farhaven 🇪🇺

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Dazed and confused. Also I drink my coffee extra mild.
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Small lifehack if games like Dead Space are too scary for you: they become a lot more fun if you twist them from "I'm being hunted by monsters" to "I'm hunting monsters and those fucks can't hide because I can hear them breathe"

Wusstet ihr, dass viele Arbeitgebende nur "Gehalt nach Vorschrift" zahlen, also nur das Nötigste überweisen, wie vertraglich vereinbart? Sie sind emotional nur gering an ihre Arbeitnehmenden gebunden und erfüllen nur das Minimum ihrer Fürsorgepflicht, ohne sie darüber hinaus wertzuschätzen.

https://www.stern.de/wirtschaft/studie-in-deutschland--viele-machen-nur--dienst-nach-vorschrift--37213910.html

Studie in Deutschland: Viele machen nur „Dienst nach Vorschrift“

In Deutschland sind weiter zu viele Menschen bei der Arbeit im „Energiesparmodus“, fanden Forscher heraus. Dabei kostet jede „innere Kündigung“ Geld.

STERN.de

people condescendingly recommending proton as the better privacy option for gmail are like people condescendingly recommending matrix as the better community organization/communication tool than discord.

that is: condescending fools who have researched neither.

Wieso ist man eigentlich der Meinung, dass sich progressive Menschen stets von allen Seiten anpöbeln lassen sollen, aber bitte niemals selbst andere anpöbeln dürfen?

Bin ich Jesus? Ja leckt mich doch am Arsch!

Random memory from my first real job once I got out of school at a maker for hardware-in-the-loop simulators for the automotive industry:

A colleague there told me that some years before I was hired, someone brought the "Design Patterns" book to work. Some managers then read it, severely misunderstood it, and decided on "the" design pattern to use from now on. They decided on the visitor pattern since it seemed "most general".

The story may have been a joke. But a lot of their code matched it.

what are we even doing here man
@vathpela @tek I would argue that in modern times this really shouldn't be an issue to be concerned about. It's not like telnet and plain serial connections are still most central communication protocols. And if your storage is causing bit flips you have other issues than readable plain text.

@vathpela @tek Given how much worse the alternatives are, and how impossible it would have been to get people to move off of encodings, I'm glad UTF-8 exists.

Don't take me wrong, I'm quite aware of the issues with UTF-8, but I (choose to) believe that if it wasn't for UTF-8 we'd still be drowning in ASCII, and it would be impossible to tell the English-only speaking minority that supporting letters other than what was used to write inscriptions in ancient Rome might actually be useful.

“I then started in an empty repository with no access to the old source tree, and explicitly instructed Claude not to base anything on LGPL/GPL-licensed code.”

idk, it’s just baffling to me that a professional software developer who’s been maintaining a project for over a decade can so fundamentally misunderstand what LLMs do