Arcanum-XIII

Uhmm, the correct way would be: 0. focus on less thing; 1. have fun doing them; don't stress about it, you're not competing; 2. do it, more and more. The important point is to DO. Everything else will come, eventually.

I'm currently working in an environment where the company I work for has a quite limited IT department that has responsibilities covering hardware and software. One of our investor has a bigger headcount for IT only that's bigger than our company size and we're trying to integrate with them... they're on micro service. It's funny because even though it seemed very well engineered, it create a bureaucratic environment. That means it's very hard to have the right people on the table, they're slow to react to any change (if they even can)... For a small change, they requested 3 months. On our side, if a dev is available, this would have been solved in a week.

Neither situation is good: we're under stress for ressources availability, when they're stuck in Kafka's world. Last week I learned that two different team ingest some of our data — which is fine, except that we moved to an API and only the first team use it. The second team was not aware that it exist (well, forgot about it).

I don't know what the good solution when you reach this kind of headcount would be. As a PM/PO, I'm baffled about this kind of complexity. My experience lead me to think that no one is managing that currently... it's kind of working, till it falls, hard.

I got a Ryzen 7 5800H with 32gb of ram and a 1tb hard drive for 320€... I don't have the dual on board nic, but beside that, it's quite great cpu wise with Proxmox — multiple VM on it, doing transcoding, DNS, dealing with download and search, Home Assistant. Of course transcoding 4k live is costly, but that's an exception. I can use NVMe and SATA hd, that's nice.

And I can update the ram and use ECC.

Not bad all in all !

Still, I got a Dell SFF with an I5 and 16gb of ram for less than 100€ — updated it with a 4 2,5gbps NIC, will be good for OPnsense... If I don't switch to a Melanox Connect 3.

Nope, you can't with ADHD. My interest will be there on random subject, not the one I would select.

And stimulant kind of help. They're not magic... you have to use therapy, exercise, meditation, organisation to cope. Fun. That's maybe why people can be irritable under medication (and which kind... people react differently to very similar molecules so...)

I have the same issue, but in Europe. Most bank don't offert a data export, so it's fun an games to try to get YOUR data. In Belgium we have CODA for companies... but they're slightly different for each bank. I've worked on this for a middleman and it's hell, between the source data sucking and the destination being cryptic. I don't understand this: why would anyone want to block this? There are no advantages. None. For either party.

Yeah. Except I need you to work on a legacy system from which we have only the source. Or on a project that you won't be able to handle alone for a time short enough for the product to keep relevance. Or any other big projects... How do you deal with this ?

Let's not speak about the need to sync with other team, external partner, showing progress to the management, getting the information from all those peoples, getting ready with side department like compliance, marketing or whatever is needed to make the work relevant.

So no, it's not to prevent anyone from starting a project from scratch. It's to make sure that the project will come to fruition, useful and if possible reach its goal.

And honestly, a good manager/tool will help deal with that. Now... there are a lot of them that create a kafkaesque hell.

I got rebuked about my hobby using this logic quite a lot. I learned a lot of skills though: drawing and sculpting, programming, playing music, some electronics, rc building, 3D printing, welding… nearly all of those are useful in my professional career: app dev, logo design, web site dev, project management, construction project (structural welding), currently building an automated vehicle for inspection on the side… And even some of my oddest hobbies lead me to works because I meet interesting people while practicing them.

And it was fun to develop those skill. I can even share the remains (like those big RC cars) with my children. So now… I do whatever is fun.

Even a big spider robot. It got me working on understanding trigonometry for now… and handling a lot of servo.

Why? It's already a C++ program, so C it's out. What would be the point?

Most of the time, big O is not relevant if you're not writing new algorithm. For the usual CRUD app? Not so much. Heck even for more involved work, you will not touch them because your solution will be called or will call some external tools.

The good news is that, while still valuable, you won't have to lose time creating a new broken wheel. The bad news is that this part of CompSci is now mostly fundamental research.

It’s missing a step or two. Once you’ve selected your identifying provider, the user is redirected to it, identify itself and select there the claims he’s willing to share (most of the time only what’s needed for authorization). The identifying provider generate the proper token and claims, return them with the user to the third party site. Who can then authorize or not the identified user and return the user.

This exchange of data and redirection is the core of the oauth.

To be honest it took a long time in Photoshop to have something as good as it is now. Masking is the bane of my existence when I have to do it (but I'm only an amateur, so, not often).

Because if you’re working on a project big enough, you don’t have the time to be a good dev or a good manager. As a developer I wanted time to think about how best to solve the problem I was facing, not writing documents, refining the big picture, get a buy in from the stakeholders, giving reports, making sure the other parts of the project kept getting along and so on. It was important for me to be kept in the loop, not doing it on top of my job. As a product manager, it’s the other way: I have a product that need to be there and so I’m trying to find a good compromise between the stakeholders idea, what would really work and what can be done with the ressources I have. That means sometimes I recommend to not start anything, but to buy a solution (then I need to validate that it will work as intended, that the budget and contract are ok and so on)

It’s another job altogether. That doesn’t mean I won’t follow the technological trends, educate myself or refuse to program anything. I wrote some postman script to validate what’s happening with our api, know the infra behind it, and can generally point people in the right direction. I have to know the product inside out to make educated answers when something goes wrong or if a decision is required.

