Accidentally typed 'sl' instead of 'ls'? Install this and get a steam locomotive to run across your terminal.
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this is perfect
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don't forget to install gti
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"Sorry boss, but the text train delayed us 5 seconds and causes us to lose millionsnof dollars"
Bkss: "The wat?" -
In fintech and at scale, you aren’t far off!
I eventually got the damn thing removed at least.
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I would get slightly amused every time I typed "lust" instead of "list" as a kid in applesoft basic.
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Does anyone know the "prank" repo that would delete Linux system (or Windows) when an wrong typo ran?
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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.
