A full-length AI-created movie. The creator has a lot of stuff already on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Gossip.Goblin
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That's doing a lot of lifting.
I think you could make a 50/50 decision at the CEO level for most decisions, and merely by making a decision faster the org would have better profit outcomes.
And it doesn't even rebase and merge correctly with fast-forward if there it's a clean set of commits! https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/5524
Imagine everyone had their routers disabled simultaneously. I don't know if the cell networks could function with the surge in standard traffic that would happen, and then you've effectively plunged all or part of the country into a communication blackout.
I think "turn it off permanently by bricking it" is almost as bad as "leverage for DDoS".
I worked on Bot Mitigation at Amazon, and we once saw a ton of traffic that was heavily distributed amongst consumer devices world-wide, but surprisingly in the US too. We suspected compromised routers that were using the home page as a health check. There was a lot of investigation I did, and the short realization after talking with the network engineers is that the amount of traffic, and distribution of sources, would be impossible to stop. There merely isn't enough bandwidth in the world to stop so many residential device if it hits a specific target. To be clear, this was coming from less than half of active Amazon customers, not everyone in the US.
Anyway, it wasn't routers, but it was a consumer device, and it wasn't nefarious, it was incompetence (in code), as usual.
If you went to 100k/year and still a solo dev, that's just 0.12% of your ARR. The percentages here are meaningless; $10/month should be doable for anyone that wants to run a business, even someone solo.
I don't really know enough about Kysely yet to make an informed opinion between those two. If you know more than me, can you give me your take??
Edit: Hmmm perhaps based on the primary author's other repos (https://github.com/mythz) it looks like they're a fan of C#. Perhaps it's the LINQ-like syntax that separates them the most.
Paying an amount that is just-above-market-rate for a domain and not needing to understand how to configure DNS for someone non-technical seems like an absolutely worth-while reseller case.
The bots are real, regardless of what either of our opinions are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ5XN_mJE8Y
It's odd when certain topics - vaccines being one of them - come in with a flurry of comments when it isn't even highly upvoted. Especially when you have some drivel as the top comment saying Gates flew on the "lolita express" and some link to Prince Phillip. Ooookay? What about the article?
The argument that we created a bioweapon is like... and? We also have nerve agents and gas and nukes. It's like everyone posting here exists in some other reality where they never talked to another human in a grocery store. We all get along as best we can.
Let's say I'm an executive and I think there's a 1% chance of a breach that costs me 100x and a 1% chance of a 100x payout on every project.
I have 2 projects that each make $X. Let's say $X is $1000. 1 project will go from $X to $X/100 based on breach, so it's now worth $10. 1 project will go from $X to $X*100. It's now worth $100,000.
I went from making $2000 to $99,990.
This goes back to the argument about fines. They aren't NEARLY severe enough. If I'm an executive at a big company, I may enforce greater security on the "cash cow" projects (e.g. ad revenue and GSuite at Google [but not the Pixel or GCloud], AWS and Retail at Amazon [but not Alexa, Kindle, etc]) but the rest? I need to get ANOTHER cash cow. If my service that's only netting me $1M/year goes to $0, and I needed a service that would make $1B, I literally do not care.
If adding in-depth security to the $1M/year project makes delivery 2x slower, I've now spent 2x on something that probably wasn't even worth it. This is a game of stats; businesses and features as cattle not pets. I'd rather have 2 projects and another dice roll than 1 project that's just "meh".
That's not how I operate, but if you're playing this game as an executive, that's the most logical outcome.
After typing that I realize this is like coming to understand just how many people are on steroids to get a physique they want. It's like nah no one takes steroids except EVERY HUGE PERSON you've ever seen, barring the extremely rare genetic outliers.
Fascinating.
https://www.wiz.io/blog/chaosdb-how-we-hacked-thousands-of-a...
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/12/1187208383/china-hack-us-gove...
https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2023-25
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/3/23819237/microsoft-azure-b...
https://www.spiceworks.com/it-security/vulnerability-managem...
Use it as a tool: what if instead of opening up a new tab, searching for the API docs for the library you're trying to find a function in, find the function, re-read the parameter arguments for the 400th time, and then use it, you could just highlight a snippet and say "Paginate the results from S3 using boto3" and the code would just populate?
You have to have the clarity of thought to know what you're doing, but the time it takes to write every line for basic stuff you've done 1000x before can be greatly compressed if it's inlined with your IDE.
I think this is the move for most LLM tools: integrate it with existing tooling. An LLM for Excel for corporate bookkeepers, CPAs, etc will be great. A Word/PDF summarizer that's tuned for attorneys will also be fantastic. Highlight a paragraph, ask for relevant case law, etc.
I thought ~2 years ago the results were... not great. Now I'm pretty happy with it.
SecureFrame (helps with compliance regimes like SOC2) recently added the ability to generate Terraform templates to automatically generate infrastructure that will fix specific platform risks for AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.
It definitely needs someone at the helm since it does hallucinate, but I have found it to cut down my time on mundane tasks or otherwise niche/annoying problems. When was the last time you visited 4+ StackOverflow posts to find your answer? Copilot, so far, has always hit a pretty close answer very quickly.
My 2 cents: don't use it.
The goals of the organization are mostly a facade. The people running the organization, and their actions, are what the goals of the organization actually are.
It looks like the audio sector was hit particularly hard by the war in Ukraine.
Unfortunately the server is relatively easy to build. The client, however, is where a LOT of the intelligence and difficulty lies.
Leadership is about training new leaders.
Bob is a kick-ass employee. Why not make him into a leader and have him figure out ways to make the other employees just as productive? He has to learn to multiply his effort. He doesn't need to be a manager to do that; he just needs to be made into a stronger leader and be given progressively larger scope.