Special thanks to https://x.com/kohya_tech for his amazing open source software, that we couldn't have done without, and to https://x.com/modal_labs for their game changing serverless GPU calls, that enable a small startup like ours to produce cutting edge results in an affordable rate ♥

thanks for the modal shoutout! really great, detailed blog post :)

Great story. Did they fire her for that one time she didn't show up? Thats tough

This was in 2011, just after the Great Recession. It was a tougher labor market then. It was normal for low skill jobs to fire people on the spot for no show / no call. The labor market has changed in that sector since then.

I'm sad to hear that you are having a hard time navigating the market. If it's of consultation know that many developers and engineers go through this hardship, those who never did either: Never pushed their limits, are liars, are Linus Trovalds. My personal thoughts about this is that I would prefer an applicant's motivation to be more in the sense of "What technologies are emerging, and what makes them so special? I want to master them to feel that I understand how they work". It's a wide answer, but I think the right engines are really what makes the difference. I would suggest finding a field you can develop passion to, preferably an obsession. Having an obsession is a great way to be extremely competent in a filed. Goof luck!

Cool tool. I know some great guys who built a successful startup out of the observability and safe kernel sandboxing you can get with eBPF. Wonder if it could be a good basis to build an osx version of win-internals.

I admit to be on the side that is very suspicious about journalists, but I haven't given enough thought as to the role of money in their bias. Money obviously trumps everything (pawn not intended :) ), but there's also the question of where the money comes from, or what money is to be made from applying certain manipulations on the public. All in all I think the notion of an 'objective' media is absurd to the point of puritanism. In democracies, the media is just another political force, like the parliament or the government, only it is not appointed by elections and less regulated, but also has no actual force, only 'soft force' (which in some cases is stringer than 'force force').

I agree, although a group of 34 people if sampled correctly can yield a statistical significant signal. My main problem with the methodology here is that it is completely qualitative with no reason. It would have been very simple to do a quantitative analysis and reach numbers that have statistical significance.

Gonna use this when I practice drums

glad to hear! let me know if you have any feedback. I'm actively developing it

"We plead guilty for our poor test coverage"

It's more than test coverage though. Their spec had the same glaring error. It's a design, management agreement, spec, review failure. The tester could have said something because they realized the design is bullshit, but by that time no competent testers hired by Boeing any more, it was all outsourced to the cheapest bidder.

exactly, and what good "test coverage" would do if the design is flawed?

Each time research about LLM and reasoning comes out Yan LeCun gets an itch

Great app. A good example why js apps can never be more than OK, and native apps can really rock. Would be amazing if I could use my sublime bindings here

> it's built with Electron