I’m a climate scientist by trade. Interested in interesting things. Ecology, complexity, politics, social change, music.
If you think your only value as a human being is your capacity to produce, then I don’t know what to say to you?
Yes, capitalism sucks, but also, humans aren’t all just out here blindly doing capitalism and not thinking about anything else. Every person working a job has to interact with coworkers, and those interactions are not mediated solely through a lens of productivity.
OK, but consider this: I do have fun at work. And most of my friends do to, at least some of the time. I know that this is a privileged position to be in.
I’m sorry that you don’t. And I agree that lots of people don’t, and that that sucks. But that’s not a universal truth.
And for the hirer, there’s a choice between working with someone who might see work as at least tolerable and maybe even an enjoyable and fiendly place to be, or working with someone who hates every minute of being there. If you were in their shoes, which would you pick?
In part, because it forces 2-space tab users to confront the indentation issue above
Also there are no drawbacks… I still hit the tab key to indent (and shift tab to dedent). My editor does the rest.
Haha. Joke’s on us now though, because these days internet searches suck universally regardless of punctuation.
It’s not about prediction, it’s about desires, interests, and goals
I’ve interviewed people before, and am doing so again next week. I often ask why a candidate is interested in working for my org, because I want to known that their personal goals/ambitions are at least somewhat aligned with the org. Hiring someone and then finding out that they don’t fit sucks.
Many job ads receive tens or hundreds of applications. They want the best candidate. If you’re not specifically keen, they’ll probably go for someone who shows some interest. I know I have picked people who are interested over more qualified but disinterested people before.
Because working with people you don’t like is not fun?
I’m a spaces guy, but agree on the 4. A coder told me decades ago that 4 is better than 2 because if your code starts wrapping due to too many indents you should be refactoring it into functions anyway.
What a fucking book.
Thanks! Bunch of interesting names on there (um… Especially!). Keen to go through this
Give some examples?
You’re doing a hell of a lot of conflating there, bud
What’s you evidence that it’s human nature and not just cultural?
You can’t have them
Not really surprising, since AI (like any empirical model) is a kind of averager - it inevitably averages out a bunch of the noise in the training data. Some of that “noise” is likely associated with chaotic dynamicss and so shouldn’t be discarded.
GenAI code that no one understands is being put into production…
Yeah, that’s a cool knot. I don’t think I’d use it for a load that needed to be properly secure though. I’d worry about it vibrating loose
I doubt that I’m the only person here who has good friendships that started as co-workers…