Fuck off, let people enjoy things. The idea that you need to be knowledgeable in something before trying it is an unnecessary hurdle to just play around with things and learn

Wheel of Time is an incredible experience, if you ever get to it and like it (especially the last few books) I’d also recommend Brandon Sanderson’s first era of Mistborn books! The second era gets a bit too convoluted imo

Give Me Mouse Give Mouse Me Give Hug Mouse Me Hug Mojse Give Me Hug Mouse Give Me You

Me, telling my Junior devs how shit their code is (they copied the code I wrote 6 months ago)

No, I’d say there’s a difference. It’s like someone who likes all colors vs. someone who’s colorblind.

That’s BS, at least here in Germany we have a system called “Bafög” where kids whose parents don’t earn enough to support them through University get a pretty decent monthly stipend. So anyone who wants to get higher education has the opportunity to do so.

I remember listening to an audiobook about Bisexuality some time ago that used a unique but very logical set of definitions. Those were:

• Straight: attracted to gender(s) that are not the same as yours
• Gay: attracted to gender(s) that are the same as yours
• Bi: attracted to gender(s) that are yours as well as gender(s) that are not yours
• Pan: Attraction is independent of gender

So someone who isn’t Nonbinary being attracted to someone who is NB could still count as Straight by that definition. You could also count an Enby as straight if they’re attracted to both male and female presenting people, but not other Enbies.
But honestly, it’s just a fun framework and people should be able to describe themselves however they like. The semantics of their category doesn’t really matter after all.

statistically speaking, cheesecake.

Calling landlords human sure is a bold move

okay but can’t this just be explained by women statistically being the ones who prepare the food, so they already salt it to their tastes before it gets to the table?

Aw man, spoiled the surprise of their sweet new balcony garden 😞

Today’s the day when too many emails end with “sadly, this is not an april fool’s joke”. Already had my fair share of them today as the coworkers are freaking out about the attack on axios (they’re a day late, but I guess I wasn’t in yesterday to alert them…)

There’s this app called Too Good To Go, where you go to a food place and just get whatever they want to give you. Much less embarrassing, but you’d still be expressing desire to get any food at all (cringe)

As a woman, I can tell you it’s because it’s unfair. You should be wearing a bikini too to make it fair 👍

I’m calling AI slop on this one. Why are there beans stacked on top of the can on her head? And why do the background cans look so out of scale?

I mean, I agree with the fact that it’s fun to know the basics to software engineering (just knowing the words in a coding language is kinda useless by itself) but no one’s building their own alternatives by themselves. The field is too vast. Find your specialty and contribute to open source projects.

My Github Actions configurations will bankrupt entire continents

Random side tangent, my favourite coworker got fired last year. The real reason was that she was unhappy (manager has been promising a change to a team that isn’t as dogshit as mine, but not delivering on it) so her output of code was pretty low. It took a year for the company to actually go through with the firing, and since “not delivering enough output” is not a valid reason for firing someone here, they had to give “the company does not have enough money to pay for you” as a reason. They gave her 3 months of paid leave (that’s the agreed duration for notices of termination, anything less would have been illegal) and wanted her to sign something that says she’s okay with being fired. She was smart enough to not do that.

Because she could prove that the company did have enough money to pay her (they re-filled her position almost instantly) she could have sued to be re-hired. Well, she went back to the company and was like “okay, how much severance will I get to not sue you?” and she got another 15k on top of her paid leave. It was a pretty good deal. Oh, and she also got an excellent recommendation letter, because you can also sue a company if they say anything negative about you in their recommendation letters (there are lawyers specialized in finding hidden dog whistles in those letters and suing accordingly).

German worker’s rights really are pretty solid imo. My company isn’t even bound by a union, the protections are much stricter for companies that are. My husband works for a company that voluntarily follows IG Metall guidelines and he got a random 4k/year raise recently just because IG Metall adjusted their pay recommendations. And government jobs are even crazier than that, there are some where you literally cannot be fired whatever you do.

Basically any kind of employee surveillance is illegal (here in Germany) unless the employee is suspected of serious misconduct or a crime. An employer is only allowed to check whether an employee fulfills the tasks given to them, not how they spend their time at work.
I make software that other companies use and we aren’t allowed to even build any user -> activity metrics, especially not if that users boss could access them. So i.e. for Datasets, we’re only allowed to show “This Dataset was last edited by User x” and not “User x has edited the following Datasets: […]”.
Here’s a German article about some specifics. Basically these things are very explicitly illegal: Keyloggers, surveilling browser data, surveilling email or phone call contents (unless explicit consent is given) and recording any part or the employees screen or from their webcam. Surveilling an employee with AI would definitely fall into one of these categories. oh, and the fine is around 300k€ or 1-2 years in prison.

I’m pretty sure other European countries have similar laws 😄

Luckily something like that is highly illegal here haha