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I agree with this. It made me think about the Adam Sandler movie where he finds out his lover suffers from a condition where she can't retain new memories, and at the end of the movie the conflict is solved by them going to live on a boat and him re-seducting her every day for the rest of their lives.

Watching it as a kid made me think it was a heartwarming ending to the movie, but the older I get the creepier it gets. It is essentially a hostage situation if you think about it.

Anyways, not saying this is what OP did, but I guess it's an example of how seemingly sweet and well intentioned actions can also be overbearing. I can't say I would enjoy having someone write me poems for 400 days straight.

Cool! Thank you for clarifying.

Do you still need to scroll down to the comments to find whether the function you're looking at is safe to use or a ticking time bomb? Also, in my opinion, the fact that there's a comment section, and they're considered "helpful" to boot, is a sign that the documentation is lacking and people are trying to fill its holes.

Do they? At work we tend to encourage async communication, and one of the first things I heard when I started is that I might get emails / messages outside of working hours but there was no expectation that I'd read them, or reply if I did.

Out of curiosity, how does a "no politics" rule work in a scenario like this? Unfortunately we're currently in a scenario where a queer person saying they had a great time with their husband/wife/partner over the weekend can be stretched to be a violation of that rule by mean spirited people (to put it mildly). I'm not saying this is the case, but I'd personally be uncomfortable sharing in environments like that because of such rule.

That said, having a scheduled 15 minute "hello" meeting every day sounds great! I feel like seeing my coworkers and saying hi is the most value I get out of daily standups, so your team's approach sounds great to me.

+1 to this. I find that a 15 minute stand up at the very least lets me see my coworkers, and I get so much out of just saying hi and hearing it back.

There are two genders: "man" and "political" /s

A private and intimate moment could just be you hugging your son. It doesn't have to be porn. And while you may argue your coworkers seeing you hug your son isn't a big deal, the point is that it needs to be up to the user to decide.

> But… because it’s Nix I never have to do that again.

This is the killer feature for me. My use-case for Nix is vastly different from yours, as I use it for centralized declarative configuration through NixOS, but I have an immense sense of satisfaction knowing that hell can freeze over but I'm still only a single command away from my exact setup running on (almost) any machine on the planet.

This might not matter much for most people, but making my machine work for me is something that took me years, and I can sleep well knowing that it's finally safe under Nix vs. multiple different configuration files for multiple different programs scattered across my filesystem.

I am one of those people. Last March one person went down on my profile and replied to multiple tweets calling me a groomer and a pedophile, with those exact words, and was not banned after I reported them.

I'm not going to acknowledge the second paragraph because it's just hilariously out of touch with reality.

There are way too many assumptions in your post. Yes, you're right that I like GraphQL, but:

1) Nowhere in my comments did I say that's limited to negative comments. I think "GraphQL is good" is just as useful (meaning not at all).

2) "Criminals are bad" is not an invalid statement, and neither is "GraphQL is bad" or "GraphQL" is good. But if the purpose is to discuss criminality, and not just add noise to an ongoing discussion, it is also a useless statement. Imagine there's a debate panel going on, someone in the crowd stands up and says "criminals are bad!". Where does that lead the conversation?

3) "The plane is about to crash, please pull up" is an expression of fact, not an opinion, and not even something that warrants or is said in a discussion so I don't think the comparison makes sense. Either way, "GraphQL is bad" is an opinion, not a fact, and thus needs more context to be useful in a discussion.

I'm not going to acknowledge the last paragraph because I'm presuming good faith from you, and I'd rather not turn this discussion into speculation about other comments in this thread or why you're here.

That said, you're definitely right that I'm biased towards GraphQL, but I think we're having different discussions if you think we're discussing GraphQL's merits.

Maybe I failed to express myself properly, but my point is that saying “X is bad.” (emphasis on the period) is not really saying anything. It’s much more productive if you explain why, how and in what environment X is bad, either before or after, like I did in example #2.

In my experience when someone says “X is bad”, the response is often either “haha” (which the subject then changes), or “why” (which leads to person #1 actually saying what they want to say). I’m personally not interested in someone’s remarks about some technology completely devoid of context or nuance, and would rather hear about their opinion on such technology in tangible scenarios.

There’s this stereotype of a programmer, that while I think can be funny sometimes, still reflects a professional that doesn’t really exist anymore from my perspective.

