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You don’t need to be a doctor or therapist to let people know that some people can have very bad reactions and it’s not all roses.

I see the same thing happening in people smoke marijuana where any claim that it can have harmful effects for some or with abuse is met with “yeah well what do you know, i read this other thing and i never had issues myself”.

I would have a hard time believing that. I work with a company that hired a lot of germans and they have the worst developer experience onboarding and general infra of any place i have worked.

When you outline why it’s bad and show how you would significantly speed up over 1000 engineers at the company with minimal work the answer is to leave it the same as is and “fix the issue” with some new process.

Needless to say once my shares vest this year im gone. It is really such a bad environment to work in.

I should note that the shares have been on a decade decline and i was brought in to fix these exact issues but no one at the company cares or puts in more than the bare minimum before clocking out for the day. I can’t fix an issue if people think it’s ok to spin up a new k8s instance for every single service, are ok spending a month after starting asking to be put in the right AD groups, and hand deploy almost everything.

Shitty companies doing shitty things. I think this is the expectation in 2024.

Nice! That was my experience as well. Just wanted to make sure I wasn’t falling too far out of date while I switched to some MLops roles for a while.

I think it’s pretty clear that it’s easy to sell rage against companies right now. News just tells people what they want to hear in this age

As far as i know most places are still using iPXE and Tftp to load an image with some custom provisioning framework.

It worked really well but I haven’t worked on large scale DCs for a few years now so maybe some new stuff happened

I follow a tour guide in Colombia who takes people up the glaciers there. It’s really sad to see them all melting away year after year.

Maybe don’t stand next to others when firing it… so yes they were dumb. But more so the general mentality of “a bad thing could happen so lets never do it” is sad to me.

That sounds great. I imagine it would turn out the same way using local transit has. Some are awesome like the netherlands and some are hostile towards users that you can’t even properly use it if you arrive too late at night because no one is available like france.

Everyone in this thread seems to thinks government is able to get things done. That is not what my last 40 years of life has shown me.

Sticking it out at a EU based company for now. Hopefully the US market improves but i have my doubts

At what point do we just completely lose faith in a company? First they screwed over the public and now our astronauts.

A few years ago I was really into spicy food. I would cut up entire ghost peppers or habaneros and put them in almost every meal. I was at the point where physically it made we sweat but i could actually enjoy the flavor.

Eating the 2x spicy ramen two days in a row destroyed my stomach and also had me in tears as that oil makes it linger. When I say destroyed i mean it took over a month for it to get back to normal and even after that it wasn’t like it was before.

I don’t eat any spicy food anymore. I could see why you might pull these.

This is getting more common. I have already had people try to tell me how something works from a chat gpt summary. This would have led to us taking a completely different direction… 5 minutes of reading the actual docs and I found out they were wrong.

Now at a new company i have caught several people copy pasting gpt code that is just horrendous.

It seems like this is where the industry is headed. The only thing i have found gpt to be good at is solving interview questions although it still uses phantom functions about 50% of the time. The future is bumming me out.

O_O ..

So are train tickets going down in price or more seats being added?

Like most things it will push poorer people out, middle income will be annoyed and slightly more poor, and people with money won’t even notice

Better/cheaper train solutions would seem to be the desired fix though not just raising prices to random high numbers.

I agree that this will likely have a good outcome in the end but something about it just seems wrong to me.

Have to extract the most value for shareholders. Only way i see it changing is people start stealing software because they get sick of it or people stop using subscription based licenses all together.

I was working at 14 in Florida. What do you consider to be child labor?

I have lots of views they likely don’t line up with yours because most people don’t see how the low end of the economy actually works.

Cool talking point.

Good luck!

Oo yeah im familiar. They suck. Thanks for the history lesson though!

It’s been shown drunk driving drops with uber because cabs will ignore you outside of a select few cities.

As a college student i had multiple cabs try to scam me or overcharge and this was if they would even show up at all leaving me to walk miles and in one case getting robbed at gun point because of it. But yeah lol its the same as uber.

I saw what it took to build both Uber and Lyft. I know that the government will bot be able to reproduce it in any way unless you are fine with a terrible user experience and times where no rides are available

It now costs you 100k a year in taxes for your property. You then move and everyone say its your fault because you don’t want to take a loss every year. Do i have this correct?

Its pretty hard to apply min wage intended for w2 to gig work when the laws are treating you as both.

So they have to let the drivers have complete freedom over what they do and what rides they take and when they do it. But also you have to follow min wage laws which apply when?

Im sure Uber and Lyft can redesign the system to work with this model and im sure the consumer will hate the new prices.

Not really. They haven’t been doing that for a few years now.

They are just going to leave the market if it becomes unprofitable. I see people complaining all the time about ride prices so the consumer doesn’t want this and im sure the people driving aren’t happy to lose the income as well.

Who is winning here?

They offer a service and you can choose to drive for them. This in a lot of cases helps people make extra money or hold them over. But you think it’s better to let the government remove this option?

I just can’t get onboard with this thinking. I understand it for W2 jobs but for freelance and pick your own hours it does not make sense.

“Wage theft” what? It’s very transparent what you are getting paid and what the deal is when you drive for uber or lyft.

Argue all you want for thinking that law makers should be setting special wages for specific industries. Personally i think they should stay out of it but man i would be mad as someone living in the city that these services are no longer available.

Yeah it’s pretty stupid but everyone is willing to play the game since we all need to eat.

I did drop out of Facebooks interview process right after the recruiter told me i need to come up with a better reason why i wanted to work at facebook for the next interview. I told them i thought they were going a little too far and I didn’t want to work at a company that was that full of themselves.

I don’t like what the world has become over the last 20 years.