Whats rustling your jimmies?
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RobXIII
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I feel like there's a real brain drain going on in pretty much all industries. The folks who were good at writing software for example, and it was pretty much a hobby for them are retiring, and now a lot of people are just there for a paycheck with no pride in their work.
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Seems like it. People don't put in the time to become experts, and they don't like to work. I watched an interview with an old game dev, and he said it was impossible to get people to be productive. Things that should take days took weeks. This is why many of these game companies have such massive payrolls because people barely do anything.
Fucking Twitter had wine bars and nap rooms before Musk bought it. God damn Diablo 4 had a total of 9000 people on the team at various point. Not all at once, but total. Still a laughable number.
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I don't think it's a brain drain. It's dilution. Programming is so lucrative that people who have no talent are faking their way through it. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I'm making good money. But for fucks sake so many 'programmers' these days need to go back into marketing. They don't have a clue how to solve a problem without creating 2 more.
Haus
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It's not, IMHO, brain drain. It's that we have been blessed with this tool that puts so much of the knowledge in the whole world into our literal pockets, and being the inherently lazy beings that most humans are, people leverage it to get a thing done fast and out of the way and then forget it immediately as they move to the next momentary seratonin bump from social media.
This does touch on the fact that fewer people have any interest in becoming an "expert" at what they do anymore, they simple have an interest in getting the credit when the search engine/ai/macro/whatever does the task.
This is the problem. We're devolving into a species that has the machines do everything, so we abdicate any responsibility for the thing. We're heading, as cliché as it sounds, straight into Idiocracy territory. Now, if you DO take the time to leverage this mountain of knowledge to REALLY understand something it seems to the "normal folks" like a super power.
Example : Growing up , raised by my grandfather, he believed that a smart person with access to training could do anything. Every car we owned, we had the shop manual for (or at the minimum the Haynes/Chiltons manual on it, sometimes both). And it took something at the "You're going to have to replace the whole damn engine" level before my grandfather would admit to it being past what he could knock out in the driveway. (and even then only admit it because we lacked a tool or something). When I bought my first car he made me go through the shop manuals for everything on it and fix everything on it. Because of that in my 50's I still have a decent understanding of auto mechanics.
Now a days? If someone is going to fix their own car, at the most it seems they google a video, follow the exact steps in the video, and then forget the whole thing ever happened. Actually learning, actually building your knowledge about something, is seen as passé and gauche.
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In defense of not working on cars, they are complex and often require software diagnostic tools that are not cheaply available beyond a code reader. It's hard to work on many of them without a lift and a whole pile of good tools. Further, parts for new cars are increasingly only sold as an entire unit. Transmission seal leaking? No seal for you, buy the whole fucking thing. Starter went out? On some of them you have to pull the engine to swap it out. Anything serious on a new truck requires the cab to come off.
We are at the start of actual idiocracy right now. Average college graduate is barely literate and almost cannot function in a world where having 0 skills means you miss out on life. Huge numbers of 30+ people still living at home. Half of people up to age 45 hitting parent's bank accounts to the tune of $1500/mo.
Home ownership will never be a thing for the majority of people unless they inherit one. This is already happening in most of the western world. Rent will only be affordable if you want to live in a tiny dwelling and split the cost with another family. Average age to buy a first house was 20's not too long ago. Then 30's, then 40's, now 50. Soon to be never.
The majority of people only do enough to get by/do well enough. They start this in school and then in jobs. In the past, one could be somewhat productive and still afford things. Soon, only the people who work hard and excel will be the ones to have lives worth living....maybe. Socialized countries in the West have gotten the bright idea that it will be ok to tax unrealized capital gains. It's a sure bet that it will be applied to everything. Retirement? What retirement? They want to tax unrealized capital gains at 30%. Poof! There goes your pension cash. Inheritance? None.
Haus
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That is true about cars now. Although with a Bluetooth ODBII reader I can pull codes and figure out what's wrong most of the time. Now the tools needed for some cars (like it takes a full lift and specialized tools to change the transmission fluid in my Caddy) that pushes it past many folks now.
But when my grandfather was teaching me how to work on cars it was.... the late 70's. My first car was in the mid 80's. Back then the worst we had to bitching about emissions systems. Rebuilt an engine for my 66 Mustang my senior year in high school... I come from blue collar stock.
Now, I take my car into the dealership, where they supposedly have to trained experts in fixing my car and all the tools imaginable, they take a week diagnosing a problem and they can't explain what's going on so the diagnosis is "The only thing we do in these situations is just replace the whole transmission". Those are mechanics who are living on TikTok.
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Like most taxes, they'd be applied based on how much you own. The point of that idea is to tax billionaires who game the system by not spending any of their money but instead taking bank loans with their capital as collateral so they can pretend they have 0 income and pay nothing in taxes because god forbid they're only ever slightly less rich than so horribly rich they couldn't ever even spend all their money even if they lived for a thousand year. Not that it's super likely to happen seeing as how they own most of the government and media in the west anyway.
Haus
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That's not gaming the system, that's playing the game as designed. It's just that they're better at it, and/or have better guilds. L2P and/or L2NS
If you want class rebalancing and more loot for lowbies you need to talk to the devs, not bitch at the progression players who are better geared than you.
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Haus
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This can literally be answered by a noob MMO guide....
- Use the gear you get while leveling, don't spend your gold on the AH on gear you're going to outlevel, save that gold for end game progression. (i.e. don't blow your cash on assets that don't appreciate in value with you, save it for real assets)
- Don't buy pets and cosmetics off the in game store with your gold (Live within your means)
- Don't get in a guild that can't help you progress (stop living the hood life if you don't want to always be living in the hood..)
- Watch the people who are succeeding and mimic what they do, don't bitch that they're achieving the goals.
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Windows 11 upgrade at work. Time wasn't 24h format. Windows 11 doesnt make that shit simple and has you dig through menus to find a setting you change a small "h" to a capital "H" to change from 12h to 24h. Jesus...fucking...Christ.
Update: Just noticed Windows 10 is the same way. There's no way its always been this convoluted to change time to 24h. Well at least in windows 10 looks like you can select short/long times without AM/PM to flip it.
Update: Just noticed Windows 10 is the same way. There's no way its always been this convoluted to change time to 24h. Well at least in windows 10 looks like you can select short/long times without AM/PM to flip it.
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My windows 11 rustle at work is that with multiple monitors I can’t click on the clock for the calendar popup on any monitor, only the primary monitor.
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Koushirou
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Startallback fixes that I'm pretty sure but..good luck getting that on a work PC.
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