Notices by Neil Kandalgaonkar (neilk@xoxo.zone)

@mcc I also thought this was true and then I met a techie who thought Oracle Cloud was legit

@annika A mutual of mine, @cube_drone , comments on my posts frequently but I do not see them. We followed each other a long time ago, I think. We are not blocked on either end by personal or server config as far as I can tell. Can you help?

@inthehands @yuki2501 The people pushing AI in big companies right now are serial “messes that look like successes” professionals

Thirty seconds after the thing is released, but before everyone realizes it sucks, they leave for some new, more senior role.

You simply must try https://calcgpt.io, a calculator that uses a LLM to do math

VRChat had a massive 30% layoff last week and I was let go. It's been heartbreaking for everyone and one day I will talk more about this very special community.

I'm looking forward to a bit of a reset, and then a new role.

VRChat is a very flat organization, but I would be at least a Principal Engineer in most other companies.

I would love a role where I can help an entire team be better, but I'm also happy just doing backend and cloud engineering.

https://neilk.net/work/

#getfedihired

Tradition is a wonderful thing. Looking forward to this generation of protesters learning that their campus administrators, the cops, and almost all of the media are going to shamelessly lie about them

Managers are just prompt engineers

@Loukas I thought “Black Lives Matter” was the perfect slogan because who could argue with that

young developer: "Wow, how did you get these results? Did you use a traditional db or a vector db?"

me: "lol I used perl & sort on a 42MB text file. it took 1.2 seconds on an old macbook"

Thanks to @kasdeya for posting this highly memeable photo of an old computer book. But I wondered: which book?

I figured out it's from "The Internet Guide for New Users" by Daniel P. Dern, 1994.

The illustrator, Hannah M. G. Shapero, has been involved with technology and art for a very long time. Here she is doing some early electronic music, and appropriately looking like she is going to bring us all into the future

She has a few blogs; this was last updated in 2021. https://pyracanthasketch.blogspot.com/

The best advice I got about Mastodon is that it’s for things you love, not hate