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[–] assembly@lemmy.world 76 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I work in tech. No one cares about my updates to the client SDK. It would make for boring dinner conversation and it’s not like there is office gossip…I work from home. Do you want to hear about my chat about updates to the corporate PPT deck to illustrate the new logical flow of connectivity? Because marketing was on that call and they didn’t care either.

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't have the luxury of working from home, but def feel this as a tech guy in a no - tech family.

No one cares about how I found some crusty old code that was not at all optimized that I trimmed an order of magnitude off its run time, nor how I fixed some dumb debugging logic a coworker inserted that caused a race condition once in a while; hell basically no one would understand unless I explained ELI5 style.

The especially hard part is that the dynamic OP is meme-ing on is the reverse of me and my fiancé (I'm the male and I want to talk, she's the female and wants to forget she even has a job the moment she's out of the office).

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[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tell me about that SDK. Which technology do you use? What do you think about the latest supply chain attacks?

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Finally someone who gets ME! I maintain the Go SDK and leverage Snyk and GitHub to perform dependency checks. I’m mostly using the standard library but I like feeling like I have someone over my shoulder double checking things. I maintain the things built on top of the SDK as well like the Terraform provider so it’s really nice having the foundation and the building. No one else cares but I rewrote the back off/retry logic this week so folk don’t overload the API. Supply chain attacks are scary. I run as few dependencies as I can without having to reinvent the wheel. I’ve have spent so much time double checking package signing and key security it’s insane.

Oh my god I know exactly what you mean. Even when I'm more of a terraform user. I've been interested in go for a while, but my last boss, who was a giant jerk, wanted me to check it, so I decided to go for rust instead.

Fick dich, Christian!

I didn't dive deep yet, because my daily business is Java/Kotlin and C#, but it seems nice.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I really feel that last statement. Our company has been working on internationalization for years and I've told my management at least 3 times what we have left for the portion of our product. It still hasn't been prioritized and now I'm in meetings about internationalization for the company and it's a waste of my time.

[–] qt0x40490FDB@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

I’d rather her about your updates to the client SDK than Linda’s harrowing struggle with finding the right brand of cornflakes.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Contribute to any open source software today?

OSS always gets people hot and bothered.

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Everything I do for the company is on the public GitHub and GPLed. Not overly useful to anything other than our product suite but it feels good to have it all open source. I used to contribute to Linux PAM but it’s been a good long time. Nowadays I just submit the random merge request for bug fixes. One day I shall retire and contribute to the networking stack. One day….

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[–] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

That's because men are rarely listened to.

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 41 points 1 week ago (16 children)

I've heard plenty of stories of men finally opening up to their partners just for her to leave him because she "lost the spark" or "can't look at him the same way" or some other shit.

I'm disabled. I can't tell you how many friendships have ended when I complained about something. Literally anything. Like, the weather. People expect us to be bubbly, happy, cheerful, all the fucking time. It is so godsdamned exhausting.

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[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Man, you've gotta find yourself someone who will listen. Wife and I do "check-ins" 2 or 3 times a week. A chance to talk about what we're focusing on our worried about. It helps a lot, both ways.

[–] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

I'm not saying it's not possible, but it's rare. And your spouse/partner is only one person. Daily non romantic interactions also count.

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[–] _spiffy@piefed.ca 35 points 1 week ago

I've already lived my day I have no desire to relive it.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not all of us are Geralt of Rivia.

“How was your day, sweetie?”

“Hmm…” grunts

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] dephyre@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wind's pickin up

[–] sidebro@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

Some of us go Paaam-paraaaam!

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I got bullied by other kids and manipulated by adults when I was a kid because of what I told them about myself. I learned be to highly selective with what I shared about myself to people who could make things difficult for me.

[–] cheat700000007@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

That and or nobody gave a shit

[–] Redditisbollocks@feddit.uk 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

And the moment men share everything, women are all "over sharing gives me the ick. I just want a man who will do as he's told"

Or they just aren't listening

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

A man would be lucky to have a woman who is perfectly fine with him expressing emotions on occasions.

[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Or we are 'scary' if we get mad about anything.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

And yet I see so many comments about how men drone on and on about their day and don't even ask how their SO's day went. Apparently groups of people with an easily identifiable trait are actually individuals - who knew? I wonder if Boomers also aren't all the same. Maybe even Gen-Xers! What an insight - best day ever!!!

[–] TBi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

What? No! Down with this nonsense. Next thing you’ll be saying immigrants aren’t all murderers and rapists!

/s just in case

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You know that scene at the beginning of Star Trek IV when Spock walks up to a computer terminal and it's asking him rapid fire questions about philosophy and chess and bovine dentistry and he's instantly acing them all and then it asks him "How do you feel?" He doesn't say a single word, he fundamentally doesn't get the question.

And then he goes on an epic time travel adventure with his best friends, chokes a punk on the bus, mind melds with a pregnant whale, and saves the fucking day.

And then at the end of the movie, he says "Tell my mother I feel fine."

That's how it works.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 18 points 1 week ago

This is one generalized stereotype that fully applies to my wife and me.

My chronically fatigued AuDHD ass barely has the mental energy to finish listening to her stories, much less somehow taking my internal state and synthesizing that into human speech.

Fortunately, the upside to her being the extrovert is that she maintains our relationships with friends so that I get to have a normal-looking existence.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 15 points 1 week ago

We have to be very careful when listening to a story. Any slightly wrong reaction, and all the anger felt toward Joanie in Accounting can be instantly redirected against the listener. It's a tightrope walk.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 11 points 1 week ago

I remember reading about this in a couple's book, and I'm paraphrasing.

Men have been conditioned to rethink about events in terms of its conclusion.

Women have been conditioned to rethink about events in terms of the moment-to-moment.

So often, our answers are like... "eh it was fine."

[–] Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

I mean what more do you really need to know?

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

Not fair, sometimes I'm not hungry

[–] werty@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is divisive content that uses stereotypes to incite gender wars. I hate it. I want it to go back to reddit. If this speaks to you personally in an annoying way then I suggest dealing with those particular people that annoy you and leaving the billions of others of that gender out of it. This is gender war bullshit.

Does this bot only post in couple memes and mod couple memes?

Blocked.

Welp, personally I spend my time either working 12 hour shifts to keep shit limping along or recovering from said 12 hour shifts, doesn’t exactly generate a lot of titillating anecdotes, unless you want to hear about my asshole boss who calls everyone into a meeting to tell us that we’re all replaceable or how much I hate Optane, and nobody has consented to that so far

Same, heart still beating.

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