over_bridge

6 ms·

1.
by over_bridge 25d ago
Am I the only one who doesn't want a virtual assistant? I just struggle to understand this goal we apparently are all aiming for I want to be an active player in my own life. I want to do things even if there's some friction. All
2.
by over_bridge 26d ago
Today's billionaires aren't like yesterday's. They could be doing cool shit but they are just padding their own private real estate and stock portfolios. Yawn. Why not make an epic bridge or tower with gargoyles on it? Why no
3.
by over_bridge 1mo ago
I'm not American. It's hard to fire people. You have to recycle them into new positions. The author seems to be French so I imagine it's similar there I do wish it were easier to fire people for poor performance though. Nothi
4.
by over_bridge 1mo ago
Many places I've worked didn't promote hard workers at all. Hard workers were hard to replace so they were kept where they were and even blocked from promotions at times. People floating about with few duties were easy to backfill
5.
by over_bridge 1mo ago
Jokes on him. I'm a peasant and I've been here for years
6.
by over_bridge 2mo ago
I find lower intelligence/ status people especially like it. Many of the earliest adopters of AI at my company were the ones who weren't performing. They often felt unappreciated or ignored (for good reason) but AI started telling
7.
by over_bridge 2mo ago
I mean that it's allowed more bad apps to be created. It hasn't lowered the quality of apps necessarily but the low barrier to entry means things can be created that don't need to exist
8.
by over_bridge 2mo ago
I've used AI for building a hobbyist note app myself. It's also a mixed bag but a lot of that comes down to how I've changed. Before AI dev was expensive so I'd spend hours planning features. I filled 5 notebooks with UI
9.
by over_bridge 2mo ago
I feel like I'm crazy here but isn't China just sitting there doing nothing? On one hand there's the relentless barage of American propaganda. I get that a militaristic society needs an enemy to fight against lest they turn o
10.
by over_bridge 2mo ago
I don't trust any American company because they will switch into extraction mode eventually and squeeze every cent they can out of you. Even if the founders didn't want that, eventually the upper ranks will fill with MBAs and the
11.
by over_bridge 2mo ago
What I like about Hacker News is each day I open it up, scan the first three pages, open 2-5 links to read, then close it again. Those pages make it easy to monitor my usage and set limits. I used to do the same with Reddit before that chan
12.
by over_bridge 2mo ago
Unless you also believe the neutral view is earth being half flat and half round I like this analogy. You can't just average two ideas and call it a centrist position. Sometimes one position is right and the people supporting the los
13.
by over_bridge 3mo ago
Or if you read Sapiens you'll know money is a story we tell each other. You can't literally do much with a coin or bank note or numbers on a screen but as long as we all believe it has value, it does. It becomes part of the cultur
14.
by over_bridge 3mo ago
Agreed with this. The majority would happily stop working but we never hear that message because a small percentage of nutters have tied their whole identity to their job and how hard they work. These people dominate headlines and shift the
15.
by over_bridge 3mo ago
How is it legal to have different share classes? You could make 100 shares that can vote and then sell 99.9% of the company while maintaining full control. Seems strongly against the spirit of a publicly traded company
16.
by over_bridge 7mo ago
Can you imagine if the world ever actually achieved a state of utopia? Stupid people would burn it down within weeks just to have something to watch
17.
by over_bridge 7mo ago
Cowards. I maintain my position that all political polls are either useless or actually detrimental to democracy though - how many didn't vote for Hillary because the polls said she'd win? How many more might have turned out if th
18.
by over_bridge 8mo ago
Wait so now SpaceX is the company letting you undress people? Why mix gold and poop? SpaceX plus xAI.
19.
by over_bridge 1y ago
Seems like we've got a few of these imbalances now where you'd expect 50:50 but instead it's skewed to one side where nature had a different idea Matter-antimatter ratio Left vs right handed molecules Now galaxy spin directio
20.
by over_bridge 2y ago
I really don't agree. People behave differently when they know they are being recorded. They are less likely to admit mistakes or ask dumb questions. There's just this odd formal air about them and I get annoyed when certain peopl
21.
by over_bridge 2y ago
PhD should never be considered a sign of intelligence. Anyone can get one if they pay enough and don't have any better prospects
22.
by over_bridge 2y ago
Skip Crossroads of Twilight. Read the summary on Wikipedia. It's a gimmick that covers the same day and events from lots of different perspectives. None of them are good. That book serves as a slap in the face for the author who made a
23.
by over_bridge 2y ago
Because 'line go up' is the only globally shared value left in modern society
24.
by over_bridge 2y ago
> Humans need a world where being lazy causes their standard of living to deteriorate in a very noticable way, where working hard causes their standard of living to improve The opposite of capitalism then? Right now, as soon your absolut
25.
by over_bridge 2y ago
Once you learn that online outrage doesn't actually impact your life that much, its easy to ignore. Gone are the days of public apologies and now we just sweep criticism under the rug and carry on.
26.
by over_bridge 2y ago
Jira now makes your requirements for you. They all seem perfectly logical and not connected to anything your actual customers need.
27.
by over_bridge 2y ago
You joke but the drive to increase profits at any cost is having pretty insidious impacts on the world. Enshittification is everywhere now with companies being forced to degrade customer experience to appease shareholders. Nothing wrong wit
28.
by over_bridge 2y ago
I think we might be seeing the end of hyper specialisation. The need for pure coders will decrease in the same way pure scrum masters, business analysts or project managers did. The skills are still there and used but they are aspects of ro
29.
by over_bridge 2y ago
A profitable company that lacks DEI is still a success A company that loses money but has plenty of DEI is a failure. DEI is not the factor that determines success or failure. It is a tool that you can use but it makes no sense as a goal or
30.
by over_bridge 2y ago
I'm interested in a device like this for my sight impaired older relatives. They struggle with smartphones and would benefit from a single purpose device with big obvious UI elements. Not sure they are the target demographic for the R1

More ›