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Was left stranded in Berlin last night trying to get home to a neighboring city, which should have taken 45 minutes (more like 1h20 nowadays due to time tables and whole regional train lines being down for maintenance til EOY).

The lack of communication was probably the worst of all. Announcements saying to take alternative means of transport. The DB Navigator app insists that everything is still running and it was impossible to get clear info as to whether RE trains were also affected.

Eventually we took a Miles car home and because of this and past unreliability I'm, sadly, thinking about getting a car instead.

This was also my first thought when reading the title: because Claude is a tool you use and co-workers are either competitors or people preferably dependent.. an anti-pattern and not good culture but sadly the norm.

That's not to say that the help-vampires the parent mentions don't exist. I think we culturally are afraid of pushing back against them: telling them to RTFM and then come back.

Yeah it does feel like much tech competence that sprouts in Germany is either sequestered off and penned in, and/or leaves the country.

disagree with the fact that skill and taste are correlated

lots of amazing engineers have an awful taste in everything that is not their immediate field of knowledge or interest

which one is it?

During the first World War, Belgium divided in its Dutch (Flemish) and French (Walloonian) speaking constituents, had many such Walloonian officers rule over often Flemish soldiers. It wasn't unheard of that an officer got shot by his own people.

I'd dread managing technical people in a field I have no experience or knowledge; in my experience, especially in tech, such managers are often held hostage by engineers who stubbornly don't want to do things, tell fibs about feasibility, ... The other side of that is that such managers often make progress making said engineers promises that often turn out to be carrots on sticks or outright lies.

If you can't go with in the trenches, what good are you and how do you expect to build a trusting relationship?

Муч лике хов Ю кан/кулд спел Енглиш ин Кирилик.. but who in their right mind actually does that?

surely that cat's out of the bag by now; and it's too late to make an active difference by boycotting the production of more public(ly indexed) code?

Imagine that the only PC you could buy one day has everything tightly integrated with no user serviceable or replaceable parts without a high-end soldering lab.

So.. a smart phone?

While you still can..

This is akin to a psychopath telling you they're "sorry" (or "sorry you feel that way" :v) when they feel that's what they should be telling you. As with anything LLM, there may or may not be any real truth backing whatever is communicated back to the user.

Likewise, I tested this with a project we're using at work (https://deepwiki.com/openstack/kayobe-config) and at first it seems rather impressive until you realize the diagrams don't actually give any useful understanding of the system. Then, asking it questions, it gave useful seeming answers but which I knew were wholly incorrect. Worse than useless: disorienting and time-wasting.

.. and because the job and environment weren't that pleasant or rewarding to offset that delta in income offered elsewhere at an equally drab employer

That's exciting! I didn't catch that from the pricing page, thank you for clarifying :)

The people working on these things likely don't use the end product.

Sadly as with many such products, if you want SSO and the like, you'll still end up paying per user per month. That gets stupid expensive quick

Let's be honest; how many Slack messages or conversations older than 2-3 weeks still have value?

I was baffled by the comparison to the M4 Max. Does this mean that recent AMD chips will be performing at the same level, and what does that mean for on-device LLMs? .. or am I misunderstanding this whole ordeal?

"I don't like it" "I don't want it to be so" "I don't want this thing which I'm inept at to be real; it's unscientific!"

That's one hell of a term to mean being afraid of being alone.

I always seem to upset a lot of people when I bring up my take/experience on this because they seem to find it (psychologically) threatening. Labels such as ADHD seem to have value for those who use them and want not further examine themselves or their situation.

I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and after a few years of psychotherapy (and trying medication) it's becoming clear to me that a lot of what people call adhd, people with adhd, ... is an external observation of an internal experience of emotional management issues with regards to anxiety and anger: impulsively responding to these emotions in a way that was learned during an earlier developmental stage, that now no longer leads to desirable outcomes (often hiding, running away, not getting externally angry when it is appropriate or desired). A lot of self-deceit and unworkable mental models seem to be involved. I hope I'm not projecting myself too much :).

You could do that, but then you're being wilfully dishonest with yourself. At which point you'll find that you're not getting any closer to your goals (assuming those who switch out eating sugar for doing exercise want to lose weight). And if you're being (subconsciously) dishonest and self sabotaging, then the level of mind/abstraction this guide targets is not relevant

Yes, German work/employment culture is a crab barrel where every quality of life improvement has to be fought for tooth and nail.. The Netherlands cemented WFH as a right after the Corona period when it had shown to not negatively impact productivity while positively impacting quality of life for employees.

I'm sorry but that sounds like "wet pavements cause rain" to me. The naming need not be causative in that direction. I'm not disagreeing with that we did indeed evolve with them.. Grug smoke plant. Plant make strong, heal. Grug stomp stupid weeds and make more space for plant. etc

the parent literally linked their own GitHub page...

Really, a tool where 42% of incident responses the on call engineers are greeted by a pointer that likely lets them resolve the incident almost immediately and move on, rather than spending potentially hours figuring out which component it is they need to address and how, isn't impressive to you?

and why do they run spyware?

Has anyone ever seen such a place in practice? what were they doing right? I've seen this claimed a few times before but it was always wilful blindness + not measuring anything related.

Groups tend to see collective trauma as normal and (unsubconsciously) work to sustain it.

Genuine question: say you have 3-4 services and a bunch of databases that make up your product, what's the alternative to plemping them all into K8s according to you?

Because physical activity and menial work that allows the mind some down time are effective ways to reduce ADHD symptoms.