vntx

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by vntx 6mo ago
The Navy guy tried too hard to sell the upsides without telling me any of the downsides and I knew there were a lot of downsides. Said my asvab score could get me in nuke and great pay, that I could see the world. The Air Froce guy told me
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by vntx 6mo ago
I went into the armed forces recruiting office a year or two ago for Air Force Cyber and the adjacent Army and Navy recruiters were complaining that no one wanted to join while everyone was asking for Air Force when the Air Force recruiter
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by vntx 10mo ago
Thanks for the insights and great advice.
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by vntx 10mo ago
Mind giving some examples of works you've experienced as 'bad'? I've been looking into hobby writing myself and I know my beginning work is going to be atrocious but it would be helpful to have some examples of what not
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by vntx 1y ago
If making fun of Altman's nose will get your account deleted, will giving it a compliment help reinstate the account? Serious question.
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by vntx 3y ago
How is it the same? Apple runs a closed ecosystem and has shown it doesn’t care for gaming for a long time so its user should know that by now. Linux is an open platform and the results show. SteamDeck is running on Linux and can run most S
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by vntx 3y ago
Wow, that many guarantees should persuade me to base my tech stack on Bun and Zig. Seriously, I think this question is worth asking. Why was Zig chosen as the language when it’s not even stable, and what implications does this have for the
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by vntx 3y ago
> Why would you invest yourself in a space like that? Low barrier to entry. Convenience. Ease of use. Sign-up and now you can talk to your friends from across the world! Now, you have to be force-fed shit ads along the way. I don’t think
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by vntx 3y ago
The MacGyver military-industrial complex is something you just have to see to believe. Cheap Macguyver warfare makes a lot of sense economically for an economy like Ukraine’s. Meanwhile in the US: On top of the $22.4 billion it cost in res
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by vntx 3y ago
It would to me. Any employer who wouldn’t negotiate on something like this for a job that does not require being in-office is potentially toxic. Commuting can be expensive and even potentially dangerous. Car, insurance, gas, dangerous traff
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by vntx 3y ago
I did actually, but it gave a massive amount of errors so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it seems like I don’t miss it that much.
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by vntx 3y ago
I was getting sick of Window’s bloat and telemetry so I replaced Windows on every single one of my computers with PopOS! and have never looked back. The transition was rough ( I basically gave up gaming to learn programming) but I have no r
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by vntx 5y ago
I've been using DDG for a few months for almost all my searches now. It gets me the results I want almost all the time. When I do switch to google when DDG isn't enough, google gives me SEO crap and I go back to DDG, rephrase and
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by vntx 5y ago
Q: Is life short? A: It's actually quite long. LOL. That's not the message I got from Life is Short. OTOH, there's a chance I may be severely misinterpreting his essay.
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by vntx 5y ago
Read my comment again. I made no mention of education systems implemented in communist states. I said educational communism, education where everyone is pulled towards the mean no matter their individual effort or talent.
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by vntx 5y ago
Exactly. I have no idea how people can’t differentiate between educational communism and education systems that were implemented in communist states. Was my wording too confusing?
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by vntx 5y ago
I don’t like those MBAs anymore than you but blaming this group is disingenuous and an oversimplification. Business schools train people to profit, and if that comes at the cost of secure supply chains and national security, who cares, it’s
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by vntx 5y ago
Indeed. A disgrace for education but a win for educational communism. It’s a good thing the US can import talent because California’s students are being trained to be cognitively lazy. How will these children fare in a society that is getti
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by vntx 5y ago
This is exactly how I felt when trying to use my smartphone for ‘productivity’. The screen is so damn small and most apps zoom in so damn close there’s no space to do anything non-trivial. It feels like I’m operating in a workspace for ants
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by vntx 5y ago
Can’t you already do this? Host your own social networks, I mean. Of course, the hard part is getting others to join it. Isn’t that why protocols like Matrix and decentralized social media platforms like Mastodon were made? So you could com
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by vntx 5y ago
Doing this is great marketing for them. Companies like Apple are insistent on locking down their hardware. Microsoft could use this as a marketing tactic to say how they’re environmentally friendly and shit on the other tech companies. It w
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by vntx 5y ago
Likely. It probaby wasn't the only thing though. The high amounts of sugar, weird fasting habits, drug use, extreme stress he put himself in, and his arrogance in ignoring sound medical advice might have all helped do him in from what
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by vntx 5y ago
Globalization is not what happened during the last few decades. Investing your entire supply chain in China is not globalization. Corona is causing a push back against sinicization. If the world actually did have globalized production, the
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by vntx 5y ago
Now you're taking my point out of context. I countered with the implication that there may be more important factors than just time for those acting in time-constrained situations to make "good" decisions and that he was over
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by vntx 5y ago
Ironic isn’t it? The author complains about people not thinking enough but his articles don’t seem well thought out either. It’s full of reductionism and oversimplications. Slowing down, concentrating, and having lots of time are definitely
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by vntx 5y ago
Riot is developing a MMO based on Runeterra. It will be interesting to see how that pans out.
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by vntx 6y ago
So was $15. I tried out and bought the game before its v1.0 release and even then the game was exceptionally stable and polished.
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by vntx 6y ago
As someone who’s gone deep down the rabbit hole of trying to learn this stuff, I’ll give this advice. Focus on learning computer science, computer architecture and networks as a foundation. Learning all this technology without understanding
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by vntx 6y ago
I think this is just a corollary of having your priorities straight. You'll likely prioritize the most important things first if you have a clear goal of what you want.
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by vntx 6y ago
Long commutes are indeed the bane of my existence. One can never feel more helpless and outraged while stuck in heavy traffic. Ironically, this pandemic has made me much happier as I don't have to drive everywhere. I finally have more

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