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  • Well, there you go - the issue is with the company and the irreplacable boss. He is the weakest link obviously. Imagine he gets into a car crash, gets hit by a bus. Suddenly all his knowledge is gone, either for a while when recovering, or forever. Knowledge transfer is incredibly important. Things like tickets, scrum, kanban etc are used because they work for every type of person - they serve to transfer knowledge, the hierarchy in a team protects the programmers from shit they shouldn’t be dealing with (that’s the project manager’s role, to be a shield for the team, to curate the the messages comming from “higher up” and the ones sent out by the team). The most important thing to know is that “do the needful” is about as shitty of an ask someone can pose to a programmer. People doing that don’t know what they want, and instead rely on what they don’t want - once you actually implement something that remotely fits what they needed. As for clients not reading specs - it might be time for someone to have “the talk” with them (obviously not you). One thing you need to know is that shitty clients can be fired too, once the development starts breaking down, the communication is arse etc.

    For the people on the road - they probably took it as you trying to bail on them. But yeah, impulsivity when things are getting heated is never good, it’s better to stay silent for a few seconds and then say something, rather than immediately say something that can be taken very badly.


  • How long are you working as a software dev? Basically a lot of new devs want to “save the world” by closing tickets and using that as a metric if they’re doing well or not. The reality is that a software dev’s job is just about as much writing, as dealing with clients, going to meetings, etc. People might value you for things that you don’t think have value. For the cut out for this part - you most likely are. Imposter syndrome is normal, I had it too, even 6 years into my career. Been the “goto guy” for the team, multiple times a teamlead at 3 different companies / teams. Never had a problem I couldn’t google away. Yet in the back of my mind, there was always a “maybe you’ll encounter one on the next ticket? And they’ll fire you for it” etc. I managed to silence that shit and bury it deep behind all of my achievements.

    For the second part - some people are just idiots, some are governed by emotion, etc. Also, saying “it’s not so bad” is a shit way to deescalate the situation ^^




  • Maalus@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldI'm going insane
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    I had a dream like that about an ex. Everything perfect, house, kids, the whole thing. It felt like one of those super realistic dreams too. I woke up and got a panic attack that fucked me over for 3 or 4 days when I realized it was just a dream. Human psyche is scary as fuck sometimes.


  • Because “gravity batteries” is a stupid inefficient concept peddled by techbros to solve a huge problem with “a magic solution”. In reality, they require either digging straight down like a mine shaft, but at huge scale, or a high rise building with all the weight concentrated on its top floor when the batteries are “charged”. Wind would sway that shit left and right, the weight concentration would undermine / damage the building if it even was possible to build at scale.


  • Maalus@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldReddit
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    Great job going “I’m going to guess” and assuming the exact opposite of what I know. A vote for a person supporting genocide isn’t nuanced - you just want it to be. It’s not broad strokes - it’s just reality. You talk about me being black and white yet it’s obvious what your views are and how according to you the US can do nothing wrong and that Palestinians deserve it. Further yet, you refuse to notice the fact that what’s happening isn’t grey - Israel is murdering thousands of Palestinians, displacing a million of them. You are a fence sitter and go “a little genocide is okay when it’s my country that supports it, I just need to handwave it away as grey morality”. You called another user a propagandist for saying “this is a genocide supported by the current president and the next democrat candidate”. Those statements are true and they deserve all the shit they get for it. There is no excuse.

    Also great job speaking about breaking trade agreements like that’s an excuse to fuel a murderous regime. Do you even read what you write? Do you even have a shred of empathy? It doesn’t matter that it is hard or has repercussions - you do it to hold onto your principles and to show you want peace. You do it to save lives. It sends a clear message saying “we don’t support this” to every country that’s watching this conflict. It sends an even clearer message to Israel - that the US won’t blindly allow them to destabilize the region by launching multiple wars with its neighbors and erasing a population.

    The UN calls sending weapons to Israel a serious violation of human rights, international humanitarian laws and says it risks complicity in international crimes, including genocide. Show me the nuance and grayness of the situation, when the UN Human Rights Council directly calls out the United States and the specific companies doing it. Show me the nuance in the UN calling the war in Lebanon a human rights catastrophe.


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    There is no strawman. Harris supports Israel, same as Biden supports Israel. Israel is committing genocide. So Harris supports Israel in committing genocide. There is no nuance here - just bitter truth to swallow - the US is sending carriers, troops. The US is sending bombs that kill people in Gaza.