cybersandwich
@cybersandwich@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon questions physics 4 weeks ago:
I’m gonna desalinization your butt if you keep it up Mango!
- Comment on 2real5me 1 month ago:
I feel like you all are misplaying your hands. Find contractors that work for the govt.
They can bill the govt much higher rates because you have a PhD. They don’t have to pay you the extra. You could literally tell them that. Pay me at a junior rate and keep the difference until I prove I’m worth more.
You’d be straight revenue/profit for them. and it gets your foot in the door and you start getting actual experience.
- Comment on Anon goes to dinner with coworkers 1 month ago:
The only response to that should have been a “too soooon!” Followed by uproarus laughter
That’s a hilarious retort imo.
- Comment on Anon quits their job 1 month ago:
Sometimes I wonder how people get away with stuff like this. I recall that story from Spain, I think, where a guy was getting a paycheck for like 20 years but not working at all. I guess they did a reorg and his new ‘boss’ didn’t know about him and he never got work assigned and he just stopped showing up…for years.
It has to be a pointless job to start with, right? If I just didn’t work at my job for a week it would probably get noticed. If I no-showed completely it certainly would.
I’d probably be given the benefit of the doubt for a few weeks if I just stopped producing work. I could maybe make it a month before someone said something about my performance but only because sometimes the things I work on take a while to come to fruition. And missing meetings isn’t uncommon because of conflicts/being super busy.
Id probably also get the benefit of the doubt if I no-showed too. But after a two days they’d call my wife or come by my house, or send the police department to my house to check on me.
- Comment on Apex Legends™: Battle Pass Updates 4 months ago:
Such negative posts about this.
If you don’t want it, don’t buy it. It’s not pay to play. You can play the game just fine without spending a dime.
Oh and by the way, the reason you can play without spending a dime is because they monetize on people who are willing to spend money on it.
Again, if you want to spend money you can. If you don’t want to spend money, don’t.
- Comment on Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit 5 months ago:
I know this is on the ‘work reform’ community so I understand most of the comments have that ‘bent’ to them. I appreciate that.
And I dont want to legitimize giant corporations doing shitty things to employees, so I hope it doesn’t come across as defending that behavior.
BUuuuuuttttt, I understand why and how this happens. Lets say hypothetically, you are in a big company or even a public sector/gov’t organization. You’ve moved to remote work across the board. That’s awesome!
Now imagine if you had a team that is struggling with competing priorities and limited resources. But you also have 3-4 people on that team that could have retired years ago, but they haven’t. Why? Because they can just fucking mail-it-in at home and do little or nothing. As a manager that’s overworked yourself, starting the “removal” paperwork process, especially on a public sector employee or an employee at a large company, is daunting. That can be a full-time job in and of itself. Now, multiply that x3 or 4 because you don’t just have one employee doing this. That’s going to be brutal.
What’s a much easier option? RTO. Is it a sure-fire way to get those 3 or 4 to retire? No, they might just come in and be lazy in the office, but there is a good chance that commute, parking expense, extra time away from their family is going to push them over the edge.
There are absolutely, without a doubt, people abusing remote work. RTO is a ‘lazy’ but semi-understandable way for managers to drive some of those bad apples away. At least in theory. The article suggests not all do.
From my own anecdotal evidence, when people started returning to office, the retirements went up and people moved around more. This freed up positions and let organizations, who were stagnate, grow and promote people.
The down side is: some of your top talent will leave if they get caught up in the RTO mandates.
- Comment on If presidential immunity is absolute.. 6 months ago:
That last part isn’t a fact. We don’t have a ruling and we don’t know how they will vote.
(God knows how this court will vote but don’t spread misinformation)
- Comment on A bad influence 6 months ago:
I think the part about teams that bothers me the most is the broader o365, windows, onedrive, SharePoint etc “integration”. It’s so fucking bad.
I never know where anything is saving. Locally? On my one drive? In a temp folder that is findable and that file doesn’t even show up as a recent file? Or is it on some weird SharePoint backend that teams is using? Am I having an offline copy or did I just inadvertently save a copy to the shared drive?
It’s all just bad enough that it’s a horrendous overall user experience.
It feels like MS gets in the way more than it let’s me do my job. I didn’t always feel this way.
To top it off, the way people use it causes issues. Everyone does it differently. You could have people that use outlook for sending docs, people that use teams exclusively, people that use both, people that send share links in email, people that just tag you in some buried “team” you didn’t ever want to be a part of.
