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Comment Smart tools that need to be outsmarted (Score 1) 46

This mentality of "the user is dumb, so the app has to make up for it" is a rather unfortunate degradation of functionality. And it's not just the "ai photoshop".

Mundane things like sharelatex have this dumbass autocomplete feature on by default that automatically close an open bracket, brace or parentheses for you. So if you try to put one in because you need to fix an overzealous backspace, it puts in its pair right after. And if you're not paying attention your document still won't compile.

Comment How to teach math in the age of calculators? (Score 1) 158

Same way as before, but rebalance to emphasize cognition over process. But you still need the process. Simply won't do, even today, to claim you're some kind of math-adjacent specialist (accountant, engineer, grocery store clerk, guy who watches the self-checkouts) if you can't add numbers in your head.

Comment "Hot dog" (Score 1) 182

And just what's on and around this hot dog that's going to up your risk of diabetes?

A white bread bun? Copious amounts of condiments that are mostly corn syrup and food coloring?

Wouldn't surprise me at all if the actual hot dog is in the noise around all the bullshit that people invariably eat *with* the hot dog. Especially people who drink soda with the hot dog.

Comment Re: I did six shots of Moderna vaccine. (Score 1) 215

I also got several shots. And several rounds of covid. Neither killed me as far as I can tell. I also have it on good authority that the vaccine did not zombify me into demanding *everyone* else get one, nor did the covid zombify me into demanding everyone else catch it in lieu of vaccination.

The making my toddler wear masks in between bouts of slobbering over the other toddlers in daycare did get under my skin, as few things do. Because it was punishing small children for absolutely symbolic purposes with demonstrably zero practical benefit.

And if you were face to face with me having this discussion, the vaccine mandates I'd be civil about. But if you try to defend the mask mandates for small children...roughly even odds I won't be.

Comment Blue collar vs white collar (Score 2) 34

Blue collar work you get paid to show up.

White collar work you get paid to produce a result.

If you produce said result with your ass parked in an office chair on Wednesday afternoon or thinking about it while cutting the grass on Saturday morning, it still counts.

The con here is asserting that this will work for blue collar work, which by definition is commodotized labor whose value is defined by process rather than by outcome.

Comment Re:Trump (Score 2) 156

No, this is a much more pedestrian situation.

Trump, being the pettiest shitgibbon alive, likes to get even with people who have refused to provide him with favors.

Since Ukraine refused to provide him with fake dirt on Biden in 2019, he's been waiting for a chance to "get even" with them.

Now he's got a chance, and he's more than happy to leave them to the boss of his KGB handlers.

Oh for fucks sake. Trump ran on pulling back from Ukraine involvement. It was loudly and clearly part of his campaign. Average people want less involvement with foreign conflicts, not more:

According to Morning Consult’s U.S. Foreign Policy Tracker Index from January of 2023, nearly 40% of voters favor isolationism, while 30% want stability, and 17% want engagement. Among Democrats, 33% favor isolationism, 33% want stability, and 20% want engagement. Among Republicans, 45% favor isolationism, 28% want stability, and 15% want engagement. While these findings do indicate a divide between the parties on the issue, in both cases isolationism was the top answer or tied for the top answer. Neither side wants to be the world’s police.

Comment This is a middle manager culling (Score 3, Insightful) 60

As was the case with the May layoffs, Microsoft is looking to reduce the number of layers of managers that stand between individual contributors and top executives, the person said.

MS is in no way hurting. They made a profit of $26 Billion in March, far ahead of Wall Street projections.

As other companies are also specifically targeting that mid-management layer, this is a possible sign that the Cult of the MBA may be waning.

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