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jtrek

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  • Behold the future of programming

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  • Oh, I read your thing backwards then.

    I can't imagine wanting to go into the office on the regular. The commute. The lost time (can math out to like a 20% pay cut, if you spend two hours a day traveling + getting ready). The sickness. The lack of control over environment (temperature, sound).

    Can't relate to it. And I'm a very social person that likes interacting with people.

  • Behold the future of programming

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  • Every day I'm a little surprised there's no news story of some workers beating their "no, you have to come into the office" manager to death. They've got means, motive, and opportunity, and it's extra funny because if they'd been allowed to work at home they wouldn't have at least two of those.

    But really we're ruled by the worst of us. Cowards and fools.

    Maybe unionizing is safer than hitting the decision makers with an office chair while screaming "you made this possible" until they can't even cry anymore.

  • Behold the future of programming

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  • Working from home doesn't appeal to the emotional needs of fragile managers.

  • need advice

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  • Keep track of your spending. Find simple and cheap things you like. There's hours of entertainment at the free public library. There's free meetups all over.

    I had a friend that ordered food delivery for every meal. That's like $25k/year on food, in $35 chunks. Don't do that. Don't aspire to that.

    Use thrift stores, buy nothing groups, freecycle, yard sales etc. I got most of the furniture for my first apartment for $230 (inflation adjusted) when I first moved out. Couch, table, chairs, dresser. The couch didn't survive the next move, but everything else is solid.

    You can probably salvage an old computer by putting Linux on it rather than shelling out for a new one. I saved my friend a lot of money reviving their ancient laptop like that.

    Some people have this idea that spending money frivolously or conspicuously is cool. They're assholes and fools.

    Keep in touch with friends. Most of my jobs I got because I knew someone. The job process is broken, run by idiots and slop machines.

    If living with your parents isn't driving you crazy, don't worry about it. Save the money.

  • Great job 👏 [Twonks]

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  • That's one of the core injustices of capitalism.

    Rich person says "Build a thing"

    Workers design, research, and build the thing.

    Rich person keeps the profits.

  • Did you attend your high school reunion? Why or Why not?

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  • No. Don't think I was even invited to any.

    I'm not close to anyone from high school. I haven't talked to anyone from that era in years. I wasn't my best self back then, and I don't really want to relive it.

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    Why doesn't the US as an country have bullet trains?

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  • Other answers are good.

    I expect there's a lot of racism, too. A lot of people don't want those people to have nice things, even if it means personally suffering.

    If you build a nice train system, you might have to see those people on your day to day. In a car, you're isolated and feel safe.

    But mostly I expect it's because of the massive highway system that was built without corresponding passenger rail.

  • According to the USA Gov, Linux usage is at 5.8%

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  • Good. Fuck Microsoft. No regrets about running Linux for the past few years.

  • Meta Buried Research Linking Instagram To Teen Harm While Facing $1.4 Trillion Penalty That Could Erase Its Entire Worth

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  • Good. Break them up. Criminally charge their leadership.

  • Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free

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  • Ed Zitron wrote a whole thing about these people. Calls them "Business Idiots"

  • Trump administration scraps AC recommendations following GOP freakout over Mamdani

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  • Conservatives just say things for the intended result. They don't care about facts or truth or internal consistency. They're like cognitohazards.

  • ICE Should Show It Hasn’t Been “Infiltrated by Violent Extremists,” Senator Urges

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  • I think that part of our problems come from people being too polite. Someone will say something completely stupid, and people don't want to make a fuss so they let it slide. Peer pressure is like the only thing that changes minds.

  • Microsoft Needs Windows Lite, No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, to retain gamers and developers

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  • Microsoft will continue on inertia for years. but it's basically a walking corpse full of parasites at this point.

  • Poll Names Trump as Worst American in History, Republicans Say He’s Greatest

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  • Humans are social creatures. Facts don't matter. Emotions and social belonging matter. So people who are just immersed in trump-stuff are going to think it's all normal and good, and reject contrary facts from the out group.

    This is part of why right wing media is so dangerous. It feeds the in-group solidarity

  • Republican Suggests Americans Who Can’t Afford Steak and Lobster for July 4th ‘Don’t Work as Hard as I Do’

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  • I remain surprised no Italian plumbers have visited high ranking Republicans. They're the worst people.

  • Signs of a stroke

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  • I find teams won't mark messages as read. Like I'll be focused on the chat and it'll stay unread. I have to click out and back into it.

    When there's one of those horrible "teams" things with threads, clicking on a new message on the sidebar shows me just that message. No context. I have to click on the channel and find it.

    The core problem is they have "chats" and then some other horrible thing that looks like channels but sucks. Maybe they wanted that to be like a message board? I hate it.

    Most of my work uses "chats" instead, but that's horrible. No discoverability. A thousand permutations of people in chats. One for every meeting. (Was that important message in the standup chat? The planning chat? The side chat with the three competent guys?). And no threads.

    Just give me channels with threads.

  • In Linux Mint, if I have an upgrade that is taking a long time, can I sudo shutdown -h +60 and walk away, or is there a better way?

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  • || has a similar "oh that's how it works in other places" behavior. I didn't realize that for a while.

  • Surely there's bound to be SOMETHING.

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  • I think they have incentives to tag broadly but not accurately so they pick up more visitors. Tag it as "anal" when there's like a glimpse of butt, and you might get more views from people looking for that. There's no mechanism to punish inaccurate titles and tagging that I know of.

  • Surely there's bound to be SOMETHING.

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  • I'm pretty sure they don't invest in search because it's a poor return on investment. Most people just hit the first page, crank one out, and leave. The next cohort is similarly easily satisfied with their crap search. The people looking for specifics like "big tit short red hair reverse cowgirl pov outdoors at dusk" aren't profitable enough to spend engineering time on.

    That's my hypothesis, anyway.