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by rewmie 3y ago
> Twitter was a brand and renaming it to X is just stupid. The rebranding itself is stupid, but the spin that's added to the rationale behind it makes the "X" brand sound eerily similar to Zombo.com.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Just admit you need the revenue (...) Here's a reminder that Forbes reported that Elon Musk's Twitter is spiraling into bankruptcy, and things are so bad that Musk is even unable to pay rent for their offices. https:/&#
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Even $1 a year is a big deal if you've got an army of 5000 bot accounts (something pretty trivial in this environment). I think this belief is highly misguided. Whoever is in the business of managing bot farms comprised of thous
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by rewmie 3y ago
I don't consider well sourced any article that attempts to summarize burnout causes that doesn't mention pressuring workers to work long hours to meet impossible arbitrary goals imposed by leadership, or leadership pressuring team
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Is there a grain of truth to the “lazy Indian” trope? There is none. I worked at a big tech company where a big chunk of positions were moved to India, and the teams in India were constantly overworked and under pressure.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> What's integer divide by zero in C? It's explicitly left undefined. > Would you consider that safe? Yes, because, as all C newbies can easily explain to you, the general rule of thumb is that undefined behavior should be t
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by rewmie 3y ago
> C can't even do all of integral arithmetic safely. Your comment reads like nonsense. Are you able to provide what you feel is the best example that substantiates your claim?
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by rewmie 3y ago
> he's saying c's model just doesn't work well anymore. The author argues that C's model does not fit the model he defined himself and claims to be the same model used by everyone. After going through the article, I&#
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I do not expect standardization of features that do not exist. But that makes absolutely no sense, doesn't it? I mean, think about it for a moment. Specifying a standard behavior is not about picking a flawed winner from a list of
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by rewmie 3y ago
> The ISO committee should not be in the business of inventing language features out of whole cloth. That is not how “standardization” works. They should only standardize existing practice. How do you expect to standardize a feature that
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by rewmie 3y ago
Thanks for sharing some of your insight onto the problem domain. Do you happen to have any reference for laymen like me to onboard onto the subject? It's an awfully interesting topic but when I stumbled upon it I tend to fall back to J
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Just drop by one of the many Lemmy servers and create a community. I checked and there's already a retro gaming community in Lemmy. https://lemmy.world/c/retrogaming
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by rewmie 3y ago
I don't think it's a valid take. If the incumbent is doing a shit job and pushing it's entire userbase always, providing the same service without being shit is definitely a good sales pitch.
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by rewmie 3y ago
Tell me you're a shit parent without telling me.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> The real secret to Hacker News is the ability to attract a large target audience on an ongoing basis to view and contribute. This might be a good time to mention voat. It was a better reddit than reddit, it had a superior UX, it perfor
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Idea: what if we had a "federated" network of hacker news like sites based on ActivityPub? HackerNews is already a news aggregation service, just like Reddit, countless other Reddit clones, lobste.rs, and most fediverse platf
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by rewmie 3y ago
> The lesson it's supposed to teach is to be helpful to others, and that disobedience can lead to punishment. Unquestionable obedience to the company owner under the threat of immurement is not a basic part of parenting. I also ques
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Thomas the Tank Engine exists to delight children with the mystique of steam engines, and to provide the back drop for simple lessons on pro-social behavior that children can understand. It's kind of weird seeing someone claim &qu
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by rewmie 3y ago
Is there a trend of people dropping flights in favour of riding cargo ships?
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I applaud him. I hope he has a new job in hand by the time he gets home to Germany. The guy states openly in the article that he does not refuse to fly, and he only refuses when he feels that there are alternativas to taking a flight.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> If I worked at a place where I was penalized for "only" putting in 40 hours of solid work per week, I'd be energetically looking for a job elsewhere. I think you didn't understood the problem. No one is talking abou
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by rewmie 3y ago
> until turnover is high. You're making it sound like having someone quit is a blocker. Some managers see that as shedding the dead weight, and keeping in the guys who are the team players with endurance. The guy who complains about
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by rewmie 3y ago
> This sounds like a great definition of not-lazy, and it does not mention long hours anywhere. Your definition of "not-lazy" by it's very nature relies on systematically working overtime. Investigating and fixing flaky te
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by rewmie 3y ago
Thanks for the helpful summary. It does wonder to provide context to such an important topic.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Isn't it quite obvious that productivity does not scale linearly with time worked? Irrelevant, and reads as a non-sequitur. OP expressed his personal assertion on laziness, not productivity.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Being not-lazy in your work is not the same as working lots of hours. You've just provides your personal assertion on a non-definition. Do you actually have an alternative definition that does not imply working lots of hours?
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by rewmie 3y ago
> (...) longer than a few years/decade. Also known as a lifetime.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> And they should be called out when they're used, no matter who by. I think you're unwittingly proving BBC's point. An objective journalist reports the facts, which means things like who did what to who. "Calling out
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Never have I said anything of being pro whomever, only condemming the act with the intention of spreading fear. You've tried to accuse a journalism organization of condoning terrorism just because they explained why in general, du
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I'd be out for blood too if (...) Irrelevant. This issue is about whether journalists should use loaded words.

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