Give it a rest dude, go touch some grass.

I just really hope that Amazon at least has it set up so that the really important stuff goes to actual, trained SREs. They could set it up so there are queues for things that aren’t business critical and have a very loose SLO that get assigned to the new grads. Or, the new grads get paged when the error rate for the service is 1% and if it gets above 3% someone who knows what they’re doing is woken up. If say all issues with Amazon’s Route 53 DNS service is shunted to new hires, AWS would be going down constantly.

Probably, it’s also why Google has 100 different chat clients.

Amazon puts all new hires on “on call” status for like a week every month

That’s insane. Where I worked you had to spend about 6 months learning enough that they trusted you to be on call. For months you’d just learn the systems. When you and your team agreed you were probably ready to be on-call, you’d be the “shadow” on call. The primary would get paged and you’d get paged too. You wouldn’t actually do anything, but you’d watch while the primary tried to solve the problem and take notes. If that went well it would switch to reverse-shadow. Then you were on call but there was an experienced person who was paged and ready to step in if you needed help. Only if that went well could you proceed to full solo on-call status.

being on call for stuff like this is pointless when you’re world wide and could literally just transition the stuff to a different team in some other part of the world

Where I worked there were 2 teams in 2 different time zones. But, you still were up late or early at times because there’s no perfectly-opposite time zone where team B is exactly 12 hours behind team A throughout the full year.

Also, if you recorded yourself doing on-call activities on YouTube or TikTok or something, you’d be fired. It would be the same thing as speaking to the press without authorization.

Why fluid, not liquid? Air is a fluid too. Is it in gaseous form?

Also, why “washing-up”? Was “washing” not enough? Was a direction strictly necessary?

But, together we’re 2 people. And we can recruit more to the army.

people use the newer, less common meaning until it becomes more common

And we can work to stop it from becoming more common by nipping it in the bud.

then you’d just be on the losing side of the battle historically

At least you turned up to the fight.

But language is a shared medium

Which is why change should be gradual and limited, otherwise two people who use that language are unable to clearly communicate.

I don’t even see “nice” in “play nice” as an adverb. You could switch “play” for “be” – “be nice”, same with “be safe”.

But, how much less could you care? Alot less?

there is a very strong extent to which the notion of “nonsense lawsuits” being an epidemic in America is pro-corporate propaganda

Really, it’s not. Every other country looks at the absolute chaos of lawsuit nonsense in America and recoils in horror.

Take the infamous McDonald’s coffee lawsuit, for example. The woman in question received third-degree burns.

Sure, and in most countries that would be solved by good regulations not lawsuits. As you said, they’d received multiple reports of it being a problem, but the US laissez-faire system means that corporations are free to do whatever they want until someone gets severely injured. In a properly run country this woman would never have been injured, and if she was injured she wouldn’t have to rely on lawsuits to get her medical bills paid.

I’m still there. I’ve always wanted to be able to offer an email service to family or friends. But, even though I’ve been doing it for a couple of decades, it’s never been stable enough to offer to them. For part of that time it’s because I didn’t really know enough of what I was doing, but the more I learned and the better I got at it, the more I started to lose the war against both spammers and against the major service providers who kept making it harder and harder to prove you’re not a spammer.

The latest one was literally issue 3. My provider splits an IPV6 /64 among multiple VPSes, when most of the world, including blocklist publishers, think a /64 is for a single “entity”. The only way to resolve it was to not use IPV6.

Incidentally, I really hate that the UK expression for when someone is feeling sick is “poorly”.

It’s got the “ly” ending which is one of the clear signs of an adverb, and in other contexts it is used as an adverb. But, for some reason the British have turned it into an adjective meaning sick. Sometimes they use it in a way where it can be seen as an adverb: “He’s feeling poorly”, in which case it seems to be modifying “feeling”. In the North American dialect you could substitute the adjective “sick”: “He’s feeling sick”. But, other times they say “She won’t be coming in today, she’s poorly”. What is the adverb modifying there, “is”?

What if it isn’t everyone who uses a word “wrong”? What if it’s say 25% of people who use it incorrectly? Should you encourage them to use it correctly?

If there are two different ways of using the word and they could be mistaken for each-other that’s bad. Once the use of a word has flipped and means something very different from the original (idiot, gay, etc.) then there’s no reason to try to return to the original usage. If the usage is still in dispute and the majority of people use the word in the original meaning, I think it’s good to discourage people from using the word incorrectly so that people are still able to understand each-other.

Do you care a lot or only a little?

Why would you use that term at all then? If you mean a developing or under-developed country why not say that?

It was originally killing 1 in every 10 by lot. In other words, not in battle, but as a collective punishment of a unit 1 in 10 soldiers would be randomly selected and killed.

1 in 10 soldiers dying in a battle doesn’t sound all that bad. But, 1 in 10 soldiers being selected to be killed as a form of punishment for the unit sounds a lot worse.

Think different

One reason why there are so many nonsense lawsuits in the US is that unlike Europe and the UK, it’s unusual that the loser has to pay the winner’s costs. In Europe that’s standard. As a result, an American person or group is much more likely to sue, because if they lose all it costs them is their own legal fees. AFAIK they also do the reasonable thing and cap fees so that if someone sues a rich multinational corp and loses, they’re not out millions of dollars because the multinational hired a huge, expensive team to defend themselves.

Justice would really be a world where these nonsense lawsuits didn’t happen at all.

I think they’d be relieved looking at just how far we are from AGI.

Judgment day was originally supposed to be August 29, 1997. It has changed a lot due to all the time travel. But, every date has passed and now the techbros are going nuts over a form of “AI” that can’t count the number of "r"s in “raspberry”.

Normally when the people rise up they’re slaughtered. When rich countries go through major changes normally there’s a lot of chaos and blood before things get better. If you’re someone who lives in one of those countries it’s better if you can ride the chaos out somewhere else. In fact, in a country where things are getting bad, it’s generally a good idea to get out long before the chaos starts.