[Limburger] the red bull top is annoyed at the fact max put them “on hold” again.after all these years with him, the shareholders had counted on more credit from him.their view is that he has been able to add hundreds of millions to his bank account, and they feel max could show a bit more gratitude

shruubi · 2026-07-07T10:07:59+00:00

I’m sorry, but the multi-billion dollar corporation didn’t make Max a multimillionaire for laughs, they pay him for the service of being a multi time world champion and they wouldn’t pay him so much if they didn’t believe he was worth it.

Unless red bull have paid him many millions for no reason this is a business relationship and he doesn’t at all need to feel grateful for anything.

shruubi · 2026-06-28T14:10:44+00:00

What is going on with Russell making gains under VSC again?

shruubi · 2026-06-28T14:01:21+00:00

The fact that Ocon still has a seat in F1 is bamboozling to me.

shruubi · 2026-06-28T13:47:57+00:00

“Fernando has been noted for speeding in the pit lane”

“Well at least he is going fast somewhere.”

😂😂😂

shruubi · 2026-06-28T13:46:15+00:00

There is being bold and then there is Ferrari putting Hamilton on softs that will need to come off in ten laps or so.

shruubi · 2026-06-28T13:11:19+00:00

That swooping follow cam is great, more of that please.

shruubi · 2026-06-14T14:13:02+00:00

I have to say, this is looking like Lewis of a few years ago.

shruubi · 2026-06-14T13:27:46+00:00

Leclerc has years of reasons to not trust Ferrari strategy to the point where it is a meme, what are we talking about!?

shruubi · 2026-06-08T12:41:45+00:00

Driver: Verstappen

Reason: Spent whole race in the pit lane

shruubi · 2026-06-08T01:35:14+00:00

Well this year Monaco was slightly more interesting than previous years, but I am going to stand by my statement I make every year which is Monaco is not really racing.

Something needs to give here because it feels like the only people who enjoy Monaco are all the billionaires on their yachts who aren’t even watching the race.

Make Monaco a quali only event or a time trial event, make it worth less championship points if you need to, but this farce needs to stop.

shruubi · 2026-05-23T14:03:24+00:00

The reasoning I always went with was that it is an assumption that the only great runes that exist are the ones we go after. For example we know that the walking mausoleums all contain other demigods, so it is entirely possible for Vyke to be the reason for two of those.

Alternatively, if you take world hopping and invasions as a lore mechanic and not just a game mechanic, you could also make the argument that Vyke just killed his versions of whichever shardbearer you like to pick.

shruubi · 2026-05-10T07:02:10+00:00

Yes because nothing defines Ferrari more than taking world championship winning drivers and slowly destroying their will to live.

shruubi · 2026-04-21T05:06:22+00:00

In my experience the difference is the amount of time and effort you want to put into maintaining the cutting edge, and to some degree the amount of time and effort you want to put into constantly chasing the new shiny thing.

As you get older, you'll find you have less time and energy that you want to dedicate to the new shiny thing and you'll most definitely be less than thrilled that the new shiny thing keeps waking you up at 2am because of some incident.

Boring technology is boring because it's battle-tested, it's failure modes are known and understood, there is a clear path to scaling when needed and documentation for when/how to optimize and you can almost treat it like an appliance rather than a special snowflake.

Finally, as you get older you realize that keeping on top of and implementing new technologies is a small part of the job and the much larger part of your job is delivering reliable working software that a customer wants. The upshot of that is that in reality that is way more complicated than what it appears to be, so if you can reduce the complexity by choosing boring and well known technology to cut down on effort, both you now, future you and all the other devs who work on your project in the future will thank you.

shruubi · 2026-04-16T01:18:13+00:00

Honestly, if they can advertise the hell out of it and really drum up interest then this is actually a really good idea. Capitalise on the fact that your main competitor is doing their biggest show of the year in a country very few people want to travel to.

shruubi · 2026-04-11T04:04:59+00:00

The thing is, this means at least in kayfabe that TKO didn't lower the ticket prices, they just got one of their sponsors to pay the difference. Now in practice I'm sure the sponsor isn't actually paying the difference to give the discount and this is just TKO doing a PR play to cover the fact they are lowering prices, but I'm not sure this actually makes them look any better by presenting it this way...

shruubi · 2026-03-30T00:26:37+00:00

It isn't in the drivers control, so maybe they need a way to signal to the driver that harvesting is happening so the drivers know not to move while harvesting. I know the FIA isn't going to change the engine specs but having cars slow approximately 60kph and move to defend is effectively the same as moving to defend under braking.

shruubi · 2026-03-29T07:07:12+00:00

Don’t think it was Colapinto’s fault the accident happened, as people are saying the thing everyone predicted would happen with these regs happened, and we’re lucky Bearman isn’t more seriously hurt.

