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Companies are often insane. I’m working in one who has this one guy build a super complicated architecture, because he don’t know aws. So instead of just using a message queue on aws, he is building Java programs and tons of software and containers to try and send messages in a reliable way. Costs the company huge money, but they don’t care, since he is some old timer who has been there for like 10 years and everyone let’s him do what he wants.

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It’s a different form of lock-in since it’s just his creation. When he leaves, all of this will be very hard to maintain and the company will probably rebuild it all on aws.

I have been bringing this up but they say that it’s too late to change direction now (they are afraid to upset the guy).

But I’m looking on the bright side. I get to learn a lot of stuff I otherwise I wouldnt if this was a single managed aws service. I’m bringing in terraform and instead of just putting a message queue there, I need to spin up entire architectures to run his ec2 instances with all the apps and everything required to make things work.

Takes months… So for me it’s fun. I don’t have to pay for it. But companies are crazy. :)

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Very good. It will be nice to be off YouTube completely.

Pentagon combat drones: “I’m flying off the wing of something that’s making its own decisions.” (Aug. 27) (www.nytimes.com)

Recently revised Pentagon policy allows for autonomous use of lethal force. In test later this year, combat drone will be asked to chase, kill simulated target, coming up with own strategy for mission. Second program’s goal is Air Force that is more unpredictable and lethal.

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But I thought AI was just cute robots making hand gestures in public? /s

Wait until these things kill a lot of innocent people and there is nothing to blame but a computer program.

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I’m learning how to drive now and I picked manual transmission. Because it’s a lot easier to switch to automatic later if I would need to.

Asked some younger guys at driving school why they picked automatic, and their response was that they believe manual will go away in cars and it will all be automatic.

Maybe so. But it still can’t hurt to know it. Many old cars will be around for a long time.

How to retain my evening optimism?

Sometimes when I stay up late doing something creative I end up getting this very comforting feeling about the future. A sort of certainty that everything will work out in the end and that luck happy coincidences will always be on my side. If I had this sort of confidence throughout the day, I would live a much more pleasant and...

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I’m also enthusiastic in the morning but Im tired when the work day ends. I think some people are just evening people, and others are morning people.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy warns remote workers: 'It's probably not going to work out for you' (nypost.com)

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy warns remote workers: ‘It’s probably not going to work out for you’::Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees who defy his edict to return to the office three days a week that “it’s probably not going to work out for you.”

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The mentality of these people are like slave owners.

has your YouTube consumption decreased after implementing the "no history, no recommendations" feature?

I noticed my consumption has decased quite a bit. I would visit regularly to watch content from few channels. I would probably still visit every so often to watch the new videos. But the experience has become more deliberate and conscious. I go to YouTube because I want to go and watch something specific. Mindlessly browsing and...

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I’m almost completely off YouTube already and now I find videos annoying and a waste of time.

I watch videos from udemy to learn something though.

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Wonder how many read this and go “don’t care, it’s fucking google”.

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Yeah I know, I was just thinking of our little community here and the general crowd in IT. I think a lot of us are inclined to try and avoid Google as much as possible.

Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: ‘It’s probably not going to work out’ - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently told employees that those who do not want to return to the office at least three days a week should consider finding employment elsewhere. According to a recording obtained by Insider, Jassy stated “It’s past the time to disagree and commit,” adding that if employees cannot commit to the new...

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The mentality of these people are exactly like slave owners.

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The real reason is because it’s expensive to get a short and good .com name and also because it’s very corporate and boring.

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Reminds me of Spin City and Carters dog :)

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I don’t buy this. We don’t know why we are here, and we learn a lot more from painful experiences than happy ones.

There is both evil and good in the world. As far as I can tell, most people are good. But there are a minority of evil ones and they are much more interested in having power, so they work to get high up into our systems where they get the power they crave.

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You put it on a better way than me, but yes, exactly.

How do people find good information on the internet these days?

It used to be that you would do a search on a relevant subject and get blog posts, forums posts, and maybe a couple of relevant companies offering the product or service. (And if you wanted more information on said company you could give them a call and actually talk to a real person about said service) You could even trust...

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I use Kagi and it’s just amazing. Don’t have any problems. You can also configure Kagi to prioritize certain sites and remove others you don’t care about. Very happy with it.

The bullshit is because Google wants you to visit shitty sites because of ad revenues.

Throw them out of your life.

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I was on ddg for a while too, but found myself switching to Google sometimes with the !g syntax.

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Accurate. We care about privacy and quality. A rare breed.

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You should embrace systemd. It’s actually good. Replaces all startup scripts, logs to a common log, even has scheduled systemd jobs just like cron but better, since they can have proper dependencies. Want to run something right after network stack is up and working? Easy with systemd, more difficult with cron and more hacky.

