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As with almost everything. Cheap is subjective. And not even just as in “I have more money so everything is cheaper for me” but also like “The value I derive from this thing for my specific use-case makes the cost feel cheap. To me.”

Very interesting insights. Thank you for sharing!

Meaningful to whom?

I’ve gotten at least 50% off compared to the day I wishlist something on every game that I’ve waited on a sale for. I know this because I only buy wishlist stuff when it is at least 50% off

smartass

I can sit on ice cream and tell you the flavour.

Sincerely though - I was just being an ass. I didn’t intend any actual offense. I Apologize. And I am not one of those downvotes.

Incurious fools

I haven’t read too much into the topic

sigh…

Look up extra-cellular vesicles. This is where the magic is.

Fair enough. I honestly didn’t mean this as an insult. I have seen the same type of review from people who join teams that I’m on when they get told about ansible.

It certainly isn’t perfect. And there was a period of time about 5 years ago where a lot of change was happening at once.

Thanks for sharing your opinion

Same question. But with 100s of playbooks, and thousands of servers. This feels like someone had a bad experience with their first 30 minutes of ansible and gave up before looking at the command reference.

I alias h to history | grep

I would bet we have a lot of the exact same thoughts on why this happens, and probably how to solve it. My only disagreement - and it is not a strong one - is the impossibility of forgiveness.

If they mature and leave, or even better, commit to being a monkey wrench for a bit before leaving… I think I can find space for them in my community.

I haven’t either. But I can see how a young person without a lot of knowledge of the world and the impending weight of 50 years of work ahead of them, possibly with a family to feed, or an extended family to take care of due to the inherently predatory healthcare system where they were born, might make that choice. And I understand it, regardless of “forgiveness”.

How do you go from « saying no to cash » to « c-levels are the issue » in the context of ethical considerations for engineers that enable AI in military industrial complex?

I am not sure I get what this word soup is saying. No offense intended but maybe try re-wording this if you want to discuss.

PS: foundry is not an AI platform, the engineers I am talking about are usually 20-ish year old java and python devs, and it is easier to understand how someone in that group might not even know how evil evilcorp is.

Devil’s Advocate (damn near literally this time around)

Try being a young engineer at the top of your game and saying no to an offer where the yearly salary makes google engineers jealous. Not everyone can say no.

Palantir offers like 400k/year to run-of-the-mill forward deployed engineers for foundry (Civilian platform) where the job is 99% actually helping customers with interesting engineering problems.

I can’t even imagine what they are offering folks working on gotham (govt/military side.)

I guess what I’m trying to say is that while a ton of those engineers are soulless sociopaths, some of them just took a job that pays super well and they don’t personally align with the goals of the C-levels. And in fact - a ton won’t even know what those goals are.

Remember - Our enemy is the c-suite, not the level 1 support agent. Even at evilcorp. Thankfully I am in a position where my kids are grown up and the money treadmill isn’t set on hardmode for me anymore. I can say no. But even for me it is sometimes difficult.

What about substitution in your mind.

My way is probably not going to help but it might.

I see ln -s in my mind as the word link. And the sentence in my head is ‘link THIS HERE’ where ‘this’ is the source and ‘here’ is the target

Hah! Fair jab. In my defense that title was just a blown up way to attempt to keep me onboard without a raise. Being director of IT in a startup with only one IT person is definitely not filled with director-level tasks. That title, and the bullshit that came with it, are a big part of why I left.

Nice try, troll. I’m posting here for the real humans. Not to convince you of anything.

edit to add: only one of us came into a thread espousing their views without being prompted. Maybe work on that before accusing others.

Finally, some criticism that makes sense! I will be sure to start feeding the foxes too. We already feed the birds, squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, bunnies, raccoons, stray cats, fish, black flies, and mosquitoes (with varying levels of ‘on purpose’).

What is one more species?

Seriously - This cruel bastard spends $500(cad) per month on feeding wildlife in the winter. What a piece of shit. And those raccoon houses we built so they’d be happy further from the house and stop tearing up our insulation? TORTURE FACILITIES filled with soft straw, eggs, fruit, and cat food.

Yes! Your deeply intellectual take based on my comparison of chickens shitting and screaming to how IT managers act is surely correct about how I live my life, and how those chickens live.

Fun fact - Our chickens live freely in the forest during the day, and have a nice safe place to sleep at night. We don’t force them to come home, but they know what lives out in the forest and choose to come back to where they are safe and have friends.

Oh and we don’t eat them. But if you wanna call pulling their non-viable eggs out from wherever they left them today violence then I have a few bridges to sell you in manhattan.

My CV looks something like:

• Jr Support agent > Sr Support agent > Lead Support agent
• Tech engineer
• DevOps engineer
• DevOps lead
• Sysadmin > Sr SA > lead SA
• Technical Architect> Solution Architect > Sr Arch > Enterprise Arch
• Director of IT
• Raising chickens

Chickens might shit everywhere, scream constantly, and flap their wings just to get attention, much like managers. But they can’t make you polish that shit into a product to sell. And if one gets out of line you can just eat them.

Obviously.