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this is really insightful, i am nearing ten years as SWE - i've always loved passion projects and learning outside of work. This has historically got me really far in my career. However I just started a new role as a team lead on k8s platform. I rushed out got a few NICs and started setting up a homelab to learn but havn't spent more than a few hours working on it in weeks.

for the first time in my life i'm starting to think that my hobbies outside work (and the majority of my identity) has very little to do with software.

i had never thought about how much my work was tied to my identity and it's extremely jarring.
The new war makes it so you can post anything you want but the algorithm will make sure nobody ever sees it. They give you a megaphone but they also put you in digital Antarctica without a soul around.

I think just as there is freedom of speech- there is freedom to hear. If I want to listen to someone's words I should not be prevented from hearing them. Why do we need platforms? We have the internet already but then we are still at the whims of a search engine. We want our cake and to eat it too.
In this case, X is banned in Brazil. Brazil has an entirely different legal framework than the United States.
So this cursor is a fork and not an extension? Could anyone tell me why? What was not possible to achieve when implementing these features as an extension?
You already related the “(open)loop quantization” in LQG to EPR=ER above, similar concept occurs in string theory too, almost unknown because its so foundational, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born–Infeld_model, near the end, as well as some of the references there that discuss gravity.

“Creating” is a vague(r) term, do you mean “quantization”? Afaik the open-loop geometry of fermions is something any quantization scheme has to start with, the details are how one includes gravity, so without more details, one wouldnt be able to tell how LQG is different from string theory :)
https://archive.md/qVPAa
I don't remember the effective social movements and resulting changes in society you describe coming from threats of violence (in the US). Whether it was suffrage or labor rights, the greatest power for violence was always with the status quo and not with those protesting. Often violence has brought about change in perception opposite to its intent. This was true in civil rights, gay rights, antiwar, and labor movements.

So I disagree that prohibition of violent public speech is an aspirational privilege otherwise necessary for justice and progress. A terrorist Ghandi wouldn't have been as effective against the British Raj (who could and did kill indiscriminately).

If you were talking about private speech (not threats), I would have some more understanding.
Why would a perfect simulation of a brain not have brain waves? They're not magic. I'm perfectly happy to talk about brain waves. I suspect anyone else in the "Consciousness is a Computation" camp is happy to as well, I have no idea where you got that idea from.

I'd be interested in seeing any of this overwhelming evidence, but it's also not relevant, unless you're arguing that brain waves are supernatural in origin and can't be simulated. I think the crux of your argument can be boiled down to: "What's inferior about a perfect brain simulation, regardless of medium?"
I must be living in a different universe, every single LLM I've tried are shit at the details/nuances of writing code.
Damn. I was so excited to try Cursor and when I set it up all my plug-ins got screwed up and go to def no longer worked. I guess I’ll try again this weekend.

I really want to code with voice to text via LLM. Why am I typing any code with my hands these days?
Nate said a couple months back that their model was a change from his. IDK if this would be better.

Of course, Nate has a bestier model at some other place after cashing put.
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My Sonos experience has been fine eight years now 10+ devices.

That said I do dislike the new app rollout.

I do feel like there has been 500ms to 2 seconds of added lag in certain actions. I can't quite place what's going on though. Not enough to be a deal breaker yet.

I feel the surround sound experience has been very hit or miss but can't tell if it's Sonos or the media platform I'm watching videos on.
Sure, being a unique situation it also presented unique support challenges, and I seem to recall that the link was the one that most often turned red on our network map, perhaps even teasing us as it flapped up/down for a while, and we sat with bated breath to see whether it really required our undivided attention.

Also I suppose that it was considered the least important of our "dedicated" customer links, being legacy/low-cost, so most of us would've welcomed an upgrade to something more "1990s".

Many providers have ways of passive-aggressively dealing with legacy customers until they upgrade or go to the competition. My DSL ISP sent me into the arms of the cable provider about 12 years ago.
Well, I think it would be very reasonable for a government to compel Twitter to allow access without an account to at least certain accounts that dispense information that is of real-time public interest. e.g. In the case of some recent wildfires here, updates about the emergency were primarily available on Twitter.

