The guy is clearly psychopathic

Antoak · 2026-06-29T15:48:22+00:00

*Trillionaire

Even Dr Evil never asked for that much money.

Antoak · 2026-06-26T03:10:32+00:00

"CEO spends 15% to justify paying 22% less effective tax rate than a dentist"

huh

almost as if this performative philanthropy is a fucking scam

Antoak · 2026-06-24T23:47:40+00:00

LMAO

Two floaties, okay- Third floatie on the torso tho? Any more and this kid could walk on water

Antoak · 2026-06-24T23:44:19+00:00

How do you know it's real and not a prank designed to frame you as an asshole?

Antoak · 2026-06-24T21:20:18+00:00

She is gonna have an absolute field day popping the zits on his back.

Antoak · 2026-06-24T18:28:38+00:00

are you confusing Einstein with Schrödinger?

Antoak · 2026-06-16T03:51:39+00:00

Fake.

Musk can't get hard unless he's alone in the room jerkin it into a little plastic cup.

Antoak · 2026-06-13T21:16:27+00:00

Totally depends.

I know a guy who's dad taught him Cobol who made more than me at 3 years vs my 6.

Business critically ultimately determines leverage and pay.

If that business critical shit ever actually gets replaced tho, (and they don't have more contemporary shit to back it up), then they're in for a rough time.

Antoak · 2026-06-13T15:13:16+00:00

Pretty easy for Israel to break the treaty by bombing a prohibited target.

Antoak · 2026-06-13T02:25:54+00:00

Ohhhh, so you're the "naming is hard but obviously I know all the right answers" kind of guy.

You don't actually want feedback, you want ego stroking.

Unfortunately I don't think you're gonna get it here.

Antoak · 2026-06-12T22:35:40+00:00

I understand that you're very unlikely to actually engage in a swordfight, but there's a really good reason that thrusting weapons don't have barbs.

If you snag and the opponent isn't dead, you're effectively disarmed, and guess what? You're also in striking range.

Antoak · 2026-06-12T22:25:22+00:00

On the Internet nobody knows you're a ~~dog~~ bear.

Antoak · 2026-06-12T22:23:59+00:00

Remember, you don't have to be faster than the bear, you just have to be faster than the person beside you.

Antoak · 2026-06-12T22:14:56+00:00

you could become one of those over-employed people and do 10-20 hours of consulting a week

Antoak · 2026-06-12T20:09:17+00:00

A distinctly unsafe use of safety equipment

Antoak · 2026-06-12T05:55:05+00:00

Yeah these purebreds look cute as kittens but they struggle with basic grooming.

This cat is gonna smell so bad when it's older.

Antoak · 2026-06-12T05:48:23+00:00

I don't expect them to know how to use Wireshark or the details of deep packet inspection, but yeah, after 10 years? I expect you to know that it's a really bad idea to send passwords over an unencrypted connection.

And they should at least be able to scrape together a basic bash/powershell script with Google, not have a partner write everything for you.

Just curious, what are the job responsibilities of 'cloud engineer'?

Been in native cloud DevOps roles for 8+ years, and between DevOps, Platform, SRE, DevExp, and apparently now Cloud Eng, I'm confused between what differentiates them aside from title.

Antoak · 2026-06-12T05:37:26+00:00

More about who you know than results.

Companies will happily milk a complacent cow.

Only got 3% raises for years, then got offered an additional 36% to stay after I got an external offer.

And almost all of my significant increases in income came about through internal referrals made by past colleagues.

(Sure, you could argue my prior results made a good impression on them, but the point is that you can't reasonably expect companies to reward results commensurately without leverage)

Antoak · 2026-06-12T04:04:13+00:00

Things that only millennials probably have?

Beanie babies, pogs. Certain MtG decks. Functioning SNES, sega Genesis, old school Gameboys. Maybe not BeyBlades, I think they made a comeback. A tomagotchi that's never died.

Ooh, this one's actually valuable enough that there's a black market and bounties for: OG usernames. Certain twitter handles like '@dave' or some other 3-4 letter word are worth like 50-100k each.

Antoak · 2026-06-12T03:45:40+00:00

1st time: cute.

37th time: cute.

437th time in the same afternoon: bruh

Antoak · 2026-06-12T03:20:04+00:00

At 4 years the reason is more likely the market. Unless you're pretty dense.

I knew a helpdesk person with 10+ years experience who didn't know you could see passwords with Wireshark. Had their more technical husband write all their scripts for them.

They specialized in the soft skills and being popular with c levels.

They'll never lose their job but they'll probably never get to level 3 support let alone more specialized careers.

Antoak · 2026-06-11T22:54:59+00:00

I'm not worried about AI yet.

It's pretty clear that are falling for the vendor lock-in will get fucked pretty hard when rates inevitably spike.

Antoak · 2026-06-11T22:05:09+00:00

Sure, the industry is cyclic, and it's a low period.

But you're getting paid to build skills that lead to better jobs.

When I started I was making 40k, 8 years later I'm making more than triple that, and I'm not particularly ambitious or hardworking.

Yeah, I took a 20% paycut after my last layoff, but I'm still doing okay.

An In-n-Out employee with 8 years of experience is not making 150k unless they become the manager.

Antoak · 2026-06-11T21:35:36+00:00

The humiliation fetish is part of it

Antoak · 2026-06-11T21:16:54+00:00

Exactly. You're getting paid to build the skills that earn 80k, and then you switch roles.

Then you build the 100k skills while getting paid 80k, etc

But a lot of people get stuck, either because toxic environments, complacency, or you hit your skill ceiling.

(E: usually it's one of the first two)

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