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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 202 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

Assuming green is the boss: I totally agree. If you don't proofread your texts before hitting send, that might be indicative of how you deploy things, too.

I'd love to know how the story continues - did they lose their job? - but considering the JPEG patina on this I don't think we'll ever find out.

[–] Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 95 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] hosaka@programming.dev 26 points 3 weeks ago

That also cracked me up. Great phrase

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 52 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I barely proof read anything I type on my phone, and my comment history is a testament to that. I deploy code or system changes most days, but I proof read the shit out of those on top of the QC they goes through. Any company worth anything will have a process for reviewing and approving anything being deployed, or probably destroyed for that matter.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 3 weeks ago

You vastly overestimate the number of companies that are 'worth anything'.

[–] almost1337@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Up until recently I worked for a company worth anything, and you would be surprised at how many major outages were caused by either skipping the process or gaps in the process.

You know that adage: "the safety rules are written in blood"? The same is true for change processes, just with a cost measured in dollars instead of human injury/worse.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 11 points 3 weeks ago

Or sometimes there are just multiple failures. That's what I learned from reading Admiral Cloudberg about air disasters: even if you have n safety measures, there's still the chance that there'll be n+1 failures.

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

So we called this meeting to discuss a change in procedures. HR would like us to remind you that this is entirely unrelated to last week. Also has anyone seen Joe? We'd like him to be here for this. No reason why.

[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Code should ideally be going through tests before prod anyway. There should be no code changed from successful test to prod. Proofreading shouldn’t matter at that point. Just scheduling the actual deploy.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I mostly mean proof what I've written prior to having someone else test. I often will comment out lines when trying different things so I just make sure I clean up what I've done. We have a few human checks as well as some automated checks between each stage of deployment for each environment.

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[–] untorquer@quokk.au 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Normally i would disagree completely as texts have crappy input on a small screen and are meant to be fast. I have typos in mine constantly because swide input and it's obvious what the word should have been.

But yeah, an important text like this does merit at least one read through.

[–] filcuk@feddit.uk 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

My texts are rubbish because, somehow, the keyboard predictions & autocorrect are worse now than 5 years ago. We have LLMs barfing out fully coherent sentences on their own, how does this even happen.

[–] untorquer@quokk.au 7 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, we could have functional input but no we have to destroy our planet to summarize a one sentence email into a multi-paragraph bulleted list - it's bullshit

on android Heliboard + the swype library is ok. It's at least consistent.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

I swear to god this drives me nuts. It was fine years ago. Now it’s ass. What the fuck?

I think it has to do with the architecture. Just a wild guess, but I assume that the design is susceptible to indeterminate results based on device performance. Because it’s really fucking bad when my phone gets a little hot.

My guess is that modern phones are doing 50x more shit than they need to. So passive QoL features like autocorrect are being choked.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 13 points 3 weeks ago

The older the jpeg the more likely it is that he's moved on to another job by now.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 12 points 3 weeks ago

could just be ADHD. the impulse to speak your mind rarely translates to the impulse to speak to da computah

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 weeks ago

If you have to proofread when deploying you're doing things wrong

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I doubt it's real. Most of the screenshots here are just Ai generated for people to react to. It's entertainment.

[–] EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 131 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

the politeness of this interaction is what makes me laugh

"I know but I insist πŸ™"

[–] db2@lemmy.world 41 points 3 weeks ago
[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 112 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What a power move. Now he gets a paid day off.

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

He'll be the next US president, but for that he'll have to actually destroy everything he touches, not just make threats to do it.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I had a coworker who tried something like this on a federal holiday, ended up bringing down production on everyone's day off, and ruining a bunch of people's days to clean up the mess just because someone was trying to go above and beyond.

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Some managers would praise him for his "spirit", congratulate the rest of the team for their "sacrifice", and still not give anyone a bonus nor a raise, because "that's just the job!".

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 71 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I'm going to destroy the servers and db then murder the janitor with a hammer.

Oops *deploy

[–] Janx@piefed.social 29 points 3 weeks ago

Please take a vacation!
He has a family. πŸ™πŸ½

[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

What's the point of deploying a janitor with a hammer when the servers are already destroyed? Smh my head.

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[–] vane@lemmy.world 64 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Claude run destroy production script.

[–] RogueBanana@piefed.zip 31 points 3 weeks ago

Aka Claude, do a basic task

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 46 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Brb baws imma just do a quick lil dd command in prd

πŸ™πŸ™πŸ™πŸ™

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

du* - applogies hehe

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh yeah baby, destroy my backend!

[–] hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app 2 points 2 weeks ago

No problem

I jus need to run touch

Then mount

[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 32 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Who the hell uses WhatsApp for comms in IT?

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Not all companies have fancy teams and other related apps to communicate.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago

teams is not fancy, I would say its worse

[–] hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app 4 points 2 weeks ago

Fancy?

Matrix is fancy

[–] unquietwiki@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago

I used to do contract work for AVASO; they were using WhatsApp for comms at the time.

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Banks with obscure security rules

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, probably so obscure that no one could decipher them…

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

rm -rf /*

Oops sorry rm -rf ./*

Just a typo mb

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago

Please take a the day off πŸ™, please πŸ™!

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 6 points 3 weeks ago

This is typical tech timeline too. Everything is so rushed that shit literally happen in minutes.

[–] SwissArmyKazoo@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

It'll never not be hilarious how anyone could be so polite in a scenario like this.

Kinda feel bad for them tbh.

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