It’s often a people job. And that’s something I try to share with the teams I work for.

It was very relevant. He used his knowledge to push it farther, analyzing thing to see how they could relate otherwise.

It's luck with bad painting.

It's a bit like know how a computer work deeply help you be a better develloper. You don't use your inner knowledge every day, but it will help you.

Picasso was very good at drawing and painting. He could sketch as well as other artist traditionnal artist. He choose to explore a different path, with success.

I don't like Picasso, but I can recognize the quality of his works.

I found that using a calendar or some kind of tool where I can add a mark every time I do something I want to form an habit of, it helped. Especially with the fact that I also add my mark even if it's only 5 minutes. So it reduces the pressure tremendously if I fail, or change my mind.

I moved from being mostly sedentary to being able to run 10km, swimming regularly, joining a field hockey team, doing archery. I also do hiit 3 times a week. Still my schedule is fucking chaotic, so beside the field hockey training which is on a fixed date, the other activities are done at, let's say, interesting and random time.

Since the base requirement is to already gain at least 50k/year with this activity, and a prefered 100k to start, I don't think it's gonna help any starting artist.

Well... let's say also that the telco investment were not light. That Google was pushing for RCS, and SMS, and their messenger of the moment. Apple refused to implement RCS, because why do so, since there was no carrier at the time proposing it. So yeah, no.

And those lift kit are more than probably not legal in Europe. I’m amazed (and a bit jealous) of the amount of customization possible in the US. I understand the need of regulation but… it’s way less fun. More secure though, so, I’m conflicted.

In my country changing the color of the vehicle will trigger a need to recertify the vehicle. For the fucking color.

Working for a broadcast company with a good chunk of news content, authenticating content is one of the major we face. It has always existed, but it’s getting worse and worse. That’s the goal of this system, not for consumer.

For Blender it’s more the other direction: they’re moving to the way of working of other tool. Before this change (2.8 ?), it was a pain for someone used to navigate any of the big player to drop into Blender.

The fact that Autodesk has since bought nearly every big package (notable exception: SideFX Houdini, Maxon Cinema4D and the Foundry Modo) helped a lot. They’re not exactly well loved, be it in special effects, architecture or CAD (though for CAD they’re all bad at the end of the day)

I like that Blender is a credible option. I would have loved to have this kind of option when I was younger - way simpler than finding Maya, 3Ds or other big package… with, erhmm, free licence let’s say.

The Mx line evolution is also used in he iPad and also the iPhone, even if less directly. The overall revenu hit may not be perfect, but better than only the Mac line.

Too slow. Every 2 years would be better - tax accountant included.

Honestly, the complexity of most systems I've worked on those last 15 years has only grown. Everything require umpteen libraries to show a char on screen (and be inefficient at that). We're still blocked in the 80's for a lot of protocols because of backward compatibility with a ton of hack on top of it. We have built tool on top of other tool to manage the mess we've created, that no one understand at the end.

That's where we're losing time. Dealing with an inherited mess.

Both of which are of high quality also on other phone in the same price range. That leave you with the CPU as a differentiator at the end, sad as it can be.

Like what? What's the ML performance on this chip? Can it help with game? Or apps I'll use everyday? Does it improve the web experience? The last one depends largely on those CPU benchmark...

I want to be pragmatic here. Coprocessor were all the rage for the Amiga, then were out out of the loop, and were back for with the GPU. A bit like we're back to the mainframe experience with Kubernetes and all (don't throw tomatoes at me ;))

The problem is that you can't easily and objectively factor the user experience. CPU are easy to benchmark — and do honestly factor a lot in the pricing. Android (the OS) development is payed for by other means, and the hardware line is kind of a vanity project.

People may, or may not prefer the Android experience. That's not relevant here.

Ans you know that Amazon and Cloudflare are not free, yes ?

Uh ? No. I don’t pay for VAT if I buy anything out of Belgium - because it would create a big administrative mess of pay back between member state.

Which is the stupidest system internally : get paid vat, paid it to the state minus the VAT you’re owned as business for whatever you’ve bought. Loss of time and energy all around.

Not sure, but isn’t unity in this case covering your need for some tools, like rendering, assets management and so on, but maybe not all - i.e deferring to them the physic. Or so would I say assume ?

I know a bit about the welding industry and and it’s a lack of education, macho attitude, bad habit “I know by smell/touch/sound that it’s going well” and of course management not making it mandatory. Working with respirator is not the fun part of the day, for sure. And mask/gloves slows you down. But well being able to breathe and see at the end the day without the worst sunburn of your live helps ;)