Back into corporate after working for a startup.
It’s mentally suffocating, socially isolating, career ending, source of hopelessness.
I spend most of my life specifically avoiding this trap because I knew what’s waiting there, but sometimes life puts you in a situation of limited choices.
Something amazing happens when there are more than 3 levels of management. Even if you want to “create value for the shareholders” you won’t be allowed to.
Continue the war. Doesn’t matter too much when and against who. Constant war is the only thing keeping Netanyahu in power. They’re going to keep doing it as long as they can.
American Founding Fathers were not dumb - a lot of them had spent time in the 18th century Europe, which was an interesting place at the time. Full of wars and rebellions. Great for analyzing pros and cons of political systems, awful for an average guy. Keeping the general population armed was a good idea in the context.
What they failed to predict is the identity politics. That being armed or not will become a show of loyalty to your group rather than defense against tyranny. With those needing it the most being the ones to reject it.
BRICSV? VBRICS? BRVICS?
Good food for thought.
I agree in the sense that while universalist morality is desirable, only expanding the identity of the in-group is a reasonable way to achieve it.
Contrast 2 narratives:
I don’t think anyone asked me that question phrased specifically like that. It’s usually “what do you find appealing about our company”.
But I was asked another stereotypical one - what my biggest flaw is. Apparently my answer is considered a good one “of course I have flaws but I’m on a job interview, I’m not going to tell it here”
He also didn’t invent a programming language.
For a file system you only get one murder.
A chess-specific algorithm beat a language model at chess. Shocking!
Try training a chess model. Actually I think it’s already been done, machines have been consistently better at chess than humans for a while now.
I disagree with the conclusion of the article, although the contents do touch on some important points.
The article itself claims there aren’t enough resources for everyone to live a “developed country lifestyle”, which is connected to higher emissions per capita.
One way forward is to reduce the consumption. But the other way is to reduce the population so there is enough for everyone to be at least somewhat wasteful. Imo, the best would be both.
Because they are ok with other instances operating without censorship. Or with different ideological bias. Some people want their safe space. I do consider it generally harmful, but that’s how humans are - we want to discuss with like-minded people even if it limits the range of discussion.
On the balance, Lemmy existing is a benefit to humanity. You don’t have to talk to developers themselves.
No that’s the next level. I’m excited-to-buy-a-new-kitchen-appliance old.
We do need to reduce the human population. About 4-5 billion would be ideal.
On the negative side, we don’t know how to handle this situation of declining population. The entire human history is one of non-stop growth interrupted only by catastrophic pandemics, which were the only way the population dropped so far.
I’m not even American but I don’t see anything extremely out of place here. A 12h drive is doable in one day with a couple of rests. Assuming you stay for 2-3 nights at your destination.
If you mean going back right after the game, then hell no.
Musk is a narcissist who got very lucky in life. But still he is a human, bad human but relatable in the sense you understand his flaws.
Thiel is something else. Sociopath I guess. Dude is not human and doesn’t function according to any understandable human psychology
Airbnb. I used to think they were a perfect business. Saw a gap in the market, created a decent product, invested in their users (back in the day they would even send a photographer to take good photos of your property).
Unfortunately the consequences turned out to be awful.
the man who hit the family and never stopped, reportedly admitted drinking “a little” alcohol earlier in the day. He also admitted to being on painkillers and being partially blind in one eye
It’s a miracle only one person died
Looking up how to do something, as an improved stackoverflow. Especially if it provides sources in the answer.
Boilerplate unit tests. Yes, yes, I know - use parametrized test, but it’s often not practical.
Mass refactoring. This is tricky because you need to thoroughly review it, but it saves you annoying typing.
I’m sure there’s more, it’s far from useless. But you need to know what you want it to do and how to check if done correctly.
Why expend all that money and effort just to build it badly. At least paint some shared bus/streetcar lanes.
Finally, a good use case for AI
Modern war comes with a live soundtrack