Most of the people that complain about ticket prices are going to ticketmaster venues to see elaborate productions built by the biggest artists in the world.
When I tell people that I used to go to at least one show every week on my grad student stipend they are very confused. It’s because I was seeing music by local bands or up-and-coming acts that would charge $10 in the back of a dive bar. Those types of shows aren’t $10 any more, but they are still cheap. And those are the artists that are in the most need of your financial support with tickets and merch. Once an artist is big enough to book an arena… they ain’t struggling
At a certain point the world just becomes less appealing to live in. Day by day death becomes more appealing; what do you have to lose when life just means living in a pigpen?
I think it must be awful to carry that around; it's awful to hear. You are important and I really hope you come to see that it's you that matters, not these outside events and people who you don't even know and who are fodder for HN and social media.
When we devalue ourselves then things and people on the outside become relatively much more powerful and more significant. If we love ourselves - and you do deserve that - then they really don't matter. It's not that the world and life and events don't matter at all, but it's only a fraction of how it may feel now; it's a whole different perspective and experience. People have survived decades of oppression, prison and worse on that basis.
Turn off the social media and the news if it will help - that stuff is not important; you are. I could care less about all this stuff on HN if you, a real person, is ok. And talk to a professional, a therapist; you don't have to feel this way and it can change your life.
i want to comment something violently hateful towards you. but at this point I feel bad for people like you. indeed you are already living out some twisted arc of the karmic cycle which results in your life and making this comment. i hope you find help eventually and i wish peace for you.
firstly i dont dont care about you or what you have to think. second escalation is meaningless Lol what is this a boxing gym? we’re on an internet forum
put simply ice is a violent private militia. and people like you won’t see it until they are knocking at your door. or never. goes back to my first point. you are already living in hell
Everyone wants to make an OS because that's super cool and technical and hard. I mean, that's just resume gold.
Using Linux is boring and easy. Yawwwwn. But nobody makes an OS from scratch, only crazy greybeard developers do that!
The problem is, you're not crazy greybeard developers working out of your basement for the advancement of humanity. No. Youre paid employees of a mega corporation. You have no principles, no vision. You're not Linus Trovalds.
But what i am saying is like what if i showed the director that i can do the work that a team has taken months/years to do. And is still failing to do. Seems like best way to proceed is just put my head down which sucks and makes me want to leave
You're working where they want cogs, interchangable cogs. They don't want you to build something special and be the only one who knows how it works. You could leave, and then they are screwed trying to support the thing you wrote. It sounds like you've already done some of this by your own description. You're not a senior, and you're busy trying to prove you are senior material, right? But if you really want to be senior, you need to do dull things that you are skipping. Documenting, collaborating, keeping everyone in the loop, sharing all the information you have as best you can.
Want to really be a senior? Think this way: Everything I build as a senior developer is an attempt to make myself obsolete. I should be able to give a two weeks notice and walk away with no harm to the company. When I build things at work, I never worry about job security, not even a little. If there is something I built that they can't support without me, I've failed.
And you will ultimately know you failed when you can't even go on vacation without carrying the company laptop with you. I know you're proud of that thing you built and how you're the only one who knows how it all works, but that's the core problem.
If the consensus is the project is failing share your thoughts on how to turn it around in your next one-on-one.
If the project is not failing, talk about how you would have done things differently in your next one-on-one and make it be known you'd like to be part of the planning next time.
It's normal to wish things were tailored more to your preference, it's normal to look back on how something was done and see a better way it could have been done. If you have retrospectives that's another good place to talk about these thoughts.
Well if you put your head down you’re doing what a good junior does which is just sharpen your technical skills and learn best practices cs anti patterns. You can have some good war stories in your future interviews.
The way to effect this change is to psy-op your teammates/bosses into thinking they came up with it.
> Seems like best way to proceed is just put my head down which sucks and makes me want to leave
It sounds like a bad culture fit for you, to be honest. Nothing wrong with looking for another job; you're not likely to be able to steer this ship around, if nobody is interested in supporting you.
Have built many pipelines integrating LLMs to drive real $ results. I think this article boils it down too simply. But i always remember, if the LLM is the most interesting part of your work, something is severely wrong and you probably aren’t adding much value. Context management based on some aspects of your input is where LLMs get good, but you need to do lots of experimentation to tune something. Most cases i have seen are about developing one pipeline to fit 100s of extremely different cases; LLM does not solve this problem but basically serves as an approximator for you to discretize previously large problems in to some information sub space where you can treat the infinite set of inputs as something you know. LLMs are like a lasso (and a better/worse one than traditional lassos depending on use case) but once you get your catch you still need to process it, deal with it progammatically to solve some greater problem. I hate how so many LLM related articles/comments say “ai is useless throw it away dont use it” or “ai is the future if we dont do it now we’re doomed lets integrate it everywhere it can solve all our problems” like can anyone pick a happy medium? Maybe thats what being in a bubble looks like
i am a data engineer (2 yoe) who speaks multiple languages and thinks in systems. i am looking to switch jobs as the problems i work on at my job are not as interesting as i would hope. also i am underpaid. can you point me to your hiring funnel?
