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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
Pop open the DevTools some time. It's a treat!
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> I had heavily modified the software on mine, but it was easier than modern stuff, no encryption of the code, and even the checksum code only triggered a DTC with no consequences. What's the vintage of the vehicle? When I was in th
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> Bad from a traditionalist software engineering perspective, but great from a business perspective (which is what matters). Not everything needs to scale after all. Anyway, I do question whether the author has actually worked with LLM&#
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> I'm having bad flashbacks to 2008. I was college age at the time, but yeah, this is how I recall it feeling. There's seemingly a universal malaise around that comes up even in casual conversations. Seemingly everyone is looki
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
I appreciate the details! I'll check those out.
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
We live in ahistorical times, it seems, especially since Covid.
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> You are giving advice to some of the dumbest people in the country. I'm not saying its bad advice, but these people are universally stupid. I don't know exactly why things ended up this way, but I'd love to hear where th
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
How's the "management" software? I'm planning on replacing my aging home router (which now seems to randomly drop signal) with something like a Ubiquti Dream Router, but I've no experience with the brand. As of now,
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
Mosh is incredibly useful. I have sessions running from uptime until reboot with machines (pis and a desktop) on my local network from my laptop. I leave with the laptop, return days later, and perform no manual intervention to reconnect. I
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> Office work is increasingly just adult daycare much of the time. And the 'metrics' for productivity are completely gamed, in any direction, at any time arbitrarily. Management/those that set these policies can 'turn
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
In many cases some of the stuff at the big enterprises is shockingly, remarkably bad. I've seen multiple contracting firms leave things behind that wouldn't warrant a passing grade in an 'intro to programming' class. Mos
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
When companies (non-"tech") started adopting them they also had no "guardrails" for content outside what the intent of such products were (dunno what the standard term for this is). There was a boba tea company that had
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> They all work with restructuring companies!! So, I hope that tells you how smart they are :-) "When McKinsey Comes to Town" is an interesting read that covers a lot of this. It's worse than I thought.
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> UTF-8 emojis in the comments This is one of the "here be demons" type signatures of LLM code generation age, along with comments like // define the payload struct payload {};
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
Across two apartments in the last 5 years, I've received mail for no less than 5 different previous residents. Every week I'd end up with someone else's medical bills, bank statements, debt collection, the list goes on. I&#x2
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
There's really pernicious stuff I've noticed cropping up too, over the months of use. Not just subtle bugs, but unused variables (with names that seem to indicate some important use), comments that don't accurately describe t
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
This is a juvenile take that seems brash but ironically I can't disagree with at this point in my life. Well played.
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
I'm the first to attack "useless busywork" employees, but my experience at a large, uh, software firm at this time was there were loads of "promo doc"/pet projects going on. There were plenty of people working
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
>> long running batch job 'process exited with status 1'
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
I can't ignore the profound degradation in the American standard of living as a contributing factor, especially in the last ~5 years (the recent housing bubble and "transitory inflation" (remember that one?) being disproporti
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> I constantly get junior developers handed to me from "strategic partners", they are just disguised as senior developers. I'm telling you brother, the LLMs aren't helping these guys do the job. I've let go 3 of
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
I do wonder where in the cycle this all is given that we've now seen yet another LLM/"Agentic" VSCode fork. I'm genuinely surprised that Code forks and LLM cli things are seemingly the only use case that's appr
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
Is 'X' is going to develop an "Agentic" weapon to hunt down Will Stancil? (Only partially joking here)
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> The company supplies some workers with company-issued Chromebooks, but many workers use their personal devices for the role How is this even a thing? Are there seriously employees at a "tech company" bringing their own hardwa
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
Ha, I did that too.
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> Software, as a profession, collectively talks about quality with all of the rigor of joint passing English majors sharing their favorite sections of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Yet people throw around the term "engi
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> Sounds good, but unless it advocates for HR practices that retain talent, and corporate practices that incentivize Quality, it probably won't result in any changes. Overwhelming majority of companies have no interest in even appro
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> Yesterday I woke up, naturally, I started scrolling. The very first video (on Instagram) was an Uber driver getting pulled out of his car, a guy cocking a gun and executing him. I was barely awake and didn't really have time to re
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
Indeed--the "invisible stuff" ABS/ECU/electronic throttle etc in cars, pacemakers, software in airliners. I imagine things that run on RTOSes fall in this category. There's a whole world of software stuff that just
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
My experience is somewhat limited professionally in software (just under a decade), but with very few exceptions I've seen little in terms of genuine professionalism as it pertains to anything that could be called "engineering.&qu

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