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In Canada we don’t have school lunches and I’ve always found the concept ridiculous. Sending a lunch can be as simple as a sandwich with some fruit and veggies on the side. It’s cheap and takes about 5 minutes to make. Some people are trying to introduce school lunches now even though we already have a child benefit program which gives parents money specifically for this. To me it seems like it’s actually just a way to cover up the fact that millions of parents are child abusers who don’t feed their kids. I just can’t get around the idea that we’re enabling neglect.

Very few schools (if any) have a cafeteria that serves food. Everyone brings their lunch and it works well.

You’re just not correct. It’s alright, happens to the best of us.

Yes they taste great even without salt. I’m getting the impression you have never eaten a cow before. Maybe try some time before you say such things. I bet you’ll love it!

Yea my job is a big piece of shit. I’m not interested in starting something myself. Again, the coding is the easiest part and I lack any business skills or network.

Unfortunately this is one of those times where Wikipedia is not useful. Any page related to an ongoing conflict is under constant attack from bad actors on all sides. Go read some books or visit in person if you want to know the truth.

Israel is actively committing atrocities similar to the holocaust and the comparison is fitting. If German jews fought back it would have looked just like Gaza.

They do ultimately make the decision. I do things Im not allowed to do almost every day at work. They might have to deal with the consequences but it really is their decision

No. They can be cooked on a grill with no fat and they taste great.

Are you seriously trying to argue that food doesn’t actually taste good if it has to be cooked first?

Throw steak in a hot pan. It tastes great with no other seasonings. Tasty from the get go. Throw rice in a hot pan. It tastes awful.

Therefore, rice is not tasty.

> explained you'd missed your flight because they gave you the wrong airport, and the airline would have rebooked you and everything would have been fine

Do you really believe this? There are a lot of bad airlines. Enough that a terrible airline is often the best option.

This usually just leads to getting dicked around for so long until you need to just do the original plan anyways. It only works if you have infinite time. Ideally he could just book a new flight and send them the bill

Are you vegan? Your food goes through much worse before it reaches the grocery store.

Almost everything. What can be done in an hour? The biggest issue for me is I have no idea how to make AI work across multiple services or dozens of packages. Maybe the organization and software needs to be built from the ground up with AI in mind?

For example, I’m rebuilding a legacy backend application and need to do a lot of reverse engineering. There are a dozen upstream and downstream services and nobody in the world knows 100% of what they do. AI doesn’t know how to look across wikis, slack channels, or send test requests and dig through logs but the majority of the work is this because nobody knows the requirements. also a lot of the “code” is not actually code but several layers of auto-generated crap based only on API models. How can I point an AI at the project, say “here’s 20 packages involved with a 3-service call chain that’s only 2/3 documented” and get something useful?

The code is pretty much always the easiest part of my job.

You can try to tell me that this is actually a symptom of a deeper problem or organization rot or bad design choices, and I agree, but that’s out of my control and my main job is to work around this crap and still deliver. It was like this for years before 90% current employees were hired.

To summarize, I work in micro-service hell and I don’t know how to make AI useful at all for the slow parts

It’s not my code. I don’t stress about it for the same reason a cashier doesn’t lose sleep if they sell a bruised apple

crap

Sapiens?

It’s written in the style of a children’s book but with a millennial accent. Not a good fit for this audience but it’s not that bad

Good point. Friends, family, and colleagues keep telling me to buy stupid things they see from online ads all the time. They're probably pushing me towards an equal number of non-stupid things and I just don't notice.

In my personal life I pretty much never see ads and I like it that way, but thanks for giving me something to think about.

> people just would not hear about us at all.

Can you give an example of when this is bad for the target of the ad instead of the organization doing the advertising? Small organizations don't have a right to exist

I don't mean to be rude but I genuinely can't think of any service I've learned about through advertising. Do you have an example? I actively seek out product reviews and trailers for things I already know I want but I don't think an ad has changed my mind, just changed whether I buy A or B

The companies exist to serve me and not the other way around. Companies don't have any inherent right to exist. If they can't make money off of me they're probably not doing anything that matters.

Do you mean real progress like washing machines and more efficient solar panels or fake progress like another beverage company to replace the ones that are already there? Real progress will spread by word of mouth. It will be much slower, but I'll accept that to never see an ad for another McDonalds new burger of the month.

Also, search engines are the perfect solution for discoverability here. I don't care if lawn care ads pop up if I search "lawn care service" but I don't want to have this thrown at me when I watch a YouTube video about Napoleon

> the value of in office outweighs the cost

For who? Your employer keeps all the value and only employees pay the cost. Why would I want this as an employee?

Stop being so pedantic. Everyone knows what the topic is about. "Ban advertising" is the goal and not the policy itself. Start with the obvious and unambiguous examples if you still want to act like this. Do you still disagree?

> Advertising puts a price on the scarce commodity of attention

Why should I be allowed to sell my attention any more than I can sell my own kidneys? It's even worse because I let other people sell my attention for me and get nothing back. What point are you trying to make? The market for manipulating my behaviour shouldn't exist at all so I really don't care how efficient it is

> the highest value messages for both the audience..

Obviously not. If this was true then people would pay to see more ads and everyone knows that doesn't happen

You sound like one of those weirdos who also thinks I should do my job from somebody else’s office

So true. Imagine trying to explain a movie theatre to somebody who didn’t grow up going to one. Compare it to podcasts and you’ll see what I mean - why would everyone pay $15 to sit in a room and listen to a new podcast episode at the same time? Same thing. That’s how we’ll all sound to gen alpha. No more movies and thank God I don’t have to spend $20 on a $0.50 bucket of popcorn and $0.25 cent drink. Imagine your parents tell you that radio shows used to do this..

> What's wrong with VPNs?

Nothing is inherently wrong but I trust my ISP a lot more than some random guys in Switzerland or Israel or whatever tax haven islands they operate from. They lie about what they’re good for which is just hiding things from my ISP. The rest of the benefits are fake

Does anyone know guides to integrate this with any kind of big co production application? The examples are all small toy projects. My biggest problems are like there’s 4 packages I need to change and 3 teams and half a dozen micro services are involved.

Does any LLM do this yet? I want to throw it at a project that’s in package and micro service hell and get a useful response. Some weeks I spend almost all my time cutting tickets to other teams, writing documents, and playing politics when the other teams don’t want me to touch their stuff. I know my organization is broken but this is the world I live in.

> completely make up a story to make you look amazing when they ask about your background?

Everyone does this

I’m quitting my job with nothing lined up because our oncall is such a piece of shit. House arrest every 5 weeks with no compensation. If it wasn’t for this I would just quiet quit but there’s no way I can make it through another shift without getting fired. Fuck oncall and anyone who has such little respect they think it’s ok

Immigration is different. No individual can make a shitty country good

> we can move to new feudal leaders

Working on it

I love history. It’s a great cope to see how people can live fulfilling lives under completely different conditions from the standard 2025 life path. Maybe I will check it out :)