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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If all the people throughout history would have said to themselves: "It is what it is", then we 'd all still be living in grass huts and caves.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, we wouldn’t have climate collapse and microplastics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paradox Interactive's return-to-office policy may be driving employees away from the studio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No one who mandates return to office should be in a position where they’re empowered to make those decisions.

  Labor needs to organize and say no

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I ran linux mint for a couple months. It was nice. Very few problems.

  Unfortunately, when I tried to install it on this newer desktop it was a shit-show. No wifi or ethernet, no hdmi, it crashed when I tried to play elden ring. I should try another distribution, but I was so distressed after two days I just rolled back. The people in the mint discord were helpful, though, and got some of the problems fixed.

  Windows sucks though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do office workers actually do?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Software engineer.

  Morning meeting that’s supposed to just be “what you did yesterday, what you’ll do today, and if you need help”. People fuck that up and go off on tangents. What should be a ten minute meeting takes 30.

  Product owners at some point told you what the features to work on this month will be. For example, we need to add the ability for some reasons to bulk delete appointments.

  Chat with product and other engineers about what that entails. Product probably won’t give complete, clear, requirements so you need to pull it out of them. (Hard delete or soft delete? Do you need an audit log? Are you sure with no take-backs you don’t need an undo? Do you want to notify anyone when it’s deleted? One email per request or per event? Do you have designs for that email? No? Of course not. And what do you want the UI to look like? If I “just put a button somewhere” we both know you won’t like it. Give me details or that blank check in writing.)

  At some point sit down and make code changes to do the thing. Change the backend server code to accept your new request. Write automated tests. Change the frontend to make the request. Write more tests. Manually bang on it. Probably realize some requirements were missed (you guys know there’s a permissions system, right? I hooked this up to the existing can-delete permission. What do you mean CS doesn’t use permissions? You made them all superusers??)

  Manually bang on it a little. Deploy it to dev or some non-production environment. Have product and other stakeholders look at it and sign off. Probably get feedback and either implement it, or convince them to do it “later” (or: never, because they’ll forget and it’s not actually important).

  Get code approval from other engineers. Make changes as needed.

  Merge and deploy. Verify in production.

  Meanwhile, do code reviews for other people’s work. Context switch. Feels bad. Other guy is working on a progress report tool that’s in a whole other part of the code, so every time you look at it it’s a shifting of brain gears.

  Also look at dependabot for libraries that need updating. Read release notes. Make changes if needed. Test. Pray.

  Also periodic meetings to go over work in the backlog. A meeting to discuss how the team is doing that usually doesn’t produce results, but can be a vent session.

  I imagine from the product owner it’s something like:

  Get a mess of contradictory ideas from leadership. Try to figure out what they actually want and in what order. Manage their emotions because they have all the power and don’t like being told no or otherwise feeling bad.

  Talk to customers and other users. Try to figure out what they want. They say things like “make it go faster” or “can you make the map bigger?”. There’s no map on the website.

  Talk to engineering. They ask so many questions. Why can’t they just do the thing? They’re always going on about stuff that doesn’t seem important (like security and permissions and maintainability). This needs to go out Friday because the CEO wants it out.

  Write tickets (a short document describing work to be done). People don’t read them. Or maybe don’t finish writing them, and leave a vague “as a user I want to be notified about changes to my project”, without specifying any details. (Notified how, Ryan??)

  I don’t know what else they do.

  Startups are a mess. Anyone who says they want to run the government like a startup should be banished from the land.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine there are some “written in blood” laws and regulations that apply to hotels that airbnb is ignoring, too. That should also be addressed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I read that airbnb lead to rents rise, because it made it so easy for landlords to run their property like hotels. I don’t use them, and kind of think lowly of people that are like “well it’s convenient so i don’t care”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Feels like they should be able to view the software and hardware controlling the odometer, and if it’s doing anything suspicious.

  I wonder if they’ll actually do anything if they find Tesla is doing fraud. Feel like everyone who OK’d the decision should be barred from working in the industry for life, and made to forfeit everything they gained while doing the fraud.

  While I’m making magical wishes, I’d also like Musk and all of his followers to choke to death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was hoping you had some insight and revelations about how to use Finder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I also get mad at people who drive cars instead of walking or taking mass transit, if that helps.

  But someone smoking near you makes your day undeniably, immediately, worse.

  If you’re sitting in a room that smells uncomfortably of cheese, and someone rips a juicy fart on your face, it would be unreasonable to be like “who cares about my shart it smells like cheese in here”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People are emotional. They feel things, and then make up justifications for it afterwards. We all do this to some extent, in some contexts or others, but some people seem to do it the majority of the time.

  Someone who smokes and has a choice between admitting they fucked up, they’re hurting themselves and those around them, OR denying it so they’re just a persecuted innocent? A lot of people will go for the latter. It’s weakness and cowardice, but saying that won’t change their mind. If results are wanted we have to do the very arduous task of massaging their emotions and I kind of resent that thankless, endless, work. Even though I almost certainly am the same way about other things.

  Humans are a mess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please. Elaborate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People that work at microsoft could stop this. With means gentler than “Crack open the CEO’s skull with a hammer”, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate reachability of smartphones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tell people I have a 24 hour SLA. I’ll respond to messages within 24 hours, barring circumstances like a trip to somewhere remote or illness. Likely sooner, but that’s a bonus. No one has ever complained.

  I just hate the feeling that someone could suddenly message me. I hate having to pull out my phone because a message has arrived and I have to respond. I hate having to look at it every few seconds when I am trying to do something else, because someone messaged me.

