2024
The long slow painful backroad to renewed sentience
It’s been a busy week over here:
- bartendJerb: I was non-ceremoniously put in charge of the winter drinks menu. The previous-previous bar manager neglected to leave his builds behind so… we got to come up with new ones. We think there are two good cocktails, two decent cocktails, and one iffy cocktail. But they’re done and mostly ready for launch barring ingredient availability. Yellow chartreuse is not cheap.
- mgbarJerb: It is having new-restaurant issues that we personally thought would not happen at all given it is a corporate rim enterprise with many other venues all over the United States. And yet we keep having logistics issues all over the damn place. Also, la barra fue diseñada con las nalgas (designed with the ass cheeks. Pencil held between them). But hopefully we’ll be able to implement changes that will make life easier for our barbacks and our servers.
- bistroJerb: Gossip says they’re looking for another bar manager. It will be their fifth of this year— just this year. That’s in addition to the slow season coming up for them. The temperature dropped a solid 35 °F from yesterday. The joint is supposed to be featured on a tv show one of these days and bistroBoss is hanging all of his hopes on the business picking up for the business because of it.
All in all it has been busy and we are making money after taking a li’l menty break hiatus over the summer. Our big expense has been going out to eat and drink but we are currently in the process of reconstructing our kitchen space so we can actually cook at volume. The lack of counter space once again comes in to haunt us in our tiny little galley kitchen but… it is much better than the lame tiny space we used to live before.
Slowly we regain the ability to concentrate and think. We lost that for a long, long time. We fucked up a lot of things during that time.
Going to try and do these reports to myself more often. They help to keep track of dates and events.
Looking at you, KDE/Plasma
The idea that new code is better than old is patently absurd. Old code has been used. It has been tested. Lots of bugs have been found, and they’ve been fixed. There’s nothing wrong with it. It doesn’t acquire bugs just by sitting around on your hard drive. Au contraire, baby! Is software supposed to be like an old Dodge Dart, that rusts just sitting in the garage? Is software like a teddy bear that’s kind of gross if it’s not made out of all new material?
Source: Things You Should Never Do, Part I – Joel on Software
Joel’s post is almost 25 years old. Sonos learned this lesson this year cos their management was too stupid to realize what they were doing. Also, some people in the comments are wondering why CEO asked Lead Counsel to investigate the debacle.
That’s called fiduciary duty. CEO knows he fucked up hard enough by ignoring the growing issues that any number of shareholders could have sued the company and/or its officials (in a personal capacity), and those shareholders would have had a great shot at winning said suit.
Now if only FOSS developers would learn the lesson too.
Meses como esclavo para que ni las gracias te den
Con los años, los mejores restaurantes se adaptan más a las demandas de los jóvenes, pero advierten que la exigencia no puede bajar: “Quien quiere formarse en la excelencia lo hace libremente”.
La industria restaurantera en Europa esta cayendo en un precipicio de su propia creación. A donde va el dinero que cuestan menus de €400? Por mas caro que cueste la renta, los insumos, la labor, de ahi queda ganancia. Si Noma, en un pais nordico con una red social avanzada, no pudo con los gastos, que esperanza hay para los demas? Eso sin contar el incremento en costo de vida que mucha gente joven esta sufriendo.
De restaurantes en Estados Unidos ni se hable. Aqui la industria completa depende de labor migrante por lo regular indocumentada, cosa de la cual malos jefes se aprovechan. Yo he sido stagiaire pero por lo regular suele ser un dia, dos a lo mucho, con posible contratacion por parte del restaurante.
Scoffier invento un buen sistema para aquel entonces, pero ya es hora de cambiar.
No need for a wooden coffin even
If we all want to retire, how much do we need? How much does a person need? How much do they have, and how much money would government, or an employer or somebody else, need to fill the gap? Most people you know who are making minimum wages need about half a million dollars at age 62-63 to be able to retire. Say your annual salary is about $50,000. The rule of thumb is that you should have about eight to 10 times your annual salary at the time you want to retire in your mid-60s, in order to supplement Social Security, and you won’t see a big change in your living standard. It doesn’t mean you’re going to be able to travel around the world or walk the Great Wall with somebody carrying your suitcase, but you will be able to maintain your living standard.
Source: Why You Will Never Retire
We don’t know anyone that makes over 100K a year. Perhaps the owners of the businesses we’ve worked at, but that’s unlikely. Unless we migrate to some other country or become rich, we guess our retirement plan should be to go north as far as possible and then just walk until we can walk no more.
Ah shit here we go again
That’s ominous, but more importantly Pinboard is a one person show and that person is no longer responding to support emails. Maciej is no longer active on social media that I know of. His Pinboard.in support forum has been quiescent for years. I’ll be researching my micro blog options and I’ll write about what I come up with on tech.kateva.org.
