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Sadly workplace assholery is everywhere

One performance review I received was a 45 minute, one-sided rant from my boss directed at me. All completely out of left field. With no ability to get a word in. It left me utterly shell shocked.

Most performance reviews I’ve had are good “gives and takes”, leaving me with feedback to consider, but also offering my boss perspective too. They’re also usually not complete surprises. I’ve had to give hard feedback to subordinates myself, and I know the importance of being open and listening when giving feedback, as almost always I have an incomplete picture of their behavior and a lot to learn about what they’re going though.

Trusting, dumbass me, just sat there and took this. I assumed I was the problem, that I was fundamentally broken as an employee, and wanted to just find any way to please this boss to make it all better.

She used the time to tell me,

- all the ways I was screwing up, without letting me ask questions, clarify, or correct anything.

- that she, and only she, had the true objective perspective on and others wouldn’t tell me their thoughts about me (despite regularly giving / receiving feedback)

- Make me distrust my colleagues as my boss had me thinking they were holding something back / funneling all these complaints to my boss.

This pattern of communication persisted for months sadly, and it took me months to “deprogram” away from thinking she had the a true, objective view of my performance.

I slept poorly this whole time. My engagement suffered and my performance plummeted. I went from a top performer in my space to becoming disengaged and feeling I could do nothing right. I went from having regular open discussions with everyone on how I could improve to having convos with only her, and closed off from my colleagues.

It was as if it was intended to get me to leave, which I did given how unhealthy the environment was. Which is interesting as early on she had been so positive and supportive. I guess it all had little to do with my performance and more to do with not being seen as useful anymore, and thus discarded by her.
Steering wheel buttons are another one. They do different things at different times, depending on what mode your dash display is in.

Ever wonder why old airplane dashboards look so complicated? It's because each switch and dial does one thing and that thing never changes.
Hate is a strong word. People tend to like or dislike it more depending on whether they agree with the people who are in charge of it.

I think, at its core, the negative attitudes stem from it being a “one size fits all” approach.

Plus also a sense of detachment since state and local governments are what people interact with 99% of the time.
Likely the result of the SteamDeck almost exclusively though right?
Just trying to align curves to targets was fun. Someone should build a whole game on this idea.
What is your own opinion of what probably happened?
This looks interesting... but also seems like it's trying to do too much magic. Running a textual app as a web app seems useful, but I'd rather not have the whole dependency on an external server, multiple apps bundled together, navigation menus, etc... I'd be way more intrigued to see some of the core of this pulled out in a way that I can just `import` and `serve()` from an existing textual project.
Most infections were not from "airborne" transmission, but from fomites and particles.

It's always weird when people say "show me the evidence" as if it's a win. You don't know what you're talking about, and now you want me to do extra work for you? No. Maybe do the work before you leap into the conversation.
Proton is the proof of Valve's failure to make game studios write native GNU/Linux games.
"America" didn't outlaw the expansion, the cities did it to themselves. The cities are in charge of their zoning and planning, not the federal government. They could allow for more density, but the voters choose no. Just look at all the nimbys fighting apartment complexes; are they all goons from faceless corporations and the federal government or are they just the local people currently living there expressing their choice?

It's not like the government subsidies and tax credits exist even though nobody wants them. They exist because, once again, that's what voters have suggested they want when they go to the polls.

I do agree, cities should be able to expand their density. I think in an ideal world people should be able to choose to live in generally affordable forms of whatever housing they want. And that's the thing, I'd like to be able to choose the housing style I think is good for my family. Many here would argue I shouldn't be able to make that choice, or that some choices (like single family homes) should be made so expensive most people can't afford it.
> sports leagues are going to start direct-streaming the games themselves and capture advertiser and viewer revenue directly

The NFL has been doing this since NFL Sunday Ticket launched in 1994, along with NFL Network. The flip side of this is that they also do it without advertisements because it's a pay service (they show a "Game is in Commercial" message instead of the advertisements that would be shown in their place).

There's no need to appeal to advertisers when your fan base is so fanatical about the content that they'll pay hundreds of dollars a season to watch the games they want to watch.
1976 is famous for being a scorching summer (at least with Brits over a certain age), but it's not in the top ten of our temperature records. Seven of those ten are from this century :-(

At the other poster mentioned, records began around 1880.
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> But do you see how that DA or PA are disincentivized to take on the police?

I don't see how to elect someone who doesn't have the same incentive with regard to the police. The fact that the disincentive to take on the police is such a fundamental part of how the job works is precisely why I don't think the problem can be solved by just electing a different DA; the system itself needs to be changed, and that requires a lot of coordination across multiple fronts. Voting for different people is necessary for that sort of change but not nearly sufficient, which is why I think that saying it's purely the fault of voters for electing the wrong people is a gross oversimplification.
This is a bad analogy, because Wine also has dependencies on various "Linux APIs". So technically if you maintain Wine you are also maintaining all the libraries Wine depends on, and so on.

