I've noticed a gigantic uptick in text messages and phone calls where people try to bypass the call screening. It may get to the point where I'll only want to see comms from people in an allowlist.
My standard response in such cases is “Hello unknown number, who are you and why should I not immediately hang up?”.
The response “Am I speaking to…” gets cut off with “Nope, you answer my questions first”. If they _must_ speak to Mr [MySurname] I claim to be my PA and that they aren't talking to him(me) without convincing me they aren't a junk call first. If I have a few minutes to spare, it can be quite an entertaining little game keeping them on the line so they can't be conning someone more vulnerable. Unfortunately must junk calls these days are either initially automated or the humans are wise to people like me being a waste of their time so they hang up cutting that fun short.
I solved this by renting small office that has reception and they handle deliveries. They are not far and so if I get something I get a text and then I collect when is convenient for me. I really hate waiting for couriers to ring, so it's a massive stress relief.
That’s also what I want to do. I currently have my office/lab at home and waiting for deliveries to come is very stressful as I basically have to be ready to answer the door at any time, which can be many hours.
I usually answer unknown numbers if they are from my own country only. And then i open with a sound like 'huh??' so they cannot do the voice cloning. if no one says anything then hang up. usually its robocalls using crappy TTS but there are crews with more advanced capabilities out there.
devs have really got to start using NSA style naming conventions where they use the Joycean compound with random stuff that sounds cool e.g. BANNANADAIQUIRI or FOXACID.
Longer answer: About 10 years I moved into leadership roles (VP Eng) and while I continued to write code for POCs, it hasn't been my primary role for quite some time. DDIA has been a book I pull out often when guiding leaders and members of my teams when it comes to building distributed systems. I'm writing more code these days because I can, and I still reference DDIA and have the second edition preordered.
There's almost no shot to get hand authored posts some views (I tried with one of mine recently). I felt like I submitted it and a moment later there were like 20 new very obviously AI generated posts ahead of it.
Shameless plug - I sort of eluded in this post I wrote about Dark Factories generally and about rust being better than Go for building software (not just agents) with AI - but I think something generally important is feedback loops. While not all feedback loops are created equal and some will be superior, my argument is that holistic approach of including diverse, valuable feedback loops matters more.
The G14 definitely matches in build or exceeds in build quality, keyboard, trackpad, speakers, and display. Battery life is shorter though. But it has a better GPU and supports Linux, which is way more important to me than an hour or two extra battery.
The Framework is also excellent, but with different compromises: that sweet display aspect ratio for instance, but no OLED.
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These are terrible examples that don't prove a single thing. Babel, Webpack, and React all used leftpad as dependencies. Blaming someone for using an Apache project is absurd.
Here's my pointless randomly made up on the spot anecdote - you're more likely to write a vulnerability in your own logging system than being impactedby using a widely adopted opensource one.
It sounds like you don't have an appreciation for software complexity.
What starts off as a simple write() call balloons into a complex system as it evolves to meet your needs. Only then will we know if a great developer was behind the wheels, by how easy it is for the next person in job of maintaining and extending the system to fuck something up due to a lack of context and experience.
Another sign of a real 10x engineer is an even temperament and a lack of arrogance, as being a team player is important in any environment. You can't be a 10x engineer in a vacuum.
Yeah, the warzone will be the final judge, no doubt, this is just cheap talk.
> a real 10x engineer is an even temperament and a lack of arrogance
Super subjective, but I see the 10x engineer as being arrogant, you have got to if you are really 10 times above your peers. Although it's true that some arrogance might come from a place of insecurity. Someone who is truly leagues above someone else will not berate them for being below, they will encourage them to improve or palliate them. Pointing out how the other is worse and they are better is argumentative, which usually a 10x anything doesn't need.
You're confusing confidence and arrogance. Confidence can be misplaced, or maybe hard-won through experience. But arrogance never has a place in a team. If you go around thinking you're 10x better than your peers, you're massively selling yourself short and I can bet you the rest of the engineers do not feel the same way about you.
> Pointing out how the other is worse and they are better is argumentative, which usually a 10x anything doesn't need
I'll be honest, this post is a bit incomprehensible. You say a good engineer has to be arrogant, then go on to claim how such an attitude can be combative. Pick one argument, not two conflicting arguments.
You sound young. I understand that youth can sometimes lead to the kind of arrogant thinking in your comments, but real wisdom will start coming whenever you realize how this kind of thinking looks to others, stop making comparisons, and try to learn from everyone on your team.
I just did a pass with some replacements with o1 and it very much still recognized it as the Einstein riddle and actually seems to have cheated a bit :)
"Revisiting assumptions
Considering "Camels" might be a mistake for "Kools," leading to confusion. This inconsistency complicates solving the puzzle, showing the need for careful brand assignment."
Tracking puzzle progress
I’m mapping out various house and nationality combinations, but the classic conclusion is the Norwegian drinks water and the Japanese owns the zebra.
Analyzing the arrangement
I’m working through the classic puzzle structure and noting variations, while consistently identifying the Norwegian drinking water and the Japanese owning the zebra as the final solution."
Hah, that's fun. My o3-mini-high transcript didn't hint that it recognized the puzzle and looked legit when I scanned through them, but I'm still very suspicious since this is evidently such a classic puzzle.
I should have changed the cigarette brands to something else too.
If you want to make a cosmetic change to the puzzle, you might try eliminating the massive quantity of implicit information in "the green house is immediately to the right of the ivory house".
After doing some substitutions on what it means to be in positions 1/2/3/4/5:
A. If the ivory house is in London, the green house is in Madrid.
B. If the ivory house is in Madrid, the green house is in Kiev.
C. If the ivory house is in Kiev, the green house is in Oslo.
D. If the ivory house is in Oslo, the green house is in Tokyo.
E. The ivory house is not in Tokyo.
9. Milk is drunk in Kiev.
11(A). If the man who smokes Chesterfields lives in Tokyo, the man with the fox lives in Oslo.
12(A). If the man with the horse lives in Oslo, Kools are smoked in either Tokyo or Kiev.
15(A). If the blue house is in Madrid, the Norwegian lives either in London or in Kiev.
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Another easy change is to exchange categories. Swap the animals for the drinks and instead of "the Spaniard owns the dog" and "the Ukrainian drinks tea", you'll have "the Spaniard drinks tea" and "the Ukrainian owns the fox" (depending on which equivalences you decide on). It won't make any difference to the puzzle, but it will permute the answer.
Try flipping the order, adding a few nonsense steps and combining 2 steps into one and also splitting a single step into two. And then see what happens and post it here. :-)
I'm not sure what's going on with TabbyAPI's github metrics, but exl2 quants are very popular among nvidia local LLM crowd and TabbyAPI comes in tons of reddit posts of people using it. Might be just my bubble, not saying they're not accurate, just generally surprised such a useful project has under 1k stars. On the flip side, LLMs will hallucinate about TabbyML if you ask it TabbyAPI related questions, so I'd agree the naming is unfortunate.
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