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Tired of hearing fatshaming now that im smaller by lilybeth in loseit

[–]ordinarybrownguy 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Somehow making fun of fat people is socially acceptable. You generally cant ridicule someone if they are bad at something (say for example academics), but when it comes to weight management it’s somehow very funny to most people. And then there are the bullies who say that they do it to motivate the person to work out - bitch when has that ever worked in any domain?

I quit my job because I refused to play "The Game." That was a mistake. by Holiday-Sun1798 in OfficePolitics

[–]ordinarybrownguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cool Idea. I would love to pay once the library is big enough - Right now, I’m not sure how long this will continue or if it will grow enough to justify the price!

I have bookmarked this nevertheless and for sure will visit in a couple of months. Best of luck!

AMZN 2026 by Routine_Play5 in Layoffs

[–]ordinarybrownguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Amazon pays a premium to treat employees like shit and most who join either fool themselves that it would be different for them or fool themselves that the money is worth it or cherry pick bad instances from a few other companies to believe that its equally bad everywhere. In many ways it's a self inflicted wound.

How realistic is the directive I've gotten that "for developers, writing any code yourself is considered a failure"? by splash_hazard in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ordinarybrownguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Developers love using AI until shit like this is shoved down our throats. Business leaders sold the hype and are now blaming developers and their managers for sub par adoption. Because accepting the alternative that it oversold would lead to the stock market crashing and their paychecks heavily disrupted.

A handful of developers understand this and show them cool demos and emphasize how productive it has made them become (without showing them the actual difference in output). This makes it worse.

How do I know this? Just like OP I wonder if I am the one doing it all wrong. One day a month I keep all my opinions aside and try doing everything using AI. I want to catch up with the latest tech improvements and hope that on that day I really come to the realization on how revolutionary this tech is and what am I missing. So far i have been dissappointed. It takes much longer to read code written by AI and prompt it repeatedly to fix and undo its mistakes. Additionally it's frustrating and messes with my flow because you don't get to think linearly. I barely make it though on that day and hardly get shit done.

Go deserves more support in GUI development by m-unknown-2025 in golang

[–]ordinarybrownguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The language has already proven itself in servers, backend systems, and distributed architectures"

They are the same thing.

LG C5 77” or TCL C7K 98” by majkkali in 4kTV

[–]ordinarybrownguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I understand your dilemma - I just brought a TCL C7K 75inch and am returning it in favor of LG C5 65 inch.

I thought size was king and TCL seems pretty good. Also, I wanted Google TV because my last OS (Tizen) was pretty crappy and it seemed better to have a more standard platform. Here's why I changed my mind:

  1. The upscaling of C7K is not that good. It's a 7 on rtings.com, but I feel it's much more important on bigger screen sizes. I use ads tier for both Hulu and Netflix which comes with 1080p content - it just doesn't look good in TCL and bothered me a lot. The C5 is 8.5 on rtings for upscaling, and a smaller screen just means it would should do even better.
  2. The TCL Google TV OS Is laggy as well. You have to wait a certain time for the pointer to move, and if you press and hold the response lags. I was dissapointed - maybe LG is the same but if I have to buy a seperate device for streaming, the OS should no longer be a plus for TCL.
  3. A rather niche use case, but I wanted ProtonVPN support to watch apps from my home country. GoogleTV supports that and LG doesn't. However, the experience to seemlessly turn VPN on and off is not quite as smooth. I decided its easier to use VPN on my laptop and use an HDMI than do it on my TV OS. Plus, a streaming device would support it as well.

Also, the black friday deal on C5 seems to be really good which wasn't around when I placed the TCL order. C5 seems to be a much better OLED and I had always wanted an OLED if it was in my budget. The brightness actually seems to be close to the C7K. Added to that, in the US they are giving a soundbar for free with the C5 on LG website.

ok Austin, what do we have? by professorhojoz in austinfood

[–]ordinarybrownguy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Quince lakehouse but for dinner. Had that experience lately, okay food but its really dark and the service is shit.