JTbane

quitting my fully vested tech job to fuck off and be a cook for a while

I am also fantasizing about this and am only holding off from doing it because of the social stigma (what idiot would quit a well paid full-time job). My biggest issue with the software industry is the feverish shiny-new-thing syndrome that AI is causing (and my current company is all in on this, with "Hyper-Velocity Engineering" panels). Maybe I don't want to move at light speed and would rather stop and smell the roses.

I would guess it is to avoid model lock-in.

There are enough crappy win32 applications that you probably should restart Windows PCs nightly.

I hope I am not alone in thinking the military needs to be defunded in the USA. Nuclear weapons mean that there is zero strategic threat and any future wars will be regional. Drawdown of oversea bases is long overdue.

I would guess prevention of using Claude as a pentesting or hacking platform. This could mean that every script kiddie out there would be a massive risk.

I would hope that librarians vet those and exclude them before they hit the shelves :(.

I've starting going back to books, either at the library or e-books. Librarians are very good at telling you if nonfiction is biased, outdated, or incorrect.

You don't need custom built anything, ChatGPT could generate corporate initiatives and PR statements all day and no one would notice.

They did use space tape (Kapton) and epoxy for that weird case with the hole drilled in the ISS.

I'm experiencing a similar thing- company pushes online lectures but don't even think about putting them on the sprint board.

brother I've thought about the tech to blue collar transition too. for me, I would choose plumbing or electrical, but it seems like 4 years of low apprentice wages are unavoidable.

For what they are worth, nuclear weapons are still preventing large-scale conflict between world powers.

I've started to go low-tech and ask noai.duckduckgo.com first, and then, gasp, go to the local library for some books on my hobbies.

The seed oil panic is quite possibly the dumbest health craze of the decade- I saw a chef saying beef tallow was healthy!

No AI company is addressing the elephant in the room that you need someone experienced constantly monitoring any agentic workflows. This means that the cost savings of agents are a myth.

My company actually did an internal study of agent usage for coding and found it only improved productivity by 10-20%, basically on the same level as good code templates or an autocomplete.

There is nothing wrong with forking, and one man's "better" version is another's bloat. Also, making a fork rather than a PR avoids burdening maintainers.

Honestly the de facto standard is to blame: at my dev job, we vacuum up all the packages we need and get the software deployed to production ASAP, then later go over the SBOM and make sure nothing looks sketchy. I'd imagine this is the default most places; an intensive approval process would slow down CI/CD too much.

In, fire 30% of the workforce, new logo, out.

You are now a fully trained management consultant. (Alan Johnson, Peep Show)

Reddit is more or less dead to me, as the popular subs are botfests and the niche subs are empty. I'm lucky to get a single reply on gaming subs.

This makes me paranoid to buy a new car at this point. I would have to keep every single oil filter receipt and take a video of the DIY oil change.

I'm starting to realize that fixed-price agent subscriptions follow the same profit model as gym memberships.

Well, yeah, but they do help. I had a bad case of bronchitis recently and the only way I was able to get to sleep was taking OTC ibuprofen.

Eh, I kind of disagree. Contributing until you hit the maximum employer match makes the most sense for quality of life.

he passed it through AI before handing it over to the other department

I think you should throw him under the bus for that.

It seems the biggest hurdle to IPv6 adoption is legacy software and hardware. Anything new that gets built can easily be v6 only.

Agreed, and something will go wrong (as every junior has experienced). You cannot lay blame on the AI when git blame shows your name.

Why not just use the GPL? It basically covers the same stuff Creative Commons Share-alike does.

I mean, this is just a one-time pad and I'm sure a court could compel your friend to give up the data.

If a state environmental agency asks you for your location on photos that you volunteered to upload and you freak out, you might be mentally ill.

Yeah I don't get why people don't understand this- there is not enough gold to base the entire global economy on it.