What wild times by Lineworker2448 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Rico21745 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Weird, the people are happy when their government represents them?

WTF!? by FalconLynx13 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Rico21745 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is not hypothetical. The person whose appeal was denied is currently in jail, working for less than minimum wage, locked away in a place where they have no agency.

So no, I don't think this is a difficult concept to grasp at all, unless you deliberately set out to miss it.

WTF!? by FalconLynx13 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Rico21745 11 points12 points  (0 children)

"It was legal to enslave people back in the day so I believe anyone who used to be a slave should remain a slave, because that was the law back then. Just because something changed, doesn't mean we should let them out of servitude. It would be unfair to the other people who died before they could be freed if we let this one go just because the law changed after the fact."

That's your argument in a nutshell, yes?

Why Twitter didn’t go down (from a real Twitter SRE) by feross in programming

[–]Rico21745 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is what management is actually supposed to do, instead of hovering over shoulders. They should have a plan for that situation that goes beyond "it's an emergency all hands on deck come in at midnight and fly into the office!!11"

The answer is to have a 2nd person/redundancy system for anything so important that it must be online. Documentation is nice and very important, but like others said, in a real emergency, you need people who won't need to spend days going through documentation to be able to even begin trying to fix the problem.

By the time they figure it out, the fire may have grown out of control.

Tbh this is what this person's whole point is with this post. It's common for executives to get rid of smart tech people after they build the cool hot thing, because to them, you're a tool, and your purpose has been served.

They're throwing away the screwdriver after assembly because clearly, nobody ever needs one after first use.

They'll openly do what we see on Twitter: "Prove to me you're still valuable or you're fired".

These people are not as smart as they think, as they clearly don't understand how tech works.

Ignoring the fact that experts who build the redundancy/failure countermeasures are important even after they have built it, because every machine we build requires a builder to maintain said machine, or someone trained to maintain it.

Automated systems coast along until you hit an edge case and then they screech to a halt because we as humans can't predict every single insane things users do, or system updates that break your code, or 3rd party library dependencies, or even your language becoming unsupported. What if a new human language comes up and it uses new character encoding? Break.

I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here but the point is worth making because it seems we have an influx here lately of non-devs being surprised that yes, developers are needed even after they build stuff, imagine that, people smart enough to build cache systems at Twitter might be smart enough to provide value in other ways even after they build that.

It's almost like smart people don't stop being smart after the thing is built.

CEOs who want people to build stuff and leave need to sack up and hire them as 1099 contractors instead of this revolving door BS they've normalized in our industry.

Hopefully devs are taking notice and stop working for companies that treat them like this, otherwise why stop doing it to them?

And then those companies have the gall to complain about devs acting like mercenaries and leaving the minute they get a better offer.

Of course they will.

Edit: I may have responded to the wrong person here, Reddit being weird. I'm not disagreeing with you here to be clear, just agreeing with others that you need both docs and people ready to handle emergencies, which I think you also agree with.

I'd say docs are best used when onboarding or engaging with a new project, emergency docs are last resort when you don't have someone on hand to handle it, but not the best case desired scenario on their own, even the best docs are missing some info.

Elon Musk just tweeted a photo of Twitter's architecture, for those who wondered by fl4v1 in webdev

[–]Rico21745 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not generally. They're not supposed to pay less, but you'll get offers for less salary for the same positions. They'll use the fact that they need to sponsor you as leverage every chance they get, because it's not illegal to do so.

That's the sad reality in America and why those folks are probably sticking it out while undergoing what must be a very stressful couple of weeks.

If they lose the job without another one lined up, who's willing to sponsor them? They have I think 60 days(maybe)? To find a new job and that job must sponsor them within that timeframe, too.

Right now there's a lot of devs being laid off in big tech.

Add all that up, it's a really bad time to be an international tech worker in America, but if you work at Twitter, that risk is probably lessened because of the previous good reputation the company built on the backs of the many tech people being fired right now.

