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Was Hegelian dialectic on your card? You do bad stuff, and then you do good stuff. That's what all of these people are into.

> But if you’re down, Spotify is down, social media is down… then “the internet is broken” and you don’t look so bad.

In my direct experience, this isn't true if you're running something even vaguely mission-critical for your customers. Your customer's workers just know that they can't do their job for the day, and your customer's management just knows that the solution they shepherded through their organization is failing.

LLMs will not abstract away framework choice. They will concrete it away. React is for humans. You'll know we're out of the AI stoneage when coding models just generate direct machine instruction, because their output won't need to be touched by humans.

Doesn't surprise me. davinci-002 was better than davinci-003. The core breakthrough has been done, stuff's just shifting around now.

Postgres for agents, of course! It makes too much sense.

What is it about streaming specifically that necessitates this? Am I missing something obvious?

Would've been helpful if they tried to make the code as close as possible, e.g. use the same struct (and var name) for the password requirements.

I know Node has the new permissions model thing, but why can’t this be as easy as blocking all fs access above cwd? I’d love a global Node setting for this.

Less interested in interpretation, more interested in the fact that lots of people have the same nightmares (squishy brakes, class test and you haven't been to school in decades, etc.). Here's one - I desperately need to make a phone call or send a text or enter an address into Maps, but I just make typos over and over. Anyone else?

Yeah I have the squishy/very soft/not really working brake nightmare.

So simple classification problem. Big deal.

> intolerable and torturous acts which have become so commonplace today

What are you referring to?

Never met him personally, but one of his companies tried to recruit me for a database migration project. Part of the interview process included responding to the question "I enjoy having sex with people I hardly know" on a scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree.

Was just about to post this - thought I was neurotic for taping over LED displays in the 2000s. My sight and hearing get annoyingly sensitive when I'm in bed at night.

No way, sorry. The bug you're trying to squash isn't complicated enough if print statements are as valuable as a debugger. And I get what you're after - this is coming from someone who regularly uses `grep` to answer questions faster than my clients' dopey ETL/DB setups.

Yep, interesting. Thank you.

I do consulting, I'm constantly scouting clients. Right around November 2022 something very stark happened. I went from fighting off prospects with a stick, to crickets, almost over night. I deal mostly with startups and mid-size companies, nobody with insider knowledge or cutting edge interests. I can tell you that GPT was not heavily on anyone I dealt with's radar as an opportunity to reduce costs.

Some sort of cultural zeitgeist occurred, but in terms of symptoms I saw with my own eyes, I think ZIRP ending (projects getting axed) and layoffs starting (projects getting filled within ~24 hours) were huge drivers. I have no proof.

That would be Nest, not Next. A true abomination.

I don't think anyone who's run Acronis would be surprised at this. The whole thing feels clunky. I had a weird issue where it would crash my Dante audio setup every time it kicked off a backup.

> I disable nested loop join and it's 4 seconds.

I feel your pain. I've been through all stages of grief with `enable_nestloop`. I've arrived at acceptance. Sometimes you just need to redo your query approach. Usually by the time I get the planner to behave, I've ended up with something that's expressed more simply to boot.

> Well who cares about looking like a clown

A lot of people, almost instinctively, and for good reason.

Unaccounted for: the failure scenario.

You had integrity, put in the work, and failed. Life is brutal - anyone can respect your effort.

You tried to be the next Paris, and failed. You look like a fucking clown.

I see you’re also having trouble coping with this. Fact is, “that” internet is simply gone.

This makes sense in principle, but then how do you do technical evaluation? I'm generally most interested in hearing the candidate think out loud about the problem, and explain their approach. LLMs do the "thinking", and also explain the approach.

> I was able to (manually) get it down to ~800LOC without losing any important functionality.

This is funny. Why would you a) care how many LOC it generated and b) bother injecting tedious, manual process into something otherwise fully automated?

I think Zoom throws up a consent screen. Obviously if it's some 3rd party thing that joins the call as a recorder, you don't get that.

This is one of those obvious but subtly inappropriate things that just kind of gets foisted on people. Nobody raises an eyebrow, or their voice, and so it's just normalized. Imagine walking into an in-person meeting to find a camcorder set up on a tripod - and if that isn't weird enough, none of your co-workers make a comment on it or acknowledge its presence. It's like pervasive but discreet cameras in public places vs. Surveillance Camera Man making it obvious by sticking a camera in your face.

With DNS over UDP, you have plausible deniability that you didn't actually make the request. With DNS over HTTP(S), you don't.

Agree with the general claim that anything "S" could be a power grab by a single peeper. Google pushing HTTPS in Chrome comes to mind.

Sorry Rick, I'm not bending over to pick your 2 cents up off the dusty floor of the Internet. Now if Flood wants to vibe, I might stoop.

> Disk is cheap, but a. Memory isn’t

This isn't said enough.

> Fast > ec2

Are you doing this on EBS? Honest question.