I saw this article in the WSJ (unlocked link here) about these startup founders working non stop except a few hours of sleep. I mean this as a genuine inquiry - does anyone know people who work like that, and what on earth do they actually do during all that time? I’ve been working in this industry this at high levels for almost 15 years, and I need time and space to think, plan, and reflect honestly on my own ideas. If I was programming 18 hours a day it wouldn’t be anything substantial, I’d just wind up flailing with random Android APIs because I can’t think clearly. LOL

So anyhow, I honestly man it: can people who folks like this speak to what they do all day and how they operate?

I recently got my first FAANG job after working in startups my entire career and I feel like my life is a krazam video now. The people are super nice and clearly brilliant but it’s painful that so much of their energy is spent on planning rituals and not on actually getting stuff done.

For a single feature of an internal API I now have to deal with more sign-offs and planning meetings than I used to get launching entire products directly to users. The amount of bikeshedding at every level just to appear Very Smart™ in front of ${N+1} is impressive to witness, and this culture permeates the code directly: everything is overengineered which makes development super slow.

Is there any hope? Some coping strategies? Is it a fundamental culture mismatch or will I get used to it? The money is too good to quit, I tripled my TC coming here, I wouldn’t mind rest & vest but this place is RTO and if I have to drag myself to the office regularly I would like to enjoy my job at …

Someone on my team will publish a PR, it’s like 1-2k lines of code and after looking at it for 5 minutes I can tell it’s pretty much entirely AI generated.

I don’t inherently have anything against AI code, but what irks me is it’s full of really obvious issues. For example there’s lots of repetitive code in several places that could be moved to a single function.

This is something I’d expect a junior to spot/fix and this person has like 4+ YoE so they should definitely know better. So they’re either not reviewing their AI generated code whatsoever or they’re a much worse engineer than I thought.

Anyone dealt with something similar? Trying to figure out how to navigate this without causing the person to mentally check out due to me confronting them.

This is going to be a long and cynical post. I don’t want it to be, but I can’t help it.

I’m a Senior Data Scientist. I have about 10 years of experience in Python, Machine Learning, and NLP (now called “AI”). I work for a small (but reasonably profitable) startup. When I started working there (about two years ago), my role was about making use of LLMs to enhance our product. I won’t go into the details, but we process a lot of unstructured text in all sorts of ways, so using LLMs makes perfect sense for this use case. In the beginning, I was genuinely excited about the role. I was already making heavy use of LLMs in my prior role and for my personal projects, and being able to lead such efforts was fascinating.

I won’t describe the full journey because that will make the post too long, but two years later, and in spite of my objections, the company has adopted the use of LLMs internally for everything in the name of fast shipping. …

1 legion go S each, both with syncthing installed.

Games: 1 syncthing folder syncs the bios and roms for retro games between my phone, laptop, steam deck, and both the kids legion’s. Still have to manually run steam rom manager once in a while to get them into the steam UI.

For jellyfin:

when requesting in overseer there’s a kids folder option which puts them in a separate directory, tdarr picks them up and encodes them all into a lower res and dumps them into a syncthing folder which sends them over to the legion’s, each of which have their own jellyfin server pointing at the local content.

I have been working on customizing my Glance setup and I think it is finally in a good place.

• One main page with some monitoring, internet favorites, and my self-hosted services
• One media page
• A mobile and tablet page (same as desktop but without the monitoring)
• And one homepage page that I still need to finalize

Thanks to the Reddit community for all the Glance setups shared here — they really helped me build mine in return. I still need to set up a GitHub repo so I can share my config as well.

When I visited the repo it amazed me the amount of activity and how many closed issues there are, it’s incredible.

And it surprised me how fast they work! In the new Beta timeline I had a critical issue that crashes the timeline with many languages like mine. Well, I opened an issue just stating the info the providing many of the template and within 5 hours there was a pull request, and within ~20 hours it was pulled, and within like 2 days it was out with a big update v1.42.0!

Sure it was litteraly a one-line edit that added about 4 chars, but it’s crazy how fast it got fixed and got shipped within days (I think I got lucky on new update timing). Initially I lazed out the issue, and a week ago there was a fix for a very similar issue that shipped with v1.41.1 so I checked it but it didn’t actually fix my issue (it was Beta timeline so I didn’t care as much initially) so I finally decided to open an issue about it.

