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2·3 days agoThe point is terrorism, not combating drug smuggling.
It’s not unclarity that keeps these people out of prison, just as it was not unclarity that kept Bush, Cheney or Kissinger out of prison.
4·3 days agoNo problem. I appreciate it when mods give warning and a chance to fix the issue instead of just deleting.
Isn’t that like inviting all your friends and family onto your LAN? That would seem to have its own security risks.
Sorry - updated the post.
The only surprise is that the reported estimates of deaths remain so implausibly low. But I guess once you genocide enough people, the survivors can no longer count how much genociding you’re doing.
They happen to have more oil than any other country in the world, but I’m sure that has nothing to do with it.
101·5 days agoIt’s a good time to preserve old hardware and the software that will run on it. If all these price crunches have a silver lining, I hope it’s that they motivate people to resist the pressure from tech corporations to be constantly upgrading.
2·11 days agoIt pays badly and it can be disorganized, but no one I work with is that bad of a person, what we do is more useful to real people than a lot of tech companies and there’s no nasty politics to speak of. So yes, it has its upsides.
I’ve become quite good at paying just enough attention that I can jump in if anything important comes up, and meanwhile continuing to work. I don’t turn my camera on.
We stick to that format with minor variations:
- Recap of the morning’s school run and dog walks
- Update on everyone’s pets’ health
- Update on peoples’ kids’ behaviour
- Update on team members’ health and their families
- Miscellaneous gripes
- All the sports: what happened, what people think will happen, and details of particular players
- Sports statistics in depth
- Mutual accusations of breaking things
- Defence against said accusations
- Gripes about boss’s emails
- Long, in-depth accounts from two team members of their last day’s work, minute by minute, with digressions into big-picture frustrations and grumbles about management, customers, etc.
- Recounting of the history of these issues over the last 15 years or so.
- Each person tells us that they’re working on the thing the kanban board says they’re working on, and that it will take them as long as it says on the board.
- Holiday plans or accounts of past holidays
- Goodbye
- One guy jumps in with a 15-minute anecdote about taking his dog to the vet
- Goodbye
- Any further anecdotes about things people’s dogs ate, etc.
- Goodbye.
Its supposed to take 10-15 minutes but it takes up to an hour, sometimes more. I usually tune in late and sometimes pretend I lost my internet connection halfway through.
Who hasn’t encountered that one jerk who builds only new code to impress management, and never maintains or fixes existing code? I think of them as proof-of-concept posers. They make things that look flashy, impress the execs, and barely work for a single use care, then dump all the bugs, maintenance and actual architecture on the other devs. LLMs are going to be a gift to these people and a pain for everyone who actually knows how to engineer things well. They’ll encourage this kind of shallow flashiness and make the maintenance problems worse, but the execs will be convinced that only the LLM posers are productive and everyone else is sitting idle.
Maybe I’ve just been lucky, but for several years and on several different machines I’ve found Linux just works, while Windows is an endless treadmill of frustration and brokenness.
121·14 days agorights
They misspelled “whites”.
I thought you made a good point. I have decades of experience and I find LLMs useful for the things you described.
Pee drinking is somewhat impressive, but can he eat shit and die?
Ooh, unemployment! How exciting! I love Microsoft now.
What even is the requirement? “Must be able to ask a chatbot to do stuff”?
Capitalism is destroying the world. We need to rise up against that. The AI bullshit is just one manifestation of the whole world being geared to serve capital and the handful of people that control it.