denkmoon

Bugs are a choice by managers, not developers.

Bin chicken is local slang for these horrible birds ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_white_ibis ), and “go full x” is also a common utterance, but I’ve never heard them said together like that.

why not version control those things? if they're static, there's no changes so version controlling them has little cost. maybe existing tools aren't adequate for this conception of the world, but I don't think that's a good reason not to work towards "version control everything"

Absolutely, have warned my juniors of this. Doesn't stop malicious compliance though, I can just prompt and burn tokens with source material from my assigned tickets for no reason perfectly fine.

I look at my colleagues' screens and they're prompting shit like 'restart this program' and 'is [service] running correctly'. I have below average prompt frequency because I know crazy shit like #!/bin/bash and ps aux. It's so goddamn insane.

And to top it all off, my token count is above the average, it's just the prompt count that is low. Got questioned about it earlier this week.

because my manager will ping me and say "anon you aren't prompting enough" like they never heard of Goodhart's law before.

Having also worked in a public position like that, there are so many dumb things that go on that didn't need to but the idea of pretending a 1hr job would take 40 would be unconscionable. 1hr jobs could routinely take 10 because of paperwork, approvals, etc (and same for my stupid bigcorp jobs), but not deliberately so they could bill more hours.

A few hours pf effort to liberate your email from Google. Well worth imo.

Maybe don't use CF if you don't want someone fucking with what you're serving. It's their entire raison detre.

You could just light the money on fire instead and get the same result. Contractors routinely screw the tax payer. I once had a job in one of these third parties where the entire operation was effectively defrauding the tax payer by claiming 1hr jobs would take 40.

An order to _continue_ operation? Has that ever happened before?

The type of mind that could genuinely benefit from a psychedelic…

Most of us aren't making software with fatal consequences. Most. I'd say the typical aviation job offers a few more chances for fatal consequences.

What device would I encounter in my day to day which would use 240W charging though?

You don't pay twice as much just because you can lol

What do you use? both in terms of hardware and software. I love the idea of a linux phone but I'm very skeptical.

Do you have any smarthome stuff? Standing around waiting 30 seconds for your light to come on would be moronic. A complete regression over the electric switch invented in 1884. I'd rip everything out right then and there. Your home should be reliable, smart or no.

US centric data, absolutely useless. This is just measuring american decline, not civilisation changes.

What's really freakin cool about AI development is other people can check rules into the repo which change the shape of my tools :)

Nobody cares. Nobody with the power to do anything about itcares because they don't bare the costs.

You can see this pre AI with how companies handle data breaches. They never cared about security outside of reducing financial liability. Why would they let such petty concerns, which they are already insulated to the hilt against with all the well practiced liability reducing procedures and checklists, prevent them from capitalising on "massive productivity gains"?

mate I wish I could retire from this hellscape.

Is the audio engineering bad in this one like all his others?

Just today I had an incident review meeting resulting from a prod incident where the root cause was an LLM refactor stripping ! from the front of a boolean statement "for no reason". Not to mention how often I've seen garbled output from the LLM.

Lots of things failed for that to reach prod, but the assertion that LLMs do not make subtle typos... is not congruent with my experience.

Insane. An LLM is just as likely to hallucinate a missing/extra underscore and ping the wrong person. A machine cannot be held accountable.

At the same time they want to leverage all the "humanity" they can to get you to work more for less.

We're a family here, after all. You wouldn't leave your colleagues hanging, would you?

Not everyone is housed and well fed. Homelessness in the US is at a 20 year high. Same for Australia.

What would you expect to see if they were? ooc

The fact that there are no consequences for the bad behaviour is why the companies do not fear engaging in bad behaviour. Like they give two hoots about people believing their apology outside of mitigating further consequences.

Pretty sure that can be done with a paper contract too, but sure.

I can only imagine the meetings at microsoft HQ where they all sat around a table and crossed their fingers and hoped that vendors would act in the spirit of their design.

Buying nice hardware is orthogonal to using debian as your router's OS.