MrLuemasG

@MrLuemasG@lemmy.world
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Joined 1 years ago

I've literally never met anybody that used Wordpad, whereas I know a lot of tech normies that'll use MS Paint for quick memes and things

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Yeah... too bad you can't teach other people's sons not to be rapists - they're the ones you've gotta worry about

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He can't respond because he's too busy painting over all the light fixtures and power outlets

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If you require a hammer to do work, you just buy a hammer that you can use for the rest of time or until you buy a better hammer.

You don't pay $10 dollars a month for the rest of time for the same hammer you could have just paid for previously. Especially since HammerCo might up the price, go out of business, or flat out stop offering the hammer subscription you rely on, and you lose access to your vital resource.

What a dumb argument.

Whats the one feature you like that windows 10 doesn't have?

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I only see this community when I'm browsing all and it feels like a good chunk of these posts aren't actually about Linux - they're about how Windows is bad

So you'd say you're not ... ( •_•)>⌐■-■

... edgy (⌐■_■)

I've had to go ham on blocking entire communities on here with Sync's filter feature. Reddit at least has so many niche, active communities that you can actively avoid the /r/Europes and the /r/conservatives. With Lemmy, if I scroll through my subscribed communities, I get the same posts for days on end - if I scroll through everything, I get a bunch of Linux and FOSS circle jerks as well as "Tankies", "Anti-Tankies", commies, fuckcar communities that aren't even realistic with the timescale they want things changes, and even more recently some posts from conservative communities.

Like, don't get me wrong - I refuse to go back to reddit, but I've definitely had the desire to just quit using Lemmy because it feels like there isn't much here for me.

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You can usually get it for a dollar with the app and it's better than a lot of the stuff that can be made at home with an automatic coffee maker. I used to get it a lot until I could afford to support smaller coffee places

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If they do background checks and you list it on your resume / hiring paperwork, they all do.

I used to work as a team lead on a call center help desk that had literally no requirements to get the job outside of a 10 question "technical interview" that features questions such as "can you name three programs that are a part of the Microsoft office suite" and periodically we would have new hires get fired once their background check returned that they lied about having a degree that they don't actually have.

I don't know why they lied - degrees aren't even requested or required for getting the job, but they did and lying on anything that came up on the background check was an immediate termination

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They're already pushing for more and more current gen games to be released on the iPhone 15. It's pretty much there.

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Literally nobody in this thread is blaming Muslims. Please stop with the knee jerk reactions.

Yeah I think it's pretty clear at this point that 99% of reddit users don't care about this, which is why reddit continues to thrive while lemmy is facing lower and lower user numbers

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To clarify, I 100% think this bill is bad for adults, privacy, and the internet.

However...

"The end result of this law would likely be that a huge number of young people—particularly the most vulnerable—would lose access to social media platforms, which can play a critical role for young people in accessing resources and support in a wide variety of circumstances"

Social Media has a documented, well-studied, negative effect on young people's mental health. We really could and should be doing more as a society to prevent young people from using it / pressuring social media platforms to fix the inherently negative issues with social media. This bill isn't the answer, but acting like kids and teens should have free reign of web apps that are known to be bad for them isn't the answer either.

Yeah I'm a programmer at a community college and this is like us. Although we don't have any apps, we have different web apps that we use. My current job is trying to use the APIs for each of them to try and build cards in one central web app that bring in the functionality from the other web apps to minimize the amount of time you spend going from web app to web app

Legit. I paid $3 for Sync back in 2014 and used it daily for nine years.

We have different reasons for getting the hell away from reddit. I came to lemmy because reddit killed sync. I paid like $3 for Sync in 2014 and used it every day until Reddit killed it without seeing a single ad. So, not only do I disagree with Sync for Lemmy missing the point of getting away with reddit, but I also disagree with the notion that sink for Lemmy is in any way bad for having an ad - supported tier when you can pay a negligible amount of money ( $20 in 2023 ) and never see an ad again for the entire lifetime of the app.

I've made posts both on this account and a different account from a different instance in the more niche communities that I'd like to see move here and got zero up votes, downvotes, or replies. I've even messaged the mods of those communities to discuss ways to get more traffic and got no response.

I'm willing to keep trying, but the majority of users aren't and that's something that Lemmy is going to have to overcome

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If I recall correctly, it got overturned by a Federal Court before Trump took office. Trump WOULD have undone it - but he didn't have to.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/22/503081151/federal-judge-blocks-obama-administrations-overtime-pay-rule

You should look into hosting a Plex server for her. My brother set one up after I cancelled our Netflix and our tech-illterate mother loves it. The only change for her was moving from clicking on the Netflix icon on her TV to clicking on the Plex icon.

