SolarMech

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We need a new paradigm for social media. And no, I’m not satisfied with Lemmy either (privacy issues).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  THIS.

  All the rest of this conversation is pedantic nonsense (on both sides, I might add).

  It’s like if the law decided that only fire brick red as defined by this website is red : html-color.codes/red

  And then someone on lemmy said “the court said your car isn’t red”. And then we’d have to spend a half hour and an incredibly long post to explain how courts sometimes use different definitions for words that people use in normal conversation, and to be careful how you interpret that. .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'glassy-eyed'⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are really stupid managers.

  If you don’t have docs it’s a tough competition between having your more knowledgeable devs re-explaining what they know X times to X new hires, or letting new devs figure it out on their own which is both costly in terms of their time and more importantly, risky as hell.

  Bad managers love risk though. Since it usually is a choice between speed now and risk later, it only blows up in your face later, and quite spectacularly, and everyone looks like heroes while they are putting fires out on overtime.

  That said good managers probably don’t tolerate that shit from bad managers under them and can sniff out a firefighter culture pretty quick.

  I guess what I meant to say was, managers that value doc do exist. If they really do, they’ll let you know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'glassy-eyed'⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is different than for layoffs, which generally is less about rooting out toxic people and more about lowering costs. And people know it usually.

  That said, anyone causing trouble for management or viewed as not pulling their weight will be the first on the list since management won’t have to justify firing them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'glassy-eyed'⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Expect this from corporate and political types alike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't judge here. :)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC they all learn some physics at engineering school. Even the software engineers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all know this happens everyday.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? If something can go wrong or has the potential to be abused we should just never do it.

  I mean you could at least acknowledge that he meant the 2008 crisis, and not act like he’s a complete idiot. You should very much expect people to be wary of those after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but think about how we structure society.

  We give people shit education, and they wind up not being able to read at a 6th grade level.

  Then you basically have to navigate an entire world where you are required to pick how to sign away some of your rights/enter deals written beyond their comprehension.

  This is a system that breeds suckers as sets them up as suckers, to screw them later.