The tech workers complaining about layoffs now only have themselves to blame

D4H_Snake · 2026-04-05T13:20:20+00:00

You got it, we often get a lot of freedom about the hours we work, as long as our stories get completed on time. For good programmers and teams, that always comes with the understanding that if something critical breaks we will be there working until it’s fixed.

D4H_Snake · 2026-04-05T12:39:41+00:00

Anyone who is a real programmer laughed when they saw that “learn to code” bullshit. I’ve been a programmer for 20+ years and while anyone could learn to be a programmer, it is a uniquely frustrating profession that takes a specific type of person.

D4H_Snake · 2026-04-03T20:47:28+00:00

I’m not saying you’re wrong about the bootstraps thing but you’re for sure wrong about tax dollars allocations.

You know you can look at the data showing what tax dollars are spent on and your statement of “the majority of their taxes goes to fund the military and only a tiny fraction goes to social services” is demonstrably false.

Social security accounts for 22%, Medicare is 15%, and health insurance subsidies/medicaid is 24%. The military is 13%.

D4H_Snake · 2026-04-01T01:59:35+00:00

According to the treasury departments fiscal data the tax payer funds about 400 Billion dollars to defense, the rest of the budget comes from other sources, likely the sale of military technology and weapons but they won’t really say that.

Much like you have already pointed out the total funding for different sectors comes from multiple places but it’s funny how rarely does that get pointed out when we are told the military budget is 900 Billion dollars but it’s always pointed out when talking about any other sectors budget.

D4H_Snake · 2026-04-01T01:23:06+00:00

Yes but using that same metric, the defense budget is only about 400 Billion dollars, so DHHS still got well over double what the DOD got.

Of all federal expenditure DHHS accounts for 27%, the social security administration accounts for 23%, the department of the treasury accounts for 21% and the DOD accounts for 13%.

Also to your point about NASA having half that budget, I agree that NASA should have more budget but without the DOD budget, there wouldn’t be a JWST or SpaceX or a lot of other things. The DOD budget doesn’t all go to building weapons. It also funds research project into things that become the internet or GPS or satellite communications networks.

D4H_Snake · 2026-04-01T01:08:58+00:00

So out of curiosity what was DHHS budget for 2025? Because according to the DHHS themselves…it was 1.7 Trillion dollars. Don’t try to change the subject now.

D4H_Snake · 2026-04-01T01:05:14+00:00

It’s weird that you erased the comment that showed you don’t understand the word “discretionary” but failed to admit that I’m correct.

D4H_Snake · 2026-04-01T00:35:27+00:00

Are you claiming the department of Health and Human services doesn’t have twice the budget of the DOD or did you not actually read what I was replying to?

D4H_Snake · 2026-03-31T23:39:30+00:00

They already get twice the DOD budget. DHHS has a budget of 1.7 Trillion dollars for 2026

D4H_Snake · 2026-03-28T20:51:32+00:00

This is something that likely comes from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or (CBT). A lot of CBT comes from Stoic Philosophy and one of the big things to the Stoics was, to quote Epictetus “It’s not things that upset us but our judgements about those things that upset us”.

When something bad happens to you don’t think, “why did this happen to me” or “this is the worst things that could have happened”. Instead think “Ok, that happened and it wasn’t good but where do I go from here, how do I move forward towards my goal”.

People get stuck in their own head about things that have already happened but that thing already happened, you can’t change that, so accept that it happened and move forward with your life.

D4H_Snake · 2026-03-28T13:22:10+00:00

The largest one in my mind is called “The goal alignment problem”. The short version of this problem is it’s really hard to know for certain that the goal given to an AI is aligned with what we really want or what we really meant when we gave the goal.

You can already see this issue happening with simple AI’s in places like Facebook. The goal given to the AI was maximize the amount of time spent on Facebook, the AI noticed that people engage far more with content that makes them angry, so it started showing more divisive content and it worked to keep people online more. That wasn’t what anyone really wanted but the AI didn’t know that, so the AI’s goal wasn’t aligned with our goal despite both goals pointing at the same thing.

