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Zarobi

@ Zarobi @aussie.zone

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  • Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression,' Menlo Ventures partner says

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  • Believe it or not my first paragraph was working on medical software lol. It was good though, I liked the feeling of helping doctors help people, making the world a better place.

  • Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression,' Menlo Ventures partner says

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  • Unemployed / disability lol. But if I could still move around I'd probably get into something outdoorsy. Park ranger or the like. Keeping a candle lit though, in case one day I miraculously recover or medical science advances or something.

    Edit: actually it's the reason I did software engineering in the first place. But actually this industry is now hostile to people with disability. Can I work from home because leaving the house is hard? No, everyone must be in office chained to your desk 9/9/6. Can I be neurodivergent? No, everyone must have constant in person meetings and work in open plan offices.

  • Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off

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  • Sorry I don't really know anything about North American indigenous, I live in Australia and our mobs are very different. I think actually we're in full agreement, apart from the detail of whether it's "intelligent design" or not :)

  • After updating CachyOS, I am unable to play games as easily as before. How do I fix it?

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  • I've always had to manually install drivers every time I set up a distro (usually Ubuntu variant). After that I do noticed it updates semi randomly over time, which usually causes some games to stop working, but c'est la vie

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • Planning to finish Doom Eternal, then start on my next game in my backlog, Caves of Cud. Not sure what to expect or why I bought it in the first place but we'll see! Was thinking about setting up a streaming thing too, not for money but just for fun.

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • It is strangely boring to be the chosen one, isn't it? My favourite Skyrim playthroughs were with the mod where you can start life as just, a ranger in the woods, or a scholar of magic, or whatever. It feels much more interesting to be boring.

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • Oh heck yes is the next chapter out? Been waiting what feels like forever for that.

  • After updating CachyOS, I am unable to play games as easily as before. How do I fix it?

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  • Every day I regret buying the NVIDIA gpu lol. Next time I'm getting AMD for sure

  • Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression,' Menlo Ventures partner says

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  • Most of my career I was allowed to write code how I wanted. I made it beautiful and nice to read. It was genuinely fun to find the best way to implement each feature.

    My final job, I was forced to add semicolons on new lines for each if else statement, even for early returns, remove hyphens from my comments because they were "improper grammar", put a useless giant copy pasted comment at the start of each file so you can't even see any code without scrolling, one separate file for each class even if it's an internal helper class used nowhere else, and use interfaces and MVVM for literally everything, even when it was severely over-engineering (or should I say overengineering). It just felt soul crushing to make this ugly ass code that took forever to write, just because the style guide said so.

    Then A.I. happened and I quit being a software engineer completely. Telling an A.I. to do my work for me is just depressing. What's even the point anymore? I still code for fun but I'm done with the industry.

  • OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions

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  • Man, logging issues are like baby's first engineering problem... That's just embarrassing

  • After updating CachyOS, I am unable to play games as easily as before. How do I fix it?

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  • Wow that's lame... So I guess if you have an older GPU you can't update your drivers?

  • Solutions to all the world's problems [ahoyuniverse]

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  • I remember that, like GPT 3.5 era. When I asked it how it would rule the world I thought it had pretty good ideas, if I didn't know it was an A.I. I'd vote for it anyway. Not anymore though lol

  • Advanced AI models suffer a near-total collapse on classic psychology test as cognitive demands increase

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  • Even just like, needing competition and attention for fulfillment seems strange to me. But maybe I'm the weird one.

  • Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off

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  • Yeah maybe. But I'm not really talking about nomadic ancestral living though. Plenty of villages in the country today are functionally communist, I've lived in one.

    What I mean is it seems hard to have a system that has all the stuff we have today, without capitalism appearing at some point. Electricity, computers, trains, huge populations, cities, etc.

    I'm trying to say that it's easy to implement, it seems obvious, and it benifits those in power. But it's inefficient and horrible long term and leads to problems. I think all the current laws and policy protecting capitalism were put in place to prop up a dying system. So rather than it being deliberate, I believe it's just a series of reactionary patch jobs that "fix" problems as they come up rather than anyone actually sitting down and designing a good system.

  • Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off

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  • I didn't meant that there are no rules. I meant that if you dumped a group of people on another planet, in 1000 years they'd probably have capitalism again. It's just one of the the path of least resistance systems that seems obvious at scale. Nobody sat down and designed capitalism. It just kind of happened.

  • Me irl

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  • Yeah I think a lot of people like it when you address all their text. It's a bit awkward sometimes though on how to actually go about it, like it can seem like a bit of a non-sequitur.

    Don't worry you don't seem thirsty :)

  • Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off

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  • The current system is kind of just the default system that nobody really planned out or thought about carefully. Unemployment, suffering, homelessness, inequality, billionaires, etc, are all baked into how it works. But it kind of mostly sorta works good enough that nobody is motivated enough to do anything about it, plus it directly benefits anyone who could do anything about it.

    It's rapidly reaching it's limit, though, especially with A.I. and most people's jobs being bullshit. I'm curious what the replacement will be, and I'm hoping the transition isn't too... painful.

  • Advanced AI models suffer a near-total collapse on classic psychology test as cognitive demands increase

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  • Those incentives and motivations suck ass, no offence. Get better incentives.

  • How much money have you lost while gambling in one day?

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  • I used an app called Plus 500 to buy $100 test amount of stocks. The stock market value went down by 1 cent and they took my money and sold my stocks for me automatically. Fuckin crooks, I'm pretty sure stock trading isn't meant to work like that lol. Never again