The influences of capital on academia have been disastrous.
That’s why I write my PhD in all lower case.
PhD
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No one currently makes shine-through ASA (or any SA variant) profile keycaps, partly due to the fact that current trends for mid-to-high end keyboards favor south-facing LEDs; the theory (I guess) being that since south facing is pointed toward your face instead of away from it, it’s better. But HOW is it better if there are no key caps for them to shine through?! Front-printed caps are gaining in popularity, but so far I have only seen them in OEM or Cherry profile. OEM is tolerable, but I don’t want to spend money on something mediocre, and I cant stand stubby little cherries. I see zero reason why we could not have SA profile caps with the shine through legends (the letters and symbols) on the “Bottom” of the keys, or even the front frankly. I am not the only one looking for a product like this.
Most people are unaware that Google can and has closed accounts without notice or appeal.
A closed account means all your files, photos, passwords, 2fa, are gone.
It means all of those if you rely on google for those.
Never have a central point of failure, and have backups.
The film industry is dead and streaming killed it. Pirate movies over a vpn as much as you want.
Movie studios are now just landlords. They’re run by boards of directors, focused on nothing but number go up. They want money for sitting like a dragon on top of a stockpile of content. Fuck them.
Same with animation.
When you say the industry is dead, what exactly do you mean? Like working in the industry is no longer a viable career option, or you think that movies/ shows in general aren’t going to be good anymore?
I’m not trying to argue your point of it’s coming across that way, just not sure exactly what you are saying, I have been loving some recent movies and shows so if something is going to change I will be sad
No new movies and TV shows are being made. I’m a 43 year old industry veteran, forced to look for a new career.
To give you an idea of the scale of the devastation on an anecdotal basis, I used to make $120k/year for the past 10 years like clockwork. The past two years, though: I made $18,00 and $22,000.
This article says 40% but that’s in LA. In other places, production is down 90%.
I see… That’s a staggering number. Hopefully there are enough rich assholes who like good movies to keep funding the few movies we still get for the next couple decades…
After that, there will always be independent filmmakers, and with the increasing quality of consumer-grade equipment and software, their stuff will get better as the technology improves. Still won’t hold a flame to studio production quality, but it will be there
Thank you for your insight
Uploading receipts associated with your art process, such as progress pictures and files associated with the art program you used to draw the pictures. Not only does this quell accusations of AI being used, it also serves as a means of proving that you are the creator of the artwork.
I made a sub lemmy.mindoki.com/c/aip Art In Progress if anyone would be interested, or maybe you know if a lemmy sub like that that is being more active?
Cool! 😃 Do you accept digital art also?
Just FYI lemmy.mindoki.com was down up to now because of an expired certificate, fixed!
Sure!
The idea is to share the process or give insights into it, to motivate or help people understanding how some arts are made.
Social workers are all recommended to have a personal therapist for themselves. And its possible for the personal therapist to also have social work degree
My ex was a social worker, and I completely agree, but I’m not sure how they are expected to afford therapy.
This is fucking hilarious 🤣
And sad as it’s common
On-prem still has its uses
Platter harddrives are still useful
Tapes and tapedrives aren’t obsoleteIf you’re not archiving old data on tapes and shipping them off to a converted bomb shelter, you’re not doing it right.
That is literally what we do at my job.
Three copies: One for the client who paid for it, one for us (internal processing and testing only), and one as a backup goes to a storage location that is a converted cold war era bomb shelter.
Oh god my story. Okay so I was building out a video transcoding service for a company. We all know video transcoding is hella expensive. So I’m using kubernetes to help manage scale, and we’re on the cloud. I warn them hey, cloud is hella expensive, this is going to be… a lot. Well what do you recommend? Glad you asked, and I pitched that we have 3 heavy server nodes sitting either in a rack if we want it official, or even we were small enough we could just have them in the office. They would be VPN’d into the cluster, members of the cluster, and those get the priority. If a transcode job comes in use those nodes, only spin up cloud nodes if the scale is too high. I quoted about 20k for 3 beefy performant machines for the node.
Executives balked at the price. Way too much money, what a ridiculous idea anyway, we’re a cloud company.
Two months into the cloud only solution they were averaging 12 grand just on CPU compute! Why is it so high?! That’s ridiculous!
Absolute fuckers, the morons. I swear I’ve seen so many companies hemorrhage money because they refuse to listen to legit experts in the field. You fuckers, I was trying to save you money, but no your MBA and accounting degrees taught you how to run fucking cloud operations.