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Looking forward to seeing ads for bras… :)

Just kidding. I don’t see ads anyway.

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I understand it but personally I got so disgusted by the owners behavior that I will never use that site again.

So yeah, I’m missing out on some things I guess but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.

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I want to know more. What did he do?

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Yeah I knew that actually. Thought it was something more. But maybe it’s bad enough, I don’t know much about it.

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I never know what those people do to their systems. It never breaks for me and I’ve been using it like 10 years on all my computers, including at work while working as a consultant.

It’s pretty important to have a working computer in that role and i never had any issues with stuff breaking. Smaller things like screen sharing was glitchy and so on, but that happened in all distros and had to do with Nvidia shitty drivers.

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No but if humans becomes as smart as cats and dogs, we may have a chance to survive.

Humans are the dumbest creatures on the planet. Completely unable to coexist with nature. Most of us can’t survive without shops. And we kill eachother because we think evil is in other counties, not ours.

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The name is embarrassing and shows the intellect of someone we thought were intelligent but is just another self absorbed little boy craving for attention.

Musk is the definition of a man child.

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You didn’t mention Facebook? That’s super dystopian to me. What’s a face book if not a large collection of identities being monitored?

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Yes ofc, I just think the name Facebook is more dystopian than Meta.

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Reddit teaches you to not argue with people more than absolutely necessary. It’s a waste of time. Just stop responding to them if you don’t want to talk.

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What… That hasn’t happened to me at all.

Arch btw.

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The total score is appearently stored on your user somewhere in the database but not displayed… Someone said. They lied?

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That’s true… I wonder how it handles downvotes and upvotes on comments or posts, they are also replicated right? What if some instance goes into the db and changes those numbers?

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Sounds like a fun job… :)

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Boulder Dash on a Commodore 64 connected to a 20 inch CRT television in the living room of my grandmother, I guess around 1985 or so…

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So cool :) Such a fun game when being a kid, avoiding those monsters and having to be quick to avoid falling stones and diamonds. Loved it. There is supposed to be a modern version…

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I have never used Instagram either. But something similar where you can be semi-anonymous could be interesting i guess. Depends on the content. If it’s about showing off and being influencers, I’m not interested.

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Also sounds really cool.

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Compiling… Compiling… Compiling…

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Haha I remember this. People who downvote you probably are too young to remember.

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Yeah I agree, I work in IT and specially in enterprise companies, work pace is crazy slow. Not much is expected by the employees. Lots of meetings to talk about things instead of doing them.

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Making progress on my driving license makes me feel so happy. Soon I can drive anywhere!

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“Look at my palm, see how friendly i am?”

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I’m really surprised people still run windows. Sure, it works, but it’s really really annoying.

But yes, people don’t care, I know.

Leaked Zoom all-hands: CEO says employees must return to offices because they can't be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom (www.businessinsider.com)

Leaked Zoom all-hands: CEO says employees must return to offices because they can’t be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom::Zoom CEO Eric Yuan discussed the benefits of in-person work in a leaked meeting.

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I was working in big enterprises for many years with lots of online meetings, and I was so tired of them. Every day I had hours of meetings, making me so tired and unmotivated.

Now I’m at a smaller company and we don’t have standups, 1 on 1s etc. I have 2 meetings per week only. It’s fantastic. Made me really like this job.

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Yes there are pros and cons to every situation. You are right that it’s harder for new employees to learn. It takes more time. But the advantages of working from home are amazing and so much worth it anyway.

The entire idea of everyone leaving their apartments every morning, when they have everything they need to work at home, contributing to environment destruction, morning stress to get to work, an entire workday of hours lost in traffic every week etc… What are we doing? It’s madness.

Most people used to spend 10 hours every week traveling to work! That’s 40 hours per month - an entire work week just gone sitting in traffic every month! What if you exercise 40 hours per month instead. You would be in stellar shape.

We are supposed to be living life, don’t waste it.

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You think so? I’m not miserable at all, if that’s what you think… I’m actually really happy. But the work we do have no real meaning I think, but I would love to hear why you think it’s meaningful.

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My girlfriend too, she works for big corp and have tons of meetings. But she is not interested in being a maker (like someone who does the work). She wants to be a manager that tells others what to do. And she is, and she is miserable most of the time.

I think some people just value the status higher than their happiness.

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That choice between Remind me in 3 days or Accept shows the compete contempt they have for the user.

Also that idiotic “let’s finish setting up your computer”, as if Microsoft is your friend helping you out.

Guys you need to stop using this software. Why do you think so many fan boys are yelling about linux all the time? Because it’s fantastic these days.

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