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luckily, the longer one has been out of the job market, the more competitive you become as an applicant. it's like fine wine
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Jan 30, 2024 21:00
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Justin Tyme posted:VRchat is basically an already existent and better metaverse experience than anything zucc or any tech weirdo could hope for, and it's only got like 20,000 some active users or something like that, like that's the user ceiling you're looking at if you're talking metaverse, except that VRchat lets you use Buff Sexy Kermit as an avatar and you have legs Yeah been watching some YT vids of people talking about it and it makes me wonder WTF Meta was spending all that money on when their poo poo looks like Miis/360 Avatars bobbing around and a bunch of furries have hacked together something that looks miles more feature-rich Makes Meta look even more pathetic than it is
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Jan 30, 2024 21:02
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the milk machine posted:luckily, the longer one has been out of the job market, the more competitive you become as an applicant. it's like fine wine You need to have 5 years of experience in ThingMaster 5000. 4000 and 6000 experience doesn't count. The competitor product Thingstar that does the thing the same way with a different UI is also not acceptable. Certification is not acceptable. All of these are enterprise only so no personal projects.
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Jan 30, 2024 21:04
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Well it doesn't help they had to have their metaverse app run on a glorified cell phone gpu, so wii graphics quality was probably aspirational more than anything pcvr (which VRchat started out on, the quest 2 version is significantly downgraded) doesn't have any graphical restrictions really but requires insanely beefy rigs to run since you're rendering everything twice Justin Tyme has issued a correction as of 21:07 on Jan 30, 2024 |
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Jan 30, 2024 21:05
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i will say that the take home exercise bullshit seems to have subsided as i haven't really run into it for a while. it's now an almost 100% auto decline if i find out it's part of the process.
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Jan 30, 2024 21:08
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skooma512 posted:You need to have 5 years of experience in ThingMaster 5000. 4000 and 6000 experience doesn't count. The competitor product Thingstar that does the thing the same way with a different UI is also not acceptable. Certification is not acceptable. All of these are enterprise only so no personal projects. yep. i've gotten to final interviews four times now and it's always "we hired someone else that has experience in ThingMaster instead of Thingstar"
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Jan 30, 2024 21:12
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Nonsense posted:It's a good idea that Apple has implemented poorly and Steve would have garroted whoever brought him that to wear Steve was an imbecile who chuffed papayas to cure cancer he'd have done whatever number convinced him of
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Jan 30, 2024 21:13
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Justin Tyme posted:Well it doesn't help they had to have their metaverse app run on a glorified cell phone gpu, so wii graphics quality was probably aspirational more than anything I guess that could explain a lot of the inherent limitations but making the thing cheap as hell to get it into as many hands as possible and own the future space by making your console a cheap POS that can't do anything remarkable or even desirable also means nobody will want to actually use it long term more than Little Johnny going online for a few hours and then getting bored I hope all the money/manhours they invested into Meta is just a complete waste and it just goes nowhere; don't need that loving weirdo owning another entire interaction medium or opening up another new frontier to amass even more capital/power
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Jan 30, 2024 21:24
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the milk machine posted:yep. i've gotten to final interviews four times now and it's always "we hired someone else that has experience in ThingMaster instead of Thingstar" i've gone through them, including vp/ceo level interviews, and they hire no one at all. lol
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Jan 30, 2024 21:27
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Mad Wack posted:no different from millennial kids with a tv in their room imo
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Jan 30, 2024 21:30
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Chad Sexington posted:I wish I had sold my PSVR while it was still worth something. It's an expensive novelty that works for a few very specific things. Like Superhot VR is amazing, amazing fun. But not much else.
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Jan 30, 2024 21:30
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Xaris posted:this new thing that’s very bad? well guess what fuckos, this old thing was also bad. therefore new bad thing is good and cool remember when people were concerned that holding cellphones up to their ear caused brain cancer?
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Jan 30, 2024 21:34
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Pulcinella posted:I do wonder at what point do the different parts of capital start trying to parasitize eachother. I'm sure insurance companies, hospital admins, and the AMA would hate it, but at what point does e.g.Walmart and Disney sit down with McConnel and say that if they want to extract more surplus value out of labor then healthcare costs need to fall. With the end result being we get a lovely form of universal healthcare. Same thing with housing and rent. before that kind of cannibalism I would expect there to be general strikes. More likely is astroturfed fake unionization campaigns on social media targeted at disrupting a particular company or industry, but the political elite collectively decide to blame on china/iran/india/etc
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Jan 30, 2024 21:37
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Xaris posted:this new thing that’s very bad? well guess what fuckos, this old thing was also bad. therefore new bad thing is good and cool yeah actually, now get out of the theater before the train comes through the screen and hits you
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Jan 30, 2024 21:45
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RealityWarCriminal posted:remember when people were concerned that holding cellphones up to their ear caused brain cancer? "What nonsense," I say, as I hold my phone close to my forehead to receive the newest DLC for the chip in my brain.