I used to use it and I've seen other people use it just fine and have no issues. I personally don't like the web app UI when I'm on mobile, but that's not a dig at the web UI and more a matter of preference.

I've been using Sync for Lemmy since it was first released and I still haven't seen an ad. I'm pretty sure it's a bug.

I have yet to see any kind of public library in America that charges for a library card, and I live in a red state.

I'm referring to this link that showed the active monthly users for lemmy as a whole across all instances trending downward

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/4010705

How exactly does one build a "better one" that doesn't automatically get included in the coverage of bills like this?

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Ah, Chief Throwaway Oppenheimer. A worthy title

Yeah I guess you're right on that. I still don't mind its usage in the episode since she acknowledges that she wouldn't normally go along with something like that and since she does lead the charge in keeping him alive when they find out it is a problem, but I can see how somebody wouldn't enjoy it. I hope the rest of the season is better and can give you some stuff to enjoy!

This is good to know. Our org doesn't have multiple engineers, so I don't think that the multiple levels would really fit, but SDE (Software Development Engineer?) may be a good match. Probably not a senior since I only have experience on single-dev projects?

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I like having both 2D and 3D Mario games. I kind of fell off the 2D games for a while because I wasn't enjoying the New Super Mario Bros Series of games. I'm optimistic that this will be more enjoyable

I discovered speak with animals last night and my friends and I were having a riot hearing what the animals had to say. A cow talked shit at me, a rat led me to treasure. Fantastic

It's looking like I will only get to play around 3 hours a week with friends and I'm ready. Last night's session was fantastic. It felt like meeting up once a week for a more simplified DnD session. We got through a fair chunk of content.

You may never be able to reach the end of the game, but I think if you enjoy the base gameplay then it'll still be very worthwhile

I don't really agree that she was dumb in last week's episode. If I recall correctly, they didn't know how life threatening the binging was until after Fry was too far gone to immediately be saved, and once they did know the problem, she was at the forefront of keeping him alive.

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Completely agreed. I'm enjoying it more than Season 7, so I'll take that as a win.

I've been using AWS Amplify for the past five years completely for free. You'd have to get a huge website to get to the point where they start charging

These are some good considerations.

The "Senior" piece felt weird since, while I am responsible for 100% of the programming and coordination of tasks, I don't really oversee or help train or guide any other developers. I think the main reason that Senior was considered to be put on the title was to ensure that HR doesn't try and under-value the position again - as our org would run into some major crises if this position is ever left empty for longer than a week or two.

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Total: ~7 years, ~3.5/4 of those were at the current org and the last 1.5 years of that I have been the sole programmer as the other programmers that we used to have retired and were never replaced.

Also, can you estimate how much value you’ve brought to the org? Example: if the web app you wrote was not made, what would the loss be?

This is hard for me to quantify. The web app, for example, was built out of necessity because we are required to provide our full budget to the state that we're in on a rigid timeline. If the web app wasn't there, somebody would have had to manually poll the different departments for their full list of budget categories and their costs and then they would have had to manually go in and enter in that data line-by-line which would have taken a significant amount of time. The only way to enter data through the existing user interface (the one we do still have) is through a text editor screen that lets you manually modify data line by line, but can go awry if lines accidentally get moved up or down or the data entered doesn't match the internal format that the application expects.

That's kind of why my supervisor is pushing this so hard. She believes that, ultimately, every major procedure that would cost our Org significant time and money to have held up due to a technical issue, such as payroll, budgeting, and state/federal reporting to name a few, rely on whoever is in my position to be available at a moment's notice. Ideally, we'd have multiple people performing these duties, but she hasn't been able to get that idea sold to higher ups.

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I appreciate your advice! I'll definitely work on getting the hard numbers to help my supervisor out. She's been pushing for this for a while, so hopefully I can provide some materials to aid her.

I've had to do this before for a former job where I went from a Team Lead on a Helpdesk that started coding tools to help improve our agents metrics and the availability and accuracy of reporting to management and agents. Our helpdesk had no developers, but I was able to show how our team went from spending ~10,000 man hours a year on manually running reports to send to agents and management and only having the reports available weekly to having all of it automated and updated daily for everybody that needed them. So, I can adapt the methodology I used for that to the current org as well.

Definitely. My thinking is that it would make it harder for HR to undervalue the position and, if we ever do get to hire additional developers, they will be looking to me / whoever is already in my position, in a senior / junior type fashion - at least for a solid chunk of time.

I remember hearing the older CRPGs served as a platform for modders to add some insane content so I really hope we see a lot of that with Baldurs Gate 3

Thanks for the heads up, I'm currently avoiding the main community for spoilers but I plan to join and communicate when I get farther in