Sleepless One
(he/him)
Terminally online insomniac code monkey from burgerland.
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Joined 6M ago
Cake day: Sep 19, 2022
This is an actual meme used in an architecture meeting in the company I work at.
Not only is it a dead meme, they're not even using it correctly.
The Marxist progression of history can be pictured as a stairway to communism. The journey begins on humanity’s ground floor. Primitive communism is pre-civilized humanity, for example hunter-gatherers, where class division did not exist in a significant manner. Only with the dawn of civilization and the advent of class society does the staircase appear. After a long climb up the stairway, according to Marxists, we finally arrive mankind’s destination—communism and the end of history.
Meanwhile…
Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.
I second this. I built a water cooled PC a few years ago (custom loop) and while I haven’t had any issues so far, part of maintaining a water cooled PC involves removing the radiators, washing them out with a cleaning liquid, putting the radiators back in, then running another cleaning solution through the loop for about several hours, then running water though it to rinse for several hours, then finally putting in the new fluid. It’s a time consuming process that will be more difficult if your build is set up in a way that’s hard to drain or remove the radiators from (like mine unfortunately). This maintenance is supposed be done at least once a year. It’s been longer than that since I’ve last done it, so I’m in a situation where I can either bite the bullet and perform the pain in the ass PC surgery or have a sword of Damocles hang over my machine.
There’s also the upfront pain in the ass in building the system. In my case the place I planned to put my pump is more awkward to reach and drain than I anticipated and there’s no room in the case for it anywhere else. There’s also installing the waterblock on your GPU. This requires removing the stock cooler and attaching the waterblock. The brand of waterblock I ordered didn’t have instructions on how to install so I had to find the instruction manual for a different brand of waterblock for the same GPU and wing it when the instructions didn’t apply. If you can figure out the instructions, you better hope one of the tiny delicate screws you need to remove doesn’t lose its threads while you’re unscrewing it and become stuck. This happened to me and I spent hours trying different ways to get the screw out, all of which were a pain in the ass and several of which could damage the chip with an easy to make fuckup. Did I mention that doing this delicate task that can easily fuck up your several hundred dollar hardware voids the warranty (a warranty sticker breaks when you remove the stock cooler)?
The only benefits you get from all this is the cool factor and maybe less fan noise.
Nothing wrong with your post, it’s just unexpected behavior on the part of the lemmy software. Grain Eater and I are on lemmygrad, and Local is only supposed to show posts from the instance we’re on. Since this post is on lemmy.ml, which is a different instance, it should show up under All but not under Local.
I’m not 100% sure what you’re asking. I didn’t say that the bourgeoisie would want to abolish robo lawyers.
My comment was directed at this from your previous comment:
I can see AI achieving that kind of smooth system. This is already starting to be implemented. But I think the bourgeoisie will intervene to crush that possibility, eventually, even if it binds the rest of us. The ruling class would lose many of its advantages without human lawyers.
However, looking back at that comment I think I may have misunderstood what you were saying. I thought “crush[ing] that possibility” was the use of AI lawyers, but a second look at your comment I originally replied to as well as your response to me makes me think that the possibility that is being crushed is instead the streamlining of law to be more cut and dry and less opaque to reason about, reducing or even eliminating the need for people trained in legalfu. To retain power, the state would either require writing legislation in a way that outlines how workers are to be fucked without the veil of inscrutable esoteric legalese or make fair laws only to flagrantly violate them. This would make the bourgeois legal system the proverbial emperor with no clothes, undermining the air of legitimacy required for the human rights law trickery you outlined to work, among other things.
If that’s what you were getting at, I agree with you.
Off the top of my head there was Fast and Furious under Obama.
I’ve noticed that also happens when editing comments. Compare this post on the instance I’m on with the post viewed from another instance.
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```typescript
class Lol {
get length() {
console.log('Lol. LMAO even.');
return 5;
}
}
const noLolsAllowed = (notALol: string) => {
for (let i = 0; i < notALol.length; ++i) {
console.log('No lols here');
}
}
noLolsAllowed(new Lol() as unknown as string);
```
Only tangentially related but
> According to the law, cars can be confiscated by the state if the driver's recorded intoxication level is over 1.5 per mille, which is equivalent to a blood alcohol concentration of 0.15%.
Damn, the drunk driving BAC is over twice that of burgerland.
I feel like I have been deteriorating for months. I haven't wanted to do anything and talk to anyone. Even playing video games feels like more work than I'm willing to do. I don't want to leave bed and just want to sleep permanently.
I'm lucky that I work from home and have a slow enough job that I can regularly shirk responsibility without anyone noticing. I'm also lucky that I still live with my parents and have some people around. But I can't keep living like this. Despite having a full time job, I'm living like a NEET.
