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(In our on-prem SQL server environment) We expose stored procedures to web developers like an API contract to ensure a level of integrity and robustness in how they interact with the database. We find SQL knowledge among web developers these days is a toss up and I'd rather have the DBA design the schema and provide stored procedures.

Fair and I would edit if I still had time. How about "AI brain fry"?

I feel like there's a bit of AI psychosis in this particular post.

>"These are tools which burn vastly more tokens, but are also quickly becoming daily drivers for the work carried out by extremely well-compensated professionals."

>"Somehow this fragment turned into headlines like Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify the money spent on AI tokenmaxxing, because the market for stories about AI failures remains enormous."

Yes, it's just the yearning for AI failures. It couldn't possibly be runaway costs, record revenues, and massive layoffs. It couldn't possibly be that these tools are lighting dollars on fire by people already paid significantly well and not producing any increase in "value" for it (I recognize that output is 100x but outcomes are flat by all measures).

[1] https://cmr.berkeley.edu/2025/10/seven-myths-about-ai-and-pr... [2] https://futuretech.mit.edu/publication/crashing-waves-vs-ris...

1) Daily, there were 2-3 very active ones in my small town. Procomm Plus was what I used the most in DOS. This was also a stepping stone to IRC. It got to the point I was doing chores to pay for a second phone line for my bedroom.

2) The phone numbers were in a little ad box in the newspaper one time.

3) Most people seemed to bounce around to each BBS but there were communities within each that also seemed to stick there. I expect that was partially due to relationships that people had with the sysops.

4) It was a small East Texas town, so people were generally friendly. We were just kids, like 12 years old, having political discussions with adults. People would also trade or offer up gear they had. I remember inviting a high school guy over to my (parent's) house to install a 28.8k modem for FREE because he had upgraded to 56k. He just gave it to me for nothing. As far as I knew people just treated each other like people. I don't recall ever knowing I was being excluded from something because of my age. For a while there were monthly meetups at a local pizza place.

5) I wasn't interested in programming back then. I remember a lot of talk of hardware, mostly modems, one guy trying to convince every Amiga was the future, file sharing/warez (I downloaded Duke Nukem 3D from a BBS in 5MB zip files), chess and other games over FidoNet.

I'd choose a different word for the title of Hoard Things You Know How to Do. Hoarding is the opposite of what we want to do but I get from reading the section you mean create a collection that you can draw upon. IMO "Share" is a much better word choice.

That's what he was saying. Wall Street (the stock market) are people's "pensions" now because everyone has a 401k or equivalent so their retirement is tied to the market. Thus, these companies are betting America's collective retirement on AI...

Thanks for the response, I appreciate it. I absolutely agree with you about CS education. I went to school to learn how to learn. So, the best-case outcome is everyone has A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer available to them. At that point I suppose to really does live with the individual as to whether they want to see how much potential they really have.

None of these articles address how we'll go from novice to expert, as either self-taught or through the educational system, and all the bloggers got their proverbial "10k hours" before LLMs were a thing. IMO This isn't abstractions, the risk is wholesale outsourcing of learning. And no, I don't accept the argument that correct and LLMs errors is the same as correcting a junior devs errors because the junior dev would (presumably) learn and grow to become a senior. The technology doesn't exist for an LLM to do the same today and there's no viable path in that direction.

Can someone tell me what the current thinking is on how we'll get over that gap?

Thanks for the follow up. I can see the value in trying to look at the chained read - search - write or similar patterns to alert the user. Awareness of tool activity is definitely helpful.

Agreed. If someone could help answer the question of "how" I'd appreciate it. I'm currently skeptical but not sure I'm knowledgeable enough to prove myself right or wrong.

But, it just seems to me that some of the 'vulnerabilities' are baked in from the beginning, e.g. control and data being in the same channel AFAIK isn't solvable. How is it possible to address that at all? Sure we can do input validation, sanitization, restrict access, etc. ,etc., and a host of other things but at the end of the day isn't it still non-zero chance that something is exploited and we're just playing whack-a-mole? Not to mention I doubt everyone will define things like "private data" and "untrusted" the same. uBlock tells me when a link is on one of it's lists but I still click go ahead anyways.

Because you mentioned the use case specifically, I wanted to point you to the fact that Excel has been able to convert images to tables for a while now. Literally screenshot a table from your PDF and it will convert to table. Not trying to diminish any additional capabilities you're getting from Gemini, but this screenshot to table feature has been huge for my finance team.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/insert-data-from-...

This isn't reddit your opinion isn't necessary. Donate or don't but your pithy commentary isn't adding to the conversation.

Honestly I think you might be grappling with getting older and the change that naturally comes with it.

>I've let many of my most meaningful friendships fade.

At least you acknowledge that part and aren't bitter at your friends that it is somehow their fault.

>but it doesn't feel like when I was in college and hung out with a crew of 10+ people on a weekly basis

And it won't, ever again. They'll get married, move away, have kids, whatever. Just like if you played a sport in high school, or were in the band, that same group of people will never be together doing that same activity again after the last time.

