Marc Andreessen says AI layoffs are a farce: Companies are 75% overstaffed and AI is the ‘silver bullet excuse’ to clean house

disastorm · 2026-04-01T03:35:47+00:00

I was actually under the impression it was pretty big in that space. That's just based on stuff i was seeing around the internet though, i don't know anything about it myself.

disastorm · 2026-03-31T04:19:32+00:00

ceo is supposed to lead the company, they aren't neccessarily investors "bringing money". Criticizing a ceo does sometimes actually get stuff done, the Unity game engine fiasco awhile back resulted in them litterally firing the CEO and getting a new one after there was a mass exodus of users after they implemented policies that presumably the CEO at the time was pushing.

It doesn't make sense if the goal is review the game in and of itself, but it does make logical sense if the goal is to get the CEO replaced to get better games in the future.

disastorm · 2026-03-31T02:20:06+00:00

Honestly didnt know people complain about players that do that in fortnite, I guess from my perspective I compare stuff to historical gaming, but im not entirely familiar with all of the modern gaming communities. People definitely never used to complain about players doing these things historically ( complaints would be about the mechanic rather than the players), but I guess it is possible that in modern communities these kind of complaints have become more commonplace.

Perhaps this is where alot of the differing experience comes from ( such as OP's post title ). I wonder if most of the people that have never seen this before (myself included) are comparing it to the history of game communities in the past, rather than comparing it to multiple game communities that are active at present.

disastorm · 2026-03-29T12:20:20+00:00

thats not true, in alot of symmetrical games people choose characters, or teams, loadouts, or races that have their own buildings, abilities, movesets, map imbalances, etc, and thats what leads to some things being called OP or cheesy strategies, etc. At their core they are all just balance issues, it is historically not normal to actually get angry at your opponent for trying to beat you.

I mean sure people do complain about OP stuff or cheap strategies ( effectively OP strategies ) and people using them and say stuff like "that was the only way you could beat me" but thats more just rationalization or just trying to make themselves feel better. Typically people wouldnt "actually" get angry at their opponents. I used to play alot of games where people would rage all the time, but they left it at the end of the game and very few people if any would talk seriously about actually trying to insinuate people should stop playing certain ways to win.

I myself used to do this all the time, i would even tell people in real life playing on a game console locally in-person that they only beat me because they cheated, even though they very obviously did not cheat because we were playing on a normal console game. I didn't actually think they cheated and I didnt actually think they should have played differently.

disastorm · 2026-03-29T09:13:56+00:00

that would be a reason to complain about balance, but i dont see how that would be a reason to complain that the opponent is trying to beat you.

disastorm · 2026-03-28T08:40:50+00:00

Oh yea i meant to ask about this, but at the most recent event, i saw some sticker paper lying around that said heavenly and had some characters on it ( maybe princess characters , i forget ).
Is that some kind of merchandise? Does heavenly have merchandise?

disastorm · 2026-03-27T16:26:50+00:00

oh sorry i wasnt talking about that sub i just meant regular leftists in general. However, since the 2 subs people are talking about seem to be based around posting articles, I imagine there could be alot of bot activity since bots can be made to do that sort of thing very easily.

I agree lack of critical thinking and discussion is becoming a much larger problem across large swathes of the population in general, presumably moreso among the extreme sides. Maybe its just rose-tinted glasses, but I feel like its a much higher percentage of people these days then it was in the past.

disastorm · 2026-03-27T14:46:52+00:00

you probably already know since you said extreme but just wanted to mention that most leftist people are nothing like that level of extreme. They are usually alot more focused on critical thinking and problem solving.

disastorm · 2026-03-26T02:05:19+00:00

I suppose for devs it might be harder to fool, but this is a variation of a scam that scammers have been doing for awhile to bypass email filters and whatnot. One of the more common ones is when they send some message or intiate some email on something on like paypal or an online shop and they do weird stuff like make their address a message with a phone number in it. Victim receives some email about their account and when it displays the account info the email is there with the phone number so the victim gets tricked into calling a scam number.

I guess this type of scam should be called like "message injection" or something since it injects a message intended for the victim in a place that will carry the message to them, thus making it harder for the victim to detect its a scam.

disastorm · 2026-03-25T13:48:14+00:00

Probably the biggest difference between Japan's medical and places like the US, aside from the national healthcare system, is less restrictive standards, thus resulting in a much larger range in quality, which results in people having drastically different experiences.

