shac ron ₪‎

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Kernel engineer, software architect, time traveler (forward only)

I've been casually looking at jobs recently so this thread is just random things I encounter.

Today: “You will be expected to jump in quickly and provide important contributions from day one”
lmao. Especially since I know this company and no one can even get their permissions sorted on day one.

I love how the Unix commands have such intuitive naming. Like 'find' if you need to find a file, or 'grep' if you need to grep for a string
There’s been a fucking Cybertruck parked in front of my house for five days. So annoying.

Mercedes to bring back some physical buttons. Car makers continue to be idiots but at least they’re starting to hear customer feedback.

Having rented an EQB last year, the controls alone were enough to make me hate the car.

https://www.drive.com.au/news/mercedes-benz-commits-to-bringing-back-phycial-buttons/

Mercedes-Benz join the list of manufacturers admitting that touch-sensitive controls were a mistake

Another brand backflips and admits that touch-sensitive buttons for frequently used controls were a mistake.

Drive
Things I say that make my wife exasperated.
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
Broadcom acquires the virtualization platform simulating our universe
The experience of using passkeys and authenticator apps makes passwords with SMS 2-factor auth seem great in comparison.
I asked the Confluence AI agent to fix a minor thing in a document and it just keeps making it worse. So about what you’d expect from Atlassian software

From the article:

The system prompt for OpenAl's Codex CLI contains a perplexing and repeated warning for the most recent GPT model to "never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query."