Bringing protection to the first date might be presumptuous, but hey, sometimes that’s the vibe

Personally, I like the southern twang.

It feels almost lyrical

I love factorio, I have over a hundred hours in it.

I still haven’t launched a rocket yet

If the company admits that the cost of wrongdoing might be worth a billion dollars, and then still engages in a billion dollars worth of wrongdoing, maybe the fine ought to be two billion

The trick in conversion is that you want to pull people into your service, rather than pushing your service onto them.

To use a sales analogy, imagine you’re shopping for a car. You visit a salesman who’s very pushy. They tell you all the reasons you need to buy this car, insist that this is the best car for you, and put you in the car. Then you drive the car and realize it doesn’t meet your needs. You might think the salesman was terrible and vow never to visit them again.

Conversely, imagine you meet a very different salesman. They let you walk around the lot, answer questions about each car, and maybe even talk you out of extra features you don’t need. “Yeah, the SUV will have more room for groceries, but for your daily commute the fuel economy is going to bite you.” You’ll probably respect that the salesman is trying to meet your needs, and the next time you’re shopping for a car you’ll visit them again.

Getting people onto the fediverse is somewhat similar. We’re already here, and if you’ve been here for a long time then there’s probably a bunch of things you like about it. You might insist that your friends should join lemmy because it’s open-source, ad-free, aligns with your politics, decentralized, or whatever. But if you’re leading with all that, then you’re putting your values onto the person you want to join. If those values don’t align, then maybe they’ll join, but they’ll just as quickly leave if it doesn’t immediately mesh.

When I want to pull someone in, I’ll mention that I saw some meme / post / video or whatever on lemmy, and then tell them about the post. You’re leading with the value of the content, and if the person you want to join also enjoys that content, they might ask what lemmy is. This is your invitation to pull them in.

Okay, so you asked for a one-liner, and here it is: “It’s like reddit, but it’s free from ads and corporate ownership.”

If they seem interested, give them a link to whatever instance you’re on. A lot of the time we might want to talk about the whole decentralized thing and picking out instances, but if you know nothing about the fediverse then the process sounds confusing and can turn people off. Just a link to a registration page will do and they can take it from there.

Who’s at index zero?

If your organization is such a clusterfuck that you can’t figure out how to open a PDF, then I’m going to consider that a bullet dodged.

Nah, in the future we’ll have Space Force and no OSHA

A hammer is beginner friendly, but learning to use a hammer doesn’t necessarily mean you’re ready to build a house with it.

Well, I’m not a psychologist, so I suppose my interpretation might not be correct - the irony mounts.

But from the graphs you shared, it looks to me like the only people who underestimated themselves were the top performers. And from what I know firsthand with imposter syndrome, a competent person underestimates themselves.

I used hyperbole for effect, so I don’t think that if you believe you have zero competence in something because you actually have zero competence means that you’re secretly good at something. If you know nothing about plumbing, don’t try to install a toilet.

But if you’re working in the software factory then you don’t actually have zero competence, you probably have formal education and some experience. Having that feeling that you might not be good enough is a sign that you’re on the right track.

I felt like that early in my career. I used to think that being a rockstar developer was a good thing, and I’d be happy to describe myself as one.

The thing is, a lot of rockstars are really just churning out heaps of unmaintainable code. They think they have a high degree of proficiency, they’re confident in their competence, but there’s a disconnect between what they think and what they produce.

It can be a sign of personal improvement to question yourself when you think you’re doing great. We owe it to ourselves to ask ourselves critically if we can be doing better. Because if we don’t, and we just assume we’re awesome, then we’ll happily churn out sub-awesome cruft.

The insidious thing is that self-criticism leads to self-doubt, and imposter syndrome can be quite paralyzing. But if you learn to control your criticism instead of allowing your criticism to control you, you can achieve higher heights than rockstardom.

Based on what I know of Imposter Syndrome and the Dunning-Kruger effect, it seems you’re at your most competent when you feel like you’re at your least.

So if you’re feeling badly because you feel like you don’t know enough to do your job, take some time to remind yourself that other people who appear to be confident have no idea what they’re doing.

It’s fake-it-till-you-make-it all the way down.

I’m definitely writing useless git commit messages

For work, I at least include the Jira ticket id

For personal stuff, it’s sweeping features stuffed into one commit that barely describes what was changed

Not that I doubt the locals or anything - and like, fuck Microsoft - but what kind of industrial waste would a data center have?

From the article, it sounds like the facility is still under construction, so I imagine there might be construction waste, but that’s not really my field and I don’t know what that looks like. Runoff cement?

I recommend Dusk to people just for the music.

I mean, the game is good too, but the soundtrack just goes so hard

I think the best format would be a side-scrolling beat 'em up like Double Dragon. Jack and Wang tag teaming their way through back alley Chinatown, enemies starting out as thugs but getting more supernatural as they descend into Lo Pan’s nightmare.

Beat 'em ups also lend themselves to retro stlyed games, and Big Trouble in Little China is already oozing 80’s neon charm that I think they’d go very well together.

Jack Burton is player two, I will fight people on this.

I also have a USB stick on my keys. Mostly I keep books I’m reading, favorite movies, stuff like that. Then when I’m hanging out with friends later and we’re talking about what we’re watching I have it all ready to share.

Surely you’ve thoroughly thought this through though?

I just shared this with my wife because she’s an artist and hates AI as much as I do.

Apparently she made an account last night.