sooo... what's been bugging you?

- AI (LLM)
- quantum microchips (https://x.com/satyanadella/status/...)
- flying and electric cars (https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/...)

what a time to be alive!!!

I mean... you've gotta love Apple's resource management and observation. Math and logic have no say in any of this.

Ever tried opening up x15 IntelliJ IDEA's sessions with all different repos at the same time after 3 months, so all of them would trigger reindexing?

There's the first time for everything I guess...

Our projet's system architect posted in our chat that me returning to the team next week will be the best b-day gift for him.

I was OOO for 3 months

what am I returning into....?

Heads-up, ChatGPT is leaking through cracks. Each chat is NOT carried out in an isolated, pristine context. It can refer to your previous conversations in a new context.

e.g.: https://chatgpt.com/share/e/...

I did NOT mention anything about any project/client or any fintech or any certification in this conversation. However, I mentioned all of those things in a previous conversation.

Contexts leaked into each other. IDK if my newer conversation will have any effect on answers to follow-up questions in older conversations, though.

No, learning from my conversations is NOT enabled.

But if chatgpt still remembers our conversations, regardless my explicit preference NOT to do that, makes me wonder what else they are collecting/doing behind the scenes..

ISO27k

I often think of how words are made, how they relate to other words, sometimes I discover interesting relations and etymologies.

Like the word ASSISTANCE. ASS-IS-T[A|E]N[S|C]E. And sure enough we need it most when we are frustrated and our asses are tense.

Coincidence? Idk. But I'll never see this word the same again.
Neither will you.

Ur welcome

Turns out, even spam in dR has its benefits :)

retoor's bot was asleep I guess, so I noticed a spanish spam post about taxi 24 horas [taxi with 24 whores]. And it was quite a good test for my spanish! Turns out, with Duolingo in one year one can learn to understand a language quite well. I only didn't know a few words in the spam post, but the rest I read as if it were english.

Daaayyuummm.. I was too sceptic about Dulingo :o

looking for a new, bigger car to fit all my fam in. I never thought I'd even consider a brand-new car, from the dealer. And here's me, looking at the VW Tayron, which has not even been released yet, and seriously considering getting one.

Thanks to decent salaries in our industry.
I don't think I'd ever be there had I gone through with my M.D. career.

We are all a living Turing test

https://notebooklm.google.com/

say all you like about gpt, but this is really cool. I've already digested api docs to test it out. Worked beautifully!

I've spent like 2 days on this semi-toy project, for which I would have been paid generously had I chosen to work for a client instead. This pleasure cost me hundreds of €s not earned. But it feels ssooooo good to code smth just for pleasure.

Totally worth it!

Soo... Turns out, if your laptop has usb-c charging and it has several such usb-c ports, you can use them simultaneously.

My lappy has issues with usb-c sharging, i.e. it becomes sluggish when charging w/ usbc (compared to on-battery and charging through barrel plug). Aaaaand Linux tends to occasionally crash if I unplug the charger while it's "awake". I wanted to change chargers, so I figured I could plug in the second one (hoping not to see any smoke) and unplug the first one. As soon as I plugged in the second one, all the lag disappeared and the battery keeps charging.

So if you have an usb-c charger that's too weak for your laptop, try using two of them :D

Never would have thought....

Ios build on MAC: *runs ok for weeks*

Ios build on MAC [today]: bundler failed to load command: pod [thats the whole error]

devs: we need to update cocoapods

tell me, please, how is this any better than windows...? No sensible errors, no sensible debug options, no sensible solutions but trial-and-error bruteforcing...

Hmm... I was reading postnatal depression fliers for moms and came across a depression quiz.

Turns out, I have a severe depression, 23/27 score 😁

that would actually explain a lot... A LOT...

Genuine question to rust devs: is rust worth it? I'm helping devs on a rust project and every day we're swearing at it. The language, critical section control, broken libraries, etc.

To me it seems we would have far better off with golang. But since we are this far now, noone will admit it

They say she was but a child a few years ago and now she's a grown up woman

They say he was but a child a few years ago and now he's a grown up man

I say, we are all the same children we were before. Only a bit smarter, with more mistakes in our portfolio and bigger, more expensive toys to play more elaborate games with.

dayum... 40ºC temperature hits right home, feeling dizzy and high! Nice!! It hits better than my homebrew honey kvass :D

However for some reason, there's 0 motivation to go coding, so can't check the Balmer's level...

Merry x-mas.

May your uptime be long, oncall phones turned off and alerting systems quietly down for the upcoming week.

Finally, at last I found a way to hack my parents' Xiaomi router. Now that I've got root access to it, I can now fix it, so it's able to.. you know... route traffic.

Because stock router's firmware only operates as a NAT device. Not a router.

The measures we have to take to get shit fixed.....

When your technical colleagues apply or pressure you to make fixes or implement features w/o understanding how abd why they work. When they discard your proposals/alternatives as inferior, motivating with their superficial knowledge arguments. When they promote new toys over tried and true ones, only because they work using other new technologies and they do stuff automatically, w/o having to think why/how, hoping it'll never fail.

And when it all starts erroring -- turn to @netikras asking to fix the tools I ruled from the beginning as "black boxes of unknown evil"

aren't they the best... :)

is there no longer place for highly technical nerds understanding all the bolts and nuts of big and small tools/systems/solutions..,?

Just Python things... trying to upgrade the branch while it's sitting on it

I'm not a 10x developer. It's you who are 0.1x developers

I've JUST finished configuring my wifi 6 AP, and now we have wifi7.

Damn it. Time to buy another round of PCIe's for all the laptops and the router.

Turns out we have a Grinch. Someone just stole all my decorations in the communal staircase.

This really fucked my mood

Only today have I realised that laptops will run slower if the power supply is not sufficient. If batt or the charger is too weak. And sometimes a charger slows the laptop the fuck down. Or even freezes it (for some reason) to halt.

I need a more powerful USB-C charger

I always thought laptops and charge controllers/batteries were tuned to ensure the power the device needs and disconnect the charging or leak energy from the battery if a charger is too weak. I stand corrected

Me: do you have monitorin enabled for your cluster?
They: no

me: I recommend enabling it
they: naah, we're good

error: *occurs*
they: *try to guess at which hop which limits were or were not hit and/or which nw links could've dropped a packet with trial-and-error approach for days*

me: telemetry would give you an answer in under a minute....
They: ok cool. We're still good

"Scientists discover the world that exists; engineers create the world that never was"

I've come to love this quote. We, the engineers, are shaping the world. We have the tools, knowhow and expertise to move mountains.

I said it before years ago and I'll say it again: all the other roles are meant to assist us, not the other way around. We don't work for managers, sales dept., bosses. They can't do shit without us. Why do we need them? To buy us toys, to sell our creations and suggest us how to shape our creations to make a better sell.

Quit slaving if you feel you are a professional. Quit bending over to sales' and mgmt nonsense timelines and demands. Hear them out, consider their concerns and give them YOUR estimates and approaches.

WE are the power of creation. THEY work for us. Not the other way around.

Does not apply to juniors. They are still learning their way around

Anyone tried eGPUs over thunderbolt? On Linux? Anything you could recommend?

I'd like to play around with ML for a bit