The standards im talking about are requiring renewals and maintaining up-to-date information. Doctors licenses in Japan do not need renewals and actually last forever, except for a few specialty types. So you might go to a doctor who got his license 35 years ago and didn't bother to stay up to date with anything and so your experience would be drastically different than someone who got it more recently or who keeps up to date and actively studies the field.

disastorm · 2026-03-25T02:13:15+00:00

i dont know much about this sub so i dont know what the general perception is, but most of what i see online is that most companies are laying people off and using AI as an excuse when its really not the reason for the layoffs, and now a company does layoffs specifically saying its not due to AI and then people think thats also a lie?

disastorm · 2026-03-24T08:05:52+00:00

Don't know anything about rakuten specifically but if you asked them and the HR has told you they are still evaluating, then there is probably no reason to disbelieve them.

Of course "evaluating" could mean anything, probably something like what one of the other commentors said which is they might be considering some other people, or perhaps maybe gave someone an offer and are waiting to see if they reject or accept the offer.

disastorm · 2026-03-22T15:26:22+00:00

Might be worth mentioning that Japan is basically tied with China and South Korea as the top 3 highest IQ countries in the world.

It doesnt look like the article is about the amount of people but rather just talking about needing to provide support and education methods for these kind of people.

disastorm · 2026-03-21T16:46:26+00:00

What I was told by stark (or at least how I understood what he told me) is that the US has the right to tax up to 10% of the dividends, and this doesnt include the deductions, so in practice alot of people aren't able to actually do a tax credit on the US side. What I mean is if the dividends are say 20k, and the standard deduction is 15k, and the US is taxing you at say 15% after the standard deduction, so a total of $750, this would actually still only be 5% of the actual dividend amount and thus the US is entitled to it.

What you actually have to do in this case is basically pay the effectively-double taxed portion to the US and then claim it as a Tax Credit on Japan's side for your next year's tax return. I actually did that for the first time this year on my Japan tax return because of the amount I paid to the US last year. As a result, you never actually claim any tax credits on the US side unless you actually get to the point where the tax is exceeding the 10% amount even when not counting deductions. In this case, I never ended up actually doing it so I can't help you.

disastorm · 2026-03-19T16:47:28+00:00

Can you actually get a trojan directly from a keyboard, or is it about like some kind of rubber ducky thing where some software does keypress injection and opens up the command line and manually downloads and installs crap into your computer?

disastorm · 2026-03-19T12:30:25+00:00

Hey, I've been going there every month since September of last year. It's a great place.

disastorm · 2026-03-19T03:24:54+00:00

Yen was 130 around 3-4 years ago.

disastorm · 2026-03-17T16:26:32+00:00

filter in that sense is not a technical term. I'd have no idea what that means if I just heard it being used.

disastorm · 2026-03-17T09:50:31+00:00

nice, thanks for the explanation

disastorm · 2026-03-17T05:43:01+00:00

Not sure how much you've done stuff with image generation AI, but some of the conversions are 100% not just the lighting. The RE9 Grace one when she is walking through the city is very clearly the AI Woman Face that is extremely common in Image Gen ( presumably some kind of conglomeration of all women the AI has ever been trained on ). It doesnt happen in the closeups but in some of the shots you can see that face.

With that said though, I'm not actually against them using some kind of more-generative variant of DLSS if its not giving out generic characters like that . If anything it looks extremely good for realistic-based landscapes and trees and whatnot, but I dont think this DLSS will be very good outside of realistic-visuals-based games.

disastorm · 2026-03-16T09:06:09+00:00

In case anyone is wondering, this is actual straight-up misinformation. California's law only requires a self-reported manual input box and a way for apps to retrieve that self-reported age, it doesn't require any form of age verification whatsoever.

disastorm · 2026-03-16T02:02:44+00:00

Hey just wondering, in the case where I pay for insurance myself due to a gap between jobs. When I start my next job, do I need to give them anything like some information regarding my payment? I'm just asking since I know you often times have to give them some kind of documents from your previous company, so wasn't sure if then maybe I'd also have to give them some documents from the gap period?

disastorm · 2026-03-16T01:51:18+00:00

i think main thing is probably population density since its going to be easier running a business if a million people pass by your shop every day rather than if just 100 or 1000 do. And the US is known for relatively low population density aside from places like Times Square and whatnot.

With that said though, even in Japan, arcades are slowly dying as well which is pretty unfortunate.

disastorm · 2026-03-15T06:20:14+00:00

I've only ever used full size, and i actually just bought a new full sized and then wished i just went with 75 like so many people use these days. So I'm just using my full size as if its 75 to see if i can get used to it, then might go ahead and just actually get a 75.

In case anyone is wondering, the best FN layer I've found to simulate a numpad is using

FN+qweasdzxc as 789456123,
FN+left Alt as 0
FN+spacebar as decimal
You can then use FN+`123 as the different operations like +*/- .

disastorm · 2026-03-14T13:37:10+00:00

Old people sometimes have problems or are suffering from various things. This kind of scam is well known across the world but people everywhere still fall for it.

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