How does one look cool with that shit keyboard and headset?

Thing is, that there are multitudes of sites I want to read like an article or two. Paying a subscription for all of them just isn’t feasible.

By now I even forgot the name of the project, but there was the idea to pay the actual creator for the article I’m reading.
And I really liked the idea. But as far as I know, that project died - and messy, if I remember correctly.

But the idea is still good imho.
I’d have no problem chipping in a bit, when an article is written good and informative. But I don’t want to buy the cow, when I only want a sip of milk.

Yeah, that’s the worst of it

How much time I spent writing eloborated mails, never got an answer, only to here in a meeting, the someone immediately demands answers and estimations from me - which I sent out to all members of this fucking meeting 2 weeks ago

Sadly most of my meetings are now on fucking teams

I really detest this garbage

Yeah… Start of the year is always an exercise in patience, when everyone spends 20mins to just wish everyone a new year and how their holidays were.

For fucking Christ, I’ve better things to do then this bullshit pseudo socializing, that’s absolutely worth nothing.

Will happily drink a beer with some of my colleagues, but that shit is just wasting time professionally

Exactly!
I was accepted a proposed timeline based on promised resources, which I never got.
And when shit hit the fan, they just said, but it’s your timeline?!

That was the point, where I promised myself, I’ll do nothing important anymore on the phone, because I’ll need written evidence.

And just a few months later, I was in that exact position, where I was blamed that something wasn’t ready, which was promised to the customer.
But as I had everything written in mails, what I’ve promised to accomplish, I could show, that everything there was actually finished and only the stuff managers promised, which I have objected to, was just horse shit.

Can’t trust anyone.
They will act friendly on the phone, just to throw you under the bus, when the heat comes up.

If people would be able to actually formulate their question, a text based conversation would be quite more productive.
But as they usually don’t even really know what they want to know and only have a vague idea, they need to talk, so they can get down to the point of their original problem.

As a technician/sw dev this usually the problem, when managers call me.
They call, because they have a problem they don’t understand. If they would have a clue, I could give a short precise answer.
But because they lack the correct words or don’t even really know what the problem is, they want to talk, so they can hide their incompetence and guide the conversation to their actual problem.

Maybe I’m just really pissed after all those years of senseless calls.
To be fair, I sometimes also use calls, when I need fast answers. But then it either really is a fast call or I have a discussion about a problem, where I’m not exactly sure how to proceed and need a second opinion.
And that’s the point. I’m not sure on those cases on how to proceed and need a discussion. Just like the people calling me.
But their questions are usually none to be discussed, but only not well formulated, because they don’t know their shit.

I don’t have anything against colleagues calling me for help and I spent 30mins discussing possible approaches.
But being on the phone for something that would be much better handled per text, because my answer is maybe complex and then I need to send it out as mail anyway, because my counterpart doesn’t understand it… This is just a waste of time, because of incompetence

Yeah, error reports seem to be some esoteric concept for some people…

I’m obviously doing the IT stuff for my family (although in the last years, I got out by saying, I’m doing Linux exclusively). So once I got a hysterical call, that the laptop is dead and nothing is working anymore.
So stupid me rushed over, just to find out that they just couldn’t receive emails, because their provider had a problem.

In my book, if a laptop is dead, there isn’t anything on the screen anymore - best case some BIOS stuff is happening.

I started to switch people over to Linux, at least the next generation and my near surroundings, and decline now most things on windows (or smartphones), because I officially haven’t worked with those operating systems since years, and all I do is just searching around and reading things, they could’ve done themselves, if they wouldn’t be too lazy to read.
I’m all open for people who are lost and need help, but then they mustn’t treat me like a fucking employee. I’m here to help you to solve your problems next time yourself, else my work here has no point.

I find it much more offending, when I’m the only one in the meeting who talks, because nobody knows shit, and afterwards they aren’t even able to write the stuff I said in their stupid document. So they send me the document - on some share of course, because we’re all working together - so I could have just skipped the meeting and written/filled out their fucking document in the first place.
And when that shit is actually finished, they spent 15 minutes congratulating each other how important this was and how great everyone did.
While nobody of them actually did anything, because they couldn’t understand a word.

I’m just so fucking sick of it…

nothing is faster than the speed of human interaction. A thirty second conversation can replace an email back-and-forth that goes on for hours or even days,

That shit is just not true
How much time I waste on the telephone or senseless meetings, which could be really answered by text, wouldn’t occupy a couple of people for an hour and I wouldn’t need to be ripped out of focus …

Maybe it really depends on the kind of work we’re talking about. But managers sometimes don’t seem to understand that I need to get an idea/concept in my head down in code (or at least some notes) right now, because it could be lost forever and it will take hours to get back to the a viable solution.
But yeah, just quickly call me about some stupid contract thing, where a translation isn’t correct…

Looking at the error reports and the user input logs, a rabbit couldn’t do worse…

At least in Austria it’s even more stupid
Immigrants from outside the EU have a real hard time to be even allowed to work legally.
And then people complain, that they’re only here to receive social benefits - or younger people sometimes get into illegal drug trade, because they also want to join their Austrian friends in partying or having a smartphone.
What the hell else should they do, when they’re not allowed to work?
Fucking hypocrites…

I took in an Indian immigrant in my company with a finished PhD (in Austria), because else he’d be forced to leave the country.
There were quite some hurdles to get over, so he could even start. Because you need to argue why you give the foreigner the job and they also need a quite high start salary, else they aren’t allowed to stay.
Seems to depend on the country of origin and what their immigration status is, but it’s at least not easy for them to even get a job.

Would love to see a picture of that

Ich versteh auch die Idee dahinter nicht

Wenn ich eh schon Amazon Prime Kunde bin, warum soll ich dann noch innerhalb deren Streams Werbung für den Dienst sehen, den ich eh schon nutze?

Wenn man neue Filme und Serien, die zu meinem Konsum Verhalten passen, bewerben möchte, gibt es dafür eh die Start Seite, wo solche Sachen angezeigt werden können

Hab keine Ahnung, was das bringen soll…

Edit: ah, steht eh im Artikel… Die wollen auf das Abo nochmal Geld, damit es werbefrei ist
Ja, so funktioniert das sicher …

rsync?

Yeah, can recommend that one too Although it sometimes seems to have some performance problems with a large amount of files - could be, that it’s already fixed though

But then the fault is obviously DEI, because it made the birds gay or something…

Why not just leave it at speed limits and use the power whatever the motor has until the speed limit is reached?
We already do this for cars - and we don’t differ between an athlete and …well, me, when it comes to acceleration on regular bikes, where the power limit is the human.

I really don’t get such low power limits on E-Bikes

As I said, the architectural changes are quite cool

As far as I’ve understood it mostly comes down to splitting it up into multiple expert systems, so you don’t need to activate the complete system with every request

But I’ve only scratched the surface…

Also, open source… The weights are made publicly available.
None of the training data or systems

Edit: regarding “open source”:
Also Meta’s Llama is on huggingface, just like deepseek. I still wouldn’t talk about transparency here

Let X burn - ironically like the KKK did
Twitter will always have a place in my heart. Let it rest in peace