See also: capitalism more generally

Posting this from the train. It’s pretty great.

Took the train to another part of the city. Walked around until I found a little bar with food. Saw a show. Now I’m taking the train back.

Probably because all the horrible shit trump does takes up all the space.

I’m surprised there aren’t more cancer patients who decide fuck it and aggressively crash a board meeting.

I affectionately call lemmy “the commie site”, but my current instance I think defederated with a lot of the spicier places.

Match group should be broken up.

You’re doing more harm to the environment and shared spaces than the person riding the bus.

We used to do retrospectives at one of my old jobs, because everywhere loves cargo-culting agile and scrum stuff.

I quickly realized that a lot of the problems were largely outside the team’s control. It was shit like “The CEO doesn’t believe in designers or UX, so he won’t hire one, so we spend a lot of time doing that work badly ourselves.” Or, “management is making us spend all this time in ‘planning meetings’ so we don’t get anything done”

Stuff that has easy solutions, but we can’t do because some idiot or powerful cry-baby is in the way.

My last job was pretty good about code reviews, when people actually spent time on them. My front end code got much better when the front-end expert actually reviewed it.

My current job, code reviews are a rubber stamp farce and I’ve seen total garbage sail though. The code base is a tire fire. These things are related.

I suggested at my current job that we adopt a policy of fixing things as we go. Boss wasn’t interested. He said his boss said “he doesn’t want people gold plating things”.

Okay. I guess we’ll keep this tower of bash scripts that breaks once a month.

but because nobody in a car would stop to help a pedestrian anyway

Yes. I believe this has been well known since at least the 1960s, as I think Jane Jacobs wrote about it in “death and life of great American cities”.

Cars remove people from the community. A driver cruising along at 25+ mph isn’t going to see much, and stopping is far more difficult than on foot.

Late Afternoon? I work from home. I shower before going out into the world socially.

They also say that park roads can become more deserted without a steady stream of cars, raising public safety concerns.

Pro-car people will reach for any excuse.

The only cars that should be in parks are emergency vehicles during actual emergencies.

I really dislike when the cop cars cruise through. There’s one by me where they park at an entrance, causing a blind spot for any cyclists.

I remember okcupid had a question (back when their system was based on answering questions) that asked “is it possible for a partner to be too ambitious?”

I was like “clearly some of you assholes never read Macbeth”.

Also, the CEO of my old job was on the dating apps at the same time as me. Despite us being about the same age, I’m confident very few people would match with both of us. “Never worked, just grad school and CEO founder” seekers don’t also seek me.

My hot take has always been that Xbox was a stupid project. They had windows. People play video games on windows. They should have made steam and something like steam machines 25 years ago.

Well, yes, though my direct manager isn’t the worst. He’s trying to protect me from other teams that might get pissy.

One of my friends is a product manager type and his analysis was basically “if stakeholders don’t care it’s not a problem, even if by any reasonable metric it is a problem”. So. Here we are.

Maybe they could focus on delivering quality products that customers want, instead of investing all their time and effort into expensive AI widgets people don’t.

I thought about it but people are so sensitive here. If they broke something and couldn’t merge they’d probably raise a big stink, and then there’s good odds the checks would be removed “because they’re adding friction” or some nonsense. My boss has already warned me about staying in my lane.

These people have never done any automated testing of any sort. No linter. No unit tests. And they don’t seem to want to.

Sounds about right.

I’m using GitHub actions at work because this place is extremely dysfunctional, and I can just add GitHub actions without it being a whole “research spike planning meeting impact analysis” six week journey.

I took it from “there are absolutely no checks and Bob broke the environment because he pushed up a change that’s just invalid syntax” to… well, I couldn’t make it block the build on failures but at least now when Bob breaks it again I can point to the big red X and ask why he merged with an error.

Netflix? Nah. Fuck 'em. Free media heck yeah.