astreus 6 days ago • 100%
That's pretty much this labour summed up!
I welcome Conservative Policy but I believe we need to go further! After all, have enough grannies frozen to death?
EDIT: Since reading about this, I've changed my mind. Finding better ways to means test a relatively wealthy generation is not a bad idea.
astreus 6 days ago • 100%
Completely agree, and through no fault of our own. We've not been raised to be informed or taught how to become informed. A lot of people struggling through after the propaganda blitz of education and the mind-numbing effects of modern labour & surveillance capitalism.
astreus 6 days ago • 100%
Whether Trump or Harris wins, the US military is still the single largest institutional emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.
Will global warming be accelerated under Trump? Yeah, probably, but the problem is here and now. Without addressing the US military complex emissions and billionaires taking space walks, the speed is a relatively moot point.
astreus 2 months ago • 100%
Honestly? A really good therapist, reading some very interesting books, and prioritising building a community & finding my people.
astreus 2 months ago • 100%
For the first time in a while, this hasn't been me! Small victories.
astreus 2 months ago • 100%
That's true, however Tesla's relevance in that market has really dwindled:
Tesla gross profit for the quarter ending March 31, 2024 was $3.696B, a 18.07% decline year-over-year. Tesla gross profit for the twelve months ending March 31, 2024 was $16.845B, a 15.37% decline year-over-year. Tesla annual gross profit for 2023 was $17.66B, a 15.31% decline from 2022.
the global satellite market was $4.23B last year
The thing is SpaceX and Starlink have weathered the Elon Musk storm. Starlink was predicted to make $6.6B in revs of, as you said, a market that is currently much smaller. Sure, it's not profit and firing things into space isn't cheap (nor desirable and should be legislated against). However, they're filling the niche and as EV manufacture ramps up, and with Tesla's image tainted, I do think Musk (and those around him) will be looking a bit more towards the steady government money.
astreus 2 months ago • 70%
I think you really need to ask yourself why you’re willing to either lie or be so easily manipulated
Totally unnecessary. You're comparing a publicly traded company running on memes and a strange cult of personality to private valuation.
Now that China and other domestic competitors have ramped up EV production Tesla's dominance of the niche is going to fall, especially considering the flop that was the Cybertruck and the brand damage Elon has committed.
We are already seeing protectionist measures being enacted for the EV sector.
In short, SpaceX and Starlink have a market to dominate (whether we want it to or not, it seems) while Tesla, a grossly overvalued company, is only going to see more competition and deepened irrelevancy.
4thewords are increasing their price from $40 a year (equivalent in-app currency) to a straight subscription model for $144 a year. I've never seen a hike quite like this and I'm now priced out. Is there any other similar gamification tools for writing out there?
astreus 3 months ago • 100%
How true is this or are we doing the same thing "generation killed industry/way of doing things" that the boomer media is so fond of?
astreus 3 months ago • 100%
This, like the tariffs on EVs, shows the US would rather people died than lose even a smidge of influence.
astreus 3 months ago • 100%
But the Gaza government agencies are run by the political arm of Hamas? I don't understand how that makes it lib?
astreus 3 months ago • 100%
I actually tried a daily slack bot instead. The team HATED it with a passion. And the amount of productivity lost on other teams to a backend engineer blocking a systems designer being blocked by a UX flow etc is insanely large. We have never missed a deadline, hit all our revenue targets, and get much. much larger features done in 2/3rds of the time of the next nearest team. Part of that is because we've made sure to reinforce the concept that we are a single team instead of a group of server engineers, backened engineers, frontend engineers, system designers, [removed to protect identity] designers, econ specialists, UX designers, UI artists, and QA working in their own bubble.
astreus 3 months ago • 100%
I mean it really depends on the team. My role is as much translator as anything else. I have:
Infrastructure/Server
Backend
Frontend
Designers (three different kinds)
Performance/Econ specialists
QA
Hearing "Oh I didn't know that, yeah we need to sync" is a common occurrence and on a team of nearly 20 people we never take more than 15mins. We have shared deadlines, shared goals, and work on shared user stories. Having that moment in the morning to go "okay, am I blocking anyone without realising it?" or "I gotta remember to make sure design knows the spreadsheet won't have the thing they were expecting today, it'll be Tuesday instead" is well worth the time.
On top of that, with WFH it's a really good way to cement the team aspect. I wouldn't care so much if we were in the office, but all being remote means we lose the "human" behind the screen a lot.
As I said, different teams and different projects need different things, but I'd argue the reason my team is the number one performing in the entire company is, in part, due to this morning time to get that alignment.
astreus 3 months ago • 94%
Depends on the team. My team do daily standup and it helps. A lot. "What are you working on today and do you need any help to get it done" is a super powerful question to make sure we're all focusing on the same priorities and sharing the knowledge we have, especially in a team of mixed disciplines.
astreus 4 months ago • 100%
My favourite bit is when Wikipedia itself is like "the 10,000 claim was made by one dude who basically instantly retracted it and claimed the still unplausibly high number of 2,000".
