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AboutI like making things, adding features, fixing things. I've got too many things on the go at once for repetitive, so I'll automate instead.
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SkillsC++, Python, ML
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LocationLondon, UK
Joined devRant on 10/9/2016
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Currently doing algebra to work out which of 2 slightly different functions is wrong and all this tells me is that both are crap.1
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In a slack call just realised I've zoned out for the last half hour and it's now lunch time and I'm hungry...8
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Is this the beginning of the end? Seems like devRant ++ is bugged. Payment for April was taken but I'm nolonger a ++ member.13
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Using chatGPT. Seems about as cooperative and willing to do its job as I am.
Can you make me a word cloud in svg format?
"I'm sorry, I can't directly generate svg content, here are some other tools for that"
Can you write code?
"Yes, certainly, here's some python to generate a word cloud"
Can you write svd code?
"Yes, certainly, here's an example word cloud in svd format"
Can you make the words get bigger when I mouse over them?
"Yes, here's the code".
It's mastered "have you tried googling it?"2 -
Fucking hypocrite, tell me to create a review for fucking version changes, they create a review of significant build system changes, don't add all their changes to the review and merge it while it's being reviewed... And I'm super unhappy with their changes...
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You ever get the feeling that you work with a chisel and there's that one colleague that works with a 16lb sledge hammer?
I'll make a nice elegant fix for a problem, they'll struggle to work with it so pound it with a hammer, I'll come back to it and try to iron out some of the dents...1 -
Go, Rust, C#, Swift, Java, Ruby, Python, Delphi/Object Pascal, Ada.
Those are the "approved" memory safe languages of the us gov. Seriously, go fuck yourself.
https://readwrite.com/the-nsa-list-...24 -
The difference between having a million dollar idea and having a million dollars is, unfortunately, a awful lot of work.9
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I'm doing a thing that I *think* will save time, but it's weighing the time saved in having to maintain the secure password against having to convince my manager that using a random string in an ansible deployment for a database is fine because everything that connects to it is in the same stack... What could go wrong?2
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Someone found a shiny GPU library and asked us to support said library. We now support said library. Now they're finding out their hardware isn't supported by said library. And this is apparently now our problem...2
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Doing compulsory cyber security training and it's like "if you click a malicious link report it to the IT helpdesk" I and I click agree knowing full well the closest thing to IT we have is me...2
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I'm not perfect. I've made fuckups. But most of the fuck ups I've made have been in unimportant code that wasn't used by anyone (part of the reason I'm not super happy with my job but whatever). But I've just found a fuckup that was in code that did matter...5
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I've found a bug in our api. Reading documentation for the external class we're using and see "please read these notes carefully". I think I've found where the problem is going to be...
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Sometimes I forget how good I am at my job, then I'm listening to someone explain how to set stuff up and they're like "do this and this and that and install these build tools" and I'm looking at them confused coz I've already got a docker compose stack that includes everything they're talking about, and then I realise that difference is called "experience"5
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Coming back to c++ after far too long in python...
Compiler: "Do you even know what a semicolon is?!"7 -
Having a discussion with my manager about how interesting I find the job and what I want to focus on and me trying to answer truthfully without just saying I want a different job...4
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Tryna decide what I want my next job to be, I currently span some performance stuff, some data stuff. I'm torn between going hardcore c++ high performance compute or pure data science.6
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On an all hands with a higher up that recently joined the company advocating "in person" discussion and I'm just like "yes you're a boomer we get it nobody gives a shit"1
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There's a comment I left on a code review on Friday that I have absolutely zero recollection of even looking at the review. On the upside, apparently I did work in my sleep..? It's something that was discussed in today's stand-up...
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Fuck this. I need a data science job title.
We're implementing something based on a paper, as requested by our head of DS. The head of DS hasn't read the paper. I have. So has my team. We're discussing something, they don't understand how we should do something, I understand it coz I have a maths background but they want to ask head of DS to be sure. Who hasn't read the paper. I knew he hadn't read the paper because he came up with a stupid newfangled solution to a problem, when the paper already solves the problem, so his idea isn't needed but we implemented it as an optional feature to keep him happy anyway. So why the fuck are we asking him? He's not an idiot, but he does throw a lot of stuff at the wall hoping it'll stick. And he's not very methodical. And not reading the paper is unprofessional as fuck. -
My status update for tomorrow:
"I've done the tests and have the results, now all I have to do is work out what the numbers mean coz I started this task 6 months ago and have spent most of the last 6 months putting out fires elsewhere and have no idea what I was doing".2
