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  • IdiosyncraticIdiot@sh.itjust.workstoLemmy Be Wholesome@lemmy.world•TELL ME
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    7 months ago

    I turned my teenage hobby into my career. I see a lot of content against that kind of thing (don’t ruin your hobby), but I love it.

    It has also skyrocketed my upward mobility because I don’t see my work as work, for the most part, and I didn’t enter the job market with only a degree to prove my competence in the field (also experience). After ~10 years working, maybe I will change my mind in another 10 years.

  • IdiosyncraticIdiot@sh.itjust.workstoTechnology@lemmy.world•Office mandates don’t help companies make more money, study findsEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I missed your response, my bad, but I think others have touched on the major point with some pretty good analogies, but I will give you a full response since is a valid question. DISCLAIMER: I am a Software Engineer, not a real estate expert, although I was raised by a real estate expert.

    Imagine you are Apple and own “Apple Park” in Cupertino, California.

    Apple does not own the property “out-right”, they have a mortgage on the property and buildings similar to the average home mortgage, but much more expensive. When you “own” the mortgage, it is up to you who occupies the building, which often is done by contract. When you “own” a building for the purpose of giving your own employees a place to work, you often enter in a contract with “yourself”, but most often as a “subsidiary” signing a contract with a “parent company”.

    Let’s say that a subsidiary is “renting” the entire building, but also, 90% employees work remotely. Although you, as the subsidiary, are still “paying rent to” the parent company, you as a subsidiary are losing money by paying for an office space that is mainly unused. So sure, it could be said that the parent company “isn’t losing money”, however, the subsidiary is since the office is unused and still being paid for. The subsidiary can’t just stop renting the office, since they are in a legal agreement with the parent company. This pushes parent companies to enact “return to office policies” so that subsidiaries are paying rent on “required office space”. Having “butt’s in seats” also helps with maintaining building value as one can prove “hey look, my office building is in demand”, even if simply artificial demand through subsidiaries.

    Most office buildings, especially if for tech, cost in the hundreds of millions depending on location. If you think tech companies buy them outright rather than mortgage them with the company and assets as collateral, that is incorrect.

    In other words… If you have a mortgage on an office building with no one in it, the “market” looks negatively upon that, which brings the building’s value down, but not your mortgage payment and interest. Therefore, you are paying more on your mortgage than the value of the building. Similar to buying a car with a car loan, using the crap out of it, and then not touching it for 5 years and expecting it to increase in value. (Car is a bad comparison as 99% of them lose value the second they leave the lot, but is easiest to compare)

  • IdiosyncraticIdiot@sh.itjust.workstosh.itjust.works Main Community@sh.itjust.works•A Solution for Questions of DefederationEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I agree that it could be easier and personally don’t think defederation is the answer (outside of bad actors).

    Exploding heads was simple enough since it is like… two people or something lol

    However, I’m also not very fond of beehaw which, to me, looks like the opposite extreme to exploding heads, and I’m personally not looking for communities like that.

    Do I think this means I should push for instances to defederate beehaw? No. I do think admins with very specific political views turning their instance into an echo chamber of those views is worse than Reddit, however, but I’m also not going to sit and rant at/about admins doing what they want with their own instance. If that’s what they want their instance to be, great, just not a place for me.

    It was simple to get around beehaw, for the time being, by joining a level-headed instance they defederated, although I know I am missing some good links. This is not a permanent solution (I’ve been told the beehaw defederation is temporary, but am not following along), and am trying to figure out things like still seeing the good links posted to beehaw without the temptation of commenting things that don’t fit in the echo chamber and pissing off the admins further to the point they deem whatever instance I’m on a spam instance and defederate it, ruining it for everyone else on my instance. (I’m a leftist, but apparently not far enough left for beehaw admins)

    I’m torn between building tools that allow easier echo chamber like feeds en masse or forcing people to individually think for themselves of what kind of content/communities they do/don’t want in their personal feeds.

    I don’t think it’s great to start down a generic “this is the content you should have in your feed (dictated by random person X)” type path (not that you are saying that, I’ve just been thinking about this topic a lot, and that is what I see both beehaw and exploding heads as).

    Push lemmy

    Lemmy devs are already working extremely hard. I personally don’t like this terminology.

    Actively develop contribute into

    This is the way. I am learning Rust for this purpose. It takes some time, however, to familiarize with both a language and a large codebase like Lemmy (during personal free time). I’m also semi cheating by learning jerboa code at the same time, but I am a Kotlin dev by trade, so it is a bit easier.