whotookkarl

whotookkarl , 10 hours ago

Every labor shortage is a capital shortage. If you compensate better for pretty much any job people will work them. It’s employers trying to shift the blame, but if they want 500 widgets but can only afford to employ enough staff to make 50 widgets it’s not the employees fault they didn’t get an extra 450 widgets for free, labor doesn’t work that way.

whotookkarl , 1 day ago

Sorry those are actually pixies that give you diarrhea if you get angry at your parents

whotookkarl , 1 day ago

You don’t even need to get good most of the time if you just spend more time learning the game by playing it’s mostly a knowledge check. Fully upgraded weapon (way more important than leveling dmg stats passed min req), npc and PC summons, get vigor up in the 40-50 range, mark your map and come back later, etc. You could play it like a fighting game training against bosses to learn their moves or just go somewhere else to grind levels or equipment to come back later for an easier fight.

whotookkarl , 2 days ago

As someone who conferenced some basic ML research in early 2000s and then left academia for a boring/stable software engineering gig in a non IT org to escape the hype bubble only to end up having to talk to people about ML/AI frequently this article speaks to me.

whotookkarl , 6 days ago

If you had reasonable copyright terms like 5 years and a requirement to release code/digital artifacts for library archival once it becomes public commons?

whotookkarl , 6 days ago

Lobste.rs is pretty active too for tech focused topics

whotookkarl , 6 days ago

If you’re asking why wealthy people run to Switzerland specifically I have to assume it is in part due to the history of banks that make disclosing ownership a crime making them useful to hide capital in offshore accounts to dodge taxes in their home country, stash money related to crime or exploitation, laundering, etc. While their money may be stored anonymously once they show up in person they themselves are no longer anonymous and subject to arrest.

whotookkarl , 6 days ago

According to people who answer polls

whotookkarl , 10 days ago

Pretty much all of the command line coreutils programs I use daily are in C; cd, ls, pwd, touch, rm, etc. If I want to write some small utility I’ll usually reach for a scripting language first like bash python ruby etc, but if it needs to be small and fast I’ll use C instead.

whotookkarl , 9 days ago

I don’t have anything against Rust, I’m just not very familiar with it

whotookkarl , 9 days ago

So if the same applies to Russia Putin is okay with a foreign country invading Russia based on lies, capturing territory, targeting and murdering civilians and kidnapping children, violating treaties, and they would accept a ceasefire with the invader keeping everything they currently hold to regroup for another assault? Get the fuck out of here

whotookkarl , 10 days ago

Just got red dead 2 for sale on console for 20 bucks, planning on starting it tonight.

whotookkarl , 10 days ago

Thanks, I’ve heard a lot of people enjoyed it so I’m pretty excited! I do that a lot with longer games, play like half then come back months later

whotookkarl , 11 days ago

Flat cars theory

whotookkarl , 10 days ago

One track lover

whotookkarl , 11 days ago

RTO or taking away any employee benefits is a great way to lose your best performing employees

whotookkarl , 11 days ago

Employment is not a preclusion to imprisonment. If he wanted to stay out of prison maybe he should think about that before breaking the law and ignoring a congressional subpoena. If he didn’t want it to happen during an election why did he appeal for 2 years first?

whotookkarl , 12 days ago

I’m usually pretty good with Tuesdays

whotookkarl , 12 days ago

Crime rates dropping in US, multiple companies working with NASA for ISS access, direct observation of gravitational waves, left reddit for Lemmy, multiple COVID vaccines in like a year from outbreak, more usage of renewable energy sources, etc. There are some obvious problems we need to get together and address as communities, countries, and species, but there are a bunch of improvements and advancements being made too.

whotookkarl , 12 days ago

How did this person graduate fifth grade?

whotookkarl , 13 days ago

Probably take a break for a month or two then look for some oss project or activism to participate in, play more music and video games, etc.

whotookkarl , 13 days ago

It’s not that intercessory prayer needs to work 100% to be convincing, it just needs to beat random chance and it doesn’t do that.

Natural processes can describe how those things came to exist without needing to appeal to supernatural claims or gods.

You’ve seen things you attribute to a god, but people in other religions attribute the same things to their god and so far I don’t think anyone has shown empirical evidence for any gods, and I don’t know about you but I use empirical evidence when changing my confidence on whether something or someone exists or doesn’t.

