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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Shame, that people think they could have the same as all western generations since the beginning of industrialization 😅

    It is not a shame, it is expected but not always possible.

    Yeah, of course. Productivity still rises across the board. To merely sustain our wealth, we all could work less and retire earlier, but alas, that does not work if the productivity gains get gobbled up solely by the owners ¯_(ツ)_/¯

    It is not a problem of productivity but a problem of how many years you work before retiring and how many year you live after you retire (with the obvious exceptions).

    I agree that the increase in productivity should generate an higher pay for the worker but that is sustainable up until a certain point, you cannot expect to work for 20 years then to live 40 or more years in retirement with the same standard of living since what you get while retired is what you accumulate while working, even with a higher productivity.




  • Yes. And she is contributing to it with her war-preperation rhetoric. She seriously used the “upcoming war” as an excuse to make us danes work more and retire later (and also to remove a holiday) in a time where the thing we need the most is to fight for shorter work weeks.

    It always amuse me how people think that with life expencanty increasing they could retire earlier and work less (and don’t want, rightly, pay more taxes).

    As for the war-preparation rhetoric, I would rather be prepared and then nothing happen than not being prepared and the something happen (if only Italy could do the same…)


  • That is a personality issue, not a code emergency.

    True, but it is an indication that the developer cannot follow a common rules. Simply Torvalds was tired of how he behaved.

    There were two dozen patches submitted for 6.17 that were never merged. What has the fall-out been? Where are all the stories about data loss? I am sure they would hit the front page.

    And so ? A patch can be submitted but never merged, for whatever reason. Problem is: these two dozen patches were submitted during the -RC cycle ?

    The file system can improve but it is already fine.

    Good. Now it it the developer that need to improve his attitude to work in teams.








  • Whether it’s pertinent or not is irrelevant. Whether it’s useful to know is irrelevant. How they’re treated is (kinda) irrelevant.

    Whatever, I still think that knowing such information in a technical forum is irrelevant and should not be asked or disclosed per se.
    I will still treat the person as she deserve, with respect to the person if she is respectfull or as assholes if she is an assholes, irregarless how they choose to identify themself.

    If you think it is wrong how I treat people think whatever you want, it is not my problem.


  • Why in this context I need to know that ? And why in this context I would like to ask about this ? How it is pertinent ?

    My point is simply that there are situations where these kind of information are not needed nor usefull. I am not saying that this is valid everywhere and every time but that there are places where knowing that the person you are talking to is a queer is important, situation where it is not important and situation where merely asking for that information is dangerous.
    In my view, on the Ubuntu’s discourse this is an information that is not relevant nor usefull to know.

    Do you want to consider it as a “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy ? Fine, I just try to treat people like they deserve in any case and to do this I don’t need to know these informations, a queer is a normal person to me when it comes to interact with him/her/whatever.




  • And what better way to normalize diversity in this context than ignore everything but the code you submit ? We are talking about code, not personal issues.

    I mean, I don’t care that the bus driver who take me to the office this morning is gay/trans/whatever, why I should care about this for the person that send me a code contribution ? Being queer make the code inherently better ? Or bad code should be accepted because a queer person send it ?

    As I see it, you send good code it is merged, you send bad code it is refused and, most importantly, it was explained why the code is not good enough to be accepted. Nowhere in this flow knowing that you are a queer has any importance.




  • For example, I went in to met a coworker and fix her laptop. While I was there the devs in front of me were discussing a thing that my team was working on. I didn’t know they needed that thing and they didn’t know we were working on it. I took new information back to my group.

    Ok, but that just demostrate that you have no communication between teams. You get the information by sheer luck. have you been there 10 minutes earlier/later you would have missed it.

    While bullshitting with the tech support manager I learned some things about their policies and procedures. Found out I had made incorrect assumptions and learning about those helped me in my role.

    Again, non clear communication between teams and again you got the information by sheer luck.

    True, it has happened because you both were in the office but in a sane environment you would have knows these thing because they would have been documented.