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Meltrax

@ Meltrax @lemmy.world

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  • In general? Old ass pacman at a bowling alley when I was like 5 or 6.

    Personal game that I actually spent time with? Pokemon Red on the original, very very old Gameboy. Like the grey one, before the gameboy color.

  • Do you have a form of government you invented/conceived, either as an idea or for fiction (or a favorite from someone else)? How does it work?

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  • That is so cool. Things like this make me realize how much I miss school. Like, actually miss some of the learning and studying aspects. If only grad school in the USA didn't cost a small fortune, I'd love to continue education for purposes like this.

    Thanks for sharing!

  • Do you have a form of government you invented/conceived, either as an idea or for fiction (or a favorite from someone else)? How does it work?

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  • This is fascinating. I have no doubt you had to debate this a lot and are already aware of some of the shortcomings of the system you created, but in general I really like this idea. Antagonistic Resignation is especially great.

    Basically game-theory everything because it's always safe to assume that there will eventually be a bad actor and that bad actor will extort loopholes found.

  • OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic

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  • It was more money.

    It's always more money.

  • Heat Death of the Internet

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  • Wait, is rarbg back? It was taken down a while back, did someone actually resurrect it?

  • if you are a nurse or know nurses, do you / they feel sore after each shift?

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  • My girlfriend is a nurse. 7-7 shifts, days and nights, it alternates.

    She's gotten used to it, isn't sore from the work anymore. Make sure you have good shoes. Do some research, ask your coworkers - having the right shoes makes a big difference when you're on your feet for 13-14 hours straight. Add some electrolytes to your water bottle. Doesn't need to be high in sugar unless you also aren't eating much too. Moving and standing and being active all day takes energy and hydration. Having some simple electrolytes and enough calories will also make a huge difference in how you feel at the end of the day. You're basically on a 12 hour hike every shift.

  • Meta to pay $1.4 billion settlement with Texas over facial recognition and photo tags - The Verge

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  • And all that money will be put back into infrastructure and health care and education for the people of Texas, right?

    ....right??

  • Gen Z consumers rely on parents amid inflation squeeze

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  • Because this article isn't written for Gen Z readers. It's written for Boomers, the largest consumer bracket of random bullshit web articles like this, and they'll read that line and think "yeah, dumb kids, they should just learn to budget, that's what I had to do" and they'll feel slightly superior and slightly satisfied and come back and click on the next article tomorrow, driving ad revenue because they're too dumb to use ad blockers, and that's literally the whole point of all of this.

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  • PSA, Twitch is available on the Revanced Manager.

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  • If you're making spelling edits, it's "ads", short for advertisement. "Adds" is a mathematical expression.

  • What's the men's version of Victoria's Secret?

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  • To take your question slightly more seriously: Victoria's Secret is a brand that mostly exists for men to ogle the female models.

    So... Calvin Klein, maybe? Not quite the same number of women ogling the male underwear models but, seems as close as we will get.

  • What's on your personal server?

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  • I've been a software engineer for 8 years and I've had my own Jellyfin server (and before that, Plex) set up for 4 years on a server that I built myself.

    Despite this, I don't have a damn clue what "virtualized through Proxmox" means any time I read it.

  • Immortal Dread Lich Genocide Joe

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  • Post history indicates a neck beard edgelord who is seemingly not bad at being a network admin and seemingly very bad at social interactions. So, could go either way.

  • How do I make enough money to live?

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  • I feel like you took this very strangely... I'm in no way degrading these jobs. I brought them up because they have more flexible hours than a 9-5, and therefore you can use one of these jobs to supplement a 9-5 if you need to.

    I very intentionally put the word "unskilled" in quotes, and then clarified that that means "no college degree necessary", because I do not believe these are skill-less jobs - that's just a common term that people might see and I was literally clarifying what it actually means.

    I am an educated and experienced person. I also worked like crazy during college to afford food, school, and my rent. In addition to sometimes having an internship, I worked extra hours at a moving company running boxes up and down stairs all summer or in the dead of winter during break for $12/hr. I worked 70-80 hour weeks, 7 days a week, every week I was not actively in school classes.

    I absolutely agree that no one should need a second job to survive. The working class in the US (where I am from and assume OP is from) is subjugated to all hell. Plenty of studies have shown that employees are happier and more productive overall with 4 day work weeks instead of 5, 36 hours instead of 40, etc. Our tax dollars should be going to infrastructure and education and social health care for everyone, instead of the weapons contractors and military size that no one fucking needs. We are worked too hard for the benefit of the select few at the top and it's fucking terrible and I hate it.

    But OP asked for a solution to his problem, right now. Systemically we have so, so much to fix. But today, literally today, OP could walk into a coffee shop or grocery store or moving company and ask for a part time job and likely start one by the end of the week. It's horrible that he should have to do that to afford his car and his rent and his food. But I just wanted to share that this is something he can do, right now, to avoid finding himself homeless. That is what I meant by "band aid" fix. I truly hope that he is able to find something more stable soon. And while it feels almost impossible, I hope our society somehow learns to value the lives of individuals over the demands of lobbying corporations.

  • How do I make enough money to live?

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  • I don't know what your current job is, but assuming you work 40 hour weeks, a temporary bandaid is a second job. Wait staff, coffee shop, moving company, landscaping, local bike shop, grocery store - all these offer $16/hr or more for "unskilled" (no college degree) labor. Pick up weekend and evening shifts. You'll burn out after a few years of this, but it can tide you over while you work on upskilling yourself.

  • what do you think of mit??

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  • I honestly can't tell if you're trolling...

    But to give you the benefit of the doubt, MIT is a school. There's nothing very exciting about it, I'm sorry. The students are smart, but so are students at a lot of universities. It's not really any better than the others, except for some name recognition. They teach the same things, they provide the same opportunities.

    Stallman didn't even go there. He went to Harvard for his bachelor's degree and was a "visiting researcher" at MIT. MIT has some cool research projects, but many many technical universities in the USA have those. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Stevens Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon, hell just any school that has graduate students and a computer science department.

    Now don't get me wrong, Boston is a great city (I live here, I love it) and MIT is a good school. But that's it, it's just good. Many many many smart people have come from other schools. Linus Torvalds has had an even greater impact on some of the topics you seem to care about than Stallman, and he went to the University of Helsinki in Finland. Schools are just schools.

  • If you could create your own country, what would you name it?

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  • Ware.

    "Where are you from?" "Yes, exactly" "...what?" "No, Ware".

  • what do you think of mit??

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  • I live right near it, and have a lot of friends that went there. Not a strong opinion. Fortunately for you, you'll find these two things at almost any university in the United States:

    • A Computer Science department that actually teaches the exact same curriculum as MIT.
    • An English department that will teach you how to use capitalization and punctuation in sentences.