Then they’re like “did you see the thing I sent you?” …
Like fucking where?!? Where did you send it?! Let me go search for it–oh well search sucks, the activity feed is almost too verbose so meaningful things get buried too fast.
Bleh. The amount of productivity lost to MS software offsets almost any productivity gain we get from it. It’s a “wash” at best these days.
- Comment on A bad influence 6 months ago:
I think what he is saying is that you’d be jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
- Comment on A bad influence 6 months ago:
They probably had an advanced distributed snapshot backup system. Where any and all employees that used the file in the last 10 years had a version of it saved from a point in time–potentially even on their personal machines or as email attachments to their personal emails.
- Comment on Biden Wipes Out Another $7.4 Billion in Student Loan Debt 7 months ago:
Bidens done more than any other president combined by orders of magnitude. JFC what is wrong with people.
This is a great thing. Take the W. Give credit where it’s due. If he has a Congress that functioned, he’d have made even more progress.
Go vote.
But quit whining and saying stupid shit like this.
- Comment on When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why? 7 months ago:
I’m blown away that you’ve managed to be offended by this.
- Comment on I think an intern helps them tie their shoes too 7 months ago:
“me watching a senior dev who makes more than me try to brief senior leadership”
We all have our talents. Some stuff is “table stakes” baseline stuff, but with the way MS has bungled their software these days I’ll never judge anyone for not knowing how to do something “simple” because MS has made most tasks infuriatingly difficult.
- Comment on I think an intern helps them tie their shoes too 7 months ago:
Ms365, onedrive, and teams integration makes me feel like the PDF saver.
I’m fucking smart and I crush my job, but the way they’ve “integrated” all of their dumb services has me asking my team to “just send me a $&@$ing email with the pdf”.
My job isn’t MS office guru. My job involves using PPTs, docs, XLS, etc to get funding, effect strategy, guide investment, brief senior leadeahip, and all that. But holy shit I feel like I turn into a clown/Luddite with dumb MS office tools.
- Comment on Why do people around me tend to increase their responsibility load (i.e. have children, become a manager, do charity, etc.) while I (30M) try to avoid it as much as I can? 7 months ago:
Money doesn’t create happiness, but it definitely sets up an environment for it to thrive.
- Comment on Why do people around me tend to increase their responsibility load (i.e. have children, become a manager, do charity, etc.) while I (30M) try to avoid it as much as I can? 7 months ago:
There are a ton of negative comments on here, but i think the reality is: people value different things.
When you have certain values you will sacrifice certain things to practice those values/achieve those goals.
Some people value charity work because helping the community and people makes them feel good–even if it’s more work on their plate.
Some people sacrifice their personal lives to achieve a career goal. Sometimes that’s for financial reasons, sometimes that’s for ego reasons, sometimes it’s “meeting a challenge”.
Some people will sacrifice their career to have less stress or focus on their family. Some people value their hobbies, relationships, personal interests to the point where they’ll pick jobs that let them focus on those things–even if those jobs don’t pay as well, even if they aren’t “progressing” up the ladder.
And for what it’s worth, your values (may) shift over time. I never wanted kids for the longest time. Then I did.
I valued career progression for ego and financial reasons–and now, that’s shifted.
I sacrificed spending time with my friends when I had my kid, but now I am putting a lot of effort into those friendships because I value them and that requires work. That means I didn’t take a job offer that would have paid more, so I would have time for my family and friends.
I value those things more at this point.
I value my time playing computer games, so I sacrifice my sleep so I can do that. :)
- Comment on *sad laughing noises* 7 months ago:
Respect for your dad doing what he needed to do. Plus the meat counter had to have some free meat perks, right?
- Comment on Shawn Fain: Workers Deserve More Time for Themselves 7 months ago:
This guy makes a lot of sense. I support him fighting this fight.
Calling out “people who don’t want to work” is great.
- Comment on Massive ‘Apex Legends’ Hack Disrupts NA Finals, Raises Serious Security Concerns 7 months ago:
Hal saying “I have aimbot I can’t shoot. I can’t shoot” because he’d basically mow down everyone, then when his teammates got knocked, he was like…okay nvm lemme one clip you guys.
Hilariously, there is a chance aimbot wasn’t on when he one clipped the caustic (and that it was just straight aim assist on controller).
