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friendlydogon Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2021 Results

Run it locally on docker.

friendlydogon Sexual harassment in the metaverse? Woman alleges rape in virtual world

Behavior is appalling. Is there an easy way to leave the area, and does removing your headset end the program? My knowledge of this VR app is limited.

friendlydogon What can we do to get more women into coding?

To your why men working in early childhood education isn't popular, it is probably because people have a natural fear of males and the young, because of the years of data of the animal kingdom where males often kill the young and are naturally separated.

To the question of women in programming, I have no idea why the interest isn't there, but I have known several women programmers who were an asset to the teams they joined, I have known a few that were not, and several men who were not, but percentage wise in my experience I didn't see one group as overwhelming better than the other. You always get some defective programmers.

friendlydogon The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed

If you interview at enough companies you can find one that allows a Gattaca to slip through. Of the subset of companies that allows that some companies let people float without doing any real work for a long time. The longer they coast the more likely they can find a corner to hide in. There is no penalty for them to try this approach. Even if you caught them in a lie the effort to make them pay for their actions means they likely will never be responsible.

One company I worked with checked government issued ids at every stage of the interview process. I'm sure people will find a way around this. This also opens your company to discrimination lawsuits, "everything was going fine in the interview until I turned on the camera, then they didn't hire me."

friendlydogon BBC censors its own archives

Should we expect the quote of George Orwell of "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. History has stopped." To be rewritten as "Everything is fine, trust the government."

friendlydogon Spotify’s Platform Rules and Approach to Covid-19

It doesn't mention vaccines as sterilizing vectors as being prohibited so he could talk about this with impunity:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12346214/

friendlydogon Regarding the Neil Young–Joe Rogan Spotify Saga

Neil had already sold the rights to his music to a label. They sold rights to Spotify.

Imagine building a house then selling it, then when neighbors you personally find undesirable move into the neighborhood demanding the home owners association load one of the houses, of which you own neither, and truck it out.

Edit:

He may own half, and the label Warner was the one that made the deal with Spotify.

friendlydogon Elon Musk Promises Full Self-Driving “Next Year” for the Ninth Year in a Row

If I can still be charged for accidents performed by the "self-driving" feature, I'm not interested.

friendlydogon Why I Broke Up with Firefox

Apple allows apps which enable tracking and trading BTC have you considered contacting them and requesting them to stop?

friendlydogon Is GitHub Down?

Up for me

friendlydogon Fight Club author praises Chinese cut of film: ‘Super wonderful ’

What you don't understand you can make mean anything.

friendlydogon Sweden approves plan to bury spent nuclear fuel for 100k years

Judging from the current historical record is this feasible? Most civilizations don't have enough time behind them to prove this out.

friendlydogon Social media app just for 'females' intentionally excludes trans women

Just use this until you get in: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

friendlydogon What if all workers wrote software, not just the geek elite?

Then the "geek elite" would spend more time fixing things they should have learned before starting. Devs who have fixed general office worker's abominations of Microsoft Access and turned them into proper apps would agree. This isn't to belittle the creations, just an observation. The work the normal office workers build had value to the business or their managers wouldn't have let them build it. The issue comes in risk to the business when best practices are unknown and not followed. When the Access app collapses under its own weight is often when "geek elite" are summoned to pull the team's mission critical homegrown application out of the fire, and the expectations are often not matched when they build something the wrong way it takes a few days and it might take a few sprints to "do it right." The solution is probably to meet in the middle and take the apps made by the regular office workers and migrate the ones with value as soon as possible. Accruing technical debt is cheaper and it can be unpaid until disaster strikes so that is often the choice of management especially if the environment or relationship between front line office workers and internal app developers is strained.

friendlydogon We have jetpacks and we do not care

Hoverbikes seem more in reach for price and safety.

friendlydogon The case against masks at school

https://web.archive.org/web/20220127154033/https://www.theat...

friendlydogon The strangely successful history of people mailing themselves in boxes (2015)

People are refuting it now but China thought that mail was dangerous around 9 days ago:

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/coronavirus-china-disinfects...

