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/Not a software engineer perspective working on side projects I guess if you're letting it vibe code huge chunks. I'm doing mostly handwritten code for my current project with a li…

When I was a teenager I submitted a random/unsolicited pull request to something in the spree ecosystem, got a very nice message from the maintainer/author saying that he appreciat…

For similar / further reading on historical pacemakers, check out https://www.implantable-device.com/category/implantable-comp... where David Prutchi has amassed what I think is a …

Summary: A winding rant about finding value as as a med device QE in new product introduction, getting along with difficult personalities and risk tolerances that don't mesh well w…

I take the opposite viewpoint as the criticisers -- they're too real, too foreseeable, that I would almost ask the Black Mirror writers not to give "them" any more ideas.

I think there's something about the physical acts and moments of writing out or typing out the words, or doing the analysis, etc. Writing 'our', backspacing, then forward again. Wr…

https://cdn.gpteng.co/gptengineer.js " type="module"> https://github.com/AntonOsika/gpt-engineer I believe I have identified the culprit.

I don't code for a living, and I'm probably worse than a fresh grad would be but I use: "Please don't generate or rewrite code, I just want to discuss the general approach." Bc I d…

If one is really hard pressed to use a windows box, I have found WSL to be a godsend. (eg at work, which is luckily at a relatively small company where IT isn't as locked down as o…

This is super funny when it's hitting the resource limit for a free tier. Like... I see that you already spent the resources to answer the question and send me half the response...…

Classic phenomenological analysis. "This is not reality, but as a model it's good enough for a first pass design analysis"

I draw pictures. Had some difficulty dreaming up a part to create in engineering school but 3D cad programs made my own shortcomings irrelevant. We had a 'intro engineering' class …

I learned that the car rental desks in a certain airport are split up with the 'good ones' on one side and Hertz, Dollar and friends on the other side. One fateful evening I land f…

Well it does say software engineering managers at the top but... This article is very strange to me as a non software engineer. To be fair my industry has CFR mandated management r…

The tiling-first paradigm of tiling WM feels less chaotic than using a standard floaty WM like Windows. For example, in Sway/i3 you get ~10 desktops by default, and tab between the…

I have seen them called something like 'government affairs' - We have them in med device for various reasons. Current company is in market creation, so we have people on staff who …

Reimbursement is the #1 barrier to bringing a novel therapy to market in the US for the company I'm working for. The technology is decades old and proven (the novel part is where i…

It's become impossible to get sit down food or a drink in a US airport without using (what seems to be the same) company's QR code online order and pay to your seat system. It seem…

My boss always sends a hello first, usually 1 to 5 minutes before I get the thing I'm actually supposed to respond to. If she just sent the whole thing at once, I could determine i…

Substack does have all these sketchy patterns but there is a 'Let me read it first' text link on the popup that lets you continue, seemingly without tracking how many times you've …

Yes used in practice! I do production support in this field. Nitinol is used in lots of vascular devices. At least in my company, they used it first in guidewires just for the supe…

I always liked the chemical acronym LiFePO4... it has "life" right in the name!

Thanks I like STAT news but I just can't justify paying $300/year - And I know I'm not special enough to get my company to pay for it :)

From Toyota perspective yes -- they can maintain appropriate kanban stocks in their individual factories and still pull as needed. Sounds like the suppliers might be "strongarmed" …