Man fuck those guys. Not a sysadmin myself, but from what I hear the position is criminally underappreciated. Why is it so hard for people to understand that if things aren’t breaking, it means people are doing their job correctly?
Even if I could’ve bought in 2019 I’d have been happy, but silly me was prioritizing paying off other debts rather than saving for a down payment. Damn pandemic.
Saw an article on getpocket while at work by an alleged programmer that was “mourning the art of coding” because ChatGPT was doing such a good job that his non-coder friend was able to setup a webpage.
To be fair I couldn’t tollerate reading past the first paragraph, but it definitely felt like the dude didn’t know the difference between funtional code and good code. Like, sure ChatGPT may be able to make a website, but good luck getting it to formulate anything non-generic.
Ahhh that certainly makes more sense. But now I’m kinda pissed at him for acting like some authority in the field up front to say “oh no ChatGPT is just so good” just to then admit that he’s closer to the non-programmer side of the scale, but that may just be my residual rage from trying to stomach that article bleeding through.
I still remember the one time I wrote code that worked the first try.
It was a single function of minimal complexity, but it’s literally the only time that’s happened with more than one line or conditional, so it’s special to me dammit.
??? Damn that’s the first I’ve heard of that. I wonder if that’s so the government could justify pushing around native american revervations, or taking places like Hawai’i into the States? I can’t imagine many Countries would willingly allow the US govt to just take their shit
Oh my god how did I forget about sunflower grandma.
Imagine being a fresh-faced recruit to what you still believe to be a noble mission to liberate your own oppressed people. An easy mission at that - go in, march on Kyiv, overthrow the “nazi regime,” go home heroes. You show up, head held high, waiting for the cheers and thank-yous from those you think you’re here to protect. A sweet old lady walks up to you offering a gift! Sunflower seeds - peaceful, bright, lovely sunflower seeds. Then she says it. “At least some sunflowers will grow where you die.”
I’d even be a bit more generous and say that any coder could be considered a software engineer if they take a formalized approach to development, strictly due to the fact that there really isn’t an official certifying delineation between those who work on systems requiring a formal approach and those who don’t. This contrasted with, for example, an electrical engineer and somebody who learned all the same things from their electrical engineering parent and does it as a hobby.
Is it mandatory in C++? I don’t do much with C++ regularly, but I was under the impression that destructors made it so that you wouldn’t have to manually release memory each time an object was destroyed. Or do you mean specifically regarding pointers to those objects needing to be released as well?
The best thing that’s come out of this ChatGPT bullshit is making me feel like I’m actually good at my job. To be clear, I’m not - but at the very least I can reverse engineer functional code and logically map out what I think is supposed to be happening. The bare minimum that should be required, and yet here we are, with me being able to lord my wizardry over the ChatGPT peasantry.
ETA: specifically lording myself over people who use ChatGPT to do the whole thing, not people who just use it to cut down on busywork
Bro the project I’m on uses XSLT and the first time I saw it I legitimately thought I was having a stroke because I could not accept that anybody would be stupid and/or masochistic enough to actually want something like that.
However, I’ve now made it my mission to master it because it makes me feel like a high-born wizard speaking of ancient secrets in a tower high above humanity
This will be a quick post. We have received a phishing mail to our [email protected] mail address telling that they are “lemmy.world Security Team”, telling that they will “disconnect” your account from our instance. This is ofc, not us. Do not fall for it! The attached image is how the mail looks like....
There’s also variable levels of sophistication for scam messages based on the desired target. If you’re looking for a whole lot of people who don’t understand technology enough to see through your premise, you go with the generic “hello sir and/or madame I am hackor send gift cards or I will delet ur phone”.
If you’re after a very specific person who is well known to be privy to the normal red flags, you’re more likely to create a custom spear phishing campaign and mimic as closely as possible the format, lexicon, domain names, etc of something reputable to avoid setting off their BS detectors.
With that said, yeah there’s enough people on lemmy that this low-effort take is worth a shot
This perfectly describes everything I’ve thought about them but couldn’t fully express, thank you.
This is the whole reason I switched to Linux computers and Sony phones. If I wanted an Apple product I’d buy an Apple product. Give me back my headphone jack dammit.
