at work they asked me how long it would take to do a project and I gave a presentation with a 9 week roadmap, with a deliverable for every week to emphasize that the estimated time was not padded. they say without a moment to even ponder it you have six like they think theyre captain kirk and not captain chucklefuck. ofc i will not be crunching instead i will be pulling "oopsiedoodle i need more time!" which for some reason is always more palatable than giving enough time to begin with
i asked to get ten hours of a junior engineer's time per week to help me and they said you get eight. even though a contract was recently dropped and there's a surplus of junior engineers at the moment. just for that im gonna make my minion give me 15
obviously i would not be asking my minion to work overtime i just know a lot of juniors are currently on "professional development" aka "study some shit and hope we dont lay you off" so they for sure will be able to give me three hours a day without having to stay any longer
The rationale for 8 hours per week was "well a junior could work under you one day out of four per week" (and I have six weeks to do this, so that's six days) okay so y'all would be okay if I pulled two sixteen hour days per week and then fucked off every Thursday and Friday, right? You're not??? Whattt??? But why??????
evidently MBA programs teach that if you refuse to give project leads enough time or people and the project somehow doesn't crash and burn that makes you a very smart and special boy
I asked for a specific junior A because the project involves functional programming to parallelize tasks on the GPU and that junior, as soon as A learned I had experience in such, came to me in breathless excitement asking for mentorship. I will be given junior B instead because "junior B likes shaders" yeah me too but HLSL and jax are not exactly... you know what never mind. A and B are both on professional development, I'll just use them both
ha ha my devilish plan to...do the thing they want
Junior A comes from an enterprise background and has experience in entity framework programming (a plus not just for knowing data structures but also because in past situations I have found it's very hard to get juniors who know only OOP to stop thinking in OOP patterns). Junior B is a technical artist and has experience in shadergraph. Can't wait for onboarding. Stoked to work with you again, Junior B, welcome to hell
“The [..] HRF has filed a criminal complaint with the Greek Supreme Court vs Major Yair #Ohana, an Israeli #Givati #Brigade officer whom #HRF accuses of being directly involved in #Israel’s #genocide in #Gaza”
The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) has filed a criminal complaint with the Greek Supreme Court against Major Yair Ohana, an Israeli Givati Brigade officer whom HRF accuses of being directly involved i…
« Depuis le dimanche 31 août, plusieurs dizaines de bateaux sont partis des ports de Marseille, Barcelone, Gênes et enfin Tunis dans le cadre de la Global Sumud Flotilla. Cet élan massif vise à briser le blocus autour de l’enclave palestinienne qui subit famine et génocide. Il suscite un soutien international croissant. »
Depuis le dimanche 31 août, plusieurs dizaines de bateaux sont partis des ports de Marseille, Barcelone, Gênes et enfin Tunis dans le cadre de la Global (…)
Un microchip di 5,6 millimetri impiantato nell'occhio sta per rendere obsoleti i trapianti di cornea. La tecnologia bypassa completamente il tessuto danneggiato, proiettando immagini direttamente sulla retina attraverso occhiali smart. Dodici milioni di persone potrebbero dire addio alle liste d'attesa per i donatori. I test umani iniziano tra due anni.
All’inizio dell’estate, l’accesso a climate.gov, uno dei portali di informazioni sul clima più utilizzati su Internet, è stato ostacolato dall’amministrazione Trump e, di co…
For every "warning" or foregone conclusion all the media and all the NGOs insist upon for Palestinians in Gaza City, we must take concrete action. Give for their tomorrow, act for their lives.
1 link, 6 families + a camp of fifteen more, food, shelter, more. 3518/4100 by Saturday. We CANNOT fail to meet this emergency goal. chuffed.org/project/hope-givin…
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter.
Jordi Savall Festival. David Sagastume, countertenor and conductor, Martí Doñate, tenor, Pieter Stas, bass, Oriol Mallart, baritone, and Daniel Oyarzabal, organ perform:
Juan DE ANCHIETA: Magnificat III ton/ Ave Sanctissima Maria/ O bon...
