I’ve been saying for years the corporate world was getting ready to pull the rug from tech workers. Why do people think educational standards (and as it goes, engineering standards) for software development have been pushed down so much over the last decade? “What if you get hit by a bus??” A well strangely well backed movement to “stop gatekeeping” software development now revealed as a trojan horse to make developers fungible.

Well it might take 2TB of RAM for this buggy prod system to store and retrieve a JSON blob but at least anyone can work on it.

Double standard, doublespeak and hypocrisy all seem applicable. So maybe like chauvinistic double standard or exceptionalist hypocrisy or some combination thereof. It does feel like there’s a lack of terminology with broad appeal in this respect.

Maybe like “state(/applicable noun) sugar coating” gets the message across in a way that even those with the reading age of a 9 year old might get the gist of.

I thought duckduckgo used bing’s API?

Enschuldigung aber mein Deutsche ist schelcht. Lemmy im inglisch bitte?

The best way for him to get left alone would be for him or someone responsible to take down his public image as much as possible. This would be a win/win in the sense that he gets more normalcy and we don’t have to endure someone with a massive platform spreading hardcore nazi stuff.

That said until he is taken out of the public spotlight, it is incumbent on everyone to make it clear that these views are rejected in the strongest possible terms.

Billionaires are all bad. That said if some of them want to squabble over who is the least bad billionaire, and that causes a rift between them, so much the better.

Organised gamers are generally speaking a right-wing movement. See: how gamergate turned out. Those guys are all MAGA now.

This is why I “play video games” but would not call myself a “gamer”.

Timeraptors went extinct but you can still run into them today.

I think there’s an element of western Marxists realising that the population they’re in is so effectively propagandised against (see: cold war, red scare, etc.) that drawing some kind of delineation is seen as necessary to progress any kind of argument. It’s a consequence of the victors writing the history books over here.

Any highlighting of western atrocities is always handwaved away as “whataboutism”. The west more or less invented a logical fallacy purely to prevent fair comparison in this specific context, and it is seen as generally applicable despite the fact that in any other context such comparisons would be seen as valid. Western influencers generally seem to hold to a view that moral history started in 1917 (except, of course, when it comes to Palestine) and I think this is broadly seen as a way to try to “work around” it.

I spent some time in a mountain cave replica in a Nepalese themed restaurant, diligently honing my programming skills without the noise of the outside world. No internet, no mains, no toilet. Just me, my laptop, an angry manager who called the police and 60 charged replacement batteries that fell off a truck.

There I created the art of meditative programming where I learned to program not just my machine, but myself. As a result of this resume gap I am now able to function as a 13.6% more productive employee and have finally met the benchmark of 1.0x engineer. At my former employer I delivered a project which brought them in revenue totaling at least $12, giving me priceless experience because of this training.

There’s all sorts of other crazy options to consider like simply “stretching” this term out for a while. Any emergency will do.

Yeah there’s not really any plausible deniability there at all.

Two nazi salutes, one after the other

Yeah I think it’s less to do with intrinsic talent than motivation and sense of reward from engaging with technical problems.

One day there will be a computer with enough ram to run java hello world

Never poo on your lunch break, save it until you’re on the clock

They fixed the visible property damage and that’s apparently what counts

Not really. You’re strongly funnelled down the bluesky owned instance, most uses of ATProto are more or less mere plugins for that main instance. Can I migrate my account to another instance? Unclear.

The VC funding also adds another layer that implies they’re going to trap people into their monetisable market share sooner or later. This seems incompatible with fediverse principles.

So while they present themselves as a more technically refined iteration of the fediverse, the whole thing is a big trap. Enjoy it while it lasts would be my advice, but if you’ve got the sway then try to get those close to you to migrate to mastodon before it goes wrong.

The unfortunate reality is that most jobs linked to humanities are considered “passion jobs” for which there are more applicants than openings by a wide margin. If you don’t have connections that gives you an edge, you’re likely being crowded out by those who do.

This is probably not helped at all by AI/LLM buzz meaning firms are increasingly seeking to automate roles associated with language processing of whatever kind.

So suggestions might be: Widen your net: consider roles like administration, HR, paralegal etc. which generally go to educated people but don’t have specific academic subject requirements.

Retrain in something in demand like a trade, healthcare assistant or similar.

Attempt to leverage your language skills to present yourself as a “prompt engineer”, lean into the AI hype to land a job.

To a large extent people are just the products of their surroundings. Doing the default thing is an energy saving technique, as well as something which people do to prevent being ostracised by their peers. If you’re able to break that in some small way, you’re still doing better than most.

If you want to do more, I guess you have to interrogate why you’re not doing more. Is it fear of rejection? Fear of failure? Lack of time, energy or resources? Dependency on e.g. cars? Lack of confidence in your actions?