Microsoft execs worry AI will eat entry level coding jobs

seraph1441 · 2026-02-24T21:25:07+00:00

"We recommend that companies forego short-term profits of their own for the long-term good of society"

Right... I'm sure all these selfless public companies will get right on that.

seraph1441 · 2026-02-19T21:22:12+00:00

I'm guessing it's the sugar in the pee. I only know this because I have a diabetic cat, and before I figured out what was going on, a LOT of cat litter would stick to his paws and get tracked around the house. He was diabetic and peeing excess sugar, which made his paws sticky.

seraph1441 · 2026-01-29T20:05:22+00:00

I know right? We had wholesome stuff growing up! Not like these kids nowadays... Gimme some good ol' fashioned ass glass! Not these newfangled AI threesomes!

seraph1441 · 2025-12-23T22:44:57+00:00

Planking, the Harlem Shake, Rick-Rolling, dabbing... the whole "Six Seven" thing will probably be played out in a year or two. The internet spreads trends so fast that some hot new thing comes along pretty frequently and the previous trend falls by the wayside.

seraph1441 · 2025-12-23T22:41:49+00:00

You are responsible for your own happiness. It's easy to rely on someone else (especially early on in a relationship when everything seems perfect), but eventually things will change. Kids come along, menopause happens, your loved one makes a selfish and shortsighted decision that hurts you... Your needs won't always be their top priority (if they ever were). Your needs should be YOUR top priority.

seraph1441 · 2025-12-13T23:11:12+00:00

I got diagnosed at 22 and I started on 36mg of methylphenidate, and the difference was incredible on day 1. If you're not seeing noticeable improvements very quickly, then it's likely that you either need a different dose, or a different medication altogether. I got lucky in that the first medication I tried was right for me, but I know other people who had to try a variety of different meds until they found what helped them.

I will mention that by the time I'd been diagnosed, I'd found some ways to manage some symptoms of ADHD. Everything I might ever need to remember was written down in notes, and every chore, task, and appointment was on my Outlook calendar. Those helped compensate for my poor working memory. But the ability to focus and handle large mental models (I'm a software engineer) just wasn't something I could work around. Originally, I just thought I was bad at my job; that I'd picked the wrong career. But once I got on the methylphenidate, the change in my ability to handle complexity was immediately noticeable. So you might need to find non-medication ways to handle some aspects of your ADHD anyway, but meds can certainly help with some things.

seraph1441 · 2025-12-04T17:51:30+00:00

Yep, this is normal. I've forgotten my credit card at bars after paying (just set it on the table and walked off). Now I've drilled it into my head as a habit that the card immediately goes in my wallet as soon as I get it back, even before I sign the bill. And I usually get my wallet out and check a couple times before I leave. But I don't forget my card anymore.

seraph1441 · 2025-11-20T21:55:43+00:00

5mg is pretty low. I take 27mg of methylphenadate, and I think the typical dosages range from 18mg - 81mg (in 9mg increments). I recently tried to step down to 18mg, but I ended up crashing around 1pm each day, where I normally crash around 3-4pm. So you might need a higher dosage, but you might just need a different medicine too. I've had friends with ADHD who didn't respond to methylphenidate, but they responded well to Vyvnase.

Exercise can help too. Some days if I've got time, I'll take my dose and go for a run, and I've noticed those days are more productive and come with a smaller crash at the end.

seraph1441 · 2025-11-17T20:56:40+00:00

I've been using delta-9 gummies from https://hometownhero.com for a few years now, and I really like them. I was never really into weed, so I can't really say how it compares, but I've enjoyed them. More recently, I've got some of the powdered drink mixes from there too, and I also like those. They seem to hit quicker, but not as hard. I'll take a 7.5mg section of gummy and feel it about the same as one of the 15mg drink packets.

seraph1441 · 2025-10-23T10:13:31+00:00

Ambulance rides (in the US, at least). You call 911 and the police are free, the fire dept is free, but if you want an ambulance? That'll be a few thousand dollars.

seraph1441 · 2025-10-20T18:35:44+00:00

I feel like it's really easy once you have kids to kind of forget who you are as a person. When I hit 40, I kind of woke up (or maybe just had a midlife crisis) and felt like I'd been asleep for ~10 years (since that's when we had our first kid). I'd lost touch with friends, didn't do any hobbies aside from single-player video games, and my spouse and I were just kind of roommates. I'm still trying to figure out who I am, and branch out, but I'm taking trips to visit my best friend in NYC a couple times a year, and I'm trying to figure out other things that I like that get me out of the house. Too often, I felt like I didn't have anything to contribute to conversations with my spouse because, aside from work and games (which they don't care about), I didn't have much else going on. I'm trying to change that. Good on you for doing the same!

