Hey all, I want to know how you all deal with management and pushing tech debt work. Here's a little bit of background on my current situation, and I'd love to hear how you'd deal with it....
TL;DR I would leave him alone regarding his software components.
I just finished writing this comment and noticed it's your boss. I assumed you were the boss, bit maybe this comment still helps you.
Some people can't be convinced. (Even if they can, they can be too busy to learn new stuff.)
There's ideal and reality. I find this often discussed in software architecture books. As you've been doing, a good architect analyzes how the ideal proposal works in practice. In your case, your colleague is refusing the ideal either because he has a good understanding of the reality or it's outside of his comfort zone.
I've tried several times to convince this kind of person. They either couldn't act on what was told or intentionally ignored me. One guy even harassed me, which was his technique to get his way.
In any case, to work with this kind of person I learned to leave them alone. I let them create a blackbox and isolate my code / role from theirs as much as possible. I also try assigning a different but suitable role for them.
Regarding Google Docs... maybe assign a different person to do that for you.
Democracy remains popular across the world, but faced with a global array of challenges from inequality to the climate crisis, young people are far less likely than their elders to believe it can deliver on what concerns them....
Many respondents believed China’s growing influence would be a force for good, with nearly twice as many respondents believing it would have a positive impact (45%) on their country as a negative one (25%).
This shows that the number of respondents per country was likely proportional to the country's population.
So, likely majority of respondents believed they live in democracy when it was actually autocracy or dictatorship. I think the Guardian should emphasize the biases throughout the article.
These numbers are potentially expressing the problems in autocracy rather than democracy.
The U.S. Copyright Office has again rejected copyright protection for art created using artificial intelligence, denying a request by artist Jason M. Allen for a copyright covering an award-winning image he created with the generative AI system Midjourney.
Lucky Tran, director of science communication at Columbia University, discovered this himself when he attempted to use Threads to seek out research related to covid, something he says he does every day. “I was excited by search [on Threads],” he said. “When I typed in covid, I came up with no search results.”
Yes. It's better than showing misinformation. SNS is notoriously bad at helping "doing your own research".
Dmytro Lubinets, Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, has reported during the Yalta European Strategy that a mechanism has been developed to bring back Ukrainian children deported from the occupied territories.
As I wrote to the other person, the idea is to escalate the sanctions as they escalate the war, and lift part of the sanctions for giving back the children.
The alternative is to militarily damage Russia until they give back the children, but once Russia goes out of Ukraine this won't work anymore. As Kyiv's made clear, they only go as far as getting back their territory.
According to a report published by popular research companies, the company faced a significant financial loss by closing the last two months with a user loss of over thirty percent.
Since the start of July, the app's downloads have fallen by almost 30% compared to the preceding two months, according to data from app performance tracker Apptopia.
I don't understand Scholz' decisions so far. He's like working in favor of Russia while yet going against it sometimes. I haven't heard his party nor coalition partners aren't particularly pro-Russia.
Elon Musk provided his confidential conversation with Ukraine's Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov to the billionaire's biographer without permission, the Financial Times reported on Sept. 8.
In a news article I read the hostility has been understood as the US officially engaging in a war. So, treason doesn't apply actually. At the same time, the current Russia-US relation can be as hostile as possible due to nukes.
In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious people throughout the tech industry has led...
Meanwhile, websites in my country don't allow symbols for fear of code injection attacks, and the allowed max length is 8 characters. You read it right. Fucking hell, it's Japan....
The row centres around the exhibition 'This is Colonialism' and the museum's decision to restrict white people from entering a small section of the display...
This is incredibly dumb, but tbh I understand their intention. In Germany you'll meet the worst kind of racists.
Once in Starbucks, a white cunt woman filled my coffee mug with trash while I was in the bathroom... Less extreme, but I think every Asian descendant was at least once told to go back to China. I have been mocked for my Asian eyes, etc.
Seriously, many of their grandparents were okay with locking Jews in camps, the population as a mass grabbed and shared Jews' properties, and then officially killed them in gas chambers.
So, maybe I edited my comment and they are replying to an old version which could've indeed been poor, so I don't blame them too much.
Anyway, I'm finding out that those people who complain on the web often can't read. Especially the type who thinks in black or white basis. They can't see nuance. If people do see nuance, they often wouldn't attack unless I write something really stupid.
Simply put, that type of people can't be argued with. They won't see the complexity of reality. Hence, it follows that they can't read. Maybe they are teenagers who love to write on Steam threads or something (god forbid, I love that too).