Also I think it is a good thing that I …

Libredesk.io is a 100% free and open-source customer support desk, the backend is written in Go and the frontend is in Vue JS with ShadnCN for UI components.

Unlike many “open-core” alternatives that lock essential features behind enterprise plans, Libredesk is fully open-source and plans to always stay this way.

It’s currently in alpha, but a working demo is available. I built this because I wanted a truly open, self-hosted alternative to platforms like Freshdesk, Intercom, and Zendesk.

GitHub: https://github.com/abhinavxd/libredesk
Demo: https://demo.libredesk.io/ (Best viewed on desktop, Ideally there should be a mobile app)

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Lately I’ve been diving into the history (and current state) of Usenet, and honestly it blows my mind how ahead of its time it was. A decentralized discussion system from the late 70s/early 80s that basically set the foundation for forums, Reddit, and even aspects of modern social media.

What I find really interesting is: -It’s still running, decades later. -It was designed without the idea of a “central authority,” which feels super relevant today when everyone’s talking about decentralization and federated networks. -The culture, from academic discussions to… well, let’s just say less academic ones, shaped huge parts of internet history.

Feels like one of those corners of the internet that deserves way more recognition for the influence it had.

Long time user - one of my favs when it started. All category refreshes are stale and there is just no response from admins.

I have alternates but curious if anyone has perhaps better/ updated info. Is it even worth asking anymore ? I still have ~3 years left on the active sub. He he .. perhaps worthless.

Since my last post here I’ve made a number of updates to Newsgrouper, my web gateway to Usenet discussion groups:

• By popular demand, there is now an “All posts” option in the thread view to show all posts of a thread in the same screen.
• There is a “Rot13” display option.
• Display colours can now be customised in the Preferences screen.
• Historical search has been completely rewritten to give a simple unified system which can search from today right back to the 1980s for groups which have been around that long.
• Any groups which have new replies to your own posts will be highlighted on the home screen.
• There is now a dedicated support newsgroup: newsgrouper.support .

Newsgrouper is at https://newsgrouper.org .

I use nzbget with Newsgeek and sometimes it seems as though I have successfully downloaded a movie. However when I go to check it out it will be many days long (like thousands of minutes). Sometimes there will be some video and or audio sometimes not. That audio may loop or the vIdeo is all black with no sound.

I am assuming it is probably a corruption issue when videos are transcoded.

Why does this happen with certain video files?

How can I detect this in my download client and reject them before I try and open them from my media player. There is nothing worst than being excited than thinking you finally downloaded a long wanted peice of media just to be let down.

Looks like their certificate expired. anyone got any idea what’s going on?

Check here https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/advanced/certificate-errors. You can type in http://news.bulknews.eu in the ssl checker and it’ll it’s not good

yup.. guess plex is trying to pull a sonos..

Been using Plex for a few years now and the wife seems to use it exclusively for most of her viewing. Even showed her how to use Overseerr to make requests. Even still, the other day she said she “sometimes misses Netflix”. Guessing she means how Netflix would curate content based on her viewing and also the mini previews while hovering over content. I’m sure i’m not the first person to receive this complaint, has anyone figured out a way to get something like this into Plex replicate the feeling of browsing through Netflix? I feel like I always know what I want to watch so Plex is great for me, but I realize that some people need some more guidance in picking out something to watch

At least someone else besides me will use it 🥲

Who wanted to push their personal libraries off the home page? Now instead of turning on plex and continuing some show I was watching, now i have to do 3 clicks to hunt up where my continued viewing section is. After finding i find out I can not move them to the home page. Curious, but which consumers wanted this change?

Edit:update.

Figured out the new “myst” style buttons, you know, the show me a picture and guess what it means now, type.

Anyways, the new UI setup with the menu at the top, instead of on the left side. Has moved your personal libraries to its own menu tab, opening it you see your libraries and each has a little box with a heart on it. If those hearts are not toggled on, they will not show up on the home page.

When did the heart stop being used as favorites, and start being used as a link button?

Really interested to see what comes of this.