Ganz böse Idee: Jeder, der in dem Alter noch einen Autoführerschein hat, ist auch dienstfähig, denn er bringt ja die nötige körperliche und geistige Fitness mit. 😉
Also verstehe ich es richtig, ab 65 soll die Fahrtauglichkeit regelmäßig überprüft werden, arbeiten bis 70 (weil die Rente mit 63 ja zuviel kostet und abgeschafft wird) und nach dem Renteneintritt beginnt das soziale Jahr, das natürlich für Umsonst gemacht wird oder (irgendwie schon machbar) wenn bezahlt dann doch versteuert werden muss.
Silksong si trovava craccato già dopo tre ore dal lancio e solo su Steam hanno contato MEZZO MILIONE DI ACQUISTI nella prima giornata. Forse forse forse perché se una casa di sviluppo si fa (a ragione) una buona reputazione e mette i propri giochi a prezzi popolari la gente (guarda un po') i giochi se li compra invece di scaricarli craccati?
Io da consumatrice (e perché no, da fan) apprezzo che una casa con una reputazione ottima come Team Cherry, pur sapendo di poter mettere un gioco a 40/50 euro perché la sua fettona di fan affezionati li ha, mette un gioco a un prezzo abbordabile per tutti.
Stesso discorso con TobyFox e Deltarune, che per la qualità che ha è praticamente regalato.
Piuttosto, tutta 'sta roba dovrebbe a mio parere farci riflettere sulle case di sviluppo/distribuzione, magari con molti più mezzi rispetto a un team "indie", che, al contrario, campano di rendita da anni e spremono i consumatori come limoni facendogli pagare 50/70 euro dei giochi mediocri per non dire pessimi.
Stessa roba con Baldur's Gate 3 : ha fatto il botto non perché era un titolo ultra famoso, anche se lo era, non perché lo studio fosse arcinoto (ora lo è) ma perché era BELLO. Fatto con cura da gente che si divertiva e voleva fare divertire gli altri. In questo caso il confronto è da fare con Dragon Age Veilguard e con gli executive di EA che non capiscono un cazzo. I giocatori vogliono giochi belli e sono disposti a pagarli il giusto. Che sorpresa, eh?
le grandi aziende sono dei baracconi enormi che devono mantenere attive una quantità di cose inutile (tra cui i padroni, soprattutto quelli). Studi piccoli non hanno l'extra, sono più sobri e concreti e come tale hanno anche spese minori. Certo, magari poi ci mettono 7 anni a rilasciare un seguito perché sono in pochi, però sempre meglio non avere l'overhead del baraccone da mantenere.
ProWritingAid vs QuillBot: Which Is the Better Grammar Checker in 2025?
Today, we’ll guide you through another combat in the AI writing game: ProWritingAid vs. QuillBot. While each tool has its own core functionality, they share a common feature that we’ll explore a little further: grammar-checking. That said, we still t...
Oli vähän aikaa, niin tein laskelmat Suomen julkisyhteisöjen bruttovelan kehittymisestä tähän mennessä ja tästä eteenpäin eri politiikoilla. Näyttää siltä, että vasemmistolainen politiikka olisi selkeästi parempaa Suomen julkiselle taloudelle kuin oikeistolainen. #talous #politiikka #media
if you follow me and feel positively towards AI i should warn you that you will not find my opinions on AI palatable and you will not change my mind about them
I disagree, because when you say "feel positively towards AI", you are essentially giving up the foothold game development had for decades, to the new nomenclature of extreme fallibility and cost of LLMs.
We have been using 'AI' and 'Procedural Generation' for decades in games. That the LLMs now want to pretend only their thing is 'AI', is awful.
A full response would be very long and I have had this conversation a lot, so here is a video that explains it best: youtu.be/CeZ_rcDQg6Q?t=925
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Meanwhile, my current big project, Cog, is somebody else's code that I forked and then piled over 2000 new commits onto.
