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I was in this position recently. It's pure hell. I moved teams internally. Now I'm happy. It feels like an abusive relationship, you don't realise how bad it was until you leave.

Good grief! I'm in the UK, I haven't come across this sort of thinking before but "working in IT" isn't high status I guess.

So no changes have been made apart from being in black and white? I tried watching it a few months ago. It was awful (imo), I turned it off half way through.

This looks great. Thanks

How on earth can someone be offended by their son in laws good salary!?

Just got a new Samsung sound bar. Can anyone explain why when I connect via Bluetooth (or maybe it was their smart things app) it wants access to my phone contacts and messages!?

Ha! I'm still playing wipeout (on retro arch though). I only bought a PS1 around 2010 as I'd been an N64 fanboy. I really had missed out.

I heard the Saturn was originally designed as a 2d machine, sega saw what the PS1 was going to be capable of and bolted on 3d. Hence it was a mess. Is it true it could only use quads not triangles for polygons?

To (probabl mis) quote the Economist magazine, when adjusted for other variables the gender pay gap disappears.

I'm not sure I agree with this type of legislation. Most of us have experienced that developer value add varies hugely. I think what bothers me most is that it seems to be a push for pay banding. We re individuals, I'd prefer to neogitate on my own terms.

That's interesting. Would it have been better if sega had wait until post PS2? The Dreamcast was the last console I loved. I bought one on launch day. But I think looking back it was always doomed. I can't recall properly but I think it was someone in EA or high up in sega America who tried to persuade sega Japan that they wouldn't survive with the type of games they were planning for the Dreamcast. Oh well in those two years the Dreamcast had some of my favourite games.

There was a post on hacker news a while back about a study in Finland showing that it doesn't matter if the new builds are "luxury", they increase so supply which will always eventually stop/slow/reverse price increases.

This actually makes sense in terms of supply and demand but more interestingly it's because people tend to "upgrade" when they move this then frees up space at the lower end of the market.

There's an argument that too many people going to university can destabalise society:

(Economist article)

https://web.archive.org/web/20220713015644/https://www.econo...

It claims salaries have increased only 35 percent. This seems incorrect to me. For example starting salaries for new developers where I would is roughly 30k (British pound) this is pretty much twice what I started on in 2006.

Actually the old town was built long before the planning office existed.

I'm repeating myself but European cities like Edinburgh are really great in part due to the mix or apartments with pubs and shops near by or directly under flats. Obviously there's still planning required and there has been disputes with venues (with bad outcomes were a residential block was built beside an old music venue and it was forced to close due to noise). Overall though it makes the whole place very livable and walkable

It's what is great about old cities like Edinburgh in Scotland, apartments with shops and pubs below or near by.

So an authority that decides quotas on where types of worker live?

What does build in a equitable way mean?

So should we do the same with food too?

I use gog.com instead of steam where I can. They provide DRM free installers for all their games (this may have changed more recently not sure).

Anyway gog is really great :)

That whole article could have have been two sentences. Also the problem with it is obvious: not all users have a email client configured. Back in 98 I used to get confused when I clicked an email link and windows would spend ages trying to open up some program called Outlook up!

I'd stop overthinking this, some of the answers you are getting here are ridiculous.

Show it to your manager.

Your job is to add value, that's it. You can add value by automating this process. You did it outside of normal working hours, so what? I'd guess most people here work extra hours.

I'm 40. I'm not sure if I have to try harder to learn. I was never bright in the first place.

I'm way more motivated to learn now. I only really watch Netflix etc on Friday and Saturday nights. Other evenings I try to get an hour to myself to do self learning. (Difficult with a child,!)

My main problem is I prefer learning programming related things not directly related to my programming job. Currently doing a course on network programming in c (I don't have a com sci degree).

What I really want is to learn maths to the point we're I can do a bit of calculus.

Just listened to John carmack on lex Fridman podcast. Very inspiring. He's switched in to AI research , never seems to stop teaching himself. (Though he has the advantage of being genius).

Fair points. Didn't know about the gov land sales. Honestly I presumed I was going to hear "rent controls!"

But how would you tackle it without making the problem worse?

Are they really getting rid of addons

Wait. What!? This is great news, thanks.

Use either old.reddit.com or i.reddit.com

Firefox and Chrome both have old Reddit plugins that will do it automatically.

Unfortunately it's not compatible with newer Firefox android .

What about Lenin's atrocities?

Black out blinds, velcro ones not expensive.

Cold room, the book "why we sleep" recommends 17 to 17.5 degrees Celsius. Wear socks if feet get cold.

Stopped all caffeine intake.

Mediation in bed before sleep (though for some people they find it harder to sleep after meditation).

Out of all of these it's blackout blinds and cold room that helps me the most.