Liked it while I was working on the technology side figuring out MLOps in a company. Well those were technically ML models but same thing. I also did a small pet project creating an LLM from scratch, that was fun.

But I see little appealing as a user. I sometimes use it as a glorified search engine, and admittedly can be good at that. Mostly because Google search went to shit. Generated images, songs, videos … so pointless and fake. There is nothing human behind it, I can’t possibly enjoy that content. Talking about “serious” AI “art”. Jokes are a different thing, brainrot memes are kinda good.

Or just code the happy path and let it crash.

(this is actually a real philosophy in the Erlang world and I’m bummed it doesn’t receive wider acceptance)

Don’t you know, God is a lazy slob who needs to be provoked into action. And of course he has no idea what’s happening on Earth unless someone tells him in a very specific way.

It also means not absolutely hating your job. If you’re the only hater and everyone else likes working in the company you’ll have a bad time waiting for everyone to leave.

When CoMaps split it gained some energy and started developing more rapidly.
Now OM is also picking up pace judging by the number of commits, but I wouldn’t know which one will be more healthy in the long term. Staying with CoMaps for now unless something major changes (or a miracle happens and OsmAnd builds fast rendering)

According to wiki:

Simone Gbagbo is a controversial figure in Côte d’Ivoire. Involved in nationalist politics surrounding the Ivorian Civil War, in 2005 Radio France International reported that she was being investigated by the United Nations for human rights abuses, including organising death squads.

Sounds like a nice person

Probably undoing whatever it was they did on Monday (and badly patched in the meantime)

Windows team is desperate to remain relevant.

I suspect most Microsoft revenue these days comes from Azure and the cloud version of Office. Windows OS is pretty much irrelevant other than as a platform to distribute other products.

You’re using Java, there’s your problem

If anyone is in doubt - this is clearly satire

she suggests that every board meeting should include an AI bot – and perhaps, in the not-so-distant future, replace the entire board with bots altogether

She’s got a point though

a full stack developer sufficient in sql and python

Ok, let me first try to explain what happens on a good day, before going cynical.

Let’s assume we have an existing system. You go to what for you appears to be a website, fill some text fields, click on a button, etc. In the background a lot of shit happens. Typically the backend part of the system consists of tens of services each doing it’s own thing. Some participate in returning a response to you, the user. Others just process data further for analytics, security, etc.

One day someone (in most companies a product manager, or a UX researcher) comes up with an idea for a new feature. A user should be able to do XY. And of course pay for it.

That’s where you step in. Since you mentioned full stack, you will need to do everything.

• Create a new page with forms, buttons, nice colors and pictures on the frontend
• Accept the result of user actions of the above to an API in one of the services mentioned
• Save the data into a database (this is where SQL comes into play)
• Retrieve data from a database (SQL again)
• Emit various events or API calls to other services, informing about what just happened

This is all done with code. You can copy/paste, vibe code, just type it yourself. Code is the least of your concern. Making sure it all works together is what’s tricky. You will go through several iterations until you get it right. Then you write automated tests for it (TDD people don’t come at me).

Also you communicate to other people in the company about any dependencies and overlaps with what others are doing. Finally, you can deploy the code to production which will make it available globally to users.

I just described about 50% of the programmer job. I didn’t mention code reviews, architecture discussions, plannings, retros, communities of practice, incident handling, herding cats…

This is all valid in a good case scenario. good company and a good organization in it.
In reality it’s mostly waiting. A lot of waiting. Despair if you can’t make it work. Happiness if you can. Then despair again because all you do is pointless. A lot of fighting against the system designed to make you as unproductive as possible. Or just giving up and faking it for a paycheck.

Back in 2021 a lot of tech companies were offering visa+relocation packages. This specific company advertised on Glassdoor, however there are several similar job platforms. I think relocation offers are relatively uncommon these days.

There’s a lot of people out there whose goal is to feel morally superior, rather than change the world in any way.
They tend to congregate at the extremes both left and right. Anywhere when they can loudly judge and exclude others.

Well, not much else to say. Actually a lot more to say but to a therapist. I made some really bad choices in life, and suffered the consequences. A rags to riches to rags story.
Giving more specific details would go into doxxing territory.

A company was willing to sponsor my visa and pay for relocation costs. Was it worth it? In some other world it might have been, but the way it went for me - absolutely not.

If your entry point into a society is work, make really really sure you will like it. “Culture fit”, despite all the criticisms of the concept, is more important than ever. And make sure the initial social circle you fall into is conductive to your mental wellbeing.

In some ways it’s like being born. Your starting point matters. Anything you achieved previously doesn’t matter since your entire support system will be gone.

Let’s go one level deeper - people who say “I feel normal” do it because saying it is part of that script of life you’re talking about, not because they believe it deep down.

Basically internal life of almost any person other than yourself is impossible to know. And you can’t trust what they say, because they might be lying even to themselves or just don’t want to reveal deep inner thoughts to anyone.

One of the few ways into private thoughts is to get someone blackout drunk. But even that is not 100% reliable.

Someone who used to dislike it in school and university here.

Having to cram a lot of information and formulas, and then reproduce it without error for an exam. None of it made sense, and I wasn’t even aware it was possible for it to make sense.

Only after many years did I understand it’s all connected, there’s a logic to it. It’s possible to understand rather than just blindly learn.

Btw the notation really doesn’t help.

• Late Antiquity Roman Empire aka 300s-600s
• Ancient Egypt, pre-dynastic to new kingdom
• Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe, pre-indo-european and early Indo-Europan

Another fascinating period for me is precolumbian South America, even though I don’t know as much about it. But I can’t really visit any physical remains or museums easily. It really matters to me if I can just see, or even better touch something from that ancient civilization.

Other than the expensive gift this seems like a typical teenage infatuation.

“Look we know you think we have no idea, but I can bet that boy likes you as more than a friend. You have to gently let him know you’re not interested before he goes too deep, otherwise he’ll fall in love and you will lose a friend.”