Crusoe123

Suddenly after 18 years, Ruby on Rails is the issue?

So you're spamming github with slop and actual good code can't be merged? Got it.

> So turn your TV off. Cancel your subscription. Support your local league team in person.

First of all I support my local team and go to almost every home game and a couple of away games each season.

But don't you see what you're providing as possible alternatives?

1. Stop following your national team which gave you huge joy in the past, and just not have that as part of your life. Why? Because of greed of others.

2. Go to live games, where ticket prices are gouged and the same extraction process happens. And hell even there you don't get to skip the hydration breaks magically.

In this case, my experience and something I care for is becoming shittier. And this is just a small example. It's happening in pretty much every facet of our environment. And why is it happening? Because of our economic system that rewards incessant greed and sociopathic behaviour.

Introducing a break for the sole purpose of more advertising time and therefore trying to extract more value from me as a consumer, is a huge issue. Probably no.1 systemic issue of our time, where on every corner and for every breathing moment someone is optimizing to extract ever more value from others. It is incessant and never stopping.

It's exactly what enshitification is, people accepting these type of small changes and thinking it's not a big deal.

So no, it's not a tiny issue. Compared to this Balogun red card is a tiny issue.

> On the other hand, when you sit for an hour to check twitter, the following tab will dry-out immediately

That sounds great to me!

I think you're the one who missed the point. Yes they are at their workstation, but they don't want to be available for constant interruption. To turn your story around. You don't get to interrupt my work whenever you feel like it just because we're at the office.

Maybe when we walk off the field and we're home, we can focus in peace on our work and be more productive?

Nice xenophobia there buddy

You can filter your feed to only show friends stuff (and it's chronological)

https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends

My experience is opposite of yours. I have not yet had to change an LED light in the last 8-9 years since I started using them and replacing incandescent ones in my apartment. On the other hand I remember changing incandescent ones quite often and using up all the surplus ones I had after I started the transition to LED.

And if you bought a few days before that you'd be at 0%

If it was only that simple, I assure you those jobs would have been obsolete already.

That's a very dangerous tip. Someone who is learning will not understand when ChatGPT is wrong, and neither will ChatGPT itself.

OK I mixed with a different video that people mocked on twitter. First one was bragging about amenities like in your post and second one is layoff - https://urlebird.com/video/def-not-an-ideal-start-to-2023-bu... . Here it is indeed a recruiter.

Do you honestly believe those TikToks were made spontaneously and they depict a realistic view of the workplace?

It's not a half baked conspiracy theory - it's called a PR strategy and companies have been doing them on social media for as long as they existed.

Let me give you the benefit of the doubt. Even if the videos are spontaneous, how can you with a straight face use them to judge a workplace and use them as a metric on the amount of work done? Do you really think social media is a realistic depiction of life?

Maybe if you saw a TikTok of how big investors and execs live and how much they would lose (nothing material) by retaining these employees, you would understand the situation better.

It's not a TikTok tech worker. It's a recruiter depicting an unrealistic - missing all the stress etc - view of the workplace to attract inexperienced employees.As ones with experience mostly don't give a crap about these types amenities.

That video was done for The Man, not for the employees well being. And apparently The Man was able to sell you this depiction of the work place so you can now feel smug about all those layoffs.

Good for you I guess, you independent thinker!

I'm sure Nazi Germany was great for some Germans too, if they willfully ignored all the bad stuff going on.

You do realize that doing something with the "least amount of effort" is the definition of productivity?

Why would you need a blockchain for this?

Sounds to me like a convoluted way to say - unpaid time off.

That is not true e.g.https://www.reddit.com/r/chapotraphouse

In that case being done with work at 12pm sounds like a much better deal.

I disagree, I think it's a masterful way to counter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

If not being able to set a government of a neighboring country and completely controlling it is a security issue for Russia then maybe they should be the ones to rethink their security policy and ask themselves why so many neighboring countries want to align towards the west. That is a different ballpark than being under the control of west which implies that the west has somehow taken over Ukraine.

Your comment is ridiculously cynical and dehumanizing. It's disgusting to me how many people act like Ukrainian people have no agency by themselves and act like Russia was forced to do an invasion because they feel threatened by the west.

Tell me again which weapons have downed the flagship of the Russian Black Sea fleet?

Of course they do. That leader would get the boot ASAP if he chooses any goal other than making money as he is behest to investors who expect a maximized return to their investment.

Companies where your scenario can play out are the exception and not the rule. Not that the motivations you wrote are much better for society.

I am speaking here about large companies that can have impact on a societal level, not your small mom and pop business.

HN and forums have different use cases (this site is called Hacker _News_ after all). So I agree with you this format is better for HN. When discussing news longstanding discussions are not really the point, and this site is fairly strictly moderated.

But that's not true for most types of discussions and communication.

I disagree completely.

Reddit is a terrible alternative to forums. It's hard to actually have quality conversations there as communication is by default time based e.g the later you are in thread the less chance someone will read what you have written, and it's popularity based e.g. lowest common denominator memes and predictable comments will hog 90% of communication unless the sub is heavily moderated.

Communication on forums is much longer living and discussions have opportunities to evolve into something else, which creates an environment for more meaningful communication. And if you like your memes, well there's probably a thread for that.

Designing Audio Effect Plugins - https://www.routledge.com/Designing-Audio-Effect-Plugins-in-...

This book teaches you DSP and also how to apply those DSP algorithms by employing them inside an audio plugin.

And Youtube is under Google since 2006.

As they very well should.

If startup founders want to work extra - let them. But when they create a culture where they expect everyone to give the same extreme amount of sacrifice and work while they stand to gain only a fraction of what those who own the capital or have power in running the companies will gain - that is something that should be fought against as vigorously as possible on every level of society - culture, law etc.

So I applaud this "virtue signaling" and call it common sense.

Except this is like buying a small package of cleaning utilities for one cleaning and then cleaning the house with it yourself. In your analogy, the cleaning service would be ordering food from a restaurant.

The utility here is very marginal, and there are alternatives that make your life even easier.