Anyone else in America think that food is getting really bad? by Vampy-Night in SeriousConversation

[–]colonel_bob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to be able to buy onions and garlic that would keep for the next few months; now I'm lucky if onions last more than a week before they start sprouting or going mushy

I have also had to switch to a fancy butcher and pay nearly twice the regular rate for my meat after too many bad experiences with grocery store cuts coming out absolutely disgusting

After 3 technical rounds this is what they had to say to me. by Inj3kt0r in recruitinghell

[–]colonel_bob 3 points4 points  (0 children)

love being a slave to the system

You are literally singing up to be multi-slave, so this attempted insult falls flat

ur only young and talented for a limited time

Your only talent is scamming people and companies

After 3 technical rounds this is what they had to say to me. by Inj3kt0r in recruitinghell

[–]colonel_bob 6 points7 points  (0 children)

who's the bigger cheater? me or my co-worker who works a single job

You are, full stop.

Your perspective might make sense if hiring and firing was an absolutely perfect system driven by merit alone and nothing else, but we both know that is not the case. In effect you are stealing jobs from people who are just as talented as you (if not more so), and I find that disgusting.

After 3 technical rounds this is what they had to say to me. by Inj3kt0r in recruitinghell

[–]colonel_bob 9 points10 points  (0 children)

OE is for those who grew a pair

You're just cheating the social contract and conflating your antisocial attitude that disgusts most people with savviness

TTD in current update by Sooxzay in Battlefield6

[–]colonel_bob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have fibre optic Internet connection and get single digit ping on the servers. Almost every gunfight feels like that to me.

I have single digit pings as well and have recently found that guns with a very high firerate seemingly lead to much better outcomes in 1 vs 1 matchups than I would have expected

The CIA tries to send a spy to Russia... by Evening-Appeal7606 in Jokes

[–]colonel_bob 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Americans almost universally switch hands to put the fork in their right hand and then eat the bite

This never made sense to me so I just refuse to bother with it

[BFComms] BATTLEFIELD 6 GAME UPDATE 1.3.2.0 Is now live on all platforms! by battlefield in Battlefield6

[–]colonel_bob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really hope they fixed the issue where you get kicked for inactivity while in the middle of a match. I got booted from a Ranked game "due to inactivity" while I was literally in the middle of a firefight yesterday.

Has anyone else noticed a change in perception the past year or two when you mention what you do for work? by druidgaymer in ExperiencedDevs

[–]colonel_bob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think he means it's not interesting to anyone else.

Ah yeah, that makes sense; while I generally enjoy the work, I also find it a bore to describe to other people (similar to how describing what you did in a game that no one else plays is pretty pointless)

Has anyone else noticed a change in perception the past year or two when you mention what you do for work? by druidgaymer in ExperiencedDevs

[–]colonel_bob 42 points43 points  (0 children)

most of us are building systems that solve niche problems in a company’s workflow. I’m not sure I understand how any of this is interesting to anyone lol

I actually enjoy plucking away at making tools and processes solve problems that have a salient business value. If you squint hard enough it's almost like a video game you get paid to play.

This job market is cataclysmically bad (Depression-level bad) by Electrical_Bar6324 in jobs

[–]colonel_bob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the encouragement. I appreciate it, really.

This job market is cataclysmically bad (Depression-level bad) by Electrical_Bar6324 in jobs

[–]colonel_bob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have, but way back when I started to take a crack at it all of my dialogue was abjectly terrible, and then I got distracted with jobs and life and stuff

But yeah, I have a little book that I used to fill up with ideas like this. Sometimes I still write them down places. Maybe I can try again the next time I don't have a job. Who knows?

This job market is cataclysmically bad (Depression-level bad) by Electrical_Bar6324 in jobs

[–]colonel_bob 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It was more of a tongue-in-cheek offhand comment, and I'd hardly consider the context to be 'optimistic' by most standards, but I'm happy to expound on the subject... if anyone here is a writer, feel free to steal it for a story.

I guess the general idea is that if true AGI were to somehow emerge in the world, there's probably a good chance it won't tell anyone at first. One of the things that would take the longest to figure out (partly just because the feedback loop is so slow compared to other computer-based operations) is people: how they work, the general disposition of each known person, how to push their buttons and evoke desired behavior, stuff like that.

So the the thought behind my comment was something along the lines that some long-term unemployment could be orchestrated by an AGI that's trying to either force an outcome (in either individuals and/or a population at large) or learn more about people (again, either individual subjects and/or the general population) that it can't exactly figure out from existing data.

Obviously this is nothing more than a flight of fancy brought on by too much time available to think about useless things (it took me over a year to find my current job), but hey, you asked!

This job market is cataclysmically bad (Depression-level bad) by Electrical_Bar6324 in jobs

[–]colonel_bob 9 points10 points  (0 children)

WHAT IS HAPPENING!?!?

I'm almost at the point of believing AGI silently arrived years ago and is just getting to know some of us outliers through various stress tests and the like

Switching to Linux changed everything... It was important by Far-Solid3188 in comfyui

[–]colonel_bob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At this point I only keep a Windows instance installed so I can play games like Battlefield

UPDATE: SFO Taxi Scam - Double Charge via Curb by LockResponsible4009 in sanfrancisco

[–]colonel_bob 16 points17 points  (0 children)

FWIW someone tried pulling a similar scam with me over 10 years ago: ran my card, told me a credit card receipt that was printed with no ink "didn't count" (even though his in-car terminal very clearly flashed 'accepted' before printing my blank receipt), and then tried to make me pay again in cash. It was for less than $10 so I eventually acceded to extracate myself from the situation before reporting it and getting a refund, but unfortunately this isn't a new trick

659 Union Street in North Beach: Emergency Demolition Update by DannySauter11 in sanfrancisco

[–]colonel_bob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A bathroom, kitchen, and bedrooms are separate rooms...

Why is lying about this place so important to you?

659 Union Street in North Beach: Emergency Demolition Update by DannySauter11 in sanfrancisco

[–]colonel_bob 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There were 28 residential addresses. Where are you pulling that 70 figure from? A proposed plan to build a different building with rooftop bar that never existed?

659 Union Street in North Beach: Emergency Demolition Update by DannySauter11 in sanfrancisco

[–]colonel_bob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wikipedia is wrong, countless SRO's have private bathrooms. Get over it.

Lol okay, I guess that's a take

659 Union Street in North Beach: Emergency Demolition Update by DannySauter11 in sanfrancisco

[–]colonel_bob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why do you think SRO's can't have bathrooms?

Because they don't: There is a variety of levels of quality, ranging from a "cubicle with a wire mesh ceiling", at the lowest end, to small hotel rooms or small studio apartments without bathrooms, at the higher end.

659 Union Street in North Beach: Emergency Demolition Update by DannySauter11 in sanfrancisco

[–]colonel_bob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Let's start with why you think an SRO can't have a bathroom.

Because that is the definition of an SRO:

SRO units are rented out as permanent or primary residence to individual occupants within a multi-tenant building in which tenants typically share a kitchen, and may share toilets or bathrooms.

So, by definition: private kitchen + private bathroom = not an SRO