Mastodawn

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.

shac ron ₪‎1d ago

kamstrup 1d ago

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

shac ron ₪‎1d ago

Joseph Lamoree Apr 23

There’s been a fucking Cybertruck parked in front of my house for five days. So annoying.

shac ron ₪‎1d ago

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

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shac ron ₪‎2d ago

Things I say that make my wife exasperated.

shac ron ₪‎2d ago

Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.

shac ron ₪‎3d ago

Zhuowei Zhang 3d ago

Broadcom acquires the virtualization platform simulating our universe

shac ron ₪‎3d ago

The experience of using passkeys and authenticator apps makes passwords with SMS 2-factor auth seem great in comparison.

shac ron ₪‎4d ago

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

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shac ron ₪‎5d ago

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."