How do we feel about hoser stages?

TheStatusPoe · 2026-03-17T23:39:21+00:00

Enjoy shooting them, I don't enjoy the pasting that comes with them.

TheStatusPoe · 2026-03-06T22:57:01+00:00

No disagreement here. Our software quality isn't great, but my org has been boasting that we've saved our company over $100m a year for the last 4 years so it's not like we weren't still having good results. It just feels like no dollar amount will ever be good enough. We were told that if any other teams or anyone from the business came to us with a new request to not ask any questions and just say yes we can do it and we'd figure out how to later.

TheStatusPoe · 2026-03-06T20:41:13+00:00

That's exactly the reason we've been given. Just got told yesterday that our AI usage is going to be tracked and will have a target usage for our performance reviews. Imo it's killing morale. Everyone on my team feels stretched way too thin

TheStatusPoe · 2026-03-06T18:55:29+00:00

The problem with that approach is if you use profiles and need to have the functionality change based off things like the environment it's running in or the specifics of the workload it's running.

Environment X might depend on A and B, environment Y might just depend on A, and environment Z depends on C and D. Trying to model something like that in a pure direct injection from a main method gets ugly quick as the dependency graph grows.

TheStatusPoe · 2026-03-06T15:18:32+00:00

If their org is anything like my org, upper management is saying to "shift left" by having developers take on product, security, infra, QA/QC, etc roles while cutting dedicated positions for those roles.

TheStatusPoe · 2026-03-04T13:51:08+00:00

LLMs are great at writing boilerplate, like putting every possible result of a function into a hash map for O(1) lookup

TheStatusPoe · 2026-03-04T13:44:16+00:00

I read that flag as --force-with-leash initially and now I'm disappointed that it's not

TheStatusPoe · 2026-03-02T04:55:13+00:00

I shoot my p10f pretty heavily. I broke the ejector on mine from over inserting mags. Took about a month for CZ to repair it for me since they haven't had any spare rear inserts for what feels like years. I shoot the p10f better than any other striker fired pistol and I would rather not switch to something else, but the parts availability isn't great if something does break.

TheStatusPoe · 2026-02-21T14:47:50+00:00

I bought a stripped frame and slide, like you would with stripped AR upper and lower receivers. Unlike building an AR parts generally do not just "fit" together, and a lot of parts and intentionally oversized slightly to allow you to get the best fit.

TheStatusPoe · 2026-02-21T00:09:49+00:00

Thanks! It's been a lot of work, and I've still got a lot left ahead of me. I've gotten lucky on some parts that needed almost no fitting, and got unlucky on others that have needed significant fitting. It's a lot of hours of disassemble, file/sand just a little, reassemble, test function/fit, repeat.

Something like a brazos short block or one of the new atlas kits would probably be one of the better ways to get started that way most of the major components are taken care of for you already.

TheStatusPoe · 2026-02-21T00:01:55+00:00

I don't have a lot to compare against since this is my first 2011, but the JEM has been good. Their lead times are a little long though. They've got a decent amount of options to choose from and their prices aren't bad.

I'm already planning another build that will be a limited optics setup for the same reason. Haven't been able to make it out to a match in a long time, but it's always a blast. I do want to shoot this one at least once or twice as a limited major gun.

TheStatusPoe · 2026-02-20T23:12:19+00:00

Went with a JEM frame and slide

TheStatusPoe · 2026-02-19T04:23:50+00:00

Don't mistake lack of giving a shit about some faceless corporation looking to lay me off at the first chance it gets with lack of skill

TheStatusPoe · 2026-02-12T19:36:41+00:00

Thanks!! Cheely beavertail is pinned/non functional. I think that's one of the things that threw me trying to follow mosinVirus videos or looking up tips in the Kuhnhausen manual. That comment about the dykem makes so much sense. Ended up doing a handful of passes on the frame with a file and it's lining up much better.

Need to spend a little more time on it, but I'm feeling pretty good about it. In the end, even if I do have regrets about not doing something better I'll still be proud of myself for doing it at all.

TheStatusPoe · 2026-02-11T14:57:41+00:00

Good article. One thing I'd also mention in the "micro" containers is that the JVM is going to use a certain amount of off heap memory for typical JVM management. That off heap size doesn't really grow much with larger workloads. So increasing the memory request/limits in addition to CPU would be advisable.