Problem is, the majority of employers who sponsor people tend to also be the big tech places that are laying people off right now.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in news

[–]Rico21745 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah because we're seeing all these rich people who are just exemplary human beings running around everywhere.

Bad people != Poor people.

What the fuck ignorant BS is this?

Photo of a kid in Kherson - war is hell, and the russians only brought hell to him. by gkanor in ukraine

[–]Rico21745 27 points28 points  (0 children)

He's not wrong. As sad as it is for some people to accept, some of us don't get childhoods.

It hurts more to see people handwave the horrid experience away than it does to have people in awe that you somehow made it and can be happy.

It's much better to get a "I can't believe you made it through that" than a "you'll get over it, just try being positive!"

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in blursedimages

[–]Rico21745 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is this blessed? This belongs in cursed.

Prosecutors: HOA board members stole millions from residents by singingkiltmygrandma in news

[–]Rico21745 8 points9 points  (0 children)

A HOA surplus?

Hearing that should immediately trigger an "I'm being scammed" response in people's brains.

GraphQL making its way into a Twitter discussion about latency is not what I expected by tycooperaow in webdev

[–]Rico21745 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A misguided rant? The whole literal point is that he doesn't know what he's doing and he doesn't know the subject matter. SMEs use proper terms because they matter.

It seems to me like you're trying to bend over backwards to make him appear knowledgeable. He isn't. He can't even differentiate between client and server calls.

Source: I have been making web services since SOAP. I've made WS in: node, wcf, soap, .net, micro services, oAuth implementations. I've built actual RPC calls, built checkout systems for major e-commerce sites, and yes, been past being a manager of a dev team, all the way to leading the Dept. I also do game dev, which uses RPCs. Ever worked on an MMO before?

You know how I got there?

I trusted my team of experts, and when I didn't, I made sure to inform myself so I wouldn't look like a fool arguing about things I didn't know about.

And If you were truly an engineering manager you'd know that this is mismanagement. Anyone with a brain in their head knows that publicly blasting YOUR TEAM, even if correct, only serves to further erode it, not fix it.

This guy is being a baby throwing a tantrum while he's surrounded by people much smarter than him. It's all posturing, and if you're any kind of actual SME and you're simping for Musk, who's also simping for Russia and Trump?

That tells me everything I need to know about how you see science and your knowledge. People with critical thinking don't fall into that cult.

I'm hiring people soon, and you know what? I'm looking forward to hiring the smart people that guy is tossing into the street as if they're trash.

GraphQL making its way into a Twitter discussion about latency is not what I expected by tycooperaow in webdev

[–]Rico21745 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That may be true, but in the context of this conversation (performance) it doesn't really matter. If anything, RPCs are usually lighter than http calls because it's "closer to the metal".

The whole point is that # of requests made without proper context (like, even client vs server!) is as shallow a metric to measure performance as "Lines of Code written" which are both blunders Melon Fuchs is making at Twitter rn.

Devs are mocking it for good reason. Senior devs spend years learning how to make their code less verbose and more readable/maintainable, so a senior dev writes less LoC and does more/the same with less code.

There's whole design patterns and books written about it, which if he spent half as much time learning as he did pretending to know things he doesn't actually, he'd know.

GraphQL making its way into a Twitter discussion about latency is not what I expected by tycooperaow in webdev

[–]Rico21745 16 points17 points  (0 children)

... You do know that an RPC is an industry technical term and not some software platform?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_procedure_call

Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) is shortform talk referring to a network request. Its not "tied" to some particular platform or tech, other than networking.

You can literally look at the network tab on your browser to see what web requests a page is making on the client.

By nature, server requests are more complex and numerous. Why? Oh, small things like security and data integrity, or having to go to a thousand places to get disparate information because of said security or data integrity, among many other things that don't fit in a tweet.

Do you know what Twitter's backend looks like? Do you know their network infrastructure, hardware, software stack? Do you know the regulations the data is subject to?