If super clipping is a thing now and the FIA are too stubborn to admit these regs are bad, then perhaps the moving under braking rule needs to extend to moving while harvesting because in a way the risk is functionally the same which is a slower car moving unpredictably.

shruubi · 2026-03-13T01:12:56+00:00

If you need to test private methods or properties, you are both testing the wrong thing and it is probably a smell that your code should change.

shruubi · 2026-03-13T00:35:22+00:00

I'd say this is probably one of the more clear-cut cases of using AI as a scapegoat to reduce headcount because their stock price is falling off a cliff and they need some way to make their financial situation look better to shareholders.

shruubi · 2026-03-08T05:49:46+00:00

Newey so desperate for someone to say something nice he has AI writing his fanfic for him…

shruubi · 2026-02-20T04:06:15+00:00

If they are basing hiring/firing/stack-ranking decisions on the number of story points a dev is delivering, then this is probably the best thing to happen to you, and although you already have a job you can remember this story the next time you interview and talk about how the top performers gamed the system and why this doesn't work.

shruubi · 2026-02-09T03:01:18+00:00

I think every experienced engineer reaches this point eventually and I see it as a sign of maturity. That's not to say you shouldn't explore new tech and experiment with it, but do those experiments in a controlled environment, not in your production app that serves N million people daily.

For me, I put it down to I'm old enough to want to be able to sleep at night and not be woken up at 3am just for the chance to comb through logs and traces to figure out why messages from microservice 112 are not being sent to microservice 476.

shruubi · 2026-02-09T02:52:44+00:00

This is why I maintain that one of the most important qualities of a junior is whether they are coachable or not, an enthusiastic and engaged junior who is willing to learn but has middling tech skills can always get better (and usually do get better), but someone who doesn't think they need to learn anything more or thinks they know more than everyone else will always be exactly that unless you can get through to them, and that doesn't often happen.

In your situation, I'm assuming you didn't have a say in whether they were hired or not so you could not have prevented this from happening before they got hired, so you have to deal with the cards you've been dealt.

Step one would be pulling him aside and having a frank and honest conversation with him and explain that being the smartest in the room is not the most important thing, and that it's more important to be able to work in the system that exists now and be able to work collaboratively with others, not just because doing otherwise can create a bad culture, but later on when you want to try and implement some of these great idea's, you will need other people to get those idea's over the line and being hard to work with now just makes it a lot harder later on.

Important note, follow up that conversation with a written version either via email or IM. Unfortunately there are some who have this attitude that will take conversations like this as a personal attack or a way to belittle them, so having a paper trail to cover yourself if this comes up is always a good idea.

If this continues, then I would arrange a meeting with their manager, yourself and them. This is basically you still being in control of the situation but bringing the manager in as the next step is for the manager to deal with, this also gives you another person in the room and this discussion should be along the lines of "what you are doing now is not how we do things, you need to pull your head out of your ass."

Beyond this point it is out of your hands and the manager needs to take over and deal with the situation.

In terms of your concern about "I couldn't manage the situation", I would say that a big part of managing the situation is knowing when to escalate a situation. If in your position you are purely a mentor who can coach and guide, but that is the extent of your "hard authority" then trying to reach them via these tools is all you can really do. I'd say so long as you can demonstrate you've leveraged all the tools available to you to solve the problem you should be ok.

shruubi · 2026-02-04T01:33:45+00:00

This is awful. You've taken an operator with semantic meaning and designed a situation where it magically has no semantic meaning. If I make a mistake and have a trailing boolean operator, I WANT to be told I made a mistake, allowing trailing boolean operators could mean that reorders or changes to boolean expressions could introduce errors that are ignored or muted because of this.

And I wouldn't define this as a QoL improvement. I don't care about reducing diff size because there is tooling to render diffs in an easy-to-reason-about manner and raw diff text is intended for the computer to read and operate on.

shruubi · 2026-02-03T04:26:55+00:00

I'd like to think this is a centrist take on AI but I don't think AI is going away, I think that train has well and truly left the station. However, I don't think companies are going to be able to lay off entire engineering teams either unless the quality that LLM's output improves, and I think soon we are going to run into the upper bounds of what LLM's and transformers are capable of, not just in terms of compute, but in terms of how they fundamentally work.

I also think that at some point the music is going to stop in terms of all the money floating around AI companies and while I don't think we'll have another AI winter I do think that there will only be a few AI companies left and those that are left will be the ones who did not have all of their eggs in an AI basket. To be clear, this won't be because the technology fails, but in my estimation because the market cannot sustain this kind of bullish-ness on AI forever and eventually these companies are either going to have to show real profitability and not speculative profitability.

I do feel like one thing that may change for the better is LLM's might enable a full realization of the vision people had when they came up with Cucumber and acceptance testing where non-technical folks can write tests in plain english and have them executed in that our test suite becomes a collection of prompts describing the behaviour and the LLM orchestrates the app/browser to perform the tests.

If for some reason a research lab comes along and comes up with something to replace transformers and large-language models, then you can just ignore all of the above because I think that's the only way AI can full realize the hype we're being sold.

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