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Ask an LLM to write it?

All the interesting bones are hidden in the Smithsonian.

It’s just an anecdote but I quit a job because the CEO fired an extremely good manager that I worked with. If a company has issues, a good person getting fired can lead to a mass exodus. In my case about half of the developers followed closely after me.

The chances of this happening before your project is obsolete are pretty slim.

Edit: it depends on what you mean by "bites the dust". If you mean "isn't cool anymore" then I'd say that's kind of irrelevant. If you mean "isn't supported anymore", I don't see that happening any time within the next decade at least. Rails isn't cool anymore but it's still supported and lots of people are still (more or less) happily using it at their day jobs. React is so widely used it'll be kept on life support long after it has been supplanted by something better, if and when that happens.

Try searching for anything related to a recently released video game. Chat gpt spam has made it completely impossible. Even the reputable wikis are pushed down far enough to become very difficult to find.

Have you tried working with recruiters? In my experience applying directly might as well be sending your resume directly into a black hole. If you turn on the “looking for work” setting on linked in you’ll probably get plenty of opportunities to interview. I was interviewing in the spring and I had a few interviews lined up within a week this way.

Try a keyboard running QMK firmware. You can map a single key to multiple codes depending on the length of the key press. I use caps lock as escape if released immediately, and control if held down. Putting the modifiers in the bottom corner of the keyboard was a sadistic design choice.

Are you hiring? I'm looking for a job that will allow me to explore my passions. My passions are: video games, anime, and watching youtube videos about video games and anime.

Not only that, you could see it in the middle of the day. After witnessing that I understood why ancient people considered them an act of god.

The proliferation of LLM spam websites has made it completely impossible to search for any video game related information. Every search returns hundreds of sites with the same garbage chat GPT articles derived from Reddit or game wikis. Ironically, this makes the source material impossible to find. It’s really dire.

There’s a website called mynoise that has a bunch of noise generators. No algorithms required.

Probably bundling the server side dependencies into the client. I’ve also seen this happen when people add uncompressed 4k png images and the build tool is configured to inline all static assets. Obviously there was a lack of domain knowledge in the company or this wouldn’t have happened.

It’s because of yield. More pixels per panel means more panels ruined by dead pixels.

That’s interesting, I’ve been on vyvanse for five years now and never felt any of the telltale signs of dependency (which I am familiar with). I had to stop taking it for a month once and it just made me very drowsy for a week.

No, the book does.

Have you ever worked with redux saga? It’s exactly what you’re describing.

"Just" sending it overseas to be coded is more likely to end in failure than success, unless you have a lot of experience and know what the pitfalls are (which is a very expensive education). I'm not picking on developing countries; the same goes for big enterprise contractor providers in the U.S. They have no incentive to write stable, maintainable code. Their incentive is to make it just stable enough to not get sued and get it out the door as quickly as possible. An employee that will have to live with that code for several years will focus on maintainability purely out of self interest if nothing else. As to whether overseas firms are able to undercut domestic firms, it's a possibility, but anyone that has dealt with time zone issues and cultural barriers most likely knows what they are sacrificing to get that discounted rate.

Counter anecdote: I lived in the tropics for 10 years and met many people with tans and acne.

That’s exactly it; I don’t expect the technology to be sufficiently discriminate.

I believe weaponized drone swarms should be categorized with chemical weapons, cluster munitions, etc. A few thousand drones carrying shrapnel explosives and trained to recognize humans is basically a mobile minefield. It’s terrifying, really. I expect they will be used heavily if WW3 comes around, with devastating effect. Much like horse mounted cavalry encountering machine guns for the first time at the beginning of WW1. I’m not a weapons expert, so I could be wrong, but it seems so cheap and practical I can’t think of a scenario where it doesn’t happen eventually.

I’ll address the elephant in the room; I think that at this time, the use case for this with the widest potential for adoption is VR porn. I would very much like to see how well this adapts to, uh, organic surfaces. I’m not joking, so please don’t downvote me. :)

I can’t tell if this is satire or not…

It's important to use precise language when talking about addiction. It sounds like you're interpreting "addiction" as "habit forming", whereas I believe GP means "physical dependency". I see a lot of people talking past each other in this thread.

Maybe life is just an efficient way to increase entropy and thus it will arise wherever the requisite conditions are available.

A/S/L?

Bipolar 2 here. I didn't get diagnosed until I was in my late 20s. I just thought I got carried away with things sometimes. I got on lamotragin a few years ago and I've been Even Steven since, but I do sometimes miss the productivity of the mania. Not worth the downs though.

> What do I mean by that? The applications that I work on do a lot of composition of apis, reshaping the data and caching on the frontend since our backend teams are micro services teams.

You may want to consider whether you're doing the back end devs' work for them. :) I'm a FE dev working with a lot of microservice back ends for the last 3 years, and a realization that I had early on was that the back end devs were reducing the back end complexity by pushing it into the front end. Whenever I find myself writing transaction logic for an operation that cuts across multiple services, I suggest we use a backend for frontend (BFF) service that performs those transactions instead. There is an incredible amount of complexity in the front end already, and things like read/write transactions and data consistency are not front end concerns. At my current gig we use an event driven saga architecture[0] (inspired by but no relation to redux-saga) to keep multi-service transactions out of the front end, and it just feels like everything is where it should be. Instead of using a front end saga, the front end sends a graphql mutation to a back end saga and gets back a transaction id, which it can subscribe to and get status updates on the transaction (ie. state and errors). It wouldn't make sense to have your back end devs manage the state of a dropdown, so why are they always asking us to manage their data transactions? :)

[0]: https://github.com/social-native/kafka-sagas (this is a purely back end library; the front end queries the saga state with plain graphql operations).

Hot swappable switches is a common (premium) feature in the mech keyboard world. There are many examples, but the ergodox EZ is one that is very similar to TFA, but without the contours.

Which one? They each have a unique feel and setting.

Animal origin theory is far from settled, and there is mounting evidence that the lab leak theory was squashed early on for political reasons. This book that came out recently and it’s extremely compelling. I was fully in the “lab link is conspiracy theory” camp until I read it.

https://www.amazon.ca/Viral-Search-COVID-19-Matt-Ridley/dp/0...