

All the leadership who made this mistake should be fired. They are clearly incompetent
But i guess it’s always labor that pays the price
All the leadership who made this mistake should be fired. They are clearly incompetent
But i guess it’s always labor that pays the price
If you had been buying games you’d have a library 🤷
Game pass was always going to be bad for consumers, and probably bad for smaller orgs. The problem is people are short sighted and don’t care.
Like with Walmart moving into a neighborhood. People are like oh it’s so much cheaper than the local shops! And then those get priced out of business and Walmart raises prices and lowers salary. People won’t or can’t think ahead
Yeah my friend is dating a Google recruiter and he overhears some absurd offers. Like, a reasonable person could retire on a few years at that salary.
I have a hypothesis that rich people are bad at money
I’ve read that windows 11 uses react (a JavaScript view framework) for parts of the UI, and that seems insane to me. JavaScript isn’t a great language. It’s popular because it runs in the browser. The windows desktop is not a browser.
If more people had a backbone and spoke out / refused to implement shitty stuff, this wouldn’t happen.
Thus, it’s more than just the web developers 😄 . Product needs to have a backbone to stand up to their boss, too. I fought really hard to get rid of the mouse tunnels at that job, but was blocked by product and one of the directors of eng. It was mostly [office] political nonsense
Also, many design choices are entirely on the web developer.
Not at most of the companies I’ve worked out. There’s a design person or team. Eng can give feedback, but it’s pretty rare for them to be given a blank check.
I’m not gonna change my opinion until websites become usable again, you’re wasting your time on me.
That’s fine. Some web developers are morons, but some of everyone are morons. We can partially agree.
Most web developers are morons in the sense that most people are morons. They’re not especially moronic.
A lot of problems on the web aren’t coming from the developers. They’re management pushing for stuff.
Like, at an old company the UI had really bad mouse tunnels (mouse over menus and sub menus that close if you mouse out). Terrible interface. But someone in management liked it and no one would approve changing it. Easy to look at it and say we’re all morons, but most of the stupid there was from leadership.
Capitalism is a root cause. Let’s get rid of that, or if that’s too extreme that severely regulate it.
Jail all of Facebook’s decision makers. Seize it (investors get nothing), and either shut it down or revert it to a simple message board. Require moderators. Ban the trash (eg: sovereign citizens groups). Remember that time they tried to see if they could make people sad by changing the algorithm? Find those people and ruin them.
Pay labor more. Work them less. I’d just do basic income, personally.
Make more walkable spaces. Fuck car culture. You don’t meet anyone when you drive. Everywhere could have local spots where you see regulars.
More free public events. Brooklyn does “movies under the stars”. There’s also like yoga classes, bird watching, concerts. More of that.
Offer free education for anyone who applies in good faith. Offer classes on a range of subjects, but honestly I think a lot of people would benefit from lessons and practice on “how to talk to people” and public speaking.
Kind of a ramble. But I think if you leave capitalism in place, you’re going to have problems. “Everything has to make the owners as much money as possible, immediately” isn’t a formula for a good life.
I don’t know man, i think the simpler answer of “capitalism and profit motive create incentives that don’t yield good outcomes” is compelling. Okcupid was better and more feature rich before Match bought it.
There is some user error on the apps, though, as you say.
Yeah I think people are too stupid on average to understand. Like how kids think pouring water from a short wide glass into a tall glass means there’s more water, people think one long line means longer wait times.
I feel like education could mitigate this but at least in the US our education isn’t a priority
I had to get a new keyboard, and I just wanted a basic black or beige one. The internet really wanted to sell me one that lights up and has a bunch of extra keys. I don’t need or want that. Just a basic tool with all the keys, thank you.
Perhaps a universal icon for “pick language” would be helpful, like we have a icons for volume control and share. Good luck getting it adopted though.
For some reason getting a passport is like $200, plus whatever it takes to get the required supporting documents (eg: birth certificate, the photo). That’s not much by many metrics, but a lot of people in the US just don’t have $200 to spend.
The right would immediately use that to disenfranchise blacks, queers, and women. “You need a degree from an accredited college to vote, and coincidentally women only schools don’t count, nor do historically black ones”
We can’t just kill all the conservatives but if you could somehow prevent them from accessing power, we’d be better off.
Fine needs to be much bigger. All the decision makers that approved it need to be removed and barred from working in the industry
I’ve been happy with Bandcamp, though they got sold so they’re no longer independent.
But the model is you can stream for free however many times the artist has it set to, and then you’re expected to buy it. Once you buy it, its yours DRM-free forever.
So if you buy an album or two a month, it costs similar to a subscription but you build up a library. After a while, you might find there are months you don’t buy anything, but just listen to what you already bought.
You said that most laws require intent.
I said that strict liability exists. This was admittedly, a nitpick.
You did an on sequitur about how the US has a police problem, and said “These aren’t normal laws in other countries fyi.”. I took that to imply the concept of strict liability doesn’t exist in other laws, but maybe you meant something else. Maybe you meant it’s not common?
I then pointed out that the concept originated in Britain. You said “If it originated there, why doesn’t Canada have it lmfao.”, which is factually incorrect as far as I can tell. Canada has a concept of strict liability.
You then said,
Not for sex offenders like pissing in public, of course it exists in other areas of law, but those aren’t applicable to all other areas.
Ignoring what feels like a moving goal post, maybe this reveals where we diverged. Maybe you thought I was saying all laws are strict liability? I wasn’t.
The most famous example of strict liability is statutory rape. This is off topic from guys pissing in a parking lot (though I wouldn’t be surprised if ICE goons do other crimes). https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-charges/statutory-rape.html
As most statutory rape laws appear as “strict liability” offenses, this limits the amount of legal defenses available to someone accused.
The link I provided was a wikipedia article is clearly not an exhaustive answer of all things on the topic. If you do click through to the criminal article, it does mention a case. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_liability_(criminal)
Anyway, this is a pointless, unpleasant, argument.
I’m not even sure what you’re arguing anymore. My point was strict liability exists. Also the most famous instance of strict liability is sex crimes, I’m told.
A 30 second search revealed that Canada has some strict liability laws.
It is absolutely stupid, stupid to the tune of “you shouldn’t be a decision maker”, to think an LLM is a better use for “getting a quick intro to an unfamiliar topic” than reading an actual intro on an unfamiliar topic. For most topics, wikipedia is right there, complete with sources. For obscure things, an LLM is just going to lie to you.
As for “looking up facts when you have trouble remembering it”, using the lie machine is a terrible idea. It’s going to say something plausible, and you tautologically are not in a position to verify it. And, as above, you’d be better off finding a reputable source. If I type in “how do i strip whitespace in python?” an LLM could very well say “it’s your_string.strip()”. That’s wrong. Just send me to the fucking official docs.
There are probably edge or special cases, but for general search on the web? LLMs are worse than search.