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Kudos to Ferrari trying to stay modern with a collab with one of the best industrial designers of the moment. But this feels antithetical to Ferrari, it's bland and utilitarian where they should be channeling flair and evocative designs.
I've recently re-instated a Photoshop subscription and its now part of my core AI generated asset workflow. AI is fantastic at art direction but it needs minor adjustments to make it production ready. E.g putting real screenshots in with correct placement, smoothing, editing out artefacts etc. I can't imagine the lengths I'd have to go to to instruct an LLM to do these tasks with words.
We've recently been without water in the UK for 5 days (water company failings). I've come to appreciate mains water and how its utility is hard felt by omission for toilets, washing & cleaning. Immensely grateful to have it back now.
Hi, it's not an exact science but i'd take it to mean a max 2 hour train journey. Else days have to be cut short to account for transport faff.
OnCare | Mid level software engineer | Remote but close to London for occasional meetups | https://www.weareoncare.com
We need help building & evolving features to help care agencies run their operations better. Everything we do to improve operational effectiveness for care agencies leads to a better quality of life for everyone involved. We have extremely big ambitions and are building at a rapid pace towards them.
* We need a full-stack engineer with a leaning towards the backend
* Seeking someone who knows how to design and maintain complex systems to a very high quality bar
* You are AI aware with a desire to get into the weeds of prompt and pipeline engineering
* We're Django on AWS with React for interactive interfaces
* We focus on quality, not quantity
* Profitable & independent with lofty long-term aspirations
* The process: 30 min alignment call, time-limited sensible coding test, 1 hr meet the stakeholders Zoom, offer
* You: someone who wants to apply your skills to meaningful problems, cares about your craft, has strong engineering skills and enjoys personal development.
Apply by expressing your interest to james @ weareoncare com with a CV/Linkedin and a "cover letter" that gives me an idea what you're looking for and how you could be a good fit.
Recruiters: you do a sterling job of connecting people but we only deal with direct applications.
Is this intellectual fatigue not part of all paradigm shifts? Semi-serious question.
Apply Chesterton's Fence principle and assume there are (hopefully) comments in the real code around why this has been put in place
Having recently had an infuriating experience with an Android app submission, it seems there's a horde of people in a similar jam, running the senseless bureaucratic review process gauntlet: https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1ck1wyp/did_goo...
interestingly bq.co.uk redirects to diy.com though that doesn't mean they own it
This triggered following a shallow rabbit hole through their history. It's a nice double meaning to incorporate their initials (Blimie & Herman) and heritage in one brand name.
An example of a premium domain that confuses me is diy.com. Owned by B&Q. Sure it's a good vanity flex but at the cost of your brand name?
The same brand predicament must be true of whatever prospects milk.com has.
Similar points were covered in the recent Tyler Cowen podcast with Tobi Lütke[1] regarding economic stagnation in Canada & Germany (relative to the US).
The UK has a cynical view on progress, likely leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy. The US seems to have a contrasting view with an optimistic by default outlook.
I call this program in one's head "suspended comprehension" as it has a degree of transience and fragility that requires effort to resume where you left off.
I don't suppose it's a problem that can be fully solved; just an ongoing arms race. The hardest part is not deterring genuine users at such a decisive consideration stage.
A bit of a curveball I spotted was professional skill marketplaces like https://www.bark.com/en/gb/software-development/ which, when on the platform, you'll find people posting their esoteric software dev requests which could lead to some interesting gigs.
Without knowing the security measures in place, it strikes me as a ripe vulnerability to any determined nefarious actor to destroy or infiltrate this submersible data centre.
"Full Service Disruption" for Docker Hub Registry acknowledged at the time of writing
OnCare | Mid-Senior Software Engineer | Remote / London | https://www.weareoncare.com
* We need help building & evolving features to help care agencies run their operations better. Everything we do to improve operational effectiveness for care agencies leads to a better quality of life for everyone involved
* We need a full-stack engineer with a focus on backend. Bonus points if you're interested in realtime sync, user experience, serverless, security & scaling
* We're Django on AWS with React for interactive interfaces
* We focus on quality, not quantity
* Profitable & independent with big long-term aspirations
* The process: 30 min alignment call, time-limited sensible coding test, 1 hr meet the stakeholders Zoom, offer
* You: someone who wants to apply your skills to meaningful problems, cares about your craft, has strong engineering skills and enjoys personal development.
Apply by expressing your interest to james @ weareoncare com with a CV/Linkedin and a "cover letter" that gives me an idea why you're well placed for this role and how we could support realising your best self if we were to work together.
Recruiters: you do a sterling job of connecting people but we only deal with direct applications.
Complete sidenote but I'm an accidental fan of Sandwich (video production company) and the promo video in this did not disappoint.
It looks like a roundabout (rotary) intersection would be a more optimal solution.
I had this belief that my kids needed their own rooms but two of my kids seem firm they want to share (bunk bed available). If nothing else it's a luxury that they have a space to retreat to if they seek solace but they seldom do this.
Seems like a pretty unceremonious ousting. Bravo to Adam for what he achieved
The biggest wow factor was the effect of reducing latency followed in a close second by the friendly human personality. There's an uncanny valley barrier but this feels like a short-term teething problem.
I run a SaaS in the healthcare space and an unforeseen impact is how digitising paper-based business has a transformative economic and lifestyle improvement for the owners.
On a call with an early customer, they were nearly in tears of happiness when they realised they could free up a bedroom full of filing cabinets in their house. They continued to say how it was saving them hours of admin over their weekend to spend more time with their family. I won't pretend this was anything unique to our product offering, just the process change they capitalised on that freed them up to have a better quality of life.
I don't think I could have engineered this outcome pre facto, it's a byproduct that emerges with useful tools and process changes.
Fly does a good job of illustrating requisite battles with entropy when operating complex systems
There was an impressive demo at AWS Summit London of their Code Whisperer and Q products taking a similar route to CW. Provide a user story and it'd create a PR.
I could see "AI workspace driven development" being the future of at the very least cutting through the smaller tickets of work and generally improving developer workflows.
The linked Tesla QCon presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggdYts4muu0 was an informative watch that covers the power problem space and their distributed software solution, something Tesla is uniquely positioned to pull off with their end-to-end platform.
Surely scrolling back is in the pro subscription plan?
Bravo to Alex in the embedded video for clearly explaining the benefits in an interesting way without being overly salesy. I get a genuine sense of enthusiasm from him.
One phenomenon I've found peculiar on frosty mornings is that the grass directly under my (apple) trees doesn't freeze, leaving a noticeable silhouette on the lawn. I've assumed it was due to the cool, heavy air falling and the tree acting as a shield but this article makes me think there are more complex factors at play.