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1. People *across generations* had to skill up. 2. software being very opaque (very differently from agriculture/mechanized labour) imo is linked to having a plethora of support ro…

here is your scapegoat. no lesson learnt. another round please.

all good, but why `5. install twitter`? > it's a huge time sink but everything happens there in the open. ... ok? i don't get why the tradeoff is worth it?

You don't keep violent and intelligent animal as pets, you keep them in cages at the zoo.

yeah for headphones, I also feel the same. But for food and coffee, I really cannot go back to lower standards. It feels like I put myself in a trap with this attitude. I have not …

Tell me more! I need to hear this! I'm fed up with being a critic. It feels like a trap I set myself into without realizing. I'm at the point where I can only enjoy coffee brew at …

yeah sometimes it can be that. but most of the time it's difficult to step back once you raise the bar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill and all that

with "dev wanting X" nothing happens. "leadership deciding X" then it needs to get done.

> But the only recourse for an IC under a bad manager is to quit or find another team to work on. Agree but nothing easy about that.

noice

I think I would like to be able to answer the following two questions: 1. what percentage of this object price is net profit? 2. is that percentage a "fair" proportion? but atm, I …

Hey, I completely agree and I also suffer from this same bias: it's ruining me from enjoying stuff that I would like to buy but in the end I just give up because it feels that any …

sold for whatever you want. Supposing the other party wants BTC (wild assumption) and you want 1Mton of lead, I guess the exchange would happen.

welcome to the real world where no one does a good job and everyone is more or less impacted.

Thanks for writing this. It makes me question if I'm too much concerned with code hygiene vs my coworkers.

Why Meta decided to open source their Llama architecture and complete models? From a strategic business perspective, I'm trying to puzzle why they would give that up, a competitive…

LOL smart fridge anyone?

I hope so, even though I don't think I'll ever feel the need to perish on that hill, just to check if it's actually true. Here's my signature.

hey i'd want tips if you want to share. i'm remote since before covid. i've moved company months ago, but i don't have great ideas on how to "satisfy interaction" professionally.

I disagree. it sometimes gives me that feeling as well even though I like the guy and his blog. i don't know if it's a cultural thing. i'm no native english storage

You sound right. And that makes it even more depressing.

mail to new manager with its boss in CC and its boss's boss and HR(?) > hey i've noticed i got signed up to systemX rota without any notice or agreement on my part. > 1. I don't wa…

I don't see the added value compared to virtual-study-hall that uni runs https://www.ucalgary.ca/live-uc-ucalgary-site/sites/default/... and random strangers on different free webs…