I'm already seeing a therapist and getting medication from a shrink. That doesn't seem to be making a difference. Between support from professionals and family members and professionals, I'm getting more than enough help for most people to get back on their feet. Yet for some reason it's not enough for me.
I can only conclude at this point that the reason I'm continuing to get worse is that I refuse to take personal responsibility. I know "personal responsibility" isn't enough in most cases where systemic issues keep people down, but I'm ridiculously privileged, as in "has never faced anything resembling real hardship" privileged. The system is set up for shits like me to do well and I still can't pick myself up. It doesn't help that I have less self discipline than a teenage twitter anarchist who wants to abolish bedtime.
How do I get myself to stop being so lazy and do something? I'm tired of being little more than a parasitic slug.
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The Onion put out some amazing video series about a decade ago. Porkin' Across America perfectly nails dark humor.
I was just in a sprint retrospective with my team. We started with one of those corporate "fun" "ice breaker" things with a question of who you'd like to spend a day with. The scrum master went on for several minutes about how she'd like to spend the day with Alexy Navalny because he's the "only opposition to Putin". It was only a few minutes, but it was a very concentrated dose of liberalism.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/723015
> A new study shows that firms of all types are giving workers phony managerial titles in order to avoid paying them overtime a new study shows that firms of all types and sizes are giving workers phony managerial titles in order to avoid paying them overtime in what researchers see as an exploitation of federal labor laws. “If you are a manager and you're paid over a certain amount, in fact, that lifts the burden of firms having to pay you overtime,” said Lauren Cohen, a professor at Harvard Business School and one of the paper’s authors.
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> The logic at the time of the law’s creation was that managers are a special class of employee with a particular stake in the company’s future success. But today, many such workers are managers in name only, and the national threshold is only $455 a week, or under $24,000 a year. Cohen and his fellow researchers scoured job listings in the 2010s and discovered that right above that weekly $455 threshold, there was a 485 percent increase in the number of salaried positions with fancy-sounding managerial titles. Companies, it seemed, were often doling out fancy-sounding titles to salaried employees and then paying them just enough to legally shirk overtime rules. “We find widespread evidence of firms appearing to avoid paying overtime wages by exploiting a federal law,” the researchers state in their paper, which was recently published as a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research. https://www.nber.org/papers/w30826 On average, the strategy appears to save companies significant amounts of money (and costs workers just as much). The researchers estimate that firms pocket 13.5 percent in overtime payments for each bullshit manager title they hand out.
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> The overtime-evasion trick held across industries and around the country, according to the data, but was most obvious within industries and states where workers had fewer rights and less bargaining power, as well as in low-wage industries that are more often dinged for overtime violations, like retail and food and drink services.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/723015
> A new study shows that firms of all types are giving workers phony managerial titles in order to avoid paying them overtime a new study shows that firms of all types and sizes are giving workers phony managerial titles in order to avoid paying them overtime in what researchers see as an exploitation of federal labor laws. “If you are a manager and you're paid over a certain amount, in fact, that lifts the burden of firms having to pay you overtime,” said Lauren Cohen, a professor at Harvard Business School and one of the paper’s authors.
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> The logic at the time of the law’s creation was that managers are a special class of employee with a particular stake in the company’s future success. But today, many such workers are managers in name only, and the national threshold is only $455 a week, or under $24,000 a year. Cohen and his fellow researchers scoured job listings in the 2010s and discovered that right above that weekly $455 threshold, there was a 485 percent increase in the number of salaried positions with fancy-sounding managerial titles. Companies, it seemed, were often doling out fancy-sounding titles to salaried employees and then paying them just enough to legally shirk overtime rules. “We find widespread evidence of firms appearing to avoid paying overtime wages by exploiting a federal law,” the researchers state in their paper, which was recently published as a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research. https://www.nber.org/papers/w30826 On average, the strategy appears to save companies significant amounts of money (and costs workers just as much). The researchers estimate that firms pocket 13.5 percent in overtime payments for each bullshit manager title they hand out.
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> The overtime-evasion trick held across industries and around the country, according to the data, but was most obvious within industries and states where workers had fewer rights and less bargaining power, as well as in low-wage industries that are more often dinged for overtime violations, like retail and food and drink services.
Fucker has it coming. Here's hoping this doesn't just end up being a slap on the wrist.
This is the meme. I'm sure a few people here have seen it before.
I was reading some early Marx like the 1844 manuscripts and the Critique of the Hegelian Philosophy of Law. I just cannot follow along. Even with Marx breaking it down, I'm having a really hard time grasping what he's talking about whenever he critiques Hegel. Are there any good resources for learning this stuff?
