Mine is fresh highschool graduates getting 2 weeks of training to go work acute, all-male forensic psychiatry. We’re taking criminally insane men who are unsafe to put on a unit with criminally insane women....
A position making engineering disposition decisions on hardware that do not meet print. Sometimes, using the hardware can be ok with robust technical analysis to make sure there will be no impact to function or life of the part or the system it’s going into. It’s typically a seasoned engineer with a good understanding of the specific product, and a title/position high enough they can stand up to pressures.
A supplier I worked with recently put a green engineer fresh out of college in the role. He was pressured to allow stuff out the door so the company could hit monthly delivery and $ targets. He never should have approved certain parts but didn’t have the technical knowledge, nor the confidence and reputation and leadership support to stand up to the people trying to ship bad product. The function was made useless by their decision to put him in the role, and he’s also developing terrible engineering habits that are going to haunt him.
Lemmy. I occasionally peek into a reddit sub I used to mod. It was for a hobby that was traditionally male dominated but cracking open more for women. A year before all the API shit went down, women would often get reasonable, responsible answers to their questions about safety. Now, those same questions are met with “get a gun”, “if you’re scared, you have no business in this hobby so stay home and make your husband a sandwich” type shit. And because myself and the other decent mods peaced out, those sorts of comments stay. Women and not-sexist men started peacing out of the sub. And now it’s a mud wallow of small-minded men who are terrified that their manly man hobby can be done by women. It’s a great representative of my total experience as a woman on reddit.
I see some terrible, hateful men on Lemmy but they are far fewer and they almost always get called out by others.
I’ll contain my skepticism until I see what these opt-in messages look like. Some of the Bing Chat and CoPilot and connecting to a MS account was designed to make people think it was required, and came up repeatedly after being dismissed. “Dark Patterns” to use a term du jour.
I regret buying a guitar, I can’t even do the simplest shit on it according to YouTube… I dunno if it’s laziness or just being tired of sucking so much and not being able to play the music that I like… Maybe a mix of both?
I pick up and discard hobbies frequently. I do hobbies for entertainment; once it’s no longer enjoyable, I move on. Some hobbies I find I don’t really like, some I get tired of when I hit some level of mastery, very few last me for year over year. I basically treat trying new hobbies as a hobby.
If guitar isn’t fun for you, move on. Definitely don’t let feelings of guilt and laziness in, that’s not the point of a hobby.
I think I would also need to see the point at which agile projects are scrapped vs waterfall and how much money is sunk into them by time of scrapping.
My company knows agile will fail more often but also that they fail earlier. So they take on more projects and those seemed to be a bit riskier compared to what they would take on if it were to go by waterfall process.
I am not an agile acolyte, but failure % alone is not convincing. “Fail early, fail often” is a common mantra for a reason.
We have a compliance manager role at my site, which includes responsibilities to conduct internal audits and host external audits. When the audits have findings, they make sure appropriate owners correct the problems. It can be very thankless. My direct boss is amazing at it but she kinda hates it and bowed out after two years doing it.
Why wouldn’t they be? There’s no reason wookies, out of all sentient beings in the Star Wars universe, would not be force sensitive. I’m not super into the extended canon of books and comics and everything, but I’m pretty sure there’s a precedent for force-sensitive wookies.
Doesn’t need to be a life or death situation, just any moment in your life where you found yourself saying “Holy shit, I can’t believe this is happening!”
I was at a summer camp as a kid. I went into the bathrooms, which were only a notch better than latrines. There was a crack in one wall and as I’m peeing, snakes start pouring out of the crack and from gaps along the ceiling. This is like Indiana Jones movie level of Lots Of Snakes. I run out, still peeing a bit with my pants halfway down.
I was terrified, but also in the back of my head knew there weren’t any venomous snakes in the area and this would make for a good story someday. A counselor found me, believed me (thank goodness), and helped me get to clean pants before too many other campers saw me so the story at the time stayed about the snakes and not me pissing my pants.
What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I'm having a stroke?
Maybe they're used to various shortcuts in their writing that they picked up before autocorrect became common, but these habits are too idiosyncratic for autocorrect to handle properly. However, that doesn't explain the emails I've had to decipher that were typed on desktop keyboards. Has anyone else younger than 45 or so felt similarly frustrated with geriatrics' messages?
Just by inhaling robustly, I can crack multiple joints in my back and shoulders, audible to people standing around me. I have a coworker who gets nauseous from the sound so I try to breathe gently while he’s around and he tries to key in on other sounds.
Yes. I’m on Lemmy for entertainment. If I’m not having fun or learning something interesting, I try to recognize that and disconnect. Easier said than done sometimes.
There were a series of accusations about our company last August from a former employee. Immediately following these accusations, LMG hired Roper Greyell - a large Vancouver-based law firm specializing in labor and employment law, to conduct a third-party investigation. Their website describes them as “one of the largest...
IDK how these typically work. Does the law firm release a summary of their findings? Or sign off on LTTs statement? Otherwise, it’s still just a statement they could have made with or without a successful investigation.
