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• You’re right, and the person you’re replying to is, too.

  My take is an analogy (strictly from the cells in my brain lol) -

  The “ground” we all stood on, that previously felt ~flat (trying to be brief here) rapidly shifted under all of us, and very suddenly merely standing in one place, meaning anything from keeping a job, retaining enjoyment (even understanding) of the craft and crafted thing, an ideological stance, a hundred other things -

  The ground sloped suddenly, and merely remaining in one place became a struggle not to slide and tumble downhill. And so we all are, tumbling downhill, at varying rates of speed and control, and it seems like the slope might be getting steeper, though at least much more slowly, now…probably.

  Resulting from the sudden slope, the most experienced became wildly capable, that shit is real (at least at present). The least experienced? Those who need to get the experience, and to pay their bills, experience their lives, and to maybe later become the wise arbiters? Well, fuck them. Fell into the bottom of that new slope. Fuck everyone else, too, actually, hits everyone in lotsa ways, slope don’t care.

  It’s all fucked, the ground has become a maw.

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  Sidenote (most important note) - when there is a swing back - doggedly insist on training, helping, spending time with the juniors, it’s your biggest and truest value throughout this all, AND SEPARATELY your heaviest punch back

  on Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13h ago

• This was a great answer, thank you.

  on Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 2d ago

• What do you think can be done for more and better third spaces? I’m at an almost total loss but damn do we need them. And people can tell, even when they don’t quite have the words to describe that need, they sense the lack for certain.

  on Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 6d ago

• ID required for computer use in general has to be my line in the sand and that scares the fuck outta me. I have no idea how to make ends meet for the people who depend on me, if I have to walk away from computers, but there has to be a line somewhere.

  on Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 17 Sep 2026

• Sheeeit, I live in a state where we directly voted for a particular thing, like overwhelmingly the public said “yeah, do things this way for fuck’s sake!”

  And the legislators? They said “we don’t think that’s in your best interest, actually, so no, don’t think we will”. And that was the end of that. (Actually not really, they did similar stuff with a couple other things too, including screwing our teachers enough to get them to organize a bit despite how heavy their workloads already are, damn was I eager to help with that!).

  Voting to solve problems. Lol!!

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  Dear reader, if this is you, you don’t have to begin anew the tired recapitulation of the arguments - I do vote, like a chump, every chance I get, while also knowing we simply cannot vote our way out of this, that has been engineered (and continually is!) to never happen.

  on Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 17 Sep 2026

• First off, don’t sweat it, the “nightmare” was probably 20-30 annoying minutes for the senior.

  But commit count isn’t what would’ve made it tough to merge, and strictly speaking smaller commits is typically better.

  Concretely: limit the kinds and the reach of changes you’re asking someone to review & merge. I’ve never done localization but I’ll try to guess for an example -

  1000 lines changed because you’re replacing an incorrect punctuation character misused everywhere - that’s really only one change to have to think about, it’s 1000 lines but one fairly trivial change.

  Now, if each of those lines was improving some phrasing, done by a native speaker that found existing phrasing clunky for their language? Well, each of those are their own judgment call and have to be assessed individually. A thousand fairly subtle changes, and a PR isn’t meant to accept some and reject others.

  More abstractly, try to put yourself in the reviewer’s shoes (hard when new) - how much stuff do they have to keep in mind in order to make judgment calls about this whole batch of code?

  More if you want it:

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  Moving on from localization, ask yourself, how many “places” in the codebase does your code touch? Are you lumping every single possible thing into a single change set because it feels like a single feature, when it could have been architecturally segmented? Like sure a single PR for a single overall feature makes sense conceptually, but can it be split? Your skill with splitting up tasks is like 70% of your skill as an engineer over time, btw. So for example, single feature - all code and PR for DB models, separate PR for API updates, separate PR for UI updates. One feature but the UI folks don’t have to think about the other parts, etc. Maybe the ideal case is obvious. There are always complicating factors. Some tasks aren’t well suited to that segmentation and really require big far reaching changes. Some codebases (bad ones) make it impossible to change one part without touching ~all of it. When you’re starting out, doing this reliably well requires seniors scoping out tasks properly so that they are developed (and then reviewed) in a sensible, segmented way.

  on Peer reviewing is torture now in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 13 Sep 2026

• Generally it’s more considerate to submit smaller batches of (self-contained!) work at a time. Sometimes the work or existing code is so interconnected that this can’t really be done, though. You mentioned spending a month, that’s also a long time in most environments to be off working on bulk changes for later review. A week is probably long enough in most cases, some orgs even prefer to push (if not review) code daily.