My team has a virtual happy hour every week, and almost every time I have to hear about vuvuzela no food 69 billion dead. The one time it wasn't that was one of my coworkers defending JK Rowling for being a transphobe.
Just today corporate surveillance came up and one of my coworkers (who used to work for the defense industry, go figure) brings up muh see see pee pee poo poo. I told everyone I had other obligations and noped out before I had to hear that shit for the millionth time.
How's everyone else's week?
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/455637
> I've taken it upon myself to bring the ParentiBot we all know and love from the hellsite reddit to Lemmygrad.
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> Have you ever been in a situation where the Parenti quote applies? As quotable as Michael Parenti is, people pretty much always mean the same quote. There's no need to go searching for that quote anymore. Simply mention ParentiBot like this: [@ParentiBot@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/ParentiBot);
> or use the phrase "Parenti quote" (casing and space between characters doesn't matter) in your comment or post.
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> I'm open to suggestions as to how the quote should be formatted. Currently the quote is in its entirety all in one block quote. As much as we tankies love our walls of text, I've had an admin express concern that having a bot posting walls of text in comment threads can lead to a worse thread reading experience for the threads the bot appears in, and I can see where they're coming from.
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> For the more technically inclined, I invite you to [view the source code](https://codeberg.org/SleeplessOne1917/Lemmy-Parenti-Bot). It has a copyleft license, as all based software should.
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> Finally, to admins and moderators, feel free to reach out to me if you need help making a bot. The power of bots has been used for cringe purposes here before, like the mass downvoter, but I'll gladly help make based bots.
If we can make a ParentiBot, we can make any of the old bots we all know and love. I will seriously and gladly make the Volcel Vanguard bot if people want it and if anyone knows where to find the text it's supposed to post.
**Edit**: I finally figured out how to run ParentiBot as a systemd service on my desktop that I never turn off. It should have a lot more uptime now.
I've taken it upon myself to bring the ParentiBot we all know and love from the hellsite reddit to Lemmygrad.
Have you ever been in a situation where the Parenti quote applies? As quotable as Michael Parenti is, people pretty much always mean the same quote. There's no need to go searching for that quote anymore. Simply mention ParentiBot like this: [@ParentiBot@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/ParentiBot);
or use the phrase "Parenti quote" (casing and space between characters doesn't matter) in your comment or post.
I'm open to suggestions as to how the quote should be formatted. Currently the quote is in its entirety all in one block quote. As much as we tankies love our walls of text, I've had an admin express concern that having a bot posting walls of text in comment threads can lead to a worse thread reading experience for the threads the bot appears in, and I can see where they're coming from.
For the more technically inclined, I invite you to [view the source code](https://codeberg.org/SleeplessOne1917/Lemmy-Parenti-Bot). It has a copyleft license, as all based software should.
Finally, to admins and moderators, feel free to reach out to me if you need help making a bot. The power of bots has been used for cringe purposes here before, like the mass downvoter, but I'll gladly help make based bots.
**Edit**: It might take a bit more work than I thought. I tried getting the bot to run as a background process on my computer, but that ended up killing my connection to lemmygrad. I'll see what I can do.
**Edit 2**: I finally figured out how to have ParentiBot run as a systemd process on my desktop that I never turn off. It should have plenty of uptime now.
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I was thinking of making a parenti bot and noticed that lemmy's settings allow you to mark an account as a bot. Doing a search for "bot" in the server side code shows options for showing/hiding content posted by bots when viewing communities, but I didn't see anything for actually having an account run a script.
I'm sure people viewing this from lemmygrad may recall Comarade Rose, who was likely a bot, regularly posting content from communist subreddits; I'm sure making a bot is possible.
It looks like the CIA is doing more to fight the information war than banning subreddits and commanding bot farms.
It looks like the mods bagged the mass downvoter.
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If an element is out of order, remove it from the array.
An example in everyone's (least) favorite language:
`
const americanSort = (list, compare) => list.reduce((acc, cur) => {
const lastElement = acc.length > 0 ? acc[acc.length - 1] : null;
return lastElement ? compare(lastElement, cur) < 1 ? [...acc, cur] : acc : [cur];
}, []);
`
`console.log(americanSort([5, 2, 6, 5, 20, 10, 40], (a, b) => a - b))` outputs `Array(4) [ 5, 6, 20, 40 ]`
I recently found out that RSS is a thing and am looking for some good feeds to follow.
I'm a windows loser looking to make the plunge into Linux. I was thinking of switching my gaming PC to Linux in the near future. Before I make up my mind, I'll probably try out VMs of distros.