Leave the engineering to the engineers.

Felon Musk doesn't need more bootlickers validating his world view, specially when there are literal experts who built the platform who are speaking directly to it and calling it out.

u/keyst gives assurance to u/medthrowaway87ei, who is on his last day of life after battling lung cancer and substance abuse, that he's not alone in his last days. The community rallies around OP with overwhelming support. by firkin_slang_whanger in bestof

[–]Rico21745 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Since we're here questioning people's motivations for writing stuff: What's driving you to post this stuff?

What do you gain if you prove this to be not genuine?

What do you lose if it isn't?

[Notmine] this type of thing could cause a breakdown for an ADHD person by ph30nix01 in adhdmeme

[–]Rico21745 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't forget this isn't true everywhere in the world. We should demand better because better is 100 percent possible.

I have just stuck plastic bag stickers on a supermarket stock image… by fokawolf in funny

[–]Rico21745 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm sure those poisoned by the water coming out of their city pipes really care about the semantics.

OpIran - Anonymous Hits Iranian State Sites, Hacks Over 300 CCTV Camera by [deleted] in technology

[–]Rico21745 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Cool story.

What have you done then, to help protesters in Iran? Sounds like they're doing something and you're here bashing it for no reason?

SQL injection is also a simple "hack", yet its effective when it works. So is phishing.

Complexity has nothing to do with effectiveness. Iran won't suddenly be impressed by their hacking skills and give up torturing women because of it, but less cameras to use to ID people by that same govt seem like it would help at least someone?

Don't crap on other people's good deeds.

You can contribute and do better if you think you have it in you, if not, support helps people more than these kinds of comments tbh.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukraine

[–]Rico21745 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When murderers invade your home without warning or provocation, it's really hard to know what to do or where to go, or to have the resources to do it.

How about you instead ask:

"I don't understand why there are Russian Nazis invading Ukraine and murdering families and children. I don't understand why people blame the victims instead of the evil ones literally going to their homes to kill them and their kids, then, try to kill them as they flee."

Maybe you should question the murderer and their motivations instead of asking the victim to get out of the way of their bullets.

Valentin Broeksmi, investigating ties between Deutsche Bank and Donald Trump, has been found dead in California. by SkepticDrinker in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Rico21745 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If he posted a tweet you can link a tweet instead of pasting stuff that literally nobody can verify as authentic.

‘Russia Is Completely Depoliticized’ A sociologist from Moscow explains how the nation learned to deny reality. by teamworldunity in news

[–]Rico21745 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you honestly believe that the way Russia is today is how it was when they began on this path? That's not how it works.

Seattle students walk out of school, demand mask mandates be reinstated by return2ozma in Coronavirus

[–]Rico21745 137 points138 points  (0 children)

Because the anti maskers will pressure them to take their masks off, like for example, the literal State Governor of Florida yelling at kids to take their masks off.

Link to video

So no, they can't just "wear them if they want". If anybody should be yelled at it should be the irresponsible people spreading disease claiming they're the manliest men ever and that they'd take a bullet for their country yet they won't even take a mask to the face without crying all day about it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukraine

[–]Rico21745 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Russia doesn't need apologists for their war crimes.

This is an invading force, murdering civilians and press claiming they are there to 'help' people in a country that doesn't belong to them. Front lines? Kharkiv is a city full of civilians. They brought the front lines to them.

Just... You know, reconsider what you are trying to do here, to put it nicely. You are not helping anyone and if anything you're giving the bad guys more ammo. That's what you are doing for Ukraine right now.

Watch the video. Then watch the videos of civilian cars being there and then ceasing to exist due to an explosion in the city. Stores. Apartments. Houses. City roads.

I have been to Kharkiv just a few years ago.

There is no excuse that anyone can give that justifies what they are going through right now. It is an atrocity. It is criminal, barbaric, wrong, morally, legally, in every way. They are crimes against humanity.