Filip Sobalski

[Mathias Glistrup @ucarzales]

Four years in the rabbit hole with millions of Russian military docs, and I finally feel comfortable writing this (very uncomfortable) story.

Russia appears to have upgraded and re-activated the fabled Dead Hand that ensures global nuclear retaliation if Russia is attacked.

[Josip @l3d1c]

>be senior devops engineer in Germany
>master's degree, 10 years experience, five interview rounds
>72,000€ before tax
>C2 German required
>All team members based in Asia speaking English
>mandatory office attendance to sit on Teams with people at another mandatory office
>"we have a startup mindset"
>company founded in 1894, CEO is the founder's great-grandson
>"we have flat hierarchies"
>eight people can veto your decision, none can approve it
>hired to "drive digital transformation"
>need department head's signature to install Docker
>service account request rejected because "accounts must belong to a person"
>CI/CD pipeline ends with a ticket for Jürgen
>Jürgen on holiday until the 23rd
>AI tools forbidden because Datenschutz
>database password in an encrypted Excel file called Passwörter_final_NEU.xlsx
>root password in Confluence
>on-call every weekend
>company phone listed under benefits
>ask for a raise
>unfortunately the salary band is exhausted
>no budget for a second monitor
>external consultant gets 1,400€ a day to ask you how the code works
>take banana from company fruit basket
>office manager says those are for the upcoming customer visit
>Fachkräftemangel

[Volonaut @Volonaut]

more Volonaut Airbike in action - flying under the tree canopies like it is nothing!

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

one of the best from david lynch’s filmography.

[Filip Sobalski @pink33n]

@tomieinlove Any links to the blind study? Details on their results and methodology might be interesting.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Still can’t believe I got this shot…

I’m going for something even more difficult this weekend, wish me luck 🙃

[Dilmer @Dilmerv]

This is wild 🤯

Shoutout to “Stanislav K” GPU-based spray system in Unity with real-time gradients and surface detail. VR just leveled up! 🔥 🚀

[Branko @brankopetric00]

Developer kept complaining our RDS instance was too slow. Wanted to upgrade from db.t3.large to db.r5.8xlarge.

Cost increase: $140/month to $3,400/month.

I checked query performance first:

- Query ran 47,000 times per hour
- No indexes on the WHERE clause columns
- Missing composite index cost 890ms per query

Added two indexes. Query time: 890ms -> 12ms.

Saved $39,000 annually because we spent 15 minutes with EXPLAINING.

Most performance problems are code problems disguised as infrastructure problems.

[Filip Sobalski @pink33n]

@TheCinesthetic Well this and the freaking spiders

[Filip Sobalski @pink33n]

@TheCinesthetic This ending literally broke me for a moment. Being in hell you would think nothing worse could happen...

[Filip Sobalski @pink33n]

@cursedconnector While you can you use standard 5.5/2.5 barrel plug for the power there is no other way to get the RS232/VISCA(-ish) camera control. I guess I will have to break out the serial the hard way

[Filip Sobalski @pink33n]

@cursedconnector The absolute banger is that (fortunately) you can still plug a standard hdmi cable without populating the custom connector part

[Filip Sobalski @pink33n]

@cursedconnector Does this count?

Cisco camera cable - HDMI+RS232+Power combo splits out into HDMI and RJ45

[Filip Sobalski @pink33n]

just realized #spotify desperately needs a "fast forward to just before the drop" feature

[Jakub Wiech @jakubwiech]

@JkmMikke Panie Januszu, to nie jest Warcraft 2, wydobycie ropy jest *troszkę* bardziej złożone.

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

"If your customers are too happy, you're leaving money on the table": it's the rallying cry of the enshittifier, and it's also what a friend of mine was told by a respected professor in a top-tier MBA program.

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[Maciej Konieczny @_mkonieczny]

Dość milczenia wobec izraelskich zbrodni!

[Volonaut @Volonaut]

We are excited to share this raw flight footage including take-off and landing, all with real sound.
No special effects, no CGI, no AI, pure engineering. Enjoy the future!

A fully functional real-world "speeder bike" that so far only existed in sci-fi movies is finally here.

[Jeremy Howard @jeremyphoward]

Here's a complete unedited video of asking Grok for its views on the Israel/Palestine situation.

It first searches twitter for what Elon thinks. Then it searches the web for Elon's views. Finally it adds some non-Elon bits at the end.
ZA
54 of 64 citations are about Elon.