And also legacy... If something is already written in assembly and you want to add a feature, you're not going to completely rewrite it.

I also left after they ordered us back to the office.

The company (mid sized, a few thousand employees) was stagnant for many years and losing employees faster than employing them because of the bad management. Then they fired all the people (around 50) from a specific location that we were working with, very senior and really great, that i learned a lot from. From a team of 15, we were left 3. Then one of the colleagues got promoted to management, the other left, and I was the only one working on that product.

For context, the company had two very similar products, and wanted to migrate users of one to the other. Instead of providing a technical solution, I suppose they decided to simply make the support customers were paying for really awful, so customers wouldn't renew.

Other than the lack of manpower to maintain the product, infrastructure and also deal with all the customer escalations, it was fine as a workplace... My direct managers understood the situation and made a lot of effort to shield workers from the shitty upper management. I wasn't stressed at all, and just doing my job.

Then at the end of the pandemic, the company got bought by another. And things turned to shit... They fired a lot of people, especially management where they kept only the bootlickers of the new executives. I ended up working on 2 understaffed projects instead of 1 - both the product being replaced, and its replacement. And they made us come back to the office.

So I left.

I am the opposite, I thrive when I work from home. But it's important for me to have a dedicated space for it, not in my bedroom, and free from distractions like wife, kids, pets, and neighbors with drills.

My home setup is 10x better than at the office... I have a great desk with lots of space, big awesome monitors, awesome keyboard and mouse with kvms to make switching to my personal PC easier. My coffee is better than any work coffee machine I ever used. My internet is much faster and more reliable.

I shit you not, at the last company I worked they proxied all web traffic through another country thousands of km away. As expected, it worked like shit and was failing constantly. And you couldn't even access repos like maven central, because they used a proxy autoconfig file with hundreds of rules, which is not supported by any software except browsers.

And there's also the benefits of having a private office, away from noisy coworkers and prying eyes.

I agree, being out of office is the best

I agree, being out of office is the best

And they already do it on mobile. They are just trying to bring ads to the pc and consoles, just like they do on mobile.

I'm pretty sure their goal is to bring ads in the same form as the mobile games, not as part of the in-game world. If they can do it on mobile, why shouldn't they on pc or consoles?

I think this will be an important thing for gamers to unite against, because if there isn't enough push back, every big studio will do the same.

And also, you can sort of brute force things to look good it with shaders.

Same boat... But I had some success with low poly 3D models which I found are pretty easy to make. Learning a bit about color theory, how to match colors, as well as learning a bit about level design goes a long way. You can make a great looking game this way.

But my dream game is 2D pixel art, and I really suck at it.

Hiren's Boot Cd has a handy tool that can fix that bsod. I've used it many times.

Not to mention what a bitch that partition is when you need to shrink or increase the size of your windows partition. If you need to upgrade your storage, or resize to partition to make room for other operating systems, you have to follow like 20 steps of voodoo magic commands to do it.

In the Firefox appdata, there are session backup files. You can restore tabs by just renaming a few files. Don't ask me how I know.

Former presidents get lifetime security detail as a benefit.

Sure, but it's still really interesting from a historic point of view.

But what if there is heavy rain? Are you supposed to put the car in car wash mode then? Why wouldn't those things be sealed all the time?

I seriously don't understand how this could be possible. How does the car manage rain water?

That's a clever way of getting people to work for them as moderators.

Some can be licked multiple times, but may cause various degrees of pain and suffering.

Easiest? More like... The only way.

My teacher explained as sqrt(poop^2) = abs(poop). Yes, he wrote poop on the blackboard.