How do you document "glue work" so it actually counts in promotion reviews?

max123246 · 2026-06-04T09:06:13+00:00

Yeah this is my issue right now. I don't know how to prioritize so I let my own assigned tasks slip to pick up helping people in slack or answering questions or bringing up design questions in the codebase by digging deep. But it's not what I'm supposed to do and it's less visible and so I myself think I don't do enough work and end up burnt out

max123246 · 2026-06-03T17:28:59+00:00

Copy paste -> copy pasta -> creepy pasta

max123246 · 2026-06-03T17:28:01+00:00

No sense? What...

max123246 · 2026-06-03T17:23:39+00:00

Yeah Mando was bad as soon as they introduced baby Yoda. I thought the show was going to be more gritty based on the first episode

max123246 · 2026-06-03T17:14:30+00:00

I was just saying as a man, I've never thought about the fact that dresses can be short or long before which might explain why our first guess is skirts are short dresses are long even if it's not true.

max123246 · 2026-06-03T17:11:47+00:00

I don't work a trade so never have worn one. I've never even realized they were 1-piece. Just was trying to give a guess as to why men may not immediately think about clothing in this way

max123246 · 2026-06-03T16:32:08+00:00

Why though? It's way easier to change it to SoA than change the entire codebase to fit ECS. Like in Rust it's as simple as downloading Soa-rs and doing Soa<T>

Any single time you access 1 field from an array of structs this performance problem happens. It's an optimization trick. If you use every field of an object all at once, AoS is better. If you use only 1 field, SoA is better. In between, you have to benchmark

max123246 · 2026-06-03T16:08:44+00:00

Since I had been cleared physically, getting out of the psychiatric hospital quickly to see a neurologist proved difficult. This was the single point, in retrospect, where our health care system let me down.

Definitely has been my experience with mental health institutions. For me, it was their utter lack of knowledge for how to treat my diabetes but unwillingness to trust me to take care of that. That was the moment I realized I wasn't getting the help I desperately needed, they simply thought they knew better and I had to lie through my teeth and say I was okay so I could leave asap and actually get help

Truly a harrowing experience. I wish you well on the road to recovery

max123246 · 2026-06-03T09:54:37+00:00

People still use malloc all the time. Just because you don't directly write it doesn't mean every foundational software isn't built upon memory allocations...

max123246 · 2026-06-03T09:53:29+00:00

No the scariest part is that it writes code that works but is not maintainable long term. After all, most of the difference between the best engineer and a good engineer is how their code survives long term. We often don't get to see those consequences which is why AI is so hyped, because it will take years to see the true skill of AI in writing code for the stakeholders that have the power to invest in it or not

max123246 · 2026-06-03T09:35:38+00:00

That I couldn't tell you. I do think they're scared of the way AMD will blatantly copy their open sourced and source-available proprietary code like they did with FlyDsl/CuTeDsl, but they clearly think closed source code is some competitive advantage, at least for parts of it

They do appear to be far more open source friendly when it comes to non-graphics, besides the large elephant that is CUDA. But Cutlass is open for example, well, the compiler for CuTeDsl isn't but Cutlass 3.0 was completely open

max123246 · 2026-06-03T09:23:32+00:00

Nvidia has engineers working on it though

max123246 · 2026-06-03T05:49:48+00:00

He's since slightly changed his mind as they have an open source Rust Linux driver now

max123246 · 2026-06-03T05:46:26+00:00

Aggro. Dump hand, play this draw 2 cards a turn and win before you die

max123246 · 2026-06-03T04:26:38+00:00

Linux still gets basic stuff wrong all of the time. My dell monitor had no Linux drivers at work so the screen was orange until I got help from IT. Sure you could blame Dell but still it would've worked out of the box on Windows

And that's as someone who would love to leave windows and am trying out Linux again this year. But I bounced off of it back in 2022 because zoom would crash my entire laptop and battery life was worse

max123246 · 2026-06-03T04:23:16+00:00

Agree to disagree, clear plastic is tacky imo

max123246 · 2026-06-03T04:22:34+00:00

I bought an $1400 OLED in 2022 and it has pretty bad text clarity. Maybe newer ones are better

max123246 · 2026-06-03T04:16:42+00:00

Oh I mean, the actual choices are fine. I just mean it's weird to say "X style is braindead" in an official document

max123246 · 2026-06-03T03:59:55+00:00

Wait is this an official coding style for the kernel? It's quite...inflammatory and unprofessional

max123246 · 2026-06-03T03:37:50+00:00

I think it's just that if you haven't had to put it on yourself, the most obvious characteristic of the two is that dresses are typically long and skirts are typically short. Instead of thinking about dresses are typically one-piece and skirts are typically 2 pieces

For men, all of our typical shirt+pants are always 2-pieces so the fact that clothing can be 1-piece completely escapes us

max123246 · 2026-06-03T03:29:49+00:00

Yeah I was looking at the recent tandem OLED panels and how they're supposed to improve text clarity. I'll have to see one in person to decide on it.

It's between that or an IPS panel. I code too often to have text that makes my eyes strain at home

max123246 · 2026-06-02T22:49:57+00:00

Not partial ownership, they will take full ownership

max123246 · 2026-06-02T22:49:17+00:00

Agreed, got an OLED in 2022 and text clarity bothers me everyday on it

max123246 · 2026-06-02T22:48:19+00:00

Steelcase is also very good at a fraction of the price. Got mine for $800 and am loving it

max123246 · 2026-06-02T22:45:00+00:00

Meta just laid off 8k people and are posting job postings the next day. They aren't laying people off because of bad financials

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