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Blog post: "We hired these really great people, with human capital in more...
Blog post: "We hired these really great people, with human capital in more dimensions than you can think of: experience, education, emotional maturity. We got them by luck, a...
If is a nation state project, then you don't just try to infect one opensource...
If is a nation state project, then you don't just try to infect one opensource project, you attempt to infect dozens. You want to be the bureaucrat that spent 5 man years on a...
Look at that, my house has a backdoor. Who put that there?
Look at that, my house has a backdoor. Who put that there?
If I log onto my work email and use google, (and I'm not on VPN or corporate...
If I log onto my work email and use google, (and I'm not on VPN or corporate network) then my googling is private. If I log onto my work email and use , my searches are shared...
LLMs are not psychics trying to defraud you. That blog posts is a way over...
LLMs are not psychics trying to defraud you. That blog posts is a way over elaborate way to say people are gullible. The blogpost itself starts out by saying LLMs aren't people...
Coding with expensive APIs - I'm afraid to run an integration tests - Cost...
Coding with expensive APIs - I'm afraid to run an integration tests - Cost logger essential - pytest-network (disabled network in tests) now essential - dry-run feature now...
Epiphany: Opensouce licenses w/o big $$$. - Socially enforced. If you violate...
Epiphany: Opensouce licenses w/o big $$$. - Socially enforced. If you violate terms, people pack up their toys, leave and stop participating. - No $ involved. - Terms of license...
IDEA: I'll just switch to using `fakeredis` in production. How hard can...
IDEA: I'll just switch to using `fakeredis` in production. How hard can key-value pair lookups be.
I'm forking Oracle and Windows and relicensing them as public domain. Law is...
I'm forking Oracle and Windows and relicensing them as public domain. Law is whatever moves my emotions.
Fires are somewhere. Smells like people smoking cigars. Fairfax county says it...
Fires are somewhere. Smells like people smoking cigars. Fairfax county says it is the surrounding counties.
In is special and assumed to be always installed even though it isn't part of...
In is special and assumed to be always installed even though it isn't part of the standard library? (sort of a phantom stdlib) e.g. is this setup.py file from wrong, in that it...
META: the twitter-clones all have the same problem in that a thread "owner" has...
META: the twitter-clones all have the same problem in that a thread "owner" has almost no moderation powers for the discussion on the thread. Compare this to, say, a discord...
Who is funding Trump? !#!$# . if they want authoritarianism, maybe they can...
Who is funding Trump? !#!$# . if they want authoritarianism, maybe they can just move themselves to North Korea. I should write some blog posts.
Recap of bot vs human Bot (gpt4) is better than me at - writing unit tests -...
Recap of bot vs human Bot (gpt4) is better than me at - writing unit tests - small functions of obscure domain - writing simple code fast - translating simple code from one...
Pi (maybe) has every possible encoding of every copyrighted work ever written...
Pi (maybe) has every possible encoding of every copyrighted work ever written and that ever will be written. So maybe you should think twice about posting it with too many digits.
Two truths and a lie T T Vector field {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {g}}}such that...
Two truths and a lie T T Vector field {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {g}}}such that it has Bilinearity, Alternating and the Jacobi identity. This joke has no audience.
Observations people using AI for writing - Yes, some yahoos think spamming docs...
Observations people using AI for writing - Yes, some yahoos think spamming docs no one read will make them rich. It won't - (some) Pros are using them to write 1st drafts. Why?...
My company is hiring a tech lead again.
My company is hiring a tech lead again.
Evaluate software development, software team mgmt **advice **in the context of...
Evaluate software development, software team mgmt **advice **in the context of where it likely came from. Managing a team of recent Ivy League grads* who went thru 6 rounds of...
I’m a mediocre poster as a form of IP protection. No one is stealing these...
I’m a mediocre poster as a form of IP protection. No one is stealing these toots. They’re too bad.
I was working with a completion llm model (not chat) and it really wants to...
I was working with a completion llm model (not chat) and it really wants to finish both sides of the conversation. This sparked the idea that what if the bot thinks at all times...
The self referential statements of Cretan women's hips' truth value is...
The self referential statements of Cretan women's hips' truth value is undefined.
- Did someone already write a tool to front run `safety` or `pip-audit` before...
- Did someone already write a tool to front run `safety` or `pip-audit` before anything is installed? I guess something like "poetry lock" and then audit the files for suspicious...