Disclaimer: Coming here from all, so I might not be the audience you’re looking for.

I don’t tend to just browse for new releases that might be neat, but I’ve noticed this from the outside as well. Just through the stuff I run into under reccomendations on streaming services and sites. There’s a ton of anime coming out that’s either isekai, harem, power fantasy, or a combination of those themes.

I think there’s potential for some really good shows within those areas, but like most media, I feel that you’re more likely to find quality by stepping back a bit and waiting to see what holds up over time.

There are a lot of people unable or unwilling to let management’s poor planning and time mismanagement flow back up to the management people causing the problems. Or they are convinced that their extra effort will be rewarded somehow without management being forced into awareness of it by the pain of missed deadlines.

In my experience management will just continue to dump on people who will grind away at shit until it is done scheduled hours be damned. They end up becoming too valuable where they’re at due to the perseverence, while not actually building or improving any skills. Where’s the time for skilling up if you’re always busy being the guy churning through the pile of shit no one else will do?

It’s the myth that hard work is rewarded. It is, but generally only if it’s hard work due to difficulty instead of due to the time cost alone.

“Inside you there are two wolves…” or something:

Option 1: Sit down with them and go line by line through it. Make him identify each variable’s purpose and then immediately find and replace to rename every instance with a more descriptive name.

Option 2: Small script to shuffle the variable names in his code around after each of his commits.

Be proud that it’s a step up from var x

Be scared that your coworkers are planning how to best apply the baseball bat to your knees anyway

Unfortunately this idea tracks with a lot of online content. People who have time and energy to be extremely opinionated about things generally either don’t have a lot else going on, or have direct personal experience that led to their strong views. As people get older and life gets busier people seem far more likely to just do whatever they need to get by and shut up about it.

Seriously, go look up some of the user demographics polls and analysis that was done against various subs on the old site. Most users are/were college age or younger even. Puts a lot of the “sillier” subs like relationshipadvice into context.

Oh god. I do a lot of PowerShell scripting at my place, and less than half my team is proficient in it. My co-workers who are almost never write comments in their scripts. Meanwhile, if it’s anything that will live longer than ~5 manual runs, I spemd more time on comments and documentation than scripting.

That effort is valued, but I’m shocked that my team isn’t more aware of the need for documentation. We literally experienced the “bus factor” situation a few years ago.

Yep. Virtualization is not a unique selling point of the cloud, despite the benefits of it seeming to be one of the largest selling points.