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I wouldn't know. With the post mentioning teams and slack I just got the feeling it was on the cards, so I thought it was worth posting that in case it hadn't occurred to them.

A thought if you want to sell to companies, "with per-user keys that get shredded when a user decides to delete their account."

You'll need soft delete, work messages belong to the employer and not the user.

Just as a note, I am reporting all the shitty sales emails I've started getting since posting this as spam.

I get where you're coming from, though I'm not quite at 30 years yet. I like building stuff, I don't like configuring, debugging or troubleshooting my OS or computer. I just want it to work and get out of the way.

For me this has translated into a slightly different outcome: stock ubuntu with basically just zsh/powerlevel10k, I add component assembly when I buy a new desktop, I'm about to probably replace my home server with a NAS etc.

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I've been at this for over 15 years now, been the first employee at a startup and now at FANAG, and I'm looking to partially swap track, ideally I'd love to work on biological cell simulation but I'm not sure any company would pay me for that, so instead I'm hoping to work on genomics software and learn more about that side of things.

If you have a role that could fit, let's chat.

There's a classic saying along those lines, "everyone is only using 5% of Word. The tricky part is that everyone is using a different 5%"

As I understand it ramping up a new fab takes a couple of years and several billion dollars. The last time they ramped up production prices had crashed back down by the the time the new fab was fully up and running, so this time they're betting that the scarcity will resolve itself like it did last time.

That's progress, last time I tried that a month or something ago gemini (the web app) crashed when trying to generate slides.

Yea, and a related annoying thing that started in 4.7. It often stops halfway "Do you want to continue?".

Then I want to shout at it "Is the work done? No it isn't so yes of course continue, are you stupid?", but then I remember it's basically a big matrix and for the 58th time type up "Yes, ultrathink and continue"

A junior developer would learn, claude doesn't. I've tried adding this to CLAUDE.md but it doesn't help.

Exactly. Once they have enough float and has had enough time for actual price discovery they'll be included in index funds like any other large cap stock.

I think it's very useful but the hype promises so much more than it delivers. And a lot of the proponents are all in on the hype it gets annoying.

I use claude to write a design, review the design, turn that into an implementation plan, spend 2-3 turns reviewing that, but still when that is turned into code it misses things or creates helpers that's not actually used or... It creates massive files and unless I explicitly tell it to it never refactors them. It often just silences errors and warnings instead of actually fixing the problem.

It saves a lot of time, and I'm building things I couldn't have on my own. But it makes a lot of mistakes, it's far far from one shots which the hype keep going on and on about. It's tricky to put firm limits on what it does. A lot of the mistakes I catch because I've spent 15 years without an agent and sometimes it's just "hm, this smells weird" and I begin digging. I worry about the next generation.

For me the mental framing of "It's all hallucinations, some of those hallucinations are useful" is helpful to keep frustration in check as I ask it to review the same implementation plan for the 4th time and it turns up different issues because the input was slightly different, or review the output code and see allow(dead_code) despite my claude.md forbidding it.

Plus they now also have to compensate for the giant money fire called xai and the nazi cuddle huddle X/Twitter.

The valuation is insane and the very low float plus short timeframe for actual price discovery just seems built to extract money from index investors.

They can follow the same rules as everyone else.

Yea, this is great but I'm not sure how much this helps since it's just 1/3 keeping their wits about them.

Nasdaq clearly did it for the big bucks and getting the listing, why did Russell bend the knee?

If SpaceX was only Starlink or only Starlink and rockets it would be an horrible circumvention of the rules.

But now he's also trying to get the indexes to pay for the giant cash fire called X.ai and the far right huddle Twitter too.

I have zero interest in owning anything of either of those companies.

I'm in BigTech and these days we have to fight to even get backfill hiring. If we can get one head count per year we're aiming for someone that can handle a wider range of tasks.

Which is a damn shame because most juniors I've worked with are amazing and the most recent junior hire 1.5-2 years ago is so much better than I was their age it's almost embarrassing.

And my team is in an area termed "strategically important" before anything other than AI became an annoyance.

What I saw somewhere, don't know if it's true or a rumour, was that it was a wallstreet guy offering them $5M for if he could shift the strategy. So be bought a _lot_ of shares of the very cheap pre-pivot price, paid them $5M for the pivot, sold the shares at the now 600% stock increase. Netted a tidy profit after the $5M.

They didn't trade company fundamentals, they traded the market sentiment.

Well that's a shame. I've been paying for years now, very happy in general.

What do people recommend? I'm on Linux/Firefox/android and don't want to self host.

It would be easier to cut if inflation wasn't already rising due to increasing energy costs.

Now central banks will be in a bind.

If they had went for it during the uprising maybe the regime could have fallen? We'll never know.

But no, they waited 1-2 months or something until the regime could reload and people had gotten tired and went home to grieve for their dead friends and family. Then they started yolo bombing. Again.

And doing it over, and over, and over and over again. Because sure it didn't change in the last 8 years but maybe it's changed since yesterdays scrape?

I think this was more true before LLMs could put together a book in 5 minutes.

Though you can probably post rage bait 500 tweets in that time. So maybe the overall point still stands when thinking about it.

Yea it seems very variable depending on hw / config etc. And the most recent patch at the time (I think this was during summer?) broke it for a bunch of other people on desktop that had it working before.

For me it crashed after the first click in the menu.

It's reached the level where a game not working is a suprise.

Space Marine 2 was the latest one for me, but Steam is great at refunds if you do it quickly enough.

"Two years later, enticed by the prospect that a higher degree would open doors to more opportunities, she enrolled at Rollins College, a private liberal arts school in Winter Park, Fla. She started studying art history, which felt like a natural extension of her love of art, writing and research."

I'm surprised that one goes into a field as small and competitive as art history in these days.

Museums, how many relevant art related roles can there be nation wide?

Flex work time is awesome. Other than flights I haven't set an alarm since before covid.

1.5 years of basically no irl social life and going to bed at 22 every day has really hammered home my rhythm. I still wake up around 06-07 every day.

I've tried getting started with this but my first attempt a habanero/mango sauce was _horrible_, must've used a slop recipe or something. Do you have a good base to recommend?

I read a bunch of comments agreeing with this anecdote so I'll offer my own counter anecdote.

I don't know if it's what kind of information I'm searching for or something else but adding a !g has never helped for me. If ddg results is shit google has also been shit but with loads of ads. I barely bother trying anymore.

Hm. I don't think I follow "isn't translating to user numbers", could you elaborate?

Here's my thinking: There's 100 users getting updates. There's 40 users sending telemetry with AI enabled There's 10 users sending telemetry with AI disabled

So we have 50 people not sending telemetry and using or not using AI. If we assume more likely but not overwhelmingly more it's 30 people.

So we end up with 40+20 with AI, and 10+30 without?

This is quite close to what I've arrived at, but with two modifications

1) anything larger I work on in layers of docs. Architecture and requirements -> design -> implementation plan -> code. Partly it helps me think and nail the larger things first, and partly helps claude. Iterate on each level until I'm satisfied.

2) when doing reviews of each doc I sometimes restart the session and clear context, it often finds new issues and things to clear up before starting the next phase.

This is just my own anecdotal experience but I usually get tired around 2130-22 but a few times I've turned off the red filter for various reasons (photo editing etc) and suddenly I'm still there at 0030-01.

I'm not saying it's like this for everyone, but it seems to work very well for me at least.