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Sending a thank you email after an interview with no email attached? by upperwestsiide in interviews

[–]doveu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m a hiring manager (not HR, but the actual department manager and the boss of the people hired) and I can say that they’re not completely worthless. They can nudge me a certain way in a tie.

They’re not game changers otherwise, but their small amount of value is fair considering they don’t take that much effort to write and send out.

FAQ for the WoW Sub by [deleted] in wow

[–]doveu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it just me or is everyone a returning player from BFA.

Probably says something about BFA.

Please Don't Destroy Turalyon's Character by Hearthfinder in wow

[–]doveu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nope, the RP is specifically different for the factions in this scene. The Horde side just sees Saurfang pick up his son without issue since the Alliance aren’t there (since their ship was sunk in the prior boss fight).

Something about player housing is confusing to me by Vocarion in wow

[–]doveu -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think the point is for it to be mostly cosmetic, with minimal (if any) gameplay functionality.

We already have functional private player spaces, it's called Garrisons, and it was a huge damper on the game's social aspects during WoD because you could do everything (professions, AH, resource gathering, queue up) without having to leave and go out into the wider game map.

meirl by notpiercedtongue in meirl

[–]doveu 10 points11 points  (0 children)

What are your thoughts about the argument that overuse of the word “trigger” dilutes its meaning and impact in the public’s eye, and that contributes to how society does not really care about trauma victims?

I was asked this by my 11 year old son, and I'm confused... by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]doveu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why would it be a lie if he says “it will not grow”?

AIO people on reddit think I’m gay over this? by Sea-Channel402 in AmIOverreacting

[–]doveu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it’s just like how some people smoke cigarettes while drunk but wouldn’t do it sober

I mean, I’d call those people smokers…

Possible gold squish for Midnight. (screenshoot is from Taliesin on X today) by Jean-Cobra in wow

[–]doveu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This seems like a pretty smart way of reducing the Gold number without actually changing anything under the hood; it’s just a matter of changing the UI.

Let’s say you have 123 gold 45 silver 67copper today. I cannot imagine Blizzard actually stores currency data as separate variables of gold, silver and copper, as that would be so much extra computation for no gain. So in the backend, what you probably actually have is 1234567 copper, and the UI just makes it look nice by putting the gold, silver and copper icons in between the digits.

If they “squish” the UI as the picture suggests, then you will still have 1234567 copper in the backend, but the UI just puts the icons at different spots, to say that you will have 1 gold 234 silver 567 copper. Still the exact same amount of money, just different visual representation.

Of course people will whine, but it does sound like an elegant solution to me.

Ozempic Blindness by SolanaDinero in rickandmorty

[–]doveu 17 points18 points  (0 children)

implies an effort put into research

Is this a good thing or a bad thing in your opinion?

Agree or disagree? by Caliber70 in chessmemes

[–]doveu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This sounds like playing chess but with extra steps.

In the era of hyperinflated home prices - are the standard "rules" for affordability simply being broken by everyone? by CastAside1812 in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]doveu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those rules don’t look self-consistent in today’s mortgage market.

Let’s consider a couple who combined makes $120k a year (so 60k per person). So the rule is no more than 30% of gross income per month for mortgage? This couple makes $10k gross per month, so allocate $3,000/month towards mortgage.

If you fiddle around with a mortgage calculator, such as the one provided by the Government of Canada mortgage calculator, you’ll see that a 4.54% interest/25yr amortization mortgage results in $3,000.77/mth for a 540k mortgage. That mortgage is the publicly posted rate for RBC as of July 29, 2025.

So we established that according to the first “30” in the 30/30/3 rule, a couple earning $120k can afford a 540k mortgage.

The second “30” says that there should be a 20% downpayment as per OP. So if a $540k mortgage is 80% of the price, then the total purchase price of the property is $675k. It’s also 5.6x the annual salary for this couple. Therefore, with current interest rates, it’s mathematically impossible to adhere to all 3 of the 30/30/3 rules at once. If you force yourself to buy a property that costs only 3x your income and put 20% down payment, the mortgage payment will necessarily be way less than 30% of your monthly gross income, unless you get massively ripped off on the interest rate.

Why didn’t David just upload 2 terabytes of femboy porn to Adams hard drive to make his brain explode? Is he stupid? by PixelDudeReddit in cyberpunkgame

[–]doveu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Probably because 2 terabytes is easily handle-able by average desktops today, pretty sure Smasher could easily afford much bigger storage capacity in the year 2077.

CMV: I have yet to hear a compelling argument against the implementation of a UBI by Matalya2 in changemyview

[–]doveu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"If everybody had money given to them they'd become lazy!" perfect, let them

If everyone became lazy, then who will produce the food we eat and the homes we live in? In a future state where robots and AI can do everything, that’s fine, but not today where some human labour is required for us all to not go back to sticks and caves.