So I often tell them they are wrong, with some explanation, yet also tell them I don't intend to convince them (because they aren't ready) and maybe that they have to read my text again (which they can't).
Russian authorities in the occupied regions of Ukraine plan to hold elections for the first time, on the 8-10 September 2023, in parallel with those held in the Russian Federation. Voting has already started in Zaporizhzhia and Mariupol....
On Tuesday, it was reported that North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls could be ousted from her seat for judicial ethics violations. Did she fail to disclose gifts from a billionaire benefactor on whose cases she was ruling? No. Maybe she’d gone on luxury vacations across the globe paid for by some of the richest...
The benefits of Rust turned out to be irrelevant for Lemmy. Then the downside kicks in. To give you some context, sone people Rust is more difficult than C++, which was indeed one of the most difficult (if not the most).
Fossil fuel and industrial agriculture industries in the Global South are receiving an annual average of 20 times more financing from banks than governments are receiving for climate solutions. Banks have put $3.2 trillion towards the expansion of fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement, with $370 billion being funneled into the...
China uses these ships to take islands from its neighbors. What happens is that nobody has the gut to sink a Chinese navy ship as that implies a war against China. So, China would simply send ship, land on islands and claim that those were always theirs.
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, the head of the Bundestag?s defence committee, has said that Chancellor Olaf Scholz is the only one in the coalition who is blocking the supply of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine.
There was a rather upsetting post recently that attracted a lot of apparently non-LGBT+ people with bad opinions. I’d like to remind everyone that “bee kind” includes not accepting, normalizing, and ignoring transphobic opinions and beliefs. We’re all together in this....
The ‘blank check’ ally of former president Donald Trump’s media start-up was once a stock-market star. It’s now days away from potential liquidation....
In a post there Monday, he wrote, “TRUTH SOCIAL IS THE GREATEST & ‘HOTTEST’ FORM, SYSTEM, & PLATFORM OF COMMUNICATION IN AMERICA, & INDEED THE WORLD, TODAY. THAT’S WHY I USE IT — THERE IS NOTHING THAT COMES EVEN CLOSE!!!”
Long over due for human rights groups to list these scumbags as fascists. Because the only explanation to ripping off these people's rights is political advantage.
A federal judge has blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts. U.S.
I want to talk about our gateway products to open source. You know, that one product or software that made us go, “Whoa, this is amazing!” and got us hooked on the world of open source....
Emacs. That was the first editor I touched on my university's Fedora. And then I read that it had forks, was customizable with Lisp. I then read more about the Unix community and so on. That was interesting.
There is a machine learning bubble, but the technology is here to stay. Once the bubble pops, the world will be changed by machine learning. But it will probably be crappier, not better....
How do you deal with management and tech debt? (kbin.social)
Hey all, I want to know how you all deal with management and pushing tech debt work. Here's a little bit of background on my current situation, and I'd love to hear how you'd deal with it....
Finland will also not allow cars with Russian number plates (pravda.com.ua)
Finland is planning to ban the entry of cars with Russian number plates, as the Baltic States have previously done.
Younger people more likely to doubt merits of democracy – global poll (theguardian.com)
Democracy remains popular across the world, but faced with a global array of challenges from inequality to the climate crisis, young people are far less likely than their elders to believe it can deliver on what concerns them....
Putin on Trump: Criminal charges are politically motivated (politico.eu)
Russian president also praises Elon Musk as ‘an outstanding person.’
US Copyright Office denies protection for another AI-created image (reuters.com)
The U.S. Copyright Office has again rejected copyright protection for art created using artificial intelligence, denying a request by artist Jason M. Allen for a copyright covering an award-winning image he created with the generative AI system Midjourney.
Food Can Be Literally Addictive, New Evidence Suggests (12ft.io)
Highly processed foods resemble drugs of misuse in a number of disturbing ways
Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise (wapo.st)
Public health experts denounced the platform’s moderation policies, which they say restrict access to critical health information...
Republican hardliners threaten US government shut down unless Biden slashes FBI spending (telegraph.co.uk)
House Freedom Caucus is also demanding an end to 'woke policies' at the defence department and more money to be spent on border enforcement
Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads. Here's what you need to know (theconversation.com)
Google is paving the way to serve you ads based directly on your browsing history, instead of cookies.
Ukraine's Human Rights Commissioner presents mechanism for bringing back children deported by Russia (pravda.com.ua)
Dmytro Lubinets, Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, has reported during the Yalta European Strategy that a mechanism has been developed to bring back Ukrainian children deported from the occupied territories.
Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months! (en.shiftdelete.net)
Russian Colonel General commanding the Central Military District: war in Ukraine "an intermediate stage" in a longer war for Eastern Europe, which Russia "will have to attack". (nitter.net)
Machine translation of video....
FT: Musk gave his biographer confidential messages with Ukraine's Minister Fedorov without permission (kyivindependent.com)
Elon Musk provided his confidential conversation with Ukraine's Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov to the billionaire's biographer without permission, the Financial Times reported on Sept. 8.
Observational and model evidence together support wide-spread exposure to noncompensable heat under continued global warming (science.org)
Abstract...
Ukraine Situation Report: Breakthrough At Russia's Second Defensive Line (thedrive.com)
Elon Musk says he withheld Starlink over Crimea to avoid escalation (bbc.com)
A senior Ukrainian official says this enabled Russian attacks and accuses him of "committing evil".
Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach (krebsonsecurity.com)
In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious people throughout the tech industry has led...
Mozilla flunks 25 major car brands for data privacy fails (theregister.com)
…and the related Mozilla report
German museum in racism row over partial ban of white people (euronews.com)
The row centres around the exhibition 'This is Colonialism' and the museum's decision to restrict white people from entering a small section of the display...
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UK: Russia started elections in the occupied regions of Ukraine (lemmy.ca)
Russian authorities in the occupied regions of Ukraine plan to hold elections for the first time, on the 8-10 September 2023, in parallel with those held in the Russian Federation. Voting has already started in Zaporizhzhia and Mariupol....
[News] State Republicans Try to Remove NC Supreme Court Justice for Mentioning the Existence of Racial Bias (slate.com)
On Tuesday, it was reported that North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls could be ousted from her seat for judicial ethics violations. Did she fail to disclose gifts from a billionaire benefactor on whose cases she was ruling? No. Maybe she’d gone on luxury vacations across the globe paid for by some of the richest...
Sainz robbed outside Milan hotel after F1 Italian GP podium finish (autosport.com)
Three people, who are thought to have been waiting outside the hotel for some time, encountered Sainz and stole his watch....
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The causes fueling the climate crisis are receiving 20 times more financing than the solutions, investigation reveals (actionaid.org)
Fossil fuel and industrial agriculture industries in the Global South are receiving an annual average of 20 times more financing from banks than governments are receiving for climate solutions. Banks have put $3.2 trillion towards the expansion of fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement, with $370 billion being funneled into the...
Russia suggests that China and North Korea conduct joint naval "training" (pravda.com.ua)
In July, Moscow suggested that North Korea conduct trilateral naval training with Russia and China, South Korean intelligence reports.
Bundestag says Scholz is blocking delivery of Taurus to Ukraine (pravda.com.ua)
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, the head of the Bundestag?s defence committee, has said that Chancellor Olaf Scholz is the only one in the coalition who is blocking the supply of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine.
[RANT] Can we not excuse transphobia? Please and thank you.
There was a rather upsetting post recently that attracted a lot of apparently non-LGBT+ people with bad opinions. I’d like to remind everyone that “bee kind” includes not accepting, normalizing, and ignoring transphobic opinions and beliefs. We’re all together in this....
Trump’s Truth Social facing a key funding deadline (wapo.st)
The ‘blank check’ ally of former president Donald Trump’s media start-up was once a stock-market star. It’s now days away from potential liquidation....
Kansas officials are no longer required to change trans people’s birth certificates, judge says. (apnews.com)
I guess it wasn’t just about “protecting the kids.” Cruelty is the point. The republican motto....
Ukraine designates PepsiCo, Mars as 'international war sponsors' (kyivindependent.com)
Ukraine's National Corruption Prevention Agency added major food corporations PepsiCo and Mars to the "international sponsors of war" list on Sept. 1.
A sapper of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade wearing Ukrainian-made mine-resistant boots. (files.catbox.moe)
https://files.catbox.moe/cv1z66.jpg...
Judge blocks Arkansas law requiring parental OK for minors to create social media accounts (apnews.com)
A federal judge has blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts. U.S.
New hybrid energy graphic introduced for Monza broadcast (formula1.com)
What was your gateway product to open source? (cnet.com)
I want to talk about our gateway products to open source. You know, that one product or software that made us go, “Whoa, this is amazing!” and got us hooked on the world of open source....
AI crap - Why ML will make the world worse, not better (drewdevault.com)
There is a machine learning bubble, but the technology is here to stay. Once the bubble pops, the world will be changed by machine learning. But it will probably be crappier, not better....