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"Someone else would be willing to ruin this, so I may as well ruin it and get paid for it" is not a direction everyone wants to, or even is willing to go.

I've held a short list of organizations I wouldn't ever work for, for a long while. Meta is on that list, but so are most of the big tech companies you see in the various anagrams.

It's getting to the point where selling my soul to the highest bidder is going to be absolutely required for any big tech job going forward.

It's a pain if that isn't communicated in the app prior to committing to payment.

Far too many introverts in software development for that.

Isometric sims make it easy to build something that looks good. CS & PZ can make things look incredible, but it's a PITA to get there.

As someone now firmly in the "used to be a developer" part of my career, AI use seems like good old atrophying of the memory muscle of coding. Whether it's because you just don't code anymore at all, or offload that thinking to AI, the effect on you is the same. You start to forget.

Don't have AI do anything you want to stay sharp on.

Only if you think of it that way -- making every human interaction purely transactional.

Conversely, there's something I've used as a guiding principle for a while now that isn't quite the same, but in the same direction: to receive help, be helpful.

Both of these also fall under the greater umbrella of "treat others as you would like to be treated".

Saying someone's name back to them is also a memory trick to help yourself remember their name for next time.

Ahh, the three relevant numbers in development: 0, 1, and infinity.

I got reeeeally good at producing repro gifs that I could plug straight inline into email replies to "can't repro"; it's forever clear that most developers either don't know how to test the product they are building, or simply can't be bothered to try.

> That emotion is nostalgia, whether real or perceived.

Absolutely. One of my prized possessions is a book I had made from digital pictures I took on a family trip when my kids were 3 & 4 years old. The pictures are of single-digit megapixel quality, but are perfect for what they needed to be: a reminder of that trip, and the memories contained within.

It seems to me that the slightly fuzzy aspect of old pictures better matches our fuzzy memories of that time.

> serious damage from typical daily use

Doing what? I've used one of those laptops for years, and it still looks and acts fine, hardware-wise. Windows though...

OK then... let's see, it's citrus season -- meyer lemon meringue it is, with a swiss meringue[1] of course.

[1] https://www.seriouseats.com/easy-swiss-meringue-recipe

For my life, I don't understand the gestures for the 3D map. It would seem that I can ONLY manipulate that view by accident.

I already did for October, November (twice), and December. Does that count?

I'm a human who writes like that, because mobile and desktop OSs have made it easy—so easy—to include things like em-dashes and other formerly uncommon punctuation. I also come from an age where people were taught things like proper grammar and punctuation, so go figure.

I'm a dad that stopped using facebook when I got divorced, so there's a bit of anecdata for you

> assume

There's your trouble. The real problem is that most internet users are setting their baseline for "standard issue human writing" at exactly the level they themselves write. The problem is that more and more people do not draw a line between casual/professional writing, and as such balk at very normal professional writing as potentially AI-driven.

Blame OS developers for making it easy—SO easy!—to add all manner of special characters while typing if you wish, but the use of those characters, once they were within easy reach, grew well before AI writing became a widespread thing. If it hadn't, would AI be using it so much now?

Uses for Siri:

1. Checking the current temp or weather

2. Setting an alarm, timer, or reminder

3. Skipping a music track or stopping the music altogether roughly 3 seconds after hearing the command, or 1 second after you assume it didn't work

<end of list>

New Jersey Transit trains use something similar to this, but with many more segments

https://www.flickr.com/photos/recluse26/286211358/

I first started hearing about it 20 years ago, and was able to confirm it for myself earlier this year. In order to truly de-stress, to let go, you need 3 weeks away. Doesn't have to be a 3 week vacation, just 3 weeks of not thinking about work.

If you can do it, I highly recommend it if for no other reason to clearly see just how much stress your work is adding to your life, even if everything seems "fine".

I say that fully acknowledging that very, very few people will get that opportunity, "unlimited" PTO or otherwise.

I got one sentence in and thought to myself, "This is about discovery, isn't it?"

And lo, complaints about plaintiffs started before I even had to scroll. If this company hadn't willy-nilly done everything they could to vacuum up the world's data, wherever it may be, however it may have been protected, then maybe they wouldn't be in this predicament.

It's November, but I still had to make sure the date on the page wasn't April 1st.

> Why would we want to?

Because crimes should be prosecuted.

> Should we do the same to her?

Obviously yes. Why would we give a damn? See also: Epstein files & Clinton. Release them, round him & the rest of them up.

Tech worker enthusiast: my whole house is smart, and has no connection to the internet.

Companies can architect their backends to be able to fail back to another region in case of outage, and either don't test it or don't bother to have it in place because they can just blame Amazon, and don't otherwise have an SLA for their service.

To fix it, test your failback procedures. For everything else, there's nothing to fix, it's working by design.

Settings -> Accessibility -> Display & Text Size -> enable Reduce Transparency

That made a world of difference for me.

This seems in the same direction as "doesn't everyone get sad?" for folks with depression. It's not a matter of this not being an experience for others, as much as it is how much energy it takes to get through it.

"Energy" in this case as a stand-in for willpower, for emotional regulation, for actual physical energy.

In the United States (in 2020[1]), 100% of the population lived within 5 miles (8 km) of a local public library, with 99.1% of people living within 1 mile (1.6 km). That seems good enough to me.

[1] https://www.gc.cuny.edu/center-urban-research/research-proje...

Even the satire is too depressing at this point.