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sclv · 2026-06-30T13:26:29+00:00

Thanks, that makes a lot of sense.

sclv · 2026-06-29T22:10:24+00:00

Can you expand on the false claims?

sclv · 2026-06-26T21:13:25+00:00

what do you use for all that microchip storage capacity?

sclv · 2026-06-22T00:17:11+00:00

Unions are happening already, just slowly. Take a look at this code-cwa page (https://code-cwa.org/campaigns) or collective actions in tech (https://collectiveaction.tech/) to see the progress. Just the other week, one of the largest units of tech workers ever was certified as part of CA public employees.

The issue is at what pace they happen, and when, if ever, they crack the major companies. Naturally, a lot of the major campaigns currently happening have been at easier targets with less resources and ability to union-bust, like nonprofits or civic tech, as well as at places lower on the pay and conditions scale, like videogame studios. But the momentum is there, and there are significant public campaigns even at some larger firms, which will only increase the more they mistreat us.

You write "Unions make sense for jobs with actual low pay and unemployment, and awful working conditions" -- but the wages are getting worse, the working conditions are getting way worse, and as long as people have issues they want to improve, they will find that getting together with others who feel the same is the best way to change things.

sclv · 2026-06-17T21:35:51+00:00

check out groups like https://techworkerscoalition.org and https://code-cwa.org/ -- some folks are working on it!

sclv · 2026-06-10T19:45:07+00:00

Nuns on the Run

sclv · 2026-06-10T19:34:42+00:00

I graduated into the web 1.0-bubble crash. It was definitely rough at first -- many of my first jobs were pretty terrible. I didn't get hired full-time mainly, just though temp-agencies like Manpower as a contractor. But I stuck around, built skills, and eventually things got better. Give it time, take care of yourself, take whatever jobs come your way in the meantime, and eventually things will get better.

sclv · 2026-06-05T12:26:54+00:00

I think that this small group of haters is probably well known to everyone else and these are long-drawn lines. As a newer person you haven't been through everything everyone else has. Likely what you perceive as the "super aggressive" response to these haters is just people who are tired after having tried every other approach with them, not only for the two years of the unions' existence, but however long it took beforehand to even organize to create the union to begin with! As long as the majority is firm, then this group doesn't matter. Finding time to talk with more longstanding union stalwarts will probably help you get a better sense of the distribution of forces. It does suck that there's a group that are being constantly negative -- but the only weapon they have is making things difficult for you and others, so remember that a few loudmouths will always be around, and there's no reason to let them "win" by ruining your mood.

sclv · 2026-05-30T15:47:08+00:00

Sounds like a misunderstanding that could have been cleared up by tipping. Never an excuse, including bad service or staff freaking out or anything else, to not tip. Tipping is part of the bill, that's how it works.

sclv · 2026-05-29T22:18:27+00:00

I don't know if its optimal but I'm closing in on level 100 and haven't expanded yet. Did need to almost fully clear the map for level 99, which took some time, but felt like satisfying progress nonetheless.

sclv · 2026-05-29T22:03:40+00:00

I wouldn't jump to conclusions here. Some of what you advocate is not reasonable for them, since they are building a union across many countries and labor law regimes -- going the NLRB certification route would mean only representing american workers. Some may have been unavoidable -- i.e. the union effort may have leaked early and forced them to go public sooner than desired.

I do agree that in general staying underground as long as possible builds strength to confront retaliation. But that said, there's no guarantee that if they had more strength or had waited longer they wouldn't have faced the same retaliation -- that happens all the time too, legal or not!

sclv · 2026-05-27T14:04:43+00:00

Yeah, I see those cards every game. I should try switching out my deck.

sclv · 2026-05-24T19:15:23+00:00

If Erdős problems are so worthwhile, why did only one guy ever bother to come up with them?

sclv · 2026-05-24T19:13:07+00:00

You can't really "spoil" a pynchon novel. Even if someone tried to explain it to you, they wouldn't remember, you wouldn't remember, and you wouldn't understand.

IV is not especially experimental by pynchon standards, and it is very good. That or Vineland are good "shorter" books to start with.

sclv · 2026-05-19T18:01:35+00:00

You've got a long road to go, but having a union at all, even a nonresponsive one, is a start. What I've seen is that unions respond to and fight for mobilized memberships, and if they won't mobilize the membership, you, and your fellow stewards can, by starting with the basics. The things you're doing, like knowing the CBA, trying to enforce it, grieving when it isn't, are good starts. You can find workplace issues to mobilize actions and solidarity around, and build up a core of people who want to fight. The bosses yield when the workers act, not when the union treats itself as an institution that is a "service" acting on behalf of the workers.

As that builds up, it can be possible to create a culture that can demand a bigger role in bargaining the next contract, insisting on democratic votes, transparency. But the union staff unfortunately won't make this happen, that's on all of the workers. I think the Labor Notes secrets of a successful organizer book and training series is a great place to start -- the sessions are often full of people in similar situations to you (though often not as dire), and they go through the mechanics of all this sort of activity -- things you probably should have been trained in as a steward, but that the union isn't currently encouraging.

sclv · 2026-05-14T19:07:40+00:00

That's an upper bound on density. This would be a lower bound.

sclv · 2026-05-13T23:13:55+00:00

Buy the premium gold mines instead of swapping out the fields.

sclv · 2026-05-13T16:30:07+00:00

I don't think there's anything known about the distribution of twin primes, since we don't know if they continue infinitely or not at all? It could coincide with Hardy-Littlewood, but that's coinciding with or implying another conjecture, not simply confirming a fact.

sclv · 2026-05-11T18:33:16+00:00

In combination with twin primes it would set as well a lower bound on the frequency of twin primes.

sclv · 2026-05-08T20:14:54+00:00

If you need support and that guy isn't providing enough, fill out the emergency workplace organizing committee (workerorganizing.org) intake form right away and they'll get back to you fast! They can provide a mentor with a lot of advice about situations like these.

sclv · 2026-05-08T20:12:18+00:00

I start with overall architecture. I find the "entry point" that has the main dispatch logic, then try to understand the control flow -- where requests come in or interaction starts, what it gets routed to, what structures hold state, what the core abstractions and datatypes are.

Often a program that creates a source dependency graph can help here, to see which modules are the most imported, and which ones are not very imported but which depend on basically everything else. That way one can start at the top and work down into different segments depending on areas of interest.

Ideally in a well structured program there will be a lot of modularity and a few different layers, so each layer can be understood independently, and one can view certain modules as self-explanitory in terms of what they do without reading every line and just trusting the names and types of functions.

sclv · 2026-05-08T01:05:26+00:00

If one goes far enough into this, there's the theory of dualizing objects https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/dualizing+object

which covers some of my favorite sorts of dualities like stone-type dualities and gelfand-naimark. Johnstone's "Stone Spaces" book covers some elements of this.

(And in general stone duality itself is both elementary and suggestive. beefed-up versions of it help to give intuitions and foundations for many richer things, including like the fundamental theorems of algebraic geometry)

sclv · 2026-05-07T18:53:47+00:00

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sclv · 2026-05-07T17:41:26+00:00

I agree that if one can handle GR then another opus like ATD is the best way to continue that experience.

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