Also, I read the “we have a strong case for defamation” as a bit threatening. That didn’t need to be aired as a public statement.
Recommendation for better onboarding… very believable, that’s been most companies I’ve worked for.
Backpacking in a conservation area in Colorado, which means fewer people but also fewer rangers than a national park. Passed a guy and he was a little off but whatever and I kept moving, maybe he’d just been on trail for a while or simply didn’t want to interact.
Then I pause for food and he passes me, whistling and seeming to put a lot of effort into not making eye contact. Then he stops and I pass him again. Then he passes me, then before too long he stops so I pass him again. Over and over, I ended up passing him at least six times despite keeping a steady pace. Every time, he is whistling and not looking at me.
When I’m done for the day, I set up and started prepping to sleep. I heard him whistling in the distance. I packed up and walked as fast as I could with minimal light until I finally stopped around 3am. Setup camp with no light. Didn’t sleep a wink listening for anything that sounded like a whistle. I didn’t see him the next day.
So my take on the man or bear thing: bears won’t track a human through the woods for miles and miles.
I’ve also been attacked by a random dude on a bus that probably had some mental health and/or drug issues. That was scary, but the hours + stalking + mental and physical fatigue of the backpacking stalker was far more draining.
I won’t have kids and have been consistent on that for decades
I’m over 35 so into “geriatric” pregnancy territory
Due to health reasons, I am very unlikely to be able to get pregnant (even before I turned “geriatric”)
Age of other contributing party would also be a factor. Dudes in my age bracket and older are going to result in increasingly unfavorable odds of a baby with health problems.
Yes.I would rather someone have a respectful, appropriate relationship with an ex versus restraining orders and drama and “she was craaaaazy” type crap.
If every one of a guy’s exes are “crazy bitches”, it’s saying something about him, not the women he dated.
Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster’s taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing....
How can we secure a solar eclipse induced apocalypse next time? More virgin sacrifices? Less? Virgins are quite abundant these days. We could go either way…
I don’t remember all the signs from Revelations, but I’m pretty sure one of them is seven trumpets playing as the sky gets their fuckery on. We obviously needed more brass bands playing. I think these guys could bring on the end times next eclipse.
What jobs were you horrified to learn are done by people with little to no experience or training?
Mine is fresh highschool graduates getting 2 weeks of training to go work acute, all-male forensic psychiatry. We’re taking criminally insane men who are unsafe to put on a unit with criminally insane women....
Do you prefer Reddit or Lemmy?
When was the last time you bought a paper map and why ?
Just out of curiosity, are you full digital do you still buy map often ?.
Microsoft is reworking Recall after researchers point out its security problems (arstechnica.com)
the company says that Recall will be opt-in by default, so users will need to decide to turn it on
Why we gave up on learning how to play an instrument?
I regret buying a guitar, I can’t even do the simplest shit on it according to YouTube… I dunno if it’s laziness or just being tired of sucking so much and not being able to play the music that I like… Maybe a mix of both?
What's the most basic thing you can't do?
Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects (www.theregister.com)
We all knew it
Who have you known that was extremely good at a job no one wants?
What do you think of force-sensitive wookies?
Should they be a thing?
What's been the craziest moment of your life?
Doesn’t need to be a life or death situation, just any moment in your life where you found yourself saying “Holy shit, I can’t believe this is happening!”
France considers approval of European chat control plan (stackdiary.com)
The latest proposal mandates user consent for monitoring messages on all communication apps, including those with end-to-end encryption.
What's something you've been called in life that isn't generally something bad, but made you feel awful
For me, growing up, I was around people who saw games as useless and a waste of time, but I loved them...
What was your last vocaroo recording?
What's something weird and mostly useless that you can do with your body?
Do you avoid discussing some topics online even if you have something you'd like to say about them?
I’ve been doing this for some time now. Even if it’s something that I consider important....
Linus Tech Tips (LTT) release investigation results on former accusations (x.com)
There were a series of accusations about our company last August from a former employee. Immediately following these accusations, LMG hired Roper Greyell - a large Vancouver-based law firm specializing in labor and employment law, to conduct a third-party investigation. Their website describes them as “one of the largest...
What's the most alarming experience you've had with a stranger?
What did someone want to gift you the last time you wanted to turn down the gift (and why)?
What's the most seeming trivial thing you'll turn down a GF or BF for?
What drew you to the high seas?
Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster’s taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing....
Well, the eclipse came and went, and the world didn't end. What did we do wrong?
How can we secure a solar eclipse induced apocalypse next time? More virgin sacrifices? Less? Virgins are quite abundant these days. We could go either way…
how can I trust health care professionals if they use windows?
People say to me go look for it and I can only see the absurd of proprietary software that they use, such windows, Microsoft word, outlook etc....
How do you organise your cutlery drawer?
I like having knives, forks, spoons left to right as that is how I say it “grab a knife and fork”....