In the future, games will renders about nine pixels and it will all be upscaling.

Turns out the giant earth heater wasn’t the best business concept.

Twitter speed run.

I’m more impressed that they found buyers for my drunk shit posts.

Those can’t possibly be good for AI.

I took my trash to the dumpster. Later I got a photo of my trash bag in the dumpster because I had tied the bag closed incorrectly and a $200 fine for improper trash bag fastener.

I’ve always been such a child at heart and my soul is bursting with whimsical energy when I see kids playing pretend at the playground next to where I walk my dogs. I’d love to play pretend with them, encourage the children to really let their imaginations run wild and free. I was often lost in my own world as child. I know what it’s like to be so consumed by it. I want to fight the robot king, too!

I’m an adult male however. I would definitely look like a child predator, so I must go on my way.

My wife spent no less than 5 hours on the phone with just as many groups of people to organize a blood draw that took a grand total of three actual minutes.

The truth is you have to do good work for yourself because you care about the quality of your work. You work for you.

You separate the factors. You do good work for you because you care because a life doing things you don’t care about is less meaningful.

Separately you look at pay. You leave when it’s no longer worth staying, which for most people is about every two to three years at least for your early career.

Sure!

It happens behind closed doors and never in writing to keep up the farce, but usually I’m given a paltry number of slots of people I can label as high performers. This is really a damn shame because most of my team members are great employees. This is used as a carrot to show that we do give raises and promotions after all, but the proportion is so small it’s effectively zero. I’m very clear to my team that trying to becoming a top performer to get a promotion is a bad investment. I do my best to communicate the futility without actually saying it literally in such a way that it could get me into trouble.

Next, they use a spreadsheet to figure who they can probably underpay based on a heuristic likelihood that person would actually leave vs current market rates. These automatically become the low performers ahem satisfactory. You’re penalized for being here longer or specializing in something with a small market. Everyone else falls somewhere between satisfactory and above average which makes little difference.

The performance reviews are merely weak documentation to show that somehow HR was “justified” by selectively highlighting strengths or weaknesses depending on the a priori decision of what your performance level was to be.

It’s a huge tautology with only one meaningful conclusion: you will be underpaid, and it gets worse over time.

I use it to write performance reviews because in reality HR has already decided the results before the evaluations.

I’m not wasting my valuable time writing text that is then ignored. If you want a promotion, get a new job.

To be clear: I don’t support this but it’s the reality I live in.

Or they just ban you without recourse and poof all your data and accounts are dead.

Edit: consider using Google Takeout to download your data periodically as a hedge against trouble with your account. This will help prevent data loss in the event your account suddenly goes poof. It won’t help you with the apps you bought though.

I think it’s inevitable; I imagine that in the future there will be an application and vetting process if you want to federate with a major instance, as most users will not be interested in running their own instances, and your federation can be a source of work for the mods/admins.

I would like to underline and insist on using unique passwords. Many users like myself are joining small instances to get better performance and reduce the strain on the main servers, but anyone can spin up an instance and then poof, your password is gone if they can get you to sign up!

This was always the case for normal websites on the internet however. I strongly recommend everyone use a good password manager to prevent one breach from cascading into a breach of all your accounts. It’s good OPSEC.