Also packages contain cardboard which is often host to roaches and other plague spreaders, but we both know you were referring to a specific virus.

friendlydogon Facebook promised poor countries free internet: People got charged anyway

How much would it cost to make things right and provide full unrestricted broadband to both counties? It would go a long way to restore their image. Instead of old Google's "do no evil" adopting "make it right" would restore a lot of public faith.

There once was a person who worked to place land mines as part of their job for the khmer rouge, they spent their life trying to remove them. It didn't fix the initial destruction but it helped to set right some of the damage.

friendlydogon YouTube permanently bans Fox News host Dan Bongino

Alphabet should rip the bandaid off and just ban all conservatives, antivaxers, and other undesirables from using their products.

friendlydogon San Jose passes first US law that gun owners need liability insurance/annual fee

Gun leasing is a real thing, and so is financing. If you lease in another state the commerce clause might protect you see a lawyer for details: https://www.guns.com/financing

friendlydogon Google rewrites many page titles

Unless the website is public domain or license to freely remix, isn't Google violating copywrite law by creating a derivative work?

friendlydogon Felony charges are first in a fatal crash involving Autopilot

Lopez’s family, in court documents, alleges that the car “suddenly and unintentionally accelerated to an excessive, unsafe and uncontrollable speed.”

Toyota had uncontrolled acceleration and the drivers were not held responsible.

https://forums.edmunds.com/discussion/6552/toyota/x/toyota-s...

friendlydogon Man Can’t Get Heart Transplant Because He’s Not Vaccinated Against Covid

Shouldn't give liver transplants to alcoholics, or heart transplants to people who eat fast food, or any medical care to smokers.

friendlydogon India will create its own OS to rival Google and Apple

Making Linux better support mobile would be a better use of resources.

friendlydogon Doing too much work on one's own before looping in others

I'm a fan of "always loop people in".

Frequent checkins with detailed commit messages including markdown and graphviz diagrams which state intentions.

Switching the flow from a status meeting low detail reponse of "still working on X issue" to a regular feed of detailed information which serves not only as a development log, documentation, but it crystallizes the developer's planning and thought process because they have to describe what they are doing rather than just "fixing the issue" , or "building the thing".

Persistent chat has made daily stand up status calls redundant. Stakeholders can subscribe to channels which have rich detailed information about what is happening at any given moment. For larger groups a resource can curate the channels and provide a thoughtful summary in a higher level channel of different teams progress. Tools like Azure Dev Ops provide meaningful charts, tracking, and velocity, and the deeper conversations on chat linked to work items, wikis, and repo level filea serve to provide an accurate picture for anyone looking into the effort. Leads, and managers can identify trouble spots and adjust priorities or provide valuable insights. Regular demos can also be linked and serve as a historical record of the development direction.

friendlydogon The Great Resignation? More Like the Great Renegotiation

From the posts I have read in /r/antiwork I would not like to employ any of the posters, I would not want to be a coworker to any of them either. I'm not convinced that the world needs to have everyone working, but if it comes down to a shortage of food, healthcare or consumable goods, the workers should be fed before the slackers.

friendlydogon China gives 'Fight Club' new ending where authorities win

A US remake where the doctor gives him some sleeping pills and he gains weight and spends the rest of the movie watching reality TV and working the same job until he ODds on the sleeping pills would be an alternate ending I'd like to see.

friendlydogon Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US Nuclear Stockpile

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_marine_mammal

For reference.

friendlydogon Companies are desperate for workers but can't find them. Why?

Chin up, the market is hot. Front end, back end, full stack or dev ops?

friendlydogon Bob Dylan Sells All Recorded Rights to Sony Music

You used to, never compromise with the mystery tramp, but now you realize he's not selling any alibis and say, "Would you like to make your next deal?"