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How much privacy would i be sacrificing to have my work email on my personal phone?
  • I wish work profiles were more separate. My company's work profile ended up locking me out of my phone (including the personal profile) and forced me to wipe and start over with it. They disabled fingerprint unlock and required my unlock password to change monthly, and I got the periodic "you have to change your password NOW" notice while plugged into my car with Android Auto. I couldn't enter a new password and the phone never unlocked again.

    I know, probably a super rare set of circumstances, but I'm not going to allow my work to root my phone again. They can buy me a phone if they need so much control.

  • Does money corrupt, or is money attractive to questionable people?
  • Yes. Most people stop making more when they have enough.

    People who don't stop are already broken and corrupted. They have nothing better to do. No better idea. No other desire. Than to accumulate more. It's degenerate, sad, to keep wanting more, to feel that hunger when it is already satiated. Like a rat addicted to cocaine, still pushing itself to push the button for more and more.

  • Free WiFi.
  • They don't care. They're just turning around and repeating your lies to whatever advertiser is so stupid as to believe their demographic sales pitch.

    Hurt them by not using it. That's the biggest number that feeds their machine.

  • Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
  • I'm somewhere else but have kept Amazon in the back of my mind as a possible next place, partly out of curiosity to see what it's like from the inside. The culture has some fun elements. No longer. This moves them out of the 2nd tier and into the 3rd, and honestly I'd wonder about anyone there who's not chained to a visa.

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    I bought a used Yamaha A2A and can return it for 30 days.

    Do you have any advice to check that it's fine? What have you seen go wrong with these things?

    I'm watching a DVD piped through it and it's working. It turns on. The knobs rotate. The remote remotes...?

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  • My company is all in on GitHub Copilot. They have very unrealistic expectations for how much it will increase productivity. I suspect they were sold on data from junior developers, who I think it helps the most. Anyways, now they are measuring how much engineers use it, so there is some amount of pressure to use it more often.

    The training was a little worrisome and disingenuous. The internal team advocating for it aren't strong coders and kept showing examples of it automating antipatterns, like writing useless tests that duplicate an if statement in the tested function, writing very verbose and vague comments (meaningless), or taking an example function and making a new one in a boiler plate way (that cut/pastes common code rather than extracting it into a shared function).

    Really, I think it's helpful -- sometimes. Especially to new engineers or when dealing with an unfamiliar library. But I do worry it will lower the bar, and feel over using it can be a waste of time.

  • One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense"
  • I'll add that even when you're an expert in both languages, it's common to see WTF's in the original and not be sure if something is a bug or just weird behavior that's now expected. Especially when going from a looser to a more strict language.

    I've translated huge projects and most of the risk is in "you know the original would do the wrong thing in these x circumstances -- I'm pretty sure that's not on purpose but.... Maybe? Or maybe now someone depends on it being wrong like this?"

  • What should I do about my parents moving closer.
  • I'm sorry but I just don't understand where you are at. I feel you are adopting this "I'm a very private person" label as an armor to close yourself off from a closer relationship with your family. I'm very much an introvert with my own internal world, and yet I feel people are probably the point of life. Relationships are not always comfortable, but I feel that discomfort is part of the fun-- to approach it with curiosity to see what happens and as a growth opportunity to see how you'll practice communicating with the other person with openness and vulnerability. To me that's way more fun and interesting than shutting down yourself and others with a priori rules.

  • For those who are job searching, how's the market been for you lately?
  • I'm at a large tech company. We are hiring, and I feel the bar is much higher this year. From my perspective, it feels like a lot of really well qualified people are applying, and that has made the interview panels more picky and slow. I feel that in the past we were very quick to decide and extend offers to people who are likely to do well in the role. But that urgency feels gone, and there's a larger pool of candidates, so the panel is much more likely to pass or ask the candidate to wait while they interview more people.

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