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  • greenskye@lemm.eetoADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comDeadlines
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    1 month ago

    It was unfortunate to learn that work did not have the concept of semesters and you couldn’t just write off an assignment from your boss as ‘well I’ll get a zero from that one, but there’s always next semester’. They just keep bugging you about it over and over even though clearly I’ve moved on already.

    Semesters were a much easier ‘reset’ than getting fired was.



  • Took me getting fired from one job and almost a second before I finally got my coping mechanisms figured out. It’s still a struggle and it’s also cost me a significant amount of my ability to enjoy my free time (have to severely limit my investment in anything not work related so I don’t accidentally get consumed by it and lapse at work), but I’m ‘functional’ now.


  • I do. I enjoy figuring out how it all works and then restructuring it to my exact specifications. But then the problem is ‘solved’ so my brain wants to focus on something else.

    Even when I play games, I struggle to complete them. I play just enough to figure out the gameplay loop. The part where you’ve got all the mechanics and the game goes ‘and repeat till the game is over’. I struggle to have the desire to do that part, because why? The puzzle is solved and the rest is simply execution.






  • No, I’m specifically talking about the multiple campaigns on the left going back to 2016 that heavily focused on awareness and education of Trump’s many issues. The left consistently banks on the logic of ‘if I just make people aware of this wrong, then they will vote/protest/demand change’. They think simply educating people will magically get them to agree and take appropriate action.

    Instead of actual political maneuvers similar to what the right has been pulling for years, they think ‘awareness’ is the only real work they have to do. There have been multiple times the right has blatantly ignored procedures, laws, etc and the left routinely fails to do anything beyond making their voters aware that the right is being a bad guy. They don’t attempt to hold them in contempt, they don’t choose to proceed forward anyway, because ‘tradition’ says they shouldn’t. They haven’t responded with any of their own schemes to counter the right at all.

    The right is doing every possible action they can get away with and the left is so scared of doing anything even slightly controversial that they don’t even take the options available by the rules, but instead hold themselves to even higher standards than necessary.






  • greenskye@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzThe struggle
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    10 months ago

    Maybe pay people who’s only job it is is to talk to the researchers and write the proposal for them? Someone smart enough to get stuff explained to them, but with the communication skills to boil that down into something the money people can understand?

    It’s a pretty common position in software engineering because programmers and business people are pretty bad at communicating with each other.



  • greenskye@lemm.eetoProgrammer Humor@programming.devStealing?
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    10 months ago

    Both sides are twisting words. Pirating truly isn’t stealing, but rather closer to unauthorized use. The word ‘steal’ is used because they want to imply that it’s the same thing as taking a physical thing that can be lost. It engenders a certain feeling that they’re wanting to invoke. Stealing sounds worse than unauthorized use. Doesn’t mean it’s not wrong to do, but it isn’t the sort of wrong that they’re implying.



  • Having done some recent research on the possible effects of an aging population, I think we’re all better off with a stable population rather than either a large or small one. China is for sure going to suffer for their one child policy in a few decades. Pretty much every 1st world country is on track for a painful time as their population ages out. The key is to make changes slowly so we don’t put too much pressure on one generation.

    I agree that humanity as a whole could probably do better with a smaller global population, but even a medium shrinking of population threatens an extreme level of unrest and suffering as too many old people have to be supported by too few working people.