aggressive shushing

Omg yessss that’s it lmaooo thank you so much!

Please no cracking cold ones in the silent study room. Please silently drink from a flask.

“Splattered, splattered, splattered on the windshield of life!” I remember that song, but can’t find it. Also haven’t looked super hard recently. If I wasn’t busy I’d listen through the sound track, I’m guessing the title doesn’t match.

https://youtu.be/1eVEmMN7dco

Isn’t this more or less what Truck Simulator is? I find the idea interesting, but I’d want some sort of goal. I could be really obtuse and say that Grand Theft Auto 5 is an open world driving game lol.

I like open world games. They get a bad rap because a lot of games that are sort of samey and sloppy use open world aspects, but I don’t think the open world aspect is the problem.

Someone down voting a post is not defending a war monger.

Oh yeah, I said being on call 24/7 sucks. I’m such a corporatist boot-licker. 🙄

I once heard someone describe legacy systems as systems without test coverage. I think it’s not the best description, but it’s certainly an interesting perspective.

It’s part of why it bothers me when folks say they use LLMs to make unit tests. If anything, you should be writing tests by hands to get a solid specification then let the AI make the code. Of course this is a false dichotomy, but I’m just saying if you have to choose between those two options in some weird hypothetical bizarro world.

Well I just called dibs, so… And Lemmy comments are legally binding, of course.

Marry me, PhoenixDog, so I can into Canada

People will “but actually” even the most cut and dry observations, and it’s sad.

You’re doing the same thing.

God forbid someone share an anecdote?

Ugh, lucky. My friend is even getting Canadian citizenship now thanks to a recent law change there and his grandmother being a Canadian citizen.

It’s just a joke, y’all are really over thinking it. I’m fully aware that watching the movies and reading the books are different experiences. The joke was that a summary cuts things just like the movie. That’s it.

Yeah, my parents told me once that when my grandparents pass away there was a nice chunk of money that would be coming. I never planned around it or anything. Some time after they passed I was a little curious about it and asked what happened, that was pretty much what they said, that it probably had all been used up by hospital and nursing home bills. End of life care is the last chance to suck up that dough, I guess.

Yeah, a lot like a summary?

I’ll just watch the movies, thank 💪

Seeing you reply made me click the link, where is my beloved! At least the new owners want to keep it Zombo.

I value WFH pretty highly myself, so honestly I’d consider it passed to me as well if it meant not having to RTO.

I think it’s a variety of factors and a lot of decision makers failing to view the picture holistically (optimistic view) or just being malicious (pessimistic).

1. A lot of top level decision makes are very aware of the costs of things. Knowing exactly how much money a large office space costs and constantly coming in only to see it very empty makes them want to see it used more.
2. Face to face communication is better than the alternative. Full stop. That said, you can get like ~75% of that by just turning the camera on. I think a lot of places should just consider encouraging people to use their cameras more.
3. The executive mindset is probably that people goof off less in the office.
4. If you want to lay people off, forcing RTO is a good way to get people to leave voluntarily.
5. There’s likely a sense of “the way things have always been done” being inherently better in the minds of some executives pushing RTO.

I think ultimately it’s short sighted. I think companies that actually are facing problems with WFH (and not just being malicious) should try to address them in different ways instead of just killing it off.

For a small company they might be the only person who has on-call duties. I don’t think the “common clay” of the company envies being on-call 24/7.