Yeah. Several of us tried to train him. He was not only not as good as he seemed in the interview, he didn’t care to learn.

“Someone represented themselves as being very interested in development and getting better at it. It’s obviously not their fault if all that was bullshit!”

It is a long story but yeah it was about 80% management’s fault and 20% the fault of the dude having zero ambition. I didn’t expect this comment to get so many downvotes… it’s as though I would need to explain that I’m not entirely blaming him for continuing to be employed in a problematic manner as he was. Obviously management should have addressed the issue and didn’t, but why am I not allowed to blame a person for sucking at their job… ? If the idea is that if I thought he sucked I should have fixed it, that’s silly, but regardless I did try to teach him things. He never retained anything, so after a few months I gave up.

Pretty much. We had the worst junior dev ever and he never got better for a period of two years because he was coddled and allowed to keep submitting horrible code. He was laid off, thankfully honestly, but if there weren’t budget cuts I feel like he never would’ve improved and just kept wasting everyone else’s time.

Edit: the point I was making here is that coddling him kept from either being fired or getting better. Not sure why people cannot understand that more than one thing can be true. In this case that the dude is a horrible dev and also that management dropped the ball. I tried to teach him shit. When he didn’t improve I let my manager know how things were going. Nothing happened to him for literal years.

And as the cherry on top here he said he was going to start some kind of businessy-sounding machine learning degree program, after he was let go in layoffs. So yeah the dude knows he sucks at coding but definitely wants in on the AI grift.

Yeah I checked and my kernel version is a few patch versions back from the applicable minor version you listed. Bummer.

I appreciate this! I had assumed everyone was pushing a fix soon if not already but you may be right that it’s sort of the opposite.

It’s backed by fascist psychopath Peter Thiel and it, at least for a long time, promoted a crypto scam as a main browser feature.

Which isn’t fixed?

I wish I had port forwarding but I don’t currently. Not having open VPN support is a deal breaker for me though. A lot of people recently have talked shit about NordVPN but talked up Mullvad. Now that I know Mullvad doesn’t even have that standard feature, I’m even more perplexed that people talk it up so much.

Did you not know we’re near the end?

Obligatory fuck brave. What’s wrong with nord exactly?

Imagine I just repeated that back to you in a really bad and exaggerated cockney accent, and adding afterwards “guvna!”

It’s really weird when people think video games are dating apps

All of that is true, but I still think “monopoly” is not the right word. It’s a bit of a unique situation. Ideally we’d have laws that make Steam provide a downloadable copy of the game that can work without Steam… but we’re so far from that.

What a sick and twisted world we live in. I wish I hadn’t watched this.

A kernel older than a couple of weeks seems old to me…

There is competition. And the term “monopolize” is used as a way of saying someone took action to stomp out the competition so I would say that 99% of people would assume intent whether or not it’s technically a part of the definition, because 99% of the time a monopoly exists it’s not by accident. But again, importantly, there IS competition.

The term monopoly does not apply here. Not only do we lack any evidence of anti-competitive practices, there literally are competitors, they just suck and they are very unpopular.

I appreciate this response. I wish more online interactions with slight disagreements could go exactly like this!

Quality shitpost lol