boredatworkme

Money were no object, then I would work on an open, free alternative to sites like Ticketmaster.

In my case, disabling almost all the distracting social media notifications has helped me a great deal. I've long given up on using Instagram, Facebook. I saw Twitter and Reddit used to take up a bulk of my time, so I've removed the apps and I use the browser for these sites. Also, there's the screen time notification which I've set and forgotten the password to. I've so far resisted the urge to reset that password.

I believe at the end of day, just like any other forms of addiction, strong will is what helps us.

Got stuck with an underperforming person to manage - the person has no drive, no eagerness to work and above all expects someone in the team to babysit them because they don't know something. 0 instances in the last year (10-12 months) where they have proactively tried to understand what's happening. It's tough to get any work out of them and the worst part is my manager and the whole team knows they're useless but the company policy is a mess and it's practically not possible to get rid. So I'm thinking of showing myself the door but in this economy, I don't see any good job openings for myself :(

Grinding Leetcode to land a job in a different domain, on a different stack while working full time.

Just don't get enough time to Leetcode -> I'm not confident enough to apply -> stuck in the same frustrating job -> Makes me want to quit

Just can't seem to be able to break the cycle.

I've heard LinkedIn is very helpful when you're looking to switch jobs, but unfortunately this has not been my experience.

I noticed that everyone on LinkedIn projected themselves as an "expert" on something and in their own way wanted you to believe (marketed themselves) as someone who could solve every problem they'd encounter. This left a particularly bad taste for me, so I didn't seek out to network way too much on LinkedIn. People I know have 500+ connections on there, while I have about a few dozen. Perhaps this is the reason for my unsuccessful attempts at landing an interview from recruiters lurking on LinkedIn.

Appreciate your response. As a layman, if the service I'm using does not have access to any of the content of my messages, how would you (Whatsapp) be sharing my data? If whatsapp cannot read texts, images, location etc., then what gets shared with FB?

Thank you for your response. I think I fully agree with the last line - those who do not care about privacy won't really be affected by this.

I have a question to ask. How would this work? Even if for a second we assume that they're able to read all our texts etc., how can they curate that information with insurance companies? What data might the insurance companies be interested in? I would not (and I'm assuming a lot of people would not) specifically enter my age/health issues/Blood Pressure information on Whatsapp.

> They may very well sell also data to insurance companies making it harder for you to get insurance.

Can someone help and dumb this down a little bit for me so that I can then explain to some of my friends who couldn't care too much about this change in policy?

For example: What should be my response to questions like: . "What kind of data can now be shared with FB versus what was shared earlier (if any)?"

. "Whatsapp chats are end to end encrypted so how can my data be shared with FB?"

. "As an individual, how different is Whatsapp sharing my data with FB for ad/tracking purposes versus what other networks such as Google do to serve ads? Let's say I'm interested in ice-cream and I chat with someone about it and a couple of days later, I get ads about ice-cream, but I choose to ignore those ads, then how am I impacted/affected?"

Am I the only one who does not subscribe to a single youtube channel on any of my accounts?

My theory is that once you've watched a few of the videos you're interested in, the YouTube algorithm curates a list for me which I can continue watching. I do not want to be notified or otherwise informed of every video a channel publishes.

Anecdotal - In my country, doctors advice newborns to be given a certain dosage of Vit-D for the first year, in addition to trying to get them out in the open in the morning sun. We seem to be fairing slightly better with respect to COVID mortality numbers.

My firm pays a contractor for supporting our mainframe systems. His company charges us ~$900 a day for his services.

Tailoring Google search queries feels so much like writing Regular Expressions.

Couldn't edit, so replying to my comment:

The newbie section comes with a limited number of posts per day - so for example, I sign up today, I can post a maximum of 5 posts per day, and this limit goes up as I accumulate "likes".

I'm not sure if this will help if there are no community moderators trying to share a bit of the workload though.