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I NEVER log into my mail from my laptop/desktop. I access my email via my phone's mail app.
So
1. try logging on via my laptop's browser
2. service sends a magic link to my email
3. click the link on my phone
4. now I'm logged in on my phone! not what I wanted!
It's very interesting to watch and I highly recommend it. But it's also a GREAT advertisement for avoiding the industry.
but for the past couple years I've just generated and forgotten 90% of my passwords. the final 10% I keep in a password manager. But if the service isn't really that important I just use the 'forgot my password' to change and generate a new password every time I need to login
It's just more identity verification afaict
2. rebase based merge strategies - our team has 50+ devs across three continents merging into monorepo with teams maintaining submodules. By the time your merge request passes CI it has to be rebased. People are literally holding off on reviewing merge requests to make sure their own changes get in first
3. permissions for subdirectories/assets. some necessary code/modules are highly regulated and company secrets. Git cant lock certain directories based on who clones the repo
4. Agentic coding - if you don't commit then your changeset after each request is lost. JJ solves this. You could just say to commit after every request then squash the commits. But, I think this is an ergonomic argument
5. Maybe it's just my experience, but git-lfs is pretty annoying to manage on large teams and changing files to/from lfs. often easier to just delete and clone again
6. git blame on non-meaninful changes. Running a code linter to add/remove whitespace makes git blame return who ran the linter rather than who wrote the code
7. self-reported identity. every time we get new laptops (because they buy the cheapest POS) devs forget what they set for 'username'. so it ends up being 3-4 different identities with the same email
Those are just my complaints lately
What we're running into at my work:
large external flash partitioned with "best guess" which turned out to be way wrong 6 years later. migrating partitions is not fun.
External storage must be encrypted, verified, and unique. So someone can't take the external flash off one device and solder it to a target device. Which means synchronizing between internal nvstorage and external
Large ( multiple page size writes/reads/erasures ) take 100s of ms. The drivers (again, written 6 years ago) assume that no one would ever want to interrupt those writes.
What we ended up with is a stack of tech with some nasty tradeoffs. I think the only off-the-shelf software is the encryption and serialization. The rest is custom (which had to be thrown out when changing RTOSes), built on assumptions by non-domain experts
The screen on my car displays navigation, climate/AC, & carplay. There is a pop-up dialog box that takes over the display and says either "special offer from sirius xm" or "Warning: extreme weather X miles away". The background of the popup is opaque so it blocks out the ENTIRE screen
I can't access navigation, radio, or climate controls until I dismiss the pop ups!
AND pop ups stack. I have a video in my phone of pressing 'dismiss' 23 times in a row before I am able to get back to navigation.
Imagine driving through a thunderstorm in an unfamiliar city and you have to dismiss 1-3 popups per mile to just see the map!
I called siriusxm to get them to turn off their stupid advertising on my in-car infotainment
I had called like 3 months ago to do the same thing. The human agent confirmed she turned it off on my account
I called again recently and asked the AI to turn off in-car ads and weather alerts. The ai INSISTED this was my car's manufacturer responsibility.
I kept yelling and swearing until it finally transferred me to a human. The human confirmed that it was a part of sirius AND that the feature was disabled (it turns out that disabled features on inactive accounts automatically become re-active on 'free weekends'. Holy fuck that seems illegal. the only way to disable features during free weekends is to have an active account (aka paying them)).
My next car is going to be seriously driven by a lack of connectivity, lack of sirirusxm. I'll buy a car where someone already figured out how to physically remove the radio
305 files +15075 −13110
153 files +21934 −8698
125 files +28120 −2398
43 files +11188 −63
118 files +21564 −647
These are the largest (6 of 35) in the past 30 days. added: 190079 removed: 39696 in the last 6 months
from one person.
Turned out he was schtupping the vp of the design company (his wife told the admin assistant during the divorce)
That really rings true. I can't believe how frustrating it is to get to a place where I can actually focus and do some work.
