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Re: It's All Bullshit

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Post by spacechild1 »

CableNinja wrote: post #55
zemvpferreira wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not split at tech/non-tech. I'm happy to recommend construction crews you can tag along with for a day that will leave you a broken mess of a man with how hard they work. You won't get out of bed for a forthnight after one day of work with proper roofers. My maid works 16-hour days at breakneck speed as well, with a smile on her face. Sleeps 3 hours, gets on with life. I don't know how she does it. Likewise I've…

> My maid works 16-hour days at breakneck speed as well, with a smile on her face. Sleeps 3 hours, gets on with life. I don't know how she does it. Have you considered not working your maid to death?

Have you considered it is not the only house she takes care of?

Re: It's All Bullshit

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Post by zemvpferreira »

CableNinja wrote: post #55
zemvpferreira wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not split at tech/non-tech. I'm happy to recommend construction crews you can tag along with for a day that will leave you a broken mess of a man with how hard they work. You won't get out of bed for a forthnight after one day of work with proper roofers. My maid works 16-hour days at breakneck speed as well, with a smile on her face. Sleeps 3 hours, gets on with life. I don't know how she does it. Likewise I've…

> My maid works 16-hour days at breakneck speed as well, with a smile on her face. Sleeps 3 hours, gets on with life. I don't know how she does it. Have you considered not working your maid to death?

I'm responsible for ~6 hours per day out of that schedule. I pay above market for those hours, but she chooses/needs to work this many hours for her own reasons.

I'd never think someone could be happy or productive spending most of their waking hours working, but here we are. I'm sure she's at least a 1.5x maid compared to your average worker, too.

Re: It's All Bullshit

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Post by fragmede »

livinginfear wrote: post #35
fragmede wrote: post #30

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USB devices purporting to be a mouse or other human interface device (HID) don't need drivers as there's a spec they follow.

Yes, they should be class compliant devices. When I mentioned drivers I was talking about the possibility of an alternate driver that would simulate the 'jiggling'. I was just throwing one possibility out there. Mainly just to illustrate the point that anything running on your PC would be subject to some scrutiny from the bank.

Ah, apologies. I misread your comment.

If you wanted to know the jiggler is safe, "just" write your own firmware and program a micro to do it.

Re: It's All Bullshit

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Post by pfisherman »

gbuk2013 wrote: post #53
wouldbecouldbe wrote: post #5

"In an anonymous online poll on how many “focused hours of work” software engineers put in each day, 71 percent of the over four thousand respondents claimed to work six hours a day or less". Written as if 6 hours is little. To get a full focused 6 hours is a pretty high number.

While it would be silly to claim that software engineering is the most demanding profession, there’s more to the work hours than the time spent in front of the screen. In my personal experience a lot of time is spent working “in the head” that does not involve me being in front of my computer - my wife says I have a programming face often when I sit at dinner or when we are out somewhere because I have code running i…

I hear you about switching off and not ruminating over programming problems after work hours. I have found that (a) exercising for 30 mins helps put me “in the moment” provides a nice mental break and “palate cleanser” and (b) practicing mindfulness has helped me be more intentional about controlling where my thoughts go.

Re: It's All Bullshit

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Post by resolutebat »

sfn42 wrote: post #67
spicyusername wrote: post #59

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My maid works 16 hours a day This is an unusual thing to contribute to the conversation. Bragging about working a maid twice the average working hours of the day probably doesn't look to other people like you think it looks. It's a bit like bragging about how rude you are to wait staff, or how much you discipline your wife.

I thought it was pretty clear that their maid "maids" multiple homes. It's not like there's 16 hours of cleaning to do in one house every day.

For what it's worth, in countries that do employ live-in maids, it's fairly common to give them 16 hours of work every day under the theory that idle hands do the Devil's work. And since the average house does not have 16 hours worth of daily cleaning, they just invent bullshit, like washing the car every single day and mopping the floor not just daily, but twice in a row.

https://mothership.sg/2018/03/maid-schedule-daily-singapore-...

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Post by j7ake »

Article is easy to dismiss Google's / big tech's recent achievements, but totally ignores the significant fraction of conference papers (e.g. NeurIPS) that come from these big tech companies.

Re: It's All Bullshit

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Post by sfn42 »

resolutebat wrote: post #76
sfn42 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought it was pretty clear that their maid "maids" multiple homes. It's not like there's 16 hours of cleaning to do in one house every day.

For what it's worth, in countries that do employ live-in maids, it's fairly common to give them 16 hours of work every day under the theory that idle hands do the Devil's work. And since the average house does not have 16 hours worth of daily cleaning, they just invent bullshit, like washing the car every single day and mopping the floor not just daily, but twice in a row. https://mothership.sg/2018/03/maid-schedule-…

Damn that's fucked up. Where I'm from maids are a service you pay for, you don't set their working hours. Didn't consider that it's different elsewhere.

Re: It's All Bullshit

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Post by peteforde »

justinclift wrote: post #39
peteforde wrote: post #24

I actually had to fire a guy once who was working another job while working for me. I didn't do it because he was working two jobs; I did it because he was falling behind and being dishonest about why. While I don't think I'm evolved enough to be totally okay with knowing someone has a second full-time job... if someone working for me is delivering the goods and nice to work with and I don't have any idea, in the abs…

> evolved enough to be totally okay Why would an "evolved" person be ok with it?

Word choice is hard.

I know that people who succeed in non-monogamous romantic relationships often need to do a lot of work to get to the point where they are happy when their loved ones are happy, instead of eaten alive by jealousy.

I'm just saying that I haven't yet fully matured in my own development such that I would be totally fine with my FTEs having other full-time engagements, even if they were completely transparent about it. Even though I believe that someone doing a great job has fulfilled their obligation to me. I should have no more say over what they do when they aren't working on my stuff than I do over who they choose to be with in their family life.

I am also saying that if someone can be my best employee without me knowing that they have a whole second full-time job, I respect their game and hope that they are taking some time off for themselves, too.

I just kind of don't want to hear about it. ;)

Re: It's All Bullshit

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Post by peteforde »

moonshinefe wrote: post #52
peteforde wrote: post #24

I actually had to fire a guy once who was working another job while working for me. I didn't do it because he was working two jobs; I did it because he was falling behind and being dishonest about why. While I don't think I'm evolved enough to be totally okay with knowing someone has a second full-time job... if someone working for me is delivering the goods and nice to work with and I don't have any idea, in the abs…

How did you ultimately find them out?

It's been a lot of years, but if memory serves, they got sloppy. I think that maybe they were making GitHub commits, or using an unexpected email account.

Although, the more I think about it, I actually remember that their other boss might have figured it out and tipped me off as a professional courtesy, because he was pissed off at the guy.

That's the thing: if you're going to have two jobs (or two families) don't also be delusional about your ability to do even one of those jobs well, much less two.

It's like they forgot that in order to keep the scam going, you have to not also suck at development.

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