jbrains

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[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Hur fan säger man "Naturalistic Fallacy" på svenska? Det har jag inte än lärt mig.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Good news, relatively speaking.

I've been where you are. Most important: don't let yourself start to take responsibility for managerial decisions. If they want you to stand in the corner on your head and cluck like a chicken, it's their money. 🤷 Don't let that change how you see yourself as a programmer.

And roll your eyes in private.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Is this a problem for you or merely annoying? I mean the difference between you being blamed for their poor results and you merely being inconvenienced by doing extra work.

You might need to train yourself to accept the situation as it is and hope for someone in authority to make things better. It's not easy, but this might be a good chance for you to build that skill. 🤷

Can you talk openly with your manager about this situation? Would it be helpful to you to propose to your manager that you help that group? Maybe your manager would appreciate your attempt at leadership.

Good luck.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 39 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You don't have to commit to any one thing in this life. I'm doing very little at age 51 that I was doing at age 27.

I also wasn't doing what I truly wanted to do most in life until my 40s.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I don't remember what LibreOffice calls it, but there is an option to choose which dates are the starting points for counting, so that 0 corresponds to different dates for reasons of compatibility with other spreadsheet systems. Yours is not set to what you're expecting.

One of the options is 4 years 1 day later than the LibreOffice standard, which explains why those dates are off by that much.

There is a setting per workbook and possibly a global setting that would affect all new workbooks until you change it.

Search the web for something like "1904 date option LibreOffice Calc" and you'll find out the details. Good luck.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

The reference date (the date that 0 represents) is not set as you expect. This happened to me when I imported Numbers files into LibreOffice Calc and is the reason I know about this at all.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you have social anxiety, then why are you blaming women for being difficult to talk to or flirt with?

Women didn't get me until I grew into my 20s. For some of us, it takes longer, and it feels terrible in the meantime. Peace.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

The cumulative pedantry is almost all the fun.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And it should be displaceraptor, dropping the last syllable, otherwise the quotient would be velocityraptor.

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you for the example. Indeed, the context did not make that clear.

That makes me wonder what he thought he was saying. I infer something like "very few". Or he genuinely though he had no bullets left and was wrong. I'd say that second case seems highly unlikely, but it wouldn't totally shock me.

I wonder whether the word is the issue or the speaker's intent: if the speaker insists in exaggerating, then no word they use is going to convey that they aren't exaggerating. I wouldn't think them likely to use any word to convey that they aren't exaggerating, because they are. I think of it like a person bent on sarcasm: you simply need to detect it somehow, then filter every word accordingly.

That wouldn't make the word "literally" literally ruined, but might instead merely indicate that we can't rely on it as a safeword against exaggeration. 🤷

 

I'd love to say this was intentional, but no.

 

... men jag minns inte varifrån jag känner igen den.

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