  Don’t agonize over it though, wanting to improve your impact on others while working is the right direction to point, keep walking that way and you’ll do awesome, let it develop over time. As in, don’t let your desire for politeness slow down your work or growth too much (I do this lol, why I’m mentioning).

  on Peer reviewing is torture now in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Sep 2026

• I know an electrician who moved beyond doing it day to day, he was telling me he knows of data center job sites that are paying regular electrician wages + $250/day. I think the data center boom might be bigger and crazier than we even realize somehow.

  on Time for a new course in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Sep 2026

• Gross!

  on Time for a new course in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Sep 2026

• This American Life and The Moth may not be quite the format you’re describing but if you’re not familiar, they are old (big backlog), and quality and tend to feature viewpoints from the ordinary and even marginalized, both in their own ways.

  Actually when I think about it, unless I’m misremembering, This American Life did a piece on body dysmorphia long before that concept reached more mainstream awareness. I don’t know how I’d feel about it now (I’ve just learned a lot since and it’s been like 10 years or something), but at the time I remember finding it compassionate and insightful, really opened my eyes on something I was previously only dimly aware of and curious about, before.

  on The Wirule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 Sep 2026

• Arguments about cops are some of the very least pretend arguments there are today, so here you go again just revealing what’s important to you and not. I’ll let ya get back to it.

  I did leave an unfortunate mistake in my last comment that shifted the tone from my intended somewhat neutral into pure snark, so I can’t really blame you for getting mad just now, but anyway, regardless we don’t have anything to discuss lol.

  on Flock Camera Tells Cop New Car Didn’t Have Insurance When It Did, Cop Writes Ticket Anyway in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• Your own quote is literally the benefit of the doubt I’m complaining about, it’s not me failing to understand something here.

  Cop was way wrong here, clearly. Why are you talking about obviously forged documents, what does that have to do with this situation? You’re saying because of other situations, you can see why the cop is suspicious, and that’s normal and fine - he just should’ve checked properly! I realize I put words in your mouth, but they sound like the ones you’re saying.

  That’s you extending benefit of the doubt. I’m saying that cop much more likely didn’t really give the first fuck whether it was legit or not, and that’s the kind of doubt that must be extended to such people.

  As in, “Think that cop mighta been doing the right thing in this case or at least with good intentions? Nah, prolly not”. Unless I really am misunderstanding, you’re doing the opposite.

  You’re doing the opposite. [Edit - whoops - struck out line was a duplicate I left accidentally before adding the “Unless…” above, which does happen to create the exact opposite effect intended by adding the “unless” in the first place]

  on Flock Camera Tells Cop New Car Didn’t Have Insurance When It Did, Cop Writes Ticket Anyway in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• I can’t quite put my finger on moments like yours, but had the same strange sensation of creeping revulsion toward NPR, where it once felt like a safe, familiar, even comforting, thing.

  NPR, in a million ways small and large, carries water for the status quo, and it’s fuckin gross. Even just small ongoing things like their current phrasing “the war in Iran”. It’s an anodyne, neutral phrasing used in their broadcasts, seemingly as a rule. Same neutral language for cops when “an assailant was shot and died”, or when “a weapon discharged”, etc.

  It’s never the war against Iran, it’s not “the unprovoked attack against Iran”, etc., it’s just this vague inscrutable thing merely happening, and merely in Iran. No one is responsible, and it just is there. And thankfully, it’s only IN Iran! Wouldn’t it be worse if that were spilling over into other places and things?

  There are countless stronger examples, but this one is current and consistent and you can hear it in any random news broadcast, and it tells a huge lie in a tiny word every time.

  on The Wirule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 Sep 2026

• Just what we need here, some benefit of the doubt for the disgusting pig, thanks bud!

  on Flock Camera Tells Cop New Car Didn’t Have Insurance When It Did, Cop Writes Ticket Anyway in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• Woah that is some wild context. So wait does that mean it’d take 17GB to digitally store an hour’s worth of that footage…“faithfully”?

  Not trying to paint you into some “gotcha!” corner or anything weird, ya just made me curious.

  I also just find weird and tortured units of measure fun, so “magnetic tape, ya know, the 17GB/hr kind” really tickles me.

  on PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data after cloud storage vendor goes defunct in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026

• Liar.

  This Signal FUD is trash and none of y’all ever have a damn thing to back it up. Go fuck yourself.

  on Signal on two different grapheneos profiles. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 Aug 2026

• Share evidence of anything whatsoever untoward from Signal (raw speculation about real imperfections is not evidence, to be clear) - or you’re the enemy of privacy.

  on Signal on two different grapheneos profiles. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 Aug 2026