Workers skeptical of unions in a survey of 1,900 tech professionals conducted by the career site Blind cited specific concerns: that unions are “not meritocratic,” “prevent innovation,” and “hold back earnings of top performers.”
Looking at my non union job where idiots make millions and it has taken years to get even the basics of ci/cd implemented.
That can be scaled horizontally and is just a matter of building more data centers.
At one of my old jobs “just” was considered a bad word
I know most christians do a mix of cherry-picking and complete fabrication (what portion of christians do you think confuse dante’s inferno and paradise loss with the bible?). It’d be nice if they cherry-picked the Mark 10:21
Jesus looked at him and loved him. He told him, “You’re still missing one thing. Sell everything you have. Give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then follow me!”
or the Matthew 25:40-46
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
But mostly they just use it as an excuse to be jerks. It’s a big book with ample support for that, but they could choose the nice parts.
A mixture of stupidity and cruelty. Those things usually go together. Also so much racism, which is a subcategory of stupid and cruel.
There are a lot of people who would rather personally suffer and die than see a black person have something nice. That’s been festering here for decades.
I hate the US healthcare system. I’ve had the same doctor for like my entire adult life, but my current shit insurance says they’re “out of network”. And I can’t figure out what I need to do to get a weird skin-thing looked at. If it’s cancer and it goes badly because of this delay, I am going to be furious and then probably dead.
I had an interview a few weeks ago (one of like 3 this year) where it was revealed they still write these.
They asked how we kept all the stuff organized at my last job. All the cucumber stuff. I said we just kept the tests next to the file they’re testing- foo.py has a sibling test_foo.py- and we didn’t find much value in adding extra layers. If you want to test the API returns 403 when you request another user’s file, you can just write like
def test_403_when_requesting_other_user_file() -> None:
response = requests.get("whatever/etc")
assert response.status_code == 403
You can be pretty to the point.
We used docstrings to explain non-obvious things. Swagger shows the API docs in a nice webpage for anyone curious and authorized.
He wasn’t impressed and I didn’t make it to the next round.
I kind of intensely dislike that whole… natural language wrapper thing. It adds at least one whole extra layer to maintain for no real benefit. No one non technical is going to read it. If they were some magic competent person, they could just read regular doc strings.
There are probably a lot of representatives I wouldn’t recognize, even if I know their name and deal.
But on the flipside, it’s hard for me to stay concentrated while at home.
While I believe that is true for you, I don’t believe it justifies the lost time, health, and environmental damage of mandating in-office for everyone.
The office is super distracting for many people.
Oh, I read your thing backwards then.
I can’t imagine wanting to go into the office on the regular. The commute. The lost time (can math out to like a 20% pay cut, if you spend two hours a day traveling + getting ready). The sickness. The lack of control over environment (temperature, sound).
Can’t relate to it. And I’m a very social person that likes interacting with people.
Every day I’m a little surprised there’s no news story of some workers beating their “no, you have to come into the office” manager to death. They’ve got means, motive, and opportunity, and it’s extra funny because if they’d been allowed to work at home they wouldn’t have at least two of those.
But really we’re ruled by the worst of us. Cowards and fools.
Maybe unionizing is safer than hitting the decision makers with an office chair while screaming “you made this possible” until they can’t even cry anymore.
Working from home doesn’t appeal to the emotional needs of fragile managers.
I was outside the city a couple weeks ago and saw a lot of maga stuff. Maybe I should get like stickers or business cards for this site to leave places like that.
100%. I think a lot about one of my friends when trying to think about that kind of user. Smart lady. Advanced degree. Has her life together. Would absolutely not want to try to install an OS. Wouldn’t even know how to start.
But I’m confident if I handed her a Linux laptop, she’d use it just the same as a Mac or Windows machine.
Right. Inertia is the metaphor I used to express that idea.
I don’t think that’s actually very many people. Not for their personal computers. Most people don’t run much more than a web browser, if they don’t play games.
Dude really was a moron, wasn’t he?
A leading hypothesis is management are fucking stupid. Throw them back into the trenches. Let them do some actual work for a few years
Good. Fuck Microsoft. No regrets about running Linux for the past few years.
It’s not the PC games keeping people so much. Proton solved a lot of that problem. It’s inertia.
Most people don’t care about things. They just don’t. Their brains just don’t have the juice.
There’s a small but insane group that would rather personally die than let black people have nice things.
If we could just like… get rid of them, or render them powerless, we’d be better off.