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  • the way private companies work is that they require their employees to produce more than is reasonable given the work quality that is expected.

    when this discrepancy is pointed out, it’s handwaved away. when the discrepancy results in problems, as it most obviously will, somebody is found to place the blame on.

    it’s not the developer’s faults. it’s a management decision.

    source: I’m talking out of my ass I’m just a salty employee who is seeing this happen at their own workplace when it didn’t used to, at least not to this level







  • that people as a whole are inherently good

    nope. nope nope nope. people are inherently selfish

    half the population of the world seemingly needs to believe in fairy tales and a magic book to give them a moral code. people will, time and time again, do things for their own convenience or desires at a greater direct and immediate expense to somebody else, i.e. knocking somebody over to spill $10 out of their pockets and only steal $2 and run away.

    fuck people. people will get respect when they earn respect. everybody else gets basic decency and nothing more, until they prove they’re not an asshole. and the moment they prove that they are an asshole, they get treated like one.


  • lol yeah, I am in a position where I can say stuff like that. also he generally tends to listen as long as people actually have a point. but he is super pro AI.

    he didn’t really have a response to it. he doesn’t seem to get that not everything needs to be AI. he thinks it will enable people to do more better work, and kind of seems to ignore the possibility that not everybody will get to use it like he does - some people will have to validate the output. he seems to think that it will get to the point where people don’t need to validate the output, it will be like entering numbers into a calculator and the result is trusted (or, at least certified good enough).






  • you chose to. nobody forced you. you made that choice. your convenience was a higher priority than others’ safety.

    fuck you for pretending you had to get a car with blinding headlights. you know it’s disingenuous.

    • you have options. you can buy a used car that doesn’t have them. you can pay to retrofit safe headlights on. you can angle them wayyyy the fuck down so they never blind anybody, even on bumps and hills. you can tint them to limit the harshness. from your comment, I am assuming you’ve done none of these things

  • yes, it is

    modern headlights often use the exact same light for the “low” and “high” beams. same intensity, just aimed lower and higher, not lower and higher power.

    as a result, because y’know how roads aren’t fucking flat and shit, yeah so they inevitably shine directly into your face all the fucking time because like there’s lots of cars and you’re driving for more than two minutes at a time, and so you get blinded

    people will claim it’s just poorly adjusted headlights or retrofitted LEDs in halogen housings - it’s those, too, but not JUST those, and the primary cause is that they’re just too fucking bright. the regulations have not caught up. manufacturers get higher safety ratings for brighter lights that blind the oncoming drivers of 5000lb vehicles. it’s fucked. people will tell you “oh matrix headlights will solve this” or that autodetecting headlights work great - no, they won’t, and no, they don’t. they’re too fucking bright. just make them less bright

    some of the dumbest shit I have ever seen in my life is people reconciling the concept of their headlights being so goddamn bright that they need to be angled down to prevent blinding people and their headlights not being able to shine far down the road to show where they are driving. like if you just made the lights the same as they were in 2012, you would be able to see farther down the road. it’s fucked.