I was arguing with a engineer two weeks ago about systems. I never met him before. But he had a few drinks and interrupted our conversation. And I nearly lost my shit because of how confident this guy was speaking, saying obvious things and being vague, while not saying anything at all. Like, "This system isn't good at all! We should all follow Clean Code principles!"
Then someone pulled me aside and said, "Go easy on the guy. He's only been in the industry for a year."
And I did feel bad. But also like, my dude... You are going to wake up to realizing you know nothing about everything.
I've been through about 8 tech jobs in my nearing twenty years of experience. The only drug test I ever had was when I worked at a tech company for a hospital, and I declined.
Even the gov job did not require a drug test. Maybe because it wasn't federal government, or there was some loophole with contractors, or something else. I definitely had friends who had to do drug tests with government contracts.
I typically laugh at drug tests. I live in a legal state, I don't use anything, and the fact that you can take cocaine every day for a year and stop for a few days, and you'll still pass. It's stupid and I'm fortunate to be in a position where it's an extremely rare question to ask in my industry.
Thats hilarious and accurate to what I've been seeing elsewhere. Non-techies jump to windows 11, notice half their custom settings are gone and it's harder to find their stuff, then get furious and want to get off of windows.
They're always watching. I'm in tech and was taught in my security training - when traveling to countries with extremely strong surveillance, assume you are bugged. Family could be high valued and they wanted something from the parents. Probably a bit too tinfoil hat.
Vengeance girl's parents could be assholes/racist. As a dude, Ive had my share of "mommy & daddy doesn't like me for taking their precious flower". Multiplier in effect if they have a problem that I'm a PoC.
Id prefer if he faded to obscurity. I liked his music growing up, but fuck Ye.
How many 80s-2010s musicians do we still see in the news? When was the last time you heard about the band Sugar Ray?
Instead, I have to see this idiot pop into my feed at least once a week. The racist fuckface is also wandering around Tokyo making an album. I know about that because of these random stories on social media.
I don't think Lemmy attracts that crowd, but I used to moderate a fine arts Facebook group and my god... The pretentious drama wars. Like two museum directors were going to strangle each other over a Rembrandt.
I was arguing with a engineer two weeks ago about systems. I never met him before. But he had a few drinks and interrupted our conversation. And I nearly lost my shit because of how confident this guy was speaking, saying obvious things and being vague, while not saying anything at all. Like, "This system isn't good at all! We should all follow Clean Code principles!"
Then someone pulled me aside and said, "Go easy on the guy. He's only been in the industry for a year."
And I did feel bad. But also like, my dude... You are going to wake up to realizing you know nothing about everything.