BruiseLee

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 bank needs it.

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_count": 2}'

  {"error":"planet must be an integer"}

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. But it was very bloated (for the time) and the users were expected to recompile the kernel with unnecessary drivers removed. I remember compiling it on Pentium 60 with 16MB of RAM. Took 1-2 hours or so.

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 to time or else I get a nice email from IT.

Anyway whenever I switch it on my wifi goes to shit. Apparently it does some SSID scanning every 5 seconds and then keeps sending the scan result to the "mothership". So I switch it on once or twice a week for an hour or so to do its spying thing.

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 figure out my account balance - and this is something I must report for U.S. taxes.

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, data structures, and concurrency. Met some great engineers. Unfortunately had to decline the offer due to family matters.