corsicanguppy
@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. 36 minutes ago:
5? I know some in the industry who have been out for 30 months. Talented and experienced, as well.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 8 hours ago:
why do everybody want to make it count letters and stuff like this?
We do not applaud the tenor for clearing his throat, as they say; yes. But we also do not applaud the tenor who can’t even do that.
- Comment on AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day 1 day ago:
it’s debut
Yes. It is.
- Comment on born 2 l8 1 day ago:
2 l8
I think I lost brain cells on the kid-pidgin
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 4 days ago:
In a region near me the rental market is 99.3% full.
Scumbag landlords charge $200 to view these horrid places no one will ever rent, and their job is showing people the place, one after another. It’s only a half-dozen a day, but that’s a good wage and there’s no end of hopefuls. Apparently, needing a landlord to come out to show you the place is a “call-out”, even if he’s just upstairs.
Of course that’s the “frbo” market; the rental companies can’t get away with that yet. They wish, though.
- Comment on Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys. 5 days ago:
ur
\sigh
- Comment on Anon thinks about statistics 6 days ago:
I don’t understand people that want children
I don’t understand people who use ‘that’ when they should use ‘who’, and why we just suffer the objectification.
- Comment on a horrid little graph 1 week ago:
Skydog! I have no idea what they’re really called, but they’re adorable.
- Comment on wtf is ur problem 1 week ago:
The problem with Ur is that it collapsed as a city 4000 years ago.
- Comment on Now that I've got my conclusion, it's time to go look for evidence that only supports said conclusion! 2 weeks ago:
That was my read too: because anecdotal evidence is untrustworthy, now they need to legitimatize what they’ve observed firsthand.
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 2 weeks ago:
Bicyclists running reds? Is the court summons just to get a psyche eval? That’s mental.
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 2 weeks ago:
2 day wfh allowance
So
- staff has to locate nearby
- new applicants must be nearby
- everyone needs a car
- the office doesn’t offset any of this
- but 2 days you get to be home and productive. Woo!
Someone needs to be fired. Pick the guy who talks about ‘organic conversations’, as if water cooler chat and constant interruptions are the true medium for knowledge sharing, or the sexist git who forces Linda to shop for office clothing where Gavin skates with khaki and a polo, and raise the average EQ with a quick meeting.
This is why when I interview - I do it to keep that skill up - I tell them their starting wage will be based on a the rent of a 2bd flat within 10min walking of the location I’m ordered to work. Gross pay needs to be triple your rent, right ? But that spreadsheet - it includes on-call rates and a penalty for Ansible or outlook - is another topic.
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact: open-plan layouts have been ruled sexist in the UK.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 2 weeks ago:
TTIWWOP.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 2 weeks ago:
Nah. I’ve said it like the English word in my head for decades. I’ll keep doing it. Argle bargle.
It’s like those ‘kevinist’ names where it sounds like ‘taylor’ but is spelled like ‘wishbone’ or something. Just. No.
(Hush, Ceilidh, I almost have a sound argument)
- Comment on These totally legitimate comments 2 weeks ago:
I love how the bot content has the same comma splice like the dumbest of humans.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 2 weeks ago:
As you read these comments, remember that 56% of Americans read at a 6th-grade level or above; the rest read below that.
Please be gentle.
- Comment on boyancy 2 weeks ago:
Why does the spelling of bouyancy and manatee change?
- Comment on LinkedIn Banned A Trans Woman For Using Her Preferred Name 3 weeks ago:
As mentioned previously, I have a weird Rupert J Farnsworth name; it’s the only thing I inherited from a very mean grandfather. I don’t use that name anywhere; even my mom has called me something else since birth.
If LinkedIn found this out, they’d delete my account, I guess, because I don’t use that name there either.
Wheeee.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 3 weeks ago:
Before Trump, the office had an image to uphold.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 weeks ago:
can you imagine conservatives bitching about the spend?!
Nonsense. They wouldn’t even know that ‘spend’ isn’t a noun when you’re not on the car lot. #soFetch
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 weeks ago:
At grade == weak
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 3 weeks ago:
Glossed over after someone was shouting about my “A Child.” I think it’s an honor roll student thing but I wandered off.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 4 weeks ago:
We picking favourite features? Let’s talk about headphone jacks. Make it .3mm thicker if all that volume can be consolidated on the header jack they ditched because apparently it can’t fit and wasn’t feeding their radio earbud business enough.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 4 weeks ago:
they engineer a solution that they believe to be a smoother user experience
You had me until this bit. I support my mom and the iPhone she got instead of an android. I have no idea how to use this thing, and she’s the mother of 2.5 nerds. This swishy swoopy UI is so bad it’s toxic.
But I think that’s just a young and sparkle-addicted product management team who forgets that they need to sell to their market and who believe they know better.
- Comment on So me 4 weeks ago:
please, look at the machines and see if there is a very clear label
My local bodeguero says “okay, that’ll be $12, and tap on the very top when the total appears”.
His machine doesn’t even beg for tips either – they pay their people enough.
- Comment on So me 4 weeks ago:
We had consensus and critical thinking: if vendors tried to bring out 51 styles of tap-to-pay before, we’d quickly avoid the crap ones and stick to the ones that were consistent and compatible.
No one’s going to put down their groceries and walk out because the tap-to-pay is this inscrutable mess sold off the back of an argentinian van. We’ll just get through it and hope the info isn’t skimmed to drain our accounts.
- Comment on So me 4 weeks ago:
All of those things have one UI, one process for success, and so all experience is cumulative and transferrable. Tap-to-pay is a new button and process and tap-spot each time, each vendor, each venue.
- Comment on naruto therapy 4 weeks ago:
u
Yeah, I wouldn’t trust Skippy either.
- Comment on How much spacing while stopped at a red light? 4 weeks ago:
You don’t need them in turn only lanes
No mention of America.
No it isn’t[:] you’re not required by law to use a turn signal in a turn only lane
No mention of America.
I’m talking about US law and it seems you’re talking about Canadian.
Are you forgetting that 95% of the world’s population lives outside of America?
Minnesota (this is a state in the US) traffic code 169.19 Subd. 5 Signal to turn:
… and incorrect even in America.
What does False Consensus mean?