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Keirmot commented on Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager jampa.dev/p/lessons-learn... · Posted by u/jampa

satisfice · 2 months ago

Why do people espouse goals like “not to be needed?” I never understood that. It sounds like LinkedIn virtue signaling. It’s a capitalist talking point along the lines of “I seek to be good and inexpensive capital for my corporate masters.”

My goal is to help my team succeed in such a way as to keep my job or else get a better one. Being “not needed” hardly serves that goal.

Look around you. We are in a world that is turning away from middle managers. Don’t play into their hands.

Keirmot · 2 months ago

The way I read it is not to be needed for normal functionality of the team, not to "not be needed" at all. Akin to a ship's captain - for the most part a ship works without a captain just fine, but that doesn't make the captain's job redundant, it's just he's needed for specific occasions, otherwise, he's just making sure the crew works as a well oiled machine.

Keirmot commented on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype antirez.com/news/158... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

shevy-java · 2 months ago

Reads like AI slop. This is also quite annoying: quality appears to go downwards constantly. I am not saying that the oldschool blogs were all great in quality, but now I look at an article to see signs of AI generated text and if I see it - or think I see it - I become more critical automatically. Even without that, it seems the quality of writing has gotten worse. I remember that people years ago complained that handwriting got worse (I always got awful handwriting though, way before using computers already); but now it seems that it also affected the brain. The seem to be some disconnect on what is thought, and what is written down.

Keirmot · 2 months ago

I 100% agree with the sentiment. To me, it feels like most bloggers nowadays think only in very superficial abstract idea, and then prompt ChatGPT for a blog post.

Keirmot commented on Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran'; gist.github.com/avestura/... · Posted by u/avestura

heyheyhouhou · 6 months ago

Iranian IPs are blocked here, due to your decision to arm Russia with drones so that they can indiscriminately massacre civilians.

I always find amusing how the west always blames the people of the rivals "iranians", the "chinese", etc but when something is wrong with their side they blame an entity to detach themselves "the american government", "this administration", "nazi germany", etc

Keirmot · 6 months ago

This comment is disingenuous.

In everyday speech, people don’t carefully separate “the people” from “the state.” A French person talking about the U.S. usually says les Américains. A German talking about the French will just say die Franzosen — or, if they’re in the mood to tease, die Froschfresser. It’s only in news or diplomatic language that you see “the American government,” “the French government,” or “London” when referring to Britain.

The phrase “this administration” is mostly used domestically, by citizens talking about their own rulers. In Portugal you’d hear "este governo é uma merda", and in Spain the exact same sentiment — give or take a letter or two.

And “Nazi Germany” is only used when distinguishing regimes — Weimar vs. Federal Republic, Estado Novo vs. the Portuguese Republics, the French Fourth vs. the Fifth Republic, and so on.

Keirmot commented on Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran'; gist.github.com/avestura/... · Posted by u/avestura

chabska · 6 months ago

> Nobody should be expected to take that risk

I've seen this sentiment so many times from westerners. You all say this, and yet at the same time you levy economic sanctions on countries like Iran, Cuba, and North Korea, with the justification that by making their citizens lives horrific, you encourage them to rise against their government.

Their authoritarian militaristic government that doesn't care for human rights.

If you apply the same standard to the North Korean citizens, that they should not be expected to "take that risk", they your country's sanctions are pure collective punishment with no strategic value. You just tortured people for fun.

Keirmot · 6 months ago

Sanctions have a theoretical basis behind them. In the Western Political Philosophical Canon, leaders and elites are expected to strive for the Common Good. From that perspective, sanctions aren’t meant as “torture for fun,” (as you put it) but as a way of creating pressure so governments change their behavior without having to resort to war. They’re basically a tool to raise the cost of bad actions and make it more attractive to adjust course.

At the same time, sanctions also work in other ways: they punish governments that break international norms, they send a signal to the world about what’s considered unacceptable, and they reaffirm shared values. That’s why they’re still used despite the harsh effects on ordinary people. They aren’t a perfect solution, but in Western thinking their role is to combine pressure, deterrence and symbolism, rather than just collective punishment for its own sake.

Keirmot commented on Nine things I learned in ninety years edwardpackard.com/wp-cont... · Posted by u/coderintherye

Keirmot · 6 months ago

I don’t want to argue with you. I just want to say I understand the pain in what you wrote replying to other people. Life can make people hard, but that doesn’t make your hurt any less real. You don’t owe anyone optimism, but you also don’t have to carry all of what you're carrying alone.

I’m going to echo what others have said, and please, I ask you to read this with the most generous light possible. You deserve support, and it’s okay to reach for it when the weight feels too heavy, you ought to seek help, mate.

Keirmot commented on Macrodata Refinement lumon-industries.com/... · Posted by u/gaws

intrepion · a year ago

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Keirmot · a year ago

The board will not participate in the meeting, vocally.

Keirmot commented on Loop: Open-source macOS window manager github.com/MrKai77/Loop... · Posted by u/edu

rpgbr · 2 years ago

Am I the only one who gave up and embraced the messy windows spread all over the desktop? (Used to use Rectangle.) It's kinda liberating, tbh.

Keirmot · 2 years ago

I too thrive in that chaos.

Keirmot commented on I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet for over a week. AMA old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/com... · Posted by u/consumer451

paganel · 2 years ago

Why isn’t he in prison? I mean, going by the West’s own laws, or the spirit of them, anyway. Unless he is part of said West’s Armed Forces, in which case this would get really close to a casus belli.

Keirmot · 2 years ago

Because one of the 3 basic principles of sovereignty (as is understood by western political philosophy, known as Westphalian sovereignty) is that there is no other authority inside a State’s borders except its own.

This means no other country has jurisdiction in North Korea, besides, there’s also no incentive to help in case DPRK asks for help.

France doesn’t investigante crimes that happen in Spain, Portugal doesn’t investigate crimes that haven in Canada, the USA doesn’t investigate crimes that happen in Germany, etc…

Keirmot commented on Mitsubishi robot solves Rubik's Cube in 0.305s soranews24.com/2024/05/28... · Posted by u/nanna

robertlagrant · 2 years ago

You know what it is? Because it's a robot, it can spin both sides at once. That's why it does it in 0.3s, and I'm still doing mine a year later.

Keirmot · 2 years ago

I bought one when I lied to myself and said I'll learn to do this in less than a minute. After 3 weeks I just got an app and solved it. Now I use it as a motivation tool to force me to close all my rings on the Apple Watch - whenever I don't, I move one side per ring not closed, and when I close I can fix it my how many rings I did close.

Keirmot commented on Mitsubishi robot solves Rubik's Cube in 0.305s soranews24.com/2024/05/28... · Posted by u/nanna

dclowd9901 · 2 years ago

Which is why I can’t understand why people still put so much effort into it. It’s one of those things humans will never do better than a machine.

It’s not like woodworking where the errors are part of the “soul” of the piece, or like creating art, where creativity is the core of the endeavor. It’s just trying to spin stupid planes on a stupid block as quickly as possible. Before you’ve even started, you’ve failed.

I also put running into this category. What are you going to do? Run a 0:00.00 mile? What’s the point of training to run faster? At some point we’ll decide someone is the fastest “natural” human and then we’ll move onto cybernetic humans because what are we going to do? Continue to watch people not be amazing?

I’m not sure what my overall point here is except to say I feel like when it comes to mechanical capability, shooting for the “best” is just stupid and pointless. When it comes to artistic capability, sky is the limit.

Keirmot · 2 years ago

You must be fun at parties...

Some people do stuff just because it's fun, not to be the best of the best. If you only do something to be the best, why do anything at all?