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@glyph My intuition is that companies with strict expense rules might end up spending MORE because people will feel like they want to work the system and spend as much as they’re allowed, whereas with a “here’s a company card, be a grown up about it” policy, people will spend more carefully.
Certainly I know that when I’ve been on a per diem I tend to spend way more than when it’s honor system. If you give me $40 per meal, I’m gonna look for a $40 lunch instead of a hot dog.
I remain a fan of Google's travel expense rules: employees get to bank 50% of what they save below a limit for a particular trip, and spend that (few questions asked) on going over limit on a future trip. Unsurprisingly, it tends to do a very good job at reducing largesse on trips that _should_ be cheap.
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@ancoghlan @glyph That’s actually really brilliant. Per diems are nice for budgeting and accounting because they make expenses predictable, and are nice for operations because they reduce paperwork (receipts and approvals), but they have that big downside of encouraging people to overspend. Letting folks keep the excess is a really great way to have your cake and eat it too.
@jacob @ancoghlan @glyph I remember hearing of a company that allowed employees to use some (reasonably large) percentage of unused per diem for future travel expenses, although I can't remember for the life of me where I heard this, so maybe it was just a fever dream.
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@glyph This. A wiki at *best* pushes responsibility for organizing information onto individual contributors who are not generally experts in organization.
That sometimes even works thanks to someone doing the thankless job of keeping internal docs up to date (it's worth, as an aside, reflecting on who does that work and at what cost to professional advancement).
Institutions *need* librarians, not to push system problems onto developers.
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@glyph I've believed this for a decade, and have been thinking about making a skills/career change into making it happen. Only downside is I know most companies will never hire for this (very important!) role. :(
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@glyph I've believed this for a decade, and have been thinking about making a skills/career change into making it happen. Only downside is I know most companies will never hire for this (very important!) role. :(
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@glyph It's just endlessly rich that after years and years of the RIAA and MPAA pushing shit like the DMCA and DRM down our throats, copyright apparently means... nothing? If you're Google? Like, what?
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@glyph unfortunately, I doubt it. This seems like open-and-shut transformative (bad kind) to me.
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@glyph "Users can only read 4 words" - Google apparently???
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@glyph It's just endlessly rich that after years and years of the RIAA and MPAA pushing shit like the DMCA and DRM down our throats, copyright apparently means... nothing? If you're Google? Like, what?
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@glyph It's just endlessly rich that after years and years of the RIAA and MPAA pushing shit like the DMCA and DRM down our throats, copyright apparently means... nothing? If you're Google? Like, what?
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@glyph inshallah
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@glyph "Windows is the gaming operating system" doesn't really even hold up anymore with all the work on Proton, the only remaining hold out are games with kernel-level anticheat and.... good riddance?
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@glyph "Windows is the gaming operating system" doesn't really even hold up anymore with all the work on Proton, the only remaining hold out are games with kernel-level anticheat and.... good riddance?
@cthos I have a better understanding these days of why anti-cheat is such a big deal (games without it, like TF2, do tend to turn into absolutely intolerable cesspits of botted cheating) but the answer to KLAC _must_ be "no, figure out another way"
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@glyph here in Olympia, WA.. i've been known as "that computer guy who will make your laptop run 100x faster for free"
I do it by installing #nixbook , a Linux distro. It's WILD to see people's reactions.. like they were about to toss their computer in the trash, and then they're like omg, how is it is so fast
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@glyph here in Olympia, WA.. i've been known as "that computer guy who will make your laptop run 100x faster for free"
I do it by installing #nixbook , a Linux distro. It's WILD to see people's reactions.. like they were about to toss their computer in the trash, and then they're like omg, how is it is so fast
@codemonkeymike that's awesome. what is your support load like for that? how many people have successfully stuck with it, and how do you migrate their data?
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@cthos I have a better understanding these days of why anti-cheat is such a big deal (games without it, like TF2, do tend to turn into absolutely intolerable cesspits of botted cheating) but the answer to KLAC _must_ be "no, figure out another way"
@cthos (the monkey's paw curls and a developer reading this thinks to themselves "I guess we could use AI for it instead")
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@cthos (the monkey's paw curls and a developer reading this thinks to themselves "I guess we could use AI for it instead")
@glyph Oh gods don't give them ideas!
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@glyph Oh gods don't give them ideas!
@cthos why not, just put a random number generator in charge of consequential real-life punishment and resource-allocation decisions, what could go wrong
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@cthos why not, just put a random number generator in charge of consequential real-life punishment and resource-allocation decisions, what could go wrong
@glyph I feel like this is already happening in a bunch of places, like "Automate your performance reviews!"
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@glyph will be interesting to see whether the spiking memory and hard drive costs boost Linux as well.
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@eniko I voted for “other” because although I have never personally roasted a whole chicken, we do have “girarrosto” shops here that basically sell just that
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@NIGHTEN the right one (second)
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@GossiTheDog @switchingsoftware Ridiculous.
“Sandy, we have to let you go because you aren’t using Copilot enough.”
“But… I already use it for literally everything I do here.”
“Well, then I guess you should have made up stuff to get it to do for you. Security is waiting to take you to your desk. You have fifteen minutes to collect your things.”
“But—“
“If you’ll excuse me, Sandy, I need to ask Copilot to tell me how to word a call to my mother for her birthday before I fire the next person.”
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Have you looked at your sidekiq logs to see if there are any errors?
Thanks for the feedback; Lemmy doesn't have sidekiq, but I'll try to see what the logs say anyway.
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“Elvira Notari-Oltre il silenzio”, di Valerio Ciriaci, Italia, doc., 2025. Con la partecipazione di Teresa Saponangelo
@giornalismo
articolo21.org/2026/02/elvira-…
L’opera di Valerio Ciriaci,
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The Royal Lodge: Epstein’s links to ex-Prince Andrew’s financial meetings | Police News | Al Jazeera
> Emails reveal how Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's royal home was site of financial meetings on which Epstein advised.
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Chiara Degli Esposti 🚐🍔🦊 (@chiadegli.bsky.social)
https://bsky.app/profile/chiadegli.bsky.social/post/3mfr7orpuo226
> E io a un esecutivo che cambia la legge elettorale per poter vincere con una minoranza, premiata come maggioranza relativa dei sempre meno votanti, dovrei affidare serenamente le norme di regolazione degli organismi di governo del potere giudiziario?
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Quanto è realmente esteso il tracciamento nell’ecosistema Meta?
Ho pubblicato un approfondimento su come ha funzionato in passato e su come opera oggi: dalla comunicazione via localhost (poi neutralizzata) agli SDK integrati nelle app di terze parti. (Fonti citate a fine articolo)
