People that work on-call do this, especially in tech or security.

I’m considering making the switch because my paging calls are from a random set of phone numbers, so I cannot attach a specific ringtone to them. After a few horrible pages, you start to associate your phone going off as a world-ending experience, when it’s just your wife calling to ask if you want her to pick something up for you from the shop. A separate device that disassociates my phone from pain would be nice.

It is, but given that I’m about to pay £20k a year to travel to the office, less so.

It escalates to your manager, then skip, and upwards.

They pre-empted this when we complained, and went straight to the director to say that the VP wants their org to complete something for a demo on Monday (they were told Friday). Since we were downstream, their feature would break our service contact, and would mean the E2E test wouldn’t work, so our director asked kindly for us to help where we can and to prioritise the main work on Monday. By that time your weekend is already ruined, but under that manager in particular they’ve been working every weekend for about a year…

Eh, that part is known, but lately there are teams that have “officially” opened weekends as fair game. My org recently sent out an email stating that weekends would count as in-office days to entice people to work at the office to bump their RTO figures up.

The Gordon Ramsay anecdote is actually really good, in that in my experience VC’s get a LOT of say in what your business ultimately becomes.

I worked with someone that was, in all fairness, absolutely clueless about what they wanted, and wanted some VC alongside their rich parents money. The VC took a huge chunk of the business, and ultimately their business launched as something that was completely different to what they thought it would be - because that’s what the VC believed would give them some return. The business went bust in less than a year and launched for maybe 2 months?

Much like how Ramsay says “your Jamaican restaurant is shit, I’ve remade it into an Italian restaurant because there aren’t any nearby”, taking a lot of VC money almost certainly means they’ll want an equivalent say in your business. It’s not free money, and it absolutely fucks a lot of people up when they take that money and realise that their dream isn’t theirs any more.

I hate to break it to you, but plenty of Amazon employees work weekends too, especially when big launch dates are coming up.

Source: Work in an org at Amazon where people have paged us regarding feature work on the weekend.

The best way to do this is to correlate downtime with main providers. If a cloud provider goes down when AWS has outages on related services, it’s probably using an AWS service.

Animal Well is stellar. If I were Dunkey I’d just give up now and call it a win over the games industry.

The point is that some VP probably pushed for the use of AI, and a director and senior manager chasing promotion decided to deliver it, despite there being no clear use for customers.

I’ll die on this hill.

If you want an easy language for beginners, Ruby is a much better alternative. It’s like a simpler Python, and aside from a crazy loop syntax teaches clean programming principles better than most languages.

With that said, Rails IS a ghetto, and many of the kinds of companies that use Ruby as their main language are stuck in the past or are full of the biggest toolbags you’ll ever meet. DHH, in particular, built a reputation on being a programming contrarian, so much so that there’s a golden rule where if he says something, the opposite is probably the correct choice.

I don’t disagree that reform is needed, but I do disagree that voting for a third candidate is useless, purely on the basis that they work elsewhere. My point is that America isn’t special, and a party that won’t necessarily win can affect policy without ever truly seeing power.

You…clearly misunderstood my initial post, and that’s really funny.

My point isn’t that you shouldn’t care if they win or not. That’s absolutely ridiculous. My point is that you shouldn’t choose to vote for someone purely because they have a chance of winning, over someone that aligns better with your political views.

Sometimes I can’t believe this app is free…

That’s the argument, no?

I don’t give a fuck if America has more than “two” parties, but either one of two things is true:

• Americans are more aligned with the two parties than people would like to believe.
• Many people won’t vote for a third candidate because they feel that their vote would be “wasted”, because it wouldn’t contribute to one of the “likely” parties to win.

If I had to guess, the former is probably more true than people on social media and the left would like to believe.

It’s honestly a little embarrassing to see Lemmy struggle so much with this kind of thing. Even Reddit was never this bad…

That’s not what I mean. What I mean is that people won’t vote for a candidate they agree with because they’re not going to win.

That should be painfully obvious. Similar sentiments are obvious on Reddit, Twitter, even Mastodon. Why is Lemmy so tone-deaf and blinded when it comes to opposing opinions?

Aside from all of the praise that BG3 gets, I haven’t played a linear story-bssed game with such length and depth for YEARS! I got to around 70 hours of game time in my first play through, and I wasn’t remotely bored, ever. For any major game to achieve this almost seemed impossible in this generation.

Ok?

Because Lemmy isn’t a US-only social network?

My only fear with the indie gaming industry is that many of them are starting to embrace the churn culture that has led AAA gaming down a dark path.

I would love an app like Blind that allows developers on a game to anonymously call out the grinding culture of game development, alongside practices like firing before launch and removing credits from workers. Review games solely on how the dev treated the workers, and we might see some cool corrections between good games and good culture.

All elections have consequences. I know that Americans like to be dramatic (especially on Lemmy, Reddit is far more tame in this regard), but voting for someone that wants to promote policies that you support is how those policies are promoted.

I say this time and time again on here, but America isn’t special. Many countries have two main parties, but while third parties don’t always see power, they maintain Influence everywhere. Hell, you can argue that the Tea Party, Brexit, Irish Unification, MAGA, Immigration reform in Germany, all of this is due to influence outside of the main parties.