DC1350

> working on various internal company side projects on my own time

Maybe they love that you’ll work for free if they keep dangling the carrot in front of you.

If it’s going to take you years to get what you’re qualified for, then doesn’t it make sense to find a new job at the appropriate level? It should only take a few months.

This doesn’t really make sense to me. Sex segregated prisons exist to stop sexual violence but the majority of trans women are attracted to women, and they can easily overpower cis women. I would expect cis women to be more in danger from lesbian trans women than trans women are in danger from men. The gender segregation isn’t for identity reasons!

Just get more money 4Head

> one of the safest, most progressive countries in the world and you dismiss it as a collection of mining companies?

Throw in real estate and oil and that pretty much covers it. Canada doesn’t have a very bright future.

Thanks

Yahoo answers is the reason I was insecure about not having an average 8 inch penis when I was 11 years old. It was probably the lowest quality forum that I’ve ever seen and I’m glad to hear it’s shutting down.

I have no idea. I’ve never lived without the internet and my entire lifestyle depends on it. How did people move to new cities and find jobs and a place to live without it? Cold calling once I find out how to get a foreign phone book? Sounds awful. If it wasn’t for the internet I would be trapped in my dead end home city.

It’s at 0 points

It’s just toxic positivity and bragging. Gratitude is useful for people with bad lives to find something small to cheer themselves up. It’s not for healthy people who love their jobs and their family to flex on the people who can’t think of anything better than overnight oats to be grateful for. This site is not useful for anyone who actually needs help and I hate it.

I don’t want to read what other people are grateful for because it just reminds me that the things I’m missing are actually important. A piece of paper and a pen works better.

Does it really matter? We live in a time where there’s no necessary relationship between the government that you pay taxes to and the one that supports the people who pay you. That’s what remote work makes possible. You’re suggesting that free movement is wrong and that people owe a debt to whichever government they happened to be raised under.

Maybe. I’m thinking about real “people” who exist without any kind of conscious observer in their head

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/

No, I'm thinking about the more mild forms of disordered eating like a constant fear of gaining weight and feeling guilty about eating. Anyone who has a sedentary lifestyle needs to be pretty neurotic about food to maintain low body fat. Is a little bit underweight really that bad?

I'm not even convinced that all people are conscious. That needs to be solved first

That’s why humans of the future will eat those weird bacteria that you find in places like volcanoes, the bottom of the ocean, or acidic caves. Gruel will be a wet, raw clump of it, and we’ll call it “Beyond Bugs”, because bug eating is an unsustainable luxury.

Sometimes I wonder if the positive social consequences of having an eating disorder can actually make up for bad health outcomes. Good looking people are always treated a lot better, and mildly underweight looks a lot better than a little bit chubby. The “right amount of body dysmorphia” is a fun thing to think about since it’s hard to know if you’re crazy, or everyone else is, when you live somewhere that “normal” is actually pretty overweight and nobody acts like there’s a problem.

Or Alan Turing and Leonardo da Vinci

Try searching for unicorn

I have some GME

> What does "diversity and inclusion" have to do with Stallman returning?

It’s very obviously because he makes women uncomfortable. This isn’t really a woke thing. I love crazy woke people drama as much as any other techbro, but this is a big stretch.

People of Land are not a protected class

Canadian engineers don’t make very much (60-120k range is typical) and that’s with a 4 year degree. Neither do technicians, repair people, scientists etc. $120k is just what 18 year olds make doing labour at the very beginning of their career. So the idea that replacing these jobs will ever be politically popular makes no sense to me at all. These people aren’t stupid and they know exactly what they stand to lose if Alberta transfers to renewables. I think they would love to build solar farms if it paid just as well though.

> Canada doesn't have to take such an American view of capitalism, and we often haven't in our history.

Canadian identity is a lot weaker in the west. I don’t think anyone really cares how “central” Canadians feel.

Canadian oil workers who make $120k fresh out of high school with no education are never going to be satisfied with training for their new $70k clean energy jobs. The problem is good jobs, not just jobs. How bad does climate change have to be before the lost wages and income decline is worth it? That’s the real question that nobody ever wants to talk about.

If there’s no force behind the law then it’s just a suggestion

Memorializing life online is the reason people get fired for saying homophobic stuff at a time when even most left wing politicians were anti gay marriage (>= 8 years ago). I don’t want this. I would use social media a lot more if everything was deleted after 24 hours because I can’t tell the future and I don’t know what will be taboo in 5 years

> The exploitation of developers by big corporation must end.

Why do people choose to work for free on open source projects that are mostly used by businesses? I can completely understand making things that are hard to monetize, user facing applications, or trying to learn something. But when I see free contributions to things like infrastructure management I just don’t get it. Why wouldn’t you just get a job doing this if there’s obviously a business demand for it? If I made something for free that was primarily used by people who made money off of my work it would completely kill my motivation and I would feel taken advantage of.

They’re rental slaves. Anyone living paycheque to paycheque is. If your employer didn’t pay you anything but provided you with everything you and your family needed, with nothing left over so you have nothing to support you if you quit, that would be slavery. This is the same thing. Does it make you feel better to pretend it’s not true?

I was a 2x WFH intern. Micromanage the intern a bit more. Ask to see code that’s being worked on and don’t let them go too long without interaction. It’s way too easy to get distracted when the only interaction we have is a 15 minute stand up in the morning, a few slack messages, and 8 hours of time to manage ourselves. There were a lot of days where I could get done more work in the hour before a 1:1 meeting than the rest of the day. When I’m not learning much and the feedback is still positive even when I slack off then it’s really hard to stay motivated.

Also remember that interns don’t have a home office and most are in their bedroom at the same desk they relax and play games at. It doesn’t feel like I’m actually at work unless there’s frequent interaction

Also that tweet by former CEO Ellen Pao where she admitted to attending parties with Ghislaine Maxwell while knowing about the pedo sex trafficking

https://twitter.com/ekp/status/1280020996460670976

Any school can teach it but most people still need to do lots of practice to reliably get through interviews. That’s not taught, and it’s something that students from average schools don’t even know they’re missing until they start looking for a job. Remember that the average student still believes that just getting a CS degree is enough to get employed.