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Repositories are rarely worth much.

Sure, some algorithms there might save you some time, but its often the design and the data where the money lies (what this guy focused on).

Clone google's repo and you'll likely struggle forever to get anything of substance running on a rando vm/docker/etc. not to mention about spinning the entire stack with interconnected services, certificates, shitty code, and layers upon layers of hacking that can only be resolved by relying on the tribal knowledge on whomever built the darn thing.

Compared to that - detailed design docs, a team of motivated Chinese dudes/ettes with some monetary support from the local party, and you can have a close-enough copy running natively on the Alibaba cloud in a few months.

While looking for medium to learn about prompt engineering I've come upon this course that did a great job at a hand-held introduction into the topic. Thus, I thought it's worth sharing it here with y'all.

What the article doesnt mention is that its not easy to ask a good question or give a good answer, as is made evident by going through a new question/new answer queues that are littered with code-only/cryptic stuff.

The hidden value of such participation, at least for me, is that it forces you to express yourself clearly, if you want to get any real help that is.

Except that this doesn't make things much harder for those willing to share.

If you use your main phone, connected to your sim card - sure it's easy to identify you. OTHO you can just get a burner iPhone 6 or something similar at a flea market, keep it off the Wi-Fi/cellular network and still run the airdrops with little risk of your real id being leaked.

I agree with Gabe here. I basically stopped pirating games once I could add something that I like to my collection during steam sale for a nice discount instead of waiting for days for whatever service to ship it.

I can also return it if I end up not lilinkg it, not like with a physical copy.

We went this way with our Synapse/Azure Data Lake solution, and it has been nothing but pain since. I'd estimate than in the past year more than 60% of the dev time was spent fighting random edge cases that this kind of approach brings.

Sure, there is the benefit of being able to dump your cold data in cheaply and read flexibly, but... the dev ux is just PITA.

It feels like a great material at explaining the field to new joiners.

My team is currently migrating from software to data science and this publication feels exactly like something that would bridge the gap

I'm always worried that these kind of investigations might give the hiring managers some weird ideas, I.E.:

Welcome to our phone screen at ${faang}. For the warmup question, let's solve this ${lc_hard} together in css.

When was the last time you had to nail out a fully working nlog(n) longest valid bracket sequence in to prod within 45 mins, without spending 3 weeks in meetings, design doc reviews, capacity plannings and allocations and alignments with the said bracket owners?

Was I the only one who imagined a dog chasing its tail when reading the post title?

The high birth rate communities also tend to lack the technological acumen. Of they take over the population, medical, agricultural outputs would decrease. Amplify that a bit and they will likely control themselves well through starvation

If that’s the only thing it’s used for in the project, then you are most likely good with Autowired (in Sping) or something similar.

Any complicated DI solution must have a reason for it being there and I’ve seen too many projects complicating themselves on buzzwords like DI or MSOA without really needing either that much

Why is the app so big? It seems a bit excessive for a reader app to be a 700 mb download.

Sounds pretty much like Microsoft

For us the primary value is behind the customizability of it all. One of our main requirements is to give user A LOT of flexibility to customize the default frontend to suit their needs.

On top of that we are running DDD in the backend with ARs being spread over multiple different services.

We did experiment with rest early on, but we found out that we would need to make our frontned to be extremely complicated and vocal to handle the customization/data fetching requirements or build our own REST gateway on top of open API, doing, essentially, the same thing that graphql gateway does out of the box.

Adopting graphql was scary at first with low team exposure to the technology, but using REST would have made our life much much harder

Not Linux tho. It’s a bloody boss fight to set it up on laptop just to have a clean install.. oh and it’s a different story for every laptop.

Poor areas will just default to yarr matey windows xp due to how easy it is to set up… and become gold mine for hackers to abuse

I tried to migrate to linux (from windows) four times his year, but after spending multiple days at a time I could never get to a single baseline working environment…

I can’t believe that the barrier of entry in 2022 is still as high as 10 years ago..