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Jan 30, 2024 21:47
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the popes toes posted:"What nonsense," I say, as I hold my phone close to my forehead to receive the newest DLC for the chip in my brain. whoopsie bad firmware update after a trip to the ER, Insurance.co informs you that the brain damage is not covered because you accepted the 300 page EULA. time to hit the secondary market for a jailbroken frontal lobe
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Jan 30, 2024 21:50
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BULBASAUR posted:whoopsie bad firmware update That's ok choom I know a guy who can hook you up
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Jan 30, 2024 21:55
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Jan 30, 2024 23:52
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Explain to me like I'm a democrat why there are record stock market gains but everyone is doing mass layoffs.
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Jan 30, 2024 23:59
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Jan 31, 2024 00:05
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Asproigerosis posted:Explain to me like I'm a democrat why there are record stock market gains but everyone is doing mass layoffs. You answered your own question. Mass layoffs = record stock market gains
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Jan 31, 2024 00:06
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Asproigerosis posted:Explain to me like I'm a democrat why there are record stock market gains but everyone is doing mass layoffs. Number loves layoffs. Layoffs are often sold as businesses responding to a bad market with "necessary cuts" but the actual motivation for firing people can be as simple as arbitrarily cutting labor costs to achieve more efficient profit extraction. Businesses see people as a cost center.
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Jan 31, 2024 00:08
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PoundSand posted:in response to Covid my previous employer did a pay freeze for 3 years and finally capitulated and gave us all a 2% pay raise in 2023 when people started leaving. it of course made us leave faster. Working at a hospital that was already below market value, covid absolutely wrecked. Turnover was easily 50% as everyone left to good pay jobs/get out of bedside care. After the hospital was hiring these people at quadruple rate as a traveler, they finally did a significant pay raise adjustment. Mine went up I think like 20%? Though that was 2 years ago and now we're back on the well below inflation for the annual raises. Health care is quite an outlier, but I think the overall theme of panicked wage increases because of the sudden loss of labor during covid and now they want to claw it all back because the record profits have slowed down is the explanation. The rising wages is just a reference to 2-3 years ago lmao.
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Jan 31, 2024 00:13
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Layoffs at business doing well = streamlining business model, losing dead weight, more money for investors - > number goes up Layoffs at business doing badly = decisive leadership, difficult decisions, finding necessary efficiencies -> number goes up plus all those other companies that laid people off? their number went up, so why do things differently. it's basically a ritual at this point, divorced from material reality
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Jan 31, 2024 00:16
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layoffs are basically the same as stock buybacks: executive management enriching themselves and shareholders before everything goes to poo poo
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Jan 31, 2024 00:22
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https://twitter.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1752398976819875843?s=20
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Jan 31, 2024 00:23
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lmao
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Jan 31, 2024 00:27
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great news
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Jan 31, 2024 00:56
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Justin Tyme posted:I have said it multiple times over the years but a LOT of problems could be solved if rents weren't so loving high. It's such a huge knock on impact that braindead economists don't consider. It's a loving black hole anchor around the economy that contributes nothing. why do you think they’re stupid or that any of these things are problems? they’re not on our side
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Jan 31, 2024 01:04
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ArmedZombie posted:layoffs are basically the same as stock buybacks: executive management enriching themselves and shareholders before everything goes to poo poo the rapacious capitalist doesn't need a reason beyond "I'm cashing out before this falls apart", and layoffs are a part of that process.
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Jan 31, 2024 01:10
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Usa is threatening to put Venezuelan sanctions back in place already lol
Mr Hootington has issued a correction as of 01:24 on Jan 31, 2024 |
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Jan 31, 2024 01:17
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if we go so rapidly from one bubble to the next that popping doesn’t cause panic, was there ever really a bubble at all?
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Jan 31, 2024 01:17
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surely these economists who have spent their careers rationalizing the expropriation of value to the ruling class and who would be disowned by their employers and social circles for the slightest deviation would realize that rent seeking is bad
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Jan 31, 2024 01:22
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Mr Hootington posted:Uss is threatening to put Venezuelan sanctions back in place already lol It's good to be the hegemon. You don't need to have any consistency whatsoever and can make and renege on deals within 6 months. I'm sure they'll want to open back up if the Red Sea thing gets worse or they finally get a war with Iran.
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Jan 31, 2024 01:23
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Can't afford to pay grindr $500/month? Have your friends pitch you with a powerpoint deck!
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Jan 31, 2024 01:46
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StealthArcher posted:Steve was an imbecile who chuffed papayas to cure cancer he'd have done whatever number convinced him of he stole a bunch of organs and then ruined them with fruit juice
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Jan 31, 2024 01:47
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Willa Rogers posted:Can't afford to pay grindr $500/month? Have your friends pitch you with a powerpoint deck! This seems less toxic and lovely than the apps
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Jan 31, 2024 01:56
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Willa Rogers posted:Can't afford to pay grindr $500/month? Have your friends pitch you with a powerpoint deck! this is called a roast and it's probably a good time
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Jan 31, 2024 01:59
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skooma512 posted:This seems less toxic and lovely than the apps
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Jan 31, 2024 01:59
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Willa Rogers posted:Can't afford to pay grindr $500/month? Have your friends pitch you with a powerpoint deck! This unironically would be cool as poo poo to go to even just to spectate. Watching people getting on stage hyping up their friends is a lot more wholesome than a ton of other lovely things you could be watching.
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