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- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 day ago:
Anyone who was proud of america before was just drinking the coolaid. There are things america did that were worth being proud of individually, but soo many more not to. It’s the same idea as idolizing a person. The vast majority of the time they are really a bad person overall. Instead focus on the event or achievement and not the person.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 4 days ago:
Nice that is in fact what I was going to say. I get a lot of people with that joke.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 4 days ago:
I think though, you get the point.
Now here is a bonus question for you. If I give you a coin and ask you to flip it 20 times, and they all come up heads. What are the odds that if you flip it again it will come up heads?
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 4 days ago:
Luck is a factor, but the differentiator is that they have the. Isplaced confidence and drive to just do what they want first. Then the luck let’s them get away with it. It’s kind of like if you get a million people to flip a coin 50 times. Some of them will get all 50 to be heads. So with billions of people in the world. Some have this drive to be on top, misplaced confidence, luck, and situational oportunities (also a good part luck) to end up able to sign 250 million dollar contract. None of that actually requires they have a clue. Sometimes they do, but it isn’t required.
- Comment on A Fallout 4 QA tester nuked the RPG so hard that Zenimax executives got emails about it: "I was running around super-nuking the entire wasteland and found 4 crashes in a single morning" 6 days ago:
This vid is almost obligatory when talking about qa testing… youtu.be/baY3SaIhfl0
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
On your edit… yes, and the problem there is that should be considered coercive for all work. We shouldn’t work for money. We should work because the work has value to the population. A lot of work is the opposite, and yet people do it because they have to pay the bills. Working in scam call centers is an extreme example. There are people who go to sex clubs and such where they have sex with semi strangers and what not. There would probably be a lot more if it wasn’t considered taboo. So the “industry” as it is would not go away, it would change if paying the bills wasn’t the driver.
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 1 week ago:
There are two parts. First, they aren’t as underpaid as most people think in most cases. The union isn’t dumb. When they negotiate they look at the long term. A career teacher (30 to 35 years) can retire at about 55 give or take depending on the district. And they will get something like 80% of thier salary for the rest of thier life. They will also get subsidized health insurance. And in some states, all of that is tax free. That is a ton of money and a ton of security. And for many, they can retire, collect pension, and go get another job at the same time if they want. I make more than double what teachers make best case, and my wife works too for a 6 figure salary. I can’t possibly retire at 55, let alone feel secure doing so. I also have been laid off twice over the last 30 years, where as most teacher don’t have to worry about that after 10 years. Now, I get to take vacation anytime of the year, I can change jobs or move and not mess up my future benefits. I don’t have to deal with parents. Lots of intangible benefits to not being a teacher. But the point is the union ensures those less obvious benefits, which keeps the current salary low. This keeps the optics of drastically underpaid teachers so that the union can still negotiate for more with public sentiment on thier side. So while they are still underpaid, it isn’t as drastic as it would appear.
The other reason is simple. There are a lot of teachers. Like a lot a lot. And schools are generally built to a higher standard of saftey, so they are much more expensive than other building types. All of this adds up to a very high cost. Education is typically one of the largest expenditures for a state budget. Poloticians could dump more money into it, but it isn’t likely to be enough to make a difference that will get them reelected. So they put money other places that will get them votes.
That’s your reasons why.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 1 week ago:
You said the answer is no AI.
And I want AI to do the non-thinking mundane crap while I do the thinking and directing. I don’t need to spend time wrestling with an sql query to produce a report the boss “wants”. I can tell AI to do that if it has the access it needs. Eventually the boss can tell AI to do it him/herself, so I can solve the real problems. - Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 1 week ago:
I didn’t say that you “needed” it. I said it was good for that. It’s a simple task that is easily verifiable and unlikely to go astray due to hallucinations.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 1 week ago:
The days of stack exchange and such are numbered. Web searches turn up less and less hits that help you solve problems and learn. It won’t be long before AIs replace old school web searches. Software projects will stop writing documentation, when instead and ai can just read the code. The way we learned things is dieing. I don’t know how the juniors will get to be seniors in 5 to 10 years. But following th AI instructions to test out it’s theories isn’t going to work for the vast majority.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 1 week ago:
I do in fact. Recently I have dodge the night time pages, but a few years ago I was up plenty of time in the night debugging issues. In many of those cases an AI would have been very helpful. Developers do far stupider things because they are sure they won’t break anything. But most of the pages were the result of not enough time spent to make the systems resilient. I dodged the pager currently because as a startup we had so few customers, we couldn’t afford to hire enough people to have a rotation. So I was sortof on call. Like the boss had my number, and if needed he would call it. But it never came to that, partly by luck, and partly because I know how to make things resilient. With the low load, resilient isn’t as hard.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 1 week ago:
Good luck with that. Most search engines use AI now. Not only where you see it, but in finding the content to make it searchable. AI is here to stay. There are things it is good at, and things it isn’t. Learn what they are, and use it where it makes sense. Or stuck your head in the sand and see how that works put.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 1 week ago:
Someone created that database. And all those other parts of the infra you use. AI is pretty good for that. But you have it turn on deletion protection, and set up a system that requires another person to approve turning it off. Or you can give it access at creation time, but remember to turn that access off when it is finished being verified.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 1 week ago:
I did say “and guardrails to stop a single point of failure.” A cicd pipeline itslef doesn’t protect you if it can change that too. You need the same kind of guardrails that would allow a junior dev to f things up. Require multiple people to sign off. Turn on deletion protection… those sorts of things. I work in infra, so I often have direct access to production. More than I should. But not all companies can afford to build out all the tools needed so that I don’t need production access.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 2 weeks ago:
Have you met software. Nearly all of it is a cautionary tale. Even before AI. So this is just business as usual for the software industry.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 2 weeks ago:
Wrong answer. If you don’t give them access, the alternative (ruling out not using AI because leadership will never go for that) is to hire high school kids to take a task from a manager, ask the ai to do it, then do what the AI says repeatedly to iterate to the solution. The problem with that alt is that it is no better than giving the ai access, and it leaves you with no senior tech people. Instead, you give it access, but only give senior tech people access to the AI. Ones who would know to tell the AI to have a backup of the database, one designed to not let you delete it without multiple people signing off.
