I recently got into Broadcast the Net through a friend of a friend and it is infinitely better than any streaming service in combination with the *arr suite and Plex. I had almost forgotten how much better piracy is until Netflix pulled their no account sharing bullshit. Now they get $0/month from me and that money goes to BTN.
Hilariously enough, even at the theater, you'd get a better experience pirating the movie. Y'know, cause you'd ACTUALLY GET TO WATCH THE MOVIE AT ALL. Proving yet again piracy is a service problem.
The Flying Squid is someone who contributes to Lemmy comment sections a ton. They're super friendly and also add a lot of discussion. Given the nature of Lemmy being so small though they stand out because they're often leading discussions. Pretty much just a really good discussion contributor who is super recognizable.
100%. This isn't a dig at all. I just noticed how often I've seen their comments and now I can't not notice it.
I think it's both. I've always subscribed to the idea that you create your own luck in a way. As in, working hard will allow you more "lucky" opportunities, but it doesn't guarantee them. There are certainly people who will never get lucky despite working hard, and there are those who will fall upwards despite doing the bare minimum. As long as you make a comfortable living I wouldn't stress over it, and try to help those who are less lucky around you when you can.
I've recently experienced this myself and it's insane. I grew up in what appears (at least to me) to be an average middle class life. I lived at home during college and commuted to my local community college, then state school to get my 4 year degree in CS
I grinded my ass off during college to get a good internship which led me to getting a $220k a year job at AWS with 0 connections. That one position was my lucky break that sent me into a world of connections I couldn't even fathom.
As a result of that job I moved to the bay area and made a bunch of friends both in and out of my field. Through that I've met VCs, mentors, recruiters, and many others who I could get a job interview through just by asking. I've also gotten a few other people jobs through direct referral. Don't get me wrong they still have to interview and perform well, but getting short listed for interviews is incredibly powerful.
I recently got a new job, full remote, amazing benefits, and higher salary than AWS (slightly less total comp) through a friend of a friend. Despite the tech market being awful I went from asking for a referral to signing an offer in 6 weeks with only 1.5 YOE. I'm no one special either, I just knew the right people to get interviews and then studied my ass off to pass them. Most people capable of passing wouldn't even get an interview because it's a numbers game.
I don't even think that's necessarily the issue as The Outer Worlds took this approach and the game was fantastic, albeit a bit short. I think it just stands out in addition to the rest of the game being bland.
This is a super interesting question!
For me IDK if any amount of money would significantly improve my life. I'm not terribly materialistic and I'm happy with what I have/don't feel like I immediately want or am missing something. I make good money and stash as much as possible while still enjoying nights out with friends and buying whatever I want.
I'm currently saving up a quarter million for a house down payment, and while it's a lot of money my quality of life/overall happiness would be the same so I wouldn't call the change significant. Things are really good in my life for once, and it's nice to be able to recognize that. Thanks for the question it actually made me really happy to think about how lucky I am.
I hope others in this thread who need it can find some fortune in their future.
I've had the opposite experience at my past and current job.
I've always been given the choice of Windows or MacOS, with a remote Linux machine available if needed (first job I ran remote IDEs on it, second job I've gone full local development). Same with IDEs. As long as I was able to properly write and test code it did not matter what I used as both companies had licenses for the top IDEs (JetBrains suite, Visual Studio, etc.), and would buy one-offs if you wanted to use something else. There was always a general team convention simply due to ease of use, but I occasionally opted for a heavily modified VSCode workspace over PyCharm and the like.
I did a lot of research a few years ago and settled on ProtonVPN. I won't say anything authoritative regarding privacy as I haven't done any recent research, but I've been very happy with the service so far.
I run a seedbox with all the traffic from qBittorrent tunneled through ProtonVPN and I've gotten up to 200 Mbps down through a few very healthy torrents before, and on dedicated speed tests I can pull down ~250 Mbps on my gigabit service. I've also never had it go down despite using the exact same server 24/7.
Their documentation is also amazing and they generate connection configs for Wireguard and OpenVPN on their website using provided parameters making it dead simple to get started.
“This would adversely impact the creation of new works, scholarly endeavours and the availability of educational content in many disciplines”, read the suit.
Because charging hundreds of dollars for 10 year-old text books with a few questions changed makes content more available than them being free online. They can all fuck right off.
Besides, all that will happen from this is the domains will change for the fourth time, and college students will continue to save fuck tons of money. Publishers did this to themselves and I have 0 sympathy.
Nothing but respect for Alexandra Elbakyan.
Not me personally, but one of my career mentor's friend's took down the entirety of Google Ads as an intern for like 10 minutes. Apparently it was a multi-million dollar mistake, but they fixed the issue so it couldn't happen again and all was well afterward.
23, US. Yes, but I find them pointless for daily driver cars. Modern automatics are more fuel efficient and just make more sense because they're much easier to operate and less annoying in stop and go traffic.
They're great for off-roading and racing, but outside of those use cases automatics are just better.
Don't worry, Dana White got the guy a few years back.
Do they fail to realize most illegal streams are run from countries outside of the US? DMCA doesn't mean shit in some tiny country in southeast Asia.
The issue is when it comes to trial it does the exact opposite. I've heard time and time again to be nothing but stoic if you ever get booked because the prosecution will claim you smiling in your mugshot shows you have no remorse.
You're gonna kill yourself or someone else. Those donuts are meant for like 20 miles at low speeds. They're awful and are a blowout waiting to happen. If they were meant to be driven on for long periods of time those are the type of tires we'd use because they're cheaper than normal tires, but they're not which is why you shouldn't do dumb shit like run a donut for two weeks.
I think this article goes to show just how out of touch execs are with employees. The overwhelming majority of people resented RTO and were very vocal about it, execs pushed it hard, and now they're all surprise Pikachu face when attrition skyrocketed and morale plummeted. People on my team used to somewhat give a shit about our work, but now not a single one of us has the motivation to go the extra mile after we've been shown our well being doesn't mean shit.
lemmy.world kept going down every other hour and I figured being a software engineer this instance made the most sense.
I average 7-8 hours, but it varies wildly. Sometimes I'll be at my computer for 10 hours straight getting tons of work done, and other times I'll not be getting much done and just be done for the day at noon.
Last Friday I discovered some bullshit in how the Outlook APIs handle online meetings. If you directly create an online meeting you can then make a GET request for the meeting id and password. However, if you create an event with the online meeting parameter set to true then whatever is backing the GET request no longer works. This all completely ignores that the credentials should be returned as a response to the initial request to create the meeting. Needless to say that was a leave at noon day.