~30 ish, moving from software engineering to education. Starting a bachelor on Monday

Also - is the person that’s sending you a ping or SYN really going to notice your status?

I know for a fact several did, as I’ve had a lot of former hello only people ask about the status through the years

It’s not like the job market is good at the moment.

Just finding a job isnt an easy task currently

The hello is not the issue. But getting a notification before the question is.

Ultimately what happens if there’s a bunch of “helloers” approaching you, you end up muting the messaging app and only check messages every X time. Rather than being available, pros and cons. And there’s definitely an argument to be had, that it’s the superior way of working - But hello only people, just shoot themselves in their foot and get longer time to response

How come you find the latter annoying?

It’s the most effective way to let the entire company aware they should not start their conversation that way with me

I have people I just ignore until there’s two notifications

I honestly think the styling is the main reason it feels AI.

because the sentences are too short, they’re a style I sort of writes at times. Just sort of. LLMs tends to output longer sentences, rather than the two-three words. Then dot. That’s a rare one for LLM

However it’s not an anti AI site, so they might have vibe styled it and probably had a LLM help with some of the wording. However I think a human did vet and rewrite parts of it.

It depends on category of gambling.

For poker there’s usually a standalone price going to the organiser, for betting it’s often at 95% return rates.

Scratch cards tho, those fuckers goes low. Lotteries, 60% is not uncommon, but people like it at the very slight off chance they take the big price.

So it would require a pretty big breakdown of how many plays each category of gambling

Functionally all new apps are “Linux development work”, as modern C# solutions are containerised and hosted on Linux servers.

Microsoft gave up on Windows servers a decade ago when they released .net Core, as it was the sound solution to ensure continual growth of Azure and fighting off Java adoption hosted through AWS/GCP

.net framework is a niche framework now, which just a few legacy platforms run today.

However the reason IT requires Mac and Windows for everyone, is because they can lock those machines down. Like mad down, they don’t want to build software to lock Linux machines down from a central place.

You can just add [toy] to the listing and send them some wood looking like a 64GB DDR5. You just sold them toy rams for their toy PC

Unless Best Buy is owned by Lenovo it doesn’t matter, assuming it was a warranty case. It’s the producer that covers

I’m so happy my grandparents bought their laptops from the local computer store.

They’re marking everything up, pretty wildly, but damn do they offer support.

And they also pushed FOSS on them, through libre office rather than the insane Microsoft office subscriptions the big chains try to push on their customers

Socks missing a mate can also go here being pair up with another sock with a missing mate.

I do not match my socks, I’ll wear two completely different socks at the same time. If one loses a mate, then that’s fine

There’s largely still above average working conditions for the people that do land a job in tech, but right now the job security is rather low.

The thing is, if you’re managing an important project. The companies want to pay extra, to ensure they’re having decent people hired and have their time if something breaks out of hours.

But remote hirers, do also factor regional factors into account. Most US companies okay with remote workers, will have payranges per state. Most European companies, have at least pay ranges per country. You’re getting paid more in Denmark than you’d be in Hungary as an example. To account for cost of living as well as local competition

If it’s an onsite position, it depends on living costs.

Some people are claiming 3k for rent is the minimum in the area. Just north of Beverly Hills.

That’s half the salary, just for a studio apartment. Then there’s another chunk for taxes and they’re left with 1-2k for general expenses and living life.

Salaries isn’t a simple thing you can move from one area to another

I’m honestly not too sure how Myspace and Neopets operate(d).

But in Denmark we have Arto, as the first “open” social media platform. Which featured custom HTML and all that jazz.

It was fun as a kid, it went out of fashion way before we all suddenly needed to get a Facebook. We had full on years, without that kind of social media. Like we all played flash games on kongregate and online MMOs like Mafia family and travian. But games like those, really spread through word of mouth.

The previous reports is they only bought books with ISBNs, which iirc started in the 60s

They’re kinda comparing apples and oranges, fairphone doesn’t really have a budget phone.

They just have one model, which they gradually upgrade the hardware of and gives a new number.

Right now there’s barely any sellers of a Fairphone 4 as an example, and you’re able to get it for ~400 euroes from refurbished condition sellers.

Most brands, continues to sell old models. Which ends up as the budget phone 3 generations down the line. But fairphone doesn’t, they only sell a fairly powerful phone from new condition.

Super absorbancy or something along those lines.

It explains the absorber rather than the flow. I’ve mostly stared at pads my life, but it’s the same wording

Just for context I’m Danish, so it’s not just an American thing