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- Comment on Not stealing 4 days ago:
I’m not a total asshole: After he’s had his “oh shit” moment I give him one more chance to choose. He’s usually a lot better at picking one of the two options on his second try.
- Comment on Not stealing 5 days ago:
I present two options. If my kid doesn’t pick one of those two options, either by not responding or by requesting a third thing, I’m picking one of the two options for him. And I’m always picking what he’s least likely to want.
- Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report 2 weeks ago:
Someone did invent stackable blocks with four round pegs on them, but saying Lego stole the entire concept is like saying whoever invented the wheel stole the concept because they didn’t invent the circle. You have to allow for iterative design to some extent.
To your second point, you are right that they have got “enough credit”, considering that the patent is expired. This is how patents work: In exchange for sharing your idea with the world so it can be iterated upon, you get to keep exclusive rights to use it (which you can optionally license to others) for a limited time. So the patents expiring is literally the system saying they got their due.
That being said, they still can get brownie points in public opinion for coming up with all this, and the competition has done very little iteration on the concept as far as I can tell, beyond making cool designs with existing brick designs. But considering that the competition so far has mostly been playing catch-up, this may change. Also, considering the vastness and versatility of existing brick designs, there wasn’t much to iterate upon, so maybe set design is really where we’re going to see most of the movement.
It’s basically down to “name brand vs generics” now with the patent expired, and some people will prefer name brand stuff.
- Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report 2 weeks ago:
I get your point, although I’m not sure that’s a good example. I’d be very wary of anyone promising not to stab me out of the blue :-)
That being said, I’d be very surprised if Lego isn’t still doing largely the same things they did before, except they’re no longer publishing what they’re doing. For the Danish part of their operations I’m guessing most of it mandated by local law anyway.
- Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report 2 weeks ago:
OK, I haven’t tried those. I am currently building the Pikachu from Mega Bloks with my young children, and they are having a noticeably harder time putting the pieces together than with similar complexity Lego sets. That being said, I love the design of the set, and the assembly instructions are arguably at least as good as Lego.
- Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report 2 weeks ago:
I have a hard time reading this thread as anything other than suggestions for boycotting Lego based on them having removed their DEI policy, while suggesting alternatives which never had one.
And they still deserve credit for having invented the concept and designed the bulk of the bricks. I don’t see how that changes at all based on whether they have a DEI policy. They obviously should lose any benefit from having a better DEI policy, since they no longer have one, but that doesn’t change anything else.
- Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report 2 weeks ago:
Do those companies have DEI policies, or are we just indirectly dinging Lego for having had one in the first place?
- Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report 2 weeks ago:
Which ones? Mega Bloks make really nice designs, but the Lego bricks feel better to build with.
- Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report 2 weeks ago:
The official bricks have a better feel than any of the off-brand versions I’ve encountered, though. Every other brand is usually too tight, or sometimes too loose. Lego spent a lot of time perfecting the clasping power, and it shows.
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 2 weeks ago:
I’m starting to think we’re talking past each other. Your last paragraph seems to imply that legacy systems were more approachable for a newbie to debug. If that’s your point I wholeheartedly agree. It’s not that hard as long as you get over the fear of fucking something up.
I do agree that juniors had an easier time learning on legacy systems, and that’s been true since the dawn of technology. Things get more complicated, and thus harder to get a deep understanding of, the more time passes. It’s a lot easier to understand older and simpler technology.
I’m a little confused why you seem to be arguing both that the issues I mentioned are easy to google, while at the same time saying newbies never get a chance to debug them. Surely, if it’s so easy, the newbie can take a stab at it?
Personally, I like to let the newbies have a stab at non-urgent issues first, and nudging them if they get stuck. They may not be able to solve the problem solo, but they know a lot more about how the system works afterwards anyway.
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 2 weeks ago:
Just because they passed the class doesn’t mean they retained any of the knowledge.
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 2 weeks ago:
I’ve maintained both and still do. While you may not be debugging memory leaks on k8s (although you should), you get all sorts of other fun things to debug. Things like:
- Why did our AWS bills suddenly triple?
