web3-is-a-scam

Don’t give a f*ck about the UKs laws. Don’t like it, the UK should block ME.

They’re opt-out and can be disabled in the settings or fully disabled in about:config. Definitely annoying but not enough to make me switch to a Chromium based browser.

I loved writing C++ back in the day, C++98 was peak.

I couldn’t fathom starting a new project with whatever the current C++ is now.

I’m a btop user how is it gamified? If by “gamified” thy mean “looks like something you would see in a video game (or movie)” then yeah tha tracks but that’s not what “gamified” typically means…

Sure let’s just centralize hardware attestation to Microsoft’s cloud tied to a Microsoft account with keys you can’t change what could possibly go wrong?

This is all publicly documented by Microsoft you just need to translate their doublespeak.

Google is doing does the exact same thing and people were sounding the alarms when they did it but Microsoft gets a pass?

Use ChaGPT to outsource your critical thinking for you because I’m not gonna do it.

It’s not like these things aren’t publically documented by Microsoft.

You just need to be able to translate their doublespeak.

Surely the government would never lie.

At an event this week, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar seemed to suggest that the government could act as a “backstop” for the company’s commitments

She said the quiet part out loud? This was always the play, it is obvious. Too big to fail. National security concerns. China/Russia veer scary. Blah blah blah.

Altman’s libertarian pontification is so obviously insincere it’s laughable.

More.

TPM is not secure. At all. At least when when you’re using Windows.

https://youtu.be/t1eX_vvAlUc

All of the brainpower is going into AI.

Im expecting a future where we dont have “pages” on the internet anymore, but its just the backbone for generative AI content and if you want to promote your brand you need to pay the AI providers to put your content in responses.

Eventually, the entire notion of “searching the web” will be seem as archaic as the rotary phone.

just get a vm on something like Vultr and install postgres on it

80% of my engineering department was off shored and the results are exactly what you’d expect.

Would love to know which LLMs you’re using because every single one I’ve used has been hot garbage that can’t do anything beyond joining a couple tables and fails miserably at basic GROUP BY/COUNT aggregates. Window functions? Fuggetaboutit

Many many years ago, I simply bought the O’Reilley SQL pocket guide, skimmed through it, read the section about Window Functions and that marked the start of a moment in my career that changed my life forever.

Yes. I’d consider myself an “intermediate” DBA but I can command an insane salary and I have people tripping over themseves to hire me.

Nobody cares about SQL until it takes 15 seconds to load your user facing login dashboard.

If you’re an innovation hero and you don’t own part of the company, you are a sucker

When I worked in marketing software I experienced this often with the term "referral". To this day I still feel kindof weird when I see the term.

Why not both?

How am I supposed to know if something is worth investing in if I can’t even use it? A pinky promise that maybe I’ll be able to get one someday isn't a good deal. I want to know what I am getting when I put my money in. Maybe if I was a VC and that’s what they were begging for my money for, but as a retail investor the value proposition is basically nothing.

The company markets itself as an educational tool, but 70% of its sales are industrial? Like I get “bringing low cost computers to everyone” feels and sounds good in press releases but when the business actually focuses on something different - that seems counterproductive to their stated goal - what am I supposed to take from that?

I can’t even get their product anywhere at a decent price, why should I invest in this company?

I didn’t know Bartender was sold. I thought it was fishy to need screen recording permissions but I assumed it was because of “security” features of the new macOS/m series chip/whatever so I just let it go because I trusted the Bartender dev.

Uninstalled. What a shame.

they’re really trying to make fetch happen

I don’t trust industry to self-regulate and I definitey don’t trust the government to be able to regulate it effectively.

Honestly, we’re f*cked

Well damn, this gives a whole new meaning to the Whitest Kids You Know skit about going on a whiskey diet:

https://youtu.be/uOyjzE1vcD4?si=6sejNKCk-VkIzwGo

Also RIP Trevor Moore, another tragedy.

In the coming years? It pretty much already is

At the time it was just the convenience of getting it done and moving on since I’ve been using it for over a decade. Next year I will probably just use WealthSimple, since I have fair amount of investments with WS anyway.

I’ve replaced my Make usage mostly with taskfile.dev and/or Warp workflows/notebooks

My employer submitted all my T4 information to the CRA. My investment services submitted all my tax forms to the CRA.

UFile downloaded everything for me, autofilled my return, submitted it online back to the CRA and charged me $30 for the privilege. LMAO

Linters/static analysis should be in “the pile” regardless if you’re using LLM-generated code or not.