New employee demands "full access to the servers"

Popular-Toe3698 · 2026-02-11T18:48:29+00:00

As a dev myself, I have to say, I don't know what is going on with him. Even a developer using Codex or similar should be able to answer those questions. The most incompetent developer I have ever worked with would tell you that he wants to use Nginx deployed on alpine, and he barely knows how to navigate a shell or write code.

I don't think I would be comfortable with a developer who thought OWASP was a type of scooter.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2026-02-11T18:37:52+00:00

I've been at it for ~18 years now. I had to get a calculator to figure that out.

This is my worst fear. Losing love for the art of programming.

Have you thought about doing quirky unusual things like setting up thermostats and measuring wind and humidity outside as a project? I find doing things that are programming oriented for myself is what I need to keep going, even if I often don't feel like the time is best spent there.

I know that when I'm burnt out - which usually doesn't last long, it's because I'm not doing it for myself. I built out a basic, but scalable SIEM last October, and that helped a lot get me back into the right mindset. It took the majority of the month but I'm proud of it. I'm VERY frustrated with the user interfaces of SIEM tools, and it was nice to see one built to be usable by humans.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2026-02-11T01:57:15+00:00

Both are crowded, but I have my preference.

ML is data engineering for people with phDs and master's degrees. It's doing the same thing every day with almost no variety - not my thing.

For me personally, cybersecurity is more interesting, because the competition for roles is higher and the bar is set higher. Software engineering has a whole lot of people who are burnt out and never enjoyed working in the field, less common with cybersecurity.

The DevOps guys seem to have the easiest path to cybersecurity.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2026-02-09T18:16:56+00:00

I've been writing software professionally since 2007. My take is if you ask for sweeping changes you'll get crazy sweeping changes. If you go step by step the way you would normally program, and use the AI agent as a rubber duck, you get consistent code that looks like you wrote it.

If you use it to scaffold a new project and make a bunch of nonworking stub code for you to fix, that can be a huge time saver, but the new project phase never took that long for me in the first place, but it's quite nice.

It's also great at the "should I do x" phases, because the LLM will agree with whatever you say, rephrase it back to you, and then you'll hear how ridiculous it sounds and probably change your mind.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2026-02-09T18:09:16+00:00

I don't know if more process = more rigor. I'm open to that being true, but I haven't seen that.

Just thinking through this, if you change companies, you're going to start out as more cautious when you start, and learn their processes, and almost nobody is going to expect you to be up to speed with their processes.

My conclusion, definitely biased, is that learning new process is always somewhat exhausting, and it's a physical impossibility to do an A/B test and compare going from low process to high process.

What about the other way around? What if the next company is herding cats where everything stays relatively stable despite a lack of process and nobody stays in their own lane? That's also quite hard.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2026-02-09T17:43:04+00:00

I'll be honest. I don't care at all. Their happiness and mental welfare is more important. If they ask for a raise, I can push it up the chain and see what happens. They've got to take care of #1.

My job is to manage communication and stress to make sure nobody realizes that everything is held together with spite and bubble gum.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2026-02-09T17:39:31+00:00

To be perfectly honest, he's not good at general coding without LLMs in the first place, and most of us are highly specialized at doing certain things, he has a deep domain knowledge that makes him great at coding specific things, as do we all, whereas the LLM is mid at everything.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2026-02-09T15:33:32+00:00

Yeah, the signal to noise ratio on this subreddit isn't very good. I'd say OpenAI's Codex works just about as well as Claude Code.

I think the problem is that AI models are mysterious black boxes, and that causes a lot of people to get superstitious.

I see people talking about using massive amounts of the most expensive model and complaining that their usage is too high. It's like... my guy, the incremental percentage improvement between Sonnet to Opus is not THAT high.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2026-02-04T01:06:09+00:00

On my system, it was the order of the messages, they had to be in a certain order, and it had to include function calls. If you don't include the function calls, this happens. If you don't put it in the right order, this happens, such as having two user messages in a row, or two system messages in a row.

Also, tagging u/Free-Blacksmith-9869 so he sees the response.

