PrinceWith999Enemies @ PrinceWith999Enemies @lemmy.world

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Every middle manager I know is openly opposed to forced RTO. It’s a huge pain in the ass from a policy enforcement perspective because, in their enthusiasm to make sure people are taking it seriously, they’ve decreased managers’ discretion for attendance. Now employees have to take a sick day if they can’t come in, even if they’re perfectly capable of working from home (eg a software dev with a broken ankle), or else have to jump through multiple hoops with HR.

I actually kind of like my office. It helps that I have an actual office to myself of course, but I do like the ability to put together a quick hallway chat or grab a room with a whiteboard and even just appreciate the higher bandwidth of communication I can get when physically present. But I also want to allow people to work from home if they’re having a TV delivered or if their kid is sick.

The standard, now rote, response from everyone up to the director level is pretty much “I know, it sucks. But it’s policy, and if you don’t do it there’s going to be consequences that I will not be able to handle for you.” They may put a happy spin on things for newsletters, but from where I’m from it’s seen as a legacy from an older culture running at the level of VPs and above who don’t have a direct hand in operations.

I think related technologies have been introduced a few times over the years. I remember seeing a similar system on an American pickup truck at least a decade ago, and I think Cadillac or someone tried it as well.

As I recall, they’ve always tended to fail because drivers don’t know how to use them. They require learning a new skill and a new way of thinking. An actual self driving vehicle might be able to make more use of the added maneuverability, but people who have been driving for decades (who are the primary market for cars in the price range these run in) have developed a muscle memory such that driving is automatic. Learning to use four wheel steering isn’t just picking up a new skill - it’s actively having to unlearn a fairly complex process that is literally hardwired into your brain at that point.

People who parallel park already know how to do so, and higher end cars can park themselves. Roads are designed for traditionally steered cars (eg for things like the turning radius) so I’m not seeing a benefit there either.

I could see this being useful in something like a forklift, where you do have to be concerned about limited spaces, but there it would be explicitly taught as a new skill which your brain could separate from car driving because it’s a different vehicle with a different application and environment. You wouldn’t have to unlearn anything.

I like their trackpads a lot, but if you use the MacBook with an external monitor like so many of us do, it’s simply not an option. I stick with Logitech for mice though. Even their crappy mice are good, and their high end mice are great.

I also have to disagree with the author’s take on the evolution of the mouse. I like having buttons to navigate forward and back when browsing the web, I like the multifunction scroll wheels, and I even like the sideways scroll wheels when looking through large charts or tables of data. When I used to game more on services like WoW, I had a mouse with a ton of buttons mapped to all kinds of macros and skills.

The only people I don’t see using mice or external trackpads are PM types who don’t use external monitors and spend 80% of their days moving from meeting to meeting.

The Apple trackpad has remained in my opinion the best one ever developed and continues to improve generation to generation. They lost the script on keyboards for a hot minute there, and their mice have always been horrible to the point of deliberate non-functionality, but those trackpads are amazing. Their external trackpad has also come a long way in the past few years.

90% of the kind of content you’re talking about can be removed by blocking a couple of domains and a handful of users. I believe that they’ve been defederated from most of the larger instances. You will run into a lot of hot takes on lemmy but that’s not too different from reddit.

I think there’s a few reasons why they may be more prominent on lemmy, though. Communities like r/politics took a while to stabilize and had a large and active moderation team that helped remove the most extreme material, and the community itself was large enough that it was representative of a large swath of the US population. Hot takes would often get downvoted into invisibility, which frustrates people who use forums for trolling, and karma could be used to restrict posting. AFAIK those are not qualities or capabilities currently found on lemmy. I haven’t really read the docs - I prefer to just be a user here - but I have seen discussions that indicate that downvotes don’t get tracked as well as suggestions they be removed altogether.

Also, a new technology - especially one associated with sectors of the FOSS community and anti-centralization - are by their nature going to attract an initial user base that skews in certain directions. I think it was Eric Raymond who observed that hackers, politically, tend to be either socialists or libertarians with very little in between. ESR was being a bit tongue in cheek and the hacker culture back then was different than it is now - or rather computer culture as a whole has expanded so much that the old school hacker types form a much smaller percentage.

