Also about:profiles if it’s already running

I agree with what NuXCOM said, but to add a little more detail in this situation…

For me, it’s a little different because of perceived influence.

DHH has always been the software equivalent of an Instagram influencer. He’s been selling himself as the mythical 10x programmer and wrote a corny business book with his co-founder.

Meanwhile, he was mainly working on Basecamp and racing million-dollar cars. A lot of his personal cars have been sold to YouTube influencers.

He has had a cult of personality built around him for years, and stupid people in some small software circles love him (clearly, by the rubygems takeover).

The Lemmy devs have no influence at all over software development. Just Lemmy.

As a former long-time Ruby developer who also used Rails (Ruby since 2006, Rails came along for me later), I’ve always known DHH was a total douchebag.

It’s nice to know he’s being super obvious about it now. He’s always been awful. He’s just been slightly quieter about it, other than buying million-dollar cars and pretending he’s still relevant.

Edit to add that here’s a presentation talking about “The DHH problem” in 2014. The updates are darkly humorous.

I’m not reading all that. Sorry for your issue, or I’m happy for you. Whichever you prefer.

It has been remarkably useful! I keep trying to tell people about it but apparently I am just their main use case or something.

I would have loved it when I was using Samba to share files on my local network decades ago. It’s like a Swiss Army knife!

rsync can sometimes look similarly scary! I very clearly remember triple-checking what it’s doing.

rclone works amazingly well if you have hundreds of folders or thousands of files and you can’t be bothered to babysit a portal.

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Tangentially, I don’t see people talk about rclone a lot, which is like rsync for cloud storage.

It’s awesome for moving things from one provider to another, for example.

The best you can do in any job is to care as little about them as they care about you.

They will barely read it, and they won’t care nearly as much as you do.

I resign my position as a [position], effective [DATE].

I’d never get my clothes out

Huh.

Does anyone else think that ChatGPT is still using the data, they’re just not referencing Reddit directly?

This is how you can tell Reddit’s $200+/share price is insane. Over 10% of its value dropped based on a different unprofitable company’s references to ingested content.

Yikes!!

I played some Crusader Kings III.

I haven’t played much (under 10 hours) but I started one of the “easy” starts and it isn’t going poorly. I always hit the point in complex games where I’m not exactly sure what to do.

A previously-posted Gizmodo article said

Kabas reports that 1.7 million was 436% above a subscriber loss that’s typical for the same period

Which I thought was very useful.

He’s been told his entire life he’s better than everyone else, it’s no wonder he convinces others.

He spent part of his youth benefiting from apartheid and being a German kid in an African town that literally glorified Nazism until the 1980s.

He got all of the $100,000 he first lost in bad investments from family and friends.

Celebrity billionaires, they’re just like us… lmao

I don’t go to bars but I vaguely remember seeing bar-top digital games at some point too.

I can’t remember when this was, I just remember being flabbergasted that someone might pay to play a bejeweled knockoff or something.

I too have owned a fractal case and I really liked it! I eventually got rid of it because I moved cross-country and I didn’t have an immediate need for it.

My company is not a place where you learn how to code, it’s a place where you learn all the stuff which you didn’t think you’d have to do as a software engineer.

This to me is actually the “secret” of software engineering: it’s frequently doing the stuff you didn’t think you’d have to do as a software engineer.

The hard part is often finding someone who can do both while also wanting to work at your company.

I believe Tech hiring is more about ego of the hiring managers and team more than it is about hiring qualified people.

I’ve never been on a team or seen a team where this was the case. We just wanted people who could do the job well, and they were hard to find.

I actually don’t understand where manager/team ego ever fits in, as someone who hired a lot of bootcamp grads.

Not in the same way… which is the issue.

It’s a skilled profession, so ideally you want someone who is more skilled, and the person who has interest is more skilled.

It works similarly with other skilled professions like carpenters.

This has been my experience as well, since I started in community college in the early 2000s.

There is an unfortunately large difference in tech between a person who has an innate interest and someone who is checking the boxes to get and keep a job.