  There’s probably a nicer, more effective, way to say this, but: stop doing this. You don’t have to respond. You don’t even have to look. Put your phone on silent. Leave it in the other room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is failing to stop dangerous disinformation in the world’s most spoken languages.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Zuckerberg put in his will “Anyone who kills me gets a billion dollars”. Bold move, but apparently legal!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German experiment gave people a basic monthly income – the effect on their work ethic was surprising⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think “This other, largely unrelated, problem is bad so we shouldn’t do this thing” is good reasoning.

  I don’t think in the real world, in all places (or even most places) all the stores are in a cartel. Where I live, there are several large supermarkets and a handful of smaller groceries all within walking distance. They are not a cartel. They compete. You’re just making stuff up for some weird dark fantasy of yours.

  Furthermore, if there was a monopoly, and we have the political might to implement UBI, I dare say we’d also have the political power to do a tried-and-true popular move of breaking up monopolies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German experiment gave people a basic monthly income – the effect on their work ethic was surprising⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If there’s only one grocery store, maybe. But that’s a monopoly, and that’s going to be shit no matter what. Ideally you have multiple grocery stores that compete, and if one raises prices the other will take their customers. (If they all coordinate to raise their prices, that’s a cartel and that’s also bad.)

  So you’re not really exposing a problem with UBI, but rather with unregulated capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If those two shitheads said we should drink more water I’d check with other sources first.

  Fuck them. I hope they both die for what they’ve done

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t drive anymore because I live someplace with transit and sidewalks, but when I drove I always signalled turns. Low effort, high safety.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone involved in this decision should be shot.

  What happened to all the republicans crying about “government shouldn’t be picking winners and losers”? Oh right, they’re hypocritical little shits that should be in the ground.

  So tired of everything trash because like a third of the country has less emotional maturity than a toddler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every time you eat, you're trusting many strangers to not have tampered with your food⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right?? I’m like, didn’t you learn anything in high school history? But then I know that conservatives have been attacking education for decades, and a lot of people just kind of slept through school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every time you eat, you're trusting many strangers to not have tampered with your food⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another reason “I’m a rugged individual don’t tell me what to do” people are absolute fools.

  Benefitting from untold quantities of rules and regulations, thinking it’s all their personal merit, wanting to swing an axe at the branch they’re sitting on.

  I’ve had people tell me that “the market” would solve the problem is people were selling tainted food. idiots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sidebar defaults are bad. There’s no home directory. How do you get to your home directory? Cmd+shift+H, but can you get there without that special shortcut? You can’t see the file system’s structure in Finder. The GUI doesn’t have a way to go “up” in the directory structure. I don’t think you can do it in the GUI alone.

  It won’t let you see stuff in like \tmp\ without a fight, too. I don’t know how to open stuff in places like that without cd’ing to the location in the terminal, and doing open . in the desired directory.

  The list view is the least bad, but it gets unwieldy if your directories are deeply nested. It’s also bad if you started in the middle of the tree and want to go up. Gallery and column view are really bad for anything non trivial.

  I often want to see the entire file path, and it really doesn’t want to cooperate. If I do find the file I’m looking for, and want the full path, it doesn’t want to give it. I don’t even know if there is a way to get it. Other than like cmd+clicking -> “new iterm2 tab here” -> pwd, which is not really that helpful of Finder.

  Contrast with windows’ default explorer. It’s not perfect and I think windows11 made it worse, but still. Open it up, there’s the “my pc”, click through to my user directory, music, some album, then i can click the top thing and get the path. I can also see the whole tree on the left.

  Whatever I was using in Mint was similar to windows’ Explorer. Had no complaints about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People are kind of stupid and lazy, and if there’s no immediate benefit for doing something or punishment for skipping it, they’ll do whatever’s easiest. We’re all like this to some degree, in some contexts or other.

  It is a little funny to me that some people just don’t have professional standards. I would make a good faith effort to respond completely to a work email because that’s the job. But I don’t think that’s it for a lot of people.

  There’s a lot of ADHD and friends in the world, and a lot of it is untreated. They’re not skipping questions out of malice. They’re probably trying their best. Still failing, but trying. That counts for something.

  A lot of people also don’t read well. They won’t likely show up on a texty medium like this, but they’re out there. It may be uncomfortable and embarrassing for them to try to read your email, especially if the level of diction is high and the vocabulary extensive. Most people are emotionally kind of fragile, and won’t put up with that shame for very long. I think that’s why a lot of people want to hop on a call or have a meeting when it could’ve just been an email. They can talk fine, but communicating in written words is harder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought you were exaggerating that he’s 91. Our government has too many ancient farts, maybe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on how the assassination is done. If it’s a headshot on trump, Vance will likely be president. If someone flies an IED drone into the two of them and they both die in the explosion, that’s different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess most everyone else that works at microsoft is cool with this.

  Saint Luigi guide us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What. What?? Finder is the fucking worst. It doesn’t have a sensible tree view, does it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Companies Don’t Fix Bugs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think everywhere I’ve worked has said “we have 20% time for tech debt” but has never actually done that. It’s always “we need to ship this by end of week” and “the CEO wants us to add the thing we said we’d cut so we could make the deadline”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Should’ve Luigi’d the boss.

  Words aren’t likely going to change minds anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revealed: The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right. You can’t pick the lesser evil in the election today, then go do nothing, and expect good outcomes.

  Harm reduction has a place but it’s not the whole solution