prole

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Today on german reddit in c/main@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 25 points 14 hours ago

Self-defense isn't violence, problem solved

AI agent opens PR for easy first issue meant for onboarding new contributors, writes rant blog after rejection in c/libre@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fucking same. Left v right is up v down, they just have no idea what "left" means.

Will I ever stop having cringe takes? in c/askchapo@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

I have this same feeling almost constantly and I'm over 40. I've been a "leftist" of some variety most of my life, especially if we're counting anything that's anti-capitalist as left. I look at it as a good thing. My present self might cringe at my past self, but that's the cost of learning new shit.

I only really accepted this in the last 5 years or so doing software development. I have worked on the same project for 6+ years and constantly run into my old code and think how terrible it is and how could I ever be this dumb, etc. Now I just view that experience as the cost of improving.

If I looked at my old code (or my old ideology) and it was exactly the same as it is now, I would probably cringe even harder.

:dilbert-smuglord: :gun-hubris: in c/slop@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Prostate cancer too?! How did I miss this wholesome news?

Please give the gold medals to the robbers. in c/news@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

Sorry, I was being sarcastic in an effort to make a point to the person I was originally replying to. My bad

Please give the gold medals to the robbers. in c/news@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You mean it's not okay to suggest someone is a sex offender based on the way they look?

:dilbert-smuglord: :gun-hubris: in c/slop@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Holy shit Scott Adams died? Lmao I didn't even know

:dilbert-smuglord: :gun-hubris: in c/slop@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 40 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Does anyone know where this guy is? I could really use 50k right now

Please give the gold medals to the robbers. in c/news@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Ah yes, their skulls are just the right shape and their eyes are exactly the right distance apart to know for sure they are sex offenders. You can also tell by the angle of their noses that they have low IQs and their shoe size is a clear indicator of laziness.

Not only are my enemies ontologically evil, they're also pathetic. in c/slop@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

I'm not exactly a fashionable person, but wtf is up with his outfit? Are those camo yoga pants?

Newsom going all out! Ie Reddit/Libs when they see a politician use a naughty word in c/slop@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Libs already jumping on people for not wanting to vote for Newsome and it's not even midterms yet. We live in a hell world nightmare loop and there's no end in sight.

Treatlerism intermediate boss in c/slop@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

I've had some stainless steel pots and pans for almost 20 years now. Basically look new still and I suck at taking care of things. I got divorced and all I wanted to keep was these pans and my cat

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Being a manager (hexbear.net)
 

Ok so, somehow I ended up being a manager at work. Mostly I just don't bother anyone and protect them from the bosses when I can. However, I'm a software dev and they had me make a bunch of scripts and such to measure productivity. I didn't really want to because fuck that, but as I was working on it I realized none of the bosses will ever look at this code or question the output.

I ended up padding the stats quite a bit in "honest" ways by doing things like excluding weekends and holidays. I also round everything up to the nearest whole number. But then I decided to just add extra values here and there as well. Instead of starting the count at 0, I start at 1.

The bosses asked for a monthly report, so I give them 28 days (and don't count the weekends). I drop the lowest count days if there are more than 28 days in the month and present all of the stats as monthly.

Anyway, just remember there are lots of ways to help your coworkers and you don't actually have to do any managing if everyone understands what's up. Just be really careful and try to always give yourself plausible deniability. LLMs are a great excuse to shift blame right now even if you aren't using one

Anyone else have ideas or things they've done?

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Do you even bother? (hexbear.net)
 

Recently I've had some frustrating conversations with people. Someone said Oregon is "deeply red", which sounds like an absolutely unhinged thing to say when you consider all branches of government in OR are controlled by Dems.

I'm sure I was rude to the person, but I tried to explain how ridiculous that is. If Oregon is deeply red then what is Alabama? Just because the rural areas are conservative? I spent way too long on this one.

Anyway how do you handle this kind of nonsense in the world? I usually just say what I'm thinking to people these days, but more and more it's feeling like I should just stfu and let people believe whatever

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Software development cooperatives? (hexbear.net)
 

I've looked at a few lists here and there, but it seems like there just aren't many co-ops that recruit strangers online. Anyone have any experience working for a co-op as a dev? It seems like it would be an awesome way to structure a small web/app dev team. Part of me wants to try to start one myself, but it's hard to imagine maintaining the motivation needed for a task like that when I can barely function as it is.

Anyway, what's up with the lack of cooperatives? Sorry if this is the wrong comm, seemed like the best place

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