[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's wild that they are not breaking even with these prices. I've had an annual subscription since January and made nearly 5000 searches. Extrapolating to a year, I will have been paying about $0.17 per search. If that would go to the electricity bill then it corresponds to about 1 kWh of energy per search, enough to run a 50-watt laptop PC for 20 hours.

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 88 points 1 month ago

In the security page on Google's account site there is a card with the title "Your connections to third-party apps & services". Go there, click "See all connections" and click Reddit. From here you can remove access for Reddit and/or delete all connections between your Google account and Reddit.

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 75 points 1 month ago

It's a compliment. You're skilled and valuable enough that the company won't dare to give you any bullshit for leaving on time.

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 88 points 2 months ago

Not only shitty, it's dumb. Even Adobe knows to give students hefty discounts. It's how they get new users on the hook.

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 79 points 2 months ago

This seems like such a poor choice if you want a cross platform browser.

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 65 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

When there is both Cisco video conferencing equipment and Skype/Teams-certified devices in the conference rooms because they are managed by two different departments that purchased conference equipment separately.

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 105 points 7 months ago

My nVidia-branded plastic "sculpture" with a laser-etched 3D Eiffel tower and an actual pre-production GeForce 3 GPU embedded.

In the early 2000s I worked for a small game studio and got the attention from Nvidia for how we used their graphics cards. They wanted us to adapt our game to their new secret GeForce 3 project which was the first programmable GPU (as in shaders).

It was a crazy time with a lot of stories to tell. We got invited to the press conference for the new card, which was held in the Eiffel tower. Yeah, they actually rented the Eiffel tower.

As a thank-you for the work we'd done their developer relations representative had these made for all of the external game developers involved.

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 75 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

On the one hand, I strongly doubt their AI will do a good job at this and my first thought was that their sales will go to shit. I mean we all know how shitty all communication with Google is for mostly everyone because of what they already automated (developer relations for Android app developers spring to mind).

On the other hand, I'm not convinced the sales people were doing a good job either so maybe we won't notice a difference.

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[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 85 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If he thinks it's painful to watch then he should apologize personally to HER and her coworkers for traumatizing them, and give them a good severance pay. The way he phrases this as if he's just shrugging and saying "we'll do better at some unspecified point in the future, I'm sure" makes him come off as an inhumane piece of garbage with no empathy.

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 87 points 1 year ago

My neighbor cheated with his partner's sister, and now lives with the sister. The most aggravating part of it is that he has kids with both. Every other week his ex has to come by to drop off her kids at her sister's house since they share custody. From the kids perspective, their sibling is also their cousin.

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 103 points 1 year ago
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