corsicanguppy @ corsicanguppy @lemmy.ca

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literally

Next.

politicians gunning to increase corporate power, gut the public sector, and reduce labour's power

That's been the Blue playbook for decades.

Allowing people to overstress an environment that has not been built to allow for the resources they need is allowing a group to condemn themselves to water and sanitation issues. 200 people in a once-manicured park without water or power or washrooms is less than ideal.

What are we owed by the government? Housing the homeless saves more money elsewhere, but what happens when they keep hoarding shared communal space for their own semi-permanent exclusive use?

We need to provide homes, yes. We need to ask them whether they want a home and a leg back up into society. It has to be clear that returning to an area with no fresh water and available sanitation is not an option. Are we building shacks in the woods where density is low enough that a single person won't stress the environment?

Weren't they busing the homeless from HCoL areas to LCoL areas so they could leverage the more accessible housing market.

How'd that work?

Groovy

Nothing says "mercenary diploma mill" like "largest number of international students".

Yes, I get it - I saw it in the '90s - Canadian collages are ridiculously addicted to the foreign green and firmly on the "admin pork but paltry pay" playbook since before even my time; but basing themselves only against American colleges has really helped them level up the greed so fucking hard.

Catering to the foreign students like this place must have put them in some weird Twilight zone of "we know we're doing what's best for the country because look at how much foreign money were spending on luxury homes!"

tired of implementing technology before it's finished

That's is every single programme you've ever used.

Software will be built, sold, used, maintained and finally obsoleted and it will still not be 'complete'. It will have bugs, sometimes lots, sometimes huge, and those will not be fixed. Our biggest accomplishment as a society may be the case where we patched software on Mars or in the voyager probe still speeding away from earth.

Self-driving cars, though, don't need to have perfectly 'complete' software, though; they just need to work better than humans. That's already been accomplished, long ago.

And with each fix applied to every one of them, it's a situation they all shouldn't ever repeat. Can we say the same about humans? I can't even get my beautiful, stubborn wife to slow down, leave more space, and quit turning the steering wheel in that rope-climbing way like a farmer on a tractor does (because the airbag will take her hand off).

Snaps are a great way to:

• ruin single source of truth for state of installed software
• .. and contents
• .. and dependencies (dependency hell is always self-inflicted)

What a dumb, dumb idea. We already avoid debian/ubuntu because of the validation lack in the packaging, but this is just comically bad.

1. 'usecase' isn't a word
2. you don't 'do' a use-case.

I drove away from the WTC on the morning of 2001-09-11. I watched from a safe distance as the towers fell. It was a surreal day I shared with like 10 million people as we watched the smoke and fires and falling structures, willing with every ounce of our being that our loved ones due to be in the area at the time - and one in the building interviewing upstairs - ended up far away at the right time. The universe delivered, and we luckily lost no dear friends that day, but it was tense while some of them were in the proverbial wind.

I still - I'm ashamed to admit - think something was SUPER-fishy about the pentagon strike. I believe it when they say the parts don't add up, and I believe them when they say the surveillance tapes from a local gas station were taken, and I debated the significance of the lamp-posts being taken down in the days before where they magically didn't get hit by the incoming plane. And I'm pretty sure the plane following that pennsylvania crash was doing more than watching.

Do I think the planes hit the towers? Yep. Do I think the jet fuel weakened the structure until it popped? Yep. But I can't resolve the rumour that the basement was empty on that day of all days. I heard the stories that the tail numbers were spotted elsewhere and I briefly gave it some thought until I just went "nah, fuck that" and tossed that idea.

I don't think there's gonna be an alternate explanation to cover the weird concerns I have, and I can live with that; but I'm not gonna forget it.

That's the way it is.

IBM has a history of this kind of stuff

But they never shed the people they'd want: they shed the talent, where those who can't leave will stay behind.

This is why they can now only exist by buying companies, sucking them dry and moving on, as they slowly offshore all actual work. #byeRedHat

company is cloud native

My current employer is private-cloud (what they'd sometimes claim is 'on prem' but isnt). One doesn't have to be 'cloud-native' to facilitate 100% remote work.

We just got news today about the future of WFH: The company is selling off more space because no one is using it.

I'm being offered a position right now, and I just don't think they get this part of it. I'm not moving house 4000mi into an at-will state just to get turfed in month 9.

Yeah, so no. I love my current spot wayyyyy more.

I think I saw that on Star Trek once. They made a planet go mad.

Fuck. I haven't seen my boss on camera since my interview 6 months ago. I came from a 'camera' post and have since been molded into a proper introvert.

Holy moly was that reductress site ever shite with the popups and video ads.

It's funny how a few short years ago both FB and Google ran with jabber and jingle and we were accidentally chatting between one another.

Seems they just need to roll the code back and they're set.

Makes the upcoming spite just a little more bitter.

gentree

gentry?

rellevant

\sigh

Fast. Cheap. Good.

Monday-morning quarterbacks don't even understand THAT much. Most of them still haven't figured out vaccines, but here they are.