basilgohar

It really hurts when there's this much misunderstanding of market cap vs. revenue. P/E ratios exist for a reason.

I think it's helpful seeing AI in this context, at least in as much as it pertains to enterprise and industry.

A lot of people are implying that people that object should leave the company. The question is, if the people that actually care and push back leave:

1. Will this increase or decrease the incidents? 2. Will we know more or less about these incidents in the future? 3. Will anyone else inside work for or against this happening?

Which way do we want things to go?

I don't mean to say it's clearly this or that. I think it's a genuinely interesting and challenging dilemma. Do I continue working someplace that is involved in something evil but try and provide a voice, push, influence, or, if nothing else, a voice to the outside of the goings on inside, or do I separate myself and work only from the outside?

We can imagine the same for law enforcement, military, defence contractors, government, and any number of other vectors and industries.

Snowden was working from the inside before he leaked what he did. Every single whistleblower was involved first.

Thank you for calling this out. I absolutely rely on him so I decided to contribute $100/month even though I'm a solo dev with a business yet to see profit. But I absolutely rely on him for my server(s) PHP packages.

This is obviously bad, but in my 20 years of hosting with PHP, I've never had to take the steps of taking down servers preemptively. It's not good, but honestly, and I think the way this was handled could leave a lot to be desired, I think this might be the "worst" we've had with PHP, and it took a while to get here.

Frequently it's to keep competitors from having them.

It's only a compromise on profit levels.

I switched to Hover. Part of TUCOWS. Yes, that one [0].

[0] Tucows, which stands for "The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software"

It's not impossible produce good products with AI-assisted or driven coding. It just needs effort, focus, and management, much like regular software development.

I wonder how much the prevalence LLMlish is causing a shift in normal meatbag's writing style as well?

I definitely add LLMisms to my speech to other techies as ironic jokes, but I've noticed more than once it creeps in naturally. I'm starting to embrace my typos as the few lingering signs of my humanity...

Vaultwarden is a self-hostable protocol-equivalent alternative.

The incompetence will continue as long as people can profit from it inconsequentially.

Our system now heavily reenforces lack of accountability to executives for what happens under their watch.

Investors don't lose money when these breaches happen.

This is why it won't change until those change.

It's going to be a rough decade but I think we're going to come out a lot better in the long run. Education, especially in the US, has been really stagnant for a long time, and primary and secondary education has been more and more obviously just a mill to turn out middle-wage earners to dutifully pay taxes and buy products and not try to think to hard about things.

Now that we have systems that can pass for students at this baseline level, educational systems are facing a reckoning and we can, hopefully, move past cookie-cutter education solutions and recognize the need for more hands-on, engaged education. Will it be an easy transition? No. Will all schools adapt successfully? Also, no.

But will we finally have a path away from standardized testing, middle-of-the-road education? I am hopefully optimistic. We'll rediscover the need for human growth and development in our schools. It's either that or we lose. I'll choose the optimistic route and join and support those who believe the same.

I think we, as humans (not executives, a different creature altogether if you ask me) make a distinction between a hobbyist hacker, someone doing something for their own curiosity or someone who frees something for others to use freely as well (e.g., F/LOSS licenses, Creative Commons, etc.), vs. someone who uses the "Hacker Ethos" and then promptly builds their own moat where they solely can profit and excludes others from the freedoms they themselves enjoyed.

Instead of deciding on words, maybe you can break them up into smaller, subword parts – let's call them "quantums". And these quantums can be the units the quantumizer works on to operate on inputs and outputs. We can then use them to build Expansive Dictionary Models, or EDMs. I suppose we'd need a software library to mak working on this easier, think something speedy, fast, hot, like fire: we can call it PHPFlame...