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My employer wants to rename all software developer positions to "prompt engineers". This is to emphasize our shift to be "AI-first".

File a dispute with your bank. You did not authorize the charges and you tried working with the business (Cursor) to resolve the issue. Save the emails as the evidence in case your…

Does not work for me curl -X POST -H 'Authorization: Bearer ***' \ https://challenge.sphinxhq.com/api/mortys/portal \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'{"planet": 0, "morty_co…

Back in pre-module days, Slackware shipped with "big" kernel with lots of drivers compiled in. The advantage was that this way the kernel could boot on a wide range of hardware. Bu…

It's just grift. $360k spent on salaries and bonuses goes surprisingly fast.

I have a company-issued laptop with some corporate spyware installed. I'm not actually required to use it for development, so I don't use it. But I have to switch it on from time t…

Language: Sinclair Basic + ToBoS compiler. Running on ZX Spectrum clone. I wrote some computational program to help with my dad's research. It was successfully published so this wa…

6000 ppm is a normal level after 1 hour meeting in a closed conference room. Assuming non-openable windows (which is normal in modern offices).

Only the ones that use Hadoop cluster.

I lost access to my bank account in UK because my token ran out of battery. The only way to fix this is to fly to London and show up in person. This is a pain because I can't even …

Being locked out is an improvement?

Easy. Just make $84k per month. You'll get to 1 mil in about a year.

Or Chinese Remainder Theorem

Google (pre-pandemic). Awesome trip to Bay area. Very interesting interview - in a room with a white board covering entire wall. Mostly coding but also talking about algorithms, da…

Software architect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_architect

Maybe they are evil geniuses?

In case of modern appliances, you are not the only customer/user of the product. Other customers are various advertisers that are interested in data about you. The updates provide …

Imagine the possibilities: pricing per core/per billion of instructions executed. Turbo boost add-on package for only $9.99/month. AVX512 free with enterprise subscription or only …

Indeed it does: https://github.com/openSUSE/opi/blob/5fc82de009fb3e792550607... I'm not sure what this proxy is for though.

Forced updates that can be delayed but not disabled.

Right. Anyone passing by can look at employees' monitors. So they feel the pressure to "look busy" at all times - not much difference from open office.

Believe it or not this feature is intentional. It is for your privacy so you cannot be tracked by your IP address...

And naturally the ones to decide which software is unsafe will be the lobbyists from the most powerful tech companies like Microsoft or Google.

Atlassian by any chance? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wUOUmeulNs