It’s a management decision. Even if the responsible developer left, the next in line would take up the job. We work for a living and there is little choice in ethical companies you can join for adequate pay.

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We could just install some heat pumps in hell and transport the energy via flux pipeline to the overworld.

All of them at once while saying the words.

Thanks, I didn’t know!

There are really only two search engines. Its either Google or Bing. The others exist, but they use Google’s and/or Bing’s search results.

So, it seems I’m really out of the loop. Is this some AI thing generating a video from my comment? Or does this scroll through all comments while “recording” the screen?

I think to have this settled once and for all: The German accent is the best of them all.

I don’t think the issue is corps feeding the internet into AI systems. The real issue is gatekeeping to information and only giving access to this information while milking the individual for data by trackers, money by subscriptions, and more money by ads (that we pay for with subscriptions).

Another larger issue that I fear is often ignored is the amount of control large corporations and in theory the government can have over us just by looking at our trace we leave in the internet. Just have a look at Russia and China for real world examples of this.

A friend once applied for a job at Caritas in Germany and got rejected for the reason of not being catholic, but christian. I think you could argue that is okay, but by German law it actually is not.

But seriously, you have to! He’s testing the grounds. Get out now or submit!

True enough. Yes, I would expect them to move towards my expectation once they got to know me better and once they see that I might fit into the team quite nice. At least I believe it more likely than weeding me out based on numbers in the very first call. I too don’t have enough experience to know whether this is realistic. I just know that my current employer would lean into that way of thinking.

But, it seems that many companies can still afford to weed out candidates by numbers, at least here in Germany. So, I just have to do me as long as I have a secure position and otherwise, otherwise.

Congratulations 😄

I often get ask about my salary expectation in the very first 10 minute interview with the HR person, before even getting the chance to talk to the team. Being sincere, I wouldn’t get to follow-up interviews if I told them my expectation that they would definitely see as too high.

How do you deal with that situation?

My anxiety because of merge conflicts stop me from doing so…