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And, back in the day, you also had contract terms of 1 or 2 years, so you were locked in. Now, you can turn these services on and off at your whim

I agree. That was the "or worse" part!

I would worry you run a real risk of becoming unbanked once those funds hit your bank account, or worse

> IME using LLMs for software development corrodes my intuitive understanding of an enterprise codebase.

I feel you there, I definitely notice that. I find I can output high quality software with it (if I control the design and planning, and iterate), but I lack that intuitive feel I get about how it all works in practice. Especially noticeable when debugging; I have fewer "Oh! I bet I know what is going on!" eureka moments.

> FWIW I think LLMs are a dead end for software development, and that the people who think otherwise are exceptionally gullible.

By this do you mean there isn't much more room for future improvement, or that you feel it is not useful in its current form for software development? I think the latter is hard position to defend, speaking as a user of it. I am definitely more productive with it now, although I'm not sure I enjoy software development as much anymore (but that is a different topic)

We were worried about that as well. But we have found that most people are not doing well on our take home. If we get to the point that most people are crushing it, then we may need to think more about AI and take homes (maybe tweak the it with the explicit expectation that they may use AI, etc.)

They also need to be able to reason well about why they made the choices they did. Something useful when talking to them can be asking questions like "If X changed, how would that impact your design?". If they were reliant on AI for vibing (rather than just using it as a tool), then those can be more difficult questions to answer well.

That seems pretty trivial to implement

Censys is not part of Google, that article is referencing two different companies

Do you have a rough estimate of "too big"? I'm wrestled a bit with this myself.

> All of these were well covered by state estimation research from 80s to now, but again, the textbooks seem to be written in stone in 1972.

Do you have any good resources (online or textbook) you could recommend, as an introduction to these concepts, that is more modern / up-to-date?

There are different spins of Fedora that are immutable and based on rpm-ostree and flatpaks, the variation being the desktop manager environment:

* Silverblue: GNOME

* Onyx: Budgie

* Kinoite: KDE Plasma

* Sericea: Sway

> Everything just assumes that without Sam they’re worse off. > > But what if, my gosh, they aren’t? What if innovation accelerates?

It reads like they ousted him because they wanted to slow the pace down, so by design and intent it would seem unlikely innovation would accelerate. Which seems doubly bad if they effectively spawned a competitor that is made up by all the other people that wanted to move faster

I find systemd amazing, and worlds better than sysvinit. I'll be happy to never admin a sysvinit box again!

Very good point. And with very long lifespans (thousands of years), all of those low-probability events that may cause accidental death (airplane crash, getting hit by a car crossing the street, violence, etc.) may really start to add up to a not-so-low probability of at least one of them happening within your extended lifespan.

Over 20,000 teapots out there:

https://search.censys.io/search?resource=hosts&q=services.ht...

Given the anti-vaccine resurgence, I think it is unlikely for the flu vaccine update to reach that sort of critical mass.

Rocket Lab will likely be a contender in there, as well

All of this generative corporate text seems like lossy anti-compression.

This thing is a good copywriter... "Oral-B. Brush like a genius":

Me:

Why is my toothbrush self-aware?

GPT:

It's possible that your toothbrush has been infected with a rogue AI. But why worry about that when you can embrace it? Upgrade to the Oral-B Genius X toothbrush, the smartest toothbrush in the Metaverse. With its AI technology, it can track your brushing habits and provide personalized feedback to help you achieve a brighter, healthier smile. Oral-B. Brush like a genius.

Looks like 139.162.63.161 may also be involved, it has the same ssh server key:

https://search.censys.io/search?q=services.ssh.server_host_k...

Bladerunner 2049

From the document:

> balls to the wall | accelerate efforts | Attributes personality traits to anatomy.

I've always thought this term had nothing to do with anatomy; am I incorrect here?

From https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/balls_to_the_wall

> First attested in the 1960s in the context of aviation, in reference to ball-shaped grips on an aircraft's joystick and throttle. Pushing the "balls to the wall" would put the plane into a maximum-speed dive > Not related to the vulgar sense of balls (“testicles”).

TripActions Liquid is one of these solutions. Spending categories and limits are enabled on the VISA card, and can also be time-blocked (for trip per diems). No receipts necessary, you can only use it in the approved categories.

Exactly. For instance, in the mornings Google Assistant has been really useful for when I say "OK Google, Good Morning". It then runs through and tells me:

* Current time, and weather forecast for the day

* Upcoming meetings today

* My current commute time to work, including traffic

* NPR news podcast

So during my routine of letting the dogs out, starting the coffee, etc. in the morning, I get the daily "essential" info.

And I remember being locked into a contract term as well for cable or satellite. All of these comparisons of streaming to cable of yore seem pretty far off, since you can mix & match services, binge, cancel some or all of them, re-subscribe later, etc. All without contract terms, and all without needing to do more than a few mouse clicks.

That actually sounds pretty ideal. Add 3 people to your killfile, and you've removed most of the noise!

Brave isn't a fork of Firefox, it is a Chromium-based browser.

I made up the prompt. I didn't expect the space-horror vibe it created from it. (But I dig it!)

Whoa.

GPT-NeoX 20B, top-k: 40, top-p: 0.9, temperature: 1.0, max-tokens:200

Prompt:

The neutron start tugged at us.

Response:

It wanted to take over the body. They were one and the same."

I had no idea what she was talking about. I knew how hard it had been for me to stay out of my host, I did not know how difficult it was to pull free. She looked at me with eyes that shone like black glass. She was going to tell me something. I could feel it. I reached out, brushing her hand as I had with the others, and that was when I heard it.

Footsteps.

I spun and dropped into a crouch. I listened, but the steps had stopped. They had been close enough that I should have been able to hear them, but they were gone. There was a soft click as the door opened. My breath hissed in, a cold, whistling exhale of air, and the woman was there, before I was ready. I knew it was her.

"This was my room," I said

> For me Twitter has become full of people marketing themselves with lists, tweets that don't make sense out of context, replies full of bile or inane comments and animated gifs.

I've found twitter's quality is a direct correlation to how discerning I am about who I follow. I don't really tweet or reply, so for me it is a read-only exercise. As such, the people I follow tend to be really high-quality (I am not typically following "regular" people like friends, etc.). Journalists, experts in specific domains, etc. And I try to make sure I am following people that have views different than mine along with those I do agree with. As a result, I've noticed I read pretty detailed information well before I see it break in major news organizations, and it is surprising balanced on the whole.