davkan

Yes certainly, I used to have some sense of the future now it’s hard to see past a year.

It’s more than just syntax for me though, it was learning how to code in general, through bash. I was slowly building those skills and starting to apply those lessons when looking at product code. I could just devote that time to study instead but I’ve always learned by doing in my career. Now LLMSs do the doing.

So the biggest change is the day to day workflow change of just pumping out little powershell scripts for whatever I need and not building those scripting skills or performing the manual rote admin work. Rather than manually expand a disk in the hypervisor and then sshing in and expanding the partition and filesystem Claude spits out a one liner and I run it. While not challenging or particularly rewarding those trivial tasks are a soothing part of the constant flow of work that i didn’t dislike. Solid things in which i understood every aspect becomes a black box that does it for me and i have to reinterrogate or accept it, and in which it’ll never be worth the time to learn myself.

As for the deeper work, the most recent example I have is deploying an observability stack for our lab cluster. In the past i would have done way more upfront work on understanding the alternatives and the deployment. I would have known every line of config before pressing deploy including the ones I chose not to set. The why and how of everything. Now the most efficient way is just to tell Claude to stand up a monitoring stack in the manner that apps are already deployed on the cluster and iterate with Claude once it’s up and running. Why bother diving deep when you can be running a proof of concept in five minutes and then just see if it falls over.

Another part of it is that i really dislike learning through a prompt. I don’t like summaries, i like man pages. I don’t want to interrogate a result i want to provide a complete solution.

Part of it too is I’m fairly new to all this professionally. I’ve only been at it 5 years, though hobby much longer. Basically i can feel myself growing and getting better and now suddenly there’s this genius moron in my pocket that so much better than I ever dreamed I could be while simultaneously having huge shortfalls. It’s a just an instant paradigm shift and after the first week of glee it’s not been a positive feeling.

It’s not that my existing knowledge isn’t relevant at all, there’s still a huge base of networking and systems knowledge that’s necessary. It’s routinely surprised me in my career when i speak with a greybeard developer who is a an absolute wizard to me but dns/tcp etc are just a black box to them. Or when I talk to a friend new into the selfhosting hobby and i try to explain something to them that think is simple and i realize there’s 10 years of accumulated knowledge underneath that simple concept in order to actually grok it.

I don’t know if that answered your question, just an unstructured ramble. I think the heart of it is that googling and research and things being concrete and complete understandings of workings and interactions and variables and secrets and configs etc are giving way to a black box pumping out systems and it mostly working out of the box and often that is simply good enough for now and it’s on to the next thing.

Yes, i was asking which one the polling they were citing was about.

For me it’s the dead. Most days I’d listen to one or two shows from today in history on relisten.net/today.

I’m sysadmin not a dev but I also feel that managing an agent is a fundamentally different feeling than performing admin work like I used to. I used to build bridges out of software. I would learn how they work down to the nuts and bolts, and use them to make robust and occasionally clever solutions for our needs. Over time i was getting better at bash and powershell and regex and automating little tasks.

Gaining knowledge about kubernetes and building images and helm charts was some of the most fun I’ve had professionally. I found enjoyment and value in learning those things and enjoy knowing them for their own sake, much in the same way I enjoy being able to recite mechanics and knowledge about vanilla wow from memory. The knowledge is its own pursuit and obtaining it was fun and fulfilling.

Using AI is nothing like that. It’s not “fun” to me in any way. I don’t learn bash and powershell and templating. I don’t get to enjoy simple wins. AI does those all those for me.

I’m thinking of becoming an electrician. I can’t imagine babysitting an ai for another 30 years.

Is there broad support for digital ID, age verification, etc? Or is it a broad sentiment that kids shouldn’t be on social media. Everyone I know agrees with latter but almost no one supports the former.

Is it automated or is it like when they demoed that neo humanoid robot and it was actually just a dude driving it with vr goggles.

I’ve seen most of those. Slow horses is phenomenal no notes. for all mankind would be as well if not for the low grade melodrama of the middle seasons, but all the space stuff is amazing. silo is good fun but like severance we’ve gotten two short seasons in how many years? shrinking started out great but did a speedrun in one season of what normally takes jenji kohan three. Foundation has decent highs especially with the dynasty and invictus in season two, but the lows are loooww. And of course severance might even be a masterpiece.

But my point wasn’t that they don’t make good television because they do, it’s that their shows aren’t talked about nearly as much in the mainstream because people don’t have Apple tv. I think Ted lasso and to a lesser degree severance are really their only major popular hits. Most people I talk to haven’t seen slow horses. If it were on Netflix they would have.

And I’m just left to wonder where Apple TV would be now if Ted lasso hadn’t been a massive breakout success for the platform, which i think largely only happened because it was a decent feel good show that came out right when the entire world was miserable and cooped up inside looking for new content.

I wonder what Apple TV would look like if they didn’t have Ted Lasso to put out during peak Covid. That’s really their only large mainstream success and in my estimation that success was largely a product of circumstance.

I love their SciFi material but two seasons of severance in three years won’t keep people subscribed. The only reason I have Apple TV for more than a month or two out of the year is due to the bundle plan math working out with family sharing.

Booklore was nuked by the maintainer after the blowup and no longer exists. Mostly it was not vibecoded, just the last few releases. The other contributors have since forked it as grimmory and have already done a first release that removes the telemetry etc. Grimmory is great imo and seems to be in good hands now.