It would probably be easier for a game to just target the libraries Wine depends on, or even better, some smaller and more "least common denominator" abstraction layer (e.g. think libao for audio) sitting on top of the same libraries. While you can see Wine as de facto providing such an abstraction layer (e.g. you can switch audio drivers, video drivers, etc. in Wine), they are forced to expose an API whose evolution they don't control (Win32), which is something that long-term is doomed to fail.
Which mergers technically should have been stopped by the government? Two of the most successful acquisitions that come to mind are Google purchasing Android for $50 million in 2005, and FB purchasing Instagram for $1 billion in 2012. The government didn't even try to stop them, and shouldn't have, because they can't predict the future.

As for the Android purchase, the feds aren't going to look at $50 million deals because $50 million deals are so tiny they just don't have monopoly concerns. And this was pre Iphone by a couple of years. Smartphones were barely a market at the time.

FB acquiring Instagram was the same. Social media was a new market and this was a smallish acquisition with no monopoly concerns. All the growth came after FB acquired them. Also, FB isn't a monopoly even today. The emergence of Tiktok proves that.
> Show me how to cancel a network requests using only threads, with no access to the underlying socket APIs?

It’s been a long time since I did this in Rust. But why do you not have access to the sockets or at least a set_timeout method? Is it a higher level lib that omits such crucial features?

In Go, the super common net.Conn interface has deadline methods. Not everyone knows their importance but generally you have something like it piped through to the higher layers.

EDIT: Oh I see you replied to my other comment. Please disregard.
Even if Landis is being honest to the best of his ability, this account seems suspect for one simple reason: human memory is incredibly unreliable even in routine cases. Considering the stress and trauma around witnessing and being so close to an awful event like that, as well as the amount of time that has passed, I don't see how we can consider this story to be even remotely reliable.

He may truly remember these events as he is describing them, even if what he's described never actually happened. That's unfortunately how (poorly) human memory works.
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Nice explanation, than you.

What do you think about tyres as a source of "micro-granulate" that ends up in animals grazing?
Embarrassing for the app/os designers.
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"Tut tut, those poor Canadian renters..."
> In the future you can probably go "IPv6-mostly" with a CLAT engine

...although there still isn't any kernel support for the necessary SIIT v4<->v6 translation, so to implement CLAT you end up using unmaintained (and unmergeably bad) out-of-tree kernel modules or unmaintained (and slow) userspace daemons hanging off a tuntap interface.
Yes they are very black in the visible spectrum. Like the parent said a highly reflecting white paint for rooftops would certainly be the smarter choice.
A would-be competitor, in a country not respecting intellectual property laws, might get a few customers by launching our product and charging only a fraction of what we charge. However, what will this competitor do when their customers request new features or report bugs? Obviously, we'd be a lot more nimble in responding to such requests, so maybe this shouldn't be such a big concern after all.

Also, if this does becomes a problem, we can just stop releasing new versions publicly, at which point the competitor's offering would stagnate, while our offering would continue to improve.
It's really not that deep
Yes, the entire idea is to refactor our cities and societies so that most people can and do use the low carbon option.

It's not commuting 40Km by bicycle, it's raising the price of gas to the point that people choose to live at a distance where they can bicycle to work. At the same time you need to build housing and bike infrastructure to make sure everyone can have access to it.
You could keep the state using the state monad, or by letting every reducer keep a transparent state in a linked list that whoever is pushing values through it has to handle. The reference implementation keeps it hidden using closures.

This is mostly an API thing. In clojure you can pass a transducer when you create a channel. That way you can make a channel do just about anything. Send data in chunks of N. Filter Odd numbers. Or just do arbitrary transformations.

It is a protocol for composable transformations of data being passed in one direction. It is not fancy. Not really hard to understand. A generalization of map, filter, and friends.
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Hmm, I dunno:

https://www.eltima.com/article/9-pin-serial-port.html

We had DB9 and DB25 offices. Eventually it all became Ethernet, and the coax era began ..
It does say exactly that, even with very high GNU/Linux compatibility in what concerns porting Android games, no studio cares to make it, because there isn't worthwile from monetary point of view.

Actually, not even the studios that were invested into Stadia, cared about GNU/Linux, even though Stadia was mostly Linux based.
No, but you could keep checking in on them and seeing how you're doing on a semi recurring basis.
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I spent the last couple months building a website called Zakaya that should make it easier to make friends online.

Right now, I'm looking for programmers to join the first group on the site. Its totally free, only string attached is that I'll ask you for feedback.

