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Vanth

@ Vanth @reddthat.com

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  • Comcast keeps losing customers despite price guarantee and unlimited data

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  • Within the past year I shopped around for a new home internet provider. The legacy companies encouraged if not required talking to a human being to find out anything about service availability and rates and then be subject to a hard sales pitch. Appointment availability for the install was 2+ weeks out. The new fiber companies had all the info I could want clearly online, appointments available within 2 days, with minimal fuss. The legacy company humans were also often incorrect about their own product, potentially lying to make a sale.

    If they act like a company from the 90s, they aren't going to capture customers who came into adulthood after that.

    That's not even touching on the speeds they offer are slower than their competitors for a steeper price.

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  • I like your answer.

    I was thinking of some of my favorite movies. Some I like that subvert their genre's tropes. Others I like are examples of excelling at the genre; being the ideal of that genre. And even "bad" can be good if it's interesting in its badness. I think of Nicolas Cage movies, his "nouveau shamanic" acting style is over the top and ridiculous at times but his movies still entertain and call for discussion.

  • Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die?

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  • When my brother's brother-in-law passed, he gave all that to my brother. Both on the high end of tech/self-hosting capabilities. I've come to the conclusion much of it wasn't worth it.

    I'll be focusing on ensuring access to financial accounts is passed on cleanly. And I'm working on digitizing all remaining physical photo negatives, then planning how to share all digitally with family while still alive. Since I don't expect any to be interested in maintaining a server after I'm gone, I'm thinking I'll keep it simple and just give everyone an external hard drive with all the photos. It's up to them to do what they want with the drive. A copy to each sibling is increases odds it's survives for a generation.

    I'll make project notes and plans available to anyone interested, but no hard feelings if no one is interested. And my music and movies can disappear for all I care. My tastes are pretty mainstream so I'm not thinking about archival value.

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    Americans, what do you have to say to people who lived through governments being over thrown at the hands of your country?

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    Americans, what do you have to say to people who lived through governments being over thrown at the hands of your country?

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  • How old did you get your driver's license? Did you learn driving from a driving school or from parents? (or some friend or relative?)

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  • My home state had a permit for that too, certain vehicles I could drive on certain roads under restrictive speed limits. So I could, like, drive a tractor or farm truck with the right license plates down county roads to another field.

    That was separate from a school permit. The nearest school bus stop to me was miles away and didn't go directly to my school so I would have spent 3+ hours per school day on multiple buses if I hadn't been able to drive myself in. Not to mention sports on weekends and other stuff where the normal school day bus wasn't running. My permit restricted the hours I could drive, it had to be to or from school or jobs, and I couldn't give anyone rides other than siblings. I think I wasn't supposed to drive on the interstate too.

  • I'm gonna chemically castrate myself, should I tell my parents? (I am 26)

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  • Personally, at 26 I wouldn't tell my parents about reversible drugs I'm trying out under doctor supervision to help with mental issues. But at 26 I also wasn't rushing into chemical therapies against the advice of my psychiatrist. So maybe you need your parents or other trusted person to be a sounding board while you make a decision.

    And seems like the same with any large medical decisions, it may be worth getting a second opinion from another doctor.

  • How old did you get your driver's license? Did you learn driving from a driving school or from parents? (or some friend or relative?)

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  • 13, special license in some US states for kids who live out in the middle of nowhere so they can get to school.

    Learned from parents, grandparents, siblings, being around trucks and tractors and motorcycles since I was a toddler. I knew how to drive long before I got a license.

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    My College administration supports AI, what do I do?

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  • LLMs and other AI tools are just that, tools. They can be used ethically or unethically. Use the opportunity to learn about them so you can use them judiciously in your career and effectively argue against their use when the situation calls for it.

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  • No, sadly "tank" is the action applied to "industry.

    I watched the industry [...] tank.

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  • Close. Engineering. Lots of engineers hung on 5-8 years longer than originally planned because their retirement plans got hurt so badly, which meant fewer jobs for fresh grad engineers to get hired on. I'm starting to see it again with colleagues who want to retire this year but are tacking on an extra couple because their finances aren't where they planned to have them.

    Then I can get going about removal of pensions back in the day and expectation that people jump job to job to get pay increases instead of getting raises in-role that match let alone exceed inflation, incentivizing people to NOT stay with a company for long, leading to a shallow bench for the next line of leaders and experts. I'm mid-to-late 30s and am on my 4th company since college and 3rd job within current company; contrast that with my dad who worked for the same company for almost 40 years and holds as many patents for them and knew that company inside and out. I will never be as knowledgeable and efficient as he was. Where industrialization allowed specialization, it seems like we're actively pushing to go back to generalization where workers are replaceable with minimal changeover time.

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  • There's a way. UBI. But there's no appetite for it because politicians and corporations don't make mad profits off it. Line must go up faster and faster each quarter; letting the poors die in debt does this better than providing them a basic income.

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  • In college, watching the industry I was getting a degree in tank (and many others). I chose the field in part because of historically good job stability and 95%+ job placement after college. That all evaporated. Folks who should have been retiring were having to work longer, leaving no room for fresh college grads.

    I hope this AI crap resolves down to a more stable level. I'm concerned the folks in college now will have it even worse between another generational bubble working it's way through and now AI making things more "efficient" so fewer humans are perceived as necessary.

  • Cartoon physics is now in effect. What are you going to try?

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  • Have a conversation with my now-talking dog.

  • What mistakes did your parents make while raising you that you will be careful to avoid in your own parenting?

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  • Don't have so many kids you barely know their names, let alone needs and interests.

    Don't parentify the girls, making them into mini-mothers that care for the others.

    Don't instruct the boys that keeping a clean home, cooking, and hygiene is women's work and beneath them.

    Don't use physical negative reinforcement (no hitting, no limiting calories).

    Don't teach that reaching out for help is a moral failing.

    Don't indoctrinate them into a religion.

    Don't instill pride and moral superiority in being "better" and "different" than other families.

    Do sit and introspect on how you're treating your kids. Challenge your preconceptions. My parents could read the above and insist they never did any of them, that they were great parents.

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    Inside the PSL Scale: The Looksmaxxer Rating System That All the Teenagers Are Referencing Are you a mid high-tier normie or subhuman?

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  • Not tech related.

  • What's the dumbest/silliest reason you got in trouble for in school?

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  • Catholic school with uniform including khaki pants. I started my period and bled thru. I swapped to sweatpants. Most teachers just figured I must have some reason and didn't bother me. A couple asked after it, one accepted my reason and offered to to let me out of class to have a little more time to cleanup or call home or whatever I needed to feel comfortable. The last one gave me detention for being out of uniform.

    School administration reversed it when they heard why I was being sent to detention. I was advised to just go to the main office if it ever happened again so they could help me instead of having to deal with each teacher myself.

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  • My highest rating on Letterboxd for a film from the 50s is The Night of the Hunter. I really haven't watched much from that decade. It is a pretty good movie, great at building suspense.

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    Are wasians the most attractive?

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