Hey friends, my partner has put together a course to help people with the mental side of landing a tech job. Confidence in interviews, finding stuff that aligns with your values, salary negotiation; that sort of thing.
She’s been a programmer for 15 years and a therapist and coach for a few years now.
She is looking for feedback on the course in exchange for some free coaching on the topic.
If you’re interested, let me know! And boost or forward if you like.
My child has discovered the concept of “birb”.
Please send your best birb pics. They’re demanding more than I can find!
When an LLM outputs, “I panicked”, it does not mean it panicked. It means that based on the preceding sentences, “I panicked” was a likely thing to come next.
It means it’s read a lot of fiction, in which drama is necessary.
It didn’t “panic”. It didn’t *anything*. It wrote a likely sequence of words based on a human request, which it then converted into code that matched those words somewhat. And a human, for some reason, allowed that code to be evaluated without oversight.
Why is there not a bar called “the gynn” with bad kerning so I can drink a lot of negronis and claim I spent ages at the gynn send toot
One nice thing about Switzerland is that you can mispronounce every word in your shitty German and people just assume you’re from some place over the mountain.
Those of you who frequently watch TV shows or movies in languages you don’t understand (e.g. with subtitles):
When you recall dialogue in the show/film, do you remember it in the actual language you heard, or in your native language?
I know there’s lots of upsides and downsides to cloud hosting, but I think my biggest problem with it is that it is all built on a mountain of leaky, incomplete, and dysfunctional abstractions.
Even Kubernetes is full of them, which is why we keep getting new layers on top (see KRO, for example).
And the various cloud providers are much worse.
“Just one more layer of abstraction, bro, that’ll fix it!”
The issue with abstractions is that when one is faulty, every layer on top is too.
No, autocorrect, I meant “systemantics”, not “system antics”. The latter is what you get when you ignore the former.
