Kaola family by Blippi.

It was demanded of me.

I somewhat disagree.

Music seems like it’s followed a similar trajectory of most things where it’s become more centralized and mass marketed. Music has to appeal to the masses for studios to pick it up. So there is an incentive to find music that appeals to the most people and turns off the fewest.

Similarly, you have a handful of studios telling you what is “good” and pushing it. Even if it isn’t great, it’s good enough that people listen and then they can create the hype behind it where it might not organically exist.

Some music bubbles up organically from independent artists but quite a bit is mass marketed and produced by big studios. And they have the money so they can choke out smaller artists.

School is usually cancelled because the schools are often polling locations.

It makes it all the more dumb to not have it as a national holiday.

Just love each other. Problem solved

Sounds like someone needs garbage in their front yard

“they are the same picture” -my wife

My thoughts on it are: as a developer, if you flag the issue for your management, and they want to move forward, then you’ve done your part.

Maybe put an extra comment in the code for posterity’s sake.

It’s not ultimately your problem and what else are you going to do? Work unpaid nights and weekends to fix it for some guy who might run into a problem 8 years from now?

Why did you get kicked out?

Bots in the build up to the election here in the states?

I can’t tell if ops joke is “intentionally confusing buffers with registers” and everyone is playing along or if people aren’t making the distinction between the two in this thread.

Which is ironic and humorous…potentially by accident.

Microsoft onedrive, 365 integration, teams and all of that is the most frustrating experience I’ve had with a computer in a very very very long time.

It’s infuriating to try and save something. I have no fucking clue where it’s going to go. There’s like a one drive directory structure that’s exactly the same as the local one, but also sometimes it just saves it in some temp directory or weird onedrive area??

No worries, I’ll just open file explorer and it will be in the “recent files list”, right? Just kidding." Fuck yourself, I’m windows and that file doesn’t count as a recent file for some reason. Good luck finding it!"

You want to just save locally? Just change a setting buried deep in the menus. But fun surprise, this turns off cloud sync for all files–even ones that were shared to you for review. You have to manually pull updates and push yours. Can you guess what happens next? Overwrite party! Those figures Janet added to the doc just got over written when you synced your edits to a paragraph 4 pages away.

Oh and teams is another variable in the mix with a weird SharePoint backend (I think, who fucking knows anymore). It defaults to opening in a dumb teams WebView which is like the browser view of the stuff but somehow worse than that. You can change it to default to opening in the actual application, but see the syncing issues above(all because you want new docs saved locally and never on fucking one drive)

I’m like a god damned boomer with MS software these days. I hate every second working with it. Its always in the way.

The whole experience is user hostile.

There are different audiences for demos though. It should be that way at the “working level”. When you start moving up the chain with more senior leadership in your org, it starts to make more sense to have the PM do the demos/briefs.

Usually devs don’t particularly care or want to and sometimes they aren’t really qualified to–its not their skillset. But if it’s a good PM, that’s where they shine. That’s the value they bring to the project. They (should) know the politics, landmines, things that specific leaders would care about (and to highlight for them), and how to frame it to current business needs. They have the context to understand when a seemingly innocuous question is actually pointed. They might not know the intricacies of your code, but they (should) know the intricacies of the organization. That’s not something most developers know, and why should they? That’s not their job.

Sometimes it even involves groundwork meetings and demos to make sure you have support from other key components in your org-- like getting your CTO excited because one of his performance goals was x and your project is the first real implementation of x. Now, you have the CTO ready to speak on your behalf in front of the CIO. As a PM you know that the CIO has been getting flack from the CFO because there hasn’t been a good way to capture costs for Y, but your system starts the org down the path to fix that. Now they are both excited about the project and in your corner. Etc etc

As a former PM/PO who has moved up the chain, your PM is full of shit and you should look around. Looking out for your top talent is how you succeed as a PM.

I said this a while ago but you know how we have “pre-atomic” steel? We are going to have pre-LLM data sets.

They are literally asking for your input though…

I really liked beehaw at first, but their admins (specifically alraza maybe was her name?) was the epitome of “tinpot dictator”.

It was obnoxious to see her flout their rules/spirit of their rules and be a dick to people and not approach them in good faith.

They had they essay on their site re: moderation. Ironically, about assholes causing people to quietly just leave. That’s what I ended up doing. I didn’t want to invest a bunch of time on an instance that had such a petty, opinionated admin running it.

So yea, leave if you feel like it. I don’t know that I would notice.

So are breed characteristics. It’s like people tout breed characteristics…until pit bulls. Then it’s like "no way! Mine wouldn’t hurt a fly!

Yea, that may be true but they were breed to hurt more than flies and we did a good job of it.

Dachshunds have breed characteristics, Chihuahuas have breed characteristics, Labradors have breed characteristics, golden retrievers have breed characteristics, greyhounds, etc. It’s almost like they were “bred” to bring out specific traits–both physical and behavioral.

Pitbull advocates act like they don’t exist or downplay their role in the breeds behavior. It’s bullshit. Pitbulls, as a breed, shouldn’t exist.

What’s rpn and how does base 12 work.

Don’t you still have “numbers” between 11 and 12?

I think that’s actually been proven at this point hasn’t it?

Cobol devs that we had (while we spent insane money to retire their systems) we’re getting 300-500k/year.

I’m sure companies are trying to rip off any young new entrants but 90k seems super low.