[-] thesmokingman@programming.dev 11 points 5 months ago

I mean it’s FOSS. Have you considered opening a PR to contribute what’s missing? You can be the change you want to see. I wouldn’t normally comment something like this. Your emphasis on “still” raised my hackles a little bit and led me to ask why you still haven’t made your own.

[-] thesmokingman@programming.dev 12 points 9 months ago

Liz Truss? Liz Truss the PM whose lasting contribution was going out before a cabbage? That Liz Truss? The Liz Truss who flip-flopped on a major policy that saw her biggest supporter ousted from the Exchequership faster than a head of lettuce rotted? Why the fuck would anyone take her seriously beyond her shelf life?

[-] thesmokingman@programming.dev 12 points 10 months ago

The bullshit the growth VP was spouting about “creativity through random interactions” has largely been disproven and really only matters if your only goal is to have random interactions. Once the random interactions are over and the novel ideas generated, you have to go execute. People that worked at the agency credited with the big open office book talk to this day about how much of a shit show that stuff is.

[-] thesmokingman@programming.dev 12 points 11 months ago

I don’t understand why any of these people have any problems with any of this abuse. If one person is harmed in process of benefiting a large group of people, isn’t that effective altruism? Wouldn’t Nonlinear be able to say, “so what about us fucking our employees, we’ve made AI safer which will save forty seven quintillion lives that’s EA baby!”

Or do I fundamentally misunderstand effective altruism based on critiques of the founder’s support of Sam Bankman-Jailed?

[-] thesmokingman@programming.dev 11 points 11 months ago

Yeah! A lot of this comes from a lack of agency in your daily life. You have to do all sorts of things just to stay afloat, leaving little to no time for yourself, so you take revenge at bedtime. The classic argument that salary and hours are no longer tied to productivity applies here; working less for more money reduces the need to spend your sleeping hours finding satisfaction.

I wouldn’t say this is a uniquely capitalistic problem, though. Capitalism is just a huge factor in the reduction of individual agency (unless you’re a capitalist and actually have agency) and it’s the most common setup we have currently. You could have the same lack of agency in another setup and see the same problem.

[-] thesmokingman@programming.dev 11 points 11 months ago

That’s not what this specific list is for.

I'm okay with people using burner email addresses to get my free content, I just need to be able to filter them out of my list so it doesn't drive up bounces and hurt deliverability.

AWS SES, for example, is fucking rabid about bounces. Being able to filter out addresses you know are going to bounce is pretty important.

Can a list like this be used for anti-privacy measures? Absolutely! Does that mean we should never create lists like this? For me that depends on whether or not you think we should prevent encryption because bad actors can use it for bad purposes.

[-] thesmokingman@programming.dev 11 points 11 months ago

I think a claim like this would require some data showing the training and certification programs have gotten easier. Do you have that data?

[-] thesmokingman@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

I’m trying to understand where you’d want to use PowerShell over Python. What’s something that’s in-between bash and Python?

[-] thesmokingman@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

In the US, commutes aren’t covered and that’s part of law. However, the FLSA was passed in the 30s and the Portal-to-Portal Act was passed in the 40s so it’s arguably time to reevaluate.

As pro labor as I am, I do think it’s reasonable to put some cap on commute times so that commuters can’t abuse it. The hard part is coming up with a good one. You can’t give a max time without some idea of things like housing, public transportation, commute costs, etc. because then employers could abuse it by setting up offices away from everything or setting the radius too low.

A completely different problem for paid commutes is that suddenly it becomes work time. When I had a shit job doing pool inspections, the city controlled my time in the car from the office to the pools and back. The city did not control my time commuting. If the company is paying me for my commute, I’m on the clock, which means they can reasonably ask me to do things like not listen to my podcasts or take specific routes. If I’m on public transport, they can reasonably ask me to do work because I’m being paid. My solution here is working from home.

[-] thesmokingman@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

The current scam is expensive access to an online system for homework that is only sold with the textbook.

[-] thesmokingman@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

Shit like this is why I get annoyed when someone tries to tell me WSL/2 is as good as a VM

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