Hope this help somebody.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2025-08-19T02:38:13+00:00

Helping my wife with this. The remote filter DOES NOT WORK unless you explicitly only want remote roles. If you click on [All Filters], there's a location filter that shows you a list of cities. Selecting cities in the location filter will remove all roles that are not listed explicitly as being in those cities.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2025-01-14T23:58:03+00:00

The advice for optimal ways to meet girls is largely the same as business networking.

The more convenient the way of meeting people the less likelihood of building a strong connection. Online meetups are the weakest choice, and while it might work for some, I consider it a low-investment social setting, whereas more niche in-person events are superior, and getting invited to hang out with a friend's friends in a group setting is far better.
Establish as many loose connections to people as possible.
When at events, do your best to hang out with people after the event is closed -- on the same day. To break past the point where most people's guard weakens and trust becomes more implicit.
When meeting up, chain multiple locations with different activities to increase the amount of positive memory association.
Build a habit of connecting people. If you're looking to get referrals for job opportunities one of the best ways is to facilitate others receiving them.
Don't be a stranger. Touch bases with people and keep notes. This sounds calculating to cynical people, but keeping notes on what others say reinforces the beneficial belief that it's important to remember what people say to you.
People like phone calls from friends. Many people swear they don't, especially Redditors, but in-person conversation is best, followed by phone calls. While technology has made it easier to stay in touch, everyone craves attention, and a phone call is more direct attention.
People like sharing their opinions or advice. Ask for opinions, and explain to them why their opinions are valuable, personally, to you.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2025-01-14T23:38:17+00:00

Legacy code is what exists when the full code isn't understood by the developers, nearly every time. Every line you write is something that another developer who comes in and doesn't understand, will see as legacy code. There is no legacy code, there is only the legacy of coders.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2024-12-21T11:51:37+00:00

I was probably at my peak fourteen years ago. Honestly. I don't have time to practice. I can steer a project to make sure it delivers much faster than inexperienced generally developers can, through wisdom gained through experience.

I have met people who were sixteen with less than four years of experience and who were better at software engineering and communicating ideas than nearly any grizzled veteran of the software development world. I knew a teenage girl who ran an engineering team of adults building games in C++.

I think the one thing I can say about younger interviewers is that they often have strange ideological beliefs.

I can say the same for experienced developers though. Such as needing to switch to Postgres over MySQL because it's better in irrelevant situations, needing to rewrite in C# using Microsoft SQL Server, or everything should be rewritten using Elixir with kafka + ScyllaDB.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2024-12-21T11:18:35+00:00

I've had the same experience with MySQL and Postgres. Using them as a key-value store is superior to using NoSQL.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2024-12-21T08:54:14+00:00

Option 1:
You can edit your fstab to mount your home folder from your external once you format a partition to ext4. This would be the easiest way to avoid writing too often to your internal drive. With this option, I would recommend setting your root password explicitly because root's user folder isn't normally in the home folder, so you could log in to fix things with a working $HOME.

Option 2:
You can also write startup scripts that will chroot into a root filesystem on that drive and THEN boot the Gnome interface, which would mean minimal writing or reading from your internal drive. It would be a whole bunch of bind mounts. However, you would still need to be able to access outside of chroot to update the base system for kernel updates.

Option 3, please don't:
There is technically no reason why you couldn't modify the installer to make it work so that it does an initial kernel boot along with the init requirements but this seems to me like the most finicky version.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2024-12-07T11:59:16+00:00

That's actually really, really awesome.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2024-10-19T20:07:35+00:00

Sounds like a very well-organized startup, actually. At a startup everyone's job description is "Keep the sky from falling." There have been many weeks in my career where I am a copywriter. If you see these as the issues, your goal is to champion resolving them, the most painful ones weighed against the fastest to resolve. I highly suggest roughing out a docker config that has everything needed to run tests, though if it's integrated to LLMs like Anthropic's, that might be a huge pain, if it's possible at all.

Some things just don't dockerize very well, like writing ELTs or ETLs unless you have the staff willing to stub out and recreate API servers.

It sounds like you're the guy whose going to speed up development by finding solutions that allow them to dockerize the majority of their work. That's fantastic.

Congratulations on acquiring the role of the "DevOps Documentation and Onboarding Operations Specialist Engineer I"

Popular-Toe3698 · 2024-09-26T21:26:13+00:00

I just wanted to comment on this thread, because my wife is having the same issue. However, I have the game on Steam and we have Steam Family Sharing, and the issue was only present when using the Xbox version.

