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Not really. You can quit at any time, too. A job today isn’t (and shouldn’t be) any guarantee of a job tomorrow.

I guess what I meant to say is that clearly, one side here expects loyalty from the other side but isn't really giving any themselves.

> A job today isn’t (and shouldn’t be) any guarantee of a job tomorrow.

Also relationships, kids and stability. Spend all your life in perpetual anxiety, rent all your life, you will own nothing and be happy! Also, here’s a bowl of insect protein while we’re at it.


You can quit your relationships at any time, too. That's a fundamental tenet of our society - consent to an interaction between free people can be withdrawn at any moment for any reason.

That's not perpetual anxiety - that's the way things work today, and the way things have worked for generations. Anyone pretending otherwise is fooling themselves with lies.


Before I continue with this thread, how old are you? And have you ever been in a long time relationship with someone? Do you own a house? Have kids?

You want the government to force employers to provide a social safety net rather than the government providing it directly?

The problem isn't that people can be fired, it's that their food, housing, and medical care are all dependent on or provided through their employer.


> A job today isn’t (*and shouldn’t be*) any guarantee of a job tomorrow.

This is nonsense and shouldn’t be normalized.


In germany you have the opposite and it is also nonsense.

You have to work with people that do literally nothing (usefull to the goal of the company) and they can't be fired.

Companies are afraid to hire. Young people only get short therm contracts. If a company needs to cut jobs it has to keep employees with children over the others.

What society will be more productive?


What makes you think that productivity is the most important goal? I’ll take Germany way over Silicon Valley bullshit any time of the day.

You have actually more to give if you are more productive.

Germany acts like money grows on trees. Reality will come and hit hard.


> Reality will come and hit hard.

Like it hit Block and Oracle workers already?


A bit harder unfotunately.

Less than 20 million people in germany pay more taxes than they get money from the government (if you consider state employees as getting money from the government). With a population of over 80 million.

Think about what happens if that is not financially viable anymore.


The ability to fire people without notice is not Silicon Valley bullshit - it is how the labor market works in almost all places in the entire world.

It is ridiculous to think that either party to an employment relationship should be forced to participate longer than they wish to.


Normalized? It’s how things work everywhere. The burden of proof is on you to specify why you think this is “nonsense” and on what basis you justify violatiny the consent of one of the parties.

No. I highly encourage people to read his book. What you are describing is a classic example of Fundamental Attribution Error - the assumption that people’s actions are primarily the result of some innate trait, versus that of circumstance.

His study plainly shows that most people, in the right circumstances, will act in unimaginably cruel ways.


They already know that nobody wants it. They don’t care.

They’re also developers and probably do care. I’d wager, as always, someone in management with bonus targets to hit probably told them to do it anyway. :/

IBM Plex Mono Ultralight is a joy to look at on a high DPI display.

Do you mean Extralight, I can't seem to find the Ultralight. It's probably just my eyes getting older, but I start to prefer chunkier fonts and 18pt.

Plex is a beautiful font, and one of the few corporate fonts that I actually think works, while being recognizable as being IBM.


How soon until those of us who are running Vaultwarden need to fork the Bitwarden clients, too?

Phoenix as well as other similar places (such as Las Vegas where I live part of the year) have an outsized benefit from installing solar compared to normal places. We basically never have to deal with rain or clouds. Installing solar here is a total no-brainer.

I love Gitea and self-hosting it has been effortless, even through upgrades.

Forgejo, even. Both awesome, truly capable Github alternatives.

> So I started pointing Claude Code at other data exports. My Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp archives held around 100k messages and a couple thousand voice notes exchanged with close friends over a decade.

> The model traced the arc of our friendships through the messages, pulled out the life episodes we had talked each other through, and wove them into multiple pages that read like it was written by someone who knew us both. When I shared the pages with my friends, they wanted to read every single one.

This is a stunning violation of the privacy of your friends.

If someone uploaded every single private conversation I had had with them to Anthropic, they would no longer be my friend.


Yes, though unless you used non-mainstream platforms, all messages are already on the servers of Meta or Google. Not sure how much worse Anthropic is.

The difference is the friends chose to use those platforms.

I think Ubiquiti (makers of the UniFi wifi products, as well as some of the most popular managed PoE switches) also make a ton of other PoE products such as the usual stuff like cameras, ip phones, network switches, access card readers, door locks, and, now, ceiling lights (presumably due to the latest PoE standards delivering significant wattage).

It's super nice because you only need to put the UPS/ATS at the PoE switch and then you get power redundancy everywhere you have ethernet running (i.e. the phones don't go down).


Apple has gone the way of AmEx and Uber. There are no massmarket "great consumer companies" left in the USA, as far as I can tell.

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