HamsterRage
@HamsterRage@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Protesting is getting weird... 4 weeks ago:
As a Canadian driving around the UK I always found these signs strange. When passing one we would raise our fists in the air and shout, “End road work…end road work everywhere!!!”.
It amused us.
- Comment on I this a firm and polite way to tell an opinionated coworker to stop pushing his agenda I don't care about? 1 month ago:
There’s two kinds of issues: instance and pattern. The first time or two, it’s instance. You deal with those with specificity. Something like, “I would prefer not to talk about this subject with you, please stop”.
If it persists, then it’s a pattern problem. You deal with the pattern, not the instance. “I’ve asked you not to talk about subjects like this in the pant, but you haven’t stopped. This makes me feel like you don’t respect my boundaries and it’s making it difficult for me to work with you. Why are you doing this to me?”.
You can escalate from there, and this might involve management involvement but at least you’ll have the clarity of having made the situation clear before it gets there.
Honestly though, unless the coworker is actually deranged, they’ll be mortified when they find out they are making you uncomfortable and they’ll stop right away.
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 1 month ago:
I think that a good starting place to explain the concept to people would be to describe a Travesty Generator. I remember playing with one of those back in the 1980’s. If you fed it a snippet of Shakespeare, what it churned out sounded remarkably like Shakespeare, even if it created brand “new” words.
The results were goofy, but fun because it still almost made sense.
The most disappointing source text I ever put in was TS Eliot. The output was just about as much rubbish as the original text.
- Comment on Spiders On Drugs 3 months ago:
It helps if you are an old enough Canadian to remember the original “Hinterland’s Who’s Who” shorts.
- Comment on Truly inspirational 6 months ago:
Stone only makes sense for people used to pounds, shillings and pence. For instance, “This costs 3 pound, 4 shilling and 8”, and, “I weight 12 stone, 6 pounds and 3 ounces”.
- Comment on Mobile roaming: EE prompts anger as it increases price by 150% | Mobile phones | The Guardian 7 months ago:
Try living in Canada. Pretty much all the providers charge $15/day for roaming! No monthly plans available.
- Comment on How do you call in English 9 months ago:
“Row headers” seems wrong to me. Maybe “row labels”?