tiredofsametab

I recently got moved to another team after my company restructured. Several repos have zero documentation. Most of those don’t even have comments on the functions. LinkXxxx(some args) like Xxxx to /what?!/ It’s also an over-engineered mess with multiple layers of abstraction. I can’t wait to finish figuring out what everything does and re-write (and document it) like a sane person. This code presumably had no AI involvement which I’d argue is even worse since real humans made these shit decisions. Don’t get me starting on their testing (and mostly lack thereof)…

Worker suggested using AI to write some documentation. Another coworker did. I immediately spotted a bunch of hallucinated shit. Good times. I want to know in my head what a thing does, how it works, and how it fits into the architecture. I can’t do that if an AI is just deciding stuff; it’s like a quiz back in school where I would memorize shit for about one week before 99% of it left my brain forever.

Oh yeah? Well, I’ve pooped at a significant fraction of the speed of sound

I stopped. Anyone who wanted to keep in touch with me was given other methods of doing that. Anyone else who couldn’t be bothered to spend 20 extra seconds? Not worth having in my life.

Kinda. I don’t use most social media, which I suppose is not super helpful

I’m in Japan. It’s not worth it on my scale to even try. I do plan to get chickens for our eggs (and bonus bug eating and compost helping), but otherwise I’m just in the veg business. I have full English support and website which helps me find my market

It’s always a balance of what you can afford, what you want to do, and what your market can bare. You may love raising chickens, but eggs will almost never pay off. I love hot peppers. But I can’t get by growing just that. It is skilled and complicated for sure.

[I]t’s hard work for low pay that is very hard to buy yourself into if you weren’t born with some land.

It’s certainly hard work and low pay (compared to software engineering) in many cases, but it is rewarding.

As for the land, that really depends on the scale and the country.

Senior software engineer and farmer here. I approve.

AFAIK, if you’re targeting mainland China and don’t need to read anything historic, simplified should be enough. Anywhere else, you would need to learn them. I quite like this YouTuber for various linguistic stuff on Chinese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8EFhnMaVRk

I can read probably 1000ish kanji (maybe more), and some are super easy. Others are less so 漢 -> 汉 is … what?

right-click and see where a menu opens.

Which of the diamonds goes on the back of the truck for this one?

No one in rural Japan (or at least my corner of it) is doing meshtastic. Japan is more strict on power as well. I am a licensed HAM and even that is pretty thin on the ground up here these days. I had family visit and one brought a node. Nothing at all anywhere we travelled even in one of northern Japan’s biggest cities

Nice. My wife and I are one different carriers purely for disaster purposes. I used to have a wifi router on a third as my travel/work-backup. This is a good step for major disasters.

The downside is that, in the event of large-scale power outages, it will only be so helpful. When I lived in the US, I rode out hurricane Ike in Houston and we had no cell service as the battery backups on the cell towers slowly expired. Some in 24 hours, the longest I think in 72.

I instinctively clicked away at ‘researchmaxxxxed’ (or however many 'x’s the thing had). Do I need to go yell at a cloud now?

Research has shown that many readers today greatly value quick overviews of any article, before the reader considers whether to dive into the article’s full text.

I’m in my mid 40s and this is true of me depending upon why I might be reading something. Sometimes, I want to do a deep dive; sometimes I just want to know roughly what thing is.

However, let me say: fuck AI summaries.

We were going to destroy it in an oven after printing, but the whole “pre-heating” thing led to a not-yet-resolved argument.

I looked at code I wrote about a year ago today. Yeah, there are things I would’ve done differently now, but I had no trouble following it. Some of the choices I made were company standards at the time as well which, thankfully, have improved.

Firefox mobile. Input the homepage URL into the address bar from this post. Went, scrolled the page a bit, and hit back. Came straight back here

I learned that upgrading mint broke my video editing software and I had to go back to windows to work on one of my jobs. I also had some issues with networked SNES emulation (for ALTTPR) that I could never work out.

I can survive without SNES games, but not being able to update my os without worrying about breaking things I must do for my job is a deal breaker (I have 2 jobs as well, one of which is my own farm business, so time is a luxury I don’t have).

I can’t wait for this to stop being an issue and move fully to linux