I found Lemmy world kind of basic/conservative. Not like far-right, but more passive “don’t say anything too mean about the power structures that hurt you”. Just an impression, no real data to back it up.

I mean if I had a wheelchair with a camera attached so it, I expect people might not let me in certain places, and that’s kind of on me for buying that wheelchair

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

Oh! That was it. Good search check.

Kind of a downer book, but memorable

Sadly, no. I remember the cover was black and white, showing a picture of like an open jacket with no person in it. I picked it up off the shelf in the library for that reason, contrary to the saying about books and covers.

If I find it, I’ll post

Every conservative accusation is a confession

The problem is clearly that management is stupid. Futurama meme: why does the working class, the largest class, not simply eat the owning class?

That aside, even if Dave worked as intended, and doubled productivity, who’s keeping all the extra profit? Some dudes who aren’t doing any work. Fuck them.

I’ve known plenty of polyamorous people, many of which have otherwise unremarkable, happy, lives.

There’s always people ready to shit on it online.

“I could never do that”. Ok. So don’t.

“I’m too jealous”. That’s a character flaw. Maybe work on that.

“I knew a couple that tried it and broke up”. Many people break up for many reasons.

“It’s cheating”. Cheating is breaking agreed upon rules. If the people involved say it is not, then it is not.

“It’s confusing for kids”. No it’s not. Kids are very adaptable.

Fuck cars. Fuck big private tech.

I remember reading a novel that said you stay in the afterlife as long as any living person knew you personally, but then a global plague starts killing everyone

The last people in the afterlife were the personal friends of a science team that had been stationed in Antarctica.

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.

Maybe! On the other hand, he would read whole books on the clock so that’s pretty anti-management. People are complicated.

I think a lot about how my dad said “the workers don’t know how to run the business” and I was just like “clearly the current manager doesn’t either, and they pay shit!”

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.

Cool. Fuck cars and on street parking.

I hope I never become so befuddled that pushing one chat bubble icon instead of the other is confounding.

I don’t understand how some people who are ordinarily reasonably smart just turn into subhuman intelligence when faced with a new computer thing.

My dad is quite elderly and he manages to run ubuntu fine. My mother, on the other hand, gets confused and angry if anything changes at all on her phone or laptop.

There’s a manger who gets paid by copilot commits signed for sure.

That manager should be removed

I’m so tired of this shit. Break up Microsoft.

I’m so tired of every job posting frothing at the mouth over AI. “We’re ai native” , “we want employees who are excited about ai tools”, “agenic workflows”

Just fuck off.

Even if all of this stuff was a real productivity increase, who is keeping that extra production? Not the workers!

Because the current process means constant merge conflicts that I have to deal with, and constant bugs I have to deal with.

But, on the other hand, maybe you’re right and I should just check out and spend a day “fixing git problems” too

I see a lot of ads for ai slop on the subway and I refuse to engage with them. I don’t look them up. Fuck 'em.

Sometimes people vandalize them and if I saw someone doing so, I don’t know what you’re talking about.