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thanks_shakey_snake ,

Dunno who’s downvoting this, but that’s honestly a valid possibility. The other answers explain a really important concept (it’s really easy to fake from addresses) but these ideas aren’t wrong.

thanks_shakey_snake OP ,

Perfect example. Handful of planets, each rich with hand-crafted purpose, space travel is big enough to feel epic, but small enough to not want to skip.

It nails the feeling of exploring a vast area of space, not by being realistic (it is not, by a long shot), but by just making certain experiences feel right.

thanks_shakey_snake OP ,

For me, the criticism is more directed toward the PR and hype. There’s still lots to like about the game, it’s just frustrating how they spin it.

I’m glad you’re enjoying it!

thanks_shakey_snake OP ,

That sounds pretty fun, actually!

thanks_shakey_snake OP ,

That’s exactly it-- The game is what it is and will be alot of fun for many people. They’ll have nailed some stuff and missed the mark elsewhere…

But all the spinning shortcomings as design decisions is off-putting. Like if a restaurant is taking a long time to make my food, just say “it’ll be a few extra minutes…” Not “Actually the anticipation of waiting a little longer will enhance your enjoyment, so you’re welcome.”

thanks_shakey_snake OP ,

“It’s almost like Tribes” are the four magic words to get me interested in any game.

thanks_shakey_snake OP ,

Classic!

thanks_shakey_snake ,

The relationship is “you can ride a motorcycle (or tricycle in this case) and also be disabled, thereby being eligible to park there.”

thanks_shakey_snake ,

I’m not defending their park job-- it’s bad-- I’m just describing the relationship to the other person’s “disabled veteran with a Harley” story, which is what the person I was replying to asked about.

thanks_shakey_snake ,

I think what you’re getting at is “disabled or not, parking on the painted margin is prohibited,” which is correct as far as I know, but I think most people would think about it differently if the driver was disabled.

e.g. Someone with difficulty walking wanted to exercise their permission to park there so that they could be closer to the entrance, but still wanted to leave a wide spot open so another disabled driver could potentially use it. Still wrong, but many people would perceive that differently.

Again, not defending the behavior (and the driver likely wasn’t disabled, just a jerk)… But surely you see how their disability status is relevant in a scenario concerning a disabled parking spot?

thanks_shakey_snake ,

u/spez: “But at least we’ll have a huge influx of mobile users after their favorite mobile apps stop working!”

Users: …

u/spez: “Annnny second now…”

thanks_shakey_snake ,

Dunno why you’re getting so many downvotes… Even if someone disagrees, it’s a pretty reasonable thing to say.

Plus IMO it is kind of a non sequitur to say “if only the schools were better,” as though his motivations could have been satisfied with better homework assignments, lol.

thanks_shakey_snake ,

So they have read AND write access to your thoughts.

thanks_shakey_snake ,

Wait, did we go from being freaked out that our devices might be passively recording our speech to accepting it as the “good and normal” version of things? Cause I’m pretty alarmed at both.

thanks_shakey_snake ,

You’re getting some downvotes, but yes, lol. I mean I’m not sure there’s never any surreptitious hot mic eavesdropping going on, but people definitely often assume so when there’s a more parsimonious explanation, e.g.:

Most peoples’ ads are targeted based on more mundane technology, and they see hundreds of ads per day, so if even 1% of their ads overlap with something that they were just talking about, they’ll still be fairly likely to see a spooky “I was just talking about that!” ad relatively frequently. Not to mention that they’re likely to be thinking about a thing because their platforms are also proactively marketing that thing to them. Just pareidolia, no eavesdropping necessary.

Doesn’t mean eavesdropping isn’t happening-- Just means it doesn’t need to be happening for that effect to occur.

thanks_shakey_snake ,

Your devices recording you is something that doesn’t happen.

There’s no evidence of that happening.

What’s your basis for this claim? I mean that might be the case, but is there some reason you’re able to have so much certainty?

I understand the “bandwidth” argument, and the “they don’t even need that” argument (I make a similar case in a comment to another reply), but neither of those support the idea that it can’t be happening.

Getting around the bandwidth problem isn’t that crazy: Low bitrate encodings (cause the audio doesn’t need to be human-comprehensible) and edge compute (i.e. doing some work on the device before sending anything) could mitigate this significantly, so it’s hardly impossible.

I think we mostly agree, I just wouldn’t apply that degree of certainty. But if you’re really confident that it’s definitely not happening because it’s definitely not possible, maybe you know something I don’t?

thanks_shakey_snake ,

If only there were some way to give new names to an existing command. You could call them… Idk, nicknames? Pseudonyms? Or maybe a shorter word that means the same thing.

Somebody should invent that.

thanks_shakey_snake ,

Summary fails to mention who the billboards erected.

thanks_shakey_snake ,

Huh, OP was not exaggerating.

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thanks_shakey_snake ,

It is very close to literally that, except the boss isn’t actually doing the giving-- it’s automated-- and the sticker isn’t a sticker-- it’s a row in a database table.

At least with the boss-sticker scenario, the boss has to actually do something.

thanks_shakey_snake ,

Lol yeah, maybe the most important difference!

thanks_shakey_snake ,

My own lack of foresight and organizational skills seriously needs a nerf in the next patch.

thanks_shakey_snake ,

But surely you’d at least agree that it’s just common sense to require background checks for men to purchase dresses in the first place?

thanks_shakey_snake ,

LOL happy to be of service

thanks_shakey_snake ,

So annoying that you actually have to visit their profile to block them.

thanks_shakey_snake ,

A good working line GSD is not that common. Definitely worth the trek if that’s what you want. People even go overseas for them.

thanks_shakey_snake OP ,

Totally fair, and I’m actually pretty happy to see someone steelman the LinkedIn guy’s point. Surprisingly thoughtful discussion here for a meme sub, lol.