I hate that it’s so hard to get these people to agree to capex. My current company runs a few datacenters, and we have some teams that use them for their base load. It saves a shitload of money! Like, I don’t get why this is a concept that MBAs reject. You don’t have to go all in on capex for your infrastructure, just find a nice mix of capex/opex. If you’re afraid that you won’t use the shit you bought later on, then you should probably make sure that the market is there for whatever you’re selling before you dive in headfirst.
We spent several hundreds of thousands of dollars last year doing geophysical processing in azure. But it was an emergency: It was a hot fix to avoid losing out on hundred times that amount. Turned out the contract negotiator never bothered telling operations that they agreed to deliver the data with some processing already applied.
We considered building a processing cluster on site, but buying the necessary hardware and shipping it halfway around the world in a timely manner would’ve been even more costly. Plus I would be the one who had to build the rig, and I was all tied up on a different project a few countries over at that time.
Also, do you really need high performance SSDs? Are you actually writing the drive volume a day?
Tapes and tapedrives aren’t obsolete
But the drive is pricey :)
I’ll go first:
Matte black shower sets and kitchen faucets are the shit now. I’ve installed so many of these during the past year.
I used to think white wall and floor are just too basic, but having stayed in my friend’s almost-all-black studio apartment made me appreciate how easy it is in white/bright-themed bathroom to see any impending cockroach before it crawls on any of my limbs :(
Haha! We’ve been scouring the discount bin at the local hardware stores for faucetry (is that a word?). By now most of our stuff is matte black because that’s all that gets returned.
Got my bathroom redone last year. Guess which color, lol.
Faucet, sink, tub, shitter, and shower head are all matte black.
To my defense the floor is dark grey and the walls are medium grey. I don’t want it to look like a cheap “fancy” hotel with the white/black contrast I see everywhere.
Mind sharing a picture of your new bathroom? Matte black toilet seat is something I’ve yet to encounter.
Just installed a golden shower though. I’ll never forgive myself for not seeing the joke there before my gf of all people pointed it out.
the fact that she thinks of it means shes game.
Saw them at a hotel not too long ago and immediately talked about how matte black faucets would be awesome at home.
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We like to leave Easter Eggs everywhere. Everywhere. Fully aware they may never be noticed.
Your industry must be film, video games, or holiday mascot.
Clearly works for the Easter bunny. Duh.
I bet it’s coding
Well loosely speaking it describes both my two “hobbies” (photography and cryptography) as well as my occupation (highlight archivist, a media gig that’s basically to good deeds what criminal records are to crime).
I have a habit of writing messages on the floor tile before gluing a toilet seat on top of it.
Where do you get the glue?
From the hardware store?
College students fucking LOVE blow-up bounce houses.
As a business investment, what is the long-term outlook for the bouncy house industry? I assume it has its ups and downs.
i chatted for 45 minutes with the ceo of a bounce house mfg with 2000 employees about 5 months ago. they had moved all of their production to china, and then china started making foreign executives afraid to visit because they might not he allowed to leave. they wanted to move mfg out of china to vietnam but the chinese govt wouldnt let them take their own equipment out. they considered some bribes but hd no guarantee it would he enough. they realized they should write off the equipment and purchase a whole new set but the lead time was like 3+ years and from china. so they likely couldnt mfg any new jumpies for years and would have to make everyone just patch repair instead.
- What, lol. China doesn’t kidnap foreign businessmen.
- “Their” equipment was 51% (at least) owned by a Chinese company. Of course they can’t literally steal it.
- “They considered crime”
- They were going to buy the equipment again… from China anyway? lol
Tell your boss get off the Trump juice.
Wow. Real industry info. I was just going for the pun! Thanks for sharing.
So far, it seems to be benefitting from recent inflation, but I wouldn’t want to be around when that bubble pops.
There have been downturns in the industry before, but it always seems to bounce back.
Don't worry, we can always execute a squeeze to have it rise up from the ground!
#OMGTHECOVETEDPUNTHREADYAAAAS
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75% of people working shifts around or inside an aircraft are alcoholics. Never before or at work, but days off are a shit show.
There’s a lot of buzz going around the UFO community about something BIG coming. I’ve been hearing people talk about 2027 a lot.
I thought Bashar said 2025
For what it’s worth, I’ve been hearing about something BIG coming for 37 years.
Well I do have anal probes on my 2027 bingo card.
Then you should put them away and wash the card!
If there isn’t a machine to do it then maybe there’s a quick product fix, or we get contractors. For a manual labour intensive industry it’s amazing to see the lengths a lot of men will go to to avoid actual manual tasks.
