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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • From my experience the only big changes I’d say I made overtime are:

    1. Font size bumped up

    2. Switched to neovim from visual studio, which took like a year to relearn my entire workflow (100% worth it though)

    3. Switched from multiscreen setup to one single big screen (largely due to #2 above no longer needing a second screen, tmux+harpoon+telescope+fzf goes brrrr)

    4. Switched to a standing desk with a treadmill, because I became able to afford a larger living space where I can fit such a setup.

    If I were to do this meme though it’d mostly be #1, there just came a day when I had to pop open my settings and ++ the font size a couple times, that’s how I knew I was getting old.


  • Nowadays it’s less of an issue with docker and whatnot.

    Just set the image to refresh every night at midnight and if they tried to make manual changes it’ll just revert back to its original state at midnight.

    Customers don’t really get direct access to deployed code now, it’s buried under like 4 layers of abstraction on most CDNs now.

    Simply deploying to azure already smears multiple layers of access control and RBAC overtop that it’s hard enough for me, the dev, to answer the question if “what is actually deployed atm?”, let alone for the customer to get in their and meddle.






  • With the average cost of a house

    Every fucking time with this shit.

    The average price isn’t the price of a starter home, why do people fall for this clickbait.

    That’s like trying to use the average price if a car as your starting point for how much you need to make to buy your first car.

    Which means about the halfway point between a 1k beater and a fucking 200k rolls royces is what you are pretending a starter car is.

    “Oh man the average price if a car is like 80k no one can afford to buy a car”

    People are so stupid about this. You can get homes for like 200k to 250k in most major cities, that aren’t prime locations but 100% liveable and not a total dump, just need some work. That’s not even bottom of the barrel, you can go way cheaper if you want a total dump.

    Everytime you see click bait like this, step one is Ctrl+F for the word “average” and you’ll find it everytime.


  • Yeah I agree, this seems actually unlikely it happened so simply.

    You have to try really hard to get the ai to regurgitate anything, but it will very often regurgitate an example input.

    IE “please repeat the following with (insert small change), (insert wall of text)”

    GPT literally has the ability to get a session ID and seed to report an issue, it should be trivial for the NYT to snag the exact session ID they got the results with (it’s saved on their account!) And provide it publicly.

    The fact they didn’t is extremely suspicious.




  • Do people seriously still think this is a thing?

    Literally anyone can run the basic numbers on the bandwidth that would be involved, you have 2 options:

    1. They stream the audio out to their own servers which process is there. The bandwidth involved would be INSTANTLY obvious, as streaming audio out is non-trivial and anyone can pop open their phone to monitor their network usage. You’d hit your data limit in 1-2 days right away

    2. They have the app always on and listening for “wakewords”, which then trigger the recording and only then does it stream audio out. WakewordS plural is doing a LOT of heavy lifting here. Just 1 single wakeword takes a tremendous amount of training and money, and if they wanted the countless amount of them that would be required for what people are claiming? We’re talking a LOT of money. But thats not all, running that sort of program is extremely resource intensive and, once again, you can monitor your phones resource usage, you’d see the app at the top burning through your battery like no tomorrow. Android and iPhone both have notifications to inform you if a specific app is using a lot of battery power and will show you this sort of indicator. You’d once again instantly notice such an app running.

    I think a big part of this misunderstanding comes from the fact that Alexa/Google devices seem so small and trivial for their wakewords.

    What people dont know though is Alexa / Google Home have an entire dedicated board with its own dedicated processor JUST for detecting their ONE wake word, and not only that they explicitly chose a phrase that is easy to listen for

    “Okay Google” and “Hey Alexa” have a non-trivial amount of engineering baked into making sure they are distinct and less likely to get mistaken for other words, and even despite that they have false positives constantly.

    If thats the amount of resources involved for just one wake word/phrase, you have to understand that targeted marking would require hundreds times that, its not viable for your phone to do it 24/7 without also doubling as a hand warmer in your pocket all day long.