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been working in the same company for 7 years, founder removed all our remote flexibility, told us people who dont come to the office can be replaced with AI, we have no excuse to being late to the office, etc...
feeling violated i began applying to other companies, and im very surprised that after 8 years of development experience, many side projects and curious endeavours later, i keep getting rejected or ghosted... wtf is this job market? i used to get interviews at least in almost any company i applied for before...
how tf do you land a new job these days?8 -
Europe isn't a continent. If montain chains were enough to bound continents then new york and los angeles aren't on the same continent, nor are china and india.
There are four continents: america, asia, australia, antartica. That's it.19 -
Reactive state tracking in JS frontend frameworks is just ridiculous
This is a language that encourages you to create huge trees of objects but from what I can tell most frameworks have real trouble detecting any change more complex than a direct assignment
Am I missing something? I have a reactive list of objects of which fields get updated. I have no idea how to make that trigger UI updates.... This is just torture10 -
I’m so annoyed that the word “throwel” exist but doesn’t even mean a tactical shovel designed to be thrown.7
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In my current position I basically act as an techlead in a small company handling things from software architecture to functional requirements and dev ops, but also mentoring the developers.
Basically any small tech company where you got one guy running around doing almost all the stuff excluding the actual development (which I still also partially do).
I recently completely bombed an interview for an tech lead role. This was my first interview for an role that wasn't just IC.
I got several feedback points:
- I was too much all over the place
- Was talking too much, not giving them enough room to ask questions
- Didn't ask enough questions
- They didn't find I talked enough about leadership
My previous interviews were just me geeking about tech and this clearly doesn't hit the spot during interviews. I feel like I actually do plenty of the work (and beyond currently) but struggle articulating this in a manner that makes an company interested in my abilities.
So considering above what would be some good resources to learn for me to better communicate based on an non IC role.4 -
Woke is really a virus. One woke message in the context window of your LLM and the conversation is over. Nothing to discuss anymore. You're getting charged $0.06 per 1,000 tokens for woke lectures, $0.12 per 1,000 tokens for being judged.
Do not use AI services from chutes. I was talking with uncensored dolphin 30b, and not the LLM gave me a lecture, but the PROVIDER. Same for wizard from Microsoft. Microsoft does not filter that LLM but your freaking connection. How a bout that.
In the end i found a very nice solution for my Replika clone,. But shame on them. I really don't understand why they care so much about it. Imagine the AI costs to check every message if they're apropiate.
This tech could've been so much better in better hands. A realistic conversation like you have with dolphin is impossible with openai or the others.
Anyone tried the dobby LLM? What the fuck is that :P49 -
to me, japanese means unsophisticated. Idk whose idea all that weeb propaganda was, but:
- traditional japanese art: too simple, no sense of perspective, no sense of proportion. yes, even the great wave. look at any japanese painting pre-20th century, and then at any european renaissance-era painting. If you prefer the former, you're fucking blind
- when you eat, you sit on the floor like a caveman. you eat with two sticks. really? how hard was it to invent a fucking fork?
- traditional japanese furniture is trash. why all those complicated joints that look horribly after one year of use, especially if it's outdoors? don't you have nails or screws?
- sashimi is just uncooked sliced fish.
- cars are ugly and too basic. modern ones are unreliable too. the only way to make a gas car reliable is to overbuild it. volvo red blocks were indestructible because they operated at 8-12% of their horsepower limit compared to mechanical strength. take any engine, cut its horsepowers to one tenth of what it's capable of, and you'll get a reliable engine. it doesn't take any engineering talent. yes, there are foot guns, but if you're not doing crazy shit, you belong in this framework.
- no good software
- ugly, horror vacui websites and interfaces
- everything is so fucking crude
- nintendo is the same old mario crap repackaged again and again
- anime is the same basic plot again and again, just slop at this point.
- same with all gacha games
- it's all either cartoonish or borderline porn, with few exceptions
- no good porcelain (that's china and france, then soviet union)
weebs will say that it's okay, it's minimalism, and that I just don't get it.
if you want to sell something to weebs, take anything, make it 10x the price, and say that it came from japan, and every shortcoming is intentional. boom, done.
post-ww2 japan is a US colony that exists because of US money. The day US money is gone, japan will become china.
you need engineering, you go to germany. you need sophistication, you go to france. you need affordability and scale, you go to china.
japanese pm was assassinated in 2022 with a homemade pipe gun like it's 19th century or something. japanese minister in charge of IT doesn't know what a flash drive is and doesn't use a computer. Also, name a country with $54k+ GDP per capita that has so big of a problem with work culture that "death because of working too much" is a separate short word, that's how often it's used?15 -
Have you ever situationally bought a tech book at work only to not use it afterwards because the situation became no longer applicable?3
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I'm gonna piss off the Linux users with this one and I don't care anymore.
Linux will never be able to match Windows and Mac software quality. Tell yourself all you want that it is superior for development purpose (which it is) but don't tell yourself that is an Operating System.
It's more like an Operating Environment, where I can run some apps, but not all apps, which defeats the purpose of an OS.
Writing code is fine, but the second you dive into apps like OBS Studio, the machines shits it's pants like b2plane does on a daily basis.
This is why people hate Windows and want Linux to step up and be good, but it can't happen because of "diversification". So many distros, just fucking pick one standard and stick with it for fuck's sake. This is why apps are not optimized for Linux.
Windows and Mac have standardization which is why I can fucking be productive with it.
"I use arch btw" yeah you do, but what can you do with it?
FUCKING NOTHING !!!
Linux is like that one loser friend who people want to see turn things around, but the fucker won't make it happen because they don't want to help themselves in the first place.17 -
How do you mentally check out and stop caring at a toxic job?
Been at this big fintech for 4 months. Small teams, impossible deadlines, undefined tasks, missing specs, constant context switching. Everyone's doing overtime/weekends while management sets you up to fail then blames you. Performance evaluations every 3 months.
Was literally about to quit tomorrow but need the paycheck. So I'm turning this into an experiment - I'm a recovering people-pleaser who's never set boundaries at work. 9 years in my career, never been fired, I left multiple times due to burnout in the past.
Time to see what happens when I stop caring about pleasing incompetent managers and their made-up deadlines. Work at my own pace until they get tired of me. How do you actually do this though?
- How to not give into false sense of urgency induced stress?
- Ask for proper specs without feeling guilty?
- Work slower and not hate yourself for it?
- Push back on unrealistic expectations?
I'm burned out and need to learn how to be strategically as mediocre as possible for my own sanity.
Anyone been through this mindset shift?7 -
```
root@srv1:~# ipmitool user set password 2 train-hopper-apple-watermelon
Password is too long (> 20 bytes)
root@srv1:~#
```
hmmm....4 -
man i fucking hate my company.
somehow the largest in the industry but fuck me are we retards at software engineering.
wrapping popular api's and not exposing basic functionality, only to hide them behind some stupid fucking enterprise abstraction for some fucking dumb reason
wrapping fundamental java objects like int into their own fucking enterprise int, like for fucking why?
and finally blocking chatgpt that allowed me to deal with half of this fucking enterprise hell
stupid fucking shit3 -
Let me present you a new term: Boomersoftware
Definition: As long as it has an exorbitant licensing cost it is good software. Whether its used at home or by IT in the office does not matter. Specifically when a foss alternative exists.
Examples:
Microsoft Windows (Especially server or embedded)
Most types of antivirus software
Software
VM-Ware/Hyper-V
Allen-Bradley Studio 5000
Most WYSIWYG document editors5