Unrelated but the ventoy usb I keep on me really helped me today after a ram stick decided to die and corrupt my system along with it

I’ve gone for the corpo middle ground and my company picture is the Japanese business blahaj in a suit. I’ve been told, “I don’t even look for your name I just look for the shark, it stands out more”

I too want to leave, do you have any resources I can read to try getting out?

I’ve also started using it recently and I’m not sure if the way I’m doing it is particularly “right”.

I don’t have a lot of knowledge of practical coding practices because in school we literally had a new project every two weeks so I never learned things like you need unit tests or proper architectural design. It was mostly making sure whatever project there was that week ran and didn’t crash.

So now I’m working as a sysadmin doing the random junk a sysadmin gets pushed on them. What I’ve been doing is telling it my project plan, Claude will write up something that looks better, and I continue to have a back and forth about architecture and libraries, asking it if it thinks any particular idea is good or bad, until I get to a place I’m happy.

Then because I want to learn rust and implement it myself, I’m having Claude basically guide me through creating it like a teacher would, with it taking on a very Socratic tone (“now that we’ve done this, what do you think is the next step?” “We have a list of CSVs so what do you need to do to read their values?”). And I’ve been moving forward but by bit like this.

I don’t know if it’s a particularly good way, honestly, I’d love feedback from anyone who’s done something similar or whatever!

This implies that Pluto is a lovecraftian entity, and that brings me much joy

Barnyard gossip with a pinch of divination. Mad science is actual science but for the explicit purpose of being evil or off the walls whacky; given enough time or a proper application mad science can turn into normal science.

This. I work for a tech company that unfortunately gets quite a few subpoenas, from little police departments to the letter agencies, and I have pushed back on subpoenas and warrants that I felt infringed on peoples rights and “negotiated down” the scope of them. If a company isn’t willing to try and keep their users out of the legal crossfire they’re cowards.

If your game supports controller give me the option to change the button faces to whatever I prefer. Some people like Nintendo button layout, others PlayStation, other Xbox. Whatever it is, don’t hard code one set - they’re just some pngs, support them all.

I use AI as a rubber duck, to compliment the rubber ducks on my desk when they don’t give enough feedback. So it’s use is mostly conceptual, I find that models that provide “thinking” output perhaps more useful than whatever its actual answer is because it asks questions about edge cases I might not have considered.

As for code generation, I hate it. It outputs garbage, forgets things, hallucinates, and whatever thing it writes I’ll have to rewrite anyway to actually make it compile.

As I’m fairly isolated at work I think it makes a good pair programmer partner, so to speak. Offering suggestions that I can take into consideration and research heavily if I think it’s a good one.

Looking through some of the docs I’m afraid I won’t be able to move off of Typst to this either. Typst has a long standing bug that I would have liked to avoid (lists that are too long will overflow memory and the maintainers seem to not want to temporarily dump to disk) but if even rust has an issue with those 100k+ row lists, I’m not sure kotlin will handle it better.

Really? I assumed postgres was the default for basically all open source projects

I mean isn’t that literally what Zeus did to the Titans? Older gods of a different mountain being usurped by new hip gods

And yet, despite that was still responsible for less deaths than the CEO

In that same vein, give zellij a look! I use it pretty constantly whenever I’m sshing in a nominatim server

Because an animated 5 second ad telling me to buy more dice and horde them like the goblin I am would work on me!

Just as an interesting “what if” scenario - a human making the effort to stylize Van Gogh is okay, and the problem with the AI model is that it can spit out endless results from endless sources.

What if I made a robot and put the Van Gogh painting AI in it, never releasing in elsewhere. The robot can visualize countless iterations of the piece it wants to make but its only way share it is to actually paint it - much in the same way a human must do the same process.

Does this scenario devalue human effort? Is it an acceptable use of AI? If so does that mean that the underlying issue with AI isn’t that it exists in the first place but that its distribution is what makes it devalue humanity?

*This isn’t a “gotcha”, I just want a little discussion!

Thanks for sharing the extension! I just got some passkeys and they just weren’t working on several websites for Firefox (looking at you Azure) but that solved the issue immediately!

Okay, how about a waffle house then?

If you do it publically and explicitly enough, by the third or fourth mouthpiece they should be changing their tune