Many people have a negative opinion on organized religion because we can see the negative effects believing things without sufficient evidence can have on individuals and communities.

whotookkarl , 15 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/854a140f-3a91-4018-a411-4d0c182e7abd.jpeg

whotookkarl , 16 days ago

But it’s so much easier if you just start with a conclusion instead of all the way back at observation. You don’t have to do any work for soundness at all, just ignore facts that disagree with what you want to believe.

whotookkarl , 17 days ago

I’m not even one trillion in debt

whotookkarl , 16 days ago

Meanwhile the governor of Texas is pardoning jury convicted murderers like Daniel Perry for political gain.

whotookkarl , 17 days ago

‘Boojz wah’, or if I’m feeling silly bourguignon. But I’d probably be more likely to use ‘middle class’ instead of the French.

whotookkarl , 17 days ago

Which is a really weird interpretation considering the very next sentence in Matthew 5:18:

“18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.”

whotookkarl , 17 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

Ah yes, the Magnetic Resonance Imaging laser because that’s how it works.

whotookkarl , 17 days ago

If everyone stopped tipping at the same time, say labor day, then businesses would need to properly pay their staff again. As soon as tipping became expected the whole system was fucked.

whotookkarl , 19 days ago

I would be ecstatic if every journalist who talked to mtg or any public menace selling unfounded bullshit conspiracies just kept asking for source? whenever she says anything in public to drive home the point just how one note their song really is.

whotookkarl , 19 days ago

That’s weird because earlier in the same chapter it contradicts exactly what you said that he’s not changing any of the old testament laws except for I think animal sacrifices he talks about specifically elsewhere:

17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished."

The reason the Christian bible includes the old testament afaik is because when the new testament gospels were being written 70+ years after Jesus died they wanted to convert Jewish people so they wrote how Jesus fulfills prophecies made in the Hebrew bible.

whotookkarl , 19 days ago

Even if you could accept that interpretation of fulfillment that would mean the “heaven and the earth disappear” already happened, which I’m pretty sure isn’t the case.

whotookkarl , 19 days ago

No love for paleolithic design?

whotookkarl , 19 days ago

I prefer my domes thunder or teapot scandal

whotookkarl , 20 days ago

Obviously not their job and it’s his own actions being a racist piece of shit landlord in NYC that turned the public against him before he switched to Republican, and none of this is convenient when you only have two parties and one is stumbling over itself to be as despicable as possible and both prefer oligarchy over democracy.

whotookkarl , 20 days ago

Infinite patience and forgiveness for themselves, infinite hate and oppression for everyone else.

whotookkarl , 10 days ago

It’s the Link’s Awakening of Mario games

whotookkarl , 21 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7f69bbdf-1457-418f-94f0-cdf9b3cd1900.jpeg

whotookkarl , 22 days ago

Zombie outbreak movie but instead it’s all p-zombies muttering this nonsense

whotookkarl , 22 days ago

If you’re switching a couple extensions are uBlock origin and no script with Firefox, prevents most ads and lets you choose which hosts to accept JavaScript from temporarily or permanently.

whotookkarl , 22 days ago

I dunno about the history but single page apps like react apps you can just accept the JS from the actual host in the address bar and leave all the rest turned off. Just tested on twitch. Accepting no JS loaded the home page and a spinner gif after selecting a stream. Accepted just twitch.tv and I could see the video stream and chat without having to accept any of the other hosts blocked.

whotookkarl , 23 days ago

Perhaps an artifact from an earlier abiogenesis event that cannibalized itself before our own evolutionary tree started?

whotookkarl , 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

About two years too late for me to accept apologies on post pandemic price gouging, already cancelled prime and use local groceries over corpo stores. In general they have better quality of selection and prices most of the time, plus it encourages me to explore more variety of small groceries from other cultures, farmers markets, etc.

Similar with fast food if you want to charge me 16 bucks for a meal I’m going to an actual restaurant instead

whotookkarl , 24 days ago

Yeah definitely a privilege of living in a pretty densely populated area with lots of options and even here some have closed, including some of the larger populations of Asian and middle eastern immigrants in the area running many of the smaller shops.

whotookkarl , 25 days ago

I’ve unlocked the secrets of the universe: two baskets

whotookkarl , 25 days ago

Pretty sure the people actually using it in a derogatory manner don’t care about common usage or meaning and use it as a placeholder for the n* word when talking in public. Urban, woke, DEI, East coast elite, etc is all just bigotry and racism.

whotookkarl , 25 days ago

It’s in Michigan and you can use a phone while driving afaik just can’t hold it, but dash mount is okay