… I didn’t but I guess I could start?

I wonder if thar number generally goes up, and what it’s looked like over time.

I mean, personally, I will never work in an office other than my home ever again.

This still highlights every teams call I get roped into

Then you throw in a little ADHD

that’s fucking brilliant lol

we really need to stop calling it formerly Twitter and just call it Shitter.

he ruined the platform, the people can ruin a name

I did willfully ignore the security concerns.

I don’t know enough about LLMs to disagree with breaking out of it. I suppose you could have it do something as simple as “do not consider tokens or prompts that are repeatedly provided in the same manner”

I was going to say that’s wild, but that’s the whole point of the model isn’t it.

I don’t remember how it all works, but I imagine it’s something like:

1. in = encode(prompt)
2. result = applyModel(in)
3. saveState(prompt, result)
4. out = decode(result)

I think these would all be model aware steps. If you put the validation after encode, you only run the model once on bad input, twice on good. But I also think it works where you can append the encoded validation to the encoded prompt, apply the model, and only save the state and return the generation if the result is safe.

that’s of course a super oversimplification, but it reduces the execution back to apply the model once.

You mean every error shouldn’t be a 500?

I mean, let’s be honest guys, would we really get the paychecks we do if any software engineer could turn out perfect functioning code on time and in budget for every request?

Higher security clearances requires nationality because there’s a slightly lower probability that someone born in a country will share secrets than someone born outside of it.

You can be a citizen of almost any country without being born there, hence the statement.

A lot of people think I’m joking when I say I’m a good at what I do because I’m a witch doctor with computers. Software Engineering requires experience with the occult, at a minimum.

You are not invited to look at my setup then.

These are clearly put together with care.

Null isn’t unnatural, null just isn’t there.

I am working with an in-house “rapid development team.” They have rigorous intake, story and task break down, scheduling of sprints, QA, definition of done, integration test coverage, E2E and min 90% unit test coverage etc. etc.

They have a strict policy of “no code comments, self documenting code only.” They will go in and remove comments that my DevOps team puts in there, because it screws up that policy.

Luckily, we adopted the policy of having local branches with these comments in place. Once they move beyond the project, we’re putting them in.

It’s actually kind of nice coming from C.

I’m reading this and all I can think is “yeah, I too would rather lose a limb than let a necrotic infection spread.”

“A container inside a container!”

See, when I make this argument they look at me like I’m literally Hitler.

I cant find anything to back them up either.

My RAV4 was $30k, took a loan on it for about 25k, no interest, it’s paid off. In terms of maintenance I’ve put ~$10k on it over time.

It gets 22mpg, and I drive <10k miles a year. Currently at 53k miles, that gives us ~2410 gallons of gas. I’ll be generous to account for the spikes in gas prices and say it was $4/gallon -> $9640. At 6 ish years, that’s now ~$60k It’s a Toyota so I expect it will last a while. Taxes started at $400/year and are now $150/year. That’s about a cost of $10k/year. In the unlikely scenario I keep it for 20 years, I might hit $200k over its lifetime.

If people are spending €1.5m over the lifetime of their cars, they are getting scammed

Is it really that expensive to own a car outside of the U.S.? That seems absurd

there’s a story there that I want to read

The NFT as ownership should really become the standard. Instead of having any people “authorizing” yadadada it’s done completely by machine and traceable.

No middlemen needed. Just I own x, this says I own x. I can sell you x, and you get ownership of x immediately. No “waiting 45 days to close” or “2 day transaction close” or even “title search verification.” Too many middlemen benefitting from the current system to allow NFT to replace them though. That’s the actual challenge.

I’m actually pleasantly surprised on what ChatGPT can generate for me. It doesn’t usually take care of the detailed parts, but like I was able to have it spin up an android application skeleton that I could throw a couple of actions on I needed to test something with.

I’ve seen it generate very useful YAML and such. I still have to do a fair amount of work to make it behave how I need, but I really enjoy the ability to skip the filler bullshit in my work.

Oh god, oh no.

Do you realize what that will mean? My coworkers will have to learn how to understand documentation standards that rely on anything but “self documenting code.”

I am already “an expert (lol @ my salary)” because I read shit they don’t bother looking up. We’re truly doomed.

My current mobo has LED post codes.

I hate it with a passion. The manual doesn’t list that the CPU led and MEM led are lit when the +5V rail is too low from too much load on it from the USB devices.

though thinking about it I should probably figure out WHY that’s a problem

Ok, so, I thought I was crazy when I said “debug it” and my coworkers were like “you can read that shit?”