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New comment by geraldwhen in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

geraldwhen — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:05:04 +0000

I’ve 100%’d Balatro and wheel of fortune is quite strong. It’s never worth taking before you’re at max interest though.

New comment by geraldwhen in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

geraldwhen — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:04:18 +0000

Business bros will not pay high salaries to maintain software. Software maintenance will always end in India with developers making $20/hr. Or less.

AI makes it look like these developers can do the same job the Americans did building the product to begin with. Even if things fall apart in the end, it won’t stop the attempt to order of magnitude reduce the cost for maintenance.

New comment by geraldwhen in "Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles"

geraldwhen — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:19:22 +0000

Probably the opposite. Corrections happen quickly and all at once, somewhat similar to growth.

It would be more surprising if the 30% drop was spread out over a month.

New comment by geraldwhen in "Are we all plagiarists now?"

geraldwhen — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:05:02 +0000

Expulsions don’t happen. International students have been cheating rampantly for decades. Universities are happy enough to collect their tuition.

New comment by geraldwhen in "Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams"

geraldwhen — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:18:30 +0000

Interviews have the same issues. But if you do anything more than read off templated questions like a robot, you can be accused of discrimination.

It is a sad world we live in.

New comment by geraldwhen in "Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams"

geraldwhen — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:13:36 +0000

In the modern era, you are purchasing a diploma. I witnessed dozens of students blatantly cheat without any consequence. We all got the same degree.

Colleges exist to collect tuition, especially from international students who pay more. Teaching anything at all, or punishing cheating, just isn’t that important.

New comment by geraldwhen in "iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan"

geraldwhen — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:57:23 +0000

Agreed. This is the only context in which I still use Google.

New comment by geraldwhen in "iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan"

geraldwhen — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:11:19 +0000

Google has no actual content left to find. It’s AI spam website after AI spam website.

And if you find any content, it’s on a website riddled with ads.

AI search has none of these issues. Google from 15 years ago was wildly superior to today.

New comment by geraldwhen in "iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA"

geraldwhen — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 09:51:16 +0000

I was unaware that my headphone experience as impaired in some way.

I exclusively use non Apple headphones and I have no issues. I had AirPods for a while and I don’t remember them being better.

New comment by geraldwhen in "Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them"

geraldwhen — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 20:35:49 +0000

Diet is the food you eat. If you change the food you eat, you’ve changed your diet.

Any attempt at a temporary food change is already a failure for long term health.

New comment by geraldwhen in "Coursera to combine with Udemy"

geraldwhen — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:23:43 +0000

I suspect that CVE inflation has poisoned the minds of many developers.

A db driver may have an issue with unsanitized user input when run against SQLite, but you only use it with oracle and sanitize input anyway, but that shows up as a 9.1 critical deployment blocker for corporate employees.

Unexploitable CVEs with inflated ratings make using any open source software a pain in the butt at BigCo.

New comment by geraldwhen in "'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them"

geraldwhen — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:21:48 +0000

The unintended side effect of this is that HR coaches you to be as vague as possible in responses. I can’t give real feedback because some feedback may seem dissimilar to other feedback and look like discrimination if you blur your eyes.

So everyone gets the same form letter.

New comment by geraldwhen in "McDonald's is losing its low-income customers"

geraldwhen — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:24:15 +0000

McDonald’s is a franchise. Franchise owners bear the burden of employee and goods costs.

New comment by geraldwhen in "Even Realities Smart Glasses: G2"

geraldwhen — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:02:19 +0000

No open App Store is a non starter.

New comment by geraldwhen in "Edge AI for Beginners"

geraldwhen — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 22:02:14 +0000

Seems to be. There’s little chance this was written by a human.

New comment by geraldwhen in "People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads"

geraldwhen — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 21:45:49 +0000

Many with trade offs. I recommend the pocketbook 4. You can disable recommendations easily, and the unit mounts as a disk so you can read and write books as if it were an SD card.

No internet required. No sync software required. It’s quite nice!

New comment by geraldwhen in "Open office is giving you secondhand ADHD"

geraldwhen — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:43:39 +0000

Nothing needs to get done. You are not your company. If they want to pay you to stare at the wall for 8 hours a day, that’s your job.

New comment by geraldwhen in "Open office is giving you secondhand ADHD"

geraldwhen — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:39:09 +0000

What’s the point of this? If you begin to think about how terrible RTO + sitting in a sea of 200 people is, you’ll drive yourself mad.

The people in charge want you to idle chat more and churn out work less. Why fight it.

New comment by geraldwhen in "Why LLMs can't really build software"

geraldwhen — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 11:44:13 +0000

Hubris? The offshore team submitting 2000 line nonsense PRs from AI is reality.

We’re living it. We see it every day. The business leaders cannot be convinced that this isn’t making less skilled developers more productive.

New comment by geraldwhen in "How AI conquered the US economy: A visual FAQ"

geraldwhen — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:45:52 +0000

The problem is that content is dead. You can’t find answers any more on Google because every website is ai generated and littered with ads.

YouTube videos aren’t much better. Minutes of fluff are added to hit a juicy 10 minute mark so you can see more ads.

The internet is a dead place.