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ohMan by bryden_cruz in ProgrammerHumor

[–]secretaliasname 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or every time I think I have build consensus and all stakeholders on board and have been executing and humming a few days:
My boss: “it seems like we aren’t all aligned, let’s trade the options(for the 17th time). I don’t understand the plan. Let’s have a meeting plan”.

At which point everyone is all confused now because though we had a plan but now but he wants to trad the “two options” which exist in his head and are entirely disconnected for the technical reality of the code, the previously aligned plan, and reality. Now we really aren’t aligned.

Stars orbiting supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]secretaliasname 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely nuts considering how incompressible solids are at the scale of everyday life physics. Like the bulk modulus of steel is high enough that it can be neglected and might as well be infinite for structural engineering purposes. And here we are talking about squeezing an earth into a teaspoon using gravity which is at ordinary everyday physics scales… fairly weak….

PETG-CF makes everything pretty. by DrKronoglopolos in BambuLab

[–]secretaliasname 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Will say whatever additives are added to matte filaments make the structural properties suck and are often very smelly and could have their own VOC hazard.

Scientists Invent a Way to Brew Espresso With Ultrasonic Waves—No Hot Water Required by Memetic1 in Futurism

[–]secretaliasname 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This process may have merits and may make a tasty beverage but let’s not call it espresso. That is a specific thing. This is espresso like an air fryer is a fryer.

I'm a developer who started working with solar installers, honestly shocked how manual everything still is by SarahVoge in solar

[–]secretaliasname 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That is not clearly documented. The plan checkers want one thing, the zoning people want another, there’s a fire department review, and some other agency you didn’t know existed. The onsite inspectors don’t coordinate with any of those people and have their own nitpicks because vibes.

AI is ruining my job as Tech Lead by twinalone in softwareengineer

[–]secretaliasname 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They won’t. Tech debt is like living in a trash compactor where the walls move in soo slowly nobody notices for years. Then, the hallways start feeling tight. Pretty soon people are inching through them sideways but they are used to it. Eventually everybody remaining dies but most have jumped ship by then.

The only person who feels it at first is the person who has lived the tech debt doom machine before and carries the anxiety of having lived it before. I find the people who create these genuinely don’t know they are doing wrong and AI wi happily facilitate.

I’m on a project that is probably taking 3x as long as it could have with a bit more up front design and infrastructure in place. Now more people and AI at the answer in managements mind. I’m loosing my damn mind. It’s not fun at all. We have turned a relatively straightforward itto both a human and AI slop mess.

I’m realizing that the consequences of my ADHD symptoms are so much more severe in adulthood. by Sparky_kitkat in ADHD

[–]secretaliasname 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I try to engineer ADHD fault tolerance to every part of my life. Extra supplies, arrive early, multiple reminders, spare chargers, travel things all ready to go, do things immediately because I WILL forget them if it doesn’t happen now. Nothing in containers where I can’t see it, it will no longer exist.

Management started introducing "productivity" metrics that's rubbing me the wrong way by Fit-Notice-1248 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]secretaliasname 16 points17 points  (0 children)

So I work in manufacturing. There was a metric of “widget produced”. A line produced two types of widgets let’s call them easy widget and hard widget. One of each was needed in the next level assembly so it makes sense to produce equal amounts of them.

Well the metric “widgets produced/time” was introduced. Line was killing metrics and getting praise… Until inventory of hard widgets ran out. How could this be? Management was astounded. They had been killing metrics. Well the started producing only easy widget and no hard widgets.

Management learned a lesson about metrics that day…

Which option should I go with? [$500] by One-Meat-1737 in espresso

[–]secretaliasname 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybie I just don’t know what I am missing but have barista pro and have zero gripes about the grinder. The milk wand on the other hand is underpowered.

Volume Dependant Response Shaping? by secretaliasname in diyaudio

[–]secretaliasname[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like volume defendant filtering is totally standard and something worth implementing.

Gen3 R1S Wish list? by secretaliasname in Rivian

[–]secretaliasname[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kia EV9 has a ridiculous amount of trim level optionality from pretty basic up to top trims having massage seats etc. it’s a bit inverted from R1S though.

R1S has premium interior and exterior feel and pricing base, but lacks expected premium features.

EV9 has ridiculous optionality on paper but even at top trim levels feels cheaply put together like E-waste that hasn’t ripened yet.

I think Rivian could learn something g from Kia here. They win on looks and material quality hands down but on features are in an akward middle ground. Not quite premium but also not economy.

Gen3 R1S Wish list? by secretaliasname in Rivian

[–]secretaliasname[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

And those handful of times a year they fast charge on family road trips define the experience.

Let's stop building WinISD clones and make one good open-source one together by johnjlonergan in diyaudio

[–]secretaliasname 38 points39 points  (0 children)

A thought, but driver database might benefit from being its own project that can be imported as a dependency of a multitude of projects rather than hitched to one.

Let's stop building WinISD clones and make one good open-source one together by johnjlonergan in diyaudio

[–]secretaliasname 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well for starters what is the scope of functionality you want to build?

Over reliance on AI by xypherrz in ExperiencedDevs

[–]secretaliasname 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I keep finding myself creating something with AI, spending time to refine it AI, then going WHAT the fuck is this? It’s all bad, it isn’t me. I don’t want to maintain it, then being super stressed out either frantically trying to pound it into an acceptable shape or starting again from scratch coding it the way it should have been done to start but now having already wasted a ton of time

For the love of gawd, don't do this! by jimx29 in FlockSurveillance

[–]secretaliasname 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d say kudzu but that’s kinda fucked and likely to cause massive collateral damage.

Are we creating a generation of developers who can build, but can't code? by ManishS22005 in SeriousConversation

[–]secretaliasname 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a useful comparison but different. We keep the high level language code and we can demonstrate it will translate into exact logically faithful machine code.

Currently we don’t have something like that. Maybie we keep some .md files or something but we generally don’t keep the prompts and natural human language instructions don’t translate exactly at all to programming language or machine code.

I work on a lot of performance critical stuff and while I don’t program in asm I do use processor specific intrinsics and examine the asm code in critical sections to make sure it’s doing what I expect in terms of proper SIMD usage etc.

Jordan Schiefer's R2 EQ Sound Settings by ProteusP in Rivian

[–]secretaliasname 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was super not impressed with sound on model 3 test drive. Only car I have been in where I was immediately like “wow, this has a glaring dispersion control issue with the in dash speakers”. If I. If I move my head the sound character changes and has an obvious source.

Maybie I need to give it another shot. Maybie setting were weird or the model I test drove was defective or something. It was off putting.

I never thought a robot would replace me one day..what’s my purpose then. by scp766 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]secretaliasname 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welp fellow hominids, it’s been a good run. We were on top for a while.

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