ContrarianTrailWhat's a trend people outside of your field / hobby are probably unaware of?
I’ll go first:
Matte black shower sets and kitchen faucets are the shit now. I’ve installed so many of these during the past year.
Got my bathroom redone past year. Guess which color, lol.
To my defense the floor is dark grey and the walls are medium grey. I don’t want it to look like a cheap “fancy” hotel.
Mind sharing a picture of your new bathroom? Matte black toilet seat is something I’ve yet to encounter.
Just installed a golden shower though. I’ll never forgive myself for not seeing the joke there before my gf of all people pointed it out to me.
the fact that she thinks of it means shes game.
OldManBOMBINAnd if she’s not, hell gimme a holler; it’s Saturday, which is bath day anyway.
Captain AggravatedRemember the gloss black fixtures that were very trendy for a brief time in the 80’s?
Saw them at a hotel not too long ago and immediately talked about how matte black faucets would be awesome at home.
Haha! We’ve been scouring the discount bin at the local hardware stores for faucetry (is that a word?). By now most of our stuff is matte black because that’s all that gets returned.
I was just thinking about this the other day. I have a bright white tub. I clean it and it’s visibly dirty the next day. A black tub would be nice.
midimalistI used to think white wall and floor are just too basic, but having stayed in my friend’s almost-all-black studio apartment made me appreciate how easy it is in white/bright-themed bathroom to see any impending cockroach before it crawls on any of my limbs :(
Not true in government housing
lol
Skunk75% of people working shifts around or inside an aircraft are alcoholics. Never before or at work, but days off are a shit show.
That’s basically all industry.
agamemnonymousFalse. In many industries workers also drink before and during work.
College students fucking LOVE blow-up bounce houses.
As a business investment, what is the long-term outlook for the bouncy house industry? I assume it has its ups and downs.
So far, it seems to be benefitting from recent inflation, but I wouldn’t want to be around when that bubble pops.
There have been downturns in the industry before, but it always seems to bounce back.
i chatted for 45 minutes with the ceo of a bounce house mfg with 2000 employees about 5 months ago. they had moved all of their production to china, and then china started making foreign executives afraid to visit because they might not he allowed to leave. they wanted to move mfg out of china to vietnam but the chinese govt wouldnt let them take their own equipment out. they considered some bribes but hd no guarantee it would he enough. they realized they should write off the equipment and purchase a whole new set but the lead time was like 3+ years and from china. so they likely couldnt mfg any new jumpies for years and would have to make everyone just patch repair instead.
Wow. Real industry info. I was just going for the pun! Thanks for sharing.
Tell your boss get off the Trump juice.
When did Lemmy.ml let you out of the cage?
Same story with every tech company attempting to do business inside China. Doesnt stop company after company from trying themselves because they think they are special and extra talented, not like those hacks at other companies.
I hear it really took off in Australia, with incredible results.
Elaine CortezUploading receipts associated with your art process, such as progress pictures and files associated with the art program you used to draw the pictures. Not only does this quell accusations of AI being used, it also serves as a means of proving that you are the creator of the artwork.
I made a sub lemmy.mindoki.com/c/aip Art In Progress if anyone would be interested, or maybe you know if a lemmy sub like that that is being more active?
Cool! 😃 Do you accept digital art also?
Sure!
The idea is to share the process or give insights into it, to motivate or help people understanding how some arts are made.
Just FYI lemmy.mindoki.com was down up to now because of an expired certificate, fixed!
Until we get AI that mimics the layers
On prem still has its uses
Platter harddrives are still useful
Tapes and tapedrives aren’t obsolete
Platter harddrives are still useful
Tapes and tapedrives aren’t obsolete
ScrubblesOh god my story. Okay so I was building out a video transcoding service for a company. We all know video transcoding is hella expensive. So I’m using kubernetes to help manage scale, and we’re on the cloud. I warn them hey, cloud is hella expensive, this is going to be… a lot. Well what do you recommend? Glad you asked, and I pitched that we have 3 heavy server nodes sitting either in a rack if we want it official, or even we were small enough we could just have them in the office. They would be VPN’d into the cluster, members of the cluster, and those get the priority. If a transcode job comes in use those nodes, only spin up cloud nodes if the scale is too high. I quoted about 20k for 3 beefy performant machines for the node.
Executives balked at the price. Way too much money, what a ridiculous idea anyway, we’re a cloud company.
Two months into the cloud only solution they were averaging 12 grand just on CPU compute! Why is it so high?! That’s ridiculous!
Absolute fuckers, the morons. I swear I’ve seen so many companies hemorrhage money because they refuse to listen to legit experts in the field. You fuckers, I was trying to save you money, but no your MBA and accounting degrees taught you how to run fucking cloud operations.
We spent several hundreds of thousands of dollars last year doing geophysical processing in azure. But it was an emergency: It was a hot fix to avoid losing out on hundred times that amount. Turned out the contract negotiator never bothered telling operations that they agreed to deliver the data with some processing already applied.
I hate that it's so hard to get these people to agree to capex. My current company runs a few datacenters, and we have some teams that use them for their base load. It saves a shitload of money! Like, I don't get why this is a concept that MBAs reject. You don't have to go all in on capex for your infrastructure, just find a nice mix of capex/opex. If you're afraid that you won't use the shit you bought later on, then you should probably make sure that the market is there for whatever you're selling before you dive in headfirst.
