[–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Maybe spend some time investigating how to make nuget packages and then move onto deb or rpm. That way you'll have a better idea of the problems that you'll face in making your own. Personally whenever I feel the need for some kind of package manager, nuget is flexible enough that I can repurpose it to almost anything.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Corporations can be people, but their lifetimes have to be tied to the average lifespan of the citizens. So every 80 years or so it has to die and pass it's holdings onto a child corp. Also a reversed lottery where a statistically equivalent amount of corporations get statistically equivalent diseases to the American population. Your state has a statistically higher level of cancer due to industrial waste, the local corporations have a statistically higher chance of just ceasing to exist. The accountants and lawyers would effectively work around it, but at least it might make a corp think twice before introducing the all new deep fried stick of butter sandwich with fentanyl.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    I love folklore.org. A long time ago when I was a lowly junior engineer, I read that story about Burrelll Smith and the mustache. So I grew a beard and got a promotion and raise the next week. Had a beard ever since.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, that's part of it. But there is something more fundamental, it's not just rising up the ranks but also time spent in management. It feels like someone can get promoted to middle management and be good at the job initially, but then as the job is more about telling others what to do and filtering data up the corporate structure there's a certain amount of brain rot that sets in.

    I had just attributed it to age, but this could also be a factor. I'm not sure it's enough to warrant studies, but it's interesting to me that just the act of managing work done by others could contribute to mental decline.

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  • [–] 126 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Does this also explain what happens with middle and upper management? As people have moved up the ranks during the course of their careers, I swear they get dumber.

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