MajorHavoc @ MajorHavoc @programming.dev

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This is hilarious, but I need facts.

All together, we (Lemmy) are hotter than oatmeal, but we're less interesting than office chairs. (On Reddit).

Always spend at least 20% of the time on stuff you know is necessary, but will never be prioritized by marketing heads.

This is the way.

Leadership: Please don't prioritize code cleanup, we have critical features we need to release.

Me: Oh. I didn't realize you were taking ownership of (complex code no one wants to be associated with). I've got diagrams I can send you.

Leadership: No, that's still yours. We just need you to focus on these features, and not any planned maintenance, for just the next sprint.

Me: So you'll take over guiding maintenance on (complex source code no one wants to get near)? I can send you the backlog for your project plans...

Leadership: That's not what we're saying. Please just prioritize the feature.

Me: Oh. Sure. I will prioritize that feature, and I'll only do the bare minimum cleanup that can't be avoided, right now. (Which will turn out to be however much cleanup I damn well please, because their eyes glaze over if I explain it, anyway.)

Leadership: Now you're getting it!

Me: Gee whiz. Thanks for talking it through with me.

Those are both great questions.

Discworld is ethics and robotics in middle earth.

You just blew my mind, a little. Dang. That's Apt.

Perhaps ask questions about what they're into rather than if they're into thing.

This is great advice! Asking about something specific is off-putting and could lose a great candidate.

Asking an open ended question about their hobbies can get the same positive result, and will catch candidates who wouldn't have anything to say about science fiction.

For me, the turning point was taking a bunch of classes on public speaking.

Getting in front of people helped me develop "personas" in unimportant contexts.

Now when I feel like I'm being weird, I can choose to retreat into one of my public speaking personas. And I can sort of hide inside the persona until whatever is bothering me passes.

The net effect on my interaction with the opposite gender is that when things get awkward, I become a kind of well rehearsed bland likeable that puts people at ease.

Only the people closest to me know that it's a mask I wear to cover my own confusion or discomfort. One of the people who knows is my life partner, but of course they like me anyway, now.

Diablo III

That's pretty cool. Thanks!

I had something intermittent like this, and it turned out that I had a cracked distributor cap. It turned out to be a stupidly easy repair, and not a very expensive part.

Edit: this was a car as ancient as I am. I'm not sure modern cars even have that part, anymore.

Interesting. This GrayJay?

Holy cow. They've done the impossible - they've found a way to make a Dodge into a shittier vehicle. I am awestruck.

It's a big multiverse, and everyone loves fan service, so bet on Sebastian Stan having some cool moments with the shield.

But ultimately, Bucky Barnes is an international man of mystery, which usually doesn't lend itself well to telling the kinds of stories that writers for Captain America are usually trying to tell.

If the MCU continues to follow the comics, we may see more of US Agent in the costume, than Bucky Barnes.

From a writing perspective, Sam Wilson is the strongest place to start for a classic Captain America story. His entire backstory is set in the United States, or on deployment in the US armed forces. He's a veteran. And the MCU version of Sam Wilson isn't from a completely different era of history then the audience.

Having racial diversity at all levels of performance doesn't mean that you've made it fair,

Agreed. Having diversity in winners is not proof that the game is fair.

I'm asserting that lacking diversity in winners is absolutely proof that the game is rigged.

And more importantly, I'm asserting that the people being loudly angry at measuring diversity are usually the same people rigging the game - and that they are specifically rigging the game against all of the rest of us, not just against any one minority.

The people rigging the game love to make a big loud vocal deal about our differences, because they know that united we can and will systemically dispose of them. They're terrified of our power if we stand together.

Oh, neat!

We need a 91% tax bracket on income beyond $600,000. We need some sharp incentive for the wealthiest among us to avoid.

This is a fantastic idea, and it wouldn't actually require eating any of them, necessarily.

Everyone is going to just tell you to install Linux Mint, and enjoy, but my deeply original opinion is...

That seems... overpowered.

That's what I'm taking from this, as well.

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

I agree with you in principle, but I kind of liked XP. It had some great features for retro gaming, which I don't recall seeing before then.