hell, even when a human enters the data, from the business, into 'google', that data can be wrong...as I discovered just 3 days ago when a restaurant with "recently updated hours" said they should be open until 10pm...and were closed when I arrived at 8:45.

so yeah, if i'm investing in a trip to another freakin' country, damn right i'm gonna have every scheduled event or location double-checked by contacting a human at in the know some point in the process.

As a dev in a relatively large team (divided into sub-teams), the faster we make coding tools (even if it is just internal libraries to turn 20 lines of boilerplate into 1 line of code, to turn large if-else chains into declarative look-up systems), the faster the code comes out... ...and the more QA needs to happen to verify every thing is working to whatever our level of mission-critical is.

The code is not always the bottleneck (until you get to a big new feature or a big necessary rewrite). The process of QA and regression testing is, as well as the need to spread features out to avoid overwhelming the current user-base that are just trying to get their job done and hate it when something appears that breaks muscle memory. "Damn Engineers, always love to change things." - Dr. McCoy.

Of course, this presumes your management cares about such things. Maybe for internal projects they won't and that could be an outlet for vibe and 'speed to delivery' ahead of anything else. But customer-facing code has customer-facing concerns that slow things down a lot more than just how fast your devs can churn code or churn themselves.

"USENET died when ISPs noticed few users actually used it" - it also died a bit when deja-news was bought by google, turning it into google groups. ISPs were now thinking (incorrectly, of course) that they were paying for some Google branded service...that was coincidentally getting less use directly because Google was offering a web page interface to the same data.

So it was a gradual fade-out at the ISPs initially as people started trying web-bb's (never totally caught on, and survivers like SJGames' illuminati board have really low participation for the readership, really). The fadeout accelerated when Google replaced the usage of the service AND the impression it was an open, distributed system into Google one that Google alone should be paying for.

Actually he won't, because they already are using this as messaging that the Biden administration (and the already fired BLS exec) were lying about job numbers the whole time in order to make Biden look good going into the election.

Now this is where we can't trust the revisal - is it to justify the dismissal, or is it real, or is it both?

Nothing is trustworthy anymore, to the extent it ever was in the first place.

Boosting the anonymous post that was also a reply to this. Fair Use is defined as a matter of our right to reference a section of a work for commentary purposes. In general the excerpt length is 20 seconds, but there can be exceptions for longer. While the interviews tend to go longer, his "top 10s" are all less than 20 seconds in excerpts and even they still get DMCA claims. Those are the ones he wins the most, but it is getting ridiculously costly to have to keep fighting them.

I'm near DC. My core team partner is in California. My boss and my primary PM are in Ontario. Most of my team is split between two cities in India. Another team I work with has members in India, Ontario, and London. Yet another team has members split between Ontario and Georgia (the state).

Nobody I directly work with in any capacity is in my office building.

So...what's the point?

yeah, this.

Remember that photo from the G20 conference. Everybody was standing, 'networking', talking to each other in small groups set to do negotiations with other groups, as these things should be.

And Trump just sat there, alone, at the conference table, nobody in any interest to talking to him, and him having nothing to offer anybody else.

The entire tariff attack is in order to make sure people HAVE to talk to him, corporate or governments, he's flaunting this power just to get people to talk to him at all.

FreeRSS (php based) is starting to get my attention currently.

Been on Feedly since Google killed Reader as well. I do own a domain for an intended app (would have been php/mysql) called "feedmixer", but Feedly came along and addressed all my needs before I could get around to actually building it. So hey, my first true vaporware project.

Which is still often set as a 'kids' setting (no comments, no playlists). So will it decide that I'm 10 years old, or will it realize I'm in my 50s and just waxing nostalgic at a show's better days...

I mean, yeah, no burnout is good. Employee health is good.

but at the same time, 'productivity' does still matter. are they getting the same amount of work done in 32 hours that they used to get done in 40? If not, then this is a bad comparison because yeah, everybody does better if nobody works as much...except the company.

somewhere there's a balance. labor found it at 40 hours and 5 days (2 days off) decades ago. if that's not the right value, fine...but just giving employees the time off without giving the corporations something of at least equal value (they aren't going to value the cost of rehiring others after burnout kicks in, and anybody who denies that is an idiot). If the balance needs to shift, both sides need to see the advantage of the shift, or it will never happen on scale.

I love that the advertisement I'm seeing on this page right now is for a browser extension (from Microsoft)

I guess the fact that this can win a prize just tells me it was good that I never bothered to enter any 'hacking' contests in my entire 35 (+ education) year career.

I'm having flashbacks to that sequence in Real Genius (the 1980s movie with Val Kilmer) where over time, tape recorders have replaced not only all the students in a lecture hall (except for Mitch), but also the professor.

FB is bad enough for those who dislike the current US government to be constantly seeing things shared.

BlueSky is that times a thousand. While there are other topics discussed, the political posts overwhelm the feeds, and 'bleed' into the other topics you might have tried to make special feeds for. Disney, National Parks, Muppets, Science, Star Trek - everything has a political angle that somebody is going to bring up.

So I quit (or rather, stopped visiting). I can't live with outrage-generation 24-7, but BlueSky has turned into that (and Threads is pretty full, too).