constantcrying (u/constantcrying)

constantcrying commented on Confessions of the Working Poor macleans.ca/society/confe... · Posted by u/FigurativeVoid

ryandrake · a month ago

> My parents never had financial drama. My dad was an elementary school teacher and then a school administrator in Victoria. My mom stayed at home to raise me and my brother. We were comfortable. My parents owned our home.

This is the part that always gets me mad (and jealous!). How the previous generation was able to just casually cruise along and live comfortably, where the same employment situation (1/2 of the adults in the household working, as a schoolteacher no less) results in crippling poverty today. I wonder if it's possible to make it even worse for Gen-Z and the next generations. Sadly, I'm sure we'll find out.

constantcrying · a month ago

Maybe I do not understand Canada. But 2.8k in income seems solid middle class with a lot of flexibility. It is a pretty good salary as a software engineer in the beginning of your career, at least here in Germany.

constantcrying commented on Fast catherinejue.com/fast... · Posted by u/gaplong

constantcrying · a month ago

I think that people generally underestimate what even small increases in the interaction time between human and machine cost. Interacting with sluggish software is exhausting, clicking a button and being left uncertain whether it did anything is tedious and software being fast is something you can feel.

Windows is the worst offender here, the entire desktop is sluggish even though it there is no computational task which justifies those delays.

constantcrying commented on Ferrari were SO impressed by the Xiaomi SU7, they bought one electrek.co/2025/07/29/re... · Posted by u/bundie

constantcrying · a month ago

There is absolutely nothing impressive about the car, except for the price at which Xiaomi is selling it.

If they actually are selling it at a sustainable margin, there is very deep trouble for the European and American car industry. If you are making something of the same quality and performance as your competition, but for double the price, you pretty much have no justification to exist.

constantcrying commented on Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming taylor.gl/blog/29... · Posted by u/taylorlunt

constantcrying · a month ago

Has the author heard of "outsourcing" before?

As it turns out programming being lucrative, led to lots of programs teaching it all over the world, which in turn led to a situation, where the labor market for programmers collapsed. Hiring too many programmers is not something you do out of greed, basic economics tells you that this move increased salaries for programmers. Companies hired because they anticipated competition around talent and new projects where these developers could work profitably for the company.

constantcrying commented on Ask HN: How will the OSA affect small Mastodon instances? · Posted by u/Digit-Al

PaulRobinson · a month ago

The law is complex, but not vindictive.

You choosing to host that material is illegal. You finding yourself hosting that and taking action to remove it and aid the authorities, is not.

If I slip illegal content into your bag, the law may challenge your possession of that content, but if you can show you had no knowledge of possessing it and no intent to distribute and that in fact you've been setup, the law is going to treat you very differently to you obtaining that material and putting it in your bag yourself.

Servers aren't much different. It's what you do when you notice the problem that counts.

constantcrying · a month ago

Which percentage of your life are you willing to bet on the fact that a judge will come to the correct understanding of how the fediverse works and that your understanding of the law is correct in the eyes of the judge. This ignores the enormous cost you will have to bear regardless of the outcome of the case.

These are serious offences and you should take them seriously.

constantcrying commented on Stanford’s Department of Management Science and Engineering poetsandquants.com/2025/0... · Posted by u/curioustock

constantcrying · a month ago

Maybe it is because I am not from the US and from a country with a very different work culture, but this whole thing seems ridiculously narcissistic. A person with such a degree becoming my coworker or my boss seems like a nightmare. Even talking to someone who "made it through" such a degree is something I would rather avoid.

constantcrying commented on The hit film about overworked nurses that's causing alarm across Europe theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/mykowebhn

soco · a month ago

Correct me please if I'm wrong but do you maybe mean with that "let's do nothing and just die"? That I cannot accept, so what else?

constantcrying · a month ago

Firstly, the success rate of politics appears to be precisely zero.

Secondly, if I have the choice between politics and death, death is the easy winner.

constantcrying commented on The hit film about overworked nurses that's causing alarm across Europe theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/mykowebhn

wvenable · a month ago

We have the money. Wealth is everywhere but as a society it's neither evenly distributed nor compassionately allocated. But that is human nature.

constantcrying · a month ago

Absolutely. Especially the old think that they deserve unlimited funding, even when they have failed totally at creating the conditions which would make that funding possible and now their costs are spread over an ever declining population of young people.