Also I have no idea why npm is worse offender than most?

I think it’s because JavaScript devs have a more promiscuous culture of code reuse than most. In what other language community would something like left-pad justify being its own package?

Excuse me, but !actually_infuriating@lemmy.world is a different community.

I upgraded last spring, mainly because I was worried about prices going up due to tariffs:

• 1700X → 5700X3D
• 32GB DDR4 →64GB DDR4
• 512GB NVME → 4TB NVME
• Vega 56 →9070XT
• New case and PSU*

Turned out the tariffs weren’t as bad as I expected but the AI buying spree I didn’t anticipate was even worse (and expected to last for a long time), so now I slightly regret not going all the way for DDR5. Would’ve been an extra $500+ back then, but would be an extra $1000+(?) now. Still, I’m much more future-proof than I would’ve been had I not been paying attention to politics, as my old setup wasn’t actually feeling inadequate yet at the time.

I also almost built a solid-state NAS with one of those cube-shaped Beelink mini PCs, but missed my chance: the SSD prices started spiking while I was waffling over it in my online shopping cart. Even the mini PC itself costs nearly double now what it did then, let alone the storage for it.

(* New case because I got the wrong 9070XT under launch-day time pressure and the 2.5-slot card didn’t fit in my 2-slot ITX case, and then new PSU because the new case required SFX instead of ATX. I could’ve gotten a bigger case for less money, but I wanted more portability in case I need to flee the country on short notice to escape fascists. And yes, that was my actual thought process. Thanks, Trump. 😡)

Yeah, I was gonna say, that sounds more being paid an hourly rate (at sub-livable wage, BTW) and $0 commission.

You gotta have some mechanism to let low performers go.

That’s called “firing for cause.”

Of course, that actually has accountability attached to it. Misusing layoffs for that purpose is an end-run around that accountability, which is why sociopathic corporations prefer it.

Implementing additional forms of wankery in the “Metaverse”.

If a company does layoffs, they should not be allowed to hire any staff in the same or similar roles for 12 months.

Either that, or the laid-off workers should get right of first refusal for the positions. (Along with some additional incentive for the company not to game it.)

Right, and that’s what’s going to have to change: a bigger focus on things like in-person tests (including in-person bluebook essays), oral presentations/thesis defenses instead of other project deliverables, etc.

Before you can punish for using LLMs, you need to be able to reliably detect the use of LLMs, including guarding against false positives.

You can tell they’re using an LLM if they have a computer out during the pen-and-paper test.

Since Dodge v. Ford Motor Co (1919), if not earlier.

See also: https://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-accountability-history-corporations-us/

“Mildly” only because I’m pretty sure it’s already illegal. Still, fucking absurd that they even have the gall to try.

He should unionize the staff before he leaves.

IIRC it would start to break if you made it too big in the previous game (and I’m not talking about the strength reinforcement at depth mechanic; I’m talking about Youtubers like Let’s Game It Out building a tube halfway across the map).

I myself had a base that reached from the surface biome down into the jellyshroom cave, and another on the island with a ladder from the beach to the summit.

And as part of the “open” part, any data added must be compatible with the odbl license, which means sources must first be verified as compatible, so any imports of government databases are oftentimes simply not legally possible and even if they are it’s something you have to do quasi-manually since it’s probably in a completely different format.

Considering that collections of facts aren’t actually copyrightable in the first place (see Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co.), how much does that actually matter?

Like, as a practical matter I can see how the people that run OpenStreetMap might not want you to do it, but I don’t think it would actually be copyright infringement if somebody, say, scraped the business directory information from Google Maps and bulk-imported it to OpenStreetMap.

In the United States, zip code also correlates because things like school funding are based on property tax and vary by location.

Well, you sure sound upset, and you’re downvoting both me and the other guy who replied to you, so…

I don’t mind it being a rule, but I do mind it being a secret. It needs to be mentioned in the sidebar (probably as an addendum to rule #2).

You’re the one who’s upset about it.

Eh, there were other filaments that worked well enough, I think (carbonized string or something, maybe?). It’s the vacuum that’s the real trick to keeping it from burning out too quick.

Does this community not allow videos? I tried posting a link to it directly yesterday, but Automod removed it instantly.