mohammed_alibi

joined 1 year ago
[–] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I envy that type of freedom. Go for it! Hope you meet some awesome game developers and learn a lot!

[–] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I feel the gaming industry itself is abusive and low pay. In HS, I thought I was going into the video game industry as well. But now I'm just doing enterprise-y REST API development. It pays more and is less demanding than making games. Family comes first I guess. I can do my passion projects on the side if I want. I managed to buy a home by moving to LCOL area in Texas instead of going to California.

[–] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Maybe a Ford Maverick or a Honda Ridgeline. The other trucks are just unreasonable. $80K for a Tundra, or $60K for a Tacoma? WTF!!!

[–] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

TBH, I feel like there's an oligarchy controlling both parties. I voted for Harris, but I think I just voted for the less bat-shit crazy side. The billionaires are still going to get richer, corporations will continue to consolidate, middle-class will keep dwindling, and common people will keep getting poorer and have less say.

[–] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Its kinda cute I think. Matches really well.

[–] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Same, running a E5 2697 v4 (18C/36T) (Broadwell) that I bought used about 2 years ago. Also have a server running Ivy Bridge CPU.

I don't game much, but this CPU is perfect for productivity type of work.

[–] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The first step in not living in a shithole is to not build a house in a shithole, e.g. swampy Florida.

[–] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Unbounded risk-taking such as insuring people building houses in risky locations will lead to bankrupting the country.

If insurance is going to cover it, then there needs to be stipulations on the home owner to reduce the risk - for example, building the home out of steel and concrete, raising the structure high enough so that floods and storm surges cannot reach indoors, etc.

[–] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Putin is also one of the world's richest man and funds Trump.

[–] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Things are so tiny nowadays, you could probably cram a tiny processor w/ ram, and 5g modem into something the size of one of those cylindrical capacitors. Of course getting by the scrutiny of US engineers receiving a product with that would be a little harder.

[–] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I've always thought that trying to address DEI from the top-down is never the right way to do it. This include college admissions. All it actually does is promote unfairness and a non-meritocracy. It takes many years of training to learn the skills needed for certain jobs. Hiring someone because of their skin color instead of their qualifications can actually hurt the bottom line (and top line) and just leads to more resentment. And it also really cheapens and damages the reputation of the minorities who actually worked and earned their way to their spot. Had a super smart Nigerian friend who is a medical doctor who finished very high up in rankings in medical school. But because of DEI policies, people will always wonder if he got to his place because of "quotas".

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