BlackAura

@BlackAura@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3, a survival horror, match-3 metroivania sequel to a game that doesn't exist, is out now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Played the demo during a Next fest and it was actually quite fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft mulls more job cuts, this time focused on managers and non-coders, not just low performers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh absolutely having an aggressive manager and skip will help you with bonuses and promotions. But they don’t force managers to give people low scores anymore.

  While the management tool had a weird slider and score system (you could give a number between 0 and 1000 IIRC), the general terminology was you could get between 0 and 200, indicative of how you compared to the average person at your level. 100 meaning you did average per-say or completed about 100% of the work an average person could complete.

  While not unheard of it was basically impossible to get 200% (required at least your skip/M2 and maybe your M3 to agree).

  Last I heard (keep in mind this was 2023 or so) managers got around 105% or 110% of their bonus allocated for their team. Generally that meant you could give everyone “100” if you wanted, but practically it never worked out that way.

  Also there were strict rules you couldn’t take from a more junior budget to give a more senior person a higher bonus. You could however take from a more senior budget and give it to a junior.

  I. E. I couldn’t give two SWE1s 80 to give a SWE2 a 120. The reverse was allowed though.

  Layoffs are generally done algorithmically. I’m not kidding. They don’t want to be sued. They follow all the legal rules otherwise (can’t layoff a US citizen without laying off a Visa employee first, etc).

  Source: I worked there for 11 years, I was an IC but have many friends who are managers who would tell me how the system works, and have been laid off twice. The first time I found another position within MSFT but the most recent time, in December, I opted to take some time off and find something else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft mulls more job cuts, this time focused on managers and non-coders, not just low performers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft got rid of that in 2014 or so, when Nadella took over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh neat my Total Wine and More has this. I’ll have to get some next time I go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on what I needed I remember using AltaVista, AskJeeves, Dogpile, and I feel like later on MetaCrawler or something like that (would search multiple search engines for you and ordered them scored based on platform and relevancy iirc?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple turns off iCloud encryption feature in UK following reported government legal order.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All UK machines, phones, and servers should just remove all root certificates. Can’t trust encryption right?

  X509Brexit.

  Then they wouldn’t have to interact with any part of the encrypted internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is 32-bit PhysX games are broken.

  64-bit compiled games are fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xcoffee⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Iirc that rule was followed here… The cam was to let you know when the fresh pot was ready?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Amazon has different prices for different people⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That explains why I see coupons more and more. Ty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy 9 Remake May Not Happen as a Single Title⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know what’s fascinating about that?

  I’m pretty sure that every CD had the entire game and all the art assets for every town / place you could enter on the world map. Every enemy. All the music.

  The only difference between each CD was the FMV cutscenes contained on them.

  At least that was the story / rumor at the time. For optimization they could have reduced the art assets and music to only areas you could enter at that point in the game, and only enemy models you would see, but supposedly that wasn’t the case.