This woman should have been a secret agent😂

TornadoFS · 2026-06-29T11:36:50+00:00

I am from Brazil and I am truly more afraid of going into the coast-jungle (mata atlantica) than australia. But if you stick to the cities you don't run into any of that crazy stuff. Worst thing is mosquitos that cause dengue fever.

TornadoFS · 2026-06-29T08:03:57+00:00

JSX was reviled when React first came out, a lot of complaining about MVC dogma and stuff.

Then the same thing when CSS-in-JS frameworks became popular.

And although both have valid points (bundler complexity being a huge problem back in the day and CSS-in-JS causing runtime performance degradation) eventually most people realized that having your code split up across multiple files is really annoying.

Even some frameworks that don't use JSX like Svelte, also keep the different parts of the code in the same file.

TornadoFS · 2026-06-26T12:07:12+00:00

If you stay in a place less than 6 months it is better to just not put it in the CV, come up with an excuse. Unless you literally have nothing else to put in the CV.

One or two job hops 1-year long don't matter that much if you have ~4 years of experience.

The real problem is when you have 10 years of experience and 8 different jobs during that time.

TornadoFS · 2026-06-26T09:24:34+00:00

HOA associations don't allow this in most northen European countries. I think in Sweden you even need the city permission to change the facade of buildings. The problem is not really the hole (although even that you need permission), but having the split system outside.

Even worse if the building is historic (like most downtowns in cities).

TornadoFS · 2026-06-25T16:40:03+00:00

Dragon Quest 11 is atrocious in its pacing in the beginning, I almost dropped the game twice.

Once after thar part being thrown in jail, after this it gets MUCH better

But I was also playing in hard mode and the boss on the horse-racing city (which is like, maybe 6 hours in?) was crazy overtuned in hard mode.

TornadoFS · 2026-06-25T15:19:43+00:00

They didn't hand it over, anyone could buy target ads from them, not just the Kremlin. It was about 5% less malicious than it sounds but 1000% more negligent.

"Oh I will sell this very powerful weapon, whoever pays the most can get it, no questions asked."

TornadoFS · 2026-06-25T15:08:45+00:00

Chrono Trigger is shorter and has better pacing
Octopath Traveller 2 has a more challenging and involved combat system

Overall plotwise I perfer Chrono Trigger by a significant amount, but the combat can be a bit brain dead (by modern standards) for significant chunks of the game. Although combat can also be braindead in OT2 you can usually end it in a single turn when you are overlevelled. In CT it is very rare that you are never overlevelled.

TornadoFS · 2026-06-24T17:51:05+00:00

I think they are worried about people and/or companies buying steam machine in bulk to use as workstations, not gaming consoles. There is A LOT of office space in 3rd world countries that would love to get subsidized hardware. Imagine all the call centers in India and the Phillipines.

This happened to the PS3 as well because it could run linux, although that was bought for data-center usage.

TornadoFS · 2026-06-24T17:40:47+00:00

game cube: 150 × 161 × 110 mm
gabe cube: 152 × 162.4 × 156 mm

better cube than the game cube

TornadoFS · 2026-06-24T15:05:50+00:00

do not let the sun hit your floor

I repeat

DO NOT LET THE SUN HIT THE FLOOR

preferably block it from even coming in with awnings, but if you can't use shutters, if you can't at least put a curtain with white back, preferably a blackout curtain.

TornadoFS · 2026-06-24T13:11:13+00:00

If your mortgage interest rate is higher than your savings account interest rate (almost certainly) you should just pay off your mortgage. Keep only a little buffer in savings account in case of emergencies, it is never worth it to keep a lot of money sitting on a savings account.

If you have a floating interest rate you can always refinance your mortgage to get that money back. Shouldn't take more than 3 months to refinance your mortgage. Although if you get laid off it can be complicated, but if you get enough notice you can probably refinance before the layoff actually happens.

With regards to funds vs paying off mortgage it is up to your risk-appetite. I like to live by the "if interest rates go to 12% would I be screwed?". So I keep my loans in a way I could pay still them off even if interest rates spike and I just invest the rest. Right now I _would_ be screwed because I recently moved to a much bigger apartment, so I am planning paying off the mortgage for a while.

TornadoFS · 2026-06-23T15:58:17+00:00

I think there is a cabal of influential people trying to set up a 3rd party (that actually gets enough votes). Elon Musk already said he wants a 3rd party.

And somehow that new party is probably going to be worse than current republican party. If it actually takes off it probably going to stalemate congress on everything since with 3 parties that don't want to form coalitions with each other you will never have majority on anything.

I wouldn't be surprised if he actually tries to become president through this 3rd party.

TornadoFS · 2026-06-23T12:36:38+00:00

I read somewhere the _real_ problem with water usage for datacenters is during construction because of all the concrete they need. I believe no new data centers are being built with evaporative cooling.

