The Official Status Thread
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
But that does not help either: "overqualified" is also not acceptable.
I could never understand this. Is it like "you're too good for us; you'll make everyone else look bad"?
Maybe, but mostly it's "you expect to be paid more than minimum wage".
Also, "what do you mean you won't work 12hr/day plus most weekends?"
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@dcon only yesterday one of these e/acc fucks was whingeing on Twitter about the awfulness of European legislation. Specifically Germany and the cap on 10 hours/day working, as though this is stifling innovation.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Specifically Germany and the cap on 10 hours/day working, as though this is stifling innovation.
I can't work that long, I'd run out of forum threads.
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@topspin the other guyâs argument is that this is stifling to small businesses, especially startups. Apparently Germany is start-up hostile. (Canât verify.)
But I donât know of many people who can consistently work 10+ hours day after day after day and not see diminishing returns pretty quicklyâŠ
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Apparently Germany is start-up hostile. (Canât verify.)
It is, but for other reasons. If you need your employees to work 12 hours a day 7 days a week, you can go
pound sandto some other low wage place.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
But I donât know of many people who can consistently work 10+ hours day after day after day and not see diminishing returns pretty quicklyâŠ
All I know is that if I work that long, you're going to need at least one more person to undo all the bad I did because I worked too long.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
I donât know of many people who can consistently work 10+ hours day after day after day
I've had jobs where 10 hours/day, 4 days/week was the normal schedule. It was nice having a 3-day weekend every week.
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I have several things I want to accomplish today. Work is not among them.
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@HardwareGeek the implication from the e/acc is that youâre not in for a 40 hr/wk and thatâs the lack of innovation that the EU has, it forbids things like that.
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Status: It is a pleasant, warm spring day. I have the windows open. The breeze is wafting an aroma of ... cat piss.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
But that does not help either: "overqualified" is also not acceptable.
I could never understand this. Is it like "you're too good for us; you'll make everyone else look bad"?
That's more prevalent than people think. They also don't want you doing anything they can't figure out when they drive you off. There's a huge difference between "nobody else knows Angular" and "nobody else knows what a static function is" though.
Plus, you know, the cult-like conformity. Being better is being different. Different is bad because something something dark side.
Status: Jesus. Last order before the sale ended was two of X and one of Y. Thought the cartons looked a little too similar. It was pouring, again, when they showed up so I didn't verify right away. Yep, three of X and none of Y. Well at least nothing's broken this time.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
The breeze is wafting an aroma of ... cat piss.
Do you mean red oak?
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@Arantor I just read most "not being an asshole slave driver will destroy business forever!" arguments like they're coming from this guy:
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Status: I just realized that this micro-ATX case could make an excellent sleeper PC, and it should support (dimensions-wise) a 4090....
But I don't want to spend money.....
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Acquaintances at the teppanyaki table paid for our dinner.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Acquaintances at the teppanyaki table paid for our dinner.
Fuckin' lucky!
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Acquaintances at the teppanyaki table paid for our dinner.
If you start an argument about hibachi, I'm going to get cross.
STATUS At my mother's house, and apparently, she's writing a list of chores for me to do. I'm suddenly very interested in a holiday elsewhere.
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Status: So I get this ad for Teepublic running a sale and decide to look up a character I don't have on a shirt yet. No hits. Alright, broaden the terms to the cartoon they're from because their search engine is dumb. Suddenly a ton of hits.
All named like this: design001, design002, design003, design004, etc.
Great, you successfully hid from the copyright holder. You also hid from alot of potential customers.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
In all seriousness, I kind of support the result of the recent NLRB action to ban basically all non-competes. I don't think the methodology was correct and don't really expect it to hold up in court as-is, but that conversation will get off the rails in a hurry
The rule ought to be that a continuing non-compete requires a substantive compensation (typically a regular payment, but there may be suitable alternatives). That stops the worst abuses, and if a business wants to pay someone to sit around doing nothing at all, that's going to have the shareholders very puzzled...
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
The rule ought to be that a continuing non-compete requires a substantive compensation (typically a regular payment, but there may be suitable alternatives).
That's the "law" in Germany.
And even nicer: when an employment contract lacks such a compensation, the non-compete clause is deemed invalid (determined by the highest employment court).
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Today is not a good day to clean my rain gutters. Yesterday would have been.