Somehow I found it easier to start with someone else's complete project than to start my own project from scratch.
Which then makes me wonder what the heck is up with all the people who want access to my old code so they can fork it and continue to maintain it, when it probably wasn't that special or original to begin with. Which is doubly complicated by the fact I dashed that code to heck because the lead developer of the project I was extending is a fricking chud and I want nothing to do with him or the Windows operating system any more, and don't want to help people who want to work with him either.
@chris i mean it's fine to not want to do all the work of being an actual programmer. where i take issue is people putting together AI slop and proudly proclaiming not only are they real programmers, they're better and putting together buggy AI slop is the way of the future
The gatekeeping claims in this thread are crazy to me, this is not a childish "if you code in X you're not a real programmer because real programmers code in Y".
LLMs and "AI Tools" for programming are terrible, not only performing what's supposed to be their job, they also bring a lot of more problems outside and inside than actual benefits.
If you can't or don't want to see this, it's up to you, but don't expect me or many more to take you seriously, like at all lol
@NullTheFool sadly people generally aren't appreciative of being made aware that something they like, especially something that they recently got passionate about, is actually shit, damaging for them and for anyone around
Flotilla organisers appeal for concerted action to force UN and governments to intervene against criminal occupation Volunteers aboard the Handala held hostage by Israeli forces in July. Organisers…
Die Union fuhr im Wahlkampf eine extrem harte Kampagne gegen Bürgergeldbeziehende. Die angekündigten großen Einsparungen beim Bürgergeld aber dürften die nächste Wahlkampfblase sein, die platzt.
I think we need to learn from history here. The biggest mistake after world war 2 was letting the corporations get away without consequences. Not a single CEO was tried at Nuremberg, not even Faber corp who staffed their factory with slaves from Auschwitz. Average life expectancy of a slave there was 3 months. Literally working people to death and replacing them every 3 months was cheaper than paying wages. And nobody was ever punished for it.
When in the aftermath of the current fascism we put the leaders on trial - we need to ensure the billionaires who funded and enabled and profited from it are right there in the dock next to them.
Samsung has released the fouth beta of the One UI 8 Watch set to be released later this year. This beta version is applicable to Galaxy Watch7 users only, since the Ultra has already received the stable version back on July in preparation for the 2025 rebooted version launch. The following changes were made in the ZYI2 version:
Improved accuracy for health-related activities (running, swimming)
Samsung still didn’t open the Beta Program for the Galaxy Watch6 and Watch5, so users will still need to wait.
Galaxy Watch8 comes with the One UI 8 Watch, which Samsung is constantly working on through the beta program for older smartwatches, while the newest smartwatches are getting constant updates.
Galaxy Watch6 and Watch5 are still waiting for their One UI 8 Watch Beta Program
The beta program for One UI 8 Watch, which was released to the Galaxy Watch8 and the 2025 reboot of the Watch Ultra, still didn’t start as of September 1st for the Galaxy Watch6 and Watch5 smartwatch series. The beta program targeted for the regular Galaxy Watch7 smartwatches is still running with the third beta on air, with build ZYHA.
Galaxy Watch6 and Watch5 users who are eager to try out the One UI 8 Watch Beta have spent almost the whole summer vacation without the One UI 8 Beta Program, even if the Watch7 users got it as a beta. Beta builds for the Galaxy Watch6 and Watch5 were being spotted, but there are no signs of the beta program being open for those two smartwatches from 2023 and 2022.
Samsung said that they’d be working on the beta version during the remaining months of this year, with the final release being expected by the end of the year, according to their official newsroom article released on June 16th, 2025. More specifically, one of the footer notes suggested that “users based in Korea and the United States with Galaxy Watch models (Galaxy Watch5 series or later released Galaxy Watch series) are eligible to join the beta program.”