Also, the Tank Man photographer talks about the protestors throwing molotov cocktails and beating police officers to death.
And the whole "China pretends it didn't happen"...they have official death estimates. 300 people. The US have their own estimate. 900 people. But no matter the number, it was much fewer than the protest leaders had hoped for.
To quote one of the protest leaders "What we actually are hoping for is bloodshed, the moment when the government is ready to brazenly butcher the people. Only when the Square is awash with blood will the people of China open their eyes" - Chai Ling
By the way, that person is alive and well running a firm that fires people for not praying at work.
astreus 4 months ago • 75%
It is. The meme has four glottel stops, this has three. The meme has the "el" removed, this doesn't. Weirdly, the meme has the "o" sound removed for for "of" as well.
It's an entirely fictitious way of pronouncing something, it equates a very, very small subset of the country with "Britain" and is a great example of "fake American British accent" becoming the "norm" to the extent where British voice actors are training to put on voices to sound "more British" (such as Tracer in Overwatch).
The meme might as well say "burdle der wurder" and claim it's how American's say it - kinda close, but also really far 🤷
astreus 4 months ago • 100%
THAT'S how Americans think British people pronounce it? I was looking at the image for ages trying to sound it out.
Please tell me no one seriously thinks this?
"Worst" case I can think of is "Bo'el o' wa'er" and even that is incredibly limited to like...four boroughs of London.
astreus 4 months ago • 100%
Or, hear me out, restoring native ecosystem is in itself anti-colonial. This is the weirdest whataboutism I've seen in a bit.
astreus 4 months ago • 100%
Pretty much the entire 4X mobile market, sadly.
astreus 4 months ago • 100%
AbeBooks was bought by Amazon in 2008.
astreus 4 months ago • 100%
I knew someone would say this, which is why I also used Spain where the houses are as expensive, the pay is worse, and the tax is higher!
It doesn't matter where you go in the West, the dream of liberalism is dead
astreus 4 months ago • 100%
To add to this, the rule of thumb in the UK is your maximum loan is 4.5x your salary.
The average worker could borrow about £157,000.
astreus 4 months ago • 100%
Water in soil = water in the pores of the soil
Groundwater = water below the water table
astreus 4 months ago • 100%
Oh sweet summer child, no.
astreus 4 months ago • 97%
It's not just America though.
Where I'm from:
UK average income before tax) £34,963 - £27,911 after tax (assuming NO student loan and NO pension) (for context: a band 3 nurse with 3 years experience makes £24,336 before tax or £20,631.51 after with no pension)
England average house price: £375,131
Approx ratio after tax: 13:1
Minimum deposit: 5% - £18,756.55
Tax: 0% on first time buyers
Fees: about £1,000 - £5,000
Total cost to get going: Approx £21,750 - nearly a years wage.
Now let's look where I live: Spain!
Turns out Spain really is a load of countries wearing a hat so getting unified stats is not easy. Let's try Barcelona:
Average income before tax: €33,837 - €25,470 after tax
Average house price: €376,399
Approx ratio after tax: 15:1
Minimum deposit: 10% - €37,639.90
Purchase tax: 10% - €37,639.90 (plus 1.5% for new builds)
Fees: 2 - 5% - 7,527.98 - 18,819.95
Total cost to get going: €82,807.78 - €94,099.75
Turns out treating housing as a market to speculate on might just be the problem all along.
astreus 4 months ago • 88%
astreus 4 months ago • 96%
*Pay to be enslaved
astreus 4 months ago • 100%
I turned privacy.resistFingerprinting to true and now get an absolutely unique fingerprint on the tool
astreus 4 months ago • 94%
"We invented a new kind of calculator. It usually returns the correct value for the mathematics you asked it to evaluate! But sometimes it makes up wrong answers for reasons we don't understand. So if it's important to you that you know the actual answer, you should always use a second, better calculator to check our work."
Then what is the point of this new calculator?
Fantastic comment, from the article.
astreus 4 months ago • 70%
Lol it's a lyric from dead prez, wouldn't get bent out of shape about it. Literally written in 2000 - I can't even find stats that old 🤷
astreus 4 months ago • 100%
This led me on a deep dive of the banned Palestine conference in Germany and I found Yanis Varoufakis' speech.
"How much Palestinian blood must flow before your, justified, guilt over the Holocaust is washed away?" - that line hits so hard
astreus 4 months ago • 100%
Okay this sounds interesting as a short term solution (though I don't see what the medium and long term solutions will be) - I'd be interested in knowing what companies are benefiting from this and how much, etc and what the transition plans will be.
