I’m a team lead. I have an engineering manager above me. He expects my team to be autonomous. He’s involved in quarterly planning, but otherwise I really just reach out to clarify what’s expected of my team.

As for my team. I expect the team members to be autonomous. We sync every other day. We share what we’re working on - not so much for micromanaging but to make sure we reach out for help if we’re stuck instead of wasting time silently. Its also for knowledge-sharing. It makes it easier to pick up Bob’s projects when he suddenly quits without warning. And others can learn to avoid his mistakes.

Currently we’ve got too much work that there’s no downtime for any major learning on the clock. My previous job had subscriptions to online learning platforms and I had quarterly goals to complete at least one.

The fuck is Starmer, prime minister of the UK supposed to do about it?!

I read it as he hadn’t issued a statement about the British citizens on the flotilla who were also abducted. That seems like a PM thing to do.

My bank(s) have their own 2FA apps which are used for the web as well.

Same apps are used to identify myself and digital signatures for taxes, credit, health care etc.

The worst of all is that a private company owns one of these 2FA apps and can in theory deny you service.

The EU should be rolling out their own later this year (or next). But for now, I need an up-to-date Android/iPhone not to make life more complicated than it has to be.

Writing code was never 100% of the job. The hard part of software engineering is understanding the problem and figuring out the most elegant path to solve it. If AI can do the code-writing part faster, then it’s a good tool to use.

I still spend a third of my week in meetings. I put out on-call fires late at night.

I also spend a good chunk of my time interviewing potential hires. I pretty much expect them to use AI for their code assignments. Including prompt history is a plus if they do. What I do gauge is their ability to explain their code, defend the decisions and know how to adapt to changing circumstances.

I know how to get to this point by starting a couple of decades ago. I do recognise that I don’t have the same grasp of our codebase as if I had written it by hand. I do review everything that gets deployed, but the volume is higher and it doesn’t stick as well.

I don’t know how to get in as a jr today. We’ll know in a few years how it’s done. It’s a new landscape, but if you’re passionate about the field you’ll figure it out.

I wouldn’t it mind it if I was on a free tier. I’d think some of my subscription moneys would go to the creators.

Well, spotify. I did a run with spot-dl before ending my subscription.

I self-host with navidrome and stream/sync to my phone with Tempus.

But 97% of my listening nowadays is just streaming HYPR demoscene radio.

Millennial here.

I grew up with sneakernet through irc-napster-kazaa-limewire-directconnect-bittorrent-oneswarm. I gave all that up when netflix and spotify.

Those subscriptions have been ended a couple of years back and the eye patch is back on.

Netflix’ catalogue has just diminished, as everyone who owns rights to the good stuff want to do their own streaming service.

I wasn’t really listening that much ro spotify, but when they started injecting ads into podcasts I bid adieu. (Yes, injected - I’d listen to an English podcast and get very local ads between segments).

Only if it’s double-layered.

Single-layered are 4.7GB.

As far as music goes it’s definitely easier to be blissfully ignorant now than it was in the age of MTV and broadcast radio. You get your curated stream of recommendations with no reason to highlight what doesn’t fit there.

I wouldn’t know of Grande had she not been hosting SNL. I don’t know who The Weekend are. I saw a post a while back about Drake’s security being dicks, and I thought Drake’s security was the name of a security company.

I’ll excel at 90’s music trivia if it was on MTV. But now I’m set in my ways and only listen to HYPR demoscene radio. I excel at that niche genre now, too.

It’s a weird market.

Those H100s are $25k minimum. So $200,000 just in GPUs. Drawing 700W each, or 5.6kW total. At my local prices that’s about a dollar per hour just for electricity.

It’s going to take you a couple of years to break even at $20/h. They might still hold some value at that point. Or they might be obsolete.

I’ll bring two theories to the table.

a) they got caught distilling for their own models b) they re-sold their $200/mo plans as APIs

I usually don’t. But this year I have a new-to-me car that had a couple of cross-threaded wheelbolts. Changing the whole hub is pricy and the shop refused to replace just the bolt. I managed to re-thread the other.

Anywho, most lug nuts were really on there, so I gave them a dab of marine grease. I always re-tighten at 1, 100 and 1000km and before any longer trip. But they haven’t moved at all since the 1km re-tightening.

It works both ways.

I can tap my government ID card to my phone to identify myself on government sites.

For personal projects I’ve just got a VPS where me and a couple of partners in crime push over ssh. It’s very informal and merges are requested in our group chat.

At my previous place of employment we selfhosted gitlab. I much prefer that over corporate github. I want my own fork, not a shared repo.

Six-seven

I have an idea of how they could reduce the fish requirements.

How about using shared libraries instead of bundling everything in every snap all the times?

Amazingly it reduces RAM usage as well.

I’m developing an app as a side project, but testing can only happen meaningfully out in the field. I found a breaking bug yesterday, asked Claude to fix and deploy over remote session. I installed the update and continued ny testing session.

I sure wouldn’t want that to go away.

Iran has a professional army with a ground force of 300k.

That’s about the same number of boots the US has. It’ll be no small logistic feat to get that operation a chance.

I remember when I bought my first-gen MacBook with a core duo and 512MB of RAM. The 512 would probably have been enough if I didn’t need Rosetta for half of my applications.

Probably good for a surfing machine if you need to be in the Apple ecosystem. I might get one if I need XCode for something in the future.

Are you looking on truth social?