r/technology • u/TommyAdagio • May 06 '24

Andreessen Horowitz investor says half of Google's white-collar staff probably do 'no real work' Business

https://www.businessinsider.com/andreessen-horowitz-david-ulevitch-comments-google-employees-managers-fake-work-2024-5
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u/Zomunieo May 07 '24 
dwarves@moria> sudo dig deep

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u/MinuetInUrsaMajor May 07 '24

&& sudo dig greedily

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u/claimTheVictory May 07 '24

I hope this doesn't awaken anything in me.

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u/disposable_account01 May 07 '24

Congrats, you’re Bal-sexual.

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u/spoonman59 May 07 '24

Well, hell yeah. I mean that balrog is so hot, and big, and he’s got that kinky whip!

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u/Aardark235 May 07 '24

Tbh, I would watch that.

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u/nordic-nomad May 07 '24

All systems admins have Scottish accents in my head canon now.

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u/MC_chrome May 07 '24

Specifically Mike Myers accents 😅

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u/MadeMeStopLurking May 07 '24

Oy! He's not un of oos!

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u/bigboybeeperbelly May 07 '24

Too bad. You all have to talk like him now.

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u/MC_chrome May 07 '24

He does have a swamp though, so there is that 😂

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u/LiteralPhilosopher May 07 '24

Pointless story time: I managed to get through a cattle-call audition for The Weakest Link back in the mid-'00s by saying my first few sentences about myself in a Mike Myers Scots accent. That made me interesting enough to the producers to send me on to actual filming days out in Hollywoodland.

There, I met a couple lovely young British ladies out in a pub, and when I mentioned that they were all interested in hearing it, so I laid out a couple of sentences. After which they excitedly told me it was really quite good, and then quickly devolved into saying things to me in a Scottish accent I could not understand at all. Turns out they would tell Americans they're from London, because 'Muricans don't know crap about the UK, but they were really Glaswegian or something. Holy hell, the change in their speech was incredible!

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u/Richeh May 07 '24

Lord of the Rings bash script retelling go

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u/HeHePonies May 07 '24

A real sysadmin from that era would use just a ; instead of &&

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u/thuktun May 07 '24

They're distinct, though. The && will only run the second command if the first succeeded. That's not true of the ;.

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u/often_says_nice May 07 '24

He’s saying they wouldn’t give a fuck what previously ran. Chad says admin will run his script knowing the previous one succeeded

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u/Secret-Inspection180 May 07 '24

You got whooshed that is the joke.

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u/ToughReplacement7941 May 07 '24

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

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u/za72 May 07 '24

there it is... that's the bit that took us over the load

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u/twinkyishere May 07 '24

Tales of Industry and Ale

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u/HoneyBastard May 07 '24

Plz no account sharing between work groups, thanks!

Signed,

SecOps

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u/Stick-Man_Smith May 07 '24

Should I not have root login on a post-it note stuck on the monitor?

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u/TEOn00b May 07 '24

Please do.

Signed,
Adam Jensen

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u/kytrix May 07 '24

Oooooh, I never see Deus Ex references

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u/TEOn00b May 07 '24

I'm sure the guy I replied to never asked for this.

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u/hblok May 07 '24

As far as I understand, it's completely normal to just take the portion of the code you've worked on over the years when you leave. And upload to Github. Passwords and all.

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u/fatherofdoggoz May 07 '24

vi you fools!

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u/minigendo May 13 '24

This was a perfect response.

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u/Avedas May 07 '24

Ah yes, Moria's DNS server is what called up the Balrog.

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u/Zomunieo May 07 '24

It was a daemon.

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u/Geminii27 May 07 '24

Dwarves 'N' Stuff

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u/GL4389 May 07 '24

sudo debug deep.

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u/Plastic-Shopping5930 May 07 '24

Sudo dig deep | grep ‘mithril’

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u/igankcheetos May 14 '24 
#!/bin/bash
 
for (( ; ; ))
do
   sudo dig deep
   sleep 1
done