If I could get hired someplace else, I would go.
Sadly, everywhere either isn't hiring or is frothing at the mouth over AI.
jtrek
joined 3 months ago
Software job.
Good: this place is so dysfunctional I can fuck off most of the day.
Bad: the place is extremely dysfunctional. Pays crap. No benefits.
Not going to buy a PlayStation.
I imagine in a few years they'll come crawling back, and learn nothing from the whole experience.
Yes.
I'm reminded of a similar problem at work. It's software stuff. I was trying to get people to adopt some easy standards so we'd stop having so many preventable problems. Just a basic linter and formatter. Takes like 30 minutes to set up.
Naturally some people opposed it. It's change, they don't understand it, they don't mind the occasional bug, blah blah.
Someone said to me that achieving consensus is folly. There's always going to be idiots and unqualified people who want to have their way. But they don't know what they're talking about, so if listen to them it's going to be a bad time. He said to me just thank them for their input so they feel heard, and do the right thing anyway.
I don't know how to square this with the ideals of democracy. But I'm really tired of the stupidest people on earth thinking their input is worthwhile. Unfortunately, I'm sure sometimes I'm the idiot.
Some manager probably got a bonus for this. Incentives are all wrong.
Well, yeah, AI is mostly garbage. Fuck it. Fuck the people pushing it.
This is part of my I'm an insufferable snob about living in NYC. I just walk places. Sometimes take a bus or subway. Never think about it very hard. Never worry about traffic, parking, gas, insurance. Don't feel guilty about casually polluting (in this specific way). It's nice.
Most of the people I know who live here don't have rich parents. But I've definitely known people from money who move here, and go directly to an expensive apartment.
It's a horrible policy that people stop paying social security tax at like $200k or something. That's backwards. The first $50k or so should be untaxed, and it should ramp up from there.
Have you considered a book club? Locally or on Lemmy. That might be nice, though I'm not sure how to level it up from "we're reading this" to include "and we did some critical analysis". Also online is more vulnerable to slop, even though I don't understand why someone would use AI to think for them in an exercise that's entirely about thinking.
A friend of mine had a book club and was reading a book a month, but then the ring leader had a kid and it's on hiatus.
In a 2019 interview, Goodman responded to criticisms of three cueing, saying that "word recognition is a preoccupation" and emphasizing that he places greater value on making sense of language as a whole than understanding specific words. In response to the example of children failing to distinguish between "pony" and "horse", Goodman argued that it was irrelevant whether children understood the specific word, as "pony" and "horse" are similar concepts, and a reader failing to distinguish between them would still understand the meaning of the story as a whole.
Absolute nightmare
Firefox has been fine. I've thought about switching to one of the cooler forks but I haven't gotten off my ass yet.