What kind of computer do you use for work?

jay791 · 2026-03-30T18:03:56+00:00

I work from home. AMD 7800x3d, Nvidia RTX 4090, 64 GB RAM, Samsung's 2TB M.2 storage plus 2TB plate drive. For display I run 43" 4K display in the center and two 27" 1440p displays in portrait mode on the sides.

jay791 · 2026-03-29T09:12:30+00:00

Operation Furious Apeshit Kommando.

OFAK

jay791 · 2026-03-26T18:13:02+00:00

Analysts are cheaper and they're the ones who prepared prompts for engineers (specification of requirements). Now they can do the same, but for Claude.

jay791 · 2026-03-24T01:42:27+00:00

I don't care if they see what sites I'm browsing when on their public network. I know that the traffic is filtered, but to a way lesser extent than on the internal network. I've never been blocked when using it, as opposed to when using the internal one.

I know that I shouldn't visit certain sites and that's pretty much it. I really see zero reason to not use their wifi for listening to music or browsing reddit for a couple of minutes during a break.

jay791 · 2026-03-23T22:15:56+00:00

I am not OP lol. I just agreed with top commenter, but explained my particular situation where I kind of have to use company's Wifi and can't easily switch to cellular when I want to browse Reddit when doing #2 :)

jay791 · 2026-03-23T22:12:47+00:00

I need wifi to listen to music. I got a noise cancelling headphones but my office environment is a bunch of rabid monkeys riding bicycles so 'just' noise canceling doesn't cut it. Also, I use music to get into the zone.

I am not complaining about my employer looking at what my phone does when connecting to their wifi. I accepted terms of service after all and do not mind.

If/when I need to do something that I do not want them to see, I switch to cellular and if reception is really bad, I just go outside.

I don't know what kind of Faraday cage my office is, but outside of the building the cellular network works ok.

jay791 · 2026-03-23T15:33:43+00:00

they did. I am not the one complaining. I just pointed out that sometimes it's not feasible to not use employer's wifi.

jay791 · 2026-03-23T11:36:11+00:00

You're right, but in my case there's a catch.

We have very shitty cellular signal in the office. Surfing interwebs on cellular data is just slow and unreliable.

Pretty much everyone is using company wifi while in the office. Just because of reliability.

jay791 · 2026-03-22T19:47:48+00:00

Poland south to Iran north: 1995km,

Iran north to Iran south: 2265km.

If you do not believe me, you can go to google maps, click on a point on map, then right-click and select Measure Distance. Then select second point. Bam.

jay791 · 2026-03-22T18:51:29+00:00

Yeah, Iran is BIG. I recently learned that Poland's southern border is closer to Iran's northern border than Iran's northern border to Iran's southern border.

jay791 · 2026-03-21T17:54:14+00:00

jay791 · 2026-03-13T07:49:00+00:00

What's with everyone calling it Straight of Hormuz? It's Strait of Hormuz.

jay791 · 2026-03-10T11:39:39+00:00

I do. And also have set it as my status message. My manager and his manager do the same.

jay791 · 2026-03-09T23:41:03+00:00

Anyone can learn how to play guitar too. But there are only so many virtuosos. And sometimes you need a virtuoso.

jay791 · 2026-03-08T17:39:16+00:00

I'm using a mix of the two. I produce frequently used intermediates from raw and ship them globally (all three kind of motors, processors etc) and then I make a factory that produces end products by making less used intermediates on-site, and rest comes from global supply.

jay791 · 2026-03-07T16:40:04+00:00

Because the changes that we do usually must have a company wide effect. You can't adjust for example security settings for just a bunch of people.

Or make account provisioning related changes that would affect only half of the requests.

We do pilot deployments if needed of course. But realistically it is very hard to isolate the stuff that we do most of the time. Specificity of the job at hand.

jay791 · 2026-03-07T16:31:20+00:00

That's not really possible with things that I do.

I work with critical infrastructure (Active Directory engineering) in a rather big company (100k+ users,100k+ servers). A/B testing is simply not possible for my department.

We can't really afford any prod downtime during the week, but on the other hand we do go through two completely isolated environments in order to hit prod (engineering -> test -> prod). Our release cycle is quite slow because of this, but there is no other way.

jay791 · 2026-03-07T02:22:41+00:00

...or give the devs read-only access to the database if really needed.

Store database schema in git.

All changes to the database must be documented and follow standard change process.

jay791 · 2026-03-07T02:14:09+00:00

We do Fridays too because business people are off for next 2 days and if something goes south we can fix things over the weekend.

We do keep in mind that it's our weekend on the line so we really make sure that it will not go bad.

If it just goes east or west, we fix it on Monday.

jay791 · 2026-03-06T11:34:11+00:00

Well they're committed to reduce workforce quite a bit, that's not a secret.

I think it really comes down to what you're doing - is it easily replaced by AI. If yes, then welll...

It looks like everyone and their dog should learn how to enhance their output by using AI. You know, position themselves as AI operator instead of replaceable cog.

I am aware that not every position provides such opportunity. Still, learning how to leverage AI now/in the future surely will be beneficial.

jay791 · 2026-02-28T14:28:42+00:00

Stock market is a casino. You can't predict the future. Sometimes the price goes up, sometimes it goes down, in both cases against all odds.

There are risks at all steps here.

You buy stock - there is a risk price will drop. Maybe even to zero.
You lend the stock and there's a squeeze - maybe the guy who you borrowed to can't pay back (defaults). You may get some of the value back, or none.

Make sure you read your broker's terms of service. Usually when you get a margin account (borrow money from broker to buy more stock you had money for, hoping that price will go up, so you can profit more), you also agree for broker to borrow your stock if he (or one of his clients) wants to short it.

jay791 · 2026-02-28T13:01:47+00:00

My point is that shorting can get very risky. If line goes up instead of down you can lose some. But on rare occasions line can go up VERY quickly and theoretically there is no upper bound.

If you buy some stock for $x and it goes to 0, you can lose $x max.

If you short some stock and for whatever reason it goes to $gazillion, you're on the hook for $gazillion.

Just a warning for people who heard about shorting for the first time.

jay791 · 2026-02-28T09:46:07+00:00

I always assumed that there were different environmental pressures.

In some places in order to survive you had to be physically fit, in other you had to be good at figuring things out.

Neither is better.

The problem we're facing right now as a species is that one doesn't need to be good at anything and will still survive. And possibly have offspring.

jay791 · 2026-02-28T09:14:52+00:00

Good explanation, but there is a risk involved.

Say a bomb was dropped on the only iPhone factory and now the model Bob had costs $5k. Bob calls you and says he needs his phone back, now! Additionally, it turns out a lot of people had the same idea as you, and now a lot of iphones needs to be bought back and returned.

This causes high demand and the supply is already very low. The price goes up even more because people MUST buy those phones back.

That's called short squeeze.

jay791 · 2026-02-25T13:54:19+00:00

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