K, that’s your opinion. I think it’s fun asking my assistant do things.

Home assistant does have voice, and they’re trying out their own in home devices. It has an app for android and you can map your primary assistant to it

Well if there’s anyone who knows when it will be done, it’s high level management

Agree with the other commenter. If she ever pulls that line with you again make sure you throw it right back at her. “You’re right, family first. That’s my kids and my spouse.” Maybe she’ll start to realize the family shifts as you age.

I’ve experience this first hand, and watched it from the other side. My mother is extremely “Christian”, and that’s one of her phrases there. To her, people helping her became an expectation, not an act of kindness. She was a single mom, and so people around town would help her out. Like our local appliance guy, he’d give her a deal on a new dishwasher - and then she would push her luck and ask him to install it. And then start calling him directly when the slightest thing might be wrong with it. And then for other appliances. And then for random handiman stuff. She of course never repaid him for everything he did.

Because he’s a Christian, and so was she. So of course he was “happy” to do it for her. A few people eventually did tell her no, and she would immediately convince herself that they were bad people and that she “had to cut them out of her life” because of the negativity.

This is why I collect those old DVDs and blurays, I treasure some of those old movies that are damn hard to find now.

The BBC of Northanger Abbey was hard to find for me. Spouse and I are Jane Austen fans, and it features a young Felicity Jones and the Onion Knight from GoT. Looks like it’s on Prime Video now, wasn’t at the time. I looked everywhere, and actually found a Blu-ray copy on eBay that I grabbed. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0844794/

It’s for firefighters and EMS to let them know there’s a baby in the car if there is an emergency

The vehicle size arms race. Large cars force other cars to become larger just to match their mass in an accident. Still doesn’t mean if you buy a large vehicle that you’re not making the problem worse

The perfect character to put ina parody of LA. When you take the entire game asa satire, then Trevor is one of the most logical choices

From the forum post:

Just because he works at Plex doesn’t necessarily make his review fake.

Yikes the copium here. Reviews are meant for users of the app, this is so incredibly biased and in bad taste. I have had my shittiest companies ask us to leave positive reviews on Glassdoor. The shittiest ones.

Maybe their big redesign that no one asked for isn’t doing well, and this is a self preservation thing, to get more people to download it. Maybe CEO asked them to. Maybe they’re just over eager. All are excuses and not valid reasons to give a rating on your own company’s product

Honestly have to agree. I was skeptical on your take until I read his blog post. I see zero reflection on it. Instead I see blame and anger, and yes frustration.

Look, the market is trash, but there are jobs for those willing to learn. He mentions php. Php hasn’t been relevant for new jobs for a while. The only time I mention my php knowledge is it it’s in reference to an older project I did. He mentions he’s kept up on AI by “reading HN and articles” and then saying he has 5 projects he has essentially vibe coded it sounds like. That’s not keeping up with AI from a software engineering standpoint. That’s just using AI tools and reading articles. Keeping up with AI from an engineering standpoint to me is using their apis, running models, training your own models. Go under the surface, show curiosity.

We work in a field where a fundamental requirement is to keep learning. It’s very easy to get comfortable in a role and not learn anything new, but you’ll get stuck there. If you have unemployment learn every library you can. Learn Rust, Go, random languages. Choose the packages you don’t know very well to build your app. Deploy your app yourself, learn CI/CD and infrastructure. Don’t stand still.

I’m a dotnet engineer now. Right now that means I’m 40% dotnet, python, nosql, kubernetes, and React. 5 years ago I was Angular. 10 years ago I was php and webforms. You can’t just say “I learned to code, I’m done!”. In this field it’s never done.

Edit, I also want to call out two other red flags from him. He’s unemployed but the thought of in office was a red line for him? I prefer WFH of course, but if it’s door dashing or an office, it’s a no brainer. Then also if you have that many connections on LinkedIn and no one will vouch for you, that’s a moment of introspection. I won’t say all or even a majority I would expect to help out for me, but I have a decent network. You have to keep that up

Best way to stop passive aggressive behavior is to pull it out into the open. The back channeling cuts down once people are aware of what’s going on. But for you, even if you’re lying to yourself, just assume it didn’t happen, I know I conflate things way worse than what they are. You aren’t doing this regularly, you’ve taken steps to prevent it. We’re human, humans have issues. For a manager they just want to know that it’s taken care of so they have an answer for their boss if it comes up

I’m not saying every three months, but after 5-7 years like me, it’s probably just a good idea. Who knows what devices have the passwords saved on it still

Oh man, I’m 50/50 on this one. I’m going to say…

Gonna run out the clock in Florida ey?

It’s a difficult one. Personally I’d get out ahead of it a bit, maybe talk to your direct supervisor. They’ll go to bat for you if you give them the ability to. Ask for a 1-1 with them and simply tell them you’re sorry about it, but that you’re grateful that you have the flexibility to do so, and that just so they know “I had a temporary flare up, but thanks to the quick action of my doctor I’m medicated and shouldn’t be an issue moving forward”.

Personally I’m the same way, and worry everyone is thinking about me all the time. I usually end up bringing this up with my boss, and let him know that I’m always a bit anxious, but I trust that if something is a problem that he’ll bring it up with me, and that I’ll just keep going unless he tells me not to. Usually this clears the air a bit, shows that I’m definitely open to feedback, but that I’m not going to spiral anymore either. Once they did bring something up, but every other time it’s been “Don’t worry, you’re doing great, I’ll let you know if that changes”.

Let’s put it this way, if you find out that you overstepped in some way in a meeting where they’re firing you, they failed you. Firing should be the absolute last option after a long line of chats, one on ones, and finally a PIP or something similar. If a firing is a surprise, your direct manager failed you.

I said it then and I repeat it now, marketing just needed to justify their salaries. No one asked for it then, everyone is laughing at it now

Definitely thought it landed. It showed the true price of a rebellion, and the people and courage it takes. It didn’t need fancy lightsabers or giant laser battles or cameos to stand on its own, it used honest storytelling and deep characters, and told it’s story well.

I pity those who call it boring, what I consider the best piece of star wars since rogue one, which was probably the best since the original trilogy. If you want cameos and battles there’s plenty of star wars like that, the sequels and other shows are full of it. If you want good, deep storytelling, intrigue, drama, Andor brought it in full

Oh this is going to be amazing

I appreciate they took the time to do this. Still though, when was the last time you changed your steam password? Regardless of this it never hurts to update it

Got love lawyers creating rules like this. Same as zero tolerance policies in school. Stand up for yourself? Can’t have that, you should just let assholes be assholes. What about punishment for them? Well we saw no legal liability so we did nothing (and we’re chicken shits who afraid they might leave a 1 star review)