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AI is good, unless you want to use it as a complete replacement for your gray matter.
Guess what people try to use it for.
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And while I don’t think AI is useless, it’s apparent that many of our leaders have an almost magical conception of it as an artificial brain. Which it is not
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Yes I think it’s pretty obvious that even when AI gets really good, customers will still want a human being to stand behind any critical decisions. Whether in medicine or in government …
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also not sure what we’re all supposed to do if AI takes a significant percentage of the jobs
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I don’t really find this surprising, every company is doing the same thing internally right now too
AI *can* save costs or increase work output in many cases, I’m not a skeptic
It can also cause a lot of damage very quickly
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I get copilot pro from work and also from being an open source contributor
It’s actually confusing because since I don’t pay, github.com doesn’t even believe I have it, but it definitely works in VSCode
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This is all before getting into the fact that you likely need multiple different RPMs for different distros, not just one, and that neither Ubuntu or Debian are likely to include your package so you have to set up PPA or some other way to download it, oh and the Nix folks do everything differently.
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Also it’s great for closed source developers who want to support Linux, since now instead of having only two package formats to consider, they have the joy of developing against five glorious shiny formats.
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… are basically the same but come from competing companies. So now when you want to install something, you get to pick from .deb, .rpm, AppImage, Flatpak, or Snap. This makes things so much easier to understand that it’s a wonder everyone doesn’t use Linux.
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That’s actually something I deal with in my line of work. People put their passwords in username fields, and then the username gets logged everywhere and is leaking passwords, and it’s messy and complicated to delete stuff from logs. I have a whole lecture.
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I wonder if he’s got an alt on BlueSky
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Estimated crowd of 1 million in Boston
www.wcvb.com/article/more...
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NYT: parade is today’s third big headline, after assassinations and protests
CNN: parade is today’s third big headline, after assassinations and Iran missiles
WaPo; it’s the FOURTH big headline after assassinations, Iran, protests
Fox: parade is first AND second big headline, no protest coverage
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Although they can blame the rain, I suppose
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There are two layers of tall fencing on both sides of the parade, with a gap between them
It was never going to look great outside carefully framed shots
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Via xcancel.com/vpostrel/sta...
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OR … hear me out… if it’s a local network socket (loopback) you should be able to get process table details of the caller. Then you could have multiple microservices running on the same machine and all identifying each other.
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* nine times, last was dec 2023
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Falcon Heavy is actually close to large enough
But it’s only launched five times, and the last was two years ago
So if it put astronauts on the moon secretly, they’ve been there for quite a while
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Consider: o3 now is cheaper than 4o was at introduction in May 2024
And 4o is an absolute crap model by comparison
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I don’t know how anyone can keep up
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All our heads are above the parapet