I still think most of his post is pretty vapid (“org structure and technology should both support business goals,” yeah duh), but the content isn’t really objectionable… He’s just kind of… not saying much, I think. That’s what I meant by “LinkedIn fluff.”

What makes me smirk is invoking (and IMO, misunderstanding) Conway’s Law, although that was more an issue with the comic than the post (he talks about “Conway’s Law” directly in the comments, but I didn’t post those).

The takeaway from Conway’s Law isn’t supposed to be “when you’re deciding how to architect a software system, make sure to conform to the org structure.” It’s that the system structure will tend to mimic the communication structure (and possibly vice-versa), which may be good or bad, and you need to manage that tendency.

It’s certainly not “managers are the real software architects,” lol.

Thanks for your perspective. I wonder what your opinion of the comic part is?

thanks_shakey_snake OP ,

Awe yeah, tell me more about today’s dynamic market landscape!

thanks_shakey_snake OP ,

I feel like you’re probably making a very good point but I can’t quite tell what it is.

thanks_shakey_snake OP ,

Oh-- Yeah that IS a good point. I’m not an anti-manager person, but I do think that many managers are incentivized to perturb their orgs superstitiously, with almost obligate overconfidence.

thanks_shakey_snake OP ,

NAILED IT!

Also: Because of Godwin’s Law, we should all be striving to compare things to Hitler whenever possible.

thanks_shakey_snake OP ,

Hum, management does drive your software’s architecture.

In what sense? I might agree with you, but it hinges alot in what you mean by “drive.”

thanks_shakey_snake OP ,

Nowhere in that text does it say “managers are the real software architects”. What it does say is “what managers do affects software architecture”.

Totally 👍I’d take it even a step further to say that he doesn’t even mention managers (or any other role) in the text-- It’s the comic that states that, as you say. It’s debatable to what extent the comic and the text should be read as one unit, but I think it’s fair to contextualize them together.

If you’re right about the intent-- i.e. to say “let’s make sure to bring in the people who are good at architecture–” then I think at best, it’s poorly articulated. It’d an odd move to post a comic that elevates his role and then not mention those people at all, right? Instead, he makes vague calls to “collaborate” and “align,” which many people hear as “schedule meetings and do manager stuff,” and then imply that that’s how software gets architected, because… Conway’s Law?

I still think it’s nice of you to try to interpret it charitably, though. I imagine if we shared this thread with this manager, he probably wouldn’t double down on how, no, really, Management are the real architects! He’d more likely pivot to echo much of what you’ve said, perhaps pretending that that was what he was saying all along.

Then we’d be free to argue about Conway’s Law for the rest of the thread.

thanks_shakey_snake OP ,

I think what we can all agree on is that collaboration between the tree and the farmer is really what allows the apples to thrive. Conway’s Law tells us that the tree must conform to the habits of the farmer in order for fruit production to flourish, because ultimately, it’s the farmer who drives fruit production.

A holistic, collaborative approach to apple farming creates an environment conducive to fast fruit growth, a critical factor in today’s dynamic agricultural landscape.

So you see, it’s really the farmer who is growing the apple-- The tree is merely a socio-agricultural conduit.

thanks_shakey_snake OP ,

Lol, funny you should mention… Most recent comic by the same artist:

https://i0.wp.com/www.comicagile.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Comic-agile_255-2.jpg?resize=2048%2C1040&ssl=1

thanks_shakey_snake OP ,

If this person believes that Conway’s Law means “you SHOULD conform your software architecture to your org structure,” then I wonder what that means for his interpretation of Poe’s Law?

without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.

thanks_shakey_snake OP ,

10/10, absolute drivel, no notes 👌 Extra credit for “organogram of success.”

thanks_shakey_snake OP ,

That version is so much more readable for some reason. Like this is actually a wonderful sentence:

Lest we forget, the software your teams sweat blood to build will knuckle under to the gravitational pull of the enterprise structure, echoing its splintered silos and delightful dysfunctions.

That doesn’t sound (to me) like an LLM, and yet the stuff it produces by default reads in a tone that we would have described as “robotic” long before GPT.

thanks_shakey_snake ,

sinister left-handeds

I see what you did there

thanks_shakey_snake ,

They’re both tremendously useful and have significant overlap in use cases. Grid isn’t going to replace Flexbox, it just has some capabilities that aren’t part of the Flexbox concept.

thanks_shakey_snake ,

Lol new copypasta unlocked 🔓

thanks_shakey_snake ,

Been using since release. I never felt like I was making some kind of compromise by using it. Firefox always had their shit together from my experience.

Now, it’s on par with Chrome or better than (tradeoffs and personal preference), even for developing web apps. Firefox dev tools pull ahead of Chrome’s, then Chrome catches up and does something new and useful, then Firefox catches up, and so forth.

Firefox is good. It’s not like “I’m leaving Photoshop for the GIMP” kind of thing-- It’s like “I’m leaving Honda for Toyota.”

thanks_shakey_snake ,

Wait lol “a week’s ban?” Does Facebook like… give people time outs to think about what they’ve done or something?

thanks_shakey_snake ,

Because they come from Japan…

thanks_shakey_snake ,

Holy shit

thanks_shakey_snake ,

Alot of “open” source code ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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