Middle managers like to set targets and goals because it counts towards their bonus, and it looks less like they’ve got their dick in their hand when the boss comes calling.
It’s the same problem all over. Capitalism. You have people who don’t do work keeping the benefits from the work.
Most people aren’t going to give themselves stupid or useless metrics. Software people aren’t going to impose “tokens used” or “lines of code” metrics on themselves. They know those are stupid.
Some players are hoarding all the resources, and formed gangs to keep their power. Sucks. You can’t just shoot them because the other players whine, and you’ll probably get banned.
If I expanded that explanation to everyone, that would be silly. In no way am I proposing everyone has the same reason for disliking pink Floyd as my 10th grade friend. I do think some people feel like he did, though, about various things.
This is vital context. Big difference between like working in a kitchen with a bunch of people and working a software remote job.
I had a friend in high school who was always putting down pink Floyd. He’d say the lyrics were simple and the music was gimmicky.
Eventually, one day, I got out of him that the real source of his ire was he, quote, “didn’t want to be one of those kids who’s into pink Floyd”.
I think about this sometimes. He made up all these plausible sounding excuses, but the truth was something social that he was embarrassed to admit.
Granted, we were in 10th grade, but I think a lot of people still act that way.
Hopefully Tim’s doing good these days.
I saw master boot record a couple months ago. Great show. They covered Doom’s e1m1 and I was like “ooo shit”. My partner was like “do you know this song?” Yeah babe it’s burned into my memory
It definitely seems like we’re setting ourselves up for a dystopia, where no one knows how to do software anymore. Like the time machine or Idiocracy. Management just wants short term gains, and they don’t care if there’s no one around in 10 years with any experience
. The net result is that everyone has learned very quickly to praise executives on their visionary AI prowess, or they will be gunned down in the proverbial streets.
Once again, the people making the decisions are idiots.
Labor should keep the profits of its work. The owners just sit around and make bad decisions. Fuck them. They’d be lucky to walk away, if there was justice in this world.
I would be shocked if the game was ground breaking. I fully expect more of the “NPCs just go back to default if you kill their buddy and wait a while” like we’ve had for 20 years. Plus all sorts of other jank and nonsense. I just don’t think Microsoft can pull off something new and great.
But even if they did: fuck em.
Capotalism. Workers aren’t the ones making the decisions or keeping the profits.
I guess we’ll keep discovering this in new contexts without ever addressing the problem.
I expect not to buy it because fuck Microsoft. There are other games and other entertainments.
I expect I’m in the minority.
Projection is a psychological defense mechanism that involves attributing one’s undesirable traits, feelings, or impulses to other people.
https://www.simplypsychology.org/psychological-projection-defense-mechanism.html
Javascript is a language full of weird quirks. A language with fewer footguns would probably be smoother for learning fundamentals. Python is pretty good in terms of letting you do the thing, instead of making you find a third party library (not that one, that’s deprecated) or having unexpected default behavior ( in JS [1,2] + [3,4] is the string 1,23,4, for example)
TypeScript adds more guard rails, but is a little more complex to get going.
This shouldn’t be allowed. We need to stop letting corporations consolidate.
That aside, I don’t think I’ve ever used either of these. I used to use seamless for restaurant delivery, but not so much anymore. Shit’s too expensive.
I can imagine a nightmare where they add a monthly subscription for something to get a foot in the door. “Just $1.99 for unlimited cloud saves! Storage isn’t free you’re supporting the devs!”
A lot of people will pay it because “gamers” are, famously, little better than children.
Then it’s downhill from there. More subscriptions. Free service thinned. Popularity gone.
It’s what always happens when that kind of person gets in.
Anyone else read Roadside Picnic?
The title of the novel derives from an analogy that is proposed by the character Dr. Valentine Pilman, who compares the Visitation to a picnic:
A picnic. Picture a forest, a country road, a meadow. Cars drive off the country road into the meadow, a group of young people get out carrying bottles, baskets of food, transistor radios, and cameras. They light fires, pitch tents, turn on the music. In the morning they leave. The animals, birds, and insects that watched in horror through the long night creep out from their hiding places. And what do they see? Old spark plugs and old filters strewn around… Rags, burnt-out bulbs, and a monkey wrench left behind… And of course, the usual mess—apple cores, candy wrappers, charred remains of the campfire, cans, bottles, somebody’s handkerchief, somebody’s penknife, torn newspapers, coins, faded flowers picked in another meadow.[7]
In this analogy, the nervous animals are the humans who venture forth after the Visitors have left, discovering items and anomalies that are ordinary to those who have discarded them, but incomprehensible or deadly to the earthlings. The explanation implies that the Visitors may not have paid any attention to or even noticed Earth’s inhabitants during their visit, just as many humans do not notice or pay attention to insects and wildlife during a picnic. The artifacts and phenomena that are left behind by the Visitors in the Zones were garbage, which are discarded and forgotten without any intentions to advance or damage humanity. There is little chance that the Visitors will return again because for them it was a brief stop, for reasons unknown, on the way to their actual destination.
Because I want to interact with them, but don’t want to be on Instagram.
It’s hard to get other people off the bad parts of the Internet.
It’s very hard to get businesses to stop exclusively posting stuff on Instagram.
This is saying if you have a module with public functions A and B, they shouldn’t call each other, right? But it’s not saying that module A shouldn’t call module B’s public functions. That’s what I thought it meant at first, but that seems crazy.