stjobe

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[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

What a funny way to spell "shine on you crazy diamond" ๐Ÿ˜‰

[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

That's the way. I've been programming for nigh on four decades, and it's almost a daily occurrence with junior devs going to stack overflow or chatGPT to solve an issue instead of just searching the code where nine times out of ten the problem (or a very similar one) is already solved.

[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Atheism is a religion in the same way that not collecting stamps is a hobby"

[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

Laying off a lot of people does wonders for the end of year report...

[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I started a new job some months back, and my boss straight up told us in a team meeting "we're not paying you to give 100% all the time, that's not possible. We're paying you for your average effort. Everyone has good days and bad, so don't worry about it. Just do the job as good as you can on any given day and if we were right in hiring you, that will be enough." Kind of blew my mind and confirmed I'd done the right thing signing with that company.

[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Plenty of philosophers over the centuries have thought long and hard about the free will problem, and not all of them have come out on the side of it existing. David Hume, for instance, had to resort to religion to solve his issues with it (God made us have free will), and several contemporary philosophers have come down firmly on the "deterministic but complex enough to look non-deterministic" side of the fence. in essence, that free will is an illusion, but a good enough one that we still feel like we have it.

[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (11 children)

They tried it in France after the revolution IIRC. Didn't work all that well :)

[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded

Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed

Everybody knows the war is over

Everybody knows the good guys lost

Everybody knows the fight was fixed

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich

That's how it goes

Everybody knows

  • Everybody Knows, Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man, 1988
[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

That was an interesting read, thank you!

[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Heh, haven't seen the bash forkbomb in close to two decades... Thanks for the trip down memory lane! :)

[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

An also a lot of middle-class western people. 1% of the world's population is about 80 million people.

You'd have to go down to 0.001% to only target the ultra-wealthy.

[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Inflation doesn't come from demand, it comes from someone raising the price of something - a raw material or a finished product. The combined effect of all those pricing hikes is what we call "inflation", and they are almost always done in the name of increasing profit, not to meet demand (whether elastic or not). A system that demands infinite growth cannot work in a finite world, that's the problem at the root of capitalism.

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