zoltanshields

@zoltanshields@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"What is the cost of lies?"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never seen a more accurate depiction of my typical experience in a professional environment. “Nobody wants to speak up or handle things correctly because someone senior with direct responsibility for your employment shouted down any dissent because they want to meet a metric” is apparently a timeless experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you not?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really disheartening. I originally pursued tech for the money but I fell in love with it as a sort of creative outlet a few years into my career. I actually WANT to make new tools but my coworkers immediately outsourced their brains and come asking me for help because the code they got from copilot (and didn’t test) is breaking something in production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mental health professionals rarely allow you to talk about the socioeconomic factors too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah feel like maybe 60-70% of my therapy sessions involve talking about socioeconomic factors behind my problems and I’ve never felt like my therapist downplayed that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Careful programmers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe they just put the source code out there like this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays an RPG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually can’t tell if the whole “this is urgent you need to hurry” in an open world game is a new trend or not but I see it everywhere too.

  Earliest I can think of is Skyrim. Everything was a big emergency. Finish one quest and the character dialogue was like “Another dragon attack! You need to get to this next quest right away! Hurry!”. But it’s supposed to be game designed for screwing around. I can’t help but feel it’s influenced this trend.

  Playing Oblivion re-mastered I’m realizing Oblivion wasn’t this way. The stakes were high but much more of the dialogue was like “Ready yourself, take the time you need, and we’ll talk next steps”. There’s important stuff to handle but exploring dungeons was treated as you getting prepared to handle the big bad.

  Impending dragon attacks in Skyrim, missing son in Fallout 4, turning into a mindflayer in Bg3. These feel urgent, not conducive to exploration and meeting everyone and crafting potions and shopping for deals on weapons.

  All that being said I had the same problem in Bg3. Didn’t long rest enough in the beginning because of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays an RPG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Replaying Bg3 makes me realize how pointless poisons are most of the time.

  Anyone beefy who I might like to debuff or DOT is inexplicably immune to poison, blindness or falling asleep. Not even just bosses, feels like anyone I can’t kill in two rounds with Lae’zel is immune to these poisons I lovingly made.

  Some elixirs are cool though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if rogue Ai agents or other bad actors take over these 2?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in IT infrastructure (not AWS but something like it) and the reality is that there are a few blocks like AWS and Cloudflare out there. That doesn’t really make things less concerning considering if they were actually pulled it would cause a lot of problems.

  So to be clear, if something managed to completely disable or “control” AWS it would be disastrous, and AWS is under attack from multiple vectors including AI Agents, including their own INTERNAL AI Agents. In December 2025 Amazon’s internal coding AI agent Kiro decided the most efficient course of action to resolve a minor bug in AWS Cost Explorer was to completely rebuild the production environment, causing a 13 hour outage for Cost Explorer while engineers manually rebuilt the environment.

  The thing is, in the picture you posted AWS is this fragile single block holding everything up, when in it might be more useful to think of it conceptually as say, a major highway. Would it be a disaster if terrorists were able to suddenly destroy/control all of I-75? Yes. Is that feasible? No. Kiro caused a really bad traffic jam in one segment of one highway, it didn’t destroy the whole thing.

  A highway can experience traffic incidents and recover. Major jams could be intentionally caused by bad actors or poor maintenance, and highways have to be altered, upgraded and maintained to limit the situations that can completely shut down segments of it.

  But the concern is more that key segments will be impacted, not the entire thing.

  That’s more of what people in my field are concerned with, and there’s efforts to try to lock those key segments down and account for potential threats. How well that’s being done is a different story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon fears The Hand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Creating nonexistent patterns in an attempt to understand it. There was a cluster of hand killings near a small town in Kyrgyzstan and there’s no way that could just be random chance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costly Disappointment 💸⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I learned a trade before I realized college was a better fit for me and I do think there’s a bit a “grass is always greener” phenomenon when it comes to people thinking about the trades.

  There are plenty of hardworking, skilled welders who have pretty unpleasant, low-paying jobs and originally intended to get a lucrative oil rig job but couldn’t seem to get an offer. Ironically the ones I knew talked about how they were learning python on the side.

  The trades have their own problems.