I'm honestly tempted to buy an M4 Apple Silicon computer mainly for their ability to run local LLM models with unified ram.

overall I think they are too expensive for the offering, but being able to play around will LLMs without shelling out RTX5090 kinds of money is tipping the balance.

I wonder what apple people experiencies have been?

I bet VSCode only added a central "disable all AI features" checkbox so that they can more easily ignore my preference and forcibly uncheck it on every update. If I had to go around hacking the editor to hide buttons and disable triggers, it would be a lot more work for them to break all those hacks.

that feel when you're comforted by nobody getting back to you

lol ad says “Xbox game pass is here to give you more” reality-“you are here to give more to Xbox game pass”

If you want to know what real vibe coding looks like:
https://youtube.com/watch/...

That is a cool girl. lol

Coursera

"enroll for free $0"
1.4 million people enrolled

course given by Stanford
continue for $299 a month

lol.

Little bit of a sigh of relief when the project manager says she's also annoyed with the client's chaos. Not just me being slow or incompetent.

Really gotta stop telling myself it's me. It ain't.

What a disastrous deployment: instead of deploying one thing, 50.000 unexpected other things had to be done before. When the "official" deployment was done inside our own network, nothing worked as expected, servers had to be reconfigured, errors everywhere. Mind you it was tested multiple times by multiple people in a testing env. Difference between test and prod, classic.
When it was finally deployed, other errors started emerging, things that weren't considered before came to surface.
On top only the main dev knows the ins-and-outs, no substitute in case anything happens.
Deployment was rolled back in the end.

musician friend (or it isn't really just friend anymore) puts out a new album. tells me one of the songs are for me.

at the end there's an "I love you", and today I heard another one earlier on in the song, barely a whisper.

cute AF.

Bloody hell, the HR technophobes have been peddling Gen AI for quarterly reviews for more than an hour now.
Don't they realize that it makes them obsolete? A rambling mess that regurgitate meaningless buzzwords in a random order and pretends it is knows anything?
Oh, well. At least I can pretend even less to give a shit now. As of they would really give raises just because my team reached its "goals" and wrote them down months ago following a dumb achronym that really pushes the meaning of random words.

Did any of you other nerds sort of just glide through math in school and felt inadequate once you got to the real world, like: "I can't be a real engineer, I barely understood trig!"

That was me, then I started studying the fourier transform about a week and a half ago (because I bought an Arduino and want to make real-time sound visualizations)

I found that I actually really enjoy math on my own time. Learning about complex numbers, Euler's formula, polar form, whatever whatever - it was exciting and I was doing practice problems on paper and enjoying it!

Hopefully this momentum continues. Maybe one day I can be a genuine tough-guy engineer with math skills.

Why so much hate on PHP

I just bought some new device that has AA bateries included, already inserted, and obviously, already leaking.
Clowns.

I hate dark themes, do you? I suspect them to be more agressive on the retina.

I decided to buy a rack + PC case and a new HDD. Since I wasn't expecting to need to change the HDD for years, I put it on the mount that has the screws in an annoying place. Guess which drive is dead on arrival -_- I'll have to remove the whole box from the rack I think to get to it

I'm happy with the new setup when it's running, but the constant issues are annoying (mainly pains of fresh linux setup or having to wait on parts and things to arrive on time)

the most important thing of all is STABILITY! IF ITS NOT STABLE DO NOT USE IT

Omg I hate github. Fuck microsoft I swear those leeches are ruining everything they touch. They're like reverse midas.

Back from my holiday and we still don't have any code pushed for the backend lmao

In a world where any shareholder can have your job cut away without warning, the freedom fighter is the man brave enough to place a dead man switch.

Well, it's really nice to hear from a client how great it is to work with me, and that they want to work with me on another project next year.

chuffed as fuck.