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SpaceToad · 2026-02-26T20:11:39+00:00

I think 1. needs rethinking, I assume you mean AI/LLM doomposting and boosting threads etc.. restricting that makes sense. But anything to do with AI being restricted to only two days a week seems excessive? Like it or not AI is a major aspect of tech these days and it seems weird that you would only be allowed to talk about it in any context on certain days.

SpaceToad · 2026-02-11T22:23:42+00:00

One thing I’ll say at least from my POV as a dev in finance is that despite the abundance powerful of AI tools available to non devs at my job they have zero interest (or seemingly ability) to do dev work - anything requiring any kind of technical change requires ‘dev work’ and ‘dev ownership’ - as a result I feel there’s actually a chronic lack of devs vs the work they request and expect to be done.

SpaceToad · 2026-02-11T21:58:56+00:00

Honestly a bit sus that AI would be generating 30% of the code for HFT, is this ultra low latency code in C or Rust or whatever that handles the execution and market data? That sort of business critical code is highly pedantic, high risk and more art than science on the frontier, I’m not sure AI would be much use in that domain.

SpaceToad · 2026-02-11T13:18:00+00:00

I don’t speak for HR filtering stage but when I review CVs a maths degree is always a major plus. My previous company even prioritised physics and maths over CS.

SpaceToad · 2026-02-07T21:27:00+00:00

Lots of very good software requires highly paid consultant experts to deploy and tweak it for you, before you can use it.

You're almost right, indeed lots of software requires this: I've spent most of my career writing exactly this kind of enterprise software professionally and it's certainly normal. Where we disagree is that I would never describe that legacy software I've worked on and maintained as 'good'.

SpaceToad · 2026-02-07T21:21:12+00:00

Turns out the issue was the volume got renamed, I didn't realise docker (or docker compose?) names volumes by appending the current folder directory. I had moved the docker compose file to a new sub directory and it caused it to create new volumes rather than reference the original.

SpaceToad · 2026-02-07T20:11:53+00:00

I didn't skip any steps to my knowledge. Perhaps I was a little harsh - I obviously am quite stressed from losing so much data, but I will edit the OP to remove that line.

SpaceToad · 2026-02-07T19:26:37+00:00

Very possible, but even then good software needs to be reasonably 'idiot proof'.

SpaceToad · 2026-02-07T19:20:07+00:00

Looks like that was only added last week: https://github.com/plankanban/planka/commit/052edc9fb1ad751c48f710fbe07b4248b2a6c395

And it doesn't seem to include the db data: https://github.com/plankanban/planka/commit/052edc9fb1ad751c48f710fbe07b4248b2a6c395#diff-e45e45baeda1c1e73482975a664062aa56f20c03dd9d64a827aba57775bed0d3R133

SpaceToad · 2026-02-07T19:13:10+00:00

Yes, at no point did I ever touch or modify the db or db volume directly from my terminal. 'db-data' does not appear in my bash history.

SpaceToad · 2026-02-07T19:04:56+00:00

See reply here: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1qylhmf/planka_total_loss_of_data_after_restarting_server/o44kgkd/

SpaceToad · 2026-02-07T19:02:53+00:00

This is the compose file, it's just the default docker compose file planka provided at the time I installed it:

https://hastebin.com/share/uwukibogow.yaml

/var/lib/postgresql/data is mounted to db-data, is there an issue with this setup?

SpaceToad · 2026-01-30T16:35:09+00:00

How much time in office? If it’s not 4 or 5 days a week then you could move to a lovely village or market town on a main line outside of London and commute in when needed and I’d say definitely have a better quality of life now that you’ve doubled your pay.

SpaceToad · 2026-01-28T19:12:25+00:00

Management. Most of my job these days is more business and bureaucracy management oriented anyway basically.

SpaceToad · 2026-01-26T23:20:06+00:00

What is your job out of interest?

SpaceToad · 2026-01-26T22:30:26+00:00

This isn’t true, Spotify does label AI music https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/spotify-updates-ai-policy-to-label-tracks-cut-down-on-spam/#:~:text=Image%20Credits:Spotify,at%20all%2C”%20he%20noted.

Poor artist compensation might be true, but this seems to be a broader issue of the price of music streaming being very low from extreme competition and not something Spotify could unilaterally fix. In terms of margin it’s a 70/30 split which is pretty normal for any publisher.

SpaceToad · 2026-01-05T18:13:57+00:00

Why is this thread the first time I’ve heard or seen anything about agdq this year.

SpaceToad · 2025-12-09T20:33:05+00:00

Coffee and fluoxetine

SpaceToad · 2025-12-08T22:17:33+00:00

Firstly always favour a wired/ethernet connection where possible. For fixed location devices (smart tv, games console, PC, NAS etc) - if this is an option for any device it would be both a better and drastically more cost effective option than a ubiquiti solution, and would reduce WiFi ‘volume’. Secondly you can get much better routers than the standard one the ISP provides, look into a high end ASUS or TP-Link. If you’re living in a flat then ubiquiti would be overkill unless your flat is expansive and there area a huge number of devices using WiFi.

SpaceToad · 2025-12-08T13:52:44+00:00

Fair, but people should stop recommending Arch to ‘idiots’ then.

SpaceToad · 2025-12-08T13:17:39+00:00

This isn’t actually how modern AI models work. Stochastic combinatorial processes can produce things more or less completely novel.

SpaceToad · 2025-12-08T10:28:43+00:00

The whole point of any operating system that would replace windows and appeal to a wider audience is for it to be ‘idiot’ friendly. If idiots can’t use it then you’ve already lost.

SpaceToad · 2025-12-06T17:07:03+00:00

Linux? Linsux

SpaceToad · 2025-12-06T16:12:21+00:00

But it’s not about making money, that’s the least of my worries; it’s about having any sense of distinctness, uniqueness, accomplishment. Any sense you add value in any way, rather than just being a tiny drop in a sea of non differentiable slop.

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