But there is one majorly fucked up part of the plan: this is an untested methodology, so they're testing it under the homes of black and poor communities. Louisianan does not disappoint.
astreus 4 months ago • 100%
Going to go away and read about this. As a Brit living in Spain, I know very little about the ins and outs of what's going on there.
astreus 4 months ago • 100%
Kinda like the Imperial measurement system, if you are being compared to Myanmar then perhaps stop?
astreus 4 months ago • 64%
There's a reason the average black male spends 1/3 of their life in prison in America.
And then has the right to vote taken away when they get out....
astreus 4 months ago • 100%
Same thing that happens when other slaves are hurt or killed on the job.
Not a hell of a lot.
astreus 4 months ago • 88%
carbon capture facilities
These are a known scam, by the way. It's just repackaging a technique oil companies already use to squeeze more oil out of the same fields and charge the government and consumers for the pleasure of feeling like they've done something.
astreus 4 months ago • 100%
Are those labels really needed?
astreus 4 months ago • 100%
Honestly thought this is where it was going
astreus 4 months ago • 100%
Fascist and populist are not mutually exclusive.
astreus 4 months ago • 58%
"Google never specified which of her 222,000 words was inappropriate. There were no highlighted sections, no indicators of what had rendered her documents unshareable. Had one of her readers flagged the content without discussing it with her first? "
So much of her work could have broken the T&Cs that she can't identify what it could be without highlights.
Original Wired article says later in it that Google thought she was spamming
Different author, but if that's the case (and it seems this author shares files to over 80 people in one go) then it's a spam filter issue? Again, non story.
The headline is a complete lie.
Before the humble bundle came out, I bought the GameDev.tv "complete" Godot course - I had a good early bird discount since I've used them for Unity. Over the past few years, I have completed the 2D, 3D, and several of the RPG intermediate courses for unity as well as a Blender course so was super excited for this new one! And then was super disappointed. I start with the 2D course every time and this one was...hollow. Super empty. Maybe a quarter of the content as the Unity course with a *lot* of basic things missing and some *really* bad practice promoted. I did the whole course on 1.25x speed and still had to skip through a lot of waffle. I'm now doing courses for free on Youtube and have learnt far, far more. It really is a shame as I'm a fan of GameDev.tv, but they really missed the mark with the Godot offering. EDIT: clarity
Hi! I've been making games for a little while, though nothing too fancy - mostly mobile platformers, delivery games, and visual novels. I recently moved from Unity to Godot and finished the "Complete" Godot 2D course on Gamedev.tv. I want to challenge myself and have a really strong design for an AR mobile game. I have never programmed an AR app before. I have found dozens of courses/tutorials for Unity, but none for Godot. Does anyone have any suggestions? I've read the documentation, but would much rather a hands on tutorial or course.
Came but to NMS after about 2 years off. Played a new permadeath game with a friend, no other options changed from normal. But I couldn't last more than a few minutes. Had to sprint to ferrus, I had to sprint to sodium, and even then I died about 50% of the time. Three sodium plants got me to maybe 30% hazard protection. My hazard protection was ticking down at 1% per second. Falling from any height (even jetpack softened) meant my jetpack broke. And after four attempts, I finally got the ship and recharged to max with a good ten harvested sodium plants before going off on the Hermetic Seal quest. Half way there, the game throws a storm at me. Totally open ground, no shelter at all. And my entire stock of Sodium goes in seconds and then I die. My friend's hazard protection was going down a *lot* slower, even when we were next to each other and his sodium filled him up a *lot* more (he said about 50 to full, I needed over 100 to full). No idea what I did wrong.
Recently I feel like I'm working, sleeping, or waiting for work to start. I hate it, I can't figure out how to break this waiting mode. Does anyone have any advise? EDIT: That ADHD moment where you see loads of people have given great advice, but there's so much it's overwhelming! Thank you all, I'll try and go through and implement what I can
I've been diving headfirst into the world of short story magazines and found some absolute gems!! Khoreo Magazine has been my absolute favourite so far! I 100% recommend it. Diaspora-focused speculative fiction, usually with very novel story telling techniques and beautiful artwork. Clarkesworld I've found to be pretty hit and miss, though the hits make it worth it! Some really great new and established authors with vivid sci-fi stories. CRAFT has been great for a more literary and CNF bent. Do you subscribe to any creative magazines? If so, which ones? If not, why not?
What do you want to achieve this year as a writer and how's it going? I'm writing a drabble a day and posting them online. I'm editing a short story and want to send it off to some magazines. And I'm reading way more than usual!
I'm looking for a place to share my short stories and flash fiction, get comments and critiques, and give feedback in return. There are a fair few websites but they all seem to either focus on smut or fanfiction. Do you have any recommendations for active writing communities?
Flicking through the front page and around half of all posts have the world "rule" in the title. What's that about?