Boss said, last year’s performance met expectations, so we are all not getting any bonus.
What?? Hold on. It’s a performance-based bonus. This directly translates to a bonus-based performance, effective immediately.
Fuck the company, I don’t work for peanuts.
Respectfully disagree with you.
I’ve been taking music lessons for years, to find that I don’t have the ear nor the rhythm for it.
Ten years of dance classes, I love the feeling of floating over the floor with an English Waltz. But ask me to stop counting in my head, or improvise rather than trained patterns, and I fall apart, just rocking in place.
Painting too. Aquarels, not acrylic. I don’t have the imagination nor, again, the fine motor skills.
The Arts are not for me.
I am a man of electronics, mechanics, computing, soldering, Lego, woodworking, sailing, geometry, 3d modeling. And I can teach and plan and organise.
It’s all practical, tangible stuff. That is who I am.
Buuut the thinking is that open source algorithms are not intentionally made to be so fucking EVIL.
Likely, but you did not let poor code pass. That is valuable.
And is this stolen robot body in the room with you now?
But seriously, how do you ditch Amazon?
I needed several 3 meter aux cables. Found them on A for 4€ each, free delivery, that’s 12€.
I could walk to my local chain store (Hartlauer) and pay 17€ for one and they don’t have three in stock but probably next week.
I could find another store and get those exact cables for 6€, plus 8€ shipping, that’s 26€ or more than double of Amazon.
All of the above is true for almost any product. And this is mainstream gear. What about some tiny electronic components like ESP32 sensors that not even Mediamarkt has in stock or on order?
I don’t like it but I need Amazon. Without prime.
For the longest time, writing was more expensive than reading. If you encountered a body of written text, you could be sure that at the very least, a human spent some time writing it down. The text used to have an innate proof-of-thought, a basic token of humanity.
Now, AI has made text very, very, very cheap. Not only text, in fact. Code, images, video. All kinds of media. We can’t rely on proof-of-thought anymore.
This is what makes AI so insidious. It’s like email spam. It puts the burden on the reader to determine and sort ham from spam.
1970s oil crisis turned off my lights