Because data center costs are OPex and on prem server costs are CAPex, and companies very much prefer things to be in the OPex (operating expense) column.
Should have told them it was an on prem cloud lol.
AppoxoTapes and tapedrives aren’t obsolete
But the drive is pricey :)
Also, do you really need high performance SSDs? Are you actually writing the drive volume a day?
gmtomIf you’re not archiving old data on tapes and shipping them off to a converted bomb shelter, you’re not doing it right.
That is literally what we do at my job.
Three copies: One for the client who paid for it, one for us (internal processing and testing only), and one as a backup goes to a storage location that is a converted cold war era bomb shelter.
Three copies: One for the client who paid for it, one for us (internal processing and testing only), and one as a backup goes to a storage location that is a converted cold war era bomb shelter.
On prem is, in almost all cases, cheaper than cloud. Even when you include the salaries of the folks managing it.
But MBAs will pay a LOT for outages to be someone else’s problem.
demesisxThe film industry is dead and streaming killed it. Pirate movies over a vpn as much as you want.
Movie studios are now just landlords. They’re run by boards of directors, focused on nothing but number go up. They want money for sitting like a dragon on top of a stockpile of content. Fuck them.
Interstellar_1Same with animation.
When you say the industry is dead, what exactly do you mean? Like working in the industry is no longer a viable career option, or you think that movies/ shows in general aren’t going to be good anymore?
I’m not trying to argue your point of it’s coming across that way, just not sure exactly what you are saying, I have been loving some recent movies and shows so if something is going to change I will be sad
No new movies and TV shows are being made. I’m a 43 year old industry veteran, forced to look for a new career.
Anecdotally, I used to make $120k/year for the past 10 years like clockwork. The past two years, though: I made $18,00 and $22,000.
latimes.com/…/production-activity-report-hollywoo…
This article says 40% but that’s in LA. In other places, production is down 90%.
I see… That’s a staggering number. Hopefully there are enough rich assholes who like good movies to keep funding the few movies we still get for the next couple decades…
After that, there will always be independent filmmakers, and with the increasing quality of consumer-grade equipment and software, their stuff will get better as the technology improves. Still won’t hold a flame to studio production quality, but it will be there
Thank you for your insight
Blaze (he/him)Sorry to hear
Call me Lenny/LeniWe like to leave Easter Eggs everywhere. Everywhere. Fully aware they may never be noticed.
Your industry must be film, video games, or holiday mascot.
🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱I bet it’s coding
Well loosely speaking it describes both my two “hobbies” (photography and cryptography) as well as my occupation (highlight archivist, a media gig that’s basically to good deeds what criminal records are to crime).
How does one get into this “highlight archiving” you speak of?
And, like, where can I binge watch all this (assumedly) human eye bleach?
I didn’t know there were people who considered watching acts of charity to be eye bleach. But yeah, there isn’t exactly a strict term for it in English, oddly (I myself describe it in different words sometimes, “highlight archiving” doesn’t do it justice, and it doesn’t help my occupation has more than one dimension with those being difficult to explain as well). One could consult someone to start such a gig, but they don’t necessarily have to. Just find a way to run a routine news piece detailing things people do for others.
There should be a law - lemm.ee
I’ve definitely shared this concept or observation or whatever you want to call it before, but recent events have made me think of it again. I should clarify first that what I base this train of thought on isn’t entirely something that clicks for me, something I might not get into expressing, but it definitely makes you or at least me wonder why the implications in the train of thought aren’t considered, at least outside my occupation (since I’m in an occupation designed to work around the otherwise neglect of the concept), and I thought of running this by. Back in the old days, it was common for business people to pay their workers more honestly, as in based on what they thought the worker seemed to deserve. Often the workers would seem underwhelmed. Organized criminals would then step in and say “you’ll get more out of us” and so that part of society grew. For some reason, the first thing within the mind of the people in charge, trying to assess everything, was “let’s invent this thing, we might call it the minimum wage”. Alrighty. So this side thinking, what do we think of it? Something happened, right? So here is where the train of thought works into the picture. Matters of monetization are just one arena up the sleeve of bad actors. A lot of people feel abruptly socially isolated. When this happens, instinct is often to seek out companions. Social life might be dead or people might be avoidant. Someone I know is in such a situation. Along comes what might be called a bad actor. To them, they might see a potential extension of themselves with freedom of minimal effort. And voila, someone new joins the “bad crowd” or “dysfunctional crowd”. Watching this unfold myself, I think to myself. Places have a “minimum reference point” for the topic of exchange/payment/whatever the word is, so then what does the non-thinking come from to apply this thought to the whole isolation thing mentioned? Anyone here have people they know who were absorbed into a bad part of society when everything seemed dead and thought “well, it’s not like anyone else was going to give them what they need”?
Highly interesting
roofuskitClearly works for the Easter bunny. Duh.
I have a habit of writing messages on the floor tile before gluing a toilet seat on top of it.
Where do you get the glue?
From the hardware store?
Was wondering since glue seems oddly specific in a bathroom setting.