The sanest implementation would probably just be some nominal monthly charge that an account holder can pay to Twitter to have their account publicly accessible to all.
useful for one shot cases, but not more for the moment imo.
It got cars wrong, Frito drove a tiny smart car type thing, where as modern cars are more like the dildozer.
Not parent but Claude any day of the week, it seems to keep context and do what I ask it better.
Power BI does this using on-premise data gateway: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/serv...
I read you post, I am not sure I agree with:

> transforming a tool of empowerment into an amplifier of existing disparities.

Which disparity are we talking about? That of non-coders vs coders?

It used to be that someone who did not know how to code had zero chance of writing any program that runs.

Enabling these people to write code is a massive empowerment unlike any we have seen before. Hundreds of millions of people who had no chance of writing working code before will be able to do so if they wish. That's a lot of people reaching for lots of ideas. I doubt that genius and insanely productive programmer, would be able to outcompete all these competitors that previously did not exist.

I don't think we fully comprehend what this will mean in the future - but I doubt it amplifies disparity.
The point of a creator is that it exists outside the laws of physics. Necessarily this makes the creature extra-universal, so this line of logic doesn’t necessarily hold imo. We can’t claim to know any rules outside of our universe, because we learn entirely by experimenting within said universe.
ZK STARKS can be done without a trusted setup, they are slightly different from ZK SNARKS.

I believe it's possible to do a trusted setup with many hundreds or thousands of anonymous people too, someone would need to get every single contribution to recreate the trusted setup.
This is how I do it. 10-2, twice a day. Sleep 7.5 hours a night. Works great for me.
Could you link to the particular case you're referring to?
Even death threats are not “over the line” for everyone.
Congratulations, schema changes are now directly visible outside your organization.

For some of our outgoing files at $employer, there's a notice period of... I think I remember it being 30 days for additional code values and 90 days for layout changes. That sort of planning ahead becomes much harder if every single schema change is immediately visible to outsiders.
I just use less of it.
Me and my wife consume a 0.3g dose in our vape about once a week, and that’s enough for us to relax.
I've been following development of a 3D racing game for the Playdate - https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@2DArray/113070310047102734. The console is presented as being 2D-centric, but I'm curious to see what cream-of-the-crop graphical titles come out for the system within the next few years, it feels like it's really gaining steam.
It's easier to finish if your goal is to make money - then you are forced to make your customers happy and finish things.

If the rewards are nebulous, then so will the motivation to complete anything.
Now add neurodivergent executive function disorders -- easily accessible fun things being available prevents bigger picture fun things from starting. I've spent years trying to address this, but haven't found anything that consistently works.

Drives me up the wall.
> don't remember the effective social movements and resulting changes in society you describe coming from threats of violence (in the US).

I mean there was the whole civil war thing…

If a movement has millions of people, possibility of violence is implied if you piss then off enough.
You're missing the point that providing some basis for one's identity is only one aspect of why people draw meaning from a job - as GP points out, it is more about providing purpose and a sense that one is contributing to something

Though I do wonder - what, in your opinion, should one's identity be based around?
Abolish the Penny?
I find it effective to treat it like a junior, and provide detailed and specific tasks. Ie usual LLM usage.

A recent e.g. "Use the Javascript module pattern to create a module that stores audio chunks, recording state, and exposes functions to start and stop recording, and to store audio data"

It's a really simple task, but that prompt saved me 20 minutes of typing and futzing about. It also named the module sensibly, based on context from the rest of the code I guess. Then it prompted me on what to change in the calling code to use the new module (this wasn't 100% right, but still saved me a couple rounds of running the code and fixing problems).

It's taken me a while to change my habit of working out how to do what I want to do and then editing code, to rather just saying what I want to do, and being specific about it.
The US Steel South Works site mentioned in this article is turning into the DARPA Quantum Proving Ground [1]. Folks who own their homes free and clear will do pretty well, even if they aren't going to be getting the high-paying jobs that are going to be created.

Some friends of mine had parents that worked in the mills and grew up down there. It's not an area of Chicago that many people frequent, but I've been down there some. The lake is beautiful and peaceful, the built environment used to be nice and will again when the land price go up and encourage repairs and renovation. And the neighborhood does have existing train service and a nice bike path to downtown.

