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The US court system is completely hamstrung by the current administration.

absolutely. Cooking smaller meals for the family to ensure it's all eaten or having no-cook alternatives for afterwards (hello graham crackers!) if you're still hungry. Normally I try my best to portion for who's going to eat. If I'm cooking for myself, its usually a one-pan meal.

Every corner of your life where you think you are safe, stable, and able to save will be found and min/maxed for ultimate profits.

No food gets thrown out in my house. We have trash from plastic and paper but food is consumed, by somebody. If it hits the expiration date then it’s today’s quick meal or dog food. I try not to throw away anything that is edible.

I've been on the up, and the down, the lull and the acceptance. AI as it stands today will bring destruction to the world we knew. However, that doesn't mean the end of the world. Rather a new beginning, and we get to shape what that might look like. Sadly, all signs point to medieval times and digital feudalism but at least we have history to fall back on. Until such time occurs, AI will continue to bring value to companies just perhaps not in the ways they expected. There's no "replace my business with a workflow" silver bullet and I think that's what was sold to them. The reality is closer to the ground. 65% usefulness is a pretty accurate score for me.

not everything needs a unicorn product to validate it's existence. even just moving the field forward is sometimes enough to clear the air. what is clear is that we aren't going back.

“Due to a rounding error” or a buffer overflow, you now owe INT_MAX to BaldGuyCloudService.

Yeah, this most certainly is bad code wrapping around a value. AWS will post a notice soon if they haven’t already.

AI is extremely useful, we just haven’t zeroed in on your specific use cases yet. Robotics has been transformed by it, IT and tech has been transformed by it. Finance and Legal have been transformed by it. To say it’s 95% useless is a personal bias.

To me it’s 65% useful. As it can run in the background doing “chores” while I sleep.

automated intercept... or acquisition interface. /s

I agree but this can be done today with current tech. All you need to do is incorporate the full picture.

Something you are (biometrics, voice id, whatever)

Something you know (PIN, super secret password, your dog's mothers maiden name)

Something you have (MFA, AuthCode, PushNotif)

And even then, be cautious of anything that would be deemed an "admin" operation. Such as transfering of funds, issuing a check, or adding an external account.

That’s the sneaky bit they don’t tell you when you hear the “This call may be monitored or recorded” part.

YMMV but the vast majority of greybeards I know are unemployed or are doing other things than software engineering now.

Good. That kratom crap can go.

rofl, IYKYK

Spam 0, you’ll eventually get some customer service agent

Since we all love agents, I’m open sourcing mine. Meet Agent K (from MiB) who is ready to plan your next project and delegate to management and to workers. I’m sure there are bugs and issues as I often have agent k work on agent k but it’s been my daily driver for a couple months now.

No confirmation prompts and no permission system so run him in a sandbox or container if you care about your system.

Supports all the model providers and OpenAI compatible endpoints.

Going long or going short is your bet on the market. If you can go long, you should be allowed to go short. Restrictions on any trading means you don’t have confidence in the price in which case it shouldn’t be available for trade.

This is the correct take. QA was under attack the entire Agile(TM) cycle we just exited. Now with agentic coding, the only thing keeping it on the rails is TDD. Either you write the tests or you write the spec.

You are also responsible for the output. Welcome to the New Age. Management is just as clueless as they have ever been (some more than others) and yet most of them lack the intelligence to know exactly how it all works. Hell, there’s still plenty of engineers that don’t know how it all works.

Eventually, when you come to understanding or you reach that “enlightenment” stage, no corporate BS will penetrate you and you’ll forever see past their shenanigans. At this stage though you’ll be a grey beard and be unemployable. So they cut out anyone who knows the BS to bring in folks who believe the BS so they can continue shipping BS.

What’s terrible is each time I am forced to call the bank, the more they try to tell me voice ID is secure and want me to provide my voice to authenticate. Never. Did ya’ll never play Uplink? With voice cloning as good as it is now, there’s no way a voice ID is secure enough for authentication.

normally you wouldn't but there are some instances where a script or something requires sudo in which case you would need to namespace the cgroup and do a little more work to prevent escaping the sandbox. I can think of a few cases where sudo is required for cgroups/containers from the sandbox side so it can install services and things but ideally you would isolate everything to the devUser UID or GID.

yes, you would setup namespace and unshare it once mounted to isolate the sandbox so root only sees the sandbox / and not your /

not the same thing. Containerization prevents devUser from accessing your machine root with its root. By containerizing, if devUser tries to sudo or su and gets a root, it will only be their root and not your root. Read up on cgroups.

no, but it does give one multiple vectors for exfiltration of your data which is a good thing for the scammers of the internet. A bad thing if you naively designed your package management system. Sadly, it's only going to get worse.

Except Live Nation owns most of the venues that aren’t stadiums. The mom and pop’s couldn’t compete with their monopoly and went under or sold to them.

Those with ties to the industry have known for decades.

The biggest culprits are the senior citizens. They are the most addicted to social media.

My point entirely

Most of it has been lost to internet history but there are still some remnants left.

https://grantland.com/features/the-rise-of-nintendo-video-ga...

https://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/wii/mario25th/4/0/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2w1zl4/when_...

Nope, SMB1 was a smash up. SMB2 was made by folks that had no idea what they were doing so SMB3 went back to basics. I very much remember the sequence of events. Mario Bro's (and Donkey Kong) were games on the Famicom in Japan that were decent. The issue was with Arcade's in Japan making more money than home systems so they introduced the Nintendo VS cabinets. This helped but it wasn't enough and so in 1985 they greenlit the Super Mario Bros proposal while dealing with the NA launch and the NYC event. Shigeru Miyamoto carried the development and he deserves the credit but corporate was throwing shit at the fan and seeing what sticked. He just so happened to have a plan that required less work from creative.