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thisisnotgoingwell

@ thisisnotgoingwell @programming.dev

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  • What's with the 'Thanks' people?

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  • Honestly, I think the nicest thing you can do for people is to make your point quickly and keep it as short as possible.

    For peers on collaborative issues:

    Hello NJSpradin,

    Hope you had an excellent weekend. I'd like to discuss the doohickey problem. I'm leaning towards XYZ, but I'd love to know your thoughts. Let me know when it's most convenient to meet.

    Thanks.

    For peers or people that are not doing their job.

    Hello NJSpradin,

    As discussed, the delivery of the doohickey proposal is needed ASAP. Please make this your priority and let me know if there's anything you need.

    Thanks.

  • What's with the 'Thanks' people?

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  • "do the needful" feels like you're being asked to step up and honor your responsibilities. BE A MAN. PAY THE BILLS. DO THE NEEDFUL.

  • What's with the 'Thanks' people?

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  • Being on the spectrum and navigating office politics can be a nightmare. I'm not sure why people want everything to be "nice." Now I'm dealing with the opposite problem though. I need to set boundaries and be very opinionated. I've spent 10 years ish dialing it back and now I need to dial it back up.

  • Joe Biden campaign volunteers are quitting in "droves"

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  • I'm sure if younger people were given a reason to give a shit they'd come out and vote. Even the candidates that are supposed to be more relatable to younger voters(Dems) have tone deaf talking points that revolve around the stock market, unemployment, gas prices, and inflation, none of which are an accurate metric that would define economic opportunity for the youth. Kind of a self fulfilling prophecy.

  • Pornhub pulls out of Montana, NC as age-verification battle rages on

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  • Basically PH and other xxx sites need you to verify your identity by uploading your ID. It's what should be unconstitutional and a violation of privacy.

  • You had to hold it up to a candle.

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  • I know it's fun to complain/rant about users, but to most people, computers are just a tool. You and I would probably agree that a good tradesman learns his tools intimately, but that's because our jobs are mechanically focused, so it's a requirement. People who work jobs like accountant can maybe be bothered to learn one application well and that's really due to a lack of training or education, you can't expect people to learn secondary skills unless they're led. I've been able to train the worst of users into people that can troubleshoot their own issues, though there are always users that say "idk, you're the one who needs to fix it" because in their minds we're impeding their progress. But most of the time users don't want to call helpdesk either if they can avoid it.

    It's always a good idea to practice your soft skills with difficult customers and be compassionate because they don't go away the more you climb the ladder, you just have to deal with them less frequently. Something that someone once told me many 10+ years ago when I was starting my career was that were it not for the users/customers, we wouldn't have a job to complain about.

  • Is it time for 6G already? Traffic analysis says yep

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  • ... Huh? Any source for this outlandish claim? Asking because I've been an engineer who facilitates cell tower backhaul for mobile and private cell towers and that sounds outrageously false. You do have to certify that the channels/bands are in spec and that they don't exceed certain power limits with the FCC but that's simply because they're the regulatory body and certainly doesn't mean the government gets free services

  • Michael Cohen cites AI-generated court cases in his defense

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  • I mean I kind of see your point but calling those results AI is not accurate unless you're just calling any kind of data collation/wrangling or even just basic programming logic "AI". What Google is doing is taking the number of times a game is mentioned in the pages that are in the gaming category and trying to spoon feed you what it thinks you want. But that isn't AI. the point of the person you were replying to is that it wasn't as if he had intended to perform a Google search and was misled, you have to go to Google bard or chatgpt or whatever and prompt it, meaning it's on you if you're a professional who's going to cite unverified word salad. The YouTube stuff is pretty obvious, it's a part of their platform. What was done has nothing to do with web searches.

  • They shipped him in from Italy

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  • Olive garden is always a great experience for me. Never had the impression that the food was microwaved. Probably best not to pay a meme that much attention

  • Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes

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  • Just because you wrote about a topic doesn't mean you're suddenly the authority figure lol.

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    GTA V source code has now leaked on Discord

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  • What are the implications of this?

  • Regarding Avocado Toast

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  • They have gotten more expensive in the last couple decades. It's a pretty famed data set for aspiring data scientists. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/neuromusic/avocado-prices

    I think the prices skyrocketed when keto diets were the fad. It's pretty strange for avocados to be as expensive as they are when it's been a staple in south/central American countries.

  • Twitch quickly reverses policy that “went too far” allowing nudity

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  • Was there really? Lol haven't been on twitch for a week or so

  • The Last of Us Online is Dead

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  • Played the shit out of tlou multiplayer. It felt like something that got added to the game with little effort or creativity and it came out amazing. When TLOU2 was released I was saddened to hear that there would be no multiplayer yet but that it was coming. It didn't need to be much. It could have been the same multiplayer experience with some new maps. Uncharted3 and uncharted 4 multiplayer was great. The community really made the multiplayer what it was. That's where NickEh30 started making content I loved watching SanchoWest on YouTube going over some of his favorite plays.

    Really sucks that companies get away with this "we'll finish out the game after the release" and there's no consequence. It was promised.

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    After escaping war, thousands of Ukrainians want to stay in Canada permanently

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  • lol you can't have an opinion about a country if you've never been there? Wtf is that

  • Twitch will now allow "Artistic Nudity" following the viral topless meta

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  • My only problem with it is that it's always on the homepage under recommended, despite the fact I've never watched any streams like that. Even if I tell the site "not interested" it still shows the content. I only get on twitch to watch content for one game and from a small number of creators.

  • Linus does not fuck around

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  • Dude, thank you, totally agree. Anyone with skin thin enough to be hurt by this kind of corrective force shouldn't even be in the conversation. Not sure why people are offended by this on here but when you engineer critical systems you damn well should know better by now.

  • Linus does not fuck around

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  • Honestly, whether or not we agree with the approach of Linus, these kind of disagreements happen in the real world. Tensions run high. Recently I've been on calls where things need to be implemented this month, during a time where most of our resources(engineers) will be on vacation. These kind of conversations can be important to have to make sure this doesn't happen again. The project management team got their ass handed to them for kneeling to the LOBs' ridiculous timeline expectations. And they were told to hold the L if things don't work on the go-live date, there will be no post implementation support until mid January if something doesn't work.

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  • Yeah. The writing has fallen off, studios are happy to blow half their budget on VFX and the other half on casting with no focus on the story. Back then, before you pitched a movie, you had to have a story worth telling. Now it's all reskins of the same shit