[1] https://chicagoquantum.org/news/psiquantum-anchor-groundbrea...
Health care, yes.

A 401k is your money and goes with you if you leave, it's the older pension model that has issues with people jumping around.
> You're at the mercy of the original database schema

SQL has views. As long as you can represent the underlying data through a view you should be fine.

> and may cause mistakes in interpretation in anything of scale

All APIs have this concern.

> direct access to a database is an unnecessary security risk

You can constrain access to be read-only and to only access the particular view or views necessary.

> has found putting up abstractions and interfaces to address those issues

It could just be a crutch to avoid deep understanding of the underlying tools themselves. It's much easier to greenfield a new API. It's much easier to forget and accidentally abandon these APIs.
I think we should have easier ways to convert coins to paper money or maybe something like direct deposit.
They are those "fairly rare exceptions", yes.

Like the folks who think the Second Amendment means you can own nukes, or the Libertarian Party folks who don't like drivers' licenses, they're pretty fringe.
With billions of phones in circulation, and rumors of audio eavesdropping being quite common, why has apparently nobody ever run a typical smartphone with network logging and memory snapshotting to actually check what all these widely popular apps are doing?
To make beer, you boil the wort, after fermentation the finished beer keeps for sometime and you can taste when it’s gone off. Also hops is a preservative.
Compressing floating-point numbers quickly by converting them to brain floats
Back in the day when I started coding in Go, I basically did the Go Tour on the official website, and watched some of videos.

I paid close attention to learning how to write idiomatic Go. I also read a bunch of code from the std lib.

Then after a few days I jumped right into coding. I started with a simple CLI to do some heave lifting in our Ci/CD pipelines (for work) and then I also started coding some web apps for my perdonal use.

After this, I started designing and building a few systems that were needed internally at my workplace and I also started training other folks in Go.

That was back in 2017. Today we have several big systems running in production and a strong team of engineers all working and enjoying Go :)

I would recommend to anyone a similar path:

- learn the basics

- build and release things

- teach others who may be interested

At that time my background was as software engineer (~17 years) mainly writing Java and some Javascript
Claude has no trouble with SQL queries, writing tests, utility functions, component sketches (React). But as soon as I start giving it reasonably complex stuff like interdependent generics (TypeScript) or intricate custom logic implementation on top of well-known frameworks, it quite often goes around in circles or outputs code with incorrect syntax.

You know, the stuff that I would actually feel as though I was receiving intellectual help with.

Current LLMs are _great_ at doing chores. They are not so great at producing cohesive, professional-grade code.
My issue with this line of argument is that people always want to compare "do it with Copilot" to "do it completely by scratch" when they should be comparing it to "do it by ignorantly copy-pasting from one of the many similar projects on GitHub then tweaking a few things." There are quite a few open-source GLSL implementations of marching squares, maybe copy-pasting would have been faster and higher-quality.
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Last project I worked on was a mix of on prem software and cloud software.

The cloud counterpart had 600+ mongodb databases split amongst 3 Mongo clusters.

The integration team took usually 2 weeks to setup the on premises software, and the cloud stuff took about a minute.
The entire setup for the cloud was a single form that the integration team filled in with data.

The point I'm trying to make, is that if your customers require separate infra, they can wait a bisuness day to be setup. Meanwhile they can play on a sandbox environment.

It's also doable in fully automated fashion, but you will have to have strong identity and payment verifications, to avoid DoS, and in those cases usually contracts fly around.

That's for the b2b side.

For b2c, usually you rely on a single db and filter by column ID or similar, which can easily be abstracted away.
By not enabling blatant (harmful) misinformation accounts to proliferate in the platform, just like X/Twitter did.

And of course, complying with the law and courts order
Decent chance that the asker and many of the good answers here are the professionals staffing security departments. This place is better than StackExchange for this kind of discussion. If you’re curious about how companies manage passwords, there are people with experience sharing. Why not sit back and learn?
Got 12 years for a ratio
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And if you want irreversible, like gold/cash, you can always use Zelle which is supported by most banks in USA
You kinda cheat. There's a bunch of dedicated hardware/firmware that you use to run the camera module. That lets a fairly simple microcontroller and code to mostly ignore the electrical details of the camera, and just abstract that away so you can just send commands to the camera via pre existing libraries, then deal with the data representing an image.

