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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
It's hilariously fucked up. They pay us O($1M)/yr and treat us like we're working on an assembly line producing Jira story points. And if they don't surveil us carefully enough we might steal a point from them! Or someth
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
It's a tricky balance, and there's a nonlinearity in that it really depends on what technical risk you've already taken on. Like.. clever ideas are like children. A handful are fine, lovely even! But if you have more than you
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
There's no way this thing is stable enough or heavy enough to be even remotely useful for that application. They state 500kg including operator. No outriggers, all the weight is up high... that dog don't hunt.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
A forklift would be more useful and you'd have like $600k+ left over
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Ocean racing speedboats and small fast naval vessels have the kind of seats for this
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Thanks for sharing this, that seems like a very cool setup. I have a very old good-for-almost-nothing laptop that would be perfect for this, might just have to copy you!
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
I'd add to that 1.5) Having a compiler in the loop that does things like enforcing type constraints (and in the case if Rust in particular, therefore memory safety guarantees) is really useful both for humans and LLMs.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Anything older than about 1990, some as new as early 2000s.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Very well said. When I'm working on a hard problem I'll often spend a few weeks sweating details like algorithms, API shapes, wire formats, database schemas, etc. These things are all really easy to change while they're just
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Such a person is just pushing a giant pile of cleanup work onto their colleagues. Unless they actually checked, the "cross references" are probably wrong in places or just entirely made up. Lower level employees by definition don&
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
If something is actually important, don't put it on a computer. Don't let a computer be in the critical path of anything that actually matters. It's really quite simple. Even before "AI" this technology was not reli
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
This looks awesome thanks for the link.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
It's hilarious they're using "AI" as the excuse to do all this dystopian zero theorem shit. This is web3 all over again, just bigger and more "disruptive". AI isn't useful in and of itself, just as a blank
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
By holding engineers accountable for the stability and security of their software.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Yeah I've been using an ESP32-C6 for the latest wifi connected project I'm working on. The RP2040 and RP2350 look interesting too, I have a couple of them but haven't really done much with them.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
After seeing what new R-Pi stuff is selling for I went rummaging in the parts drawer and found the following: - R-Pi Zero W - Sixfab UPS hat - Sixfab Cellular IoT App Shield - R-Pi model 1B With all this I should be able to make a multiply
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
> if err != nil is the feature, not the bug. It forces you to look at every place something can go wrong and decide what to do about it. It truly does not.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
This sounds like a great opportunity for students to gain hands on experience with real software engineering work as well.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
They're probably doing some degenerate form of [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_computing
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Fleet vehicles are generally not a terrible bet, they've at least been somewhat maintained.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Tactics like this will make me get a dumb phone and stop using those websites. If that means no more credit cards, online shopping, etc so be it. You have to draw the line somewhere.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
There's nothing wrong with Woodford but... idk if I was going to have a bottle engraved with my name maybe find something more interesting? Strange behavior though...
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
It's hilarious, terrifying, and weirdly reassuring that these insiders are dumb enough to fall for this shit.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Yeah Bentley (and in some cases Haynes) make good aftermarket manuals too. And you can find good information on some forums. But you can also find a lot of bad information. Reliably sifting the good from bad only comes with experience--mu
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Speaking not as a professional mechanic, but as someone who maintains a car, two trucks, a tractor, a couple boats, and has googled quite a lot of torque specs in my time... If you're googling torque specs in 2026 you're gonna hav
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
IME they're often more than willing to share details about how broken and bad the software systems they use daily are. This is the kind of knowledge that can make you very successful as a technologist if you know how to look for it, bu
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
It seems like a powerful lesson in good intentions and their unintended consequences.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
There was recently another good film on Netflix about the Australian victory at the 1983 America's Cup[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSmns9QWPiE
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Good leaders always lead from the front. There's nothing special about this "knowledge work". It's the same as any other industrial job in this respect. A good foreman can do everyone's job better than them and kn
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
If you actually did talk to your plumber, or electrician, or mechanic, or anyone else you view as "lower" than you, you might have actually learned something. Interesting paradox, that.

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