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I think you've got it exactly right:
- what is the expected gain? Years+Quality
- what is the maximum gain? Years+Quality
The older you are the smaller your maximum gain of Years can be.
I must be missing something, why aren't their legitimate institutes based in Bermuda?
I am not parent comment, and I'm also not in favour of restrictions for all/most people in the name of "the kids" for all the reasons covered in this debate. Invasive age verification feels even worse.
But I gotta tell I am not looking forward to deciding which is worse when my little kids grow up and I either have to: - let them use TikTok (or whatever it is by then) and suffer what I know to be an insidious poison - make them be on the outside of the circle and suffer exclusion by their peers because they don't get any of the memes
I've been the only kid in class without the new 18-rated Call of Duty game, or indeed a games console to play it on. At the time, it sucked. In retrospect I totally agree with my parents, young children should not be playing games about shooting each other! (Of course other parents may disagree)
CoD was only the new hotness once every couple of years. TikTok can make something the new hotness every week.
My only real hope to escape this dilemma is that enough other parents in my cohorts realise how poisonous TT is and the problem goes away... I can't say I'm optimistic.
and once you've got your wish: ugly code without tests or a way to comprehend it, but cheap!
How much value are you going to be able to extract over its lifetime once your customers want to see some additional features or improvements?
How much expensive maintenance burden are you incurring once any change (human or LLM generated) is likely to introduce bugs you have no better way of identifying than shipping to your paying customers?
Maybe LLM+tooling is going to get there with producing a comprehensible and well tested system but my anectodal experience is not promising. I find that AI is great until you hit its limit on a topic and then it will merrily generate tokens in a loop suggesting the same won't-work-fix forever.
Simplistic tenant isolation and cost tracking :-)
I know there are other solutions to this particular problem but this model is extremely easy to reason about. When the application accesses tenant objects or delegates that access with pre-signed URLs it is doing so with ephemeral credentials that literally could not access the objects in another tenancy.
That and a similar DB isolation, allows most of our handlers to be very simple as far as tenant isolation goes.
We were saved by the bell when they announced the increased account limit for S3 buckets (1M buckets, now, 1k I think before).
Just before they announced that I was working on creating org accounts specifically to contain S3 buckets and then permitting the primary app to use those accounts just for their bucket allocation.
AWS themselves recommend an account per developer, IIRC.
It's as you say, some policy or limitation might require lots of accounts and lots of accounts can be pretty challenging to manage.
I'm fairly sure that is the origin of Erdäpfel. We certainly thought this was a funny name for potato when we learned French in Scotland :-)
When I learned German the word for potato was Kartoffel.
Where is Claude's checkout? Do you have them all share the same local files or does each use its own copy?
Perhaps it should be by user base?
"You have 100M MAU, you need to be keeping up with the standards"
My point is that this is either a bearer token (in which case it will be obtainable by proxy) or tied to your identity.
What is the incentive for the citizen to make sure their authentication isn't shared?
How do I prevent my citizens from sharing their certificates in order to bypass the block?
I'd sooner see a more practical solution that works on the roads and cars we already have.
Aggressively limit speed and enforce it until you're onto the fast roads.
If cars could only roll on at 10mph I'd feel a lot safer and I'd probably be able to use my bike and make better time for the local stuff.
I'd love to get a cargo bike and use it for kid transport.
I would be worried about collision safety though, I am not going to persuade everyone in my neighborhood to stop using cars in a hurry and there are not bike routes between me and school, library, shops, ...
It’s common to rack up 4 hours or more of screen time a day on your phone. Here’s one way to see the cost of that: every 20 years, you lose 5 years of your waking time looking at your phone.
If you spend 4 hours/24 hours on your phone then every 20X you'll have lost 3.33... X.
I think the author is using year and waking-years but it doesn't parse well for me because you don't get close to 20 waking-years for every 20 years.
Is it? I remain unconvinced AI will replace Devs in the foreseeable but I don't think this article is passing comment one way or the other.
