At work, the team isn’t very good at python. They’re mostly SQL people. Which is fine. I’m happy to mentor and guide.

The product lady said to me “can you write a guide on confluence about how to do python good?”

I’m like, people write whole published books about that you gotta pay money for. I’m not going to bang out a couple paragraphs and code blocks and suddenly people are heavy weights.

I wrote something anyway because I don’t want to further irritate the product lady.

It’s because leadership is a heady cocktail of stupid and selfish.

I really want to stress stupid. That means they draw bad conclusions from facts.

Sometimes selfish is a factor. They have an obscure reason like “my share value goes up because we get a kickback from the city for staffing an office here”. They don’t care if it’s bad for everyone else or the company long term. They’ll get their money and then leave.

Pop!_os has been fine for me. I’m not a tinkerer. It’s a machine for a web browser and video games.

One of my old jobs, one of the leads declared that if you suggested “why don’t you just” then you were immediately responsible for the task.

“Why don’t you just rewrite it in Java?”

“Let us know how that goes”

…Silence…

Recall is one of the reasons I switched to Linux. It’s been fine. (Pop!_os). Plays all the video games I care to, runs a web browser.

Seems like reducing their wealth is a win for everyone. Even the billionaires, because they’re less likely to suffer the consequences of instability, and won’t even notice the money taxed.

Microsoft is probably salivating at the idea of being the only legal OS provider.

If you sell your game through Steam, you cannot have it cheaper anywhere else. Even DRM free version on your website. Even temporary sales.

I don’t see anything about this in their docs. The closest is “You should use Steam Keys to sell your game on other stores in a similar way to how you sell your game on Steam. It is important that you don’t give Steam customers a worse deal than Steam Key purchasers.”

That seems reasonable. If you’re selling DRM-free, you don’t generate steam keys, and valve has no stake in it.

I recently knew two people who came to the US recently.

One was from India, and he came for the money. He has a low six figure job as a “product manager” and the CEO’s toady. He’s quite ignorant of US politics and history, so he’s not really concerned.

The other came from canada, but also has EU residency (or citizenship? unclear). He said he makes more money here. He’s making mid six figures as a software engineer at a startup, with poor work/life balance. He can always leave, since his parents own a house in germany.

Neither were coming here like an old timey tale of immigrants trying to find a better life.

This is stupid to do this at the OS level. Where are the small government conservatives demanding the private market meet this need? (They are liars, fools, and scumbags who don’t sincerely believe what they say)

I sincerely believe that being rich is bad some kinds of intelligence You don’t have to deal with problems. You just brute force your way through with money. You don’t have to practice restraint and delayed gratification. You can just buy the thing now.

I’ve never heard of this person before but he sounds like a trash bag.

The people who really want racist/sexist/etc comics are free to make their own instance or community. This is the fediverse. There’s no government with guns or CEO to lock it down.

If that stuff makes for a better community, it will do just fine. I expect it won’t.

One of the things right-wingers push for is the idea that they’re normal and healthy, and everyone else is deficient. Like everything else from the right, it’s projection.

I feel like removal from office is not enough. He’d just go be a talking head and live a life of luxury. He needs criminal charges and punishment.

I wonder what the “I’ll never vote for a socialist!!” types are doing now to resolve their cognitive dissonance.

Politico’s survey noted a clear split along partisan lines, with six in 10 Republicans favoring administering fewer vaccines, compared with just three in 10 Democrats.

In case we needed more evidence that Republicans are stupider.

Here’s a take: the big platforms like Google and Facebook have blood on their hands for allowing anti-vax stuff to proliferate on their private platforms. They should pay for the damages.

It takes like 30 minutes and $0 to get the flu shot. That’s pretty low cost, and cheaper than delving into conspiracy slop holes trying to figure out if it’s “worth it”

I had a really good DND group during the pandemic. Probably the best game I ever ran. But it was online, and when the pandemic called down they all just drifted away. Very sad about it, honestly.

“wearing all black doesn’t make you cool, but it probably doesn’t hurt and I think you’re kind of cool anyway” - no men:
https://no-men.bandcamp.com/track/w-a-b-d-m-y-c