>curated events and meaningful connections for men who don’t want their friendships to atrophy post-college

Except you acknowledge above your role in the "atrophying" and while you can say you didn't/don't want that to happen, you still allowed it to didn't you?

>The goal is to get people in the same place on a consistent basis.

Isn't that called the gym, the range, the golf course, softball/kickball/pickle ball team, bar, etc? I've struggled (still?) with exactly this thing as well and don't have any good advice. I will say it feels related to the notion of wanting to have a significant other but never leaving the house, you gotta put the effort in. On the bright side I read an article about a couple that missed neighborhood connections so started having coffee on their porch on Saturday mornings (or some consistent day of the week) and eventually neighbors walking by started saying hello, then stopping to chat, then bringing their own coffee, and then it became this whole neighborhood thing. So I guess I'm saying don't lose hope that you can't change things in your situation.

I think to the parent's point it is as you say: there is already untapped capacity that isn't being used due to (geo)political forces maintaining the scarcity side of the argument. Using your agriculture example, a simple Google search will yield plenty of examples going back more than a decade of food sitting/rotting in warehouses/ports due to red tape and bureaucracy. So, we already can/do produce enough food to feed _everyone_ (abundance) but cannot get out of our own way to do so due to a number of human factors like greed or politics (scarcity).

My first thought was maybe they are following the advice of instead of creating something new, just clone something successful and riff on it.

As you pointed out it's hard to determine why Bare other than it isn't Node.

I love it! I was not expecting the math based aspect and that took me back to my younger days playing Math Blaster Plus and Number Muncher. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.

As someone that likes to cook, two things

1) Kitchen dish towels. The white with blue herringbone kind you see in restaurants or cooking content creators. I bought two dozen of them (~$1.65/each) and keep them all around the kitchen and use them with reckless abandon (some for drying, some for wiping spills, etc.). Having plenty of them means I can use one per day for general use and not run out by the time laundry day comes.

2) Deli containers. Picked up 48 in 8 oz, 16 oz, 32 oz sizes with airtight lids. Completely changed how I prep food and save leftovers. Almost entirely I've switched to using these over what hodgepodge of tupperware I have accumulated over the years.

I've been involved with carding for 10+ years and issues with MIFARE Classic cards have been around and known for at least that long. Anyone in the carding industry will (should at the very least) tell you not to use them and move on to DESFire or some other newer safer chips. The introduction even says as much "By 2024, we all know MIFARE Classic is badly broken." If you're still deploying MIFARE Classic cards you reap what you sow.

That's simply not true. I've stayed at PH, TI, and the Venetian over the last 3 years for conferences and personal travel, I pass on housekeeping the whole week, and there have been no security checks like you describe.

Do think that says more about the tools or the interview process?

Not saying you're wrong, I only want to add to your context by saying (in my experience) within higher education SAML is the way federated identity is done. InCommon has been around for a long time and makes it pretty easy, and Shibboleth is very popular. Have a great day!

I don't think it's power generation that is the issue, but more distribution and protection of the infrastructure. As a commenter above mentioned TX produces lots of wind power (in the early 2000s the only thing governor good hair did was build the hell out of wind farms), but there's not strong regulation on the power companies to ensure the grid is working well. Case in point the cold snap a few years ago with TX govt officials and others crying "you can't make wind turbines work in the cold" despite evidence in New England and the Midwest to the contrary.

Much of TX energy infrastructure is above ground poles running along the highways. I don't know what the lifespan is of those but I wouldn't be surprised if many of them could be classified as antiques. If they aren't being regular inspected/replaced, they are likely to go down

Also, the energy companies can sell electricity to other states, and I won't be easily convinced that during this event they stopped doing that (because profits). Lastly, see previous winter event and direct recorded quotes from energy companies about how much money they were making by increased prices and I think there are several reasons why this keeps happening in TX.

Tell me you've never worked a real job without telling me. This is a technologists solution in search of a problem. Do you also argue that "email is dead"?

Jira needs an admin to help manage the configuration. It's like a Swiss army knife and the reason many teams hate it is because they don't have an admin helping them get what they need out of it and keep the rest of the tool out of the way. The flexibility is both a blessing and curse. If you don't like Jira it's likely your configuration is shit, or your process is shit, or both.

I'm going to be pedantic and challenge your use of the word 'learn' here. I tend to agree with the notion that being able to say 'I don't know, let me find out' and then find out quickly with a correct answer is in general a Good Thing™, but I wouldn't equate that with learning the thing they just looked up.

It's open source so...

We're continuing to build more and more service desk projects in Jira Service Management. That's becoming a killer feature for our business teams like HR, Finance, Marketing, and others. For us Jira Software is the 'other child' these days with JSM really taking front and center.

Must be great to get a PhD in CS and get hired by the Search team these days. I hope the high pay is worth it.

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Agreed that is awful