I think the most problematic part about lemmy which will ultimately limit its adoption is the chaos that comes in from having dozens of communities across dozens of instances that all cover the same topics. It makes discovery much more challenging than it is on Reddit, and it doesn’t help that many of the clients can make it challenging to identify which topics are actually the most used. One of my favorite clients keeps defaulting to ordering by a most recently created timestamp or something - I’m not really sure. It doesn’t have the support to sort or filter by number of users (although it displays the metric).

The other issue is that I end up having to remain on All rather than just my subscriptions because there’s so few users, so I end up with a ton of random anime, for instance, which I can’t effectively block because they’re all posted in new subs that crop up all the time, and I can’t block using wildcards (which would help a lot).

I do hope that between the lemmy devs and the app devs, they can address those issues.

YBI

The correct procedure if you thought the experiment posed an imminent danger to the crew would have been to erect a force field around the container until any ill effects could be scientifically determined.

You also violated Starfleet protocols which require us to not interfere with developing cultures.

This article is factually incorrect and possibly written and posted in bad faith. The president has the authority to apply military force when presented with an attack against US forces as long as they notify Congress within 48 hours after the attack. There then follows a 60 day window of approval for the authorization of the use of military force, followed by an additional 30 days for disengagement if the employment of force is denied by Congress. There are other treaties and agreements permitting the use of force to defend against unprovoked attacks against civilian targets, which the Houthis are doing, but as soon as a single drone or missile targeted a US Navy vessel, the US has both constitutional and international legal authority to respond.

You don’t have to support the operations going on in Gaza - I do not - but it’s absolutely legal for the US and other countries to respond to unprovoked attacks on their vessels. And just to be clear, unprovoked in this sense means the attacks by the Houthi forces were not in response to them being targeted by those vessels. It doesn’t mean they believe they’re justified because of Israel. I’m honestly a bit surprised that the US hasn’t responded more forcefully against Houthi targets.

I agree, and my comment was intended as a reference not to the original rape but to the defense saying that she did not deserve any additional compensation due to Trump’s ongoing defamation because she wanted to profit off of it.

If I remember, one of his initial defenses against the allegations of rape was that the woman accusing him was too unattractive to rape, while other defenses were “they just let you do it.” I was thinking about the ironic application of the “asking for it” argument being applied to the additional judgement of defamation.

He’s going to triple down on this though, because he never thinks twice about anything. I don’t know if he is actually playing the game of “never admit to being wrong even when you are” or if he’s simply delusional enough to have reconstructed reality in his own brain, but I’d lay a wager that he’s not going to be able to shut up about this, even now. I don’t think it will even take a reporter triggering him by asking about it. I think it’s just going to pop out in one of his word salad campaign rambles.

Trump's attorney Alina Habba contended that Carroll “had failed to show she is entitled to any damages at all” because she "actively sought the comments and the attention" she received.

Wow. They actually used the “she was asking for it” argument against a victim of sexual assault.

Also, he’s still not going to shut up about it and will land back in court under additional defamation charges.

Sisters, brothers, and others - I give you the Republican Party’s chief representative of all things they consider good and holy.

Oof - that’s an interesting one. If immigrants constitute an “invasion” in the military sense, then Abbott is committing an act of treason as defined by the Constitution by providing them with transportation services, which would count as levying war against the United States as well as giving aid to its enemies.

I like the way you think.

Yes, exactly this.

The National Guard belongs to the respective DOD branch and can be activated for federal duty by order of the President of the United States. Failure on the part of leadership or members to do that will have extremely negative consequences - the end of a military career and likely jail time in a very unpleasant prison. As part of the US military, they are part of a large organization which will enforce consequences. It’s not something trivial.

Abbott can use state troopers or Texas rangers or whatever, but if Biden orders the Texas National Guard into federal service, then Abbott and the Texas police will be put into a position of facing the US Army.

Florida has its own “guard” unit in additional to the Florida National Guard because DeSantis wanted brown shirts, but again they’d have to think it’s an important enough issue to face the US Army, and the group is really just a private DeSantis Proud Boys unit.

I’m assuming you’re British, and I’m unfamiliar with labor laws and practices over there. I’m mentioning what we have in the US in case there’s any similarities or if Americans reading this find themselves in a similar position.

I am a manager at a large tech company, and I’ve been in similar positions for the majority of my career. I’m mentioning that for context. In the US, laws vary from state to state, with exactly what you’d expect the differences to be between Republican and Democratic states.