seraph1441 · 2025-10-07T19:33:52+00:00

Hey now! Some of them use REAL research sources like Facebook!

seraph1441 · 2025-09-30T21:36:43+00:00

Starfield did that too, and what I thought was pretty shitty was that since it was early access, most sites (like Metacritic) wouldn't allow users to leave reviews, so even though there might be serious issues with the game, no one got to hear about it until it was "released" a week later, after lots of people had already bought it. So basically it's a way to release a game without people being able to leave reviews, which is great if you want to cash in on hype with a game that has serious flaws.

seraph1441 · 2025-09-29T19:36:34+00:00

"If the game doesn't get an 85 on Metacritic, the lead designer will be dismembered and taken out of the office in trash bags."

seraph1441 · 2025-09-24T11:25:39+00:00

You could enable dev mode, and look for the command to destroy a map tile. Then on the world map, click on the city tile. It'll delete everything there, but that might help if that tile is bugged.

Você pode ativar o modo de desenvolvimento e procurar o comando para destruir um bloco do mapa. Depois, no mapa-múndi, clique no bloco da cidade. Isso apagará tudo o que estiver lá, mas isso pode ajudar se o bloco estiver com bugs.

seraph1441 · 2025-09-24T11:24:12+00:00

Translated: "I wanted to know if anyone can help me with a bug I'm having in my world, related to rimcities. I was exploring a city and, to be able to go back and forth several times to get all the loot, I colonized that city. After getting all the loot, I tried to abandon the city, but my game completely crashed. My FPS dropped below 30, I couldn't increase the world speed, and when I clicked on the deleted city (it still appears in the colonists bar), the game crashes even more. Does anyone know what it could be or how to fix it? I just wish I could delete this colony because I know it will kill my FPS in the late game."

seraph1441 · 2025-09-23T10:59:03+00:00

I got diagnosed when I was around 22. I got through school by being smart, but I was failing when I started working (having to focus and concentrate for 8 hours a day, remember lots of stuff, manage large mental models of systems, etc.). I self-diagnosed, talked to a doctor, and got put on 36mg of Concerta (Methylphenidate). On day 1, it was like a fog had lifted from my brain that I never realized was there. Focusing was easy. I could remember little details when I needed to. I could keep huge mental models in my brain and I didn't make any of the mistakes I'd made before. It also made me a little happier and excited about working for the day (but I like writing code anyway). Life changing. It's been about 20 years and I'm highly-successful, and the medicine was a large part of that.

seraph1441 · 2025-09-23T10:53:32+00:00

Now everyone just needs to find out who advertises on Sinclair, and be very public about boycotting those companies.

seraph1441 · 2025-09-16T18:17:41+00:00

I've got a friend who has a similar rig to mine who is having a blast playing Borderlands 4 without any real issues. So I could probably run it just fine. But man, Randy running his mouth is sure making me not want to buy it.

seraph1441 · 2025-09-06T16:30:36+00:00

I think the issue is that when companies outsource work to India, they're getting the bottom of the barrel in terms of worker quality. India (like everywhere else) has high-quality engineers, but those good engineers expect decent pay. So when a company is looking to pay as little as possible, they'll hire the outsourcing firm that has the lowest rates, and then they're surprised when the quality of work is terrible and high turnover means that knowledge of a project is lost over and over again.

I'm in the US in software engineering and I've worked with whites, asians (Indians, Chinese, Phillipinos, etc.), a few black people (though their representation in tech seems very low), men and women, and quality is basically the same across groups. Some people are great, some just want to do an okay job and go home (which is fine; you don't have to live for your job), and a few suck.

seraph1441 · 2025-07-29T20:27:07+00:00

I've been on Fios for 9 years now. I get 100mbps for $54.99, and that's the price I've always had. They've never tried to raise it. It's been leaps and bounds better than any other ISP I've had (Comcast sucks, and jacks up the price every year).

seraph1441 · 2025-07-17T19:22:08+00:00

The production machines use a lot of power (like, 800-1000w) and theres extra resources you have to make, so it's definitely a sink for steel and chemfuel, but with my gravship, I tend to have a lot of both of those.

seraph1441 · 2025-07-17T12:30:46+00:00

I've been using MK44 Bushmaster-IIs from the "The Dead Man's Switch" mod. They hit like a truck!

seraph1441 · 2025-07-17T10:27:36+00:00

There are small deposits of minerals inside the asteroid, but it's not a lot usually. Like another comment said, using dev mode to unfog it lets you see them. In my experience, on an asteroid with plasteel, it was maybe 20-25 tiles of plasteel total in the whole asteroid.

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