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thisisnotgoingwell

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  • Meta updates RTO policy with stricter mandate, saying workers may lose their jobs if they don't show up 3 days a week

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  • This is almost guaranteed to have trickled down. If the banks go down due to being overleveraged, everyone suffers. Isn't it strange all the major companies are doing this, even when it doesn't make sense? Literally no one else from my team works in my office, they're all in another state. Then again, I work for a bank, so... Yeah. This is the "if I go down, we all go down" part of the plot

  • Meta updates RTO policy with stricter mandate, saying workers may lose their jobs if they don't show up 3 days a week

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  • That's built into the model. Stars carry the weight because they've shouldered the responsibility. Others will step up... The work will be subpar, but when companies do risk analysis on stuff like this, they know how much gas they can burn before needing to be competitive again. Just another reason why we need unions in the US.

  • School Spyware

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  • Is this a school owned device? Goofy 4 line script that uses tons of resources, so that script that unnecessarily and intentionally taxes the laptops hardware, purely innocent right? Any chance why they might not want you to do that?

    That's pretty standard across any respectable industry. You're given suitable alternatives, if everyone could use whatever applications they wanted then it would be a nightmare.

  • Open source contributions: Just do it

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  • Made my first fork, push and pull request today. Been learning Python and a bit of rust for 3 years now(self taught, job is network engineer) and I can't wait until it gets merged 😄 just corrected some errors in a yaml file

  • School Spyware

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  • Something tells me your intentions aren't innocent(you want to be able to act maliciously at school or on the school network), or you have an overinflated sense of ego, the head of IT likely didn't give two shits about explaining anything to some brat. You're going to have to face some harsh realities pretty soon. Expecting digital privacy on a school issued device on the school network is asinine thinking.

  • Microsoft won’t say if Surface Duo is getting any more Android OS releases

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  • I owned one, had horrible freezing issues and screens going unavailable randomly, making folded use a horrible game of flipping the phone to get the other screen, but now it switched to the other screen. Sent it for repairs under warranty for one screen having flickering issues, they sent me a new one. The new one was still bad, but at least both screens worked.

    Battery life was pretty bad. Had like a 2500mah battery which with two screens drains very quickly. I used it for a few months as a primary phone and put it in a drawer. It was several versions of android behind. Took it out one year later, it worked fine, used it for a while... But these phones are made of glass, and there wasn't a proper case for it because of the hinge, so Microsoft sends you these rubber bumpers you glue onto the phone which come off easily over time, official replacement "case" which was just rubber cost like $40 bucks, which made me buy double sided adhesive to keep using the original.

    Anyways some people like to have multiple phones and it's good as a second phone if you spend all day near a charger. For anything else it's impractical.

    Reading on it was great, though. Haven't tried a folding or hinge phone since

  • (Audio of the) Mandatory meeting after Madison's departure from LMG.

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  • Probably that Linus' wife managed the relationship with the 3rd party HR. It could be that the 3rd party HR were mainly used for payroll and tax purposes. If they had limited scope, then likely they were not functioning as a real HR department

  • Bleeding edge tech

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  • Automation 😄

  • Bleeding edge tech

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  • I'm guessing he's saying companies are still using the same human written code, but since AI is sexy right now and is being used to describe even simple programming logic, everything is "powered by AI"

  • If bullshit jobs are really bullshit, how do businesses justify the expense?

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  • Respect, my wife waits as well

  • If bullshit jobs are really bullshit, how do businesses justify the expense?

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  • What do you do now, if you don't mind my asking?

  • If bullshit jobs are really bullshit, how do businesses justify the expense?

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  • I'll say this, as an engineer who's worked closely with the brass tacks, a lot of the time when new directors or c level people are brought in, they want to own a space. There was a solution existing prior to them, because the company already existed before they joined. But no one wants to be the guy who supports the previous ideas (maintenance on an engine isn't as sexy as designing it) because the idea doesn't have their branding. They want to be seen as bold/innovative, etc. So they make some calls and they find a solution that promises everything they have and more. If the new solution is a success, their position is cemented, they are now a stakeholder in the company. Sales guy is going to sell his ass off, maybe the workforce has to be repurposed (need more expertise in new fields), etc. All this creates unnecessary work for people with real jobs just because a boss wants it. In the end, the new director/c level can say, "wow, this was great, look at how our metrics have improved, all thanks to me!" Despite the fact that they weren't given all the features they were promised, or they didn't hire/train specialized engineers to truly own the new solution. Or maybe the solution isn't very effective. A lot of the time it's mostly politics. People are trying to get headlines just like politicians so they can keep climbing the ladder.

    The way you're describing "bullshit" jobs doesn't exist, there are no jobs that are inherently, always bullshit. There's just bullshit work, and a lot of people who's job it is to do bullshit work

  • The Problem with Linus Tech Tips: Accuracy, Ethics, & Responsibility

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  • You gotta work on your reading comprehension my man. Linus explicitly said they had not paid anything yet.

  • YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer

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  • I know you're mostly joking, but Google does sell your data/browsing habits for advertising, being able to show car dealership ads to someone who's browsing history indicates they're in the market is extremely valuable. It's not just about things "about you" like demographics/location, but an active, rolling profile about where you're most likely to spend your money.

  • YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer

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  • Why are you single?

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  • It's hard to accept someone disagrees with you when you have main character syndrome. I looked at both of y'all's accounts, he's mostly involved in technical questions and having discussions, your comment history is all politically charged topics where you are presenting your opinions as fact. Seems like you're a combative person.

  • Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration

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  • Well I only work on new stuff/deployments for data centers. Once it's deployed it goes to ops for support. I don't know if you have a lot of experience in large networks but there is a lot of break/fix work with failing hardware components and physical issues ..but that's not the side of the house you want to be in because operational stuff like NOCs are always high turnover fast-paced jobs where everything is your fault. If you're going to work networking you gotta transition to the "money-making" side of the house for better quality of life. Right now the "sexy" stuff is devops/automation and that's where a lot of gripe comes from with the old school CLI guys because they don't want to learn anything new.

    Job before this was at a university with a small team of infrastructure engineers and you would think their job was to stifle progress. Their whole team and millions of dollars in expensive networking equipment could get replaced by a private cell tower.

    Cyber security field is a bit different, companies know now they have to spend money on it now so the faucet is open. Most of the real preventative methods for security happen at the network. Security guys that are paid deep into six figures know networking, Linux, programming and other things.

    Being an SME and earning the big bucks, in my opinion, is about knowing quite a bit about many things

  • Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration

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  • High paying tech jobs are out there yeah but you gotta be an SME and own a solution which really involves in my POV knowing programming, some backend, networking and infrastructure. Tech work is so vast people only really master one thing. Tech workers are notoriously lazy as well, soon as people get a "cushy" job it's like pulling teeth trying to get them to learn a new skill. Can't tell you the amount of times I've tried to teach old school network guys some devops stuff and they say something like "I don't want to have to learn programming" and when I tell them it's really not as complicated as they think they have some other excuse locked and loaded

  • Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration

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  • Not sure why that is but energy jobs pay a lot. Had a friend who worked on an oil rig and made about 400k