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Instead of a planned layoff, it’s a layoff of random people, with a bias towards laying off the most capable.
Instead of a planned layoff, it’s a layoff of random people, with a bias towards laying off the most capable.
If all the cars are the same price I’ll buy the one with the upgrade options and then not pay for them.
Anti-trust lawyers are rubbing their hands in anticipation.
We’re seeing more and more that our “free market” with its “competition” doesn’t provide goods and services that most people want, which makes me wonder, why have free markets and competition?
This is how companies that don’t have competition act. This is how most companies act. We need more anti-trust enforcement.
There’s also websites hosted in countries that don’t care about US law. We can access those even without a VPN, for now…
That’s a good example. If I’m regularly running a command that is a single whitespace character away from disaster, that’s a problem.
Imagine a fighter aircraft that had an eject button on the side of the flight stick. The pilot complains “I’m afraid I might accidentally hit the eject button when I don’t need to”, but everyone responds “why would you push the eject button if you don’t want to eject?”, or “so your concern is that the eject button will cause you to eject…?” – That’s how I feel right now.
Just checked my command history and I’ve run 60,000 commands on this computer without problem (and I have other computers). I guess people have different ideas of what “comfortable” means, but I think I consider myself comfortable with the command line.
I have shot myself in the foot with rm -rf
in the past though, and screwed up my computer so bad the easiest solution was to reinstall the OS from scratch. My important files are backed up, including most of my dotfiles, but being a bit too quick to type and run a rm -rf
command has caused me needless hours of work in the past.
I realized the main reason I have to use rm -rf
is to remove git repos and so I thought I’d ask if anyone has a tip to avoid it. And I’ve found some good suggestions among the least upvoted comments.
That’s a good suggestion for some, but I’m quite comfortable with the command line.
It’s not that I’m irrationally scared of rm -rf
. I know what that command will do. If I slow down an pay attention it’s not as though I’m worried “I hope this doesn’t break my system”.
What I really mean is I see myself becoming quite comfortable typing rm -rf
and running it with little thought, I use it often to delete git repos, and my frequent use and level of comfort with this command doesn’t match the level of danger it brings.
Just moving them to /tmp
is a nice suggestion that can work on anywhere without special programs or scripts.
More like, I’m afraid of the command doing more than I’m trying to do.
What I want to do is ignore prompts about write-protected files in the .git
directory, what it does is ignore all prompts for all files.
Senior developer here, it looks like they are helping to me.
Careful, the 100,000 kg of pizza will turn into manure.
Programmer pay is so bizarre, it makes me cynical about our entire economy.
If I’m a blue-collar worker maintaining the wires between banks, I get paid little. If I’m a programmer maintaining the banking software that controls everyone’s money and is essential to the entire nation, I’m paid a little more, but not as much as some programmers.
If I’m a young man who creates a webpage that barely works venture capitalists are tripping over themselves trying to shove millions of dollars into my hands.
(Although, creating a webpage was the hot thing last decade, now the hot thing is creating an AI.)
If ByteDance is a normal company they will seek profits and sell for as much as they can.
But if TikTok is a Chinese psyop, they’ll just use any of the many legal tricks we allow to change the “owner” while China still retains control. Companies do this all the time, look at shell companies and such. It’s super easy for China to mask the true owner if they decide to.
This is why we should make broadly applicable regulations instead of picking on one specific company.
If China really is using TikTok for psyops, then they will refused to sell, flood TikTok with anti-government sentiment for its remaining days, and then direct people to just use the TikTok website hosted in China (is our government going to start blocking access to websites too?).
One silver line here is “the youths” will learn, in an unusually clear way, that the government effects their lives and can screw up their lives.
Giving bombs to Israel without condition is a… 6 point story I think
Our bug is their status quo.
Cognitive dissonance.
For a lot of people, either they accept “this trillion dollar corporation that controls all my computers, and the programming languages I use, and my code editor, is evil”. Or they accept “this trillion dollar company does lots of good things for me and is good”.
One is easier to accept than the other.
At first I though it said “Communism is the key to efficiency in a software engineering organization”; at first I thought it said something new
I, like the OP, was also studying math from a textbook and using GPT4 to help clear things up. GPT4 caught an error in the textbook.
The LLM doesn’t have a theory of mind, it wont start over and try to explain a concept from a completely new angle, it mostly just repeats the same stuff over and over. Still, once I have figured something out, I can ask the LLM if my ideas are correct and it sometimes makes small corrections.
Overall, most of my learning came from the textbook, and talking with the LLM about the concepts I had learned helped cement them in my brain. I didn’t learn a whole lot from the LLM directly, but it was good enough to confirm what I learned from the textbook and sometimes correct mistakes.