dickersnoodle

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by dickersnoodle 1y ago
Good luck with that. Every supermarket I've been in has those stupid baskets or racks of stuff blocking the aisle and their data must show that it gets people to buy a little more of that stuff even though it makes me quite resolved t
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by dickersnoodle 1y ago
Don't forget figuring out a way to tie overhead bin space to assigned seats to keep "overhead bin pirates" from storing their carryons in the front of the plane when their seats are in the back...
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by dickersnoodle 1y ago
No.
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by dickersnoodle 1y ago
Less is more, usually.
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by dickersnoodle 1y ago
>I think it is a mix of fomo and the 'upside' potential of being able to minimize ( ideally remove ) the expensive "human component". Note, I am merely trying to portray a specific world model. IOW, it's a case o
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by dickersnoodle 1y ago
It is a good thing in some cases for a couple of reasons - first, off the shelf libraries often do a lot more things than are needed for the project at hand which can have the same effect that adding extra lanes to a highway does on traffic
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by dickersnoodle 1y ago
Hopefully not. If Chrome gets to take over the whole browser world, everyone's desktop will wind up looking like a scene out of "Blade Runner" with all of the ads.
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by dickersnoodle 1y ago
This is the kind of thing that pops up when you try to substitute metrics for judgment. It reminds me of the catastrophic fiscal and monetary policies that emerge from economic theories that rest on bad assumptions (like people being ratio
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by dickersnoodle 1y ago
You missed the part of the process where the results of the meeting were summarized and made available so said engineers can look up the results and see what decisions were made.
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by dickersnoodle 1y ago
This didn't start with COVID. Remember that scene in "Office Space" where the big boss had that banner up that said "Is this good for the company?" and everyone was nodding like they'd just been given the secr
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by dickersnoodle 1y ago
Don't forget the number of people who think they write well but don't. These type of people tend to litter their communications with ghastly MBA-speak, passive voice and super-tired business cliches instead of just writing in p
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by dickersnoodle 1y ago
Only if there is something for that software to do .
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by dickersnoodle 1y ago
"anyone over 25". Right.
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by dickersnoodle 1y ago
Same, and while I do it I'll be looking for another job where management isn't suffering from cranial-rectal inversion.
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by dickersnoodle 1y ago
This happens at all levels of scale. Many years ago I was a PHP freelancer for a while and as often as not prospective "customers" would try to 20-question me out of the shape of a solution for them so they could avoid paying me.
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by dickersnoodle 1y ago
If the refactoring is beyond the IDE tooling it's even more incumbent on the engineers/developers to know what they're doing instead of outsourcing it to the "brains" behind an LLM.
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by dickersnoodle 1y ago
It isn't as simple as "doesn't benefit them more or less directly". There are often projects that benefit some people that will actively degrade life for everyone else.
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by dickersnoodle 1y ago
>At least we decided against deploying copilot. There's still time...
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by dickersnoodle 2y ago
You don't have to create a real software engineer, you just have to create one that looks close enough to get some executive his bonus and won't fall over before he's moved on to another company...
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by dickersnoodle 2y ago
Am I the only person giggling at this headline?
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by dickersnoodle 2y ago
There are prescription drugs with side effects that cause real second-order societal problems (OxyCodone and related opioids are one the come to mind immediately). Amphetamines can cause psychotic behavior (see https://en.wikipe
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by dickersnoodle 2y ago
This sounds like a libertarian take, in the sense of "libertarians are like housecats - convinced of their own fierce independence but totally dependent on systems they neither control nor understand".
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by dickersnoodle 2y ago
Word. When my kids were pre-teens and teens I moved their computers onto Red Hat because I was tired of cleaning spyware off of it when it was a Wintel box. I moved my wife onto a Macbook Pro for the same reason, and she used to do user s
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by dickersnoodle 2y ago
> Not all kids failed disastrously at remote school, some excelled and worked far ahead of their classmates. My grandson was like this. He was in a "virtual school" pod with three other children and is reading far ahead of his
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by dickersnoodle 2y ago
Means they're easy prey for the leaders of said Jesus freaks. Being more sickly for the rest of their lives means it's easier to "heal" them every so often and keep them in the fold.
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by dickersnoodle 2y ago
It isn't crazy, judging by the number of times I've seen posts here and on other blogs talking about a 100k web page ballooning to 8Mb because of all the Javascript needed to "collect page analytics" or do user tracking
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by dickersnoodle 2y ago
I feel this pretty hard. You almost have to do your own 2.0 vision doc for things to make sure your name is on it in order to preempt the opportunists and influence pirates, but that can lead to you being seen as "hogging all the good
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by dickersnoodle 2y ago
Of course they do.
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by dickersnoodle 2y ago
iOS apps absolutely do support deep links and URLs. Custom URL schemes are the older of the two and let iOS launch the app when someone taps on a URL that begins with its protocol (e.g. "bugmunch://orders?id=xxxxxxx");
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by dickersnoodle 2y ago
You're not wrong about people resenting being talked down to. I've tried to make this point to Democratic (especially progressive) activists for years and years and it's like talking to a dog that just heard a new noise. Th

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