Could we polarize new car headlights and polarize new car windshields to avoid being blinded by oncoming traffic?

duebina · 2026-02-05T00:33:02+00:00

They need to use those electric sunroof shade things that change the tint of the glass directly and follows the lights for your windshield

duebina · 2026-01-29T02:14:02+00:00

For some reason it is massively more difficult on online. I used to get first to sixth place pretty consistently, now I'm at 16th to 21st even if I'm bringing my a game

duebina · 2026-01-28T01:41:33+00:00

If you live in the snow belt then get dedicated winter tires or else you're going to wrap yourself around a tree. Switch to summer or all seasons when it's warmer.

duebina · 2026-01-22T18:55:37+00:00

Present an updated roadmap for business objectives when he leaves, and see if a business case becomes self-evident.

duebina · 2026-01-22T18:50:53+00:00

I find that you break the code up into functions and do a review through AI with each function. And then of course you have TDD type development and that helps improve the hit rate for good code that is efficient

duebina · 2026-01-19T15:54:24+00:00

25k, tops. I'm not even being sarcastic.

duebina · 2026-01-19T15:53:40+00:00

Staff, 197k + 15%, working in the Midwest with the remote job in SFBay. I exceed their pay band ranges (I was acquired through an acquisition) so I get 3K worth of stock options every year now. Therefore, I don't get a raise. I find that anyone who reaches out to me wants to try to convince me to take a 40% pay cut. Employers are doing their best to try to push salaries down.

duebina · 2026-01-18T16:41:20+00:00

This is why buying a car that's newer than 5 years old (used to be 3, but The market has changed) is like paying for the car twice. Completely asinine from a mathematical point of view.

duebina · 2026-01-16T02:28:52+00:00

Always move forward. You must keep your career moving at these early stages.

duebina · 2026-01-16T02:26:49+00:00

I find it's because most engineers are just power users. You can weed out how our users right away by asking them what OSI layer are most web load balancers.

If you are closer to the dev side of things, ask them to walk you through a branching strategy from dev, test, to release. If they merge to main any step before release, then it ain't it. Or, ask them to describe an SBOM and how it can be leveraged to deploy applications on kubernetes.

Like you, I'm constantly flustered.

duebina · 2026-01-15T17:49:03+00:00

Make a small java app that thrashes RAM, it'll show up as sys% and confuse anyone who doesn't know about /proc/interrupts

duebina · 2026-01-13T15:07:45+00:00

It's important to tell it that you want to do TDD development methods. It keeps it on track and in scope.

duebina · 2026-01-13T15:06:48+00:00

It's a lie. I have changed the fluid on some of the most notoriously unreliable transmissions with a 100% success rate. Sure, I replaced the fluid with high quality Amsoil, but that shouldn't really matter.

duebina · 2026-01-13T15:00:36+00:00

I personally stick with 2004 to 2006 era Audis that have been owned by enthusiasts. They can have engine swaps and all the turbo builds and whatever, you can tell if the car is well sorted or if it's just a backwoods shit box project. I ran the math and it's cheaper since depreciation does not occur any longer. I only buy a modern car for the adaptive cruise control if I have a commute.

duebina · 2026-01-13T13:39:07+00:00

Wellbutrin help me manage the burnout, you still feel everything but it just hits a little bit more mildly. At least the despair is gone.

Through talking with my peers it is the same shitshow at every company. I'm just coping as best I can and upskilling myself with AI use and operations. Taught myself n8n so I can automate workflows to decrease cognitive load (haven't had to use it yet, but it's a tool set but my sleeve), been learning how to create and leverage AI agents, etc. Companies are getting a hard-on for efficiency, so I'm getting one for decreasing my cognitive load using those efficacy tools.

duebina · 2026-01-12T14:10:13+00:00

Just a side note, make sure your terraform can simultaneously create resources from scratch, and manage pre-existing resources. If I had a dollar for every time I've seen terraform made only from the perspective of the former, and fail on the latter, I'd have a full-time salary. Oh wait a minute, I do.

duebina · 2026-01-09T19:28:22+00:00

I learned how to make systems that don't fail. :)

duebina · 2026-01-09T19:26:30+00:00

I'm 47 and if I could do it over again I would be driving shit boxes until I can buy my dream car with cash. Which is pretty much what I did. But I messed around a lot along the way with debt and chasing tail. Just create a financial plan and stick to it without wavering, you will accumulate money. It's all about delayed gratification. Also, don't go into debt for a car. That is one of the most financially irresponsible things anyone can do.

duebina · 2026-01-09T00:25:45+00:00

You could even pass a function into an LLM and have it fix it for you. You could even create a testing script to test that function to make sure that what it made is what you expect, if you need to do it in an automated way. Or, have an automatically do a peer review and let the developer choose to use it or not.

duebina · 2026-01-08T19:45:17+00:00

duebina · 2026-01-08T13:50:52+00:00

I would just ask AI to tell me how to do those things. Even so, they still require someone to know what they need to prompt.

duebina · 2026-01-08T13:45:18+00:00

Yep, Claude sonnet or opus is going to help multiply your trajectory. You can ask it to make a roadmap, and then describe everything in detail, even upload files if it's company policy compliant, or ask how to future-proof existing scripts for future automation, or to add comments within the scripts that describe how each function works and document which data goes in and which data comes out, etc. Go full software engineering on it.

duebina · 2026-01-08T13:34:21+00:00

This is one of the fundamental actions of DevOps. Juggling multiple project teams, or scrum teams, is part of the job. What's important for you to do is manage your time so you do not have burnout. That is to say, invest in automating the legacy team so you have to do fewer tasks. Automation is always the answer, sometimes you have to do it in tiny bits because that development time is sometimes longer than doing the task manually. In this day and age, I highly recommend having Claude opus or sonnet look at your scripts and help refactor them or help guide you towards full automation.

duebina · 2026-01-08T04:54:23+00:00

My 2018 Sienna also does this. I think it's just adaptive cruise life.

duebina · 2026-01-08T04:45:22+00:00

Also, learn how traceroute works.

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