ETA fun story from my onboarding group: They wanted us to be beta testers for a new internal training tool they had developed. On the surface, it was just a basic online course map with tests for each course, but god it was so, so much worse than that, and that was because of those damned tests. I don’t know who the fuck developed those tests, but I can’t even say it was someone who was learning programming on the fly, because that shit had to have been intentionally malicious. Questions that weren’t in the material, questions where the “correct” answer was clearly wrong, questions where the correct answer was hidden by the HTML tags. We brought that last one up to the corpo representative who was in charge of guiding us through this nonsense and her reaponse was, I shit you not, “what’s an ‘HTML tag’?” Comical doesn’t even begin to describe the level of IBM’s technical dysfunction.
When you get to the end of your life, old and tired, and you look back on all the things you did and time you spent, what will make you say: yes, I did well and it was all worth it?...
How to make lasting contributions that will stand the test of time:
Create a new project from scratch that would have wide-ranged-but-niche applications (i.e. some app, firmware, or library that fills an important-but-unrecognized niche)
Design the code to be intuitive to you and you alone, prioritize functionality over readability, forgo documentation, and abstract as much as possible. You can be the only contributor during the developmental stage
Go public and get as many people as possible to adopt your project
Continue maintaining until you die
Now companies and people that have unknowingly become heavily reliant on this are going to scramble to continue maintaining it, but will only be willing to create surface-level bandaid patches and will avoid making any more fundamental changes for fear of breaking literally everything everywhere because now the stakes are too high to take a fuck-it-we-ball approach. This is why it’s important to be niche: it reduces the chances of an actual tech wizard coming in and reverse-engineering the whole thing.
Voila, your contributions shall remain for all time, like some sort of mystical wizard’s tome on whose magic the world continues to spin
Yeah I maintain a 30 year old legacy codebase how could you tell
Cold, or are very restrictive in immigration policies. And even places with good (comparitive to USA) policies, decent weather, and manageable immigration like Australia and New Zealand, their housing situation is even worse than USA and Canada from what I’ve heard. :(
Maybe try to start a dialogue with yourself in your head about the topic? While I can’t relate to the oversharing, I can relate to feeling like people don’t want to engage with you and keeping your mouth shut because of it. For me, at least, kind of commenting on the conversation silently to myself helps the feeling of desolation when I’m being talked over.
Only problem with this, though, is that because it feels like I said something without actually saying it, sometimes I end up just not giving other people important information. So YMMV
Hijacking this casual aside to warn any Jr. Devs against working for IBM - specifically their CIC, which is coloquially known as their “Cheap Labor Department.” Not only are you paid way less than market rate for an intro position there (at least, that’s how it was pre-covid), but if you get put on a contract they tell you you’re supposed to work “at least” 44 hours/week, regardless of your actual workload. The position is, obviously, exempt.
Source: first job outta college. Got some certs on their dime and jumped ship soon as I could. From what I saw, mid-level and senior IBM devs on identical contracts are treated way better, so this warning is primarily for newer folks, and entirely about the CIC division
Honestly, I can’t remember what it stands for. My new place uses the same acronym for something completely different so I can’t remember what the original phrase was.
As for what it is, it’s the division of low-paid college graduates that they throw onto contracts in order to squeeze more money out of their clients (hence being paid far bellow market rate and having them work an extra 4 unpaid hours a week)
Yeah somehow I don’t think that’s gonna be a tough choice for them. Nothing keeping them from switching it up the next election cycle after the war ends, after all.
I know that there are use cases for [ ] over [[ ]]. There have to be. Why in god’s name would [ ] exist if there wasn’t a reason to use it over [[ ]]? I’m obviously the one in the wrong by only ever using [[ ]], because [ ] would definitely be better in some type of situations that I’m just not seeing clearly. Right???
Elementary school we has televised morning announcements where 2 different kids were randomly selected each week to read the script as the “hosts”. I got selected one week and while the camera was turned to the flag for the pledge of allegience, the other kid and i quietly, under the desk, started fighting with hand puppets that were on set. We stopped when the camera got back to us, but the music teacher, who was in charge of the whole schtick, decided afterwards to get angry and take me, specifically, off of morning announcements.
