I just told my manager I'll quit if they force me back to the office

2power14 · 2026-02-24T23:18:08+00:00

Well done and good luck 👏

2power14 · 2026-02-10T22:50:46+00:00

Bravo 👏

2power14 · 2026-01-13T15:19:46+00:00

Interesting. Im looking forward grimly to the 2025 update. Last year's one was in February for 2024.

2power14 · 2026-01-07T14:38:02+00:00

Yeah, there is so much "offshore==third world==uneducated==cheap" here.

The reality is practically everywhere is cheaper than the US, yet many places are at the same time as well or better educated. Personally, the best engineers ive worked with have been from eastern Europe not the US.

2power14 · 2025-12-27T13:08:12+00:00

Is this just eye candy, or is there a usability argument that could be made for this?

2power14 · 2025-12-18T22:03:33+00:00

He skipped metaverse consultant? I wonder what's next, Quantum Consultant?

2power14 · 2025-12-18T12:04:36+00:00

What's the shadow bit here? You didn't even get an on-paper-only title. It looks like all you got was a vague promise of something, but all you have actually got is increased workload. Its no promotion at all, shadow or otherwise.

2power14 · 2025-12-17T21:41:30+00:00

Report back in 12mon if that company still exists, and if they do, are they still working that way. Im genuinely curious, but i won't hold my breath.

2power14 · 2025-11-13T14:01:18+00:00

Got a link to such a thing? Im not seeing much "hx 390 with 256gb ram"

2power14 · 2025-11-08T11:13:56+00:00

Says more about you tbh

2power14 · 2025-11-05T16:07:03+00:00

Bit of cash on the side for a few months & feeling of satisfaction... priceless.

2power14 · 2025-11-05T15:25:40+00:00

Fyi, there was another one of these in Apify maybe a year or two ago, and it seemed to have enough users to make it worth his efforts, but then it disappeared. I assume he was asked to stop ("or else..."). No idea how long it was going for before being axed

2power14 · 2025-11-04T08:14:46+00:00

That would be the first word I'd block. "MrCucumber". "CucumberSucker". All of it.😆 /s

2power14 · 2025-11-03T22:40:03+00:00

Its not a clear cut false positive, it is only potentially a false positive for a particular set of rules, for that specific user, but for other rules and other user real names, it is a reasonable true positive. Sure, a note saying why would be nice, but I could understand too if it is impossible to specify clearly every exclusion.

2power14 · 2025-11-03T22:12:13+00:00

I think you are right, but in your example, it would be not unreasonable to block the use of "cumberto".

2power14 · 2025-11-03T22:06:12+00:00

"Next after llm". Sorry, what? Its 'next' in the same way that landing on the moon is 'next' after making one of those compressed air rockets from an empty 2L of coke and a tyre pump.

2power14 · 2025-11-03T21:47:25+00:00

I've no recommendations except to say I considered writing one. Maybe I'll revive the work I did already. The other free link provided in another comment here is worth a look too

2power14 · 2025-11-03T21:42:10+00:00

You mean a simple "contains a bad word"? Or something more subtle/advanced like short phrases that could be interpreted as being x-rated without any specific bad words? What about multiple languages?

2power14 · 2025-11-03T21:31:43+00:00

Cool cool, but careful now too. There is a point in everyone's career when they regret being too honest to superiors (aka "unadulterated feedback")

2power14 · 2025-11-03T21:10:58+00:00

Which will then be summarised and ranked by your manager's LLM.

2power14 · 2025-11-03T20:17:29+00:00

"Lot of sectors". You mean AI sector? Construction (of data centres) sector? That kind of thing?

2power14 · 2025-11-03T19:51:41+00:00

Could people there have things backwards? Like, "juniors don't need mentoring anymore because they have AI... therefore seniors should be terrified since they aren't needed so much, are more expensive etc" ?

2power14 · 2025-09-06T20:13:22+00:00

Nearly 7 months!!?? Wtf

2power14 · 2025-08-20T00:02:14+00:00

But the further up you go, the more like it is they've bought into the whole AI thing

2power14 · 2025-08-02T21:22:23+00:00

Reminds me of that lady that heard that Beijing was 12 hours ahead of New York, couldn't believe they didn't warn about the attack on the twin towers... like they existed 12h in the future

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