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winfred commented on Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer roy.marples.name/archives... · Posted by u/elvis70

Why should any single person carry the weight of the person in desperate need? UBI + healthcare implies that there’s a social safety net that creates an entire network of people to carry this weight. I don’t have a clue if any implementations would successfully do this but to just throw people in desperate need to the wolves is inhumane.

winfred · 4 years ago

I don't think people would prosper under such a system. Free health care, yes, free education, yes. Retirement for all, take care of the disabled, yes.

But in my opinion, in today's society, if you take away the need for people to struggle (which UBI will do) they often end up in a worse mental and physical shape than if you make them suffer a bit. Just the way natural selection programmed us. "All basic needs are met <- conserve energy".

I can imagine a educational system where we prepare our children from childhood for UBI and it will work.

But given how rudimentary most education still is I don't see that happen anytime soon. Maybe in 100 years.

winfred commented on Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer roy.marples.name/archives... · Posted by u/elvis70

sjtindell · 4 years ago

Just in my personal opinion, things like a UBI move us towards that world. It wound allow people flexibility.

winfred · 4 years ago

The way I see it, we already have that world, with capitalism functioning as a filter.

I worked my ass off to reach financial independence, now I'm dedicating the rest of my life towards helping other people.

I've proven to be capable of using the system to a degree where I can do whatever I want, which allows me the freedom to help other people full time.

It's not a perfect system, but I doubt UBI will be much better. At least capitalism filters out many of the people who shouldn't be helping others.

Helping those in need isn't something everyone should be doing. Not every needy person should be helped and helping others in desperate need incurs a mental cost that's not easy to carry.

winfred commented on We created a fake language to root out resume liars facebook.com/groups/CFpro... · Posted by u/rmason

brigandish · 5 years ago

> That way, when candidates were pitched to us with "X years of MOVA experience", we knew that somebody was full of it.

I'd put my money on the recruiter. I once had an excruciatingly awkward interview at a company on an industrial estate in the middle of nowhereland with no train station nearby that took me bloody ages to get to… which was actually going well until they asked me about my long experience with Exchange 2000. I had no experience with Exchange 2000, so I told them, and watched their faces drop.

That was specifically why they wanted to speak to me. The recruiter had inserted it onto the copy of the CV he sent to them. I'm surprised I'm not still doing time for murder.

What I'm not surprised about though is why they do it. I've been to plenty of interviews where my CV hasn't been given more than a glance. At moments like those I feel a deep sense of pessimism. The whole recruitment process seems broken from end to end and has been for a while.

winfred · 5 years ago

>I've been to plenty of interviews where my CV hasn't been given more than a glance.

I have a fake programming language on my resume, has been there for years. To top it off, I used a well known video game cheat code.

I've been hired several times with that on my resume, so far no one has ever mentioned it.

winfred commented on Managing your boss: adjusting to narcissists, 'ghosts,' gaslighters reuters.com/article/us-ch... · Posted by u/apress

dandanua · 5 years ago

This article is useless and gives no real advice except "get out". To deal with abusers you have to learn to see tricks they use to emotionally destabilize their victims. For example, they can use hints and innuendos for intimidation. I wrote a blog post about such communication https://dandanua.github.io/posts/counterfactual-communicatio...

Also, you can't really "manage" your boss if he/she is gaslighting you. This is a criminal offense (or should be, depending on where you live) and must be punished accordingly.

winfred · 5 years ago

>Also, you can't really "manage" your boss if he/she is gaslighting you. This is a criminal offense (or should be, depending on where you live) and must be punished accordingly.

It scares me that you can write these things without realizing the consequences and without being downvoted or having your comment removed.

"He/she said something that makes me doubt my reality, I want criminal prosecution." The level of policing that would take, is just unimaginable. The only societies that have come anywhere near this level of state control are East Germany, the Soviet Union and China. Your view would be a lot worse than those all together.

