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The CUDA tag too had a vigilante whose profile read

Once upon a time there was a emerging technology called CUDA, which offered all sorts of really intriguing new possibilities in scientific and parallel computation. And once upon a time, Stack Overflow was full of interesting questions about CUDA, and how to use it. So I started answering them. Eventually I answered almost 700 questions, became Stack Overflow's highest reputation participant on the CUDA tag, and had a lot of fun doing it.

Alas, CUDA is now very mature and most of the good questions about CUDA have already been asked and answered. What appears on Stack Overflow today is mostly dross, and I spend most of my time editing, down-voting and closing rather than answering questions. Those answers I add are community wiki entries (over 200 300 400 500 600 700 at the time of writing). A lot of toil has gotten and kept the unanswered question queue down to about 10% 7% 4% 3% of the total number of CUDA questions for a good part of my tenure here.

Result, most CUDA questions got downvoted and then deleted. Oddly though CUDA continues to evolve.

I don't (yet) use AI in the way I am expected to. I have not integrated it into my IDE -- can't be bothered, plus I code in notepad++. Rather I use in a browser and have raging arguments with it over the course of three days about a design. After we come to an agreement I write the code.

A few decades back when I was a PhD student a British university I taught an undergraduate class and I noticed that the quality of writing in their examination papers and projects was clunky and awkward, in contrast to the admirable, free-flowing, everyday style the way they wrote (as they spoke) on their student bulletin boards. I used to wonder why they didn't write like this in their classwork.

Years later, when writing my thesis I'd routinely find myself at a loss of how to communicate a concept. The solution was always to write down my answer to the question "what are you trying to say".

But we survived

And ironically? Now that we’re back on a monolith and shipping fast again, we’ve started growing again. Customers are happier. The team is happier.

So Microservices did not kill your startup?

And why did you stop instances of your monolith before the Microservices version was mature and ready???

I WFH 100% of the time. This allows my spouse and I to work. Without this one of us would have to leave the workforce to take the children to school. But because I WFH I can do the school runs and I realize I have it so good, it makes me unwilling to consider any other potential job offers.

And BTW, because I don't have to commute 3 hours like I used to I can now work as late if a task requires me to. So yeah the ability to WFH makes me LOYAL.

In Nigeria, you run the risk of being assaulted by random army personnel for wearing anything remotely military looking e.g. laced up shin-high boots. They simply won't pass up an opportunity to relive anyone of anything of value if they can.

I wonder if prisoners feel the same way.

I think time seems to pass by quickly because as we get older we get busier with family, work, children, spouse, friends, a few side interests etc.

Reduce is awesome! Dozens of specialized packages[1]. My favourite two packages are

1. The Source Code Optimization Package, SCOPE. It will take an expression or group of expression and produce a simpler set of expressions that minimize the use of arithmetic expressions.

2. The coeff2 package[3]. Tell coeff2 what the variables are and it will rewrite your expression as a simpler expression in terms of the variables alone and represent mush the others into constants.

I could not do what I do without it these two packages. Beats Maxima IMO.

[1] https://reduce-algebra.sourceforge.io/documentation.php#cont...

[2] https://reduce-algebra.sourceforge.io/reduce38-docs/scope.pd...

[3] https://reduce-algebra.sourceforge.io/manual/manualse136.htm...

You forget the abuse. In most jobs software engineers are the revenue generators. In the trading industry software engineers are just something that stands between the traders and their bonus. And the traders can get really rude.