@tosensei Self-hosted version control makes so much more sense, and was the norm at every company I worked at until recently. I was at one shop that self-hosted Gitlab, which use to be a pain to upgrade (I've heard it's gotten better), but it's typically the most basic and easiest thing to host; and yet startups pay $$$ per user for garbage like Github Enterprise (and often let people tie personal accounts to company organizations).

I really don't get it. If your company can't even host version control, what business do you have architecting anything?

I've been messing around with GPT4ALL, which nicely packages a UI with automatically downloading models. You can also get additional models from huggingface dot io.

Don't use GDrive/OneDrive/MEGA/Dropbox. They're just all falvours of terrible.

Use your own syncing using syncthing or git-annex. Don't let other people be responsible for your data.

Duplicity is a great backup solution too

It's been 14 years since I finished Grad School. I don't remember anything about what it was like. I'm pretty sure I'd hate it even more today.

People are still manually doing SSL certs instead of using ACME?

A law? No. Stop that! You don't fix shit by mandates! Manufacturers will make thicker phones if people buy them.

You can mandate things like removable/replaceable batteries because the manufacture will be anti-consumer in order to sell more produce and reduce repairability. But the State should never demand specific product design. Let consumer choose that.

@Demolishun It could, but I have a feeling Billet is going to get a lot of positive publicity off of this. This product is highly specialized.

No one is really giving the product justice. It cools the video card and the CPU with the same block! Like, it's only for people who are machining custom cases! If they get even 10 pre-orders from this, it will people who money to burn, who like making super custom stuff, and could lead to a lot of open source case designs just for this block.

I don't think they'd sue here. It would be a bad look, they've got plenty of good attention, and they'd have to deal with international law (UK vs Canada).

Hell if I knew how to metal work, I'd be tempted to give their block a try.

Any new company, I feel like I'm trying to prove myself during the first three to six months. After a year it always seems to be easier ... I have enough domain knowledge to always ask meaningful questions or talk about the architecture.

I've only been with two shit shops where the code base was an impossible clusterfuck, and in both cases they expected people to work 70+ hours a week and in both cases I was eventually fired.

Any half way decent company (over 80% of my jobs) always get easier after that first year ... although usually more frustrating.

I stopped watching LTT years ago when they started giving medical advice, and did the mask virtue signaling thing. He also forced the experimental jab on all his staff.

Around that time I was watching GN and Jays2cents and found them both way less annoying than LTT. I really love all the stuff Gamers Nexus does. It's a bit more dry and down to earth, but I prefer that stuff.

I couldn't give a fuck about LTT, but they made the mistake of specifically throwing shit at GN, and GN had to respond and did so really well.

LTTs apology video was originally pay-walled on FlowPlane, it has joke adverts for their store, and they originally monetized the YouTube version .. and they forgot to blur out emails and personal info.

LTT will survive, but I hope they lose a ton of viewers. It's a shit channel. 🍿

I deleted my account back in 2022 and wrote a whole rant about it on my blog:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/...

Well don't try Ruby then

Alcohol? Caffeine? Weed? .. Meth?

I stopped buying anything from them after they started supporting the terrorist group Black Lives Matter and put up the religious rainbow flag. Fuck em.

ah yes, a Factory .. a Client side factory .. a Client Side Logging ... Factory ....

Everything is terrible!

You could try the Minisforums. I have one for my HTPC and it's ... eh .. not the greatest when it comes to 4k Display, but if you're using them just for VMs they might be good. Also the fans can get annoying so be aware of that.

@LotsOfCaffeine I don't understand ... there are a LOT of good cases for singletons. It does depend HIGHLY on the language and underlying virtual machine.

Singletons in Ruby or Python make zero sense: yes. Typical deployments don't have long running VMs and each request creates all the objects from scratch on each request. Objects are really fast in these situations.

Java/Scala/Kotlin/Clojure, however, are excellent cases for singletons because the classes persist across all incoming connections. You can do some amazing things with caching internally within the JVM without having to rely on tools like Reddis.

JVM/.NET languages are big tradeoffs. They have a higher spin-up time and larger memory footprints (although that's usually because of the massive amount of Java dependencies that get pulled in. If you minimize dependencies, you can get a very small Java footprint. The OpenHAB project is a pretty good example), but they also scale up very well without tools like Reddis.

@atheist Then you're doing it wrong. 😠

You read all of xkcd?! .. I'm .. sorry.

There are like, several xkcd sucks blogs now, but the original (I think it was xkcd-sucks) was one of the better ones. I stopped reading xkcd a long time ago.

I'd suggest reading sinfest instead. Start from the most recent ones. There were a few years where he went super off the rails, but everything he rights now is amazing and spot on.

@sariel Because of a 2nd dot com collapse? Did you read the article? Most companies are overvalued and leveraged by their venture capital funding. When the next bubble pops, we'll get another round of "too big to fail," and the VCs will cut a lot of small companies as dead weight.

Starting remote/distributed companies from scratch is incredibly more difficult than people think. It can be done, but I think a lot of the successful startups we have today would not have been so if they tried to start fully remote.

@100110111 Well that was mean. Incoherent ramble? I wrote a well thought out, well sourced article.

Really, capitalism is the house of cards? Capitalism was doing fine until the entire planet went fascism and closed all businesses, without any due-process. The lockdowns did nothing for public health and only destroyed businesses, created a state of mass hysteria and allowed for massive consolidation of large companies. It destroyed diversity in the marketplace and the diversity of ideas (real diversity, not racist/sexist you need to be a different color of liberal fake diversity).

Remote work only increases the divide between high income earners and those who drive delivery trucks, farm the land, and do the honest work that keeps our world going.

If you don't see the coming collapse, I don't know what to tell you. You are proof humans now live in distinct realities.

@darksideofyay

>women make 0.70 to a dollar a man makes

This is an outright lie and falsehood. It's not remotely true, unless you include all women who do not work and bundle them together with all women who work and compare them to all men. It doesn't take into account careers or separate out women who stay home to raise kids.

It's outright wrong and lazy and people need to stop using this bullshit atavistic that doesn't work the way you think it does.

Agree it's inappropriate, but disagree on the college grad comment. Especially with colleges now, you're more likely to get insane stuff. Like they might not ask you to help hook them up, but they'll probably scream at you for not using the right pronoun and talk about how you're their oppressor.

I wrote this last month. Diversity is a Litmus test:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/...

My advice: you're a mercenary. You do the work for the pay. You don't care about their bullshit ideological beliefs. You'll non your head and do your best coding so long as the money keeps coming, just like a CIA agent and the gold as he murders some kids.

Now if you get a chance to watch a diversity hire fall all over the place and fail miserable, so long as you don't do their work for them, it can be a good laugh.

who? never heard of him..

cursory glance ... guessing crypto bros hate him for calling them out on bullshit

@sheriffderek Read the link to my article in the original post. Short answer: no. Diversity of ideas are bad. Only certain types of diversity are okay.

QOwnNotes is really good. I just switched to it from gedit as my scratchpad.

Sounds toxic. Places that change priorities weekly are always shit shops. I've only worked for two places like that. Find places that appreciate you and that engineer well.

I don't get it

I just want to say I called most of this in March of 2020:

https://battlepenguin.com/philosoph...

but I didn't realize it would last THIS long:

https://battlepenguin.com/philosoph...

No Rust yet? 😅