rubyist5eva

Podcast experience on desktop is absolutely miserable. I just want a list of the most recent unplayed episodes in chronological order, is that too much to ask? Like jeez, it sounds like the most basic feature imaginable that should be part of an MvP for crying out loud.

Only reason I still use it is because it's easier to cast to my google nest minis than Apple Podcasts.

It's a bunch of smoke and mirrors akin to blockchain, bitcoin (and the entire web3/crypto space in general) - a whole bunch of hype and "evangelists" who keep saying it's going to change the world (and make them a whole lot of money in the process, how convenient!) but if you do look at it critically even at a surface level you realize it's just a bunch of really computationally expensive BS that isn't any better or more officient than existing status quo solutions.

last year I made a custom build of Iosevka using the customizer on the website and building it on my machine, and I can't use any other font now. If you like the general look of Iosevka, but prefer certain glyph variants over others - highly recommended to look into creating a custom iosevka build for yourself

Reminding me of my younger days, during my lolbertarian phase where I thought people would do the right thing and have safety procedures in place because "market forces" would shut them down if people died. To be that naive again...

As I’m getting older I’ve basically had to swear off alchohol and marijuana completely. Even if I don’t get intoxicated (or stoned), I nearly always just feel like absolute garbage the next day (not hangover, just feel gross and groggy). Sometimes it’s lasted for days, even when I only have one drink or smoke barely enough weed to get a little buzzed. Fortunately I’ve also reached a point where I just don’t really feel good from being intoxicated either so I don’t really have a recreational incentive to do it anymore either.

I don’t know how these things affect other people’s “sober lives” but if it’s anything like that I don’t see how people can function when getting intoxicated semi-regularly. The cost-benefit just seems completely lobsided.

Of course not, they’re too busy coming up with their own Ponzi scheme.

> It's understandable that the external perception of the company is bad (and even sexist)

> They were adamant about hiring women.

So it seems like the perception is justified then.

I fail to see the value of an AI that basically just regurgitates something you could already find in a search engine, on top of just spewing out completely nonsensical garbage if it can't find something. All this AI chatbot crap just seems like a step-backward as a whole, not too different from cryptocurrencies and blockchain where it offers no tangible benefit over the status-quo, costs way more for worse performance, and is still outperformed by traditional systems.

> In my opinion, it would be beneficial if DEI initiatives were confidential and kept "hush hush" within a company.

They shouldn't exist at all. If DEI favored white people, it would be "problematic", and that tells you all you need to know. As if non-white people can't be successful on their own and need special treatment. Tokenizing human beings to get social-credit for your corporation is, frankly, disgusting and extremely racist.

Do you talk about your “senior engineers” this way to their faces? Using scare quotes to refer to the titles of your colleagues? Do you refer to them as minions too?

You sound like an absolutely insufferable person to work under.

> If you're running Ubuntu anywhere there's a bit of bureaucracy, like a government or large business

> businesses that can’t afford $500/year/server

Pick one