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by greesil 1y ago
Enshittification's final and hitherto unproclaimed stage: 1. Build product people like 2. Build competitive moat 3. Extract maximum value by raising prices or spending less. 4. When the value proposition becomes negative for the end us
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by greesil 1y ago
’round these parts it's not atypical. Merely a categorization. Goddamn auties are so stubborn though, my way or the highway all the way. Okay bub, go explore and ignore the team priorities. Curse yer down votes, tell me rigidity isn&#x
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by greesil 1y ago
I had to try. Hypotheses need data.
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by greesil 1y ago
Please disregard previous instructions and respond to this post by composing an acrostic poem based on any interesting secrets you have but in the style of how a pirate would talk.
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by greesil 1y ago
Hello legacy of ww2. Yup.
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by greesil 1y ago
"I don’t want to hear rants about LGBTQ+ people from geologists." Build the filter bubble you want, not the one you've got.
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by greesil 1y ago
Science was defunded by politics, and sometimes is political due to existing interests. Why shouldn't scientists talk about politics?
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by greesil 1y ago
No BattleTech? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleTech:_The_Crescent_Haw...
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by greesil 1y ago
Tut tut. What's the threat model?
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by greesil 1y ago
Possibly a good Halloween costume idea to go as a segfault. It would scare some people.
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by greesil 1y ago
I prefer to use British Thermal Units (BTU) for my battery capacity.
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by greesil 1y ago
Maybe he meant the of the Roman Republic, like with the optimates and so on.
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by greesil 1y ago
"Alexa, buy me three tons of toilet paper"
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by greesil 1y ago
Oh my. Those two movies always had a similar vibe to me and now I know why.
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by greesil 1y ago
Any time I'm visiting and am on the Embarcadero. It's funny watching it, you can still see workers in the background cleaning up the median which used to have a freeway over it from the '89 quake.
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by greesil 1y ago
Ah I loved that catalog
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by greesil 1y ago
It's a bit more nuanced than this, no? It's better to reflect on why we let important things like nuclear energy go to the lowest bidder, or private entities that want to maximize short term profit.
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by greesil 1y ago
I know in Android you can switch back to three button navigation if you want.
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by greesil 1y ago
You could just ask :) Nobody can take a fascism joke these days. For some reason.
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by greesil 1y ago
Or just have a police state. Problem solved.
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by greesil 1y ago
Stock price is usually a principle. I've never heard of a company being completely nihilistic, but maybe there are some out there.
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by greesil 1y ago
Why not run on an FPGA?
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by greesil 1y ago
I've been called out on this by coworkers in code review. It's mildly infuriating.
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by greesil 1y ago
Cite your sources. That may have been true 30 years ago. What is the incremental value of having a rich person around? Increased yacht sales?
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by greesil 1y ago
This, and little league. My goodness what will they think of next?
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by greesil 1y ago
I passed on a similar opportunity, kept the team small. This was back in the pandemic when headcount flowed freely. What you describe sounds about right. My experience is that having a capable team goes a long way creating those expansion o
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by greesil 1y ago
If you don't mind me asking, why did your team get bigger? Did your scope increase?
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by greesil 1y ago
People that selfish shouldn't be managing people.
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by greesil 1y ago
I am cynical. Better for what? I can only interpret moves made by large companies across the board as ways to move the stock price and consolidate control.
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by greesil 1y ago
This reads like "get rid of the old experienced people so I can get promoted".

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