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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would like to meet him, he's probably nice ⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Gurpreet is your co-worker on the sister-team, over in India. He’s hard-working, a family man, and takes care of his aging parents, all in their home village over the weekend. He spends nights in Bangalore, debugging and reviewing your code while you’re asleep. His contributions to the project are pretty solid too, even though he’s only been coding for four years. His management treats him and his team like garbage, but they don’t let that stop them from showing up and doing a good job. If you ever came to visit, he’d roll out the red carpet along with his co-workers, and give you the kind of hospitality reserved for a minor god.

Gurpreet is awesome.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF BIT ME?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Warning: this will destroy medication if it’s left out. You may want to move your pills to the refrigerator first (after first checking the temperature - see article).

Actually, if you live in a hot climate and don’t use A/C, you should probably do that anyway.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go Green⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
i was gonna say. Properly deep/stacked pizzas, casseroles, and calzones are the way to go here.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a minor to moderate amount of tomfoolery in construction⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You’re lucky. They’re well-intended, but really awful. You’re supposed to traverse the intersection in the order you arrive. All it takes is for one jackass to waive* their right of way, or run the intersection, and the other three drivers are thrown into disarray. Add multiple lanes to this and, well… good luck everyone!

* Often literally waving at you to go. Through the intersection. At the wrong time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And what car did you learn in?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I learned on a 1st gen Saturn. That’s before GM ruined the brand. It had a good deal of pickup to it, and was a lot of fun in the snow.

I don’t miss it though. If I lived somewhere I could joyride with zero hills, traffic or parallel parking, sure. Otherwise? It’s not worth it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relativity⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Needs more trans-duractance and magneto-reluctance for the thermal wasel-vanes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
New, “hard-core mode” for Tennis just dropped. Just check out how heavy the new regulation balls are. Hedgehog for scale.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a minor to moderate amount of tomfoolery in construction⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
All I know is that a simple 4-way stop, with multiple lanes in all directions, has an effort:chaos ratio that is off the charts. No need for multi-million-dollar engineering projects.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excellent scale⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Number 8 all the way. I’m still here, just boxin’ along, but I’ve been through some things.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Okay, here’s some unsolicited advice from an IT manager. Please take with a heap of salt.

25 hours is too many for 1:1 weekly meetings unless that’s your whole job description. That leaves 15 hours for overhead, project management, team meetings, leadership meetings, scrum-of-scrums, town halls, mentorship, breaking ties on MRs, etc. At that scale, and assuming you have other responsibilities, 1:1’s really should be monthly, optional 3/4 of the time, or cut back to 15 minutes unless there’s an ask for more time. Also: ya gotta delegate those plan reviews if you can. With a labor pool that size, you probably have at least a few seniors or principals that can take it on.

Also, with 25 direct reports you’re practically a Director without any supporting management under you. It’s entirely possible that you’re being underpaid, especially if this arrangement pushes you into overtime (more than 40hrs a week) a lot.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everytime⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I’m not. ChatGPT is trained on my Reddit posting history so it sounds like me half the time…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everytime⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I was going to defend why it’s like that, but then I realized that I’m woefully under-qualified to defend any aspect of modern English as something well-understood, thought-out, or otherwise consistent with the rest of the language. Either you’re at the top of this field, or a rank amateur - there is no in-between. If I’m going to get skewered on the internet today, I’d rather it be in a Trek forum or something.

TL;DR: English is a mess.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 1980s summed up in a single photo.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I served at a restaurant that had this. Not only was the entire dining room a de-facto smoking area, despite the zoning, but it mattered for nothing if your section was smoking or not. Between the constant smell of fry grease and cigarettes, I wanted to burn my uniform after every shift. And since I was depending on a low paying job, guess how often laundry happened? :(

PSA: Tipping culture is a problem, but so are server wages. Please help 'em out; their job is miserable.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
That reading list might just make the series unwatchable.

