zram makes sense if you do not have swap.
zswap is probably enabled by default in most distros. It compresses cold pages on the fly so that they’re ready to quickly get swapped in and out.
I do hit the swap partition occasionally on my 32GB systems.
It doesn’t really kick in until you have proper pressure. I want my swap partition for hibernation, anyway.
Writing code was never 100% of the job. The hard part of software engineering is understanding the problem and figuring out the most elegant path to solve it. If AI can do the code-writing part faster, then it’s a good tool to use.
I still spend a third of my week in meetings. I put out on-call fires late at night.
I also spend a good chunk of my time interviewing potential hires. I pretty much expect them to use AI for their code assignments. Including prompt history is a plus if they do. What I do gauge is their ability to explain their code, defend the decisions and know how to adapt to changing circumstances.
I know how to get to this point by starting a couple of decades ago. I do recognise that I don’t have the same grasp of our codebase as if I had written it by hand. I do review everything that gets deployed, but the volume is higher and it doesn’t stick as well.
I don’t know how to get in as a jr today. We’ll know in a few years how it’s done. It’s a new landscape, but if you’re passionate about the field you’ll figure it out.
My first distro shipped with pico, so I often choose nano for an edit. Micro is fine, too, but I won’t go out of my way to install it.
I challenged myself to write a couple of projects in neovim over a month or so. I finished my projects, but it still felt like the tool was getting in my way. Muscle memory is to break. Current job requires a bigger IDE, but I still do my commit messages with neovim.
As far as music goes it’s definitely easier to be blissfully ignorant now than it was in the age of MTV and broadcast radio. You get your curated stream of recommendations with no reason to highlight what doesn’t fit there.
I wouldn’t know of Grande had she not been hosting SNL. I don’t know who The Weekend are. I saw a post a while back about Drake’s security being dicks, and I thought Drake’s security was the name of a security company.
I’ll excel at 90’s music trivia if it was on MTV. But now I’m set in my ways and only listen to HYPR demoscene radio. I excel at that niche genre now, too.
It’s a weird market.
Those H100s are $25k minimum. So $200,000 just in GPUs. Drawing 700W each, or 5.6kW total. At my local prices that’s about a dollar per hour just for electricity.
It’s going to take you a couple of years to break even at $20/h. They might still hold some value at that point. Or they might be obsolete.
I usually don’t. But this year I have a new-to-me car that had a couple of cross-threaded wheelbolts. Changing the whole hub is pricy and the shop refused to replace just the bolt. I managed to re-thread the other.
Anywho, most lug nuts were really on there, so I gave them a dab of marine grease. I always re-tighten at 1, 100 and 1000km and before any longer trip. But they haven’t moved at all since the 1km re-tightening.
I’m not in/from the US. I haven’t been one paycheck away from homelessness since I was a student.
Enough savings to last half a year without income has always been a rule of thumb.
I’m a team lead. I have an engineering manager above me. He expects my team to be autonomous. He’s involved in quarterly planning, but otherwise I really just reach out to clarify what’s expected of my team.
As for my team. I expect the team members to be autonomous. We sync every other day. We share what we’re working on - not so much for micromanaging but to make sure we reach out for help if we’re stuck instead of wasting time silently. Its also for knowledge-sharing. It makes it easier to pick up Bob’s projects when he suddenly quits without warning. And others can learn to avoid his mistakes.
Currently we’ve got too much work that there’s no downtime for any major learning on the clock. My previous job had subscriptions to online learning platforms and I had quarterly goals to complete at least one.