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Fascinating coming from a company hurting so hard from their over-leveraged positions in AI.

If you're going to drink decaf, be sure to drink decaf prepared via the Swiss water method. It has the least additives, healthiest option and tastes pretty good.

It’s worth noting one important caveat: GPT-4 cannot do super complicated coding.

Don’t get me wrong; I use frequently when coding but it can’t handle the complex stuff; it’s insanely good at boilerplate and low-hanging fruit though.

Yes absolutely go work at Meta. The person in the post had worked there for ten years; they’re likely a millionaire.

It’s very challenging, but you should definitely get in and try it yourself. Move to the Bay if you haven’t done so yet, it will keep your motivation up.

Just quickly from a technical perspective: web3 is like a useful wrapper around json-rpc which etherereum nodes use as a comms protocol.

You can just use whatever off the shell cli thing that supports json-rpc and talk directly to the mainnet.

Web3 is more of a concept that involves wrapping those complicated and cumbersome raw json-rpc calls(deploy a contract, compile a contract etc) into simple libraries. There’s literally a bazillion web3 libraries in many different programming languages. It simplifies talking to the ethereum mainnet.

I think they tackled it a little too high level in their post; missing the fact it’s really just a costly distributed state store you interact with via json-rpc with a shitty wrapper everyone basically calls web3.

I quit drinking once for three years. Usually, your friends will ask you in the beginning to just have one drink or to just drink moderately. After about a year of no drinking, most of your closest friends and family will stop asking you entirely; even better is they'll answer other people that maybe don't know you as well aka "he doesn't drink".

After that, for fun, I basically would go to all the same places, bars, parties etc with the same friends and I'd just drink water; they'd be drinking booze. That's what I did for three years.

After about three years, I traveled abroad and I wanted to take in the full experience so I started drinking again.

Absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to stop drinking for a bit; it's a fun experiment.

The most fascinating part was that they raised $45mm in seven days from people from all over the world using really nothing but solidity contracts on the ethereum blockchain(no complicated PayPal integration, or Stripe etc., no web hooks or callbacks or AWS lambdas etc)

https://github.com/jbx-protocol/juice-contracts

They waived the fee.

320 x 240, is this the resolution of the depth data provided by the LiDAR sensor?

It's no coincidence this system launched around the same time the whole NSO scandal broke. The NSO leak shows what government-sponsored exploit analysis against a large tech company may yield. I mean the NSO exploit could've worked the same but been a worm; it could've been absolutely devastating for Apple, imagine something like every phone infected. Something like that was possible with that exploit.

Apple has been a thorn in the side of the IC for a long while. IC probably saw an opportunity to gain a bit of leverage themselves via the whole NSO thing, and likely offered their cyber support in exchange of some support from Apple.

I mean c'mon they've been consistently pressed by IC for tooling like what they just launched; it's the least invasive thing(compared to something like a literal backdoor like that NSA_KEY that MS did for Windows) they can offer in exchange for some cybersecurity support from the gov.

idk if that's what's happened, but it's odd Apple would do this at all, and do it right around the time of the NSO thing.

People hate this because it’s not the all-in-one all-nighter over-the-weekend hacker stereotype I think we all want to be; rather it’s a slow movement towards success over a much much longer period of time.

Stop using esoteric tools and trendy frameworks and use more robust solutions. That might prevent the burnout.

I always thought something like Ethereum could solve this type of thing; that is, if the content itself lived inside the blockchain. Obviously for larger formats that wouldn't work, but for many text based or lower resolution image formats, it wouldn't be too much overhead to just inject it all into the blockchain.

Programmers are inherently incredibly underpaid relative to the immense value they bring to everything so if anything your working hours match what you're being paid. You may still be doing too much work.

Do not worry about it. It's not your job to worry about it.

If you want to work more, then get paid more.

The ransom payments are covered by insurance. It’s the insurance companies making the payments.

"a. pays popular users"

Source?

"no big deal"

A stolen laptop is usually not considered "no big deal" basically everywhere I worked.

He likely was using it incorrectly. The president also used it incorrectly; Abbott called him out for it.

Abbott's tests only work if you have symptoms, it's as simple as that.

If you're asymptomatic, the results will be 100% unreliable.

Genuinely curious, can someone clarify how these types of platforms(Netlify etc) are any different from something like an S3 bucket?

You can host a static website via an S3 bucket.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHosti...

I wanted to play with Lambda/Twilio/Rev to see if I can make a Jott.com clone.

Simply call the number, leave a message and receive a perfect transcription of the audio texted back to your phone.

Judges have thrown out nearly every lawsuit the Trump campaign has filed.

"Finally, yes MONOSPACE is named after the font family used to write the text, to gain a few bytes."

Ha, that's amazing.

This was my first thought exactly. A welder's sparks is how it happened, but not why it happened.

Why was 2700 lbs of ammonium nitrate stored there? Why for so long? Why was that ship offered to dock their originally? Why was the door broken requiring welding? Why were fireworks stored right near ammonium nitrate? Why were fireworks stored there at all regardless of the ammonium nitrate? Why didn't the longshoreman unload it from the ship?

TL;DR meta point is: "The reason that we haven’t been doing any significant work on this HAProxy stack is that we’re moving towards Envoy Proxy for all of our ingress load-balancing"

The legacy system supporting Slack in production was heavily resource-constrained as they were moving to a new fancy system. Slack admits here that the legacy system likely wasn't getting the attention it needed and lo-and-behold it started failing in mysterious ways.

Organizational failure by not properly calculating all the risks caused by rotating out part of their load-balancing system. They probably should've asked for more budget here to keep their existing system functional as they slowly transitioned to their new system.

They admit that COVID caused all their systems to become stressed, they probably had appropriately budgeted for the transition to Envoy whenever they asked management(probably pre-covid). The team likely was never meant to support both the load they're now seeing during COVID while transitioning to a new system.

Either way during any transition, there's a period where you must support both systems at full capacity until the legacy system can be gracefully decommissioned.

I think they think it's cute and they're attempting to trivialize their loss.

"A Tesla factory is a much safer place to be..."

Actually home is a much safer place to be.

"not an evidence-first safety driven approach."

Not true, staying home is why so many place have 0 new COVID-19 cases. That's evidence-first so Musk is selectively ignoring it because he wants to make his cars.

“ high-skilled immigrants anymore.”

That’s funny. I don’t see how project managers are highly skilled labor. I don’t see how QA testers are highly skilled labor.

But I do see how to get people to work harder for less.

Money side is like a mini-VC like ecosystem inside a large corp; people on the money side spend the money in whatever ways they need to maintain their little fiefdoms. Additionally, and with their new found power, they'll layer in a bunch of morons to prevent operations people - who's sole job is to eliminate inefficiencies everywhere - from understanding that the money side is basically a giant game.

If the operations people ever fully understood how badly the money people are fucking things up, they'd have leverage to use against the players on the money side and it'd be game over.

RAND corp has a really interesting video on their website about how hyper-sonic intercontinental ballistic missiles brings the length of the OODA loop down to about 5 or so minutes which is a very short amount of time to make a decision to mobilize an insanely large amount of resources.

https://www.rand.org/multimedia.html#search/hypersonic/multi...

Thank god. NPM is so crappy it desperately needs institutional support.