Yes you can prevent OTA updates.

Yeah once you jailbreak you can replace the ota binary with a dummy and it won’t update anymore.

Personally i would not buy a kindle with the intent to jailbreak it, just buy a kobo.

The exception being if you want a scribe. There is no other 10” 300dpi ereader. I bought mine from an eBay seller who had one on the correct version and jailbreaking it was a bit anxiety inducing, given the cost and the fact I had no use for it if it were unsuccessful.

Nobody who’s actually considered Microsoft trusts Microsoft. It’s just the devil you know and it’s not like there’s reasonable or trustworthy alternatives in most cases.

Sure, in 10 years we’ve gone from bleeding edge, with server/workstation motherboards being necessary, to immature, with having to do a little homework on which consumer hardware to buy. It’s not like VFIO is something for the general public anyway.

Yeah that’s fine, i personally didn’t spend many hours tweaking my dotfiles in Linux just to spend half my time in an operating system that i hate that spies on me and doesnt have my stuff in it. I wouldn’t maintain my own custom kernel either just to bypass anticheat, i don’t buy those games.

VFIO is in a significantly better place than it was 10 years ago though. Proper IOMMU groups are more common on motherboards, flashing gpu bios less necessary, etc. and most importantly the community is bigger and older so there is a more knowledge about parts compatibility and vfio setup.

That said it’s almost entirely unnecessary with the state of Linux gaming now.

I think I probably switched off dual booting to vfio around 2015. Before that for dual boot I had just followed the arch wiki and used two separate drives, using grub for booting both windows and arch. I don’t remember having issues with dual boot but setting up vfio for gaming was still very fresh at the time and was not trivial for me.

EDIT: looks like it was 2016 i stopped dual booting and switched to vfio because I built a new computer for it a year later https://imgur.com/gallery/battlestation-4BuoZ Ironically reading that back I have just recently started getting into film photography.

It’s just the kernel and virtualization stack that are custom. Dual booting is annoying as you lose access to your entire desktop environment. Want to tab out of your game and check your email client? Well you can’t unless you maintain another email on the Windows partition that you only want to use for running a game anyway. If you spend any significant amount of time gaming you just end up getting dragged away from Linux where you want to be. I was dual booting for a while and it was fine for a focused Skyrim session here and there but when I started playing an mmo that I was in and out of constantly it was very inconvenient to not have access to my Linux desktop environment while I was idling in the city for hours.

With lookingglass nowadays it practically feels like just running a windows game on Linux. I used a vfio setup for years before Linux gaming support was good and I had to switch monitors inputs and toggle my kvm whenever I launched a game and it was still better than dual booting. There wasn’t kernel anticheat back then though so i didn’t have to muck with the kernel and uefi.

It’s a tiny market in the US. Most people just buy a razer or corsair from Best Buy if they do it in person.

Yup was touring some historical stuff in Tokyo and thought I’d look for an HHKB, checked their site and sure enough there was retailer a 10 minute walk away. Tiny shop in a more residential area a block or two off the main street.

Your comment getting flagged is ludicrous. I regularly search invoices for exactly those reasons.

Well not every company automatically generates a label on purchase so they have to come separately unless you want to wait a day for your receipt.

I would never want to not receive a receipt for an online purchase unless it was a $5 doodad that I didn’t even care if it arrived. You are out there on that one. If i want to know when i bought something for a warranty searching my email is the way.

The sales spam is obviously out of control though. But i just have a separate email address for shopping and a filter that marks anything with the word unsubscribe or manage your preferences as read and puts it in a folder I never open. I shouldn’t have to do that but i shouldn’t have to run an adblocker either.

My hd660s2 leave an indent in my skull. I don’t find them uncomfortable though.

The media is the fourth estate. In the modern US the first three are often interpreted as the branches of government. Historically estates were often some combination of the nobility, the clergy, and the commoners.

Yes, it seems to me like one of the few places you can go to get a completely fish out water experience while also not feeling the wealth disparity.

I’m not well travelled but, Canada just feels like home of course, and Italy didn’t feel strange in the slightest.

Japan was like being transported to a different world.

Guatemala was as well but, getting picked up by a bodyguard at the airport and driving past slums on the way to a gated community of mansions left a sour taste that still lingers.

Did you like Dune?

Yeah you’re right. The local news came to my house too and filmed me playing with my hot wheels volcano blowout set like i was some kind of child prodigy. So embarrassing lmao.

At 8 I pitched a rocket car to the DoD and got a letter from my congresswoman and the Secretary of Defense. They were a bit bored pre 9/11 i think.

How about instead of protecting the kids we protect everyone and do something to stop these gargantuan companies from driving engagement at any cost in order to rake ad revenue.

I’ve never met a single person who believed Facebook was a force for good. Why allow it to exist in its current form at all.

If these companies are the new town square then make a real online town square run by the government people can use if they so choose and then break up the monopolies that are destroying the fabric of all the societies on the globe.

We never in a million years should have allowed these companies to establish global scale communications platforms without the ability to properly moderate them with human intervention and that’s not even to speak of the actual nefarious intent they possess to drive engagement and the anti democratic techno feudalist sickening shit we see from their CEOs like Thiel et al.

They are a plague on our species that makes sport betting apps look like childs play.