fubarx @ fubarx @lemmy.ml

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Prediction: first big company to offer 32-hour work week at no loss of pay, with choice of remote or hybrid, will hoover up all the Grade-A talent.

Anyone know if this can run under Parallels on a Mac M3?

Kamala's sister.

If the Astroscale grabs a piece of debris and nudges it toward atmosphere, won't it de-orbit itself as well? It wasn't clear from the article.

Seems like it would be more efficient to attach a couple of small boosters to the debris and wave bye-bye, Wile E. Coyote style.

Surprised it got the spelling right.

Many companies (including tech) started DEI policies in order to broaden their pool of candidates and make internal promotions more merit-based. The stated goal was to attract better candidates and make their services and products more in line with their customers. Made sense.

A few years later, many are capitulating to political pressures to drop those programs.

Thing is, the original problem still stands and these shareholders (who presumably mostly care about their investment) know this. That's why they're voting down these proposals. They could call Costco and Apple West Coast liberals, but not Deere. It's just smart business.

Question is... How do you get back?

Minesweeper.

Anguished cries of my enemies.

Mwahahahaha!

Richard Scarry/Busytown fans. Wife got a cat during COVID and named her Sally Cat.

Remember to break this news gently to your elderly parents.

Best recipe I had contained fresh sprigs of dill. Could also experiment with small crunchy veggies (carrots, cauliflower, etc).

Can't someone come up with a browser that just randomly lies when asked about the characteristics that could be used for fingerprinting?

Except for trusted, whitelisted sites.

That seems like it would be a pretty good privacy enhancer.

BP brought on Bernard Looney as CEO to help steer the company from oil to 'energy' and renewables. By all accounts he did a bang-up job of it, but was forced to resign after a messy scandal involving relationships with coworkers.

The replacement CEO promptly undid all the work and did a hard U-turn back into hydrocarbons.

So all these museums that thought they were accepting funds from a renewable energy champion are now stuck holding the bag for a good old 'Drill Baby Drill' company.

I saw the security article, but that sounds like it needs to be tackled by MSFT, the way Google has to handle Chrome extensions.

Have been a paid Jetbrains user for years, especially PyCharm. But recently, I had to do some front-end web development with ionic/Capacitor and Vue, and ionic only had a VsCode plugin. A few weeks later, came across Cursor which is a fork of VsCode with LLM support, and all the same plugins worked.

Still keeping my PyCharm subscription, but am wobbly on whether I'll re-up next year.

You all realize pretty soon no human is going to update an existing code-base?

Who wants to spend their time understanding 10 year old legacy code? They'll just feed it into an AI and tell it to add or fix a feature, then generate tests, and file a PR.

If it ends up having an airplane do a loop on take-off or sending your paycheck to Antarctica 🤷🏻‍♂️

Pretty funny seeing what is after all, a 'romantic' venture (dating apps) broken down in a completely utilitarian analysis. Also helps to have a brook-no-shit writing style.

Years ago, was asked to do dev work on a clone of a dating app. Ended up looking at all the things these kinds of apps did to get people to pay. Two features I remember were giving new users option to buy top profile placement for a limited time, so they showed up as a first choice for everyone for the next hour.

Another was sending paid 'virtual' gifts, which turned out were badly ripped off clipart of flowers and jewelry. This was when Tinder was first starting so none of the fancy retention methods described here or AI filters.

I passed on working on the app, but made sure my wife knew exactly why I had installed all those dating apps on my phone. It really was for research.

Tried it in Cursor (paying for both). 3/4 of the time get an error that says 3.7 is overloaded. Toggling back to 3.5 works. Will wait till the novelty wears off.

I once saw pool fencing where the base was weighed down with water or sand, like those 'children playing' signs. Easy to move out of the way when not needed.

Whatever happened to https://kivy.org/?

It looked like they would be the way to build cross-platform pythonic UIs.