Juan Gomez

@thelongor.bsky.social

Qubits stroker Simplicity addicted Croquetas Driven Developer

I guess everyone is moving to in-person interviews for junior/mid roles these days? Like online interviews are very broken, aren't they? Anyway, I never trusted IT interview process worked well.

Ok, it's been a while since I talked about what we are doing at my organization, but I'm SO excited about what we have released these days: The roadmap to get a real Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer (FTQC). A series of "FTQC for Muggles" is coming....

I don't know whether not having finished my AI trader system on time for this stock market crisis, was a good or a bad thing. I'll try another strategy for early retirement in the meantime

Any asshole can build an org where the smartest, most experienced engineers in the world can get shit done. A truly great engineering org is one where normal, workaday software engineers, with decent skills and ordinary experience, can move fast, ship code, and move the business forward day by day.

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealedA photo of Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) when he was 19.
Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta's unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."

"Pero las métricas [DORA] por sí solas, no nos dicen dónde están los cuellos de botella más importantes ¡No nos dicen cómo mejorar!" #Bonilista Es cierto! Pero el report anual sí que te habla de las prácticas que usan los equipos en el cluster Elite. Es una pista ;)

Team members: Do you always choose who joins your team? Or Managers put people in your team without asking. I have the feeling that most of the time Managers don't want to make the hard call (fire someone).

It is being said that airports are a mirror of the country they belong to. I refuse to think JFK reflects anything about the U.S. Worst airport I've been to by far, wondering how NY doesn't do anything about it.

I know this is gonna hurt some people I know and respect (pointing at you @376b78fc7223.bsky.social ), but I bought a Macbook Air (M3) because the machine is just amazing. I still don't like the OS, but the hardware is worth it. I wish there was a properly maintained Linux distro 🥲 Good job Apple.