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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Even the most toxic places I've worked that kind of behavior would totally get you canned.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
> It used to be if you found a GitHub repository with a hundred commits and a good readme and automated tests and stuff, you could be pretty sure that the person writing that had put a lot of care and attention into that project. I think
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Could there be a simpler explanation?
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Onion routing but for shell companies instead of packets
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Clicking through the commit history I keep getting this error from github: Too many requests You have exceeded a secondary rate limit.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
"Court filings show the law office also did work for FTX" If the shoe fits..
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Yeah, Railway are clearly lying. You can't do software engineering without expertise, even with an LLM. That shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. As an engineer, you need to be able to check your vendors' claims. Signing u
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
> The model doesn't do anything, it's just a sandbox. Doesn't that make it worse? They forced everyone to download 4GB of crap for nothing. They could have done one of two things: (1) bundle the model with the application
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
> "Railways' database 'backup' strategy is insane and opaque and Railway promoting AI infrastructure orchestration without guardrails is dangerous." Yes. However, if you choose to build on their platform you bear
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
> "don't immediately trigger an expensive build process as soon as someone submits a pull request." Yes, and I'd add to that "don't immediately trigger an expensive review process". There's no good
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
An OM606 is just a very stout engine. It's a 6cyl inline 3.0L indirect injected diesel building in some respects on the tradition of its predecessors the OM61x and OM603. It has a basically indestructible bottom end, an efficient 24 va
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Fantastic machine. I drove mine without a power steering pump for about 6mo. The giant steering wheel helped a lot. Having individual V-belts to all the accessories instead of one serpentine belt saved me a tow and a repair bill more than o
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
I've been doing sort of a temporary version of that :). I quit working for the next year or maybe some more to focus on a big house renovation project, among other things (a few major car, truck, and tractor projects too.. some welding
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Nice! DIN 3017A are the ones! They had a little Benz star stamped on each one. The E36 is another one of those legendary chassis where they basically just got it right. I've looked at a few of them over the years but they were all so b
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
That's a hard problem! I don't know. But when we select colleagues we build trust before we let them in the building by interviewing them, looking at their work, checking their references. So maybe there's some sort of analog
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
The whole "anyone can submit a PR" thing has been a UX issue from day one. That probably needs to go away, and I doubt anyone would really miss it. Where Github could help is by providing a means to build trust that doesn't
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
A new Lode Runner when EDIT: holy shit I stand corrected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lode_Runner
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
IIRC back in the day they used to have an on-prem Enterprise product? I've never heard of anyone who actually used it though. IMO that would make a lot of sense for a medium-large organization--you still get the familiar Github product
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Maybe the reward is that all the awful tech people went somewhere else?
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Yeah my 300TD did as well. As you well know the wagons were super fancy though they had all the bells and whistles (except the sunroof, which was manual--and awesome!).
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Those kind of gloves are too thin to be of any use when it's -10°F out (early mornings are frequently at least this cold in my area). In the winter I'm normally wearing thick leather gloves treated with Sno Seal (a waxy, oily subs
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
The self-leveling hydraulic suspension in the W123 wagon was also a complication. The climate control system was failure prone, but failed in a sensible way--when the control unit failed it would no longer maintain a set temperature, but wo
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
The enshittification began even before that. My W210 is a fully computerized, fly-by-wire machine as well. While the user interface is nominally simpler than your W212, the computer systems are still quite user hostile. In particular, anyth
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
That seems like a good thing. Mostly software doesn't make people's lives better, instead it does the exact opposite. A society that recognizes that, and rejects the people who build it, is ahead of the curve.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
See also Mercedes W115 and W123 240D. Even the ones with a manual transmission had a clock where the tach would go. The speedometer had a series of dots at particular speeds that indicate the shift points for each gear (e.g. 1 dot for 1-2 s
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
> But at the other end of the market: Common luxury cars have lots of features, and KISS isn't really one of the design goals (if a customer wanted cheap and simple instead, perhaps they'd be shopping for a Dacia instead). It w
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
> "If you want to connect to the customer, you’ve got to find a way to translate this digital experience from your phone to the customer." Absolute brain rot. The customer already has a phone . They don't need your screen
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
That's a good point, but literally every company I know of is doing that rn. They're still doing it in a distinctly Microsofty way.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Apple, Oracle, Adobe, Google, IBM, Microsoft, etc... All the established players have their own distinct flavor of awful. This incident is just a very on-brand flavor for Microsoft.

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