lolsal

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by lolsal 4y ago
I'm glad I'm not having to work in an office with this person! ;)
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by lolsal 4y ago
> After work drinks and pre-work drinks are just your work getting to consume more of your life than it pays you to do so, whether hourly work time not counted or salaried hours getting diluted. I think we're misunderstanding someth
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by lolsal 4y ago
> Yet you take it for granted that she will go to lunch with you, and that she will engage in neurotypical "pleasantries". I suppose I do! I'm not coercing anyone to go to lunch with me, so I'm not really sure what yo
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by lolsal 4y ago
> Well then you could consider remote jobs to be worth £2k+ more salary, net. I consider them to be worth a lot more than that!
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by lolsal 4y ago
> Digital whiteboards are trivial to share, recover, modify and maintain. They're light-years beyond the limited physical variety. My team land heavily on Miro, for instance. I use Mira too, it's great! But it's not the sa
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by lolsal 4y ago
> Again, of course not; but if a company is going to expect or require people to do it, it should foot the bill for the inconveniences caused. Sorry if I wasn't clear - these lunches have nothing to do with work. I eat lunch sometim
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by lolsal 4y ago
> Nothing in all the years I worked offline in offices convinced me that whiteboards were particularly useful. Wow! That's pretty extraodinary to me. I wonder how we use them differently?
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by lolsal 4y ago
I hadn't thought of this distinction before; thank you for enunciating this point!
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by lolsal 4y ago
> Insisting on a new solution being "exactly the same" to adopt it pretty much ensures you will never leave the status quo. I'm not sure where you got that I said that, if you read what I wrote you'll see that I'
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by lolsal 4y ago
> I think if commuting time was fully paid work hours, then companies would quickly agree that minor optimizations like this aren't worth it. I would argue that you have priced in your commute to your market value when you take a jo
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by lolsal 4y ago
> Have you ever done a white boarding session where more than one person was writing on the board at a time? Very often back when I worked in an office. > The online whiteboard works great when one person is adding to it and it's
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by lolsal 4y ago
I don't think I understand your comment here - zoom happy hours are not a benefit to me, the other things that they try to replace have more benefit to me.
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by lolsal 4y ago
> No. Online whiteboards have benefits that in-person whiteboard sessions do not, obviously. Is it obvious though? They're garbage for most of the teams I've worked with. They're tolerable to the rest. > No, obviously t
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by lolsal 4y ago
> Not for me, no. I'm neurodiverse, and that shit is just lost on me. I hear you and understand. Lots of people are neuro-normative though, and that stuff is valuable. Let's not assert that remote-only is the Best® though, beca
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by lolsal 4y ago
I hear you and see you. Fully remote sounds like a boon to you!
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by lolsal 4y ago
> I think that a lot of those things can be replaced with new techniques as time goes on. Just because this is how we did things yesterday doesn't mean there aren't better ways to do this ... This is a totally fair point, but m
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by lolsal 4y ago
This sounds a bit like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman Having lunch with colleagues has nothing to do with 'backchannel communication'. Sometimes it's nice to hear about where we like to
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by lolsal 4y ago
I agree! You're welcome to do whatever you want. But I am a friendly person and find it easy to make friends with my co-workers and we don't even talk about 'work' most of the time. I still have lunches with my colleague
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by lolsal 4y ago
Can anyone honestly and sincerely tell me that online whiteboards are exactly equivalent to in-person whiteboard sessions? There is no value in having lunches together with your colleagues? There is no value in body-language when communicat
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by lolsal 4y ago
> If the true externalities of your consumption are not priced into the product then you're not really paying for it. This is true, but other than showing up to the butcher with my money, what else can I do? Some _other thing_ needs
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by lolsal 5y ago
When given the choice, choose compassion.
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by lolsal 5y ago
> The need for stricter border security is well established. This is orthogonal to the humanitarian issue happening in Mexico for the last few decades. > When our borders are not secure as one political party tends to favor, poor Mexi
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by lolsal 5y ago
> I mean your are assuming that with free housing you retain a right to live where you want to live. I'm not sure why you think that; I never said that anywhere. > But there are more options available than everyone getting free h
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by lolsal 5y ago
> "Free" housing isn't charity or magic. It's a public service paid for by society for the benefit of society. Feel free to criticize the core value proposition, but please don't paint it as some impossible fanta
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by lolsal 5y ago
> It’s often not literally free Ok, cool. Not what we're discussing though.
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by lolsal 5y ago
> Today's startups are solving the most boring problems imaginable. Gadgets are a snoozfest. Programming languages and frameworks seem to be running in circles. I'm guessing you have become numb to what is exciting - we're
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by lolsal 5y ago
> Very basic housing should be free. Please publish where you have developed and built all this free housing so that everyone that wants to live there can enjoy this right.
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by lolsal 5y ago
> Umm, The cold war never ended. It has waxed and waned, and it has rotated into economic, information, and mimetic warfare over the decades. The US government and NATO have been investing in our military for decades for more reasons tha
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by lolsal 5y ago
I also appreciate this.
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by lolsal 5y ago
> Phrase “im proud of <something>” means nothing. ... yes it does. I'm proud of losing 5lbs and accomplishing a goal I set for myself. The feelings I have when I utter that statements are real, whether I act differently (beyon

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