That’s not even the part I’m still mad about though. When it was time for music class that day, since it was entirely floor seating, I positioned myself under the lip of the teacher’s desk to sulk, like is a normal response for a 6 year old who feels like they were unfairly singled out. The music teacher then proceded to pour a glass of water on my head, in front of the whole class.
I can’t even remember his name but I hope he had a shit life afterwards. What kind of teacher does that to a child.
WiseCrack is another good YT channel for that stuff. They mostly focus on philosophy as incorporated into media and pop culture, with some other stuff thrown in there.
Lemmy, what are some of your "oh shit" work stories?
Your thoughts? (sh.itjust.works)
What is something you'd gladly go into debt for?
An example: for me, I’d happily go into debt to travel, or make sure my son has a good education.
vote for your favorite or suggest your own candidates (sh.itjust.works)
What trick do you WISH you could teach your cat?
I wish I could teach them to play bona fide...
"Trust me bro, it's just a simple project bro, I'll be there for you bro..." (lemmy.ml)
is there a limit to the point that i will find women attractive?
Context, I’m 30 now and i will find women my age and up attractive, but 15 years ago a 35 year old women would never have been attractive to me....
I prefer to be the one who writes code (fed.dyne.org)
cross-posted from: fed.dyne.org/post/43780
Straight to prod (lemmy.ml)
HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers (www.techspot.com)
It's time to throw in the towel everyone. We're never going to be able to top the Russian army (sh.itjust.works)
Which inedible substances/objects do you think might otherwise make for a delicious blended drink/smoothie?
You know they never would as they are, but you can’t help wishing they might....
They killed the man, not the idea. (sh.itjust.works)
In the USA, can you lose your home even after it is 100% paid off?
Let’s say that you buy a home in cash and have 100% paid off. Could you still lose it somehow?
Do you ever come up with genius ("genius") ideas for joke domains to unsettle/embarrass people when you tell them your email?
like, GiantHairyNipplemonsters.com…...
It's even funnier the second time. (sh.itjust.works)
top text (sh.itjust.works)
inb4 Call me what you want but pay me the same (lemmy.ml)
Chinese Navy Ignored SOS Call as US and Ally Stopped Pirate Attack (sh.itjust.works)
happy extremely belated 10th birthday company of heroes 2 (sh.itjust.works)
Why do dentists always recommend to brush 2 times for 2-3 minutes?
I almost always read in the news/press that dentists recommend to brush teeth two times a day for 2-3 minutes....
the "good" parts (lemmy.world)
pointerpointer.com (pointerpointer.com)
How do you *effectively* prevent plaque/tartar forming on your teeth?
My teeth are in good health and I take good care of them, yet I always get this plaque buildup no matter what I try....
What other weapons are we missing out on eating... (lemmy.ca)
What movie do you see too young, that still scares you today?
There once was a programmer (feddit.de)
I am God's greatest programmer (lemmy.world)
Yes, I program in HTML (lemmy.ml)
Phishing Mails (lemmy.world)
This will be a quick post. We have received a phishing mail to our [email protected] mail address telling that they are “lemmy.world Security Team”, telling that they will “disconnect” your account from our instance. This is ofc, not us. Do not fall for it! The attached image is how the mail looks like....
what tech company is the worst in you're opinion?
mine is BlackRock if you consider that an tech company if not then my second is meta facebook
Vintage Mac Community Begs Manufacturers for New Supply of Rare Dongle as Resellers Charge $250 (www.404media.co)
Unconfirmed - Sources from occupied Crimea report that a few hours ago in Sevastopol, the large patrol ship "Pavel Derzhavin" exploded on a Russian mine. (files.catbox.moe)
Update:...
What makes your life well-lived?
When you get to the end of your life, old and tired, and you look back on all the things you did and time you spent, what will make you say: yes, I did well and it was all worth it?...
‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat (www.theguardian.com)
Americans who believe in Socialism, if you were given the opportunity to immigrate to a country with socialist policies, would you?
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Tech jobs be like (media.mas.to)
Biden vows to stand by Ukraine, despite budget fiasco (www.bbc.com)
Depression Is No More (suppo.fi)
What was one thing your teacher did that you still can't forgive them for?
I want to learn Philosophy. How should I start ?
Lately I have found an interest in philosophy. I would love to dig deeper into it when I get the time....
Still better than windows. (lemmy.world)