CableNinja

Im usually ok with some slowness, i unfortunately accept that we live in a bloated world now. But, wow there are some things now that its just awful, i want to find some of these devs and ask them how did they even let it get so bad.

home depots site is seriously one of the worst. Mobile phone that is from this year, on good wifi, and it takes many seconds to load any page, HOW!?!?

Why are we sinking huge amounts of already processed resources... yes theres cost but, thats a lot of steel, copper, brass who knows what else. So crazy and ridiculous to me

Next someone is gonna pipe up and say they used AI to enable them to continue using FrontPage extensions to keep their php+cf sites working

A coworker created a whole financials site, and then another coworker did the same thing, but turned it into a game. You add your real financials (age, income, stocks, etc) and then as you walk through the hall it changes your financials and allows you to see the various changes, even has life event changes, retirement age markers, all kinds of ridiculous things.

I just picked up a project car, and have decided to use AI as my side-mechanic and helper. I had it build a local site, which has a checklist with subtasks, note and photo abilities and parts tracker. The checklist was built up by ai based on what ive been telling it, etc. I have tuned the project ai to handle part searches, identification, and general help. I just added a trigger for things like adding notes and photos, so that when i add them, a request is fired off to the ai, and it will analyze, id, etc. Ive also given myself a way to directly prompt the ai from the site for help, instructions, diagrams, whatever. Ive got a little thinkcentre pc in the garage where the site is accessible, and its also available on my phone for pictures. Its still early in the car project itself but its already been helpful in identifying the engine, and found 2 issues i overlooked.

Also ai helped me build an offgrid setup for said garage because the garage has no power. Helped me size things out, gave me diagrams, etc. Also has already provided me with a way to setup an automatic generator startup when the battery is low. I havent set that up yet, but its in the pipeline.

I started and then abandoned a really deep circuit simulator, which was going to be able to emulate full actions and code eventually.

aaaand lastly, ive spent the last 2 months in the evenings with ai building a complex rts game in godot, its almost 1.0 ready. Sadly the ai im using has been really struggling to turn out quality 3d models, so thats probably going to be on me, which will delay significantly.

Im not one to take a horse drawn carriage except in maybe two instances, but i see the appeal as a "general tourist", the horse ride around central park is one of those touristy things that seems like you do, because youre there. That being said, i agree that its not great for the horses, and unfortunately i can understand the want for it gone.

I dont normally up these kinds of posts, but this one got me.

Ctrl+r is great, sometimes. History saving sucks which can make using it difficult, but i usually use it out of laziness than trying to recall a command, especially with ssh or repeated iterations requiring flipping between two settings/states. Its hard to rely on it for other things, but its still super useful.

I think that "everyday" would be a stretch, but i dont understand why youd think thats annoying, someone took the time to consider helping the rest of the engineering team grow, by posting something useful.

I frequently do the same, but not everyday; only when i think its something actually useful/helpful beyond the everyday crap. Most recently, we have had a huge push to use ai (just like everywhere else), ive been getting pretty creative with it, and at this point have a well polished setup that i can give a shitty sentence on a problem, not only does it understand the task, but theres a full ticket->branch->work->pr review->ready comment flow that it uses. My team also uses ai but they havent quite wrapped their head on ways to really work with it. I have built and shared a number of helpful things with the team to try and help them grow. One such thing was a doc i had my ai instance write, based on how ive been using my setup. This alone has started to get the rest of the team up to where i am.

My team doesnt share the same types of things i do, but they still share helpful things.

Call it what you will; I think if youre not helping your team grow by providing insights and helpful things, then youre not the kind of person i want to work with.

Artifactory (jfrog) is a laughably bad openapi spec setup. Ive even called them out on it. "we provide an openapi spec".. well its technically sort of true, except if you actually want that spec, theres no way to actually sanely grab the spec. And, when you do finally manage to get it, its incomplete, full of badly defined objects, and ends up being utterly useless. Oh and did i mention that their spec ends up being some 35MB even after beating it to death and trying to shape it up. And, while they have /v1/ pathing, you guessed it, every app version changes the spec somewhere, and theres no v2 etc.

Ive concluded that unless the person is 100% passionate about openapi, the spec is a mess, and compatibility is a joke contained in an afterthought

Did not watch the video, but the title immediately reminded me of an incident at a past job.

Was a devops engineer, whole app team (who only ever wrote nodejs) got fed up with pacemaker/corosync. "we are going to write our own" they said, and proceeded to try to whip out nodejs for it, i laughed and laughed, and then told them fuck no, dont do it.

When all you know is a hammer...

Thats quite a lot more than i expected, i just have never had a good experience with insurance, everything is a long drawn fight. Probably not worth it unless under specific circumstances

Someone forgot to set the brake in their car, rolled into the back of my dads 70ish pickup. It rolled the width of a parking row, on fairly flat surface. The car had no chance obviously, but it was pretty funny seeing the damage; bumper and fender, not just a minor one you could slap out with a good fist slam either. There was zero damage to the truck

Can you elaborate on this some? Afaik insurance is the only thing they would accept. I think insurance is generally a nasty scam so anything to get away from it would be pretty neat

Funny enough i was just recently thinking about how most defrosters would probably make a great antenna with minor modifications