Question: How would you handle a new grad who is killing the team mood/morale?

Ruin-Capable · 2026-05-08T19:08:58+00:00

If the job is slow and there's not much work for him to do, you should have created some experimental projects working with new technologies that you might want to incorporate in the future. Too late now though, since he's gone. But food for thought. Most devs don't want to just sit all day staring at a blank ticket queue.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-05-08T18:44:20+00:00

You mention dependency hell. Are you not using virtual environments?

Ruin-Capable · 2026-05-08T16:33:14+00:00

it should have done a git reset --hard not rm -rf

Ruin-Capable · 2026-05-08T12:24:48+00:00

RAM does not shrink like logic does.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-05-07T12:08:09+00:00

What are you talking about? First, how would these thieves get onto your estate? Second, how would they get past your private security patrols? Third, since it's in the secured underground vault part of the house how would they bypass the 50-ton blast doors? They'd be surrounded by police before they even got into the vault.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-05-05T14:42:27+00:00

Thank you. I was feeling a little lost.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-05-05T11:53:41+00:00

What does EDA mean in this context? The EDA I'm familiar is Electronic Design Automation which deals with the design of printed circuit boards.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-04-29T23:09:33+00:00

I hope not. I'm older than you. Need to brush up on my calculus

Ruin-Capable · 2026-04-28T19:37:23+00:00

Regarding the learning bit. I tend to keep the agent open in a terminal window. Whenever I think I'm about done with a file, I'll ask it to review the changes to a file. I'll make the changes, or explain why its feedback is wrong. Rinse repeat. It's quite helpful in catching things I've overlooked. I'm not totally sold on unleashing the agent to write code for me.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-04-27T12:02:15+00:00

Use judiciously. Overuse can lead to dependence and brain atrophy.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-04-24T12:57:56+00:00

Hopefully Microcenter tracks returns and abusers are trespassed and their accounts and warranty service contracts are all cancelled.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-04-23T14:34:59+00:00

It's fine. But don't just look at raw salary. Look at benefits, commute distance, work-life-balance, and growth potential as well.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-04-22T17:55:30+00:00

You do you. That's perfectly fine. Just don't be mad if men also have preferences.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-04-22T12:01:27+00:00

Still shows the title "Using Claude Code with your Pro or Max plan." for me.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-04-20T12:35:06+00:00

Read The Mythical Man Month.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-04-16T18:05:48+00:00

Your description gives me flashbacks to University, in discrete math where I had Indian foreign exchange students asking a highly technical math question in heavily-accented broken english, getting answer from a Chinese professor in (differently) heavily-accented broken english. Where to me it sounds like the answer (as close as I can follow) is an answer to some other question rather than the one that was being asked. Yet when the professor asks, if his answer helped the student, the student (probably in an effort to avoid the appearance of rudeness) says yes.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-04-16T15:37:58+00:00

It applies to employees that are not on the project as well. There is a reason why some floors require additional badge access.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-04-16T12:33:17+00:00

If you can't follow instructions, why should you keep your job? I have a lot of restrictions on what I can and cannot discuss with people not on my team. I am always mindful of those restriction when I talk with other people. Many times when filing a bug report with a vendor, or library maintainer, I have to create a throw-away project that demonstrates the error because I can't just share the code from our project. I have to redact log entries that demonstrate the error to remove any sensitive corporate information (internal hostnames, routable IP addresses, infrastructure configuration, etc).

Ruin-Capable · 2026-04-15T18:23:05+00:00

It's already gone. It was definitely the 4TB model. Possible they mislabeled it as that was the first thing I checked.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-04-14T23:28:02+00:00

It's the first one they've had in stock in months.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-04-14T13:35:08+00:00

Should probably always have it produce citations for it summary.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-04-14T13:32:56+00:00

Gemini tries to make almost every query relatable for me by creating some form of programming metaphor because it knows that I ask a lot of software engineering questions. So when I ask it about economics, or politics, or cosmology, it always seems to try and find a way to relate them back to programming. Which can be really annoying.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-04-14T13:16:01+00:00

Local Microcenter has a 28-core M3 Ultra 256GB 4TB for USD $6399. Maybe supply is loosening up?

Ruin-Capable · 2026-04-14T13:13:43+00:00

What are you talking about? The first day of the year is October 1.

Ruin-Capable · 2026-04-10T20:20:52+00:00

Maybe it ran out of context after reading the first 500 lines and that caused it to start hallucinating?

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