Lord Vetinari irl

Yeah which is why I pretty much ignore stars unless someone has a rubric in their profile, or an actual review attached.

Solely numeric reviews are basically no better than up and down votes. Good for automation or algorithms, but largely useless to humans.

dhooo

Really wouldn’t have thought this was an AI image, but thanks for mentioning it. I hate when I’m like “fooled” into thinking an image was fully human authored.

Right if it’s for corp always 5/5 but if it’s on like bookworm or my blog, I feel like I can be honest, because no one is getting dinged based on my stars.

I prefer

• bad
• issues
• good
• great
• exceptional

But who would even have motive to do it… so mysterious

I get so fucking sick of bike lanes being an afterthought. Like signs just plopped down right in the lane like it’s free real estate.

Robert Martin is screaming somewhere. Say what you will about him being out of touch, he did have some good points on writing readable code.

Like null should never be a special value.

And obviously the horrible naming.

Hmmm I need a datatype with three states… Should I use a named enum? No, no that’s too obvious…

The variable name is 90% why this is so unreasonable. Code is for humans to read, so names matter.

What happens when you dehumanize people. If you fail to recognize the dignity inherent in all people you can excuse grievous shit like this.

Raven Seldon vibes

I mean I’m not sure Bernie is that woke, much as I love him, but that’s pretty much the view from over here.

From my point of view something that brings out the worst in us sounds like a really big part of the issue.

We’ve always been modified by our situations, so why not create better situations rather than lamenting that we don’t have the grit to break through whatever toxic society we find ourselves graphed onto?

Sorry I know I’m putting a lot on your comment that I know you didn’t mean, but I see this kind of unintentional crypto doomerism a lot. I think it holds people to an unhealthy standard.

Yeah decentralization and open source software and protocols being big ones. It means that if the “main” culture turns reactionary, that we’re not trapped in the same spaces as the shithead just because we share a platform.

There could absolutely be two main fediverses, with no changes to the technology.

Thanks for taking the time to explain all that.

I’m really sorry you have to deal with that.

I’m bad at personal admin, so I would be so lost if I had to manage my own healthcare logistics. It really is a crime what rich people put you through over there.

I just set up a bare repo on a server.

Thank fuck git itself is FOSS. I would be pretty lost without it.

Hell that’s what poverty is. Punishment for going off the script that dictates you slot yourself into a system where all your excess value goes to the owners

Yes the more agency you remove from workers including now so-called “knowledge workers” the more you reduce us to merely conscious linkages in an automated system that can act on and through us.

As the power to bias the models to match the aims of the owners improves, the more that showing any off-script anti automation tendencies will be punished.

Cognitive worker to cog in the machine, to put it pithy.