folkrav @ folkrav @lemmy.ca

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What is a "screenless laptop in a case" if not just a desktop computer...? And what is there to "enforce", really?

That's beside the point. Dumb design doesn't stop being dumb, even if the consequences are minor. It wouldn't deter me from buying one, but pointing out it's fucking stupid shouldn't be controversial...

The brackets are pretty simple. It's percentages and subtractions. Think "buckets" that spill over in the next when they're full, and each "bucket" has a larger percentage that's taken as taxes. Keep the numbers small so its easier. Imagine that there are three brackets. 0-100$ pays 10% tax. 101-200$ pays 20%. 200$ and more pays 30%.

Someone who wins 150$ pays 10% on the money they made from 0 to 100$, and 20% on the 101st dollar until their last, so they'll win 150-10-10=130$ after tax. They didn't win more than 200$, so no money gets taxed at the third bracket's rate.

Say that person wins 250$ next year. Their first 100$ will result in the exact same 10$ in taxes. Their 100th to 199th dollars will be in the second 20% bracket. Their remaining 50$ falls in the last bracket, so gets taxed 30%. They will therefore this year make 250-10-20-15=205$ after tax.

Said person gets a big promotion and is now making 1000$ the third year. Their first 100$ gets the same 10$ tax, same for their second 200$ with the same 20$ tax. They have 800$ left in the last bracket, which at 30% means 240$. So they'd be winning 1000-10-20-240=730$ that year.

There's nothing as permanent as a temporary fix

With the ADHD, I need my alarms, calendar, timers and reminders to be anywhere remotely productive, so if I'm not addicted to my phone, I absolutely am dependent on it. I probably am addicted to it though. Most of us are, IMHO....

Whatever the fuck Blue Pepsi was too

Which generation is that? I'll be honest, I've yet to talk to someone who really gives a crap about where the content they're consuming is coming from. Hell, most people I've dealt with don't give a crap about content being pirated whenever it happens to be the more convenient option.

Either in this community really don't get the "unpopular" part, or there's more people than I thought who believe tipping to be a good practice...

Didn't the last Apple model with FW ship about that long ago? Last of their computers with said port I can think about is the 2012 Macbook.

Manslaughter is accidental homicide. Think less "crazy" and more "DUI".

I too had those hour long snoozefests where 99% of what's said doesn't pertain to my work, and those useless meetings that could have been a message on a Slack channel. I still feel like the sentiment is a very broad generalization based on some assumptions that may or may not apply well to every work environment.

My most recent project has direct dependencies between 5 teams just on the developer side, and multiple internal and external clients. Figuring out if we need to reach out to the stakeholders or figuring out who can help them on a particular task isn't necessarily always that straightforward, depending on scope.

Anecdotally, the devs on my team were losing a lot of their time doing all that stuff before I joined as a tech lead in August. I spend most of my non-dev time (about 50% of my time, lately) shielding the rest of the team from stakeholders, pushing back when needed, pushing back on various demands, enabling communication lines, all to protect them from context switching and let them code.

And honestly... Outside all that, agreeing with me or not, is 15 minutes of human interaction that terrible lol?

we don't need managers we need people helping us getting the tools we need and trust that what we do

The word "manager" is extremely overloaded and barely says anything about what that person does for its team without knowing how the company operates. Where I work, the person you're describing would be someone in technical management.

Interesting... I've yet to see a team that didn't have regular touch bases not having the polar opposite issue, being communication happening in isolated silos and resolvable issues taking too long to bubble up. YMMV, I guess.

If you legitimately speak like xQc, the first thing I'd tell you is to slow the hell down. That guy would probably get as much information out in the same amount of time, but easier to understand, if he just didn't try speaking that fast. Last I heard it, even his québécois french was slurred.

As to finding the right words when speaking, it tends to come with knowing your subject well enough, and having decent vocabulary.

Past that, if you do struggle with the very act of translating ideas into the physical act of speaking, it could be a speech disorder which could likely benefit from speech therapy.

The marketing and third-party content admittedly is geared towards kids, but the game itself isn't specifically made for them. It's basically like Lego.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Bigio

I mean, I haven’t watched the video. Guy however appeared in the Pandora papers. The Canadian government has sanctioned him for “gross and systematic human rights violations in Haiti and engaged in acts that threaten the peace, security, and stability of Haiti”. A quick search of his company (GB Group) seems to point to quasi-monopolistic practices on many Haitian markets. His father was sanctioned by the US as well in 91 around Aristide’s coup d’état. He is today Haiti’s one and only billionaire. He is also indeed a Zionist, even is honorary consul for Israel. What’s antisemitic about pointing any of that out?

Man, I’d settle for something that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg for a shit box with terrible range half the year when it goes under freezing temps…

Honestly, it’s just another shell. Both Bash and ZSH happen to be mostly POSIX compliant, so stuff that works for Bash tends to work with ZSH too. For me it’s mostly just about the stuff I can add to it - I use the antidote plugin manager to get additional autocomplete, syntax highlighting, suggestions, async prompt updates, that kind of thing.

The answer is very location dependent, and often multifaceted. However here in Canada it’s a combination of neglecting affordable housing construction for decades, a huge uptick in immigration raising demand in some areas, a total lack of political willpower (most of our MPs report housing income, many actual landlords), and an economy that’s over-leveraged on real estate in general.

Yeah, it’s a good shell. I’ve found the lack of compatibility with some bash tools to be inconvenient enough that I just went back to zsh and found alternatives for the parts that I liked about it. Works well enough for me.