Zakaya's goal is to create spaces where people can make genuine friends on the internet. These spaces are called micro-communities (aka mu's, pronounced "MEW"). Each mu has 100-200 active people and is loosely centered around a topic like programming. Off-topic conversation is highly encouraged.

Mu's are meant to be a contrast to the typical "community" we're sold these days. Instead of 100,000-1,000,000+ semi-inactive members, mu's give you a chance to meet new people and get to know them over time.

We have real-time chats, forums, scheduled events, group youtube rooms and group RSS feeds so you can communicate however you prefer.

Mu's are customizable with proposals that let members vote on changes proposed by other members. For now, these changes include adding new rooms, new reacts and new events.

If this sounds interesting to you, I'd be very happy to have you. You can apply to join a coding group at the following link,

https://zakaya.io/apply/10

I also wrote a brief technical blog post thinking it'd be good marketing but it's getting lukewarm reactions so I'm just attaching it at the bottom here.

https://zakaya.io/post/91485

TL;DR: The stack is flask + jinja rendered HTML templates + vanilla JS + postgresSQL + websockets + a little bit of redis

Let me know if you have any questions or feedback.

Best,

mrt
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Sleep deprivation, drug use to manage sleep deprivation and fatigue, highly compartmentalised thinking verging on split personalities. Sense of global importance verging on messianic. While Musk is a phenomenon, I think the profile fits other 6SD achievers they just manifested in different ways and lacked twitter(X) as a platform.
That’s what summer internships are for. Academia will be poor at teaching this anyway
This isn't really specific to NAT either, connection tracking is required for most firewalls as well even if NAT isn't in play just to implement the most basic ALLOW related,estabalished rule even, and especially, what would normally be connectionless protocols.
Meanwhile game studios won't care about what you think, and will happly pretend only Windows exists for PC gaming.
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I honestly don't see the dichotomy here. Can't you do both if you want? Use a design like the one on Liam on Linux' site and make it responsive (where necessary). Actually ... this site is already responsive enough imo.
We also blew through the record for number of days over 100 degrees in my part of Texas this year, by double digits. It's 73 days so far this year, beating the previous record of 59 days.

One thing I've noticed is how the body can somewhat adapt to this type of heat. There's air conditioning everywhere, of course, so it's not truly adapting to existing 24/7 in this climate for most.

But, it's funny how a high of anything under 100 feels really refreshing. I keep the AC at around 76 and end up turning up the temperature or putting a hoodie on if I've spent a good amount of time outdoors that day.
I used to work in technical sales and had the opposite interaction. The salesman told me "The customer knows I'm the sales guy. They automatically don't trust me. You're the technologist, make them trust you."
To be honest, we could use a hard reset like that every once in a while.
Agreed! I always am confused when people screen scrape instead of just monitoring and replaying network requests. Much cheaper and much more robust. Is there anything I'm missing?
July console sales:

PS5: 1.2m

Switch: 950k

Xbox: 370k

Xbox accounts for just 17% of total console sales in July

Both Switch and PS5 are FreeBSD based

If we count the whole period of the current gen of each vendors, it only accounts for 13%, it's not big

https://www.vgchartz.com/
To be clear I'm not talking about specific model

I mean rifles as a whole (of which AR-15s and their derivatives are a subset) are a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of homicides in the US.
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The numbers here don't take into account stock growth.

Leveling is likely the major component, but thats also a legitimate concern!
Couldn't a zodiac be dated through the configuration of the stars?
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I'm disappointed with the keming though. "Red H at"
I’ve seen it happen to a few people and it is a shame.

If you’re just roleplaying a mentally ill person online then shame on you. If you’re not, best of luck.
Not sure IPv6 will fix this. Technically, yes it does. But major providers only assigning a /64 to a home user (and charging hefty fees for "buisness use" /48) already leads to IPv6 NAT or segmenting the /64 further - which shoulnt be done.
> An order of magnitude "or more" is an extraordinary claim. The evidence just isn't there.

Let me clear: I am claiming that these kinds of productivity gains are possible, not that using Lisp will automatically give you a 10x improvement under all circumstances. And yes, I can give you concrete examples of demonstrable >10x productivity improvements which resulted in products succeeding where they otherwise would undoubtedly have failed. These are generally found in niche applications where there is a lot of domain knowledge that needs to be brought to bear. So you're not going to see big wins in, say, commodity consumer products, which is the reason that the wins don't get much press. But the evidence is definitely there if you look in the right places.
You mean Company impact? I see "effort" and two categories for impact - Career and Company. Also I notice that there's nothing in the "managers" category that has high company impact. Seems about right.
> There are hardly any bullet points encouraging building and maintaining work culture, growing other people, serving as an example to follow.

