Even if you enjoyed game testing (which there is definitely some appeal to for a certain type of person), it's not worth doing if you're relying on having any sustainable amount of income. The pay for game testers has always been among the bottom rungs within the gaming industry, and has only gotten lower in recent years as more game studios have begun using overseas contractors to do all their testing, which lets them skirt a lot of labor laws.
I think votes should honestly be a bit more like old school SlashDot voting, where you had several different types of votes you could leave on a comment like Insightful, Funny, Helpful, etc. Have a few negative ones like Bad Faith Argument, Spam, Advertisement, etc. And also like old school /., you'd have a limited amount of votes you can give. Make them replenish once per day, or have users earn additional votes for receiving positive votes on their comments, or something along those lines.
That would prevent bombing an entire comment thread with downvotes, and provides much-needed context for any given comment's score.
Check out Kneeves Knives on YouTube, he has a ton of videos about sharpening with various different sharpening systems.
If you're just getting started with sharpening, I'd recommend picking up a fixed angle system. It's very hard to screw up, and helps you keep a consistent angle (which I'd say is probably the biggest challenge with freehand sharpening).
This used to be my job. They're not controlling the cars. They're basically completing real-time CAPTCHAs, telling the car whether the cameras see a stop sign, a bicycle, temporary barriers, etc. If the car can't identify an object that could possibly cross its path, it pulls over and stops until an operator can do a sanity-check on whatever the car's confused by. They only need to be able to identify objects on the road, not know the rules of the road.
No. They just end the ride and send somebody from the local depot to drive the car back to the garage.
Source: I was on Waymo's Fleet Response team for a year doing literally this job that is now outsourced overseas. While the tech exists for full remote steering, NHTSA regulations disallow it, and that's one of the few agencies that Google actually has to abide by if they want to drive their cars on public roads.
Even with the recent struck child, Waymos are still light years ahead of human drivers in terms of safety. Honestly, the faster we can replace human drivers, the better. Almost all traffic collisions are caused by human error, remove that and the roads will be the safest they've been since horse-drawn carriages first entered the scene.
I also work in an EMS-adjacent field (NEMT), and the work we do genuinely helps people in need. I would be doing a major disservice to my community by not going into work. I will only be spending the bare minimum needed to get myself to and from work, as that's the best I can conscientiously do right now.
Keyword searches with an understanding of search syntax was always king.
Isn't that only because of the limitations of the available technology only being able to handle simple strings, though? Conversational computing has been a pipe dream since early sci-fi, where characters would talk to their computers as if they were human; George Jetson never spoke to Rosie in keyword queries.
I feel like keyword search syntax being "king" is more of a symptom, than an intentional choice.
You should probably tell them your plans before going through with it. They know you better than anyone on Lemmy could know you, and could probably help you identify the real issue that you're trying to resolve, because I don't think that chemical castration will fix the thing you think it'll fix. Looking through some of your previous posts, I get the feeling that perhaps you may suffer from some social ineptitude, which I can almost certainly guarantee you is not going to be fixed by castrating yourself.
You say that you're aromantic, but you also say you've "never been successful in dating", implying that you're not actually aromantic and have actually been seeking companionship, and just not finding it. That's not what "aromantic" means, and I worry that you're twisting your own self-perception to fit into the definition of aromanticism. If you were aromantic, then the lack of romantic connections would not be affecting your everyday life as you say it is; the lack of successful romantic connections would be a boon to you.
I'd strongly recommend a different therapist, maybe one who specializes in this field.
Am I the only one that thinks 15% is way too high of a chance to be rolling the dice like that? I've played enough XCOM to know that even a 99% success rate will still bite you in the ass.
Even if you enjoyed game testing (which there is definitely some appeal to for a certain type of person), it's not worth doing if you're relying on having any sustainable amount of income. The pay for game testers has always been among the bottom rungs within the gaming industry, and has only gotten lower in recent years as more game studios have begun using overseas contractors to do all their testing, which lets them skirt a lot of labor laws.