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xthexder

@ xthexder @l.sw0.com

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  • Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

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  • I'm guessing companies aren't hiring fully remote new grads. And to be honest, I think that would be really tough as an employee, because it can be so hard to learn from coworkers while remote. Getting started on a new remote team is rough enough as it is

  • Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates

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  • 2008 was a very difficult job market for sure. Even around 2017 when I graduated it was quite difficult from now. Entry level positions have evaporated in the last 6-7 years

  • Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates

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  • Honestly Seattle is a pretty good place for tech jobs, it's just that the cost of living isn't much better than California or other big tech hubs.

  • SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink

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  • That makes sense then. When people talk about their ISP ping, they're usually talking about how long it takes to get out of the ISP's network. So that 5ms Cloudflare ping is likely pretty close to what people would consider your internet's ping.

    Speedtest.net is a really common tool for measuring this, since it will automatically check where the closest server is. For your connection, any ping above 5ms you can probably assume is based on your physical distance to the server, or latency on the server's end. I'm guessing Google doesn't have a server quite as close to you as Cloudflare

  • SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink

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  • You're probably really far away from the VR Chat server. Try pinging Google or Cloudflare, which will tell you ping to the nearest datacenter (a rough estimate of ping caused by your local ISP).

    Based on their numbers, you could probably expect 50-100ms to Google, and then add an extra 90ms to get from there to your VR Chat server.

    My personal fiber connection gets under 2ms ping on Speedtest

  • Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal

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  • I have this pre-existing accessibility condition where I can't read sites with ads on them. I've been blocking ads my whole life and have a visceral reaction to other people's browsers if they don't have an ad blocker.

    I don't see how they could possibly ban ad blockers but not screen readers or ther "focused" modes. If they do, I guess I'll just pretend I'm blind

  • The vibecoders are becoming sentient

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  • "What do you do? "Oh, I work in AI Disaster Response"

  • The vibecoders are becoming sentient

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  • I like this mentality. I might start telling people the same thing

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  • a few millionth of a billionth of a second

    What even is that... we have units in multiples of 1000 for a reason. 1 femtosecond, or 1 millionth of a nanosecond.

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  • I love catching bots in tarpits, it's actually quite fun

  • 88% of Canadians support Air Canada flight attendants, new poll confirms

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  • This strike made my family have to cancel their trip, so I won't be seeing them this week. I still support the flight attendants striking. No way I'd want to be working in those conditions, and forcing people to go back to work isn't the answer.

  • What do you call your production branch?

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  • Untitled-project2_final_fixed-3.zip

  • Volkswagen Planning Subscription-Based Horsepower Upgrades

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  • Many people do just have one set of rims and have a tire shop swap them out. In that case they wouldn't have to charge the sensors, but you need to pay someone with a tire machine every time then. I have 2 full sets of wheels so that means I can change them out myself at home, which is particularly useful if there's ever a surprise early snowstorm or I've been procrastinating swapping them.

    Having proper snow tires with their soft rubber and special tread pattern definitely makes a huge difference in cold-weather traction. Even if the road is dry but below freezing, a winter tire will handle a bit better because a summer tire's rubber is designed for higher temperatures and will go stiff in the cold. The tread pattern is designed to have snow pack in and stick to it, since snow sliding on snow is actually higher friction than rubber on snow. With the right tires you'll bottom out your car in the snow before you get stuck from loss of traction. Pure ice is a bit of a different story. The only real solution for that is tires with metal studs in them, but they're illegal to use on the public roads in the city because they tear up the asphalt.

  • Volkswagen Planning Subscription-Based Horsepower Upgrades

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  • If you buy a new set of wheels, the pressure sensors for the valve stems also cost extra, and I think have to be paired with the car using a scan tool, depending on the manufacturer. So if you've got separate winter and summer tires, the sensors have to get updated each time you change. (Maybe some manufacturers have figured out how to auto-pair based on proximity? but idk)

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  • Ah, I didn't realize the original Doom had multiplayer. It's a little hard to search for since now all that shows up is online multiplayer mods for it / source ports that came after

  • Volkswagen Planning Subscription-Based Horsepower Upgrades

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  • For the tire pressure thing, that's because VW doesn't actually use sensors in the wheels. They calculate wheel circumference as you're driving and warn you if it changes, meaning you have a flat. On the one hand, you don't have to worry about sensors if you have winter tires, but on the other... having it show PSI would be nice.

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  • I don't think there were multiplayer FPSs until Quake in 1996

  • This website is for humans

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  • This site loaded so quickly it actually surprised me. I swear I've got apps on my phone that can't even switch views faster than this site loads uncached. That's impressive.

  • This website is for humans

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  • It's one request Michael, what could it cost? 200kb?