Most public service workers who take their job seriously. In my country, those include military personnel, teachers, actually competent politicians

I had a free Google Workspace account used for my family email since the inception of the program. Over a few years it went from free to USD$12 per user, with increasing restrictions put upon it.

From that point onwards, I never trusted any product from Google, and will never consider any in future. It’s a company with no internal consistency, and has the motto of “we will do anything that’s evil if it helps make us look better than Apple”.

Yes I’m still salty about it.

Most recently tho, Netflix.

Ditto, I have to say I’m appalled on a daily basis how software developers I work with are so foreign with the tools they use to earn a living.

Extremely infuriating as well.

Sigh. *Unzips*

Americans really think they own the world sometimes, and truly underestimate the disdain the world has for them.

In Asia: our grandparents would tell us we were either picked up from the rubbish bin, or exploded from a rock

$300M feels like “Ahh we caught you now, bad boys, don’t let me catch you again. Now go have your lunch.”

These people should be punished harsher for all the lives they’ve destroyed intentionally.

Company hired 5 fresh grass grads, me included. Tasked to build AI products (this was when LLMs were still conceptual Markov chains and ANNs were the shiny new things) and other software products for huge corporations.

Obviously one of the projects failed, regional manager went into a meeting to discuss what to do with the failed project and told the client “we’re not even a software company”.

Started looking for interviews the next day.

Kung Fu Hustle by Stephen Chow

Not 100% sure in the case of Singapore, but the double yellow lines indicate no stopping.

For places where we are allowed to park on the sides of the roads, there are either lot spaces already allocated and drawn out, or there will be no lines painted on the road.

Double yellow lines in the picture here indicates no stopping at all times, so it would be a little pointless to have the curb indicate no parking again.

The curb might just be for visibility, can’t confirm.

Two ways, the other is by saying “solved” with a half baked solution that’s incorrect.

Once upon a brighter time, gay was only colloquially used to convey happiness, unrelated to the sexual connotations there is today.

Such a sad time we live in where everything becomes a sensitive topic that can insult and hurt.

To clarify before I get cancelled to oblivion 😂 - you want your diversity, fine with me, good for you, but please there is no need to be a touchy one and reserve a swathe of labels to get insulted by when it can clearly be decided upon context if it was meant to be insulting or not.

Because clicking a button, finding out it works sometimes but not for you, then the top 3 google links might have a solution to parts of your problem, and you’ll have to type in commands to run stuff you probably ran less than 20 times in your entire lifetime, kinda sucks. Even if you try to learn what actually went on, you’d need to do mental gymnastics.

Having multiple buttons to click and have what you want done almost all the time is much easier in comparison.

Source: was once a beginner, although it does get easier.

Sounds good, the finance, political and oil industries should adopt this practice too. Stock market crash - wall street culling time! 🥳

As a Singaporean, those guys might not even be Singaporean citizens. :)

Not sure, haven’t been in any that I’ve driven so far. Our cars always have some lag between the latest tech and what’s actually being sold for some reason (tho arguably it’s getting better).

The loudest band so far seems to be the “memes” band.

We started doing so here in Singapore. Even our public busses flash hazard lights twice to convey a thank you sometimes now. In the context of someone giving way to you.

But on a highway when there’s a sudden slowdown in front, we turn on the hazard lights to convey “dude slow down the dude in front is being weird”. Especially useful when there’s torrential downpours.

You’re a Peter Petrelli.