VectorLock

Were they acquires or were they always Akamai?

I've been a long time Linode customer and generally unimpressed by them but have let my VPS soldier on because I've been too lazy to pull the plug on it. Everything I do now is in AWS. Might be time to finally give it the axe and close my account.

Would there have been a better time to post?

>it's just made wonder if most humans aren't just getting through their days with the exact same trick.

Just don't start calling other people "NPCs" please.

People have been attributing human characteristics to dumb machines and animals for so long we invented a word for it: anthropomorphism.

For ChatGPT at least the side effects are hallucinations. Typically the chat bot can't actually do these things, but they pretend to. Although I guess if you wanted to hook them up to do things automatically you could. Probably not a great idea given their propensity to get things wrong.

Security assessment involves analyzing impact. I think in this case the impacts are "access to the model pre-prompting" which is low impact if it doesn't have secrets in it and "make the model say potentially inappropriate things that would make the company behind it look bad" which you might say has a higher but in the grand scheme of things not a huge impact.

My personal opinion is this cycle of "hiring freezes and layoffs" will be minuscule compared to 2000, or 2008, and even those didn't bring SF prices back to rationality. Geological and socioeconomic realities will always keep SF propped up.

And yet still has some of the highest property values in the country.

Curious.

Kudos to them for not including an accountant numpad.

I personally don't think we'll have AGI in my lifetime.

I can't wait to see this "bigger than the internet."

Every candlepin bowling alley that I've been to had hilarious MSDOS scoring machines with CRT screens (those that HAD scoring machines) and adorable primitive animation when you got a strike. Kind of part of the allure for me. Definitely implemented in Turbo Pascal.

>you are okay with laptops being wholly disposable and barely repairable.

As I said, barely differentiable. Baring that, its as standard as a plastic laptop comes.

I'd personally be more interested in a portable than another laptop. Most laptop's I've owned have not needed repair for their lifetimes, and very seldom have I ever even thought about needing to upgrade my laptops "piecemeal" rather than just upgrading the whole thing together.

If I wanted a 16" MBP I'd buy a 16" MBP. Plus it can run MacOS.

What nobody makes is a portable workstation rather than a laptop. Laptops are great if you want situations where you want to use it on your lap - airplanes, airports, coffee shops, your couch, etc.

No that people are moving to a hybrid in-office/at-home work environment, and companies are going to "hot desk" models I want something maybe a bit heavier than a laptop, that I can easily transport from one desk to another another, and not have to spend a bunch of time hooking it up when I get there.

That is something really nobody makes.

Their product is barely differentiated from other laptops on the market. Having a niche but unique product would be good for them.

Framework should sell a fully integrated portable like this. I bet this would be popular with Framework's target market.

The parallel port is between the uC and the CNC controller and then you run USB for Mach3 to control the uC?

I never got why the GeekPort didn't catch on more beyond BeBox, even as an add in card, given how ubiquitous the parallel port was for interfacing with simple external electronics.

If you care if it can quack, you see if it can quack.

Also people seem to forget the rule of premature optimization. Worry about performance when performance starts to be a problem. You identify the area with performance is lacking and optimize that. Compute is cheap, manpower is expensive.

Doofus is an HR person who posted a login to a yoga signup website. So, no, they're not rotating anything but that password.

Everybody gets to lose Slack memory so "it won't happen again."

Teams that focus on hard to understand languages care about communication more?

I - er.. okay.

To me it seems like the ugliest parts of every language is the parts dealing with anything but the most simple types. When langs start introducing things like generics, then things really get gruesome.

Thats why I always personally enjoyed duck typing.

Asserting that the English language can't evolve is a weird take from someone who is trying to evolve a programming language.

Around that time it was hard to get people to learn Python because they were turned off over whitespace delineated blocks. You could have their curly braces and semicolons when you pried it from their cold dead fingers.

Typically large code bases have problems that are more intrinsic to organization than what language its in. Huge code cases in any language are usually fine if discipline is exercised.

And concurrency issues and memory overhead problem are from not knowing the right way to do it. Although I will concede that naive approach to both of those is sub-optimal.

I'd be willing to wager that is because Python is simply highly represented in the workplaces of those interviewed. To think Python in and of itself is more risky or exposing than other languages, especially those like C/C++ where it's considered by some to be impossible to write safe programs, doesn't make much sense.

Also I've found that teams that focus on easily understandable languages (Python I think is the best with its "executable pseudocode" syntax) are those that are placing value on teamwork rather than individual flexing.

Its all fun and games until some doofus posts a password in Slack and now your security team demands 30 days retention and you can't use Slack to search for anything any more.

I rather give up my wallet than try to recover all the 2FAs on my phone.

Wouldn't figure the person doing stickups for iPhones would be technically savvy enough to send phishing SMSs with associated site hosting. Presumably someone in the underworld is offering this "as a service?"