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  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.workstoStar Wars Memes@lemmy.worldNope
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    8 hours ago

    Back in grad school we had to stage an intervention for one of the other students who thought he looked good with just a mustache.

    Then we had to stage another intervention for him when he thought it was ok to microwave fish in the common room. It turned out that he had meal-prepped a week’s worth of frozen fish lunches.


















  • they can just hire more people

    In software development, it’s not that easy. Having multiple people working on the same code adds a lot of overhead. Also, finding another excellent programmer is slow and expensive. (The “fast, cheap, good: pick two” rule applies.)

    Plus, do you want two software developers with a good work/life balance and fulfilling ways to spend their free time, or do you want one software developer with mental issues that, among other things, leave him with nothing to do except work and no source of meaning in life except getting work done? The first option is more dependable, since the guy in the second option is crazy. However, if you’re building a startup then you need to take risks and the second option is the one more likely to create something amazing. (IMO, of course.)


  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.workstoComic Strips@lemmy.world[ExoComics] Art
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    9 days ago

    The funny thing is that I empathize with the robot here - there’s no point in doing something like drawing a picture yourself if a machine can do it better, faster, and cheaper. Despite that, I insist on driving a car with a manual transmission. Let robots have art, but they’ll never take mechanical linkages from me! Using a lever to control which gears engage with which other gears is what it means to be human.