Now that’s a kit

Elon musk has shown himself to be a terrible person, a worse manager and someone who hasn't a clue of what a code review is. A summarily fires so many people that he can't find someone to open the doors for his big in person meeting or the vet the badges. He offers 3 months termination pay or you can work 12 hours a day 7 days a week hardcore. But none of the payroll people are around anymore either. Critical subsystems have not a single engineer left to work on them. He's paranoid that employees will sabotage the software. But I think he's doing such a good job it would be impossible to tell that anyone else was helping him.
An engineer wrote a prescient seven page report listing problems ahead including user verification. So Elon twit-fired him.
Also entirely predictable is the stress that the world cup will put on the system beginning today, I believe. He doesn't "like" microservices.
I work for the psychiatrist once who barely needed to sleep. Maybe Elon can function with 12-hour days week in week out. But it's cool to think you're going to squeeze substantially more work out of people by doubling their hours. More likely you will more than double their errors and what will that do to you budget? 50 years ago IBM determined that the best way to improve programmer productivity was to give each one their own office.
I can't believe he's whining over spending 13 million dollars a year on food. That is so far from being a strategic item. Soapbox out.

15 min till technical interview with IBM:
Trying to convince myself I’m not an imposter. 🙃

10 min after the interview:
I’m thinking how for the last 15 min of the interview they were pitching about how great the life at IBM is and why I should join.

This is exactly why I’ve left IBM.

My bedsheet has some article about IBM PC printed on it.

Yet another reason to design my own keyboard..

I get the most expensive keyboard out there, and guess what, it stops working correctly when it collects a bit of dust and hair..

Meanwhile my 35 year old IBM Model M, you could eat on it for 10 years and it would still function just fine !

My new keyboard, the roller wheel starts to act up, no problem, I'll just take it apart and clean it..

Once I find all the hidden screws with odd sized screw heads..

And then find out you can't take it all apart easily to gain access to the parts you want to clean.

And then find out, the parts you do want to clean, don't seem to come apart for cleaning..

Lets drip some cleaning fluid there anyhow and hope for the best !

That worked, for now..

So badly designed !

Oh did I mention how its a split keyboard, and the addon part doesn't have a locking mechanism, so you need to use blutak to hold it together..

Who designs this shit !

And that is before I mention how windows updates screwed with the keyboard settings so I suddenly got bounce issues !

It's supposed to be a bounce free keyboard !

And it doesn't work in my BIOS because its USB.. ( Even though USB is supposed to be supported.. )

So, why doesn't someone design a USB and PS/2 keyboard !

Did I mention how the keyboard font is too small to read without glasses..

Or how the back lit keys bleed light all over the place, and don't just shove iit through the keytops.

And, now my iii is acting up repeating itself..

My IBM model M was never like this !

But it isn't backlit..

Nor does it have a left handed numberpad..

But then, this doesn't have a real left handed numberpad, its just a right handed one on the left side, so my thumb is in the wrong place !

Apart from that, its fine...

Oh, except, don't use the app that comes with it, or rather, don't leave to runnning, or it crashes your PC..

But its fine to set up the keyboard with. :-)

If you got job offers from Uber and IBM. Which one you would choose?

This would be my first big name company. Need advice. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It’s all a blur but in 5th grade I was using a TRS-80 with a cassette player for storage at the library where my mom worked. Also an Apple IIe at school in the computer lab. My first personal computer was an IBM XT clone with an 8086 processor and dot matrix printer. I bought it after having fun with my cousin’s Commodore 64 and wanting one, but his uncle sold me on the IBM platform as something that I could upgrade over time. I was 13 when I first learned Assembler and BASIC. Big Blue Disk was my favorite subscription software with all the games and other shareware stuff that came every month in the mail.

Theregister.com is wrestling with gpus that need 700 Watts of juice and how to cool them. 50 years ago I was reading an excellent magazine called "Electronics". And I remember that IBM came up with a scheme to absorb enormous amounts of heat from chips. You simply score the underside of the chip in a grid pattern and pump water through it. Hundreds of watts per degree Celsius can be removed. Problem solved.

Anyone living in the Netherlands? I planning to move to Amsterdam in a year from now. I obviously would like to find a job here first. Is there a job platform besides LinkedIn that people use often and have success with?

I’m a senior engineer mostly working with Typescript, Python, AWS, IBM and Google clouds, DevOps, infrastructure.

EU citizen.

I'm mostly self-taught, but there are a couple people who defined my understanding of computing

- My amazing elementary school friend whose father worked at IBM and who initially turned my interest from astrophysics towards computing. I don't know whether physics would've been fruitful but I know computing is.

- My high school friend, who taught me the basics of OOP. Though we agree on almost nothing today, his explanations about code quality defined my understanding of the matter which I then used to draw completely different conclusions

- My high school mathematics teachers, who tolerated the way I abused every tool at my disposal to construct proofs that resembled a rollercoaster, and helped me develop my own understanding of mathematics

- 3blue1brown for producing replayable videos in a similar quality to my high school maths lectures with additional stunning visuals. No content on the internet fits the way I think quite as much as that channel.

Wanted to download Ballance (amazing game btw) to my IBM ThinkPad running XP. Wi-Fi download speed in SeaMonkey (the only modern browser for XP) was super slow, obviously, so I just opened my MacBook running Ventura, downloaded the game, and then SEAMLESSLY connected to my ThinkPad. Yes, to Windows XP. Out of the box. Good luck doing it on Linux. If that isn't convenience, I don't know what is.