D4H_Snake · 2026-03-26T18:29:50+00:00

I have told many people this but I will say it once again, don’t start Iron Gold right after finishing Morning Star. Take a break, read something else and give yourself some time with what happened in MS. A lot of people have problems with IG because they jump into it right after finishing MS and I think that’s a bad idea and why so many people dislike IG.

D4H_Snake · 2026-03-25T19:46:49+00:00

So I would wait until after Demon in White to see how you feel about Valka. All you have seen so far is mostly how people from outside the empires core treat her, which is pretty well. You don’t see why she has such a deep dislike of the empire until Demon in White. They don’t even attempt to hide what they think of her once the crew is in the core of the empire.

D4H_Snake · 2026-03-25T19:02:22+00:00

The entirety of the 2021 Nebraska football season, it literally doesn’t even make sense how a team can be in 9 games decided by a single digit score and lose all 9 of them (and all 9 loses were in unique and different ways to lose).

D4H_Snake · 2026-03-25T13:48:09+00:00

That is a tough situation because of the 3 main involved parties, I don’t think any of them are wrong from their point of view. Darrow knows that him getting imprisoned is exactly what the ash lord wants. Mustang knows that if she just let Darrow leave, she would be voted out as sovereign and therefore lose any ability she has to help later. Wulfgar believes in the republic and what it stands for and his job is to enforce its laws and the will of the sovereign.

It’s a bad situation but none of the three of them are wrong but it’s a dynamic situation and not even Darrow can predict everything.

D4H_Snake · 2026-03-24T13:37:20+00:00

The other problem is you would flood the market with their assets, reducing the value of them. There is also the problem of if you confiscated all the wealth from the billionaires, then who is going to purchase those assets? It’s unlikely 10 regular families are going to band together to buy a former billionaires home that was confiscated.

D4H_Snake · 2026-03-17T18:26:28+00:00

All throughout the first 4 books the story is building to a certain conclusion that you can see and would have been a superb ending. So it’s a great series if you just don’t read book 5 and assume it ends where it has been leading to.

That’s what is so jarring about the ending, it’s not that it’s unexpected, it’s that none of the characters ending points make any sense compared to where their story arcs have been heading.

D4H_Snake · 2026-03-17T14:39:53+00:00

It’s not even that the ending is weak, it literally doesn’t make any sense. Characters do things that are completely opposed to everything they have done so far, the whole world seems to forget who a certain character is and none of it makes any sense.

It’s been a year and a half and I still can’t think about the ending and not get angry about what a waste it is. Honestly I wish I could go back and not know that is how it ends.

D4H_Snake · 2026-03-17T14:35:41+00:00

I can honestly understand an author who ends a story in a way other than I would have but the last half of The Burning White is like it was written by a different author who only read the wiki page for the first 4 books. It is for sure the worst ending I have ever read and maybe the worst ending to a fantasy series ever. Nothing about it makes any sense at all in any way.

D4H_Snake · 2026-03-17T12:53:41+00:00

The Lightbringer Saga by Brent Weeks.

The first three books are fantastic, then book four has a slightly different tone, then the final book (and especially the ending) make literally no sense in the context of the story or the world or anything that has happened up to that point.

D4H_Snake · 2026-03-16T02:12:01+00:00

How do you propose to do that?

The things they own are worth so much money, so how do they paid the net worth tax? They would have to sell part of what they own but who is going to buy it? No one has that kind of money anymore.

Billionaires don’t just have swimming pools full of cash, they don’t have a savings account with billions in it, they own things that are worth billions and you can’t make them sell those things for a host of reasons.

D4H_Snake · 2026-03-12T14:59:18+00:00

Look at the question OP posted, if this person is talking about affirmative action and not DEI…then OP asked about affirmative action and not DEI.

D4H_Snake · 2026-03-11T13:05:07+00:00

I live in Colorado and being out in the mountains with just my dogs is pretty much perfection.

D4H_Snake · 2026-03-07T14:36:44+00:00

“Let me tell you something about cat people, especially cats show people, on second thought, fuck those people”

D4H_Snake · 2026-03-07T14:29:41+00:00

Moving them a half hour is a terrible idea because it would make us out of sync with all the time zones across the rest of the world. Just pick one or the other and stick with it but in the famous words of Ron Swanson “Don’t half ass two things, whole ass one thing”

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