Here's a reasonable overview:

https://lastminuteengineers.com/getting-started-with-esp32-c...
Same here. Tons of notes. No alarm clock.
I tried getting Claude to help me model an event-based store with moderate type safety and it was a total disaster. It was randomly trying to convince me to turn it into a state machine using a library in Python (I was working in TypeScript).

This is so far from awesome as far as productivity goes. I do find cursor suggestions useful here and there, but it’s typically filling in the simpler details of an implementation I had to design without its help. Ultimately it doesn’t save nearly as much time as I hoped it might a couple years ago.

Still, cool development in terms of dev tools and I’ll keep experimenting.
But it really is kind of a vicious cycle: you need social contact to stay mentally healthy, losing your job severs your 9-5 social network. I had to specifically seek out meetups to keep from going loopy.

I'd really say it's less about chickens and eggs and more about selection bias: the 12 month unemployed have something extra wrong in their lives.
The revised content on that topic, found in the Boss Fight book [1], is even better than the blog post. A teaser:

> I'm obsessed with finishing as a skill. Over the years, I've realized that so many of the good things that have come my way are because I was able to finish what I started.... Irrespective of how big the project was, each one I finished gave something back to me, whether it was new fans, a new benchmark for what I could accomplish, or new friends that I could work with and learn from.

[1] https://bossfightbooks.com/products/spelunky-by-derek-yu
in ~2009 or so -- right after the housing crash -- i remember reading about people who were collecting all-copper pennies and storing them in anticipation of when the penny becomes deprecated and the metal becomes salable.

Guess they're in for the long haul, but the photos of $20k in pennies were something to see!
Yea it's the same as a hash collision, maybe they managed to type some other message that hashes to the same thing but it's very unlikely.

You can also use multiple different types of ZK proofs for the same data, same as using multiple hashing algorithms, for more certainty.
Yeah, listening/matching for specific songs or words is trivial locally. It has been done commercially since the early 2000s (for ASCAP) on mobile phones, when they were dumb bricks. The idea that every single company is following some righteous non-profit seeking stance, is sort of laughable. Maybe FAANG have decided it's not worth it (they have other ways), but that doesn't mean they couldn't or other apps don't.
I wonder if someone could crawl this and provide an archive? I'd love to get the whole set and I'm sure there are others who would also.
> Enabling these people to write code is a massive empowerment unlike any we have seen before. Hundreds of millions of people who had no chance of writing working code before will be able to do so if they wish.

They still are not able to code. They don’t understand a thing from the output. They cannot see right from wrong, or correct anything by themselves. Maybe at some occasions that kind of coding is useful, but not in professional setting.

It can be useful in learning, but so are all old school methods.

You get the most from LLMs when you are very good programmer - that is the OPs point.
Does Chinese New Year Impact the Chinese Money Supply (M0)?
Much of the confusion here is from terms that you use like "become conscious", which binarizes it.

When run, that program will have a very simple model that includes only a few things like stdout. More complex programs will have models that represent more things. A game of tic tac toe written in Python is conscious of the state of the board, because it models it.

It's not "when does it become conscious.", it's "how much is it conscious of?". Asking the prior question is like asking "When does someone become rich?" or "When is the apple ripe?"

This isn't about ghosts. This is exactly a way of looking at it that provides a concrete, falsifiable definition, because far too many people are talking right past each other whenever "consciousness" comes up. This is trying to get past the magic words, and get at something useful.
It’s kinda thermal, the ‘radiation’ is ultrasound sound waves but the friction from the mechanical forces induced does cause heat
I wonder if people realize they've been conditioned into nationalists or if the technology facilitating propaganda is so effective that they don't recognize the rewards and punishments to the amplified talking points they encounter online for what they are.

How often does anyone say, "I support censoring China to protect big tech interests and out of fear of what they will learn using methods of data collection that we pioneered and use, but here is why I think that's necessary..." in any discourse on TikTok? And why would they verbalize that when they can just do what worked on them - downvoting until you learn to adopt the right patterns or go away?
"Definition of Done" is a common Agile concept. There's a wealth of documentation on how to define it. Heres one: https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-definition-done