BaldProphet

BaldProphet , 5 months ago to Work Reform in A billionaire wrote this letter to Google a year ago. How likely is that Google's layoffs and actions since then are at least partly because of this?

$150 an hour isn't as much as you think. When I did tech consulting I charged $100 an hour and felt like I was exploiting myself.

BaldProphet OP , 5 months ago to Politics in Is Iowa the next step to civil war?

That's fair. Comparing the United States to third-world countries to invalidate the argument that we have experienced a series of crises is fallacious, however ("fallacy of relative privation", a form of red herring fallacy).

BaldProphet OP , 5 months ago to Politics in Is Iowa the next step to civil war?

I mean, we had 9/11, the War on Terror, the 2008 financial crisis, the entire Trump presidency, various natural disasters, COVID-19, an incessant housing crisis, and the economic problems that followed the pandemic (such as inflation). I don't think it's hyperbole to say that the United States has been battered by a full barrage of crises and disasters since the start of the century, with the exception of a few years of relative stability in between. The kind of privilege it would require to have been able to live through the past twenty years without feeling battered is hard for me to fathom.

BaldProphet OP , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to Politics in Is Iowa the next step to civil war?

I think it's less of a government thing and more of a personal thing. People who live in cities need to dig deep and try to understand why their countrymen in the rural areas believe the way they do, and vice versa. For example, the gun control debate: Someone living in a rural area who is thirty minutes or more from a police response sees advocacy for gun control as a direct threat on their ability to protect themselves, their family, and their property. On the other hand, a city dweller sees advocacy for gun rights as a threat to their safety, because in their experience only those wishing to do them harm, and the police, have access to firearms. (Full disclosure: I have an opinion on this topic but I'm merely using it to illustrate my point here)

If people can somehow learn to respect and understand each other, more compromise may be had and we might be able to turn around this slow-motion trainwreck. Nobody seems interested in compromise anymore; the only acceptable politics is some form of tyranny, whether its the tyranny of dense urban center over rural farmland (California being a fantastic example of this, but it is far from the only state) or the tyranny of one party over the other. Compromise is the name of the game, and without it, democracy fails.

EDIT: Lol, the comments are proving my point much better than my examples did!

BaldProphet , 5 months ago to Work Reform in Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to ‘blame employees as a scapegoat for bad firm performance,’ new research finds

"New research finds what we knew all along"

BaldProphet , 5 months ago to Work Reform in The data is in: Return to Office policies don't improve employee performance or company value, but controlling bosses don't care

It's ironic because only the largest of companies actually own the land their offices are on. Most companies are seeing higher costs as a result of holding onto offices that they don't actually need.

RTO is in effect making employees significantly less productive because their productivity is countered by the added expense of leasing and maintaining offices.

BaldProphet , 5 months ago to Work Reform in The data is in: Return to Office policies don't improve employee performance or company value, but controlling bosses don't care

It's annoying that I've seen essentially the opposite headline from Business Insider as well in the past few days. I feel like they're not much of a "news" source with this kind of clickbait content.

BaldProphet , 5 months ago to Work Reform in 'We have no rights.' Frustrated with California wage laws, Moonstone Bistro in Redding cuts lunch service

I'm definitely not upper-middle-class, but I have attempted to run a one-man business before. I used semantics to dodge certain state licensing requirements (I was a "consultant" instead of a "technician") which would have cost me more than 50% of my annual profit. The state definitely adds a lot of nonsense costs to running a business that do little more than protect existing businesses from new competition and discourage lower-income people from attempting to start businesses of their own.

BaldProphet , 6 months ago to aww in Zero isn't sad, he just has that kind of face. :(

Reminds me of Bait.

BaldProphet , 6 months ago to sysadmin in Broadcom is killing off VMware perpetual licences

My organization is already halfway through switching over from VMware to Hyper-V for its virtual machines.

BaldProphet , 7 months ago to Fediverse in Mbin: A kbin fork that promises to never review PRs before merging them

Ernest said he didn't introduce bad code on purpose:

I assure you that I didn't intentionally push incorrect code into the repository. These were my first lines of code in a really long time. I simply got involved in other things that I wanted to finish first, and I noticed the edge case in the meantime, but it wasn't a priority.

BaldProphet , 7 months ago to Fediverse in Mbin: A kbin fork that promises to never review PRs before merging them

@ernest @melroy

lol this whole conversation is a microcosm of the open source community. I agree with ernest that forks are great and would add that they show that the open source system is working as intended.

BaldProphet , 9 months ago to Politics in [News Analysis] GOP waging a "coordinated national effort to undermine American elections," says leading official

Sounds like the GOP is playing right into Putin and Xi's hands.

BaldProphet , 10 months ago to /kbin in Why are my notifications always empty?

Notifications are completely broken for me. I get a "50x" error whenever I try to view them. This has been going on for nearly a month, now.

BaldProphet , 11 months ago to selfhosted in Share your network naming conventions!

I don't have DNS set up but I use the names of the gods and ascendants of the Malazan universe.