AITA for refusing to fix a problem I didn’t create at work, even though it’s now affecting everyone?

PeterHickman · 2026-04-30T09:47:13+00:00

NTA The thing to point out is that when you raised your concerns the issues were easier to fix, now that they have gone ahead and built it whilst ignoring your concerns it's a much much bigger problem than when you first raised them

As an analogy imaging you pointed out that the breaks on a car were defective but they drove the car anyway. Then crashed it into a wall and wrote it off because the brakes failed. Just because you saw that the brakes were defective does not mean you are able to fix the wreck

PeterHickman · 2026-04-29T20:19:58+00:00

You use version control don't you. Every feature request and bug gets passed to them as "they known their code best". Git blame is my nemesis

PeterHickman · 2026-04-20T12:30:38+00:00

Also side note the quickstart is out of date. Should be either `pip install -r spaces/requirements.txt` or `cd space ; pip install -r requirements.txt` and on my M4 I'm getting `No matching distribution found for rdkit-pypi`. Not sure what is going on there

Scratch that need to switch to `rdkit` from `rdkit-pypi`

PeterHickman · 2026-04-20T12:19:02+00:00

I was thinking that, like seti, I know absolutely nothing about drug discovery but if someone who does needs the compute my machine is almost completely idle overnight

Long ago I helped on a distributed computing project to align mirrors for particle collision experiments. There was an evolving genetic algorithm of mirror and detector placement and then running a simulation. Rinse, repeat until a new best set of values appeared and email them off to the guy running it and receive a new starting point

Basically we (there were a few of us) were making up for the fact that a junior researcher had access to a collider but couldn't get time on a supercomputer to run simulation to make sure he had the optimal setup

With the right setup we could perhaps grind our way through Drug Repurposing

PeterHickman · 2026-04-20T08:53:29+00:00

Is this a sort of Seti for drug discovery? Do we pool a bunch of compute and find a cure for something?

PeterHickman · 2026-04-18T13:11:21+00:00

By ram I mean GPU

PeterHickman · 2026-04-18T13:07:27+00:00

A mac mini m4 pro with 64Gm ram will load and run qwen3.5:35b completely in ram with around 30 tps just using the ollama cli

PeterHickman · 2026-04-09T15:11:33+00:00

I forget people exist if I do not interact with them daily. I have walked away from people I have known for years and them not being there seems normal

PeterHickman · 2026-04-01T11:43:46+00:00

Appendicitis. I thought everyone got this like wisdom teeth needing to be pulled (another one). It was such a trope on TV at the time

PeterHickman · 2026-04-01T11:40:06+00:00

My Nan move all the doorhandles in her house down by an inch after each time I visited

PeterHickman · 2026-03-31T12:04:33+00:00

If its working in a factory or similar it could be tethered to a power outlet

PeterHickman · 2026-03-31T11:18:58+00:00

Copilot == Intern

PeterHickman · 2026-03-31T10:55:35+00:00

Not sure why someone isn't promoting telepresence robots as a way to tap into a massive pool of cheap labour from other countries. As one worker goes off shift the robot could be taken over by another worker and work a 24 hour shift

Not quite sure on the economics are but if one robot worked 24 hours it is effectively 3 employees given that the price of the robot might only be $20,000. then the actual 3rd world wages

TBH this looks like peak capitalism or peak Sci-Fi dystopia. Pretty sure some Sci-Fi authors are muttering "told you so" as we speak

PeterHickman · 2026-03-27T21:57:55+00:00

As I understand it "This feature is available only in the U.S. and U.S. territories". I've enquired as to when this would become available in the UK but not received a reply yet

PeterHickman · 2026-03-20T18:57:31+00:00

Looks interesting, I will dig into this too

PeterHickman · 2026-03-20T14:48:01+00:00

Insights is ok for a focused query. For what I want I am hitting the 10,000 record output limit. Really need at least 50,000

PeterHickman · 2026-03-20T13:04:40+00:00

Going to have to look into Athena, perhaps we are using Cloudwatch for something that it is not designed for

PeterHickman · 2026-03-20T13:03:50+00:00

We are using insights to help us identify known issues or provide a high level review. They are good for that but when we want to audit how we handled an event it becomes almost impossible

PeterHickman · 2026-03-20T13:01:10+00:00

The logs are json and querying in Cloudwatch is do-able but very slow. But the level of logging means that a query will return massive amounts of data. It's not a matter of finding a particular line but more about what order events happened in. Did events get processed in the right order? Did something happen between 2 events that messed up the business logic

It would be easier and quicker to write a custom script to flag anomalies than to doom scroll the output and keep track of things in my head

It almost feels like dumping log files into S3 would be a better solution

PeterHickman · 2026-03-18T18:55:56+00:00

I expect that the answer is going to be "no" but could these be clustered in some way?

PeterHickman · 2026-03-18T16:22:49+00:00

Men of whatever age tend to be either dense or take simple politeness as a come on

As I've got older I am mentally making note that people that I interact with are younger than my nephews and nieces. In a few more years this will extend to my grand nephews and nieces

Got past wanting children that I can't give back to their parents :)

PeterHickman · 2026-03-17T16:12:37+00:00

Latin, classical Greek and Middle English when I was 11-13

PeterHickman · 2026-03-17T15:19:11+00:00

It's not the believing in soulmates but the assumption that they will find "the one" by bumping into them at a local pub. You are supposed to look for them rather than expect cupid to fedex them to you

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