Encromion

joined 1 year ago
[–] Encromion@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

Just wrapped it. It was an amazing module and story, and while patch 2.0 was annoying, the stories and missions from phantom liberty were amazing.

[–] Encromion@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago

A new employee I took a risk on is not panning out. It's early yet so they have a few more months to gel and get up to speed but early indications are that I made a mistake. I spent a lot of time today covering their job duties and I lost my cool.

This is on me, but that's how my week is wrapping up. Sigh.

[–] Encromion@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In this thread - tons of smart people thinking that the tools we use to replace "make a backup of a file on a server somewhere" should require entire reference books, as if that's normal.

Saying "it's a graph of commits" makes no sense to a layperson. Hell the word "diff" makes no sense. Requiring training to get something right is acceptable, but "using CVS" is a tiny tiny part of the job, not the whole job. I mean, even most of the commenters on this thread are getting small things wrong (and some are handwaving it away saying "oh that small detail doesn't matter").

Look, git is hard. It's learnable, but it's hard. The concepts are medium hard to understand, and the way it does things is unique and designed for distributed, asynchronous work - which are usually hard problems to solve.

[–] Encromion@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dragonlance is a good one.

  • Wheel of Time
  • Mistborn
  • The Uplift Saga
  • The Alex Benedict Series
[–] Encromion@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

They turned the inside the suit moments of Iron Man into pop culture. They could figure it out, I bet!

[–] Encromion@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

And we were teased about it on the SciFi channel a bunch of years ago before they instituted cost savings measures.

[–] Encromion@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

Small price to pay for keeping your dream alive!

[–] Encromion@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not how it works in America FYI. Children can't inherit parent's debt. They can have inheritances taken away and they can assume debt, but it doesn't automatically go to them.

[–] Encromion@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Same here when I can get it. Otherwise just coffee and movement. Getting my brain into another task helps too.

[–] Encromion@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Google loss.jpg

[–] Encromion@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Counterpoint, capitalism has existed for only a few hundred years and yet hunter gatherer societies by and large faded out a few thousand years ago. I'm not saying there's a magic bullet solution here and/or we should revert to feudalism. But you didn't make the point you thought you were making.

[–] Encromion@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Heyimatthemallcomegetmebythefoodcourt" is my one word. It's what you would use as your name when using 1-800-collect.

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