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Yep, it's all about checkmarks now :-)

Funny how I've heard from an Azure employee who worked with many big clients that very few among them cared about security - the incentives were just not there.

Seems like they're finally doing something about that, to set an example for the rest of the industry.

Man, I love Elixir even though I'm still trying to learn it

I'm waiting nervously in anticipation.. But I wouldn't be surprised tbh

Kotlin is also at the whim of one company (JetBrains), unfortunately..

Which suggests the current approach based on LLMs might be a dead end and we need to explore others..

Exactly, we don't need more expansive (and expensive!) models, we need more accurate ones without hallucinations, and which are robust wrt prompts

And ad hominem attacks mean you don’t have anything valid to say :-)

Vidalia ftw!

> Right, a person running a group called "small bets" has no relation to people getting simps to gamble their money away.

I don't see a button to reply to your comment below, but I'd suggest going to smallbets.com to actually see what this is all about, instead of random guesses about gambling.

Also, calling someone a "simp" is a sign of immaturity, just so you know.

Don't spread lies about folks you don't know personally, please.

He doesn't sell snake oil at all, what he teaches works, is down to earth and pragmatic. He also has amazing guest lectures from folks highly regarded in the community.

Nothing to do with this, quite the opposite.

Likewise, here. He's one of the most genuine and authentic folks out there, and the community is simply awesome.

It's not a "get rich quick" scheme by any stretch of imagination, because they teach how to grow your wealth slowly over time, in opposition to those who prefer to invest in uncertain stocks or go to a VC-backed startup.

A lot of the things described here, for example: https://publiclab.co/building-in-public

Thanks, had a laugh!

I was cynical about X like that too, but recently learned some good techniques that make a lot of difference to the overall experience. And then there's really nothing like it, in terms of reach.

Also, it's easy to see bad in everything, and then all we see is bad. But there're good things to find as well, it's just a matter of what we focus on..

I've recently learned that Twitter can actually be quite good for building genuine connections online, but it takes a very conscious effort and a lot of diligence

True that! And game dev is a notoriously brutal industry in general, sadly

Are you talking about Meta, by any chance?

This is a bummer! But it highlights more of an unfortunate reality we all have to deal with when buying digital goods online - always need to get a backup right away when possible, since no platform lasts forever.

Yes; not a lawyer, but as far as I can tell yes (and physical media too); you can, in advance (which I do), in any format you want without restriction - it’s just FLAC/MP3 etc. No DRM.

I do prefer buying full digital discography when available, because it’s such a good deal. For $30 or so, I get years and years of albums, while still supporting an artist with a much larger sum than I could via a streaming platform.

Admittedly, I’m still also using YT Music precisely for the reason I described above, and also because it makes it much easier to discover new music, compared to Bandcamp (something I’m hoping to potentially address in my own alternative).

Bandcamp, for example (and there are a few smaller ones like it). It will be more expensive than streaming subscriptions, but knowing how poorly artists get compensated by these (and how the payout per stream further dilutes over time), makes one see the whole streaming model as corrupt. It led to artificially lowered expectations on what music should cost among the general public, and now of course it has become very hard to compete with the streaming platforms because of this altered consumer behavior.

Very much so. And their popularity has already been on decline for several months, and couldn’t be explained away by kids going on a summer vacation anymore.

Have you been a creator on YT? Do you know how much an average creator gets paid? Did you know that it and other modern platforms like Spotify artificially skew payouts towards the richest brands? If not, then please let’s not make any claims about wealthiness and “old guard” monopolies here.

Unfortunately, it’s hard to explain these things to techies who only see the world in their one-sided startupy way. The fact that there’re starving creatives who have already been massively marginalized by the likes of Spotify of this world, means nothing to these tech workers who only see everything as numbers, or a “business model” to “validate”.

(full disclosure, I’m a techie who’s gradually woken up to the idea that the tech might just be the most abused way to exploit people)

There’s a crazy good deal for a dedicated server with 14-core/20-thread i5-13500 CPU and 64GB RAM, for just around 40 EUR/mo: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ex

This is honestly a bit overkill for a dev workstation (unless you compile Rust!), but since it’s a dedicated server it can also host any number of fully isolated services for homelab or saas. There’s nothing else like it in the wild, afaik.

For Elixir, take a look at Phoenix LiveView course from https://pragmaticstudio.com - they don't start from the beginning, and assume you are already familiar with Phoenix from the guides.

> These things are storytellers, not teachers.

I really liked how a recent paper from DeepMind put it - LLMs are just role-playing: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16367. This explains so much.

Gonna adopt this paragraph for describing LLMs