FlumPHP @ flumph @programming.dev

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I bought a plane ticket this week and it had all the fees listed. If airlines can do it, so can any multi-national corporation.

On top of this, they don't care about best practices. They're shit managers who were better at getting promoted than managing people.

Meetings on Zoom suck? Well, you don't use agendas, meeting notes, etc. Your meetings always sucked, you're just missing the dopamine hit from socializing on the way to and from the meeting.

Bad employee relations? Well, your 1:1s are really only status calls. Your relations always sucked, you're just missing talking to Bill about your kids when you corner him at the coffee machine.

Missing team bonding? Well, your team went to happy hour to bitch about you. They always hated trust falls. You just miss hanging out with your yes-chums.

Yeah, I'd say your road to C# should pretty much be syntax then. Check out a course on exercism and read a bit about common idioms in C#.

What language are you familiar with? Switching between the C-style OOP languages is honestly pretty straightforward.

Yeah. I had the experience you described. Not sure if it's because I have a newer version of Android or stock Android experience.

Not trying to argue, but could you expand on "anti-competitive behavior" a bit? I recently installed the Epic Store on my phone and found it pretty straightforward.

Yeah, it's just like when Prince changed his name. The media will just keep going "X, formerly known as Twitter" forever.

What's a situation where you need an unused variable? I'm onboard with go and goland being a bit aggressive with this type of thing, but I can't think of the case where I need to be able to commit an unused variable.

In this case, Microsoft owns 49% of OpenAI, so they're the ones subsidizing it. They can also offer at-cost hosting and in-roads into enterprise sales. Probably a better deal at this point than VC cash.

I worked at a firm that was regulated and audited by the SEC. The standard lesson from the compliance department was always to have potentially problematic conversations out loud instead of in email or Slack. They never needed encryption to avoid regulators.

This is sad but understandable. Authors, most of whom don't make enough money to call it a career, are being kicked from every side. In just the last handful of years, you have AI companies training on their works, companies demonstrating they're open to replacing writers with AI, the Internet Archive giving their books away for free, states trying to ban more and more books, etc. When you're kicked enough, everything looks like a threat.

Similar to music, I imagine there's going to need to be some shift in the industry but I don't think we've seen what that is yet. Patreon, physical merch, and live performances just don't seem to work as well for authors as they do for musicians.

That being said, this particular site is clearly fair use and I'm surprised AI was even mentioned anywhere in the conversation.

If you haven't checked it out yet, Strange New Worlds is definitely the best of modern Trek. This season especially has really reminded me of TNG.