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16·9 hours agoThey’re stupid and corrupt.
Google still has a chat embedded in Gmail, but because Google is grotesquely incompetent they’ve never succeeded in making a good messaging service. I think they’ve had like 15, but they are too fucked up to just make one work.
One of the things I bring up if someone says “we should run the government like a business”
8·2 days agoAmericans are just stupid, and it’s easy to whip us into a moral panic.
I’m having a thought. It’s easy to write them off as stupid, and they may be, but there’s also like… If they have really bad information, the decisions they make given that info as true make more sense. If you really believed that Harris was eating babies, or “she’s a communist that’s going to put the christians in a labor camp”, it would make sense to vote for the “lesser” evil.
Just need to figure out why they believe such falsehoods. it’s probably fox news et al.
Related:
"ai will make you twice as productive!’
“Cool. So I’ll be paid twice as much, or work half the hours?”
“Lol no. I’m keeping the profits”
2·2 days agoYes, I am very aggressive about turning off notifications. The use case I had in mind is texts from friends, and I don’t want to turn those off. Like someone texts me something that requires thought or online connectivity, but I’m on the subway or at a concert. I want to snooze the message so it’ll remind me in a couple hours.
Sometimes for really important stuff I’ll set a timer myself, but that’s more steps than if the OS just had a “remind me later” built in.
Mostly backend for web development (django most recently), though I’m moderately proficient at react and JavaScript for frontend. Also testing and QA.
I’ve been applying to all of full stack, backend web dev, and test/QA. No bites. Learning more languages might help, but I feel like having 0 years experience in (say) Rust won’t get a lot of traction.
Maybe it’s imposter syndrome but I feel like I’ve always been a sort of middle of the road engineer. Good at some things , bad at others. It feels like with all the layoffs and AI, there’s less room for broadly competent people. There’s just going to be the top tier, fighting and getting paid less.
so what will be the point of failure
It feels like a lot of the maga hats will die cheering and waving trump flags. I don’t know if that’s historically precedented.
It’s going to be hard to make any fixes when like 30-50% of the country wants hell on earth.
Job market is brutal, at least for tech. Every job gets 100s of applicants. There’s a lot of AI slop. Offered salaries are down. For some reason, management wants people to go into the office (which is among other problems a pay cut compared to WFH).
I’ve been unemployed since the winter. Had a handful of phone screens. Haven’t made it to a technical round yet.
My old job laid off all but one guy and a contractor.
Honestly, I kind of want to get out of tech but I don’t know what I can do that doesn’t require like a degree or is terrible.
Unemployment runs out soon. Not that the pittance the state gives is enough to live on. I asked what I should do when it runs out and they were like, awkward shrug.
Meanwhile there are billionaires living content lives of luxury.
Taking things too seriously, don’t most plants benefit from their fruit being eaten as part of their lifecycle?
but they should be run by the government and get their own parking infrastructure.
Well, yeah, but some soulless husks want to profit. Personally I think we should hold some “disruption” conferences on a remote island, and then “forget” to pick them all up afterwards.
I found a setting that alleged to enable snoozing, but it doesn’t seem to work. This is an older android phone though.
It would be helpful if my phone had a built in snooze function. Sometimes I get a text and I want to snooze it for an hour. Just dismiss the notification and remind me later.
mostly I avoid a lot of the big drains (social media, other than lemmy) and tell people I’ll get back to them within 24 hours.
I tell people I have a 24 hour response window. Barring exceptional circumstances, I’ll get back to a message within 24 hours. Often faster, but that’s not guaranteed.
22·3 days agoMake sure you speak clearly with minimal slang, or they might willfully misinterpret what you’re saying to deny your rights. Like to think you want a lawyer dog.
AI is a mistake and we would be better off if the leadership of OpenAI was sealed in an underground tomb. Actually, that’s probably true of most big org’s leadership.
He’s spiteful and stupid.
5·4 days agoAt family gatherings for holidays and birthdays inevitably someone would bop a balloon around, and this game would naturally emerge. Perhaps my family were secretly scientists.
If republicans were smart or had a working soul, they wouldn’t be republicans.
People aren’t paid enough. The rich have too large a portion of the resources.
Eat the rich. Bury their collaborators.