Which one of them is the one that referred to workers as niggers in their codebase?

Hell, in the US probably just bringing back trucks the size of a 90s Hilux would be an improvement. It’s not like the payload is any smaller than the big hunks.

But I suppose that’s what you’d consider “tiny” nowadays.

Google is allowing the app developers to choose (for now?). With Apple, developers never had the option to allow other stores or sideloading.

I’m lucky enough that both of the shareholders of my company are software engineers; one has transitioned to sales and project management, the other is still an engineer, he’s also the CTO.

Was discussing office chairs with our team lead/office supplies person (it’s a really small company, some people have multiple roles) and when I mentioned that my chair gets really creaky when leaning back but otherwise it works so it really just needs some lubrication, she asked why I would even lean so far back in my chair and the CTO told her “There’s two sitting positions for programming. The writing position and the thinking position”

TL;DR: Takes an engineer to know how engineering works. Turns out that you have to spend a lot of time just thinking

I diagram everything out in my brain and it evolves continuously while I’m writing code

Sometimes I feel it’s a miracle I get anything done at all but then usually the end result is better than what I’d originally envisioned so it kinda balances out.

But think about arguing online! It’s apparently a hobby and to be competitive, you need to be able to spew bullshit at amazing rates. Personally I’ve maxed out at 140 wpm, but usually stay in the 100 wpm range.

Programming? Idk, I spend more time thinking than typing personally. Good code requires you to consider all the corner cases and such.

“Manufacturers and tech companies have a bigger role to play”

Yeah Apple is already making the parts junk with the locking but it doesn’t seem to help.

Facebook 15 years ago wasn’t all that bad tbh. It was nice being able to write to just about anyone you met in real life.

It’d already been getting worse for a while, but to me, the 2016 US election was when things got super obvious. Same with reddit. Can’t believe it’s been 8 years already.

This shit right here is why people buy Apple. You sell your soul to the devil and get convenience in return.

Don’t get me wrong - both my work laptop and my gaming PC run Linux. But my phone is still an iPhone and if I ever have need for a personal laptop again, it’s gonna be a Macbook Air again.

If it was worth stressing about, it was worth discussing with me when I was on the clock.

If your users suddenly start getting errors in prod at 6 PM, that wasn’t something that anyone would’ve known 2 hours earlier when you were still at work, but it affects business nonetheless.

However, a company of any real size should have employees who get paid to be on call to deal with ongoing issues. In the example of the software industry, this would be site reliability engineers who take part of an on call rotation.

But if you’re a max 20 person startup? You bet your ass that your average software engineer can expect a phone call.

So what I’m saying is that nuance is a thing. Working for a large corporation, or just in a job where nothing you do can be super urgent? Literally ignore your boss. Working in a small company where you taking that phone call has an actual impact on the company’s near-term financial performance or reputation? Might be worth reconsidering your stance, but probably not if your boss is an asshole and you know that no matter how well you perform, you’ll never get promoted.

Gender neutral pronouns might be pretty huge too, but nobody’s private data is getting hacked because of gendered pronoun use.

I’m no conspiracy theorist, but if I needed to discuss anything legal, I wouldn’t want to do it near a phone. Or a newish car. Or a smart TV…

The list of things that could be listening to us if there’s a vulnerability for the 3 letter agencies to exploit, is ridiculous. And outside of phone and desktop operating systems, few things get regular secrity updates.

I hope it succeeds just enough to take the right wing nutters off YouTube and give YouTube an incentive to improve its service. But that it stays unsuccessful enough that it keeps burning a hole in Elon’s pocket

There’s a saying in my language that roughly translates to “the morning is wiser than the evening” in English. I believe in English it’s common to say “sleep on it” for tough decisions.

I often wake up and come up with a solution to my toughest problems from the previous day. My REM sleep brain is already keeping me gainfully employed.

No idea why anyone would want to fuck with this. It’s awesome.

I saw the tagline and thought it meant that REM sleep is the next big thing people invest in because sleep is good for your health so they’re selling solutions to boost your sleep quality

Boy was I wrong

Like half of all cars I see have their model badges. Maybe fewer. Which is why it’s weird to me that people take this for granted.

You’ll see them on cheap cars or really high end cars (if it’s an AMG, you’re probably the kinda person who wants others to know), but otherwise most people seem to remove them when ordering the car.

Personally I haven’t removed any badges because I’ve never ordered a new vehicle myself. But it’s usually taken IMO. When I was looking at newer (not brand new) MBs, I’d usually go look up the build sheet and nearly all had the debadge option selected.

The debadge will still leave the manufacturer logo on so the car is still an advertisement lol

Most of my cars have been old German cars. They have badge delete as a factory option and most people take it, it seems. Particularly on low spec models with 2 liter engines where if you opt for the badge delete, it looks the same as the big V8 models lol

It costs nothing to remove the model for most premium makes so most people do. Granted, the most downmarket car I’ve ever owned was a Volkswagen.

Not because I’m rich - because I torture myself with ridiculously depreciated German cars so I can get more luxury out of €3000 than a brand new €50000 car lol

The model badges have been opt-out on the Germans for ages. My W211 didn’t have them and I’m pretty sure you could opt out of it on older models too.

I don’t think I’ve had any cars tell you which model they are on the back. It’s usually opt-out for most brands and for every car I’ve owned, the first owner has opted out. Maybe my first car, an Audi 80, had a model designation. If not, it had an engine designation at least. But the rest haven’t had either.