Accidentally typed 'sl' instead of 'ls'? Install this and get a steam locomotive to run across your terminal.
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Sounds like a horrific, stressful job. How do you cope with that?
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That's a lot of choo-choo'ing
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I get paid well! And at the point I’d left the job we’d gotten everything stable so that the incidents dropped off and weren’t as impactful.
Tech is weird compared to other industries, in that actual mistakes that cause outages aren’t really punished… unless it’s something egregious or you didn’t follow rules like “don’t cowboy stuff in prod, use peer reviewed plans”. It’s generally “blameless” in the postmortems, you take what you learned from it and add to the procedures to make sure that exact issue doesn’t happen again.
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Sounds quite a lot like working in science actually. Just better paid, I'd imagine
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Ah yes. When you need to slow the fuck down.
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The point is to make you slow down. Going fast and breaking things worse is not good during an incident.
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sland actually pressed enter before confirming what you typed, you deserve what you got -
This isn't useless. It serves a purpose.
It's for interns who fat finger commands to force them to slow down and be more intentional and verify their commands before pressing enter.
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im currently baking this into our hpc. people gotta see the train!
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It’s pretty great if you land the right job. Amazon or meta? Fuck all that. But via my network I found a nice startup (after being at two big fintech companies) that pays me crazy San Francisco bucks while I live in Ohio.
And yeah, I’m very privileged and I’m well aware of it. Especially for a college drop out who majored in English….
Since I’m so privileged I make sure I do what I can to help others though, lots of donations to orgs and I do some volunteering to hand out food to the needy on weekend. It’s to help with the cognitive dissonance and the feeling like “I don’t deserve this”
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I love how knowledge shedding makes this a cyclical discovery.
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The fuck is awesome.
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A smashed keyboard? How will provoking a hulk incident fix anything?
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If your reaction to someone telling you to slow down because you're being reckless by not confirming what you type on the CLI before pressing enter is to smash your keyboard, you should be fired
And in that case, sl has done its job of removing reckless people from dangerously powerful positions
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...now the question is do we want to implement a command for that
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Nah it was a pretty immature company at the time, just told not to do shit like that anymore.
Once we ipo’d and put on big boy pants, that would have been at least a reprimand.
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This is exactly the type of thing I love.
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I love dev work like this. Computers should be fun again.
