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Man, if only they would create a working cat bus....

Don’t use Hertz

Or Sixt who does AI scanning also.

If your car breaks down away from a major airport, you need to tow it back because Sixt only operates at airports in certain states.


Yup. Market forces at work here, folks.

Did it survive?

Yes, it was very rich, but it did disrupt operations a lot and the new space wasn't as nice - we moved from team offices to an open layout, with my boss praising the open layout - we then found out he would get a private office.

Too bad your boss's office has been infested with crickets

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There’s enough blame to go around, Americans.

We have been effectively divided by the billionaires, oligarchy, and foreign autocrats

This was many, many moons ago, but I still vividly remember learning that the vast majority of people who fought in the confederate army didn't own slaves.

It might be a bit of a silly point, but somehow it seems even worse to go to war for other people's slaves.


So has Texas - who has voted Republican for 50 years divided by billionaires and oligarchy all 50 years?

longer, look to the oil barons

Out of interest, is slack still being used as extensively as it was 4-5 years ago?

I don't know, but anecdotally, I still use it for work, but no longer for personal chats.

It also seems like someone at Slack is tasked with driving up engagement, because I get these "Your team is missing you" messages from Slack (only to be find a dead slack community). That might be a sign that they're losing traction?


> slack still being used as extensively

Used differently I'd say, but can't say I have a 100% view of all the users. My feeling is that various software projects moved to Discord instead (particularly FOSS which feels strange), and Slack seen an uptake in enterprise usage which makes sense considering the new(-ish) owner.


Yes - everyone hates teams

Teams is useless comparing to slack if you need to coordinate work indeed.

I suppose you're supposed to use the whole Microsoft "ecosystem" for what a single app can do.


No. Everyone is on Teams.

Which is unfortunate, but a consequence of Microsoft's perennial, embrace, extend, extinguish - they embraced instant-messaging version 3 (or wherever we are now), and they're onto the extend part - extending Teams' reach by bundling it 'for free' in Office, and the OS, so people don't "need" to buy Slack.

Slack won't be 'extinguished' but it will have a falling market share, despite the dumpster fire that is Teams, and the bean-counters in most corporations getting kudos from their bosses for 'cost savings'.


Teams are decent tbh

Ive been using them since 2021 iirc and they improved a lot

And im using Discord daily which is state of the art


Teams is trash, don't lie like that. It's the single most frustrating piece of software i interact with at work.

Im not lying, I dont have any problems with them

Calendar and meetings are decent, chat is viable and I dont need more

Whats causing problems for you?


Frequently fails to connect, doesn't honor system audio device settings and frequency forgets its own, frequently fails to mark messages as read, sometimes even after hitting "Mark all as read," sometimes fails to send notifications on new chats, especially on my phone.

It's the least reliable chat program I've ever used.


The next victim is going to be Figma

Slack is a public company so you can read the financials.

My company combines discord and teams.

Discord is mostly used by devs.


I’m an Australian. Being called a cunt is still a really offensive thing to say to someone. You might jokingly call a friend a cunt in jest, but you say that to a stranger and you might have your teeth knocked out.

Don’t always believe the stereotypes.


I'm not falling for any stereotypes. I'm responding to a post where someone said they'd been called that word once in their life. This surprised me, as a non-American very used to the use of that word.

As an Australian, how many times have you been called the word? In how many types of context?

It can be extremely offensive, used a certain way, yes. And it can be absolutely breezy, used another way. And context usually makes it absolutely clear, as in, there's almost never any ambiguity. Right?


Unless prefixed with good. He was a good ....

People like him made my life hell. Sad he died, but if he was an arsehole, then he was an arsehole.

I totally get it, some people found his mess very difficult and it could easily lead into a death spiral. Others had a very different experience. He was certainly someone needed to be managed by those who knew him well from time to time, when possible.

Does his behavior perfectly match the people who made your life hell, or are you projecting?

Yes, they evolve but only if wider society accepts it. And in this case, most people don't consider that it's reasonable to change the phrasing.

This way leads to people writing blog posts about firing workers they don't employ because they used gender non-neutral language in technical posts.


> And in this case, most people don't consider that it's reasonable to change the phrasing.

You're positing an opinion as statistical fact; the reality is that most people do not care.


I think wider society has accepted it. For these terms in medical literature, they're already in use and have been for decades now.

This isn’t medical literature. What will you do when someone writes how they want and won’t conform to your opinion?

Nothing. I'm just explaining why words evolve and why we choose to use more precise language. If you want to be more vague I certainly won't stop you.

Yeah, stack overflow is dying, we all know it.

I'd love a lower cost camera that can do geotagging.


I have a Sony DSC-TX100V that does GPS tagging. When I first got it in 2011 or so it was vastly superior in every way to phone cameras. Most of the photos and videos of my first kid were taken with this camera. I liked it so much that when it broke I bought another one.

I just checked eBay and they're going for 2x what I paid for my replacement a few years ago. I bet a seller would take a more modest Best Offer though, there are a ton of listings.


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