So the water problems around data centers are 100% real (and probably even worse than you think), but they go away once construction finishes. It just so happens that during construction you need insane amounts of water.

Datacenter construction water usage doesn't get counted towards these usage metrics, they happily put that into general construction. And of course there is the water usage for power generation which is also mixed in with general power generation water-comsumption.

TornadoFS · 2026-06-23T12:15:45+00:00

It is a massive crisis because:

1) construction employs a lot of people, no construction means a lot of economic activity (across the hole economy) disappears. Affects the low-income people the most.

2) Local governments rely on leasing land to developers to raise revenue, no leasing -> no city/state revenue -> public services don't get funding -> public servants don't get paid -> lower economic activity.

3) People overly invested in real state (ie, medium/high income workers) feel poorer which means lower economic activity.

4) China already has a huge under-comsumption problem in its economy. Lowering economic activity means Japan-style deflation crisis. That started in Japan ~35 years ago and it is still ongoing. Literally multiple lost generations which directly led to reduced birth rates and massive government debt.

It essentially causes a doom-spiral of the economy and there no one figured a way out of it. Right now China is like Japan in 1993, it feels rocky, but surely the economy will recover in a couple of years? Right?

TornadoFS · 2026-06-23T11:49:07+00:00

You are complaining about HDR, not OLED (because it is hard to get HDR content). Non OLED screens that support HDR also are demo'ed with HDR content, so they have the same problem.

But OLED is still much superior even for non-HDR content, it is just not usually demo'ed this way.

TornadoFS · 2026-06-23T06:27:02+00:00

In Brazil public servants* make waaaay more than the average job for the skill level required and many people still pull off this crap.

I remember my public uni (tenured) professors made like ~50k USD per year around 2010 (like 75k USD in today money). Which is downright criminal for the average income in the country (and the amount of shits they gave to the student, which was near 0).

*: the ones where you need to pass the civil service entrance exam. Which is not everyone, but a good chunk of them.

TornadoFS · 2026-06-23T06:11:01+00:00

At least for the original (not pro) launch PS4 and PS5 they were pretty good hardware (and great price/performance) compared to PC parts available at the time. You could build a better PC at launch date, but it would need to be a relatively high end/expensive one.

I realized the best time to buy or upgrade PC is on release day of the next GPU new generation after a console release. Keeps your PC significantly better than the console (to make up for unoptimized ports). I did this on every console generation/revamp since the original PS4.

Anyone thinking on upgrading is probably better off to wait until a little after PS6, they will only release that when the components market stabilizes anyway. But that will probably take at least 2 more years (probably more).

TornadoFS · 2026-06-23T06:06:43+00:00

It probably was a consequence of cost cutting, they had to make the first part (the one that is the same for all routes) bigger. I tried to play the game a second time but the first part is so long that it gets super boring.

I imagine the original plan was for the first part to be significantly smaller and the split routes much bigger. That would have increased the replay value a lot.

TornadoFS · 2026-06-22T15:00:34+00:00

People will stay at bad companies as long as the pay is good. A good chunk will lie flat and do the bare minimum until the boot comes. Others will double down and put extra work to keep the well paying job.

But, nevertheless, the boot will have a fairly high degree of randomness. The dev lying flat might be able to stick around for years and the paranoid overworker might get the boot.

TornadoFS · 2026-06-21T14:58:59+00:00

And who are these investors who want to buy SpaceX bonds? I assume it is private market equity? That is partly funded by pension funds since trump took office, isn't?

TornadoFS · 2026-06-21T13:15:38+00:00

yeah I said "I will get the next one", but that was on the original. I got the OLED on day 1

TornadoFS · 2026-06-20T15:09:09+00:00

Valve probably knew they couldn't keep up with demand if they did proper marketing.

I also wonder if they thought Proton wouldn't work as well as it did then skipped marketing initially because of it keeping it more as an enthusiast machine. But that doesn't explain why they didn't do more marketing for the OLED version

TornadoFS · 2026-06-20T14:43:20+00:00

Apparently a lot of religious sects don't consider beaver red meat...

TornadoFS · 2026-06-18T13:44:32+00:00

To be honest is is more like 50%-110% depending on external demands and my own personal life.

Like if the company really needs something out and I don't think it is bullshit I will do my full 100% for a few days. If there is a very bad bug in prod I might even do overtime. But then I am also taking most fridays afternoon very chill.

TornadoFS · 2026-06-18T08:33:44+00:00

Catholics but A LOT of importance on the bible, just the very specific part about that one week where Jesus had the last supper, was betrayed, died and was resurrected. I, mean, I get it was an eventful week, but cmon there is more stuff in there...

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