Dark Arc

Yes, there are a lot of them still lurking…

Liberty Tabletop, American Blanket Company, American Giant, Craftsman, etc

Republican voters

God I hope so

People typically aren’t stuck on minimum wage because the powers that be won’t let them have a decent wage. Most adults are not on minimum wage ( in the US, less than 2% as of 2022; in the UK, low pay accounts for less than 4% as of 2024 ).

There’s something to be said for the rich taking advantage of folks, but … bothering worrying about abstract rich guy metrics like making the GDP go up is not going to help anyone get out of their situation.

Sure, focus on other aspects of politics like making education affordable, strengthening unions, etc things that will help you achieve your goals or help you once you’ve achieved your goals. However, there’s a lot one can directly do to address their situation that’s a lot less abstract than “vote for a representative, to write a bill, to potentially help you, to possibly get passed by your legislature, and possibly get passed by your executive branch (or your equivalent process).”

… and even then that latter concept has little to do with “why someone on minimum wage should pay attention to the GDP.”

So… Regardless of county, I would say minimum wage workers should not worry about the economy. Instead put that energy into finding a career path of some sort.

That’s not me bashing minimum wage workers, it’s just … the best thing a minimum wage worker can do to improve their circumstance.

Worrying about the GDP or stocks or anything else isn’t particularly helpful, especially if you’re living paycheck to paycheck (which at least in the US where I live, most minimum wage workers are).

Even for middle and upper middle class, worrying about GDP growth and how the stock market is doing day to day (unless you’re on the verge of retirement and trying to time cashing out stocks) is not a particularly helpful exercise.

Maybe it has some abstract effect on what social services you get or whether your employer survives another year… but you can probably find better indicators of that (e.g. in the days where computers were reducing paper usage, it should’ve been increasingly obvious that working at the paper mill probably wasn’t going to be a great long term plan).

Staunch Obama and Biden supporter here … I’ve read Obama and Kamala’s most recent books…

You do not need to be a Trumpie to get annoyed with the “everything is emshittified”, “fuck capitalism”, etc posts and comments.

The one thing I will say is this isn’t a human… Deer probably aren’t in their training data at near the rates humans are.

It’s definitely still concerning, but also still maybe more trustworthy than some human drivers. We seriously give licenses to too many people. Within the last week I’ve seen a guy that went into the other lane by like 4’ multiple times and I also saw a lady who blocked 2 lanes of traffic so she could make an illegal U turn on a 4 lane city street (rather than you know turning off on a side street/one of many nearby parking lots and turning around).

Having political takes isn’t necessarily a bad thing but when your entire personality is “capitalism is bad” then you’re an insufferable twat ruining the platform for everybody else.

Man that resonates…

The problem is you’re effectively leaving “can I program and work through the kinds of tasks this job entails” and entering “how do you work through a complex theoretical research topic” land.

White board questions should be relative softballs related to the work you’re actually doing to see how you think… Now that’s often forgon for “welcome to a game of algorithm and data structure trivia!” but this is just a much more extreme version of that.

Also if you don’t actually know the answer, how can you judge the direction? Even if you do know the answer for a problem that complicated, can you say the interviewee isn’t solving the problem in a novel and possibly better way?

I presume he was looking for specific terms like DAWG (directed acyclic word graph) and things like that as well… Which I know because he would teach me the names of things as I slowly rediscovered them in conversation. Personally, I don’t put much stock in grading someone on their knowledge of obscure data structures and algorithms either.

I think you should pick up a civics book and/or lookup what a monarch is.

I think the interview I least enjoyed was with an unnamed big tech company.

It was the first interview of the day and the guy came in with “so me and my buddy have been trying to solve this algorithm problem for years. I’d like you to try and solve it for me.”

Like… Dude, that’s not a reasonable interview question! You should not use algorithm questions that you don’t know of any answer to in an interview. You’re effectively asking someone to give you a solution to something way too complicated of a problem without even a few hours to think about the problem or sit down with it on their own.

No, we’re really not…

https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-misinformation-military-use-of-force-a553b95097556580dba3b16bcf84480b

tldr more bull shit from Kennedy trying to prop up Trump and presumably make Trump’s threats against his opponents more “… well both sides” nonsense.

https://www.esd.whs.mil/portals/54/documents/dd/issuances/dodd/524001p.pdf

Didn’t look but I’d bet the details are in their post or comment history.

I kinda think instance blocks at the user level are the right way to handle this. If you don’t want to have your content federate with my rather small server… I mean okay, but I’d mostly just be annoying it required me to fulfill that request manually rather than it being something you did.

Like radically insidious man.

That seems incredibly unconvincing on its own. It sounds like this person had a lot of alt accounts, probably was doing ban evasion, and kept posting things that violated the TOS.

That’s literally a passkey.

I’m hoping Godot becomes a serious competitor but I’m also thinking CryEngine 6 might be a true UE5 competitor. It’s basically the WIP engine for Hunt Showdown and Crysis 4.