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I don't have a car but someone close to me does. Mostly for visiting family outside the city. I've said this often enough when we're stuck in traffic that now she just looks at me and preemptively says "don't say it!'

Yeah, this is one of the reasons why I only want to live in the NYC area of the US. Just take the train or bus, don't worry about it.

Oof. I've had places that the pipeline was getting long. At one of my previous jobs I made it so all the tests could run locally, and we were keeping the full build as slow as possible.

We also didn't do any browser tests (eg: selenium) because those tend to be slow and most people are bad at making them stable.

It's important to know whats worth testing.

That's the plan. Unfortunately the market is kind of meh. Lots of AI slop. Lots of getting ghosted.

Zero. I can use some of the 7 for holidays.

Well, sort of. The state gives you 56 hours of sick leave, which isn't technically the same as vacation. Mental health, even without diagnosis, is a permitted use. My job didn't give me any grief when I used some of my time to cover the holidays, but I didn't have enough so some days I just didn't get paid. (You acrue time off by working, and I started late in the year)

Oh, and this company also really dragged their feet on answering my questions about it, and told me one rule that's just illegal here. I ended up looking it up myself, and thankfully they didn't push back.

https://www.ny.gov/programs/new-york-paid-sick-leave if you're morbidly curious.

Edit: they also had the nerve to send out "happy holidays!" Emails wishing me happy and healthy times. No pay, just thoughts and prayers.

I work for a shitty big ass company. I get the legal minimum of time off. In new York that's seven days a year. One of my coworkers is in Texas, so she gets zero.

The us is an embarrassment

Edit: and technically that's sick leave, not vacation time. I don't think you need to prove you were sick, and mental health without a diagnosis seems like it's covered, but if you said you wanted to go on a trip they might say that's not allowed.

Highlights for the curious: https://ag.ny.gov/resources/individuals/workers-rights/benefits-and-leave

If the legal system concludes that he cannot be charged for murder, then the legal system is in error and should be amended.

The legal system is not a sacred, immutable, thing. It's a bunch of agreements.

There's a lot of fear at my job about changing code. I've been trying to tell them to start writing automated tests. Or at least a linter to check for syntax errors. They're all like "ooh that sounds hard maybe next quarter"

Meanwhile, a trivial change requires a whole day because the developer has to manually test everything.

I just unilaterally added checks to code I have ownership over, but anything shared I'm getting "maybe in two quarters we can prioritize this" from management.

My job has a "scrum master". She's nice, I guess, but as far as I can tell her entire job is sharing her screen so we can look at tickets. Then people tell her what to click on and what text to change. It's excruciating because it would just be faster for the person talking to change it, instead of being like "remove the second bullet point. No, not that one"

On top of that they have all these tasks for "unit testing" but they don't actually do unit testing. Someone just said, in the distant past, we should do testing so it's there.

Lol, yeah. If I saw an account labeled “American Nazi Party” with a blue check mark, I wouldn’t think “wow, Bluesky endorses Nazis” - I’d think “wow, this isn’t a satire account, these are actual Nazis, imma block them.”

I'd think "wow they let Nazis on here. Like they know about them and are cool with that. This place is trash"

. I will never understand how he got these people so duped

They are stupid. So, kind of tautologically, they reason poorly and make bad decisions.

How would you prevent the cognitive test from being used to remove candidates for political reasons?

"Sorry, he failed the test because he couldn't sing the texas anthem"

You could maybe have the questions and answers public, but the voting public is poorly informed and educated.

You could have some sort of third party do it, but then the conservatives would spend decades corrupting that.