kibiz0r

“Issues are for work items only. Communications go in discussions.”

posts this communication as an issue

Seriously though, this approach makes sense to me and I wish more projects did it.

It’s weird that “legacy code” is a pejorative.

If your code has lasted long enough to be considered “old”, but is still so useful that it can’t just be deleted without a dedicated replacement effort… it’s doing something right.

I’m gonna need to see that math

In 2019, the total cost of every robbery in the country was $482 million.

The cost of wage theft was more than 100 times that number.

The FBI Uniform Crime Reporting program recorded 267,988 robberies in 2019. Those robberies cost businesses and the public $482 million in total losses. But wage theft costs workers $50 billion every year. And most of the time, employers get away with stealing money from their employees.

What is wage theft? Wage theft means underpaying workers. It can take several forms, including paying less than the minimum wage, withholding overtime pay, or not compensating workers for all of their work hours.

Imagine you work at a minimum wage job. But your company asks you to show up 30 minutes before the store opens every morning to prep – without paying you for that time. Over the course of a year, you’ve logged more than 100 unpaid hours of work. That’s wage theft.

I know it’s not the point, but it grinds my gears how many people think “Capitalism is when money, and Communism is when no money”

No thanks. People don’t wield power, power wields people.

its*

Security guard is one. Had a friend in college that basically got paid 8hrs/night to do 2hrs of actual work and 6hrs of building his portfolio. It can definitely work well for some folks.

There is no alternative to pissing on her grave

I mean… She’s taking the ambiguity in the original statement and using it to make a valid point about how the country has never healed the wounds of slavery, and the concepts of unity and division continue to play a significant role in racial oppression.

But also… In order to do it, she had to ignore the context of how the original statement tends to be used. Which is something like: “This information ecosystem pushes everyone to express a controversial opinion about every little thing, and willingly misread others’ words in the least charitable way possible in order to use them as fodder for establishing in-group status, and that leads to a political identity so far removed from the reality of lived experience that it can only exist as hot takes, memes, and clap-backs.”

And in that sense… Her words aren’t wrong, but her words also aren’t the actual message. The actual message is: “Any time someone complains that social media creates a hostile, divisive environment of one-upsmanship over phrases, you can one-up them with this phrase”.

Also: I am aware that I’m also trying to one-up a social media post on social media! It’s status games all the way down, as Andrew Potter points out in this interview on The Authenticity Hoax. Successfully contrasting against the prevailing culture is how the prevailing culture gets built. I just… hope we start to build a culture that’s more critical of the way the tech fascists abuse that cultural pump to their own benefit.

Got Megabonk working on my Retroid, and can’t stop playing it. I thought I would try getting some other games going, but I just play Megabonk instead.

Opus Magnum

That game scratches my brain in such a satisfying way