azdle
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- Comment on What do you create? 2 days ago:
Nothing near that impressive. I don’t make the fancy sand, I just move electrons around with fancy sand that someone else made, aka programming.
- Comment on What do you create? 2 days ago:
Nah, there’s no real meaning to my username. It’s just some random letters that are vaguely pronounceable.
- Comment on What do you create? 2 days ago:
Yeah, this one. I just meant programming.
- Comment on What do you create? 2 days ago:
I organize electrons in ways that make fancy sand organize more electrons.
- Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks? 5 weeks ago:
So my advice to other IT folk is: take the time to check up on your state’s employment laws. If you are being exploited by your employer they may be totally in the wrong.
100%
I’m unfortunately in a state with even more vague an useless definition of who gets to be exempt than the federal definition.
- Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks? 5 weeks ago:
It has definitely changed, I don’t know when, but it’s been like this for at least the last decade.
Though, in my experience (NB: I’m a software engineer, which is a notoriously lax field.) only what the piece of paper says has changed. Hell, most of my employee handbooks have claimed that “full time” is 50 hours a week. They get away with it because I’m classified as a “computer employee” (lol) and make more than $35k/year (super lol) which means my employment is exempted from minimum wage and overtime pay laws.
Nobody that I know actually works that consistently. Most people I know don’t even do 40. I do 9-5 (or 8:30-4:30 usually), I take breaks when I need them and nobody has ever complained to me about the amount I’m working.
My only guess for why it’s this way is that having that be the official working time means it’s easier to fire anyone for no reason because they’re not working their “contractually obligated” amount of time.
- Comment on (Religious) What would i be labeled? 2 months ago:
You’re an Agnostic.
Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or unknown in fact.
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- Comment on Why is TikTok seen as privacy invading and bad, but Facebook is fine? 9 months ago:
For the purposes of data collection, the US basically isn’t foreign for AU: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
- Comment on If saturated fat is the most unhealthy part of cooking oils, then why don't we remove it? 9 months ago:
We tried that in the 90s, it went poorly: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_fat#History
- Comment on The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance 10 months ago:
The day Firefox shutters its doors is the day the internet truly dies.
*the web
The internet has so far been doing a much better job surviving as a proper decentralized system than the web.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
If you have any straight straws, you might want to hold them up to the light. They get pretty grody on the inside.
- Comment on Have you ever had to retake a major course you already passed in order to understand the subject better? 1 year ago:
Yep, I did exactly that. I passed a class because the prof graded on a curve, but if he hadn’t no one would have passed, so I learned nothing. I went and talked to the prof that was teaching it the next semester, just before classes started, and he said it was fine fine to sit in as long as I didn’t come on any of the test days.
I suggest you go in person to ask, it might be something they’re not supposed to do, so if you ask in some way that leaves a paper trail, they might have to say no just to cover their ass.
- Comment on Is there a labour-friendly car company? 1 year ago:
Seems that way: en.wikipedia.org/…/Vehicle_identification_number#…
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- W Germany (formerly West Germany)
- Comment on What is "attention", really? 1 year ago:
Your thoughts.
(And to a lesser extent your actions, but that gets tougher to define since external factors will apply more there.)
- Comment on In the U.S., what exactly are we supposed to do when an ambulance, with its sirens on, approaches from behind? 1 year ago:
The exact laws vary by state, but it’s always “get the fuck out the way, as quickly as you can while being as predictable as possible.”
I’ve never heard that you’re supposed to not stop (if that’s what you meant), but as far as I know, you’re not required to stop if you’re out of the way and not preventing anyone else from getting out if the way.
- Comment on Why are prices of everything higher in cities? 1 year ago:
Meat doesn’t grow in the suburbs either though. Plus if you’re buying meat at a major supermarket, it probably didn’t even come from your state anyway. Your proximity to the nearest cow doesn’t have much to do with how far your steak came.
- Comment on What happened to dataterm.digital? 1 year ago:
Oh, right, this is the fediverse. (This is a Lemmy comment, FYI.)
@lucy@corteximplant.com, whatever happened to dataterm.digital? Is it ever coming back?
- Comment on What happened to dataterm.digital? 1 year ago:
This is their meta site: obeythesystem.com It doesn’t seem to list it. Neither does their network status page: biomonitor.cyberwa.re/status/network
I don’t know anything, but that seems to imply to me that it’s probably not coming back.
- Comment on what's a reasonable sort for lemmy? 1 year ago:
Just upgraded to 0.18.3-rc.4 and the Hot sort seems to be fixed now. (I’d guess Active would be too.) So, that now. Before I pretty much only used Top X Hours based on when I last looked.
Though, now that I’m looking at Hot, the communities I’m in definitely feel a whole lot more active.