Don’t blame the tool, blame the user 😁

I compare it to snapshot tests a lot. They’re similarly constrained by “good if used wisely” but most people don’t do that. It’s easier to use them extensively. That’s just how people are. They do the easy thing

I believe that really depends on where you live. Also did you mean net or gross?

Some napkin math I did now, if your gross is 100k…

After tax 75k

• housing 2500
• food: 250
• Internet 100
• phone: 40
• health: 200
• transit: 100
• utilities: 200

Edit: I fucked up and did 4500 for housing not 2500. Cheaper housing gives a lot more room!

That leaves you with like $860/mo for fun or any other thing.

Of course that’s a lot of assumptions that can change it. But I’d say 200k gross is the start of “don’t have to think too hard about money”

Good. Great, even. Fuck these rich asshole climate criminals.

This physically hurt my stomach

Paying more money for better results doesn’t fit into the world view of many business decision makers.

How do you feel about people who refuse to use ride-share like Uber because it’s exploiting labor? I don’t want to give them any money because fuck them, but some of my friends say the drivers need money so refusing to use it is only hurting them.

. I don’t know why they weren’t.

I don’t know for certain but I have guesses. They probably thought they could make more money from a more closed system. Some middle manager probably had a kpi that benefitted from incompatibility.

Do you use either of them on android? The syncing between android and desktop is nice in vanilla Firefox

The up-front cost of a console is probably cheaper, barring putting some labor in and getting lucky on sales. You’re right about that.

A PC has more utility, a larger library, and no subscription fee. That $80/year PsPlus subscription eats into the savings pretty fast. And when your playstation is end-of-life, it’s far less useful than an older PC.

I’m sure some PC-building nerds would be happy to help put together a cost effective machine for you, but sadly I’m not that kind of nerd. I splurged on a pre-built machine when I had a nice job.

Can they both fail? Consoles kind of suck. Closed platform owned by mega corps. Their main appeals of “easy” and “cheaper” haven’t been true for years.

Microsoft could have done like a … Steam machine for windows like 25 years ago. Optimized windows install on certified hardware, games that also play on desktop windows. They could’ve made steam. Except they couldn’t because they’re a souless corporate husk full of parasitic ghouls.

Fuck em. Fuck them all.

Firefox has been fine. I’ve thought about switching to one of the cooler forks but I haven’t gotten off my ass yet.

They won’t.

Many of them are stupid. Many are poorly informed.

But many of them are operating with stupid axioms. They would rather suffer and die personally if it meant those people got it worse.

If you offered free health care, guns, and hamburgers to everyone but it meant that black people got it too, a lot of Americans would say no

The Confederacy should have been burned to the ground, its leaders and supporters hanged and their bodies left to rot in the sun.

If I could get hired someplace else, I would go.

Sadly, everywhere either isn’t hiring or is frothing at the mouth over AI.

Software job.

Good: this place is so dysfunctional I can fuck off most of the day.

Bad: the place is extremely dysfunctional. Pays crap. No benefits.

Not going to buy a PlayStation.

I imagine in a few years they’ll come crawling back, and learn nothing from the whole experience.

Yes.

I’m reminded of a similar problem at work. It’s software stuff. I was trying to get people to adopt some easy standards so we’d stop having so many preventable problems. Just a basic linter and formatter. Takes like 30 minutes to set up.

Naturally some people opposed it. It’s change, they don’t understand it, they don’t mind the occasional bug, blah blah.

Someone said to me that achieving consensus is folly. There’s always going to be idiots and unqualified people who want to have their way. But they don’t know what they’re talking about, so if listen to them it’s going to be a bad time. He said to me just thank them for their input so they feel heard, and do the right thing anyway.

I don’t know how to square this with the ideals of democracy. But I’m really tired of the stupidest people on earth thinking their input is worthwhile. Unfortunately, I’m sure sometimes I’m the idiot.

Some manager probably got a bonus for this. Incentives are all wrong.

I used to have a stupidly large beard. One time a pack of girls was walking by in Manhattan, dressed like they were going to a club or something. After we passed each other, one of them said something like “I want a man with a big ol beard like that! Rwar!”

I choose to believe it was about me and that made me happy.

On the other hand, one time I was in an elevator and it stopped on a lower floor before the lobby. Door opened and a woman looked at me and the mega beard. She turned around and took the stairs.

Well, yeah, AI is mostly garbage. Fuck it. Fuck the people pushing it.

This is part of my I’m an insufferable snob about living in NYC. I just walk places. Sometimes take a bus or subway. Never think about it very hard. Never worry about traffic, parking, gas, insurance. Don’t feel guilty about casually polluting (in this specific way). It’s nice.