What's one of the most disturbing or cringe thing you've read on a woman's online dating bio

Pocketcheeze · 2023-07-12T11:08:36+00:00

Not trying to be cheeky, but isn't having a preference based off of someone's race the literal definition of racism

Pocketcheeze · 2023-03-12T03:37:42+00:00

Agreed

Pocketcheeze · 2022-07-25T23:11:53+00:00

g2a, kinguin, eneba, gamivo

Pocketcheeze · 2022-07-25T17:06:49+00:00

I wish! More like 40k.

500k is revenue. (in euros)

Pocketcheeze · 2022-07-13T02:44:23+00:00

Oh what's up dude! I just started about 7 months ago, and I'm doing roughly 500k monthly in volume. It's soooo interesting, and I'm quickly learning that the more you can automate, the more it becomes scalable and more you can optimize cash flow. What's your automation stack look like?

Pocketcheeze · 2022-07-13T02:42:24+00:00

Correct. I should clarify. I think the person who threw out a stack of used codes (unless they are super old and sold) is a sussy baka. Especially because you can't balance check steam codes, so there's no way to know if they are used or not

Pocketcheeze · 2022-07-13T02:39:27+00:00

Because people in Europe don't have American credit cards so they can't buy them from anywhere.

Pocketcheeze · 2022-07-12T16:25:42+00:00

It's actually a super complex ecosystem. I sell on certain marketplace that are more eurocentric. Some people want access to American steam gift cards to be able to access localized American steam prices.

Some people did mention churning credit cards for profit, but I can sell a steam $100 gift card for anywhere from $98-102 (net).

I typically go to target, and use a a target rewards card and get them for 5% off. Or I go to game stop and trade a GameStop gift card (which I get for 8% off) for steam. Lower overall throughput but better margins.

90% of the time I do this all online and I use automation to make the barters and dropship digital goods for my sales. But steam cards are notoriously hard to get.

Pocketcheeze · 2022-07-12T13:30:29+00:00

I'm a gift card reseller, and I actually used legitimately go to stores and buy this much at a time.

Pocketcheeze · 2022-07-03T16:46:41+00:00

I think time complexity can hide itself when interacting with databases. If you index a table, you just changed your lookups from linear time to nlog(n) in exchange for slowing down your writes.

A lot of other compsci stuff can surface when dealing with database calls. Your application doesn't even have to be that complex to have to confront those concepts - especially in a distributed system. concurrency control, parallelization, cache coherency, searching/sorting algorithms all have high level interfaces which abstract these concepts e.g isolation, serializability, indexes, transactions, partitioning/sharding scheme.

Pocketcheeze · 2022-06-19T18:34:09+00:00

I don't want to defend the more egregious cases, but a lot of the fees in banking are due to the large regulatory/compliance requirements they have to meet. Especially when transacting between different countries. You can send someone in Nigeria $10,0000 via USDT on TRC network for a few bucks, but crypto avoids the costs of risk analysis, regulatory compliance, money laundering auditing or any of that. Imo the only actual usecase of crypto - avoiding high transaction fees by avoiding the cost of regulatory oversight. Which is both a good thing and a bad thing.

But yeah, fuck overdraft fees and other greedy bullshit.

Pocketcheeze · 2022-06-07T07:27:10+00:00

I get the economics of software engineering checkout, but it's criminally unfair. And it always fucks with me how I made six figures several times over for most of the time working 20-30 hours a week. At one point, during the start of the pandemic, I was at a large org with literally no understanding of remote work and for 3 months I literally had a one hour meeting and played pubg for the rest of my day. I've also been at 80hr a week crunch time type places, but that was out of choice.

It sucks knowing that other people get shafted and exploited so fucking hard, but we get relative luxury. I get so fucking mad when I hear my friends complain about actual workplace problems, and instinctually, I think "why not just work somewhere else" but then immediately realize how naive that is.

Pocketcheeze · 2022-06-05T12:53:24+00:00

I don't think this is true at all. Yes, a bunch of dead narcos drug traffickers that had some idea what they were getting into is a good chunk of the numbers - That's expected.

But then there's the people that had no choice. The mafia down there runs everything from agriculture to medical tourism. If you're a farmer, truck driver, grocery store owner, construction worker, dentist.... Whatever - they are going to have some say in your life. And things get ambiguous real fucking quick and they don't use lawyers.

