Middle managers like to set targets and goals because it counts towards their bonus, and it looks less like they’ve got their dick in their hand when the boss comes calling.
It’s the same problem all over. Capitalism. You have people who don’t do work keeping the benefits from the work.
Most people aren’t going to give themselves stupid or useless metrics. Software people aren’t going to impose “tokens used” or “lines of code” metrics on themselves. They know those are stupid.
Some players are hoarding all the resources, and formed gangs to keep their power. Sucks. You can’t just shoot them because the other players whine, and you’ll probably get banned.
If I expanded that explanation to everyone, that would be silly. In no way am I proposing everyone has the same reason for disliking pink Floyd as my 10th grade friend. I do think some people feel like he did, though, about various things.
What episode was this from?
I had a friend in high school who was always putting down pink Floyd. He’d say the lyrics were simple and the music was gimmicky.
Eventually, one day, I got out of him that the real source of his ire was he, quote, “didn’t want to be one of those kids who’s into pink Floyd”.
I think about this sometimes. He made up all these plausible sounding excuses, but the truth was something social that he was embarrassed to admit.
Granted, we were in 10th grade, but I think a lot of people still act that way.
Hopefully Tim’s doing good these days.
It definitely seems like we’re setting ourselves up for a dystopia, where no one knows how to do software anymore. Like the time machine or Idiocracy. Management just wants short term gains, and they don’t care if there’s no one around in 10 years with any experience
. The net result is that everyone has learned very quickly to praise executives on their visionary AI prowess, or they will be gunned down in the proverbial streets.
Once again, the people making the decisions are idiots.
Labor should keep the profits of its work. The owners just sit around and make bad decisions. Fuck them. They’d be lucky to walk away, if there was justice in this world.
Maybe we can work together with Gen z to overthrow the capitalist hell scape that has made a handful of people disgustingly rich while the world burns.
Javascript is a language full of weird quirks. A language with fewer footguns would probably be smoother for learning fundamentals. Python is pretty good in terms of letting you do the thing, instead of making you find a third party library (not that one, that’s deprecated) or having unexpected default behavior ( in JS [1,2] + [3,4] is the string 1,23,4, for example)
TypeScript adds more guard rails, but is a little more complex to get going.
This shouldn’t be allowed. We need to stop letting corporations consolidate.
That aside, I don’t think I’ve ever used either of these. I used to use seamless for restaurant delivery, but not so much anymore. Shit’s too expensive.
I hope the ultra-rich lose everything. I hope they weep.
I thought this was the onion. This is real? What’s the opposite of eating the onion? Crying?
It’s a big multiplier on incompetence. It lets someone who’s kind of bad at their job produce a lot more bad than they could before.
When I was young and that video was new, one weekend I went to hang out with a bunch of friends. They were all quoting it and I hadn’t seen it. I was real worried about Al’s butt until someone showed me the video.
Does signal do like team meetings anyone can join with a link?
Apparently yes: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/7860719423002-How-to-create-and-share-call-links
But I’ve never tried it for that.
I use it for text voice and video with friends though.
$3 million. Averaging 10% returns is plenty of money without touching the principle.
Then there’s sliding “hmm this is risky” down to maybe $2million. Far below that I don’t know if it could tank a market dip or sudden expense.
You can use uv to manage python versions and deps now. You shouldn’t fuck around with your system python much.
‘I know he was going to start deporting people but not innocent people, not hardworking people,’ she said.
Heartless.
she voted for Trump in the 2024 election, mainly for religious reasons
What religion? Some trimmed down Christianity that skips the good samaritan and sheep&goats , give your possessions to the poor stuff?
Probably. There’s a lot to cherry-pick from the bible, and most people aren’t critically thinking scholars.
This is saying if you have a module with public functions A and B, they shouldn’t call each other, right? But it’s not saying that module A shouldn’t call module B’s public functions. That’s what I thought it meant at first, but that seems crazy.