The way I read it TFA is claiming that the Devs who built the Natascha AI suite did solid work.
Contrary to prior reporting there really was an LLM based product at Builder in addition to their earlier business of a large pool of contractors cranking out apps on demand.
Ah, I thought this might be for turning tiny/tracking URLs into their targets like my Hacktoberfest project from a few years back
Cow practical joke anecdotes, please! :-)
Doesn't this give you 2xSPF? Or can I use my local copy of the source to kick of Travis/Circle?
I have fairly high local guide status. Do you think multiple submissions make a difference? Why?
The building is there but no address is assosciated with the outline. Can I contribute my address to OSM?
I'm currently implementing some OAuth stuff and reading a lot of RFCs and specifications. Came across this gem which really made me think "I bet I would come to regret writing that one"
https://openid.net/wg/connect/
How does OpenID Connect improve security
Public-key-encryption-based authentication frameworks like OpenID Connect (and its predecessors) globally increase the security of the whole Internet by putting the responsibility for user identity verification in the hands of the most expert service providers.
...Does it turn off the backlight too? I wonder what the battery life you get if you don't need the LCD is!
I can't tell you why any non-violent crime warrants a custodial sentence. It seems like civil penalties really ought to be enough deterrent and a much better recompense to society.
Who is the victim?
The person who bought the stock you knew was worthless or sold you the stock you knew was gold.
Why is insider trading a crime?
It's an unmanageable market advantage, if we didn't disallow it then people wouldn't play. The people who make the rules benefit from people playing.
Biggest trick is taking breaks, it is so easy to push past when you'd really have liked to stop for lunch because you think you're almost there or skip your usual break for a coffee. Set timers if you need to. I tend to rely on my partners to remember to ask for breaks or suggest breaks when they seem distracted or like they are flagging.
We update assignees to reflect when more than one person is working on something but we never assign work to individuals or pairs. We use an aggressive WIP limit of engineers/2+1 to prevent a ton of in flight tickets but other than that we're quite free to move around as long as we're moving the stuff on the board right-wards.
I think that's a thing that contributes to our success at pairing actually. Since we all value schedule flexibility quite highly we get on well with pairing a bit when we happen to have synchronized working time and working on independent subtasks when that is more convenient for us.
https://tuple.app/ - this tooling helped a ton, it's expensive but worth it to reduce the friction to start a pairing call to 0. Pairing on zoom, slack, meets, etc. is all much more painful. VS Code LiveShare esque things are free and can probably work as well with some discipline.
My team values writing . We killed our meetings for 2 weeks to see which ones were too painful to live without and retros are the only ones we took back.
We've shifted our work discussions almost entirely to async threads on our ticketing system, we frequently hand tickets over between timezones and our manager types can find out what's going on to the nearest couple of hours in a few minutes any time they like. If we need sync conversations (which does happen of course) we record the outcome for async consumption.
We do frequent pairing, it can be quite pleasant to spend quite a while on the phone doing work when you don't need to sit in 15 hours of meetings a week!
Honestly I'm not sure I could go back. Standups for sure would be a huge turnoff for me at any new job.
Yikes, I have to create an account and subscribe to read the second half of the article? Think the complaints about that are obvious. Leaving a comment in case anyone else wants to avoid that particular experience.
Shame, it was an interesting and well written article.
Was this written by GPT? I was quite interested in the topic of the article but I started to get the brain fog I associate with parsing ChatGPTs convoluted sentences.
When I'm hiring an employee, I'm looking for you! A generalist who will apply their wealth of database experience to my problems and learn what they need for my specifics along the way. I expect to pay some on ramp time where I don't get much in return.
When I'm hiring a contractor, I'm not really interested in paying them to learn, I'm interested in getting my need fulfilled as efficiently as possible. If the problem I have is my square zinc kitchen sink it makes sense to find someone who already knows about them.
Is this realistic? The government is heavily reliant on Windows as is much of their economy. It's hard to imagine them evicting Microsoft from the market.