Oliver Maksimović

Fan of Pink Floyd, coffee, beer, cycling, cats, science. Working with PHP since 2006.

[Oliver Maksimović @drndavi]

“...as soon as you frame internal quality as tradable, you've lost” https://t.co/KAGPTzYcC1

[Oliver Maksimović @drndavi]

@ilijastuden uz --dangerously-skip-permissions naravno 😅

[Oliver Maksimović @drndavi]

@ilijastuden Pretpostavljam Claude? Nevjerovatan je. Sa listom zadataka šta da provjeri/uradi/doradi, pustio sam ga na preko 40 in house composer paketa završio je sve bez greške za možda pola sata. Ja solo do 5 komada dnevno kad sam radio sličan posao prije 3 godine, na ivici burnouta

[Oliver Maksimović @drndavi]

@ilijastuden Izlivali smo ih u rucno radjene kalupe, na fazon resetke, po desetak odjednom (jedan uz drugi razdvojeni pregradama, pa samo istovaras kolica betona dok ne bude otprilike to-to). Maltene "industrial scale" proizvodnja... ali i mozgoispirajuca, bas je bio dosadan posao :D

[Oliver Maksimović @drndavi]

@ilijastuden Prije podosta godina, s pokojnim djedom sam izlio slicnih stubova... ne znam koliko, par stotina vjerovatno. Cijelo imanje ogradili s njima (odvozeci 1 po 1 pjeske, kolicima, jer je teren zapravo brdo), plus neko vrijeme poslije toga pravljeni za prodaju.

[Oliver Maksimović @drndavi]

Ukoliko samo zatrazite instrukcije za eSIM kroz @mts Android aplikaciju, MTS ce vam u procesu deaktivirati vasu fizicku SIM karticu *bez apsolutno ikakvog upozorenja*

Nema "undo", morate po novu karticu u MTS... ili kupite telefon koji podrzava eSIM.

[Oliver Maksimović @drndavi]

@laurieontech Currently in that hell. Also so many classes are named almost the same, or have the same name but they're in a different namespaces. It's so mentally taxing to keep just enough info in the head in order to do even most trivial tasks.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

This is the Corvette that Windows zip folders bought.

Back in '93 or so, I was working at Microsoft on COM, and at home for fun I started writing a shell extension to browse zip folders in the new Win95 user interface, making them appear as if they were just folders. That grew into a shareware product call VisualZIP.

Then one day just before heading into work, I got a call from a lady at Microsoft. She wanted to know if I was the Dave Plummer who wrote VisualZIP, and long story short, they wanted to buy it, and could I come in to talk about it at some point?

I said "Sure, what's your office number, I'll stop by!" and it kinda freaked her out.

She said "No, no, we'd have to coordinate with travel and legal..." but I was confused as to why I'd need to book travel to talk to someone where I already worked!

And THEN I figured it out. She didn't know that I already worked for Microsoft, and I didn't know that she didn't know. So that was a bit awkward. But we worked it out.

In the end, my choices were pretty limited - either quit my day job and compete with Microsoft, or do what I wound up doing instead: cheerfully accepting their first, best, and only offer. So that's what I did!

I accpepted their offer, paid the taxes on it, and bought a lightly used red 1994 Corvette LT1. There wasn't much left over. So next time you open a zip file on Windows, think of my car :-)

If you've ever wondered why the zip support is so slow today, there are two main reasons: first, being 25+ year old code, it's single threaded. It doesn't matter how many CPU cores you have, it only uses one.

Second, because of the way the shell used to work, you couldn't just hand it the contents of a file, you had to give it a local file path as the source. So the code first extracts the file to a temporary location, hands that location to the shell, and the shell copies the file. In other words, there's an extra temp copy operation involved in every operation.

That *could* be fixed, but I imagine the sense is that anyone who's hardcore about their zip performance or feature set will likely be using 7-Zip or WinRAR, etc. I don't see them improving it any time soon, but they have added more compression formats like RAR to the mix, so you never know.

If you enjoy these random nostalgic looks back, follow me for more! And heck, if you made it this far, you might as well share it too :-)

[Oliver Maksimović @drndavi]

Why Your Most Valuable Employee Is Often the 'Invisible' Employee

https://t.co/HQaUmN7amH

[Oliver Maksimović @drndavi]

@ilijastuden Hahaha, da. Dobro je da ne koristi default preferencu iz browsera, pa da ga setuje automatski onima koji preferiraju mrak, inače... :)

[Oliver Maksimović @drndavi]

https://t.co/trzgdOFl51

[Oliver Maksimović @drndavi]

@githubstatus "All Systems Operational" but for the past 15+ minutes this isn't going away:

[Oliver Maksimović @drndavi]

@ilijastuden @matic_branko TL;DR kudos što ne ganjate latest & greatest :)

[Oliver Maksimović @drndavi]

@ilijastuden @matic_branko Ili neki frišak paket koji ne radi ništa specijalno što bi zahtijevalo isključivo zadnju verziju, ali je requirement zakucan na 8.2. Mislim, ok, kontam ja zašto ali smatram da je kontraproduktivno jer masa projekata biva odsječena

[Oliver Maksimović @drndavi]

@afilina I see that all the time (unfortunately). It seems like a hint of premature optimisation accompanied with the lack of experience and/or expertise.

[Oliver Maksimović @drndavi]

@jesuisla57700 @victor_scarabel @avioesemusicas @embraer Diverted to LBG and landed

[Oliver Maksimović @drndavi]

@ilijastuden Takođe i za dijelove sistema koji su *veoma* bitni, a nemogući za testirati na bilo koji drugi način 😄

[Oliver Maksimović @drndavi]

@ilijastuden 😄 Radi po porudžbini. Al' nije nimalo jeftino. 100-500k CHF 💸
https://t.co/qPonUgt5Ja

[Chomba Bupe @ChombaBupe]

The risks of AI won't come from "superintelligence" but rather from it's "artificial super-stupidity" while still being intrusted with tasks beyond it's capabilities.

At least for now, this system will only flag toxic conversation & have human moderators takeover.