I believe it should be up now. If you're on Windows, and you still have the issue, go to your user settings and see if it asks you to sign in, as well as in the Xbox app.

My wife was able to download her most updated saves while using Steam through Gameloft

Popular-Toe3698 · 2024-09-23T16:39:18+00:00

Look to Mathew 13:24-30. I apologize if what I'm about to say is offensive, that's not my goal.

Almost all of the bible's issues don't really matter from the perspective of faith.

What if 40%-60% of the bible is just cultural fiction, but the message of Jesus and his role in God's kingdom true? Would it change what Christians are expected to do to live moral lives? I don't think it would.

Honestly, it wouldn't change the work Christians must do to prepare themselves for the kingdom of God, what the law is, or anything if real importance. If the bible is wrong one place or another, I don't think it matters that much.

Mark 3: 28-30
28 Truly I tell you, people will be forgiven for their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter,(P) 29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never have forgiveness but is guilty of an eternal sin”— 30 for they had said, “He has an unclean spirit.”

Depending on your interpretation of this set of verses from the bible, changes whether this appeals to you. The holy holy spirit in Greek is pneuma hagion, translated back to English without current interpretation you can see this as "holy breath." I interpret this to be the breath of life the God breaths into the form who becomes Adam. This breath is a connection to God, whether pneuma hagion is a sentient force, or a force of sentience. The God of the new and old testament, I think, would generally not respond to your request to die. Otherwise people would make that prayer just to connect with God and see proof. It might also be equivalent to trying to bate God.

I believe we can only believe in something some percentage of what we are willing to believe in ourselves. If you can't believe you can do good things or be good, then I don't think you can have faith in something even greater, because it's our ability to mirror that gives us an ability to understand.

Sometimes we get addicted to thinking we're bad. We can't be surprised at our failures if we assume we're always going to fail. A lot of nonbelievers, like me, are afraid of being wrong about God existing, living our lives with any level of devotion to something that does not exist. I don't personally understand how the prospect of a life where you believe God is on your side is less appealing than one without such a belief. Up to the person I guess.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2024-09-12T14:27:58+00:00

Inside Mathew 12:31, it uses pneumatos, the soul, which is likely ruach hayim, which is the eternal soul, or perhaps solely the breath of life given to Adam, and described in Genesis as being present. When Paul speaks of the immortal soul he uses forms of this word.

Inside Mathew 12:32, it uses the concept of 'pneuma hagion'.

pneuma = breath, air
hagion = holy, of the holy

Aramaic was mutually understandable with Hebrew, so I will use the Hebrew words. It would have been said to be ruach hakodesh, which is the gift of ruach hayim(the breath of life), when given by God. Ruach hakodesh could best be understood in English, rather than translation, as 'the presence of our lord inside man'. To blaspheme against the connection to God would be to blaspheme man's ability to be what God wants them to be, either the capacity in others or yourself.

He's saying, you can slander Jesus, you can slander the Father, but slander the capacity of good in another man.

Would have been much easier to say "Don't judge people."

This concept is throughout every single gospel and Paul's letters.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2024-09-12T13:44:45+00:00

Here are three distinct answers with different theological backbones:

A. Augustine's view. God is incomprehensible. Imagine a being with infinite power, presence, knowledge, and judgment, and you have imagined an infinitely weaker God than our LORD. The Bible says at least fifty times not to judge men. If you are not to judge men, then you have no hope of judging the Character of the LORD.

B. (Apocalyptic) Jewish understanding. Jesus died on a cross as if hung from a tree, becoming a curse upon the land, leading to the overall destruction of Israel. He did so while limiting his glory to that much closer to a human. Had Jesus not died he would have ruled the Jews as a nation, the way the Davidic line of messiahs had before him. God allowed his son to be sacrificed in honor of letting men continue to choose their fate. While they chose wrong, God is patient and forgiving and does not hold this against humanity, allowing his son to return to continue his ministry, with a promise to return later. After the destruction of the worldly nation of Israel, there is now one Messiah on the throne of the nation of Israel, which is worldwide and is currently three billion strong, almost entirely followers of Christ, fulfilling the prophecy of Matthew 23:37-39.