Source: Gordon’s Notes: The End Times have come for the Pinboard.in bookmarking service
So much for the man gloating about buying out del.icio.us. He doesn’t even need to sell the service. He can be “the founder” with just one or two full-time people working under him to make the service viable for the next 10 years and beyond.
On the linked Hacker News thread there are some alternatives worth looking into, most of them self-hosted.
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disease-danger-darkness-silence:
Unions are trash. Theyll Destroy a whole company for firing a shitty worker.
unions are the reason you aren’t paid 2.50 an hour with steel beams about to bust ya head open shut up lol
Unions are why you have 5 day, 40 hour full-time work weeks. Unions are why they have to pay you in actual dollars instead of “company credits” that you can only spend at the company-owned stores. Unions are why there are fucking fire exits at your place of work. Unions are why it’s not okay for your supermarket ground beef to be any percentage human.
You think your company pays you out of the goodness of their hearts? Or even out of “market pressure?” The “job market” is a myth perpetuated by the capitalists. Corporations would pay you nothing if they could get away with it. And you argue “oh, but if they paid me nothing I’d just go to another one.” Wrong. Because to maximize profits, they all want to pay you nothing. Corporations exist to maximize profits while reducing risk for investors. It’s part of their entire function to find ways to cut costs as much as possible, and that includes finding ways to pay you nothing.
Unions are your defense against that. You think all a union does is strike? If you pay union dues, a lot of that is spent on lobbyists in various governments reminding your lawmakers that you have rights as a living human being that a corporation should not be able to stomp all over. Unions hire lawyers so that if you’re fired for bullshit reasons, the union can stand up for you against your boss. They’re called unions because workers are uniting to pool resources so that they can stand up to these corporate overlords with more money than God. Unions exist because you might not have the words, resources, or time to fight workplace injustices all by yourself. That’s the whole fucking point.
And if a business shuts down because a union is striking, it’s because the business was abusing people and didn’t deserve to be in business anyway. Don’t make excuses for the corporations. They already have trillions of dollars and a couple million lawyers to do that for themselves. They don’t need your help.
The erasure of labor history from US history curriculum has caused so much fucking damage to this country.
Bosses: If you don’t like how we do things, don’t work here.
Workers: *Go on strike*
Bosses: Wait no not like that
A lot of union folk very literally fought and died for the workers’ rights we have today. Like no joke, bosses would hire goons to straight-up murder unionizing and striking workers.
All the most basic workers’ rights we have today were all paid for in blood. And conservatives have never stopped trying to take them all away again.
NEVER FORGET THAT LABOR DAY IS ACTUALLY ABOUT. I know people who legitimately think it’s like a secondary mothers day - you know, for going into labor.
But it’s about workers rights and the people who campaigned for it to be a holiday knew this fucking day would come.
If you are in the US and about to celebrate a 3-day weekend, thank a goddamn union worker.
we will all lose something of ourselves
This is all about to flip — the default assumption about a photo is about to become that it’s faked, because creating realistic and believable fake photos is now trivial to do. We are not prepared for what happens after.
Source: No one’s ready for this – The Verge
Considering the current state of reading comprehension and media literacy in the United States the situation is going to become horrible extremely quickly.
Take in point— conservative media blowing up over “Haitian immigrants eating pets“, which was from the get-go a fake issue, created by Springfield neo-nazis as blood libel. We were already familiar with this kind of racial perception from previous situations so I was already disbelieving of it. But other people on social media outside the US truly believed it. Ourselves we corrected a couple people. One of them blocked us for it 🤷♀️
But in both these cases there were no fake pictures to complicate the issue. At some point a fake picture is going to blow up and it’s going to be almost impossible to dispel the issue unless there’s video of the specific situation. But then genAI is going to then start faking video and we’ll be in the same situation.
Humanity will lose the ability to remember things as they truly were, choosing instead to remember things how they wished they were.
stay-close: “I want to be with you, it is as simple, and as complicated as that.” — Charles…
“I want to be with you, it is as simple, and as complicated as that.”— Charles Bukowski
Real jobs are the occult norm now
Ghost jobs might just be a temporary symptom of an uncertain economy. But Erica Groshen, an economist at Cornell University and former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said the way companies hire and candidates job hunt is changing.
Source: “Ghost jobs” are on the rise – Marketplace
It is now August of 2024. I’ve have applied to a lot of IT jobs that aren’t in the tech sector. I’ve heard nothing from those HR departments. Ghost jobs aren’t a bug of the recruiting sector any longer, but a feature.
Maybe in German
nullrend posted a photo:
I don't think there's a proper word for the concept of "unrealized dream, except you never even got the chance to get it off the ground"
Corriendo, con una bestia detrás
The question is :
- do we have the mental weaponry to start over again
- do we have the economic wherewithal to see it through
- do we want to lose everything yet again? For the Nth time.
Horrible things happening around here. We’re lying on the couch and there is no peace.
