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jtrek

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  • What's the most toxic mentality that people have nowadays?

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  • Conservatism, probably. The whole in-group supremacy thing is pretty bad.

  • What's the most toxic mentality that people have nowadays?

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  • I think a lot about how "good" and "fun" are two different things.

    You can have a game that's a fascinating exploration of a theme that really unifies mechanics and story, but is an absolute downer of misery to play.

    You can also have a game that's a glorified slot machine with bugs, no real player input, and abusive monetization, but people's brains light up playing it.

    There's some subjectivity of course, but sometimes I see games that are good at what they're trying to be, but I don't have any fun with them. Some people seem to demand those overlap all the time.

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    Big Tech cut 80,000 jobs and blamed AI — Experts say a real problem is that companies are 25% to 75% overstaffed

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  • Not in any way I can discern! She's in the planning meetings but her entire role seems to be sharing her screen so people can tell her what to click on. (This is excruciating to witness. It is so slow.)

    Sometimes she'll say "remember to check your capacity!", but two other people on the team say that too.

    She seems to be entirely non-technical, too, so she doesn't have much input on any of the discussion. The inter-team stuff is handled by two other people. (A lady of importance whose title I don't know, and some sort of business analyst)

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    The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek.

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  • If you think paying labor leads to stagnation you're in the wrong community

  • Super Monkey Ball 2

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  • I remember in high school I was starting to get into music. "Classic rock" from my parents, metal from my cousins, pop punk from other places. Nothing too esoteric. When I was talking about music one day, one of my friends was like "You wanna see my music collection??" I went sure, and he opened it up. All video game soundtracks. Final Fantasy, mostly.

    I'm sorry to say that was a young teenager I was a shit and made fun. I wouldn't do that now, but I still feel a little bad about it. I very rarely would pick a video game soundtrack to listen to, but it's such a harmless joy I should've been nicer.

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    Your Truck is Stupid Big

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  • Maybe shame and embarrassment would work, but the kind of people who drive this kind of car are probably anti-social assholes who don't care about other people very much.

    But these people get off on being jerks. There's something wrong with their brain so empathy doesn't work right.

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    The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek.

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  • You're missing the point, so yes you do seem stumped.

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    The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek.

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  • What does that have to do with the ownership class extracting value from labor?

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    The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek.

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  • And you think that costs more than the productivity gains from having the computer?

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    The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek.

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  • If that was true, if it was a wash to get the new tool for the owner, they wouldn't do it. That'd be silly.

    Upgrading someone from pen and paper to a laptop with LibreOffice is probably going to dramatically (let's say 4x) increase their productivity, without a corresponding 4x increase in maintenance cost.

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  • The place I work at I wouldn't say is "over staffed" but it is maybe "wrong-staffed".

    They have a full time "scrum master" and from what I can tell all she does it share her screen so people can awkwardly tell her which tickets to click on, and she calls on people in order during the morning meeting. That's a whole-ass job. Meanwhile, devops is like crying blood because there's like 2 of them managing decades of systems, and no senior engineering roles have been backfilled after people left for years.

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    The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek.

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  • I want more people to think though

    "If this tool makes me produce double, and I get paid the same, who's keeping all that new value?"

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  • That doesn't sound so bad

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    The PERFECT Code Review: How to Reduce Cognitive Load While Improving Quality

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  • Hahaha! They don't write tests. They are unfamiliar with the concept of unit testing.

    I had to explain to them the concept of "you import your function and call it with different arguments to make sure it returns what you expect". It took a couple tries.

    Meanwhile, the head of the "quality" team keeps telling me that I should stay in my lane and not tell the developers how to do their work.

  • Connectivity

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  • I was trying to convince my boss that buying skills (ie: learning) is better than renting them forever from the AI, but I don't think I convinced him

  • Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checks

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  • Every conservative accusation is a confession

  • Last year, San Francisco authorized Waymo to pick up and drop off passengers on a car-free street. Now, private drivers think they, too, can travel on the street

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  • Fuck cars. Fuck big private tech.

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    California police can start ticketing driverless cars this July

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  • If fines scaled with wealth that might create an incentive for the police to harass rich people instead of poor people. It won't, because the police serve the wealthy, but it's a nice day fantasy.

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    The PERFECT Code Review: How to Reduce Cognitive Load While Improving Quality

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  • This doesn't spend much time on the scenario where it's not two peers in the review, but like a junior dev and senior dev.

    I recently did a code review for someone who is very junior 1 , and after spending like two hours fixing all the syntax errors and low level goblins, I realized I couldn't see the forest at all. I'd been staring at the "this variable is undefined in this case" trees so much. And then they were getting antsy and management was getting antsy...

    1 They're not actually junior. They've been in this role for years. Unfortunately, this org has like no mentorship and no standards, so they haven't actually learned much in all that time. They've just been copy-pasting code until stuff works.