• jtrek@startrek.website
    1·
    5 minutes ago

    At work, the team isn’t very good at python. They’re mostly SQL people. Which is fine. I’m happy to mentor and guide.

    The product lady said to me “can you write a guide on confluence about how to do python good?”

    I’m like, people write whole published books about that you gotta pay money for. I’m not going to bang out a couple paragraphs and code blocks and suddenly people are heavy weights.

    I wrote something anyway because I don’t want to further irritate the product lady.

  • cravl@slrpnk.net
    45·
    4 hours ago

    But also, don’t think you have to do all the work yourself. I think we very often underestimate the importance of being the one that simply plants the seed. Of course the difficulty is that usually we can’t tell if said seed has actually been planted, so it feels like a waste of energy.

    • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
      33·
      4 hours ago

      Knowing how to plant the seed is crucial too.

      The best way I’ve found is to just ask questions like you don’t understand the topic but are interested in learning more. Their logic is going to have holes, and you want to guide them into stumbling into one.

      The hard part is asking probing questions without sounding like you’re trying to pull a “gotcha”.

      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        4 hours ago

        Knowing how to plant the seed is crucial too.

        I heard you just put your thingie in her woo-hoo bag and then you plip plap until you both yeehaw.

            • frunch@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 hours ago

              According to everybody: “We’ve never known anyone with better medical terms, just amazing stuff”

              • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                1 hour ago

                They come up to me – great people, smart people – and they come up and they tell me: "Mr. Technician, sir, we’re so impressed with your terminology. Everybody’s talking about it. China’s talking – " they don’t have very good doctors over there, folks, so they come to me for advice.

      • binarytobis@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 hours ago

        I’ve tried planting the seed a few times with people who voluntarily wiretap their own house with an Alexa. Each time they’ve picked it up and ran further with it, like “Oh I know! If I mention seat belt covers, suddenly amazon is recommending a bunch of seat belt covers in my home page!” No thoughts at all of doing anything with this conclusion.

        I’ve also witnessed planting the seed working in plenty of other scenarios, just thought this particular fumble was common and particularly funny.

        • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
          3·
          2 hours ago

          Yeah, it’s really hard to get lay people to understand infosec issues. I had to create a separate VLAN for my wife because she couldn’t tolerate being behind a VPN or pihole because she wants to click on sponsored ads on Google.

          And don’t get me started on how she feels about the fact that I password protect all. She knows my password, but still thinks I’m hiding something.

          But I work in InfoSec, so of course I’m hiding everything. Just not from her.

  • justsomeguy@lemmy.world
    17·
    4 hours ago

    All day every day. My dad was a construction worker and would only have a use for books if he needed to start a fire. I won’t try to bend the three braincells that somehow survived a lifetime of alcoholism into shape.

    On his tombstone it shall say “he died as he lived, an idiot.”

  • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    2 hours ago

    I remember David Mitchell trying to convince Rhod Gilbert that stopped escalators don’t fling you off the top, and he finally said:

    I’m not going to discuss it anymore. I’ve told you the information. At some point, you will accept it.

    Somewhat ironically, though, Rhod was probably talking about how, when escalators are stopped, the distance between steps gets smaller near the ends, so if you’re not aware of that, you may try to step up too high and put too much energy in. So he’s not exactly wrong, but I’m not sure he realizes what is causing it.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 hours ago

    Yup.

    And then someone infers something about your character because you prefer not to waste your time having a fruitless discussion.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    2 hours ago

    Its ok to just laugh in someone’s face and call them an uneducated idiot, who has no idea what they’re talking about.

    You know how just can ban/block morons on social media, so you don’t have to hear from them any more?

    You do can that in real life too.