How about you just quit and find another boss and then we don't have to completely overhaul our society in a way we know doesn't work.

winfred commented on Boeing 737 Max to Resume Flying U.S. Passengers Today nytimes.com/2020/12/29/bu... · Posted by u/mhb

briandear · 5 years ago

The pilots were inexperienced. The right seat guy had less than 250 hours total time in any airplane. At that level of experience, he’s lucky to remember where the landing gear controls are. (He didn’t have 250 hours in the 737, but less than 250 hours in any airplane!) Even the captain had fewer hours than an average United first officer. At those low levels of experience, it’s just unrealistic to expect them to be that good with non-standard situations.

winfred · 5 years ago

That can't be right, can it? That's the equivalent of me doing my job for 6 weeks.

Here, looks like the legal minimum is 1500:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_certification_in_the_Uni...

winfred commented on Surrealist painting found in recycling bin at German airport smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/commons-tragedy

antisthenes · 5 years ago

> The only thing that doesn't wear off is understanding that you wont get any sympathy for the real situations you get into for the rest of your life

If you're wealthy, why would you expect sympathy for anything other than terminal illness of yourself or your loved ones? (or similar issues you have no control over)

Because for all other issues, you can just call up a service, pay them and have the problem go away.

winfred · 5 years ago

At some point, I tried this as an experiment. Instead of doing things myself, I tried to hire people to do it for me.

I tried a few different things, data labeling, custom sewing work, custom car modifications.

Turns out that the work was either done badly when it came to fairly common tasks or people refused to outright do it when it was custom work. I've seen the same thing when I looked at what happened when friends hired others.

Maybe there's a point where you have enough money to hire highly qualified people. But I doubt it's anywhere below $10M net worth. Below that you're just not likely to start handing out $150 per hour for what I would consider fairly standard yard or other work. At least I'm not.

Or maybe the trick is to hire a supervisor as well. So first you hire someone to do the work and then you hire someone to supervise it. Unless of course the supervisor also does a bad job. But then I can hire a supervisor for the supervisor.

Most likely I just wasn't good enough in the hiring process. So I probably should have hired someone to do the hiring for me. But what if I hired the wrong person, because I'm not good at hiring?

Now I'm sitting on piles of money and I'm still doing everything myself.

winfred commented on Apple's CUPS Repository Has Died. CUPS creator M. Sweet has moved on to a fork linuxreviews.org/Apple%27... · Posted by u/wailin

dsukhin · 5 years ago

Off topic: the consent dialog on this page was hilarious and simultaneously a great social commentary on the typical dark patterns.

> In order to offer an "ad-filled experience" and maximize our profits, LinuxReviews would very much like you to allow our Google AdSense ad-partner to use tracking and cookies so we can show ads from them on our website.

> Options: Resist, Approve (2x bigger)

As a web developer, this was refreshing, but as a user didn't immediately make me want to accept. I wonder what their opt in rate is like compared to the "best" practice

winfred · 5 years ago

The era of asking for cookies has already become a thing of the past for me, it's gone the way of autoplaying videos, advertisements, tracking cookies and paywalls. All things to look back on with a feeling of nostalgia.

I think this is the most commonly used plugin for that: https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu

(and yeah, it does accept all cookies by default, but the adblocker already deals with that).

winfred commented on Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB github.com/raspberrypi/rp... · Posted by u/ethanpil

yjftsjthsd-h · 5 years ago

> To be honest, if the Pi was open source hardware, everyone would buy the clones (like they do with the Arduino ones) and the charity side would have much less funding.

As opposed to now, when people buy such totally-not-clones as the Banana Pi and Orange Pi? For that matter, Arduino seems to somehow have stayed profitable in spite of getting murdered from every angle by the clones.

winfred · 5 years ago

>For that matter, Arduino seems to somehow have stayed profitable in spite of getting murdered from every angle by the clones.

The clones are fine for simple stuff. But they really cut every corner possible, so even the chip is counterfeit, which means it doesn't behave like a real Arduino does. Deep sleep will use 1000x as much current on some clones compared to a real Arduino, for example.

You really can't only use clones. You have to develop/test on real Arduino hardware, then deploy to clones. Because the clones aren't reliable in their behavior.