Redhead broken here, Ubuntu doesn’t support that, popos randomly freezes to death, while Garuda pukes blood after getting stuck in the middle of setting face login up, etc. and this is after hours of googling and entering specific bash voodoo.

Damn I don’t want a hyper-specialized deployment… I just want a base installation with gpu and laptop hardware feature support that I could then build on

In general I feel that the remote work is still massively underrepped. I get depression every time I open any of those remote work sites and 99% of the job posts are tagged with "us only".

There seem to be opportunities in other places (such as EU) around as well, but one has to search far and wide instead of just having them available in the easy-to-access sites.

Is it me or India is becoming the next China?

Another concern that is very prevailing is rewards. I could work 2 times harder in my current position, however what is that going to bring me?

Promotion or bigger bonus - it’s the same as playing stock options with your time, you are better off playing office politics for a much better RoI.

Self value? Senior engineer in FAANG is almost never going to have REAL impact, so I can only enjoy thinking that someone cares about that tiny piece of software that I work with. Again, getting drunk is a better RoI. Same with self improvement… where side project usually allows one to grow more

So, what is the benefit of working harder?

I graduated from EE, spent many years learning how electromagnetic fields impact traces if they are positioned incorrectly, how to measure radiation patterns and design antennas. I could still design a simple sensor module without having touched the field for 10 years.

I am more than happy to be a software engineer and earn 3x over what I would earn for a much more stressful job as an EE. A software bug in production or a bad deployment - do an RCA and you are fine. Ship a PCB to mass production with a weird design fault you somehow missed through all the Greek versions.. and you have a nice bill to explain to the management.

Have you tried the alternatives?

With the evil spawn of spaghetti code that Teams is and its cancerous spread through office offerings I'd take Slack or Discord any day.

I spent 4 + 1 (extra year) going for the PhD. Getting funding for anything was nothing short of nightmare and the workload was (obviously) very high.

Eventually I decided to scrap those 5 years for a triple salary as a junior developer and had a successful career since.

Is casual coding more interesting than research/teaching - no, but staying in academia requires way more altruism than I could find in me.

I also still find how to get some of the joys of academia in industry, namely, mentoring/holding workshops/writing design specs/turning the cluttered documentation into a nicely flowing coherent one~

I am staying in a 2017 laptop waiting for framework to become available in the wider world. Really hope to hear about would wide availability as soon as possible

me and my wife (we live in Suzhou) actually talked that if this happens to our city, it might actually become worth to "cause trouble" and get arrested, hoping that there would be some food given in the police station. Its ridiculous how dystopian such conversations have become recently...

https://www.mi-wang.art My wife's website featuring her artworks

Cautiously hopeful that this does indeed work and that it does work for all variants...

.. and that it also would not cost a fortune in 3rd world where we really need easily accessible and storable countermeasures against the bugger.

A Lithuanian here

Moral questions aside (as everyone here seems to focus on it), the people are split into roughly three camps: - Anti-vaxers: hate anything government because Vax-Pass, including the China oriented diplomacy - Libtards: love anything government and worship the leader of the main party. They celebrate this and openly bash China because their Leader said that it is good - Non-involved people - worry about the economic consequences to businesses and people's lives. Most of them would have a hard time finding Taiwan (probably even China) on a blank map.

In my opinion:

Our Minister of Foreign Affairs went into this without really understanding what it would mean to the CCP and what possible counter-actions they can take. Lithuania was hit more than the politicians expected and we are, essentially, alone in this fight (save for endorsements and pats on the back). I guess that we will be in a pretty rough spot in short-term, while mid/long term can go either way depending on how the western powers and Taiwan will act.

Try posting some middle eastern terrorist stuff on your apple phone. Most likely you will have a lot of fun next time you want to get on a plane.

Western phones are no different, the only difference is in which government actually manages the data...

To be fair that is none of our business.

Every government decided these things by themselves.