PetDinosaurs @ PetDinosaurs @lemmy.world

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Hey y'all watch this!

So what you're saying is that they would get more money by being tipped?

Because there is not a tipping culture in those countries, and they wouldn't make more money from tips?

I'm not sure why this is so hard to understand.

Yeah... I'm fine being a liberal, but this place is toxic.

I'm not sure how much longer I'll tolerate it.

It's just too many angry, ignorant people unwilling to accept challenges to their beliefs.

Just because your beliefs are left wing doesn't mean you shouldn't question them.

Illegal?

This place is so toxic.

Can you read! For fucks sake!

You've missed the whole point of the post.

That it's not as simple as saying "something is as safe as table salt"?

You seem to have missed that.

And how does me saying I agree with that article not correct your misconception?

It's a fair point that it can be racist and sexist. I'm sure the attractive get paid more. After all, strippers are the ultimate in tipped workers. They have to pay for the opportunity to work for tips.

We do need to get over this "poor tipped workers", though.

There's a reason why no tipping restaurants end up failing and returning to tips.

It's because you make much more in tips than you'd make otherwise.

It's like no one has ever worked for tips and honestly calculated what they made.

I worked for tips in high school. I didn't make that much money again until people started calling me doctor.

You seem to have missed my meaning.

I have no disagreement with that article, except the tone.

I hadn't heard about the article before, but frankly, the topic is part of what I was trying to convey.

A protein could be considered a single molecule, but it also could not.

Molecule is hardly the right term for most things, e.g. polonium or salt.

I intended to be more general but didn't want to go further of into the weeds. I considered 1 unit, but that's misleading.

Let's go with the etymology of molecule: small amount.

Are we still making fun of him for being a bigoted, hypocritical, closeted homosexual?

good question.

Because even trivial things like Fourier transforms (to people like me) are very difficult to understand to those that don't know them. They took me years to understand. Non scientific software engineers do not understand those. It's just a different course of education.

You're also right about old code base as well. Algorithms like these belong in c++ (or C or fortran), and it's extremely difficult to explain why to people who have no understanding of numerical computing.

It's just different education.

I've been working at my current company for almost a year.

I had no idea it could be this bad.

I actually had to fight/plead with someone to "please read the code". Guy did get fired though.

Bruh. Bold?

I don't know why I'm dignifying this with a response.

Good on you for acknowledging that. 👍

I've fixed 20 year old issues that could kill people.

Different requirements. Different solutions.

That's why it's great to be an engineer!

Bruh. I fixed software from the 90's.

Scientific software too. Which is way weirder.

😀

What industry do you work in?

Awesome! Glad to have this added to the conversation.

I actually had this thought and was thinking about adding something like this earlier today.

You're technically correct, in a sense. There still needs to be lots of these to cause problems. If there aren't lots, there's no problem.

It would be the same for any self replicating thing. Bacteria, viruses, fungi, and prions, but they replicate. I will grant you a single large parasite could do this, but at that point, we're talking about tigers and such as a technicality as well.

Potentially one of these things could cause problems by reproducing. I think it's just unlikely. I don't know how we could demonstrate that though. I imagine a single virus or bacterium can lead to disease. I just suspect the probability is low.

Like you, my first thought was prions, but they have to actually come into contact with the protein to catalyze its misfolding. That'd be rare in the protein soup, I suppose.

Anyway. Nice comment!

Most people suck at software engineering.

Plus, there's always the temptation to do it the shitty way and "fix it later" (which never happens).

You pay your technical debt. One way or another.

It's way worse than any gangster.

They were trying to link glyphosate to colony collapse disorder.

Yeah, you'd typically use rats or mice.