Magic/superpowers and thermodynamics usually don’t mix.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I’m actually starting to think it’s on purpose. Just like with spam email with misspellings and the kind of ear-marks that warns off smart people, the only ones left to click on “win a free iphone” are easily duped. Going after people that are drawn in by iconography and optics, but fail to understand nuance and the substance behind them, may be entirely the point.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Just like with Starship Troopers, satire like this goes flying over people’s heads so low and fast, it breaks the sound barrier and loosens dentalwork.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Reddit?! Okay, that’s pretty terrible. It’s one thing to have region-locked copyright for stuff, but disallowing VPNs for a web forum? While we don’t need more evidence that they’ve turned heel, that’s an awful big red flag.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
As others here have indicated: he was also courting the personification of death itself.

So he’s a “death obsessed environmental terrorist.” I think that’s worse.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Depression: Part Deux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Protip: “hamburger helper” has always been the most expensive way to do this. Buy the raw macaroni and one of those seasoning spice packs (e.g. taco mix) if you’re not good with measuring seasoning or have none at home.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fucking HP printer lives better than I do ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Thanks HP. Not only are you the worst with your drivers and what you’ve done to the inkjet market writ large, but now, regular maintenance of your laser printers requires a robot prostate exam. Thanks. I hate it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soon...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

I wonder what aspects of education fight the tendency

For the individual, mindfulness and instilling a sense of belonging to a global in-group (e.g. “human beings”) is key. Avoid language that directly compares social groups as inherently good vs evil, as that’s where bad things start to creep in. Teaching empathy, critical thinking, nuance, and generally encouraging curiosity are crucial to maintaining this broader world view.

At the macro-level, it’s about maintaining that sense that there is no race, country, or populace anywhere that is top-to-bottom “evil.” So we keep educating our peers with counter-examples to bad behaviors, and shed light on lies and rumors when they reinforce negative narratives. Leading by example through charity, empathy, and compassion can help, provided the story gets out. Unfortunately, all this goes up against power structures a lot of the time; these arbitrary divisions and biases get used to great political effect. It’s hard as hell to do.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soon...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

Is this an everywhere thing? Or a certain kinds of people thing?

It’s in-group/out-group psychology. So, it’s everywhere (including here) and one must be mindful to counteract it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smells Great⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
That makes sense. The specific heat of water is a real bastard to overcome.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I pulled my hip flexor :(⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wax on⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What a terrible day to know how to read.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wax on⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I knew the bees had to be secreting wax somehow. But I always imagined it to be some kind of secondary oral process. Instead they really use… specialized pores under the segments in their thorax?

Now I don’t know which version grosses me out more.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We interrupt your happiness to bring you this special message from our sponsors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The presence of narcissism and sociopathy in the C-suite is due to selection bias, specifically for people with “bold” personality traits.
When you layer masking on top of that, you get a skilled individual that can navigate a lot of business situations. This all happens because they’re incredibly useful traits for making money, above all else. Ethics be damned.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

I’ll never understand MFers in the rurals curating lawns.

Basically, it’s a flex. In order to have a perfect looking grass yard, you either need to kill all your free time to maintain it, or pay people a lot of cash to keep it tip-top. And the free time thing also requires money since you probably don’t have your life set up like that unless you’re paying for it somewhere else. Any other approach will yield mediocre results which will immediately mark you as unable to keep pace with your more monied neighbors.

Assuming you’re playing their game, that is. Which you clearly are not. Good job!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Source: https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/kill-your-lawn

Look, this guy is a phenomenon and worth at least some of your time. Not just for the kill your lawn stuff, but for making botany actually interesting. There’s a whole-ass youtube channel that is sure to entertain if not educate.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a real post from the official DHS account on X⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s why they push this bullshit outside of the law anyway. More specifically, this is the act of an executive agency, and even then, a lone individual on a twitter account. There’s enough layers of “oopsie-doodle” and “come sue us,” that they feel pretty safe doing this shit.

Meanwhile, “in god we trust” is still on our currency…