neon_electro (u/neon_electro)

neon_electro commented on Tech workers' fight for living wages and a 32-hour workweek is a battle for all thechiefleader.com/storie... · Posted by u/robtherobber

ne8il · 2 months ago

I'm a bit confused by this as a union demand because I've followed 4dayweek.io for some time now and Kickstarter shows up there as a 4x8 company as of 2022. (https://4dayweek.io/company/kickstarter/jobs). Anyone know if that's not still the case?

neon_electro · 2 months ago

According to [0] they mention "protecting Kickstarter’s existing four-day, 32-hour workweek".

[0] https://www.opeiulocal153.org/news/kickstarter-united-opeiu-...

neon_electro commented on We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online themarkup.org/privacy/202... · Posted by u/amarcheschi

tracker1 · 4 months ago

Has anyone used deleteme or a similar service? What was your experience, and do you feel it was worth it?

It feels like such a cat and mouse game, that should be easy to automate, that said, I'm not sure it'll be effective.

neon_electro · 4 months ago

I have used Incogni for a few years now, I was a little worried after the first year things wouldn't be worth the price, but I'm noticing that there are data brokers who will happily remove you but not put you on a block-list, meaning that they will happily ingest your information again if it comes to them, and another request from Incogni will be needed to remove it again.

I'm on the fence about whether that's real value delivered from Incogni, but I do think overall it's working to limit some of the spread of my data.

neon_electro commented on Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system newyorker.com/news/annals... · Posted by u/dmazin

zitsarethecure · 5 months ago

Out of curiosity, is it a "smart" appliance that requires an app to function?

neon_electro · 5 months ago

I have an LG heat pump dryer as well, it doesn't require the app to function as far as I understand.

neon_electro commented on Ruby's Timeout is dangerous and Thread.raise is terrifying (2015) jvns.ca/blog/2015/11/27/w... · Posted by u/thunderbong

taf2 · 2 years ago

This the main reason I insist on curb - we need reliable http timeouts

neon_electro · 2 years ago

Can you share a reference to what curb is? I can only find a project containing Ruby `curl` bindings.

neon_electro commented on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software alinpanaitiu.com/blog/woo... · Posted by u/imaq

josephg · 2 years ago

I hear you. But I’ve been programming for 30 years and I have some strong intuitions around where my code needs an empty line to space things out. Stuff like that. The day I first tried gofmt and it removed some of my carefully considered whitespace, I turned around, put blood on my hands in the old way and made a promise to the night that my soul belongs to me and gofmt will never sully my code with its corporate BS aesthetic.

Some consistency in a codebase is good. Naming consistency. Indentation. But people go too way far with it. Who cares if your JavaScript makes consistent use of semicolons? It doesn’t matter. It just doesn’t matter.

neon_electro · 2 years ago

This is why linters are configurable; if your team doesn't care about consistent use of semicolons, ignore that linter.

Right?

neon_electro commented on Tesla failing to deliver Semi-trucks on time to PepsiCo, Sysco, UPS, and Walmart reuters.com/business/auto... · Posted by u/alephnerd

bscphil · 2 years ago

> Current cost of CO2 is ~$185/ton emitted.

Wow. Back of the envelope math suggests that driving a typical passenger car 1000 miles should carry a tax of ~$75, which would be no small burden. At 40 mpg, gasoline cost for such a trip is less than $200 in most of the U.S. right now.

Edit: actually if you assume 40 mpg the social cost of emissions is closer to $40.

(Of course in practice you'd want to handle this as a tax on gasoline purchases, but that would need to be implemented federally to be effective, probably.)

neon_electro · 2 years ago

I tried to emulate the math you showed, my Chevrolet Bolt EV emits 96g CO2 per mile when considering upstream emissions on the New Jersey electrical grid, my carbon tax on 96kg emissions per 1000 miles would be $17.76.

Does that sound right to you?

neon_electro commented on Anatomy of a credit card rewards program bitsaboutmoney.com/archiv... · Posted by u/disgruntledphd2

hot_gril · 2 years ago

The difference is the tap to pay location is usually not obvious, and FaceID will fail sometimes.

neon_electro · 2 years ago

One of many reasons why I still have a TouchID iOS device, and am praying Apple will continue to make them.

neon_electro commented on Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure engineering.fb.com/2024/0... · Posted by u/mootpt

tayo42 · 2 years ago

What does video not be in the future mean? In social media tiktok and reels are everywhere?

neon_electro · 2 years ago

They are referring to Facebook/Meta’s 2015 “pivot to video”, speculating there may be a similar thing happening more recently with AI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_to_video

neon_electro commented on I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test old.reddit.com/r/mildlyin... · Posted by u/wk_end

isawczuk · 2 years ago

Glad to see feedback from real users. My company was pitched by Paradox [1] to use their chatbot and this bizarre questionnaire to hire SW. Their solution target mostly McDonalds workers and other bluecollar, where I believe it's "okeish to put human beings thru the mud first". They claim [2] there is science behind it, but me and my partner's feedback was it will never work for IT workers.

[1] - https://www.traitify.com/ [2] - https://www.traitify.com/science

neon_electro · 2 years ago

What does “putting humans through the mud” achieve?

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