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BubbleRings commented on All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair terriblesoftware.org/2025... · Posted by u/matheusml

giancarlostoro · 2 days ago

I think this goes for Engineers as well. In fact, I say the biggest skill I want from a SENIOR developer regardless of years of experience is humility. Someone who "cannot do wrong" and is a toxic about it will poison the rest of the team with their toxicity. But the seniors who are more open to feedback even from Junior developers, those are the ones everyone else follows to hell and back because they're there with you through it all so you're there with them through it all too.

We are all humans, not robots. Heck, even the LLMs mess up.

BubbleRings · 2 days ago

One thing I watched closely for in interviews is the moment when an applicant said “I don’t know.” I have not had great experiences with tech co-workers who are incapable of saying that.

BubbleRings commented on All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair terriblesoftware.org/2025... · Posted by u/matheusml

neumann · 2 days ago

Oh no. Not another LinkedIn insight from a new dad about how managing humans in corp is just like parenting. Just fucking enjoy being a parent and don't apply your obvious empathy epiphanies to your career out loud.

BubbleRings · 2 days ago

The hostility of your reply seemed much more Facebook than OP’s post seemed LinkedIn.

BubbleRings commented on All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair terriblesoftware.org/2025... · Posted by u/matheusml

ChrisMarshallNY · 2 days ago

I have lived a life where I have to constantly be taking personal inventory, and when wrong, promptly admit it.

I think that helped make me a decent manager. At least, my employees seemed to think so.

But I could be wrong.

BubbleRings · 2 days ago

I’d rate this comment a “10”, ha. Good stuff, I’m with you on that road.

I especially like OP’s point #1. “I know I did x, sorry about that” is so much more powerful than “Sorry you let yourself get upset that I did x”.

BubbleRings commented on Study mode openai.com/index/chatgpt-... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

everyone · 25 days ago

Yeah, I've been a game-dev forever and had never built a web-app in my life (even in college) I recently completed my 1st web-app contract, and gpt was my teacher. I have no problem asking stupid questions, tbh asking stupid questions is a sign of intelligence imo. But where is there to even ask these days? Stack Overflow may as well not exist.

BubbleRings · 25 days ago

Right on. A sign of intelligence but more importantly of bravery, and generosity. A person that asks good questions in a class improves the class drastically, and usually learns more effectively than other students in the class.

BubbleRings commented on Faking a JPEG ty-penguin.org.uk/~auj/bl... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

BubbleRings · a month ago

Is there reason you couldn’t generate your images by grabbing random rectangles of pixels from one source image and pasting it into a random location in another source image? Then you would have a fully valid jpg that no AI could easily successfully identify as generated junk. I guess that would require much more CPU than your current method huh?

BubbleRings commented on Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphics alpha.lisagui.com/... · Posted by u/ayaros

ayaros · 2 months ago

I haven't gone as far as verifying puzzles are solvable - right now I only verify the state of the puzzle is valid. Maybe in the future. For now I guess it will be like solitaire, where if you can't solve it you'll have to reshuffle it.

Incidentally, I'm planning on adding solitaire as the next game!

BubbleRings · 2 months ago

Great work, great memories on the Lisa.

But sheesh! The first time I play the numbers puzzle on a computer in my life, and the first time in 30 years that I play it at all, and I find out some joker has snapped two of the pieces out and reversed them, making it unsolvable?! Diabolical!

BubbleRings commented on Techno-feudalism and the rise of AGI: A future without economic rights? arxiv.org/abs/2503.14283... · Posted by u/lexandstuff

thangalin · 2 months ago

My hard sci-fi book dovetails into AGI, economics, agrotech, surveillance states, and a vision of the future that explores a fair number of novel ideas.

Looking for beta readers: username @ gmail.com

BubbleRings · 2 months ago

Username@Gmail.com bounced. I’ll be a beta reader.

BubbleRings commented on Touching the back wall of the Apple store blog.lauramichet.com/touc... · Posted by u/nivethan

ljsocal · 2 months ago

Having worked in said fruit stand for several years, I can assure you that you were neither undetected nor unplayed. We kept score, too!

BubbleRings · 2 months ago

Okay now we need more details here, please!

BubbleRings commented on Mechanical Watch: Exploded View fellerts.no/projects/epoc... · Posted by u/fellerts

ggm-at-algebras · 2 months ago

I like this, and respect the craft which went into making it. I still think an immersive 3D model you can interact with may be more functional to illustrate mechanisms.

The room of clockwork/ratchet mechanisms in "Musee des arts et metiers" in Paris is fantastic.

BubbleRings · 2 months ago

Or if nothing else, just put it on the center of a record player platter and film it for us please!

BubbleRings commented on Mechanical Watch: Exploded View fellerts.no/projects/epoc... · Posted by u/fellerts

crazygringo · 2 months ago

Rich watch people can be spendy because it's fashion and, for mechanical watches, the idea of timeless functionality at the highest levels of craftsmanship.

This is exceptionally cool to me. But it's not something you get to subtly show off in public, it's going to (hopefully) involve a cheap watch, and therefore the "timeless functionality" appeal is gone.

BubbleRings · 2 months ago

Make a couple of them using Rolexes in a cube shape, and somebody would pay lots to have them as "fuzzy dice" to hang from the rear view mirror of their high end car.

But seriously, it doesn't have to be displayed with subtlety. Somebody offer OP $10K for this so you can use it as a paperweight on your desk.

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