!mensliberation@lemmy.ca has good discussion on this topic

I don’t know how I just overlooked it as a cool tower

Was the tower in the Civ 3 ad plus intro the Tower of Babel? Never made that connection before

Prediction: this gets used to surveil dissidents and minorities disproportionately.

I like lemmy more.

Certainly nicer than my SDL experience of catch { window.becomeunclosable(); }

I can never get to that second part.

Legally I’m not sure if that counts.

I’m calling the internet police to conduct a wellness check.

Is that a book about a Java library?

My current work is going through this

They dropped an open system we used but the team managing the new one is so bureaucratic and disconnected from the people actually doing work it’s ridiculous.

They reject every proposal/change unless it’s 100% perfect. I had a project delayed by four weeks because I didn’t end single line docstrings with periods. They didn’t review the substance of the pr, they just commented on the docstrings and stopped as if the rest had no merit. It was two weeks between review cycles, so it took three cycles to actually fix what could have been one.

That whole team is just clearly a make work program. They nitpick and bike shed on every issue. But they aggressively document all the make work they do so they look super busy and important to the execs.

I just want to get work done, but instead it’s a Sisyphean effort.

I think Postgres could win the MisSql pageant

Snowflake and DuckDB would be up there doing 10 different talents, then Postgres would just stand there and say “uh huh, I do that too” to thunderous applause!

SQLite would win the swimsuit competition but then struggle with concurrent writes during talent show and get disqualified. The judges would always get its name wrong.

Big query would get caught copying Snowflake and bribing the judges. Presto/Trino would require a full team to get dressed for the costume contest and miss the event.

MySQL wouldn’t win any single event, but would get high scores all around for unknown reasons.

MongoDB would be at the front desk trying to convince the judges to let it enter, and while doing that would accidentally drop a suitcase filled with business and government secrets.

I think I’m very much a generalist, but the areas in deep on I’m much deeper than others.

But that means as companies get bigger they want more specialists and i end up less valuable as I’m just filling in gaps.

Makes finding those good companies harder, but I’m more valuable to small companies than hiring 3-4 people, so I can command good pay.

Networking in university got me my first jobs and they were very good starting jobs.

I don’t mean you have to go out and be fake, but get involved in a bunch of stuff, and make sure to check if your department has any corporate relationships you can use.

Meeting people pays the best dividends in life.

This is very true

Some people fall into the lifestyle creep trap and get accustomed to spending what they make. If you make 2x average and live relatively normally you’ll find your savings grow quick.

Even if you do make good money, it’s best not to let that go to your head.

In curious where you are in the career curve?

When I started I had similar experience where I was rapidly getting promoted and raises. Eventually that slowed down.

If your work lets you have iCloud accounts (I think usually managed) then you could use the shortcuts app.

This depends a lot on your companies device acceptable use policy.

The pixel is a secondary device I got for a job but they let me keep, so it’s not a bother for me.

It does prompt you to unmute but it’s very easy to forget to turn it back on.

It’s not a good solution, but I like that it’s an option

I see you already got an answer, but one thing I do is disable the microphone and camera on my pixel.

I keep them in the notification drawer because I just don’t trust keeping them on, but obviously I have to trust the OS is don’t that properly.

If it helps, many of the effects of this would be certain death before you knew what was going on.

So to me it’s really nothing to fear.

What did you make this with?

I’m trying to make an old style game in C and it’s been really fun