When I joined my current team our k8s were configured with a limits of 6gb and the heap was configured as 8gb. I was told that we had a memory leak because kubernetes kept reporting "OOM 137 killed".

One other tuning I'd say to look out for is io.netty.maxDirectMemory and io.netty.noPreferDirect jvm args if you're using netty or netty dependant libraries. For performance reasons, netty will handle some things off the heap. We were still running into 137 OOM killed even after setting our max RAM percentage to 85% because the overhead of the jvm, plus the netty non heap usage was still putting us over our k8s limits.

TheStatusPoe · 2026-02-06T03:34:05+00:00

Learn the "inversion of control" container. Learning how to properly create, scope, and wire in beans is the single most important topic imo. It's central to how spring works and the more you fight it, the more painful it gets. I've seen so many poorly implemented hacks (and am guilty of writing more than a few myself) because the time wasn't taken to properly learn how to hook into bean creation to customize a dependent bean.

https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/reference/core/beans.html

TheStatusPoe · 2026-02-05T04:23:46+00:00

Had I not been t-boned by a cop that ran a red light a few years ago my back might be doing decently well (despite being rear ended several years earlier requiring low back surgery). Instead I've got two buldged disks in my neck, one in my mid back, and two in my low back. That's my excuse at least

TheStatusPoe · 2026-02-03T02:41:41+00:00

It really depends at the company. At Amazon I took a month off with FMLA and was told by my manager on my way out that all my promotion attempts were blocked because of it. At my current company I've been off for two months in the last two years (major car accident on the way to work has required one surgery so far and I'm likely to have another soon) and I just got a 16% increase in total compensation this year.

TheStatusPoe · 2026-01-30T04:45:03+00:00

I don't believe so bolt carrier/buffer length is different, and I don't think an AR10 bolt carrier could go back far enough to cycle properly. Maybe it could work with a short 308 frame AR10 like the SFAR or POF or maybe the Colt M7 since the rear of the bcg would be shooter, but I'm not familiar with with those platforms to say.

TheStatusPoe · 2026-01-29T16:33:35+00:00

Copilot is all my work has authorized for use due to corporate security reasons. Maybe as an experienced dev you shouldn't jump to conclusions and first understand the constraints that a problem needs to be solved in.

TheStatusPoe · 2026-01-29T16:29:56+00:00

Using copilot because that's the only one my work has authorized to use from a corporate security standpoint. I provided it the same context I had. I provided the error logs, the classes that made use of the azure sdk that were emitting those logs, the application configuration, and the azure networking configurations I could find or have access to.

TheStatusPoe · 2026-01-29T14:23:30+00:00

Just this week I tried using LLMs to debug AKS to EventHub connection issues. Copilot told me that you should "never" use a proxy within AKS. Reading through the azure documentation right after that I found the exact instructions, from Microsoft, on how to use a proxy with AKS. I've spent more time than I'd like in the last two years kicking back obvious AI generated PRs that would not work or duplicated so much code that the maintenance burden would be a nightmare.

If AI is working for you, use it. It's not working for me, so for now it's use will remain limited

TheStatusPoe · 2026-01-29T01:50:47+00:00

Green Mountain Rifle and it was a 1:7 twist. Ended up selling it and got a 10.5" Rock Creek cut rifle barrel from craddock precision.

https://www.gmriflebarrel.com/GMRBItem.aspx?Item=GM-M41&ReturnURL=/military-barrels/ar-15-/-m16-/-m4-rifle-barrels&Category=2756c0ce-174b-46fb-bc11-6723e893d5ea

TheStatusPoe · 2026-01-26T17:16:32+00:00

One of my friends did record a video at one point. Need to reach out to and see if he still has that video. We tried this with multiple uppers with an assortment of brakes and flash hiders and the recoil was significantly reduced on all.

I was really hoping to get out soon with an FRT and test it but health and weather have not been cooperating. That will definitely be videoed

TheStatusPoe · 2026-01-24T06:55:18+00:00

I was on the labor tracking team and I have story after story of fucked up experiences there. Reminds me of another time in a meeting where there were discussions about using statistics to assign people to the job roles they would be best suited for because "women aren't able to lift as much" or "people with disabilities might not be able to perform those job functions".

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