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steeznson

@ steeznson @lemmy.world

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  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • Friend and I were joking about 120 Days of Sodom so I decided I should pick it up to see what the fuss was about... Huge mistake! It is more deviant than I possibly imagined a book that old being (and I was aware the first draft was written on toilet paper lol)

  • Why don't we eat dolphins?

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  • The other white meat

  • Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles

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  • I kind of got caught out by this by attending A&E with severe uveitis. It turns out there are no eye specialist departments or referrals from A&E so it all needs to happen through private opticians. Personally did not realise opticians could do prescriptions beyond prescribing specific lens types.

    My eye was so swollen that it ultimately needed atropine to unstick my pupil from the lens, in addition to steroids to fix the underlying condition.

  • Gentoo experience?

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  • Does seem like being funny helps with running for president these days

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    Do you think 20 is too young for a guy to get married?

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  • Everyone in the comments are ignoring the tax advantages of being married. Let's focus on the real issues, folks.

  • 93 murders in London in 12 months to October. The city's murder rate is now lowest for decades

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  • Curious about the adult figures because I'd guess they are lower but obviously can't say anything for sure.

  • 93 murders in London in 12 months to October. The city's murder rate is now lowest for decades

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  • You'll get cheffed up and put in a spliff if you set foot in central London

  • Your task is to blow a job interview in the first 30 seconds. What do you do?

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  • Actually as someone who does sometimes do interviews: acting like an asshole with a big ego will wreck your chances big time.

  • Why do NetBSD and OpenBSD have more lines of code than Linux?

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  • One reason is that the coreutils in Linux use a lot of hacky or hard to read tricks to improve performance. OpenBSD explicitly wanted to make their source code more legible. FWIW I prefer the Linux approach.

  • Your task is to blow a job interview in the first 30 seconds. What do you do?

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  • Tell them I could do the interview better than them

  • My parents like Pete Hegseth. How is this possible?

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  • I've got a couple dumb friends/colleagues too but just change the subject when they mention politics

  • Rockstar Games fires over 30 employees, all were part of pro-union Discord group, "one of the most blatant and ruthless acts of union busting in the history of the games industry"

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  • Game dev is predatory because people can and will do it for free. Many "dream jobs" have this issue.

  • 'Multiple people' stabbed on train in Huntingdon

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  • Rockstar Games fires over 30 employees, all were part of pro-union Discord group, "one of the most blatant and ruthless acts of union busting in the history of the games industry"

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  • It was like 5 years ago but I heard a family friend working there was making 27k as a mid level dev.

  • How do you work at a job where you fundamentally disagree with the company's ethics?

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  • Yes, I experience something similar working for one of the two major gambling companies in the US. It is possible to move and get a raise; several colleagues have done so moving to Black Rock or JP Morgan which both have high barriers to entry and are more demanding of your time.

    I'm based in the UK so not sure if the job market is as toxic as the US with LLM CVs and HR/TA processing of said CVs. When I did recruiting a year or so ago I found a lot of CVs that people had generated from their LinkedIn profiles and they looked terrible: do not say you are a 10X developer rockstar on your CV!

    At the moment I've been at the company for over 2 years so that affords me a lot of rights in the UK and in a climate where there are a lot of layoffs, I'd hesitate to move. Like a few years back I was being spammed with recruiters trying to get me to join Spotify months before they axed their entire data team - if I'd gone for it I would have been totally screwed and with a mortgage I don't feel I can take risks.

  • British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview

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  • It's a business: They want to avoid controversy and this musician is controversial.

    Sucks, because he is probably right or at least not wrong in his views, but this is the society we've all built together.

  • How do you work at a job where you fundamentally disagree with the company's ethics?

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  • I work in gambling and have done for over 3 years. I do it for the paycheck.

    Edit: My last job was in adtech doing web attribution online and I initially thought at least the gambling customers are willingly signing up instead of just being spied on without their consent in many cases... Then I read some of the comments on my company's subreddit and it made me wonder if certan customers were able to consent in a meaningful sense.

  • [Mujin] It's Time to Accept That Nintendo is a Supervillain

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  • Maybe they are just a company... Idk how people even developed a parasocial relationship with it

  • What's up with FUTO?

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