[-] tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 months ago

This study failed to take into consideration the need to feed information to AI. Companies now prioritize feeding information to AI over actually making it usable for humans. Who cares about analyzing the data? Just give it to AI to figure out. Now data cannot be analyzed by humans? Just ask AI. It can't figure out? Give it more so it can figure it out. Rinse, repeat. This is a race to the bottom where information is useless to humans.

[-] tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 months ago

If the price I saw when I picked an item is different to what I pay at the counter, I'll never be back at that place again, even if it means I'm paying less.

[-] tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 4 months ago

Another translation of OP's opinion: walking on the street without looking at storefronts is unfair. Stores pay a substantial rent to be there and a lot of money to renovate and pay people to put up stuff for you to look at. Anyone not looking at these store fronts are robbing people of their money. There should be traffic stops where people have to describe exactly the location, size and content of every ads on the street. Failing to do so should be punished by law.

[-] tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 6 months ago

My experience with maintaining open source projects (though mine are very much smaller) is that it's quite similar to a business: you just have to deal with stakeholders and people who think they are stakeholders.

I had all the same experience at work:

  • Some unknown person from an unrelated team contacted me because something that my team does not manage broke. I tried to help a few times and I suddenly became their personal IT support team.

  • Another time someone not even working at my company demanded that I drop everything and fix their problem, because my name appeared in 3rd parties libraries.

It's sad that open source authors don't always receive the recognition that they deserve.

[-] tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Thank you for your compliment. I love it. The floppy disk is 1.44 non-freedom MB, not 0.015264 miles of CD drives.

[-] tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 11 months ago

The original video showed that just changing the Agent string fixed the "problem", so it has nothing to do with ad blocking.

[-] tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago

RoR is very... specific. Some love it because it comes with magic. Many hate it for the same reason.

You either knows the magic and love it, or you hate it with a passion. You never really know when (not if) your change will break the system because it's supposed to name in a very specific way that work by, again, magic.

[-] tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 year ago

As with traditional Reddit PR: Reddit will comment when there's correction to be made. Since Reddit made no correction, the article is 100% accurate.

[-] tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Others have given excellent advices. I'll approach it from management point of view:

  • If there's management oversight, such as tech lead/engineering manager, talk to them. Don't make any accusation. Approach it from the direction of you feeling uncomfortable with how the team is working. They will know how to solve the issue. However, any tech lead/engineering manager should have already dectected the problem and at a minimum acknowledge the issue.

  • If there's no tech management oversight, I'd suggest you approach the senior engineer directly. I'd want to emphasize here that it has to be tech management. Non tech management won't understand the problem and they won't be able to solve the problem. Sometimes the senior engineer maybe under pressure to deliver and there's nobody to split the tasks to other team members. I did this a few times in my career before I developed my skill to lead a team.

  • If it's neither because the senior is under pressure to deliver, nor there's management oversight, your next best bet is to seek consultantion with another senior, either in your team or another team. They maybe able help to talk to the senior.

  • Your last resort would be non tech management, or saying it another way: express that you're not happy with your job. This won't be much help unless others in your team doing so as well.

If all these fail, consider finding another offer. There's no oversight, there's no willing to inprove from the senior and there's no chance to improve the situation from other seniors, you won't learn much there.

[-] tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago

I worked as engineer for 15 years and then management for the last 2 years. The urge to go back to engineering never stop. What keeps me in management is seeing how I can create the environment where engineers are able to do their work.

If I go back to being an engineer, I won't be able to make sure product requirements are clear, priorities are correct, team members will have a chance to practice skills they don't get to do at work. At the minimum, protecting my engineers from stupid back to office policies that were enforced just because the CEO felt lonely one day. Would someone who has not worked as an engineer understand the feeling of stairing at the screen for 8 hours not able to start anything due to burnout is the worst feeling ever? Will they hear the grinding wheels when soneone used the wrong term during meetings?

There are just so many things that I can do for MY engineers, exactly what I wanted when I was still an engineer. I don't trust others to provide that so I take it on myself to do it. Granted, I need support from upper level for this to happen so it's an important aspect for me when I apply for jobs.

[-] tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Firefox blocks our trackings so we won't allow you to use it. Accept our tracking or get lost.

[-] tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 year ago

I think you misunderstood spez. He wanted no 3rd party app at all. RIF was paying Reddit for using their brand name and spez terminated the contract. It's all about control.

It would be much easier to just inject ads into data returned by the API. Apps will automatically display these ads and developers will understand that if they filter these ads, their access to Reddit will be either limited or completely cut out.

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