Don’t wanna be “that guy”, but if if 95% of the time people use it to generally mean “greedy companies making things shitty to try and wring an extra buck”, then that just is what that word means now.
It leaves a vacuum for the concept it was originally intended to describe, but that’s how she goes.
What’s the TV policy at your home in general?
If you’re otherwise restricting screen time, but when he’s crying you make an exception, you might have accidentally incentived him to cry… which isn’t to say that he’s doing it intentionally… Just that a real comfortable pattern has been established.
Everyone has a parenting scheme, so take anything you hear with a grain of salt…
But, I think it’d maybe be worth considering just cutting TV entirety for a little while? See how it goes? Probably a rough few days but you’ll both find a new normal. If you’re digging the new normal, keep it up. If not, go back.
This hits so hard
There is nothing to “see”. They are, on your screen, identically coloured on the left and right in the “boxed” sections.
Yes, they look different to you. They are not actually different colours. That is the optical illusion.
My entire professional career has had threats of the boogeyman coming if things don’t get done faster than they can realistically get done.
I’ve been doing this long enough that my estimates are actually pretty reliable. Two weeks too long? No problem. It’s still a negotiation. Put the ball in thier court by saying what scope they’re willing to cut to get it in the timeframe they were imagining.
They’ll either play ball and cut, accept that it’ll take as long as you originally said, or say “no, everything, do it in 2 days.”. The managers who do the latter in my experience don’t last very long… because usually THEY’RE the ones that were making impossible promises that never quite seem to pan out. They eventually get canned in favour of someone who is more reliable.
Like, this genuinely can’t be overstated.
Half a billion using traditional humans, gets you pretty nice software
My company was absorbed by a US company, and it’s pretty accurate.
And, I think they think it must mean that this dedication makes them good at working.
But they fucking aren’t. I constantly have to remind my coworkers that they’re not paid by the hour. Work hard, work smart, we can finish up and call it a day. Nope. I swear to god these people are actively contriving ways to ensure we work so badly that it necessitates working late. Which we do not get paid for.
Then they flex about thier work culture, thier long hours. You fools did this to yourselves, voluntarily, for literally no benefit.
And Arwen played by Uma Thurman
I am appalled by the number of people who took the bait given the first 8 words were “I wake up to my usual gooning session”
How many hours they work.
Life is a game. Scored like golf. The number is “hours labouring”.
“I worked 120 hours this week, buttercup”
Wow. I can’t believe you volunteered what a giant fucking idiot you are.
If you gotta work 120 hours to survive, I feel sympathy. If you’re flexing? Jeeze
The company i work for is a bank and was holding the menagerie bag and so suddenly was trying to canvas us all how to use it.
They tried to get us psyched by showing us that they had modeled the stuffing bank board room in the universe. They were like “you could hold your meetings HERE if you were in the METAVERSE!”
I was like “why would I want to virtually go to that room, for anyone reason ever?”
The presenter go so fucking smug and was like “im glad you asked, this is literally a room from our head office. Top floor. New York. literally wall street.”
I was like “in the meta verse is your only boundaries of where you could go the limits of your imagination?”
“YES!”
“And given the unlimited possibilities you modeled a stuffy conference room?”
I’d literally rather be in a sewer. The absolute brainlets running the show blows my mind.
VR is fucking cool. Give it some space to breathe and for fucks sake don’t use it to somehow put people in a fucking nightmare (conference room). I say this without a hint of sarcasm: my 3 year old could have provided better metaverse direction.
Yeah for sure. Super easy. Merely be born in 1959
4 people host libraries that my tech illiterate boomer parents access.
One login, many servers, singular interface.
That is very specifically the situation I’m in. Jellyfish, emby, you wanna whip up a persona… that’s a pretty damn clear-cut one for ya
I like the analogy but it’s even worse. It’s like the grooms uncle taking the mic and saying how fuckable the bridesmaids are and about how he’s the world’s best lover… and then being surprised his wife is pissed.
Like, why are you using someone else’s wedding to talk up how important you are? It’s pathetic on vibe, regardless of the content. The content just takes it from bad to worse.
That “y” in “away” is pretty distinct. If this is the font you’re thinking of, I am pretty sure it’s Segoe… it’s for SURE not Tahoma or Veranda. Neither of those fonts flatten the bottom tail of the y. Segoe does.
Edit:
Arial has it too, but based on the “s”, I still think Segoe. If you draw a tip-to-tip line on the s, it’s a greater angle off horizontal in segoe than Arial, and seems to my naked eye to better match the s in that screenshot.
I think the reason for this is that there has been a palpable shift in the content of what people are communicating… and the old rage faces are poorly suited to what people are using them for. They provided a different “visual vocabulary”.
The old rage faces served the purpose as shorthanding feeling and emotions visually. I’ll leave this as an exercise to the reader as to consider why 4chan users may have found an emotional shorthand vocabulary very appealing.
They were used very generally for storytelling.
Wojaks are primarily used to cue the reader to who is “good” and who is “bad”. Who is the cuck. It’s primarily a mechanism to lay out some type of disagreement and visually diminish one side. In this way, they’re not fla mechanism for storytelling, they’re a mechanism for persuasion.
“General storytelling” NOW comes in the form of a Twitter screenshot.
Anyhow, tl;dr: ragefaces and wojaks serve a different communicative purpose, and for some reason Twitter screenshots ejected ragefaces from thier niche
When a measure is used as a metric, it ceases to be a valuable measure.
It’s literally a software engineers job to consider and understand functions. If you tell me I’ll be judged by the output of a function, I will crack it open to understand what inputs maximize outputs.
I’ll burn though however many tokens you want me to. Give me hardware and a blank cheque I’ll bring a data center to its knees. I’m guessing your hope was that tokens burn would translate into productivity, but that hope was misplaced and that failure is on you.
It’s still just a matter of political will.
You would be AMAZED at how quickly things would be fixed. At rates previously claimed “beyond impossible”, IF governments “pulled the plug” until things were fixed… rather than issuing fines or providing grace periods (and subsequent extensions).
I’ve worked at places that would just eat compliance fines (not for health). Just straight up eat them. They put a token team on it… but continually divert that time to other tasks.
The companies that claim these things cannot be done are the same ones who said they couldn’t survive without slavery, with any environmental regulations, with a 5 day work week, without being able to use child labour, with a minimum wage, without strikebreakers etc etc etc. It’s literally industries job to push back on anything that cuts into thier bottom line at all. It’s governments job to say “bullshit”
Like how before microscopes bacteria couldn’t hurt people!
I wholeheartedly agree. I love when I hear a new word, and a mushy concept just snaps into focus. Like, yea, I understood that concept in my “gut” but had not special word for it? So gratifying.
Feels like theft when it gets appropriated to something else.
Glad to hear Cory is cool w/ it. Putting a word (even by accident) to a poorly-expresable part of the human experience that let’s people communicate more effectively? That is a contribution to society that most of us only dream of. Fucker did it by accident. Thrilled for him.