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Super casual post (typed on my phone, while lying on my bed), tried a lot of things but this is sticking. So I had to tell you because it may help some of you that are math curious like me. Sleep issues is tough, it…

Is there a role where you get to be a data analyst and a software engineer at the same time? What is such a role called? __Some context__ At my current F500 company, I'm in an odd situation. I work at a marketing…

I like pair programming and would love to work at a place where this is much more of a thing. Do you know which companies do this?

Personally, I've tested ChatGPT, Claude, Deepseek and Gemini. Other than Gemini, the other LLMs are way too much of a sycophant to the point that they're unusuable other than basic questions and coding (Claude). Gemini…

I'm sorry for asking the question so blunt. I'm not in uni anymore, I did my time from 2010 to 2019 (Europe/cheap, multiple degrees). But recently in a private chat someone said "these days all universities (at least in…

At my job I'm currently hooking up code to the APIs of LLMs. Just some Python and some common sense, really. In my scripts, the LLMs have access to certain Python scripts that call certain APIs to get more data and I…

I'm just using Claude, copy/pasting code, reading it, making sense of it, thinking about if this is what I want and then proceed. It's a bit slower than the pure vibe coding approach, but I like to stay in the loop and…

I've changed some facts a bit. The story still stands. This is definitely one of those times where I'm breaking my brain because something isn't logical and I haven't yet understand the cultural side of things, or…

I currently started work as a data analyst. For a data analyst, the work is quite programming heavy actually (e.g. we don't use Excel but Jupyter). But for a software engineer, the amount of programming feels low. It's…

I know it's a bit of an opinionated question, but you guys have a ton of experience in this. I'd like to save myself 20 hours (or more) of weighing the pro's and cons. I feel with these type of things, even when…

Whenever I do breathing meditation in the evening, I tend to fall asleep. I am more aware of falling asleep since I am aware of not focusing on my breath anymore, so I wake myself up. This happens like 5 times as I…

I've checked WhoIsHiring and LinkedIn, but the data isn't sharp enough. I'm rusty in all my languages and wouldn't pass interviews right now, except for data structures and algorithms in JS. I'm not an American and…

I'm relearning Python, coming from JS (and having done Python in the past). I've watched a few videos, and it is coming back to me a bit. What I wonder, is there a very visually interactive REPL? Chrome/Safari/Firefox…

I'm in a coding session with a recruiter soon to show off my front-end skills. The truth is, I haven't coded front-end in a while and am out of date with industry best practices. What's a good way to as quickly as…

I'm brushing up my high school math skills and am following a course from a Dutch university (derivatives and integration). I have some knowledge gaps in my basic math skills (especially integration), and I am plugging…

Apologies for the length. I don't know how to shorten this at the moment. I'm a software dev with about 4 years of experience, not in a single tech stack. I also have 2 years of experience in teaching it. Double…

I have a good journaling habit going since April. Every thought that I consider to be interesting, I write it down. However, my reading habit is quite bad. In part, this is because I don't really know how to take my own…

Is there a utility that if I just type in lin That it will show link -s <TARGET> <SYMLINK> and potential 5 other commands that are close to it (newlined)? So like, it'll show the common use of that command (or perhaps…