Your record is only a thing at your current company. Virtually every large company (and most of the medium and small ones) have a strict policy of discussing employee information if they are called by a company to which you are applying. They will confirm date of hire and departure. Some companies will ask if the candidate is eligible for re-hiring, but in general this is only seen in lower wage positions like retail sales. I think finance and banking have additional things they can (or are legally required to) report on, but “this person was tardy” is not one of them. Most large companies have a dedicated phone number or service that will simply read off the dates but will not give out information regarding salary or work habits. As a manager and someone in a supervisory position, I can and have written glowing letters of recommendation for my students and former employees, but if a person were to be fired for cause I would likely not do so for that individual. Their future employer can take that into account (or not).

This is done to indemnify the former company from a lawsuit from the previously employed person. Even if they have reams of documentation of all of the terrible things you did, it is not worth the time and expense to defend against such a suit. They’ll possibly do it if they are facing a wrongful termination case, but it’s just not worth it to simply keep a former employee from getting another job. Even if you were the worst employee ever, I’m simply happy to have gotten rid of you, and it’s no longer my problem. I’m certainly not being paid by the new company to make sure they hire only the best employees, and they may in fact be a competitor anyway.

So while I think it’s grossly unfair to not have paid sick leave or some other sort of paid time off, the only thing your record is going to affect is your ability to get a raise/promotion or your employer firing you.

Your mileage may vary - again, I don’t know UK practices - but younger employees and those who haven’t been managers or admins might not know all of this, and so can be taken advantage of by their unscrupulous employers.

I agree with this sounding like a toxic work environment and would join the recommendations to seek a position with a different company.

Seven(?) fingers, very weird abs, ribs, and I am not sure if that’s supposed to be a mutant pelvis or what.

I’m sure they’ll continue to improve these things, but in general AI art gets worse the closer you look. Zoom in, take about five or ten minutes to pan around and study the images, and things just start to leap out. After that, you can’t not see them.

I know. I’m just keeping score at home and looking to be able to say “That’s a bingo!”

pissing off both the judge and the jury

There’s still one other role for him to piss off if he wants to go for the trifecta.

My cat yells when

1. She’s taken a shit and wants it cleaned up
2. It’s time for food and she hasn’t been fed yet
3. It’s time for food and she’s being fed
4. She wants to walk around
5. She’s tired of walking around and wants to go to bed

We were told about a year and a half ago that she had about a week to live. She’s still going. I’ll take every yell she makes, even if it means waking up at 3am because her bed fell over and she doesn’t like it.

One of my favorite observations was when I looked at an ASPCA website and they had separate sections:

1. Dog Training - how to get your dog to do what you want
2. Cat Behavior - what you can expect cats to do

Your cat is just doing a typical cat thing. Some cats meow constantly. Some cats yell (you can win internet points with these). Some cats barely purr, others sound like a Harley Davidson. Some cats will love it when you rub their bellies, others will lure you in and then scratch the living crap out of you leaving scars that make it look like you tried to commit suicide.

I apologize if this seems plain spoken, but you really have two choices - love your derp cat for who they are and what they do, or give the baby away to someone who can do so and think about getting a fish tank or maybe a fern or something. If you really, really want a cat with particular behavioral characteristics, you can do some research on breeds and behaviors, but you can expect to pay a fairly significant amount for most specialized breeds. I don’t know of any cat breeds that don’t meow because I’ve never looked for one, but many purebred cat breeds like Bengals will be sold for thousands of dollars. You’d have to do some research.

The Safe Harbor provision of Section 230 of the DMCA should have been revised a decade ago, at least. Service providers such as Twitter and Facebook cannot claim to be blameless third party hosts of content in the same way that telecom providers are, who simply provide a channel of communication.

By taking on the role of curators of information via the use of algorithms that selectively push user-generated content to users of the service, they are engaging in the role of a publisher rather than a means of conveyance or a neutral distributor, and as such should be held as liable for the publication of misinformation as any other media that controls editorial responsibility for published information.

While I understand the argument that 230 was necessary to allow these companies to grow the internet, we’re now talking about individual companies with worths of hundreds of billions of dollars in an industry worth trillions, and the excuse that policing content is not economically viable just do not hold - especially when policing content by pushing articles and media to drive engagement is exactly what they do and what their businesses depend on.

If this is you playing Devil’s Advocate, then I have to voice my concern that the Devil has retained a lawyer that makes Trump’s attorneys look competent by comparison.