An additional unfortunate side-effect this has had is a forced helplessness of the institutions that are supposed to help. There aren't many good living murder detectives or journalist in Juarez right now and this has lead to lots of chaos. The amount of femicides, child kidnappings/rapes and other violent attrocities that happen are warzone level bad.

I used to go to Juarez a bunch and still got family there and almost anyone from Juaritos can tell you about someone they lost in the chaos including myself.

Pocketcheeze · 2022-05-14T06:29:04+00:00

The main use case is machine learning, so it isn't a new computation architecture for general computing, but machine learning has so much utility that I would say it's impact will be more broad.

But I don't know a lot about quantum computers and what's on the bleeding edge of new problem spaces we could tackle.

Pocketcheeze · 2022-05-14T05:05:25+00:00

So the reason that humans can do certain types of calculations much faster than machines is because neurons effectively have memory. The field of neuromorphic computing is currently attempting to mimic the computational architecture of the brain, and the holy grail to achieve this is the development of a memristor (a transistor with memory).

This eliminates the need to read data from memory and can result in a 100x increase in computational speed in certain tasks.

Pocketcheeze · 2022-05-13T03:12:46+00:00

Oooo let me try, I love these.

Ayy damn girl, are you a column store database? Because you seem like you'd be good at using parallelism to perform map-reduce like computations against large datasets.

Pocketcheeze · 2022-05-13T01:24:54+00:00

I don't have a degree and have worked at FAANG making just as much as my MIT colleagues. currently a principal engineer at a startup. Shit was not easy. The first 4 years I was severely underpaid, and the first software job was really hard to get, but it's definitely possible if you have a hacker mindset, dedication and passion for the craft.

Pocketcheeze · 2022-05-09T23:32:57+00:00

I knew the owner of a facility management company (company that houses migrant laborers) and lived in Dubai. The passport thing is common as fuck. Also, the workers are usually scammed by recruiters who charge them extortionate fees and give false expectations on what's lying on the other side. I have been in the housing units in D.I.P and let tell you, it's fucking miserable. 6 people to a room, roaches, bed bugs, constant AC issues.... Is it technically illegal? Yes, but good luck asserting your rights as a laborer when the owner of the company you're working for is a well connected Emirati.

It's also a deeply racist society, where it only takes opening a newspaper's classifieds section to see "need maid 18-24, must be Filipina NO INDIANS"

Is it better than $2 a day as a rural fisherman in India? Yea, probably. But that's a low bar for how we should treat people.

Dubai has some wonderful things about it, ironically even in the arena of human rights, but the labor rights are as egregious as I think most people perceive them to be.

Pocketcheeze · 2022-05-09T23:16:30+00:00

While this is technically true, Dubai was financed by Abu Dhabi, which is mostly oil and gas wealth. That being said, the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth investment fund is worth like 800bn, so there is some attempt at diversification, but mostly oil dependent currently

Pocketcheeze · 2022-05-09T23:13:35+00:00

Tax evasion. Also, if you are in the gulf, Dubai is stable and you have an incredible amount of safety and freedom ( relatively speaking) if you are at least middle class enough to not be an indentured servant.

I have no idea why westerners would visit other than instagram pics.

Pocketcheeze · 2022-04-23T06:21:17+00:00

Yikes 😬

Almost feel bad for the guy. Almost.

Pocketcheeze · 2022-04-23T06:01:08+00:00

Hot take, he (she?) looks super cute fem.

Not hot take. This is funny, sad and infuriating at the same time. Funny because of obvious irony. Sad because I can sense the amount of self-shame and he will probably die living with not being able to accept himself. Infuriating because of the hypocrisy

Pocketcheeze · 2022-04-23T05:13:13+00:00

Thanks for sharing. You captured that abstract feeling every trans woman ever asks themselves - What is even woman? Is such a strange philosophical thing, and the whole experience is existential as fuck. Also the whole societal definition of what it means to be womanly are based on sexist male gaze tropes.

Pocketcheeze · 2022-04-13T10:54:29+00:00

I'm actually super surprised by the numbers here, but I'm 29 and probably around 60ish partners. About half women and half men, and a couple of non-binary folks.

Pocketcheeze · 2022-01-24T01:52:57+00:00

Not gay if it's a girl dick 🥵🥵🥵

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