Well the title is literally about being a “Senior Engineer”, not a manager. That said, there are numerous bullet points about mentoring others, leading by example, and setting work culture. Number 18 is “Be a mentor to a couple of junior engineers.”

> Thus don't consider this list anywhere near complete if your career path envisions being a manager (of different kinds).

While you’re not wrong, I don't think anyone should expect a checklist titled “Senior Engineer’s Checklist” to cater to management items. A manager’s checklist would subtract a lot of the IC items from this list.

Management isn’t a superset of IC work. It’s a different job.
No. That’s the police and prosecutors.

The judicial system are the courts and judges who apply the law and adjudicate the cases brought before them, hence the judicial name.

Prosecutors and police are two branches of the same tree.
Even if the content weren't banal, a site that requires pressing the space bar in order to read the next sentence (over a moving background) tells me the only thing to do is close the tab and forget about it.
> that would be great, if only more than 2.5 billion people did not eat pork for various religious or cultural restrictions.

I used “other common protein sources” to avoid having to list every single alternative from fish to nuts, and I’d note that the populations for whom that’s true traditionally ate proteins which were not beef because it’s comparatively expensive: chicken, fish, legumes, nuts, cheese (still way less CO2), etc.

That’s the key thing here: we’re not asking people to eat Soylent green or extruded nutrient pellets, or to never eat beef, but simply to restore the range of foods from their own cultural tradition prior to the mid-20th century western promotion of beef as the highest status protein. My grandfather grew up eating beef twice a year (when his cousins dairy culled the herd) and it was fine - I’m sure he’s do it again if it meant his great grandchildren had a better world.
Yeah those women drivers. Big vehicles should be for men on a jobsite, not pretty trophy wives.

This reminds me of a conversation on here the other day, as soon as people find a group they feel it's socially acceptable to hate on, they're all over it.
Borders have more than nothing to do with colonialism. but that wasn't my argument.

> A nation that does not control its border is no longer a nation.

Argument is about VISAs.

And so what? I would trade justice for the concept of nations if nations are prisons for many and wall gardens for a few.

> No country on earth behaves that way. Not now, nor in the past.

Whataboutism.

Again the argument is about VISAs, not borders, but was the U.S not a country?

> There is no human right to move and settle where you please

Does it not make the UN declaration absurd?

Article 23 is interesting.

"to just and favourable conditions of work"

So let's say, Michel. born in London.

Michel could be a citizen of some EU country, the US, South Korea or any of another dozen specific countries, that's about the same.

Equiped with his education or simply interest in trade and business, decides that what would please him most is to go to Singapore. Whether his desire is to settle or just to visit, he himself don't even know, so a short visit will do:

He goes to Singapore, gets a 90 days visit stamp on arrival.

Replace Michel by any of the billion(s) of citizens who don't have that privilege and the result is this:
- visa application in advance
- fees
- no guarantee to get it issued

Is this is compatible with "just and favourable conditions" and "right to employment" ?

> but those rights only apply within a particular country, the declaration says.

I hear you say.

Yet Michel from London can travel to most countries present on all continents, if that pleases him.

> that entitles you to many social services paid for by taxes.

Blame the benefit systems then if they are the barrier to true freedom of movement.

For precision, non tax payers also benefit from social services. In fact even more so than those who pay taxes.

It isn't about tax and a sensical distribution of benefits, that would easily be solved.

> Where did you get your education?

No idea why that would matter but here is a serious breakdown.

- early education from a private school
- then from a couple of public schools
- then from several semi private schools
- then from a state university
- then from another University, this time private.

From two countries, both former colonial empires and members of the United Nations. Signatories of the declaration which was meant to enshrine "the rights and freedom of all human beings."
I heard if you ever want to get out of jury service, just make a comment to the foreman/judge that you just think there's no smoke without fire.
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That would be a perfect cover up considering it’s not that unheard of with their investor: https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/c4d82a
UX replaced HCI. Graphic design replaced science.
It's the same as the problem of finding a good cleaner. If someone is responsible, thorough, turns up on time, has attention to detail, can handle delicate objects, is trustworthy around children and has good manners - then that person is already too good to be an ordinary cleaner and will get hired elsewhere, become a manager or a business owner.
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> There's nothing we can do, short of war, to force other countries to stop releasing CO2

That's a good point that is not mentioned enough in these discussions. Basically, we cannot stop other countries from releasing CO2, but we can "steal" their air.
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Aren't lock free data structures more about reducing the impact of contention than throughput under low contention?
Came here to say Caddy still seems like the way to go for most use cases. Although I don't use it in any 'prod' environments it checks all the boxes.
The good examples are the software they replaced.