Senior tech people aren’t going to spend thier time trying things an AI needs tried to find the solution. So if you don’t give it access, they won’t use it, and eventually they will all be gone. Then you are even further up shit creek than you are now.
The answer overall, is smarter people talking to the AI, and guardrails to stop a single point of failure. The later is nothing new.
- Comment on What to do with an old iPhone that I no longer use? 2 weeks ago:
Lol. Unless you know where to smash, the data is still recoverable. And she is paranoid.
- Comment on What to do with an old iPhone that I no longer use? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s a very old one. Iphone 4. It’s been collecting dust for years.
- Comment on What to do with an old iPhone that I no longer use? 2 weeks ago:
Any idea how to do that if it was say your mother in laws, and she doesn’t remeber any of the related passwords including icloud?
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 2 weeks ago:
Coed recreational sports team. Lots of them are mostly social with a little bit of sports tossed in. And almost all of them are looking for more players.
- Comment on Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner 2 weeks ago:
I looked it up. It is something to do with how the sensors work. Under certain conditions they will report negative. Either way, the point was, I don’t see this machine being able to do much if it needs around 20%…
- Comment on Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner 2 weeks ago:
Weather channel negative humidity… either way, it’s a far cry from the 20% this thing seems to be designed for.
- Comment on Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner 2 weeks ago:
I think technically what we call humidity is actually relative humidity, so it can go below zero. Ture humidity can’t of course.
- Comment on Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t SoCal sometimes have negative humidity? 20% seems pretty high to say it works in the desert.
- Comment on Is the Memory Shortage Intentional? 3 weeks ago:
Well, as I get older, my body is breaking down. If it wasn’t for my shortage of memory, I would be even more miserable. So it must be intnetional. Oh… wait, not that memory…
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 3 weeks ago:
Fully stocked bar. That’s crazy. I wonder if they can claim workmans comp or something.
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 3 weeks ago:
Well I did interview at Microsoft once a long time ago. They did ask some stupid questions… lol
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 3 weeks ago:
This here is the point most people fail to grasp. The AI was taught by people. And people are wrong a lot of the time. So the AI is more like us than what we think it should be. Right down to it getting the right answer for all the wrong reasons. We should call it human AI. Lol.
- Comment on A strong work ethic at the office is considered good, while a strong work ethic at your hobby is considered bad. 3 weeks ago:
I see. I wasn’t posting a question looking for an answer. It’s just an observation. If you want to go deeper down the rabbit hole, the answer is religion. And I don’t value It’s opinion. It was a construct that stole power from the dictators, but sort of struck a deal with them eventually. It pushed morals that made the people do more for the dictator, obey the dictator and all that. Those morals as defined by religion continue to influence people. And people think those morals are natural or what not. They don’t realize they were indoctrinated to think that for the benefit of the powers that be. There are some reasonable morals mixed in of course. But many people can’t tell which are which.
- Comment on A strong work ethic at the office is considered good, while a strong work ethic at your hobby is considered bad. 3 weeks ago:
It is possible you have lived a sheltered life, and maybe also all of your firends have to. But just about everyone I know who puts significant time into a hobby has had people say judgy things to them about how much of a waste of time it is. Me personally not much more than my parents. But my more outgoing friends hear it all the time. The ones from foreign countries seem to hear it even more, and from people they barely know.
It is also commonly seen in media. This is of course anecdotal, but there is a lot of it. I haven’t seen anyone argue that it isn’t true untill maybe you, if that is what you are saying. If you haven’t seen this. Good for you. Be happy.