I’ve definitely noticed the younger ones are used to asking any question and having it simply answered. They grew up with the internet, it’s obvious I suppose, and chatgpt is just going to make that worse. The juniors and entry-level people coming in are smart, but I feel like I’m seeing lower problem solving and critical thinking.

Things like “it doesn’t work”, okay well what you you tried? What things did you attempt before giving up. Idk, definitely a different mindset.

I’ve had about three companies do agile correctly. They were either less than 10 people total or did not care at all. Any company with middle management dipped their toes in, I think because they need to prove their existence

Ah the right of passage. The first “horny time I don’t know what consequences are I’m sure I’ll find a way out of it” moment.

Have fun with the parenting!

My mom bought me a book that said the devil was in my pants and I’d go to hell. So, that’s one approach.

Yup, wasted memory allocation to get something that’s there already

God, as a true scrummaster - one who believes in actual scrum - where the devs make the rules - not management… this hurts. This hurts so goddamn much.

• 4 hour planning? PMs shit the bed.
• Story points = hours? Micromanagement
• Estimate with that much accuracy? Micromanagement who are also terrible with managing their own schedules.
• It’s a simple task. - How would any business person know how long or expensive a dev task is.

And on and on, and of course you all know this. The term “Agile” has been so bastardized from it’s conception by management who think it’s a micromanagement tool. It’s quite literally the opposite. It’s mean to put the power in the hands of the developers - so they can be efficient and keep management out of their way. Management just couldn’t handle handing over a tiny bit of power though. Have to break the fundamental pillars of agile, like dictating what a point is, or how long things should take. Ugh.

If this is it, I never would have in a million years guessed it

That’s what I did thanks to your comment! Everything is on sale, bought the nice starter pack

I’ve never played Stellaris, but I like sci Fi and I like RTS and strategy, how do people like it?

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/video-games-appeal-to-the-male-fantasy

Nope. It was a BuzzFeed thing about a very very feminist person talking about how gaming only appeals to men. I am feminist, and the piece still got a massive eyeroll from me. They cherry picked a few things and said because of those things gaming was only catering to men.

Worse is that they didn’t tackle any actual issues going on in gaming. Just lame ragebait.

IIRC one of the examples was an NPC in GTA 5 making a sexist comment. In GTA 5, which is of course a parody of modern culture, completely out of context.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/video-games-appeal-to-the-male-fantasy

Hate to tell you but 95% of companies do this. It’s common practice. You’re “deleted” account? There’s a column called “DeletedDate” and it’s marked to whenever you hit delete. Their query then just says “Select Account where DeletedDate is null” and yours just doesn’t return until that date is cleared.

Is it asshole design? No. And it’s not for privacy reasons. it’s because the vast majority of people who hit delete will call the next day and yell and scream saying “But I didn’t know it would delete everything”. That’s why Meta keeps it, and Youtube, and Google, and everyone.

Not to mention legal reasons. If someone uses your platform for illegal purposes and the feds come knocking you bet your ass you need that data or your company is liable. That is different in the EU I grant you, but that’s the exception, not the common practice. Over there they can point to GDPR and say “That’s why we don’t have it”. Anywhere else you’re pretty screwed.

So. Not asshole design. The session staying open is bad security though. Everything else is just knowing your userbase and knowing that people will be pissed and need something. If you want privacy stop giving your data to companies in the first place.

Dear God how shitty is that. “We never said it was ten gig you stupid moron”. We just took a fairly standard industry term and flipped it around.

Good luck on your journey! It can be frustrating at times, but please feel free to make posts asking for help if you can’t find it online!

Just think of how few user metrics they get out of Windows 10 though!

I mean, I’ll always take a cheap Linux box…

I remember that “promise” too. And here we are

Very good point!

Unless you absolutely need CUDA for AI workloads, I only recommend AMD for Linux at this point

It took about a year of dual booting for me to finally feel confident using it, but now I’d never go back. It’s definitely not an overnight or weekend thing, learning the “Linux way”, but it’s worth it. It’s so much easier than it was even just 5 years ago, let alone 15

Is it relevant to the email at all? Nope! But we’ll keep them addicted to OneDrive out of fear!