1. log into my computer with a pincode
2. log into jira, gitlab, confluence with sso (no automatic sign on)
3. ssh into dev containers with key that requires a password
4. open vscode, again ssh into dev containers with a password protected key
5. Close all the popups from IT (usually get 3-5 a day) in the notification area
Heaven help me if IT decided to force an update (I timed one to be 53 minutes). Some days I feel like a custodian instead of an engineer.
I know it's very much a first world problem, but it's shocking how many barriers exist to get any work done in US corporate world. Startups I've worked at didn't have this problem - just get a macbook and here's your gsuite user/pass.
it's going to be so expensive. I learned the vibe coder's contract rate is going to be 2-3x his current salary
He's introduced several 100,000s LoC changes and additions in 10-15 codebases. There are some repos that only he works in ( so no PRs, just merge to master and be done ). He also has self-approved and merged changes without review (he's an admin)
Anyway, now he put in his notice and no one on his team knows how any of this works. We can't get code changes without CICD passing. CICD breaks all the time. The original contractor who made the CICD before him wants nothing to do with it now. We can't generate signed OTA packages.
He went from doing 'too much to finish anything' to 'made so many changes that he had to bypass PRs'.
Now he's leaving.
Engineers have been pointing out this bottleneck for the past year or so. The engineering managers aren't pushing it and the business owners either don't understand or don't care
really? Bryan Mansell is SO unhinged and deranged that he started the interaction with yelling at personnel?
I think BAM's ultimate claim is that Chrystal either stole Bryan's inventory OR already sold it all before BAM's repossession.
Since BAM claim's the store's inventory at time of repossession was only $38,000 and when Mansell was able to audit Baker's inventory there was none of Mansell's lego in the store.
BUT THEN, in in late 2025 Baker "...located a few (approximately 20) Star Wars LEGO sets in a back office lockable cupboard, on which they noticed stickers not previously recognized"
BAM also claims the small-claims court victories in the video aren't real.
I will say Reckless Ben did a lot of stuff that does NOT look good in a legal document
1. BAM expresses that the original franchise owner (Chrystal) was heavily in debt to BAM ($175,000 ) owed to BAM
2. When Chystal told BAM of her intent to sell, BAM 'repossessed' her store and her inventory to help cover her debt (really, it was the her LLC's debt, but I'm using Chrysal as a shorthand). There is a clause in the franchise agreement that says everything IN the store will be repossessed. Afterwards BAM characterizes Chrystal's actions as 'abandoning' her store
3. BAM valued the repossessed inventory at $38,000 and subtracted that amount from her $175,000 debt.
4. BAM then sold the repossessed inventory to another franchisee who took over the store location (Baker Bricks, LLC).
5. BAM argues that this agreement and rules only provide consignment IFF BAM receives a request in writing and approves the consignment.
6. BAM says they never were informed of the agreement and disallows consignment.
7. BAM says the consignment was a PRIVATE agreement between Chrystal and Mansell.
8. BAM questions the veracity of the agreement as they claim the only version they have is unsigned.
9. BAM completes the sale to Baker Bricks, LLC and claims "Baker did not at any time acquire, take over or assume any obligations of Chrystal or Salem LLC"
Then things go off the rails as Mansell is trying to figure out what happened to his LEGO.
Isn't that bad for BAM?
IF:
1. it's a PRIVATE agreement between Mansell and Chrystal
2. The agreement state Mansell is the owner of the lego until sold
3. Mansell's legos were repossessed by BAM
THEN:
What legal right do they have to 'repossess' and then sell the Lego to Baker?
Tangentially, it's really important to be out on bail while your court case progresses. Access to lawyers, income, friends, support, research, etc is a critical factor in preparing your defense.
Here's a fun paper https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/695285
Of course around the same time my older brother, and all our friends were doing the same. So it was just natural to spend less time outside or hanging out with friends in person
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyndryl
> Officially formed in late 2021, Kyndryl was created from the spin-off of IBM's infrastructure services
> Kyndryl operated in 63 countries in November 2021