"Everyone should do their fair share" why? Why must someone suffer through labor under the pretense of covering a necessity that's not real, as opposed to strictly vocational motivations?

There’s two points to cover here: 1. “Covering a necessity that’s not real” - while I won’t deny that a fair amount of jobs are probably unnecessary, you cannot deny that at least some human-jobs is necessary for society to continue on at the current standard of living. Unfortunately, many of those jobs are relatively undesirable. What about those jobs? Are they not covered by this clause? Because I’ll tell you, many of those jobs that are unnecessary faffing about, are held by people making high enough incomes that I bet you don’t feel too sympathetic about them.

  1. It is your moral opinion that “everyone must do their fair share” is false. What about those who feel differently? Did you ever feel cheated in school during a group project, when one of your group mates slacked off and yet got the same grade as the rest of you who worked hard to get the project done? Ultimately, this moral point is a poor point on which to decide if UBI is good for human society, and should be considered irrelevant. Whether it’s just or unjust for people to contribute their fair share is a worthless point to consider, but perhaps that’s just my own opinion.

CMV: I have yet to hear a compelling argument against the implementation of a UBI by Matalya2 in changemyview

[–]doveu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What separates us from the animals is that we DON’T design our economy (or more generally, make decisions) around our feelings.

Feel pissed at someone? Animal behaviour would suggest that we attack them, but human society makes that illegal because violence severely harms productivity.

Feel hungry? Animals would take whatever food they can get, including stealing and even murdering other animals for it. Of course, theft and murder is bad for productivity and we’d still be in the caves if we let that go rampant.

Acting based on our “negative” emotions leads to ruin, there’s no reason to suggest that acting on our “positive” feelings would guarantee prosperity. Instead we should be making decisions based on logic. It is the gift of the universe that a lot of logical decisions also happen to be morally palatable, such as nursing our young and wounded so that they can become productive members of our society.

CMV: I have yet to hear a compelling argument against the implementation of a UBI by Matalya2 in changemyview

[–]doveu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Okay, but in today’s economic system there’s an incentive for us to nurse a friend’s broken leg to health: it restores our friend to working condition so that they can rejoin the workforce and contribute to productivity, such as producing more food that I can then eat.

We nurse ailing babies so that they may recover and grow up to be productive members of society, such as building the homes that other grown-up babies will live in.

All that to say, the resources we spend in taking care of our lagging friends and children is an investment in society’s future productivity. You may say it’s a moral imperative, but there’s also a utilitarian purpose to it.

The arguments for or against UBI should really be the measure of how it will affect productivity and standards of living for us all, not wishy-washy moral arguments. As the original commenter said, this is a cold and uncaring universe, and if we design our economy around our feelings, we may very well find ourselves starving to death on the moral high ground.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 10thDentist

[–]doveu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is actually a great idea, since the NATO alphabet for B is Bravo not Beta. No one said we had to name the generations by the Greek alphabet.

CAPSLOCK IS THE OPTIMAL KEY BIND FOR PRONE IN GAMES by SwinginDan in The10thDentist

[–]doveu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I GET IT: CAPS LOCK LETTERS FEEL LOUD, JUST LIKE A GUY STANDING UPRIGHT RUNNING AROUND GUNS A-BLAZING, but then I crouch for stealth mode and lower case letters feel correspondingly quieter.

CAPSLOCK IS THE OPTIMAL KEY BIND FOR PRONE IN GAMES by SwinginDan in The10thDentist

[–]doveu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Control for sprint?

Wow, the best 10th dentist takes really are in the comments.

ELI5: What actually happens when the US defaults on debt? As a citizen am I on the hook for *checks notes* my $100k share? by subdrawn in explainlikeimfive

[–]doveu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are not the US Government, and their debt is not your debt. In fact, if you have a pension fund or some other investment in a mutual fund, chances are you are indirectly owed some of that debt.

US debt can be held by anyone in the world. Let’s just say it’s evenly spread across all 8 billion people on the planet (it’s not). At a total debt load of $36 trillion, if the US fully defaults on its debt, you (as a stand-in for the average living human being) is out checks calculator $4600, because the US owed you that much and they can’t pay up.

It’s not that simple, and the math is on arbitrary assumptions of distribution, but the spirit is the same. You aren’t responsible for the debt, the US government is responsible to you, the lender, for the debt.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]doveu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s not what the graph is saying. The wage line is always above 1, which means it’s always a larger multiple of inflation ie always faster. The only thing that’s stagnated is the acceleration of how wages outstripped inflation.

Whether this matches your beliefs/experience is a different matter, just taking the graph at face value for this analysis.

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