I was one of several people hired to a team that dangled a single promotion in front of us. I had enough self awareness to know I wasn’t in the race but man this one guy did so much brown nosing it was actually embarrassing and ultimately he lost out on it. He totally crashed and disengaged. Painful to watch. You’re right about the rewards: one person got rewarded and the rest of us are taking inflation paycuts every year because there are no raises or bonuses.

I’d drink one if it meant a lawsuit big enough to never work again.

It literally has direction on it that say to do this. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills reading these comments.

As a middle-aged bald, I needed this.

Why do wives eat French fries off their husbands’ plates when they could just order their own? Because it doesn’t count if you didn’t order it. Those fries may as well be in international waters. Same with kids candy.

No it is not their main money generator. Their personal computing segment of the company which includes Windows, Xbox, Bing and surface is less than 15B in revenue compared with 100B for Azure. So windows is literally a single digit percentage of their revenue.

You are very much not fine.

sounds like you need a medical diagnosis for whatever disorder you have.

The C Word

This is essentially the Serenity prayer as used in 12-step programs:

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference.

“All experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustimed.”

Right now I’m just using it for an AirGradient dashboard, which is an open hardware / open software air quality monitor. I used claude to rewrite the firmware to send the data to prometheus instead if their own servers, and countless other frustrating changes because they make the whole operation dependent on a connection to their servers…anyway, I didn’t want to pay a subscription for something so simple. I’ve thought about using it for some other projects, but for a lot of stuff I just don’t see the need for a dedicated dash.

Dan Carlin did a mini episode of Hardcore History about torture and execution and the first like 20 minutes is him talking about the morality and psychology of consuming it as entertainment and hypothosizing how that could come to be in modern times. Aaannd we’re here.

The drives for my media server are recertified enterprise grade 16tb instead of brand new consumer 8tb. doubled the capacity for like only 20% above what consumer is selling for. RAM screwed me tho. Couldn’t find a way around that one.

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

Primetime, about the To Catch a Predator show [music] from the 00s. I don’t think it’s out yet

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• Fleet: 4–5 devices · 21–50 TB
• Motivation: Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Learning & experimenting, Cost savings

So I guess they managed to hack deeper than the employment records afterall. You can absolutely never trust the first reporting on breaches.