Severe thunderstorm watch. Thunderstorm in progress. (I'm not sure what the criteria for "severe" are, but it doesn't seem to me to be severe at the moment.) Heavy rain. That lightning was close â less than half a mile, from the delay between the flash and the thunder; I didn't actually time it, but well under 5 seconds â and loud.
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Status: 5km - 28m 24s.
Afterwards I ate apples, bananas, cereal bar, grilled sausage, large Döner, had a non-alcoholic beer and 2 normal beer for the walk home. Still hungry. Knees hurt. Tomorrow will be WFH. With a lot of for the last part.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Tomorrow will be WFH. With a lot of for the last part.
Working from home?
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@loopback0 watching tv on the couch. However you distribute that. And I still have some TOTK to play.
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Status: I love messing with clippy.
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Funny. He said the exact same thing about messing with you.
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Clippy only pretends to like me, sometimes.
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@Tsaukpaetra I don't pretend to like clippy.
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Yeah, we kinda noticed.
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Status: My manager (who has been working with Indians on other teams for at least a decade) today announced he found out "Doing the needful" is a phrase only used by Indians.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Severe thunderstorm watch. Thunderstorm in progress. (I'm not sure what the criteria for "severe" are
severe is when you need a â” to leave your house
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@sockpuppet7 What if you live on a boathouse?
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@Zecc then I would say it's severe when there is risk of debris sinking your house
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there was some people explaining those houses where built over an area that used to be flooded, and landfills and dams make the water get faster to the rivers and lakes and those to also flow faster
I think something similar was said about new Orleans
never build a house less than 10m above sea level is what I take from it
just being near that is a highly stressful thing, you're surrounded by refugees, every school turned into a shelter (or whatever is the right word on this case), etc, friends and family directly impacted, etc
then dunno what will be with the economy as the entire state is like this
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
But that does not help either: "overqualified" is also not acceptable.
I could never understand this. Is it like "you're too good for us; you'll make everyone else look bad"?
there are rational reasons, an overqualified person may leave the company as soon as they get something better, and then you have to hire and ramp up another person, it can even be a net negative. they can also get unhappy and frustrated as it will be a bad position for them
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity and theyâre coming into the workplace having tried (and started to rely on) things like Copilot to do some of the thinking for them, and it shows.
copilot is good when you use it as an auto complete in simple code that you can spot any error. it was also good to learn new languages and libraries
to solve a complex algo, I agree it's bad, the bugs are hard to spot.
don't throw the baby with the bathwater or something like that
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@Arantor I also suspect AI code could work worse on dynamic languages like JavaScript and PHP as you catch less bugs at compile time?
I guess that could be mitigated if you ask it to write unit tests
on a side note, I hate when this unit test fad leak to the statically typed world where most of them add no value
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@sockpuppet7 unit tests can have value. In statically typed / compiled languages you just don't need to write seventy quadrillion of them just to check things the compiler should already do for you statically.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@sockpuppet7 unit tests can have value. In statically typed / compiled languages you just don't need to write seventy quadrillion of them just to check things the compiler should already do for you statically.
Donât
hate the playertest the framework, test the game!
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
never build a house less than 10m above sea level is what I take from it
euh this might be a problematic requirement for a big part of Belgium and the hole of the Netherlands.
Current estimate says -16 meters while sitting on the first floor.
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
never build a house less than 10m above sea level is what I take from it
euh this might be a problematic requirement for a big part of Belgium and the hole of the Netherlands.
Current estimate says -16 meters while sitting on the first floor.
Tried to get more info, but Google seems to disagree with you:
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@sockpuppet7 But in those higher parts of , people speak French!1!!
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@sockpuppet7 But in those higher parts of , people speak French!1!!
Quelle horreur!
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
the hole of the Netherlands
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Watched a television show called "Beat Bobby Flay".
Thought it might be interesting but it turned out to just be a cooking show. I am disappoint.
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@sockpuppet7
It's all interpretation because except for Brussel all 3 major cities are in the low part. Not surprisingly all three are important harbors. While Brussel might on a medium level its name is derived from the old Dutch word for swamp. So there is still hope on that front.
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@ixvedeusi said in The Official Status Thread:
@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
the hole of the Netherlands
it is low so technically correct
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
Tried to get more info, but Google seems to disagree with you:
I would have thought it was split into two parts only, depending on whether the characteristic Wes Craven film is Swamp Thing or The Hills Have Eyes.
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Status: Installing Linux Mint Xfce 21.3 in a virtual machine.
Looking forward to a result.