leftist politics and open source technology are lemmy’s strengths; if you don’t like either, then you’re going to miss out on the best that lemmy has to offer.

that explains why i’m not losing any weight. i knew that peanut butter was high in calories, but didn’t know jelly was just as bad.

Its equal parts weight of the fruit and the sugar, generally.

wait?! really?!!!

reddit has better bread and circuses

star trek is Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism; so there’s a lot of overlap. lol

If you do something like software engineering and you have a significant body of existing good work for it to pull from. Claude can be pretty exceptional.

the fresh grad new hires at my last place were able to code circles around me because of their embrace of ai and it made me think that i was already a dinosaur and became the biggest reason why i went back into IT.

It’s not great at breaking new ground though.

but watching the soon-to-be grads w a similar embrace fall flat on their faces repeatedly because the codebase at my new place hasn’t been updated in almost 15 years and was created by their fellow students, has made me realize that this is also true.

still though, if you know what you’re doing; ai is a pretty decent idea/concept generator and sounding board if all but one of your colleagues are students, so you don’t have anyone else to ask like it is in my present situation.

We don’t have 1000 posts of slop, we have 100 posts of open source trans autism. Once you train your taste buds to be accustomed to nutritious content again, you won’t be able to stomach the slop anymore.

rotflmao

also: very true, i’m ashamed at the amount of slop i used to ingest.

That explains recent Kerala election.

They outsourced it to private industry; like all neoliberals do. Lol

Well Kerala cycles every 5 years. They’ll win the next election, once the regret of electing this government would set in.

that’s what americans said about trump and here we are halfway through his second term.

… As for new /active posts it already does this.

yeah, this is different that posts; it’s the comments and that setting on lemmy doesn’t seem to reflect what’s actually active.

i plan to change that once i feel like i’ve taught myself enough rust to lend a hand in lemmy’s development.

i browse lemmy by sorting for new comments to see what posts are currently active; it’s effectively an rss feed, but it has many limitations like it’s narrow time limit.

thanks, but don’t be sorry; it was part of the kick in the ass that i needed to start waking me up from my liberal way of thinking.

the sooner the better; i suspect that i’ve lost most, if not all of the developer jobs i’ve ever had because of this mindset.

lemmy needs a rss-like feed for it’s new comments; i wonder if this can be leveraged somehow to do it.

you should care because you have more in common with the working people of india than you do w the people in those movies and not caring gives more power to the people producing those bread and circuses.

i know that no one can directly change how people think when it comes to trying to impress the boss. but i figured that if anyone could change that mindset, it would be the chinese.

that said, i had never thought of this as a material phenomenon before, and now that explanation makes sense to me. after all, the whole logic behind this kind of self-exploiting peer pressure clearly benefits only the bosses.

996 is illegal and largely found in big tech companies in Beijing and Shanghai. The average work week in China is 46 hours.

that fact that china is unable to stamp out this cultural phenomenon of overworking yourself for some theoretical benefit makes me wonder if it’ll ever go away.

this is just an excuse; republicans have no such issues when they have a narrow majority themselves.

outside of this construct from the person you’re responding to; programmers are the probably the most modern adaptation of labor aristocracy.

this means that, yes, they’re working class and are just and interdependent like everyone else is in the working class; but they don’t align themselves with the working class and instead chose to align themselves with the ruling class.

i think that’s why the person you’re responding to classifies them a “first estate” because the french revolution had these estates and this person is trying to draw a parallel to that revolution.