@mbrubeck Thanks! I think you commented on the original post with the first scene way way back when I posted it :blobSmileSweating: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2013/06/11/behemoth-part-1/index.html#comment-926987510
Was playing with an Amazon Fire Stick on a TV in the basement and I think I caught someone's test deployment
That thing where I come back to my desk in the morning and find the last browser tab I had open was a search for "this horse's anus" and I have to try to remember what that was all about
@srol Exactly that :blobSmileSweating:
@thomasfuchs I mean, it's not like zombie Dick Cheney is gonna come back to shoot us in the face now is he?
Tiny thing I finally got around to doing with Home Assistant, this past weekend: Stuck a Sonoff S31 smart outlet in the shed for the e-bike charger.
Now I can see how much power it takes to top off the battery after a ride. And I set up an automation to disable charging when it's too cold or hot outside. I keep getting yelled at by the bike shop since that's bad for the battery and apparently logs an exception in the controller.
Though, also, I'm like: If the bike's electronics are smart enough to log a temperature exception while charging, why not disable charging from there? Probably complicated enough to just tell the user "don't do that"
@csalzman Not sure if you're already sucked into the Home Assistant rabbit hole, but I've been finding smart plugs unexpectedly handy for more than just turning lamps on & off
My wife is in a call in her office across the hall behind a closed door. I just burped. I overheard someone she's talking to say "What was that?" :blob_cat_ohnoes:
Been helping out with some tech interviews involving small coding exercises. They're kinda painful for me, because I really want to jump in and help the candidate when they get stuck. I feel like a jerk when I just let them sweat it out :blobsweats:
@eryn Yeah, seeing the process when things are hard is the point. I just have to work hard not to make faces and unmute to blurt out answers, heh.
Though in most of these interviews, I do mention they can ask me for help or just rubber duck with me or hit up google for docs
I guess the good thing about how we're doing these coding exercises is that I try to present them as more of a conversation or pair programming than an exam, they can talk through the process and ask me questions and hit up the web for docs.
I have had at least one candidate pull in an AI chatbot. But, they were more or less querying for doc examples and then talked through writing the code themselves. I'd rather they're up front about that than doing the old copypasta shuffle off-stage.
I know some folks would be like "using a chatbot in an interview? straight to jail!" But, we use a lot of genAI at work these days, so that would be rather pointless. Also, I am very tired.
@jbaggs Yeah, that's the thing, just trying to stimulate problem solving. And I try to reassure them periodically that I also had a hard time with this bit or that as they go. Not trying to be adversarial or whatever
We had a brief power outage last night and then another one about 90 seconds later. Turns out that was the perfect formula to end up corrupting some XML file in my Plex server for which I had no backup (ugh), so I had to reinstall it and let it reindex everything from scratch. Maybe there was a less drastic way to do it, but meh.
One fun thing about watching it gradually reindex all my music is that it reminded me of a bunch of CDs that I'd ripped that I'd totally forgotten about. Like... I used to be obsessed with this "Synthpop Club Anthems" collection, circa 2002. I remember it living in my car stereo for like a week straight, listening it to and from work
https://www.discogs.com/release/4025164-Various-Synthpop-Club-Anthems