Disaster

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[–] Disaster 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, most people would not.

Most people would share, or hit a point and think "OK, that's enough for anything I really want personally... I'm gonna try and help out now.."

Nobody in their right mind should want a world where they are privately wealthy, but publically impoverished.
Because then, you have no security.
Someone will always be gunning for you.
You can stave it off by layering brute force, and laws, but there is no such thing as 100% secure. Eventually something will make it through, and wreak havoc. And because all you now care about, over everything, is whatever paltry "wealth" you've managed to secure, the catastrophe is magnified orders of magnitude. You have no real friends or community to turn to, nobody who would support you if you didn't have the most, and the rules didn't make you "king" because of it.

It's a sickness.

[–] Disaster 1 points 1 year ago

Given the recent successful union drives for graduate workers, we may well see that.

[–] Disaster 1 points 1 year ago

I'm rather hoping RISC-V comes up and eats their lunch before it happens.

My reasoning for this is that I've lost too many hours trying to kludge finnicky ARM boards into supporting proper mainline video acceleration. It's awful. It's horrible. It's a waste of time.

The silly x86 SBC I got worked out of the box with OneAPI with no complaints at all.

The ARM boards ran the gamut from gibberish/garbage rendering, dropped frames, washed out images because of cheap tricks to up performance.

I know this is more down to the weak (and proprietary) video cores included on these boards.. but after spending a significant amount of time playing with them, I'm going to say "No, thank you."

[–] Disaster 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I really don't care until I can buy one. In the meantime I have a few hdd's and an old LTO4 drive...

[–] Disaster 3 points 2 years ago

isn't riccitiello the same fuck who was behind EA's sharp turn bitchwards? and who even Sleepy Joe called "A creep"

[–] Disaster 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A supposed non-profit making billions in profit, then denying their workers bonuses (many of whom are paid so badly they are on public assistance a la the walmart model of employment) and then the c-suite execs giving themselves multimillion dollar bonuses and trying to hide it?

Fuck these people.

[–] Disaster 1 points 2 years ago

[ohgod]

But seriously.. i burned out of EVE many moons ago, just too grindy.

[–] Disaster 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As a Civil Servant... definitely a manager, too.

[–] Disaster 3 points 2 years ago

What a piece of shit.

[–] Disaster 5 points 2 years ago

Any punitive action for striking workers is immoral by definition of being an abuse of an uneven power gradient.

[–] Disaster 2 points 2 years ago

That's funny, because I usually tip between 15-20 bucks and they still deliver to the wrong address or turn up 40 minutes late 60% of the time.

Also, they don't respect road laws, ride mopeds in the bike lane and then try to hide behind "But the clock was ticking!!!!"

My building super caught one guy pissing in the stairwell a few months ago.

The job should be unionized, they should be required to have a license, insurance and clear identification should be required. They get paid reasonably, and they get to be accountable for their decisions on the road.

....Then the only people who will be complaining are buggers who are too lazy to cook their own meals.

[–] Disaster 2 points 2 years ago

.. can't just whup 'em...

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