Can you imagine if the hacker was more clever and didn’t make his cheats obvious for genburten?
Everyone was on the lookout for it the next game. But what if he just subtly did it to hal (one of the best if not the best players in the game) . It would be an even bigger fucking deal.
Accusations of cheating or aimboting already happen with pros because they are so good. Imagine having some clips of hal legit aimboting (unbeknownst to him) in a finals lobby.
- Comment on It's ok, we sigma now. 8 months ago:
Lol you get the joke! 7 points for gryffindor
- Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her 10 months ago:
Is there actually a video here? I just get a broke link and I don’t see any mirrors in the comments.
- Comment on Anon thinks about human history 10 months ago:
Not even just the moon. Landing ships on other planets, landing craft on asteroids and returning to earth with samples, and having a craft beyond our solar system. That is nuts.
- Comment on Epic Games wins antitrust lawsuit against Google 11 months ago:
Is that Apples argument though? I read the article but now its locked behind a paywall so I can’t re-read.
But your lay terms example isn’t exactly what happened according to the article. What Google did would be akin to buying a PC with Ubuntu on it, but where Google has made deals with Canonical to make their app store default. You can still use Canonical’s Ubuntu snAPP store, or flatpaks, dpkg -i, etc. But the simple fact that Google paid money to Canonical to make their Google app store the default is what the court is saying is anti-competitive.
The thing is: I dont necessarily disagree with that assessment. I think the court may have gotten this correct. Large companies have been using tactics like this for decades at this point to cement their position/fend off competition. It’s the definition of anti-competitive.
My point is that Apple, by completely refusing to allow “side loading”/other app stores on their devices has somehow sidestepped “anti-competitive” regulation here. It’s almost like it wasn’t ‘overt’ enough? Maybe because money didn’t change hands. Again, I am not a lawyer, but its hard to argue that not allowing other services or apps onto your system is good for competition. Maybe thats the rub? Maybe not being good for competition and being anti-competitive are legally different things? Maybe its because Google to an “overt action” and used their position, money, and influence to make deals to stifle competition, but Apple has it’s “safety and security” , “people pay for our walled garden”, “our walled ecosystem is the product” arguments.
- Comment on Epic Games wins antitrust lawsuit against Google 11 months ago:
This is so wild. Google allows side loading and 3rd party app stores…and that is the reason they were found guilty.
Unlike Apple, Google allows people to download apps onto phones running its Android operating system without going through its official app store, but the company strikes deals with phone manufacturers to favor Google’s official app store.
So because they strike deals to favor their store, even though they allow 3rd party stores to begin with, they’ve violated the SAA.
Meanwhile, Apple who refuses to allow competition or 3rd party app stores is sitting pretty because…well, they haven’t “favored” their own store over rival stores. BECAUSE RIVAL STORES CANT EXIST.
The legal shenanigans around all of this are frustrating to watch as a lay person.
- Comment on Unity is reviewing its product portfolio and says layoffs are "likely" 1 year ago:
I think the pricing model was a direct consequence of being in bad shape financially.
But obviously when you shoot yourself in the foot when you are already bleeding, it certainly doesn’t help.
- Comment on Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield 1 year ago:
I had a single crash playing starfield on PopOS. Other than that, it’s been incredibly performant for me. Ryzen 5700x and 6700xt GPU
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
8 buck shmuck
- Comment on When Y2K happened were there people burning their passports and walking barefoot to Jerusalem or something along those lines? 1 year ago:
Exactly, the systems that were at the biggest risk were the older, more entrenched systems that were spun up by the government, banks, hospitals.
This are obviously critical (cyber) infrastructure for our modern society. Imagine waking on Jan 1st and half of Americans lost access to their bank accounts or their accounts read $0.00. People would have lost their f*cking minds.
- Comment on Starfield install size reveal; it is now preload 1 year ago:
I guess if you want to get snoody about it. About half of gamers surveyed by steam have under 1tb( ~49%)
But more importantly 62% of all users surveyed, so this includes people with >1TB, have less than 499GB of free space on their machines. About 40% have less than 249GB. 17% have less than 99GB of free space.
Since you are so good at percentages, maybe you can give me your best guess at the number of people who works have to uninstall games to play this one.
- Comment on Starfield install size reveal; it is now preload 1 year ago:
Jesus Christ. 15% of your 1TB for a single game.