- Why is that node accepting jobs but just hanging when they start?
- Why is that statefulset not coming back up? Is the storage still attached somewhere else perhaps?
- Why did all the data in our Kafka suddenly disappear?
- Why is everything still down after that outage? Maybe a circular dependency, thundering herd problem, or both?
- What’s wrong with my Helm chart this time?
The list goes on and on. With increased complexity you don’t get less problems, just different ones.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 weeks ago:
Shafting the waitress is not going to end it either. Most people wouldn’t notice this, so they’d still keep doing it if you didn’t tip.
The play here is to tip the waitress in cash if possible and slam the establishment on every review site.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 weeks ago:
Are you comparing the waitress not proofreading the math on a preprinted receipt (arguably not their job) to soldiers actively committing war crimes?
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 2 weeks ago:
You still have to debug things a cattle approach, though. If anything there’s even more and more complex things to debug. Training will just have to shift from throwing the new hire into the deep end of the kiddie pool to something else. Granted, “something else” is probably going to be offloading it on educational institutions, which sucks for recent grads, so they’ll have to work it out somehow. Probably by creating a market for post-grad practical skills classes, is my guess.
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 2 weeks ago:
I started my degree in 2002, two years after the dotcom bust. I figured the market would rebound within five years. Right after I graduated (but thankfully after I got a job) the housing bubble burst. There’s always something happening, but software engineering is still needed and we still make bank. Being unlucky with the timing will set back your career, but probably won’t end it.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure the waitress wasn’t the one who fucked with the register. Probably the restaurant trying to ensure they don’t have to pay the difference if the tips come up short and leave the staff below minimum wage.
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 2 weeks ago:
The CS jobs market fluctuates like any other market. Right this minute all the dumbass CEOs are trying to replace people with AI, just like they’ve repeatedly tried to have cheaper people in India do the jobs in the past.
Having people in India do it used to be called outsourcing, then off shoring, then a few other names, because every time it fails they have to call it something else to try again. The same will happen with AI.
I’m not the slightest worried about my own job, but it is currently a shitty market for fresh grads. Probably due to all the post-covid layoffs saturating the talent pool with more experienced people, and the aforementioned AI fad.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 3 weeks ago:
I would certainly check before purchasing, in the age of ad-financed TVs.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 3 weeks ago:
Never threaten legal action to a callcenter. If they take it seriously (or just don’t want to talk to you) they’ll hang up immediately and demand all further communication goes through lawyers.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 3 weeks ago:
They might nag you about connecting.
- Comment on Back in my day this MF was .29 cents and was THICK with INGREDIENTS 4 weeks ago:
What I primarily miss in American bread is texture. Americans think white vs. whole grain are the only variations of flour, and are missing out on a whole world where the flour isn’t ground to dust. Adding some ratio of medium and coarse ground flour is what gives the texture sorely missing in the floppy sadness Americans call bread.
- Comment on Back in my day this MF was .29 cents and was THICK with INGREDIENTS 4 weeks ago:
As a Norwegian, sandwiches are supposed to be 90% bread. But it’s supposed to be good bread, not this nonsense Americans keep putting up with.
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 4 weeks ago:
People have been caught with those levels before. You need to be an expert tier alcoholic to pull it off, though.
- Comment on Easy mistake to make 5 weeks ago:
I learned that my coworker was a lesbian three times before it stuck. What made it stick was during a talk she was having about LGBT issues, where she referenced how obviously gay she looks. I guess the short hair with bright dye was a tell-tale sign to other people. I just enjoy chatting with her, and that sort of thing just didn’t come up very often.
- Comment on Gallium 1 month ago:
Might have also gotten away with it if they didn’t completely freak out in front of the kiss cam, so everyone started thinking they were cheating and looked into who they were.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 1 month ago:
Now I’m curious what that Quake 3 ad was. Just lots of gore?
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 1 month ago:
But do you have the Tribal Edition?
- Comment on Spiritual Safety Tip! 1 month ago:
They’re also happier when you’re not around, Jimmy.
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 1 month ago:
Is it still a DEI hire if it’s also a glass cliff?