

If your boss wants you to fix their shit, that’s what you do. But I’d make sure my name went on their stories along with time spent. Ultimately someone will pay attention and notice they are a waste of payroll. Or search for another job.
25+ yr Java/JS dev
Linux novice - running Ubuntu (no windows/mac)
If your boss wants you to fix their shit, that’s what you do. But I’d make sure my name went on their stories along with time spent. Ultimately someone will pay attention and notice they are a waste of payroll. Or search for another job.
Graduated in 91. Can’t confirm first time for anyone but me and one girlfriend but I will confirm we were getting laid. I was almost 15 and she had recently turned 15. Can also confirm post virginity high school sex with another girl. I really only had two serious girlfriends in high school. I had a few other near misses but I don’t recall any others that sealed the deal off the top of my head. I wasn’t swimming in it, but I did pretty well for a nerd with self-confidence issues.
Go on?
It would be a combination of InternetToughGuy, ThatHappened, and a bathroom stall?
It would be used for “no homo” meetups?
It would herald an era of men sharing their feelings?
It would be covered with porn and axel grease and sound like a Harley with a rough idle?
I have no idea where you are going with this.
I feel like this would be unconscionable if it was only employees with access to everything unencrypted. To just leave all this stuff open to the world is beyond the pale.
The number of times I find myself using that quote is a lot higher than you’d expect.
As I said, their actions fly in the face of this sentiment, so I’m not sure what he’s playing at here.
My thought was to say to other tech workers that this might sound like a bone being thrown to us but it is both disingenuous, and but a fart in the face of a raging tempest. Maybe that didn’t come through as clearly as I’d have liked.
As an American tech worker, this would be to my advantage. But also it flies in the face of their actions to increase H1B visas. And also I’d give up any personal benefit to just have a sane fucking government.
Okay, but I would’ve expected that before Stand Your Ground laws were passed. I’m not trying to defend them but did they actually move the needle or is it that the laws and the homicides share common cause?
Over that time, those states have seen especially high increases in violence, with Alabama, Missouri, and Florida all having 30% or greater increases to their homicide rates.
Alright then. Fair enough.
I’ll keep these thoughts in mind for the future. I’ve yet to try Linux on a laptop in any capacity and some of those concerns are not anything I’ve had to give thought to. I do use a pair of UHD monitors but not noticed lack of scaling supposty but that could be because they are the same DPI or maybe I’m just so used to scaling issues in every other OS I’ve internalized them.
Ubuntu isn’t bad by any means, Mint just feels more comfortable to me. I really should experiment with some other distros but as I said I don’t turn on my computer to fuck with things that are working for me. Most of my experience with anything but Ubuntu and Mint is two decades ago.
I don’t really get the whole Wayland vs X11 but I think I did try installing Wayland on Ubuntu once and it was… unfamiliar. I was troubleshooting an issue that turned out to be a bad ram stick and it left me with a negative impression of just about everything I tried because everything would crash so damn often (go figure), so I probably need to try that stuff again.
I did install /home to a separate partition to make distro hopping easier and then just… never did.
Mint is Ubuntu-based and I find it very natural to transition to from Windows. More natural than Ubuntu, despite me being slightly more familiar with Ubuntu from work.
I’ve never found it to suck, but I don’t get on my computer to fuck around with the OS and make things just exactly the way I like them. I automate some scripts to save myself typing for things I commonly do, and I do gaming, browsing, and development. I’ve yet to find Mint wanting. It makes more sense to me than macOS.
I’m sending all the tots and taters I can into the void.
It’s that or block the UK. Would be cool if they had the stones to do it, though.
The guideline that I follow is that if a tool doesn’t enforce a rule before the code can be merged, then it’s not a rule.
Good guideline. One of the first things I did when starting a side project with a friend was to figure out how to run a code formatter triggered by git (I think?) that reformats code into a common style. If we didn’t like it we could apply our own styling when we pulled.
I don’t always love every line of automatic styling even if I have free reign over the rules, but it saved so much time and effort in code reviews.
You’re telling me someone with Top Secret clearance (“the nation’s most sensitive data”) is making just over minimum wage when McDonald’s workers get double minimum wage?
ProPublica is a source I trust, but that doesn’t make sense to me. An active clearance is gold because companies rarely pay for someone without active clearance to get cleared. I worked in DC and if I could’ve gotten clearance, my wage would’ve gone up 50% over night, but my clearance expired 15 years before I knew it was worth anything.
So it feels like there is a missing puzzle piece here.
If Steam or someone went to crypto just to kick the processors out, that might be one thing that would actually make me look at crypto with something other than derision.
It’s also fun in the other direction. Like Exalted has stat blocks for mortals, but the PCs are literally built to fight entities more powerful than gods.
An encounter with a mortal is always just a narration scene even if combat ensues. You can pulverize ten of these guys without breaking a sweat, but do you? What does your choice say about you?
Exalted isn’t a game about fighting mortals in quantities less than an army, and there is no threat in doing so. Any tension in the scene is purely about what the characters do with essentially unlimited power. And that can be interesting and tense for some groups and in others it’s a thirty second aside on the way to fight timeless terrors.
I appreciate the passion, but I was referring to due process and legal accountability. I’m struggling to see the connection between that and the point you’re trying to make here.
Fight smart? Yeah that’s my goal.
Don’t be afraid? I’m not for myself. A bit for my family, but resistance works best with large numbers and I can’t control the fear of others. As you said, have to be smart.
Anonymity? I do my best but I’m not fool enough to think the government couldn’t identify me if they cared enough to.
Then you’re just going to be at the mercy of the people that do maintain these things. I realize maybe my response was taken as disagreement or argument but it really wasn’t meant that way.
As a product owner I’d want a way to contact or validate a user for customer service or service management reasons. Self service password reset, etc.
But I’m interested in anonymity and if there were another good solution I’d be all ears. I’m not trying to defend email, just curious what mechanism could take its place. Some sort of cryptographic signature might work, though I would have to think carefully about no separate communication/ confirmation channel. I could see offering someone to use any identity of their choosing which would allow them as much anonymity and freedom of choice as they wanted. It’s an interesting challenge.
If you are doing their job, why would they bother? What does your boss have to say about it? After all, his budget is paying for headcount that isn’t working on his objectives — which presumably results in a lower bonus payment. That’s who approves your time and that’s who decides what you work on. That other manager should be going through your manager with his requests at a minimum instead of to you.