits, so no amount of failure will be on my shoulders, and I refuse to speculate on any crypto purchases. When asked, I say to not buy, and I'm right every time.

At this point I decide to drop a bomb on them. I prove to them that the charts and patterns they use to trade are 100% random. There is no method to apply to the charts that could yield any results. And I have some great graphs I made that I might dig up, but they really are fascinating what I found. It all amounted to typical not-financial-advice crypto streamer chart-watching gibberish. Cup and handle. Death spiral. Breaking resistance. Witchcraft.

At this point, I insist that we need to create a product. If you're going to run a company you need a product. I also think we need to move away from crypto, and focus more on security, so that's what we do now. (without giving away too many details) I have developed a version of Bitwarden that's set to be superior in features and usability, all using local encryption. Sadly, the pit stain of crypto still exists on this product, and my boss's shitcoin fantasies. It supports crypto, which I gladly support, but it markets itself as a crypto product, which I'm not so happy about. It targeted a single small shitcoin community.

So yeah I could be a worse human being. I have more nonsense to touch on but I haven't, like being barked at for trying to share progress with our official Discord server, (which is now a ghost town), but that's not really objective. The dude is as dry and palatable to an audience as a propped-up politician, but insists he does all the PR.

I've done other things though. I made the mnemonic parsing library used by cryptos all over literally 10,000 times faster, using bitshift operations instead of the worst imaginable kind of "1" and "0" string manipulation.

The funniest part is that I'm employed by a cryptocurrency company and am forced to dredge through this balding virgin trash dudebro technology daily. My boss is the definition of the living embodiment of the Dunning-Kruger effect. I can feel him getting more nervous the more I speak directly, but I obviously can't tell him what he already knows in denial.

He keeps talking about this shitcoin that stole all the coding from another shitcoin as if it's the next greatest thing and he has no fucking clue how despicable, scum of the Earth, low IQ shit I find that. Yet here I am, setting up a faucet for this. Most crypto programmers probably feel the same way, not kidding. We're smart enough to understand what's happening and how this works. The people who tell us what to do are not.

streamofthesky posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwXruCO3lXI

10 min video, if you don't want to watch it all, then at least watch from 8:05 to the end, for the epic rant. :D

Oh man, that guy knew he wasn't supposed to say that, but he had to. And everyone in the room smiled during Yahoo's "crypto corner". Must be a relief to finally be able to speak his mind like that.

It makes me question everything. Is this even good for my resume?

papercup posted...

After the 2020 election my conservative family members and friends would not shut up about how the election was stolen, and we need a civil war or the country to break up, or this that and the other thing.

After this election, silence. Not a single one of them has said a thing about this election. They know they fucked up by supporting Trump and his cronies.

Ideally they would realize they need to tone it down. The other option is to use the supreme court to unleash the power of gerrymandering, and then we can keep going down this rabbit hole until something really ugly happens.

Revelation34 posted...

Why would people enjoy something that never worked in the first place?

The verification worked

They burned through 9.4 billion and fled the country with the rest.

Needless to say, I think we've proven using blockchains as anything but a corruption-resilient database that handles massive volume from many sources doesn't make sense.

Crypto is good for basically nothing but laundering money past governments if you are trying to flee a country. If at any point you have access to the USD you shouldn't touch it.

They still have websites

If they spent more time making them in general. They feel more like mobile game levels of quality over AAA levels of quality. Not bad, but not enough to keep me around after 20 years.

They could also just make them harder and I would be happy, or give it a hard mode. I feel like I don't actually play the game until hour 40.

How so?

dud posted...

Wow, that's disgusting! It's not okay to do something like that

It's a PotD tradition.

Not now, that's for damn sure. Social media companies generally die after they hit their peak, and Twitter was never even profitable. If I wanted to burn my money I would.

The economic model for a tech stock is literally like an elaborate ponzi scheme, except we get a viable product out of it. It's like a public service paid for by gambling rich people.

And no, I can't really fix the world by owning the town square. All I could do would be to bring it back to the way it was before Elon. I'm not supposed to buy them off and start pushing lefty stuff with the algo.

I don't understand how you can write an essay on why revoking verifications is actually a good thing. Maybe not everyone wants to be anonymous. Public officials and celebrities want to be known and have a way to talk to their followers. If you wanted to be anonymous, you could always do that instead.

It is just the removal of a feature that many people enjoyed.

I think it's just fine atm tbh.

If I were to acquire it, you wouldn't like what I'd do to it, because you guys like old-school stuff. You guys get mad when the HTML buttons get rounder.

ItsKaljinyuTime posted...

You're not supposed to ask yourself who's real on Twitter. That never should've been what Twitter or YouTube or Facebook were about. The problem was always that we assigned any legitimacy at all to these checkmarks.

Who are we in this thread, right now? I don't know any of your real names. That used to be how it was everywhere on the Internet. We don't need "verified accounts."

Haha, what? Gamefaqs has the funniest opinions.

It worked before and now it doesn't. We used to be able to tell pretty easily if it was the real public official's account, now you have to dig deeper. Yes actually that was the whole point of the verification that they removed. Like Tony Hawk, did Tony Hawk actually reply to me, or is it some guy who bought the verification?

Btw, I actually like the Twitter character limit, I think debates should work like that, because it doesn't let people dress up bad arguments with 90% poetic fluff that makes it sound better. Despite what people say I think a good argument will sound just as good at 20 words or less, a bad argument, not so much.

I don't like downvotes (on comments) either tbh. I think if someone has a problem with something posted they should reply.

Seemed to work fine before Elon came along with his genius ideas. Now I can't tell who's real anymore.

The good news is that he can't implement half of what he wanted to do because that would "sink" the company five times faster. 42069 xd so random 50-year-old man.

Oh no, that's terrible

I guess I can't be annoyed every time he doesn't voice an animated Batman anymore.

JigsawTDCII posted...

crazy how this small-scale minor election is getting so much coverage but no one is talking about Gene Wilder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCIqq4xOSMA