For the Wi-Fi Galaxy Watch6 and Watch5 smartwatches, here are the latest testing versions available in both the USA and in Korea:
Galaxy Watch6
R960XXU1ZYH6
R950XXU1ZYH6
R940XXU1ZYH6
R930XXU1ZYH6
Galaxy Watch5
R920XXU1ZYH6
R910XXU1ZYH6
R900XXU1ZYH6
Samsung made sure that the beta program will definitely happen with those smartwatches as mentioned earlier in the official article, but there is still no clear date as to when they’ll release the beta program.
To close this article, here’s the recap of all One UI 8 Watch Beta versions released so far:
Galaxy Watch Ultra
One UI 8 Watch Beta 1 (build ZYFE): June 30th, 2025
Galaxy Watch7
One UI 8 Watch Beta 1 (build ZYFE): June 30th, 2025
One UI 8 Watch Beta 2 (build ZYH2): August 12th, 2025
One UI 8 Watch Beta 3 (build ZYHA): August 26th, 2025
We expect that Samsung release the beta program hopefully during this month, along with clear communication with the users of those smartwatches.
When it comes to health, small changes can make a big difference. Every incremental improvement to daily habits contribute to a healthier whole, and the
This is Sarah Phillimore, the same who accused KJK of advocating violence against trannies, because she jokingly said men (husbands, fathers, bfs) should "invade" women's loos in a public venue like a supermarket, as a protest to see if security guards would throw them out. The same Sarah Phillimore who, when I called her out on it, told me "feel free never to have anything to do with me".
She is good at history lessons, credit where it's due, but she is conflating this with what Glinner is actually accused of in his TWO court cases.
(For the record, I've been interviewed by FairCop, its still on their website).
An attempt to explain how fear of hurtful words has been hijacked by one minority group and protected by the police, to cause corrosive damage to our society.
An attempt to explain how fear of hurtful words has been hijacked by one minority group and protected by the police, to cause corrosive damage to our society.
Die #IaaMobility steht vor der Tür & wir auch, um zu zeigen, dass Mobilität eben nicht bedeutet, allein mit dem 2,5-Tonnen-Luxus-SUV von der Haustür zum Supermarkt zu fahren, sondern dass alle zuverlässig, kostenfrei & nachhaltig von A nach B kommen. #noIAA
Die Autoausstellung in München provoziert traditionell zahlreiche Proteste – teilweise ging es spektakulär zu. Ein Überblick, was diesmal angekündigt ist.
Je me trouve dans un auditoire d'université : je suis convaincue que les architectes sont persuadés que les étudiants ont tous une stature équivalente à celle d'un enfant de 14 ans mince comme une brindille. La place disponible dans les travées est tellement limitée que même si on se lève pour permettre à une personne de rejoindre sa place, elle ne peut pas passer..🙁
As the UK backslides, the #EuropeanUnion #EuropeanCourtOfJustice just set out an opinion stating that #Trans people must be allowed ID reflecting lived gender! 🏳️⚧️ 🇪🇺
"A ruling on this case will be delivered at a later date, which has not yet been set.
EU countries are already obliged to recognise the legal gender a person has recognised in another member state, following a judgment from 2024."
We'll see how fast countries adopt this. Romania still doesn't recognise same-sex marriage from other countries besides just one case that was won like a year ago, it's a whole shitshow trying to change your marker here because it's 'Sex', not 'Gender' on our national IDs 🙄
@alextecplayz Yes, it's an opinion. The case you mentioned was about recognition of legal gender by a member state that is not the member state of origin.
This case is about recognition of lived gender by the state of origin.
This opinion makes use of the fact that it has competence in cases covering Freedom of movement to essentially say "if your home country refuses to recognise your lived gender, it prevents your freedom of movement and this is unacceptable".
@alextecplayz Usually, the EU could only rule on the recognition by other member states of the legal gender of an individual as defined by their member state of origin.
What is exceptional about this opinion is that they are essentially saying is that non-recognition of lived gender by the member state of origin is in itself a barrier to freedom of movement. This is new and quite innovative, but logical.
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