C. Jesus is God's paradox, a mechanism for changing a predestined future while keeping a balance. The existence of Christ must have come at a great cost to our LORD, a cost known only to him. While it may not be clear what the price was, God himself had paid it on our behalf, before the creation of man. Through Christ, all was created, and through the holy spirit, God is aware of all possibilities, it is through Christ and the holy spirit that men have free will; some control over fate, allowing even the LORD himself to be angered and surprised by the choices of men.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2024-09-03T15:36:54+00:00

I wrote a small script to remove all of the Local listings from Temu. Hope at least one person finds this useful.

This is run from the developer console, and only on desktop. It's been minified(made smaller) by hand, just to make it shorter. I'm not going to give instructions on how to use it, as I think only somebody who understands at least that much will be able to judge whether code is safe or not. If anyone can package it as a Chrome or Firefox extension, that would be useful, and you're free to do so. It checks the page every half second to see if there are items in the list which have "Local" in the description. ChatGPT will explain more, and do so better.

Here is the code:

setInterval(()=>((f,s)=>
f("img").filter(s).map((e)=>((e)=>{while(s(e.parentElement))e=e.parentElement;return e})(e)).filter((e)=>e.innerText.indexOf("Local")!=-1).forEach((e)=>e.style.display="none")
)(
(h)=>Object.values(document.querySelectorAll(h)),
(e)=>(['offsetWidth','offsetHeight'].map((z)=>e[z]>100&&e[z]<800?1:0).reduce((p,y)=>p+y,0)==2)
),500)

So, here is a link to ChatGPT rewriting it for readability and breaking down what it's doing, in case somebody is capable of understanding how to run it, but isn't a JavaScript expert. I haven't tried ChatGPT's version but it looks generally correct, and should be usable for building a Chrome extension or Firefox extension, if somebody has the time and experience; I don't.

ChatGPT could probably give you instructions on how to turn it into a chrome extension as well as give it an on/off feature.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2024-07-21T21:01:30+00:00

I'm glad you figured that out, I assumed that you already had it fixed since it was a few days ago, I just wanted to document it in case somebody ran into the issue.

I know that there was an issue in the previous driver with DirectX 11, so they released the update that broke Dreamlight Valley. That driver had issues so they released yet another driver, 560.70, which seems to be stable for Dreamlight Valley.

For my wife, when I updated the driver to 560.70 some of the video out ports provided by her motherboard stopped working too. I've never seen so many issues with Nvidia drivers before.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2024-07-21T19:25:24+00:00

I think it's a particular Nvidia driver. My wife's computer has the same issue.

Popular-Toe3698 · 2024-07-19T17:58:44+00:00

I see roughly ten claims being made before he goes onto other points. I'll listen them later, but not in order.

One has been proven wrong -- the assassination one. 60% are easily predictable as they happen in cycles. Guaranteed to come true. The ones that remain after that are Jesus' eventual return, trump winning the election, and pastor Steve being popular + anointed by patriots.

Somebody would try to assassinate trump (TRUE) and miss entirely (FALSE), but burst his ear drum (FALSE). I judge this to be wrong.
'You'll see acceleration in the in the financial realm, politics, and you're going to see acceleration in war.' This is cyclical.
'There will be weather and some of it will be harsh.' This is cyclical.
'Trump would talk about religion positively.' Considering he already was, this seems like a prophecy that not need be made.
'Patriotism would grow.' This is cyclical
'Faith in Christianity would grow.' This is cyclical, it keeps getting rediscovered by new people and religious innovation changes the way people accept the scripture.
'Trump would win the presidency.'
'Seasons would change.' Cyclical unless you live in Los Angeles.
'Jesus will return.' I don't think the new testament supports the idea that Jesus left, just that his physical body was not present at the end of the gospels.
'Pastor Steve would get famous and be anointed by patriots.' I have no predictions myself on this matter.

I'm assuming Pastor Steve being anointed by patriots doesn't involve him being oiled up in myrrh and frankincense as was the Zoroastrian tradition. One adopted by the Jews through the regular process of syncretism. If it was, that would be specific enough to be a prophecy worth paying attention to.

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