winky88

joined 1 year ago
[–] winky88@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My last raise was 10k. But that was after 7+ years of no raises (agency work, slow times). When COVID hit, our business picked up for 2 years straight and I finally convinced them it was stable enough to commit. We're a small company and they'd rather give out bonuses or assistance with personal expenses than commit to an annual salary increase (which I get), but COL has spiked in recent times, so the raise was well past due.

[–] winky88@startrek.website -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a Windows user that dabbles in Mac but is definitely not an expert, I get seriously frustrated when I try to share my screen in ??? meeting product only to have to adjust permissions and be told I probably need to restart the app (in the middle of a meeting). I've found other minor nags with MacOS along the same lines. They are trivial at best, but can be seriously interrupting. I agree with the high security defaults, but the UX could be improved.

[–] winky88@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Responding to you because you're the most verbal here so far. I recently upgraded from an m1 pro 14" to an m2 max 16". Leagues above anything else on the market, IMO. But people still seem to be sticking to the M1 praise. Is it just market lag, or is there something about the M1 specifically?

[–] winky88@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rules are good and all but suppressing any and all dissenting voices on the basis of dissent alone is just creating echo chambers which leads to people who can't or won't think critically.

[–] winky88@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Not to mention refactoring support...

[–] winky88@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

There seems to be a trend of new (old) developers who find that strong typing is nothing more than a nuisance.

History repeating itself in the IT world. I don't wanna be around to support the systems that inherit these guys.

[–] winky88@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the horrible storage performance

Que?

[–] winky88@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Rather than be used for war, they’ll be used for threats of violence and propaganda

Surveillance is the word you're looking for. Take all those NSA pipelines and run them through an AI and BAM, you've got your "terrorists".

[–] winky88@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

AKA former user

[–] winky88@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They don't make docs like they used to. For what it's worth, those "...for Dummies" books were never going to make anyone an expert on anything, but every one of them I've ever read was the most densely packed set of comprehensible information on the subject available at the time.

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