V0ldek

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 7 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

There's no way this works, right? It's like a 5y.o.'s idea of a gotcha.

This would be like starting a tax-exempt charity to gather up a large amount in donations and then switching to a for-profit before spending it on any charitable work and running away with the money.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

the second is characteristically christian and associated with dignity culture.

homeless people bear the imago dei. they are not intrinsic moral superiors but their plight is a shame to us because it denudes them of the dignity that should be theirs by right of their humanity.

Lol yes, that's exactly the way mainstream Christians view homelessness, their lack of Work Ethic :tm: is a "shame to us". Lmao even.

Christian charitable organisations are so well-known for their ethos of inherent human dignity.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jesus GNU Christ, Live your life so that no one ever produces a systematic classification of your opinions that looks like this

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago

I am so cynical at this point I am fully bought into the idea that these chowderheads don't even interact with reality, just with the PowerPoint and Jira-driven shadows on the wall.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

founder mode (derogatory)

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago

Oh I certainly did meet a lot of people employed in auth related stuff that clearly spent only 2 weeks on learning anything about OpenID and I certainly didn't not hate their guts and wished they were replaced by a small shell script

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

To respond to this part:

How about people here? When did you realize people are real?

I just have this basic human feeling of appreciation whenever someone close goes out of their way to do something nice for me. It's always this reminder of hey, I exist in other peoples' lives as well, isn't that cool!

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Welcome to the future! Suffering is mandatory!

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How nice it must be to never ponder how large humanity is, and how each and every person you see outside has a full and rich interior and exterior world, and you that only see a tiny fraction of the people outside.

I don't think that's nice. That sounds extremely bleak and depressive, not to mention downright sociopathic.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago

The reality is that some of us only have glimmers of sapience, and many not even that.

Choose your sneer answer:

  1. Wow, that's not at all how a human brain should work, sounds like a serious medical condition, I would see a neurologist.
  2. Weird flex, but okay.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Aren't touch screens literally everywhere? What was the hype?

It's always so baffling to me to learn about those things because I was way too young to actually experience any of the "hype" around most of those technologies. Touch screens are cool and they penetrated society so much there are at my grocery shop, what the fuck were they supposed to do if that's not living up to the hype?

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's always funny to see this because you think that you're part of the smart 10% with original thoughts while actually you're the insufferable 10% whose only thought is that of superiority with nothing to back it up.

My cat has more original thoughts than that and he's currently stuck head-first in a cereal box.

 

An excellent post by Ludicity as per usual, but I need to vent two things.

First of all, I only ever worked in a Scrum team once and it was really nice. I liked having a Product Owner that was invested in the process and did customer communications, I loved having a Scrum Master that kept the meetings tight and followed up on Retrospective points, it worked like a well-oiled machine. Turns out it was a one-of-a-kind experience. I can't imagine having a stand-up for one hour without casualties involved.

A few months back a colleague (we're both PhD students at TU Munich) was taking a piss about how you can enroll in a Scrum course as an elective for our doctor school. He was in general making fun of the methodology but using words I've never heard before in my life. "Agile Testing". "Backlog Grooming". "Scrum of Scrums". I was like "dude, none of those words are in the bible", went to the Scrum Guide (which as far as I understood was the only document that actually defined what "Scrum" meant) and Ctrl+F-ed my point of literally none of that shit being there. Really, where the fuck does any of that come from? Is there a DLC to Scrum that I was never shown before? Was the person who first uttered "Scrumban" already drawn and quartered or is justice yet to be served?

Aside: the funniest part of that discussion was that our doctor school has an exemption that carves out "credits for Scrum and Agile methodology courses" as being worthless towards your PhD, so at least someone sane is managing that.

Second point I wanted to make was that I was having a perfectly happy holiday and then I read the phrase "Agile 2" and now I am crying into an ice-cream bucket. God help us all. Why. Ludicity you fucking monster, there was a non-zero chance I would've gone through my entire life without knowing that existed, I hate you now.

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