I've lurked a few Linux communities here and on lemmy.ml, some I'm gonna regurgitate some things I half remember in the hope of being being corrected and starting discussion about what I should be doing.
- Ubuntu isn't good
- Mint is good despite being based on Ubuntu. Made with former windows users in mind
- Debian is good because of their packages or package manager or something. Recently sold out, but there are spinoffs that don't use proprietary software like Duvian.
- Fedora seemed to get some good word but I can't remember why.
- Arch and it's spinoffs require a shit ton of finagling to get right but can do a lot of cool things
- There are different desktop environments like GNOME, Cinnamon, and ... others? I honestly don't know what a desktop environment is.
- Wine (or the fork Proton) can run windows native games on Linux
- There are snap, flat something or other, and ... other ways for installing software.
I'm sure I'm missing a lot and got some things wrong. Any help getting started is appreciated.
**Edit**: I ended up going with a KDE plasma spin of Fedora 36. Once I figured out how to get the nvidia drivers set up it was smooth sailing.
"According to competitive analysis, our product sucks. What's the silver lining? I can't answer that."
- higher up manger in large meeting
I have nothing else to add, I just thought that was funny.
This person seriously thought that was an own.
BTW this was for the [tankiest Minecraft mod in existence](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/hungry-stalin) made by yours truly.
Today, a project I was working on with a team for about 7-8 months got canceled abruptly. I was part of a team that was making a website version of an existing mobile app the company owned, hitting the same backend as the mobilie app and shit. Nobody was using the app, so management decided to pull the plug.
Flashback to earlier this year. I was part of a team that was working on a marketing thingy for financial advisors that connects to our bread and butter app. After about a year of adding features to the thingy and refactoring horrendous code, our team was about to start working on a big addition to the thing. We got as far as setting up the environments for the microservices when management decided to cancel all future development on the marketing thingy and everyone on the team was moved to different teams.
Before all that, I was part of a team that was working on a single page application meant to fit into our bread and butter financial planning app to make the experience of interacting with some existing stuff less shitty. I don't remember how long that went on for, but the plug got pulled on that before any of that UI could make it to production. Most of my coworkers quit.
In my somewhat over 4 year career as a professional code monkey, the only code I've written for my employer that has reached development have been small tweaks and refactors to software that no longer receives new features.
The original sin of my company (besides the obvious one of being a capitalist enterprise) is that all of our software is made at the behest of the financial advisors, with minimal to no input from the end users.
I know some other users here are programmers and probably understand some of what I'm talking about. I figured this vent would be interesting and discussion provoking. Fuck, I have a few other things about the company I could talk about that people might find interesting. It's a fintech company after all, and I'm sure the ML website is gonna be full of people who understand finance capital's role in imperialism.
Que my cracker friend telling me they watch Serpentza and telling me that the see see pee is painting the mountains green.
My other cracker friend chimed in to say that the see see pee pee poo poo is just telling all the Chinese they're communist to keep them from revolting. Because you know, obviously they want to do things like they do it in Burgerland /s.
I'm going to be complaining a bunch in this post, so if you don't want to hear the moaning of a labor aristocrat who should really not be complaining about his situation, feel free to skip this post.
I don't feel like a human being. I'm unable to feel empathy. I'm unable to feel any sort of human bond, even with friends and family I've known my whole life. I've been in therapy and on meds for years but they don't help. This leads to a life of no joy or meaning. I'm also not moved by the suffering of others when I know I should be. I've watched videos of some of the Ukranian war crimes and read a post another user made that went into graphic detail about the Thai sex trade and felt... nothing. As far as I'm concerned, I'm an evil psychopath. But I don't want to be this way. But I don't know how to change. Because of this, the only emotions I know are anger and self loathing. I genuinely despise myself.
Because I'm a fucking monster, I lash out at people sometimes and say terrible things. Hell, there was a post a few weeks ago here highlighting some evil unhinged shit that got my lemmy account banned. In fact, if the mods are worried I'm going to say some unhinged shit that's basically fed bait, I would fully understand if you banned me. I'm not even sure people like me should be allowed near communities.
Because I have, I can't think of another way to put this, no soul, I barely do anything in life. The only reason I'm able to keep up with my job is that it's a barely monitored remote code monkey gig. I barely move and don't monitor what I eat. I spend an unhealthy amount of time on the internet, and often I'll go days at a time without sleeping. I don't have the guts to put a bullet in my brain, but I'm basically already doing a slow motion suicide.
I'm posting this here because this community seems to understand what's going on in the world, is full of compassionate people, and has users who are experienced with dealing with mental illness.
How the fuck do I become a human being? How do I stop being a psychopath?
I couldn’t find the one I had in mind, but I found another one that’s just as cringe.