Okay thanks for the heads-up, I will give it a try. The āNote to the readerā it starts with is already pretty wildā¦ (unless thatās just part of the fiction. Edit: I assume itās part of the fiction)
Edit: okayā¦ a few pages in, I donāt think I can do thisā¦ not my thing.
You have my sympathy! Is the worst part that you have to review the slop or its general presence at all?
Asking because at my workplace it will be allowed soon, and some coworkers are unfortunately looking forward to it, and Iām horrified, especially by the thought of having to do code review thenā¦
That is indeed troubling, casts a shadow on Project Gutenbergās judgement. Now I wonder how long until Wikipedia falls too :( Gosh, I miss being excited about new tech. Now new tech is just making things worse.
About that book, so it is more āgood badā instead of ābad badā? Maybe Iāll take a look, some light/weird reading might be better than doomscrolling (and these days thereās so much doom to scroll).
I have to keep reminding myself that this is the technology that they all claim will soon do all our work, our arts, our science, everything.
Rituals can be good, but yeah, agile standup meetings are not the good kind. Luckily I donāt have them dailyā¦ several times a week is already draining enough. If they were daily, I would just burn out. And the standups are IMO not even the worst part of agileā¦
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The best solution right now may be ābuy a Macbook and learn MacOSā, which is so depressing.
Depends on whether you include āmy personal data is sent to the manufacturer of the computer against my wishesā in your threat modelā¦ Apple does many good things for security, and I wish PC hardware makers would take security-related things even just nearly as seriously as them. But I canāt trust Apple anymore either.
(Explanation: the whole iCloud syncing stuff is such a buggy mess. I donāt want it, I donāt need it, so I want it off. But I guess Apple just doesnāt test enough how well it works when you turn it off, maybe they canāt imagine someone not wanting it. The problem is, iCloud sync settings donāt stay off. Settings randomly turn themselves back on, e.g. during OS updates, and upload data before you even notice it. Iām not claiming thatās intentional, I assume itās just bugs. But Iāve observed such bugs again and again in the past 9 years, and Iāve had enough. Still have a Macbook around, but I use it very rarely these days, only when I need some piece of software on MacOS that has no suitable Linux equivalent.)
While a PC+Linux setup can avoid the specific issue of ādonāt randomly upload my data somewhereā, the setup of it all can be a mess, as you say. And then security is still limited by buggy hardware and BIOS/firmware that is frequently full of security holes. The state of computers is depressing indeed (in so many ways, security just being one of them)ā¦
Is it too early to hope that this is the beginning of the end of the bubble?
Also, does someone know why broadcom was also hit so hard? Is it because they make various networking-related chips used in datacenter infrastructure?
And people believe this ā¦ why?
Maybe people believe that all the AI stuff is just magic [insert sparkle emoji], and that can terminate further thoughtā¦
Edit: heh, turns out thereās science about that notion
screaming about ātheft!ā and āhacking!!ā
Sounds plausible. Or maybe they will go with a donāt use it, because privacy! take. Funny thing is, I actually agree people shouldnāt give them their data. But they shouldnāt give it to OpenAI eitherā¦
I had to read āUber for AI code dataā so now you do too.
Wow, what a fractal of cursed meaning. I donāt even understand what it really means, but it feels like understanding it any further would cause considerable psychic damage.
This shows the US is falling behind China, so you gotta give OpenAI more money!
Fear of a ābullshit gapā, I guess.
Oh, and: simply perfect choice of header image on that article.
As a fan of physical media, I recently bought another drive as a spare, currently is IMO a good time for that. They still make really good drives in large enough quantities so theyāre cheap, but that could end any time. Once production stops, they will vanish silently. Learned that lesson back then when floppy drives were suddendly goneā¦ kinda wish I had stocked up a few new ones (for retro computing purposes) when they were still available.
Sooner or later the only remaining source of reliable digital information will be 1990s multimedia CD-ROM encyclopedias.
various topics (e.g., AI news, crypto, fitness, personal finance)
That sure is a specifc selection of topics.
Same. Theyāve been a staple in my RSS feed list for so long (and they are one of the few sites where the RSS feed isnāt just the headlines). But recently Iāve been thinking several times already about throwing them out.
āShortly after 2027ā is a fun phrasing. Means ānot before 2028ā, but mentioning ā2027ā so it doesnāt seem so far away.
I interpret it as āplease bro, keep the bubble going bro, just 3 more years bro, this time for real broā
Maybe this is common knowledge, but I had no idea before. What an absolutely horrible decision from google to allow this. What are they thinking?? This is great for phishing and malware, but I donāt know what else. (Yeah ok, the reason has probably something to do with āline must go upā.)
So much wrong with thisā¦
In a way, it reminds me of the wave of entirely fixed/premade loop-based music making tools from years ago. Where you just drag and drop a number of pre-made loops from a library onto some tracks, and then the software automatically makes them fit together musically and thatās it, no further skill or effort required. I always found that fun to play around with for an evening or two, but then it quickly got boring. Because the more you optimize away the creative process, the less interesting it becomes.
Now the AI bros have made it even more streamlined, which means itās even more boring. Great. Also, they appear to think that they are the first people to ever have the idea āletās make music making simpleā. Not surprising they believe that, because a fundamental tech bro belief is that history is never interesting and can never teach anything, so they never even look at it.
Not clicking those HN links, decided years ago already that site should not be part of my life anymore at all. The few times I have deviated from that rule since, I regretted it.
As for the more general topic, I feel so bad for all trans people with everything that is unfolding. Itās horrible. But be assured that there are many peope in this world who are on your side on this. Wish I could say something more useful, but Iām at a loss of words.