Most software engineers I’ve worked with have been incredibly humble and dedicated. The mythical bearded guy that showers three times a day, comes to the office with shorts and flip flops, and refuses to install Windows on the accountant person’s machine because it’s objectively bad is something I’ve only seen in memes and stories from older people I’ve worked with.

I personally think dissolving this myth, along with the one that programming is easy and / or none of us know what we’re doing, should be a shared goal between people who care about what they do and how others perceive it. Otherwise we’re unknowingly cultivating it into existence, and I definitely don’t want to work with arrogant, dogmatic developers.

That’s a great thread. It mimics my (admittedly limited) experience with MongoDB and it’s interesting to hear that wasn’t an outlier.

The point is that “bad” isn’t a useful descriptor of anything regarding their real-life applications, because it simply doesn’t mean anything. Without more context, saying something is bad is just saying you dislike it with intent to present it as objective rather than subjective.

For example:

1) “Haskell is bad because it’s too theoretical” 2) “Haskell is bad in corporate environments, as its roots in mathematical and academia make it harder for people to get productive with it compared to something like Java or C#”

The difference is clear. In my opinion it’s best if people who care about what they’re saying avoids #1, and instead frames their criticism like in #2.

Note: those examples don’t reflect my actual opinion on Haskell, it’s just something I came up with while writing this.

Twitter, the platform where trans people are routinely called pedophiles and groomers by prominent figures and nobodies alike, has a censorship problem? I can't imagine the kind of vitriol you have to spew to get banned off Twitter that's not just tripping the automatic ban for telling someone to die (which everyone is aware of at this point).

What's the source for the amount of employees? I couldn't find anything about that, let alone specifically 50 or 75.

I also think it's unreasonable to say that in a 50 person company that sells junk and makes YouTube videos that the median salary would be 100k. And even if it was, 50 * 150k is $7.5 million, not "around 10 million". The difference is significant considering we're talking about a $2m fine.

If you divide it by 20 before multiplying by 365, which is a charitable read to say the least, it would still be an insane amount of money.

I can't say I've never used Windows, but my first machine was Linux and I've been using it since then. This might happen sooner than you think :)

This is a great line but also leads to another: "If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the poor."

Interesting fact about this one: it is often attributed to the game Final Fantasy Tactics because of a meme, but it is never actually said in the game.

Asking for a discussion to be focused on one particular problem is fine in my opinion. But I think we can both agree that "Don't you find it exhausting being offended by everything all at once?" isn't exactly the best way to say that, to put it mildly, without even taking into consideration the condescending and infantilizing comment that came right after.

Creating separate bathrooms for different "categories" of people isn't something history has a kind view on, and I think less segregation as opposed to more is a good direction for us to go.

I can understand that after this whole back and forth, but for your consideration, "What were your thoughts if any here" isn't exactly something you say to a stranger and expect them to not read it as an insult. Especially if it comes right after an affirmation ending with a question mark, in a "it's so obvious, how do you not know this?" tone.

Pulsemixer is the one I love. It's a TUI alternative to Pavucontrol. https://github.com/GeorgeFilipkin/pulsemixer

Honorable mention is Ncmpcpp, which is a TUI frontend for MPD.

What? There was clearly no discussion, since my reply was made directly to your comment. I have a self-hosting environment that works well for me, but I would like to know from someone (presumably) more knowledgeable if Kubernetes would be helpful. Clearly I was wrong to assume that you, like a normal person, wouldn't mind sharing your knowledge with someone genuinely interested.

What an embarrassing shit show over an innocent question you could've simply ignored if you didn't feel like answering.

There sure is a lot of imagining going on here, that's for sure.

This reply is so surreal. Pointing out blatant sexism is "being offended by everything all at once", but old men being discriminated against isn't? Not to mention the amount of condescension that just proves the original point.

It took me at least a year of using NixOS daily to be comfortable enough to even attempt packaging software. Of course I'm still learning, but once you get past the initial barrier of "what the heck is any of this even doing", it becomes a lot easier and entertaining to find out for yourself.

What's the point of this weirdly aggressive reply? I'm not familiar with Kubernetes and wanted to know what it accomplishes so I could consider using it on my setup over what I have now. Get ahold of yourself.

What does Kubernetes accomplish in a self-hosting environment?