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I have genuinely loved working at this company. I just outgrew it and don't want to wait out how long it will take to create the role above me for the 5th time. I have been the first person in every single role I have had at this company, as I was like the 180th employee. While it was full on in...

While P99 is an okay example anyway its still a shit example of "real world adoption" because it is managed poorly and its a niche retro game. Longterm nolifers were always its audience because its totally free and they have no jobs or anything. They dominate that game yes and its a bad idea to...

This is an interesting discussion because if we look at history here. Blizzard not only listened to the EverQuest poopsockers, they hired them and made them content designers. Which of course led to runaway success. When the next contender for MMO tried to replicate this by also listening to...

Everything aside this discussion ignores the herd of elephants in the room. The metagame in the early 00s was limited to computer savvy people capable of information sharing outside of the game. In addition to advanced computer skills like packet sniffing that is simply beyond the average...

Casuals will not care if Uber Big Cock Dragon is permacamped by poopsockers. They will care if generic class quests similar to Robe of the Lost Circle or whatever that requires no raid/end uber content is permacamped by poopsockers on top of them taking everything else too.

I am way too old for that shit lol.

Hianime is dead. Hit me with the next one please.

They have no idea. Absolutely no idea. No idea how to confirm whatever I give it is even valid institutional knowledge either. Because if they knew they wouldn't have to ask me or the AI.

Here's a new one for ya. One of my offboarding tasks is to setup an AI Agent version of myself for the org. What does this mean? I have absolutely no idea. Best I can figure just keep writing documentation like you would normally do on the way out and spend time writing down all of the...

Because our team owns that AWS account. There is no hard restriction on me firing up any AWS service to solve a software engineering problem. This account has a number of servers and other things that run all of our code doing various things. You can, in just a few clicks, run up $20k (and...

Am I misunderstanding then? It's not actively scanning, but passively logging and still requiring the use of an AWS service to function? I know the reason for this is strings from our equity partner.

For my current job and my new job sales, service, and non tech staff get typical accruement and after 3 years move to unlimited pto. Tech staff get it from the start though.

You tell me dude. Whatever they were doing did populate DNS logs, it just requires Route 53 within the account to do it. No idea why.

Dumbass security team ran some DNS scanning shit across our entire AWS infrastructure. Normally I would not care about this but they ran up ~$8k in our AWS account on Route 53 (Gay AWS Feature ) for the past 3 months. I am pretty dialed on on our services in AWS which run in total about $5k a...

Mermaid. It natively renders in Github which is a big plus, I recently upgraded our docs/erd flow using it because I can just have it in a source controlled code base rather than gay ass confluence and now I have it all automatically pushing to Confluence once merged to my docs repo. Works...

I hate boasting and I am shit at self advocacy in general. But to answer your question I am extremely proficient at all things backend engineering. Especially when it comes to distributed architecture and systems of systems that have no direct connection to each other. When it comes to data...

If you're letting AI do trades with your money on its own. You have gigantic steel balls. You are also a massive retard and there is no hope for you. Ride to Valhalla!

Had an interesting discussion with my director again today (this is my direct manager). @TomServo it looks like I may have quit the two job game, but it won't quit me. He wants to retain me as a contractor to deal with certain things now and again. I said I could only do this in a very limited...

Been putting them freezer hashbrowns in the air fryer. The square McD's style hashbrowns. You can get a box of them for like $5. So good. Highly recommend.

I get that. But it is nice to not have to accrue days and just do what you want. I absolutely fall into the trap of my work ethic leaving me to not take enough days off a year. I have broke free of that more recently and borderline abuse it now. But for years I was the guy who never took...

Yes, no job will tolerate you being gone for months at a time. But you can indeed try I guess. Don't be absurd with this literalist nonsense. No job has unlimited PTO where you can just absently collect your salary being gone all year. Everyone knows that. Unlimited is being unlimited on paper...

In my experience unlimited really is mostly unlimited. If you start taking like 6 weeks off during the year and you're also not crushing your actual work they will start getting on your case about it. Otherwise you can safely take 4 or maybe 5 weeks off during the year without issue. On top of...

The new job has "unlimited PTO" like my current one. Tech hires get unlimited on the first day unlike the pleb workers who require 5 years at the company to get it lol. My current place everyone got it. I don't think I ever really exploited it but I did take 3 weeks off throughout the year not...

I absolutely agree titles are meaningless. But they are market signals no matter what so having them is actually worth money. It just is what it is.

It went okay. My director called me a 10X engineer which surprised me I guess. I know it'll be hard to replace me so I feel for him there. But I asked what I could expect to happen in the next few years and my analysis was pretty much correct. Expansion is unlikely on the team but he thought I...

Going to talk to my manager today and see what happens. I am willing to stay, maybe. I am bad at self-advocacy in general. For the last promotion I got to staff engineer my old manager (who has since left the company and wasn't my manager at the time) had to goad me into asking for a promotion...

Sentenced is really grimdark fantasy. The penal heroes aside being sentenced to Dark Souls life where they never get the release of death until they totally lose their humanity like Tatsu is just one aspect of how grim it is. Humanity is being totally consumed by the Zerg like demons that...

Yeah, this is the absolute truth of Software Engineering. If you are any flavor of Software Engineer other than like art assets/model maker for games specifically then the you can work in just about every industry for more money and less stress. So the best developers all do that.

I can get with that. Makes me want to check it out a lot more. How is Shadow Knight?

Fighter is that fun? EQ Warrior was boring as most EQ melee classes were. I am considering Shadow Knight, Wizard, Bard. Please elaborate on fighter.

I don't see it like that. When you seek out a "coast" role you can sometimes just call it a "rest and vest" at least for tech positions. At some point you want to focus on your personal life and things that are not work related at all. If you've been crushing it in high growth companies for 10+...

Oh I was shitting on M Power not you.

Because your comments have a distinct singular focus and smell like faggotry. Which is all Folder ever provided this thread. @Quevy Its more or less being at an inflection point. The biggest mistake of my career was listening to my father and staying at General Motors longer than 3 years. I...

Also @M Power wtf is up with your complete paranoia about layoffs. Your posts are about nothing but job security and layoff bullshit. Are you Folder?

Dude, they went through 4 layoff rounds when I worked there and I missed EVERY SINGLE FUCKING ONE OF THEM. Those layoff packages were dope as fuck and I really wanted to get one.

This is kind of the thing. I have been the primary originator of all the work I have done here the past like 5 years. I think them up, plan them out, and just do them as I have de facto ownership and nobody contests me on it. Which is cool. The friction I have here now is that I can solve any...

The new place is logistics based and their growth has been due to effectiveness and increasing reputation so I don't see it going away or anything. Some Greenfield dev sounds a bit nice overall. It has been a little tiring to be in the exact same codebases for 7 years ya know?

I did the counteroffer thing at company A 5 years ago and I will try it again as the leadership involved in that has all moved on.

Okay boys. I got another job offer for a job I think I want. The offer is for a staff role in their data platform org. Its a rapidly growing company at $2B ARR. They are more mature in data organization but a bit behind on the tooling I prefer. This is because I had total control of data infra...