In this thread: people throwing shade on tech that works, comparing it to a perfect world and making weird assumptions like no tests, no E2E or manual testing just to make a case. Hot take: most SWEs produce shit code, be it by constraints of any kind or their own abilities. LLMs do the same but cost less and can move faster. If you know how to use it, code will be fine. Code is a commodity and a lot of people will be blindsided by that in the future. If your value proposition is translating requirements into code, I feel sorry for you. The output quality of the LLM depends on the abilities of the operator. And most SWEs lack the system thinking to be good here, in my experience.
P.S.: The extension has as many permissions as Claude in Chrome itself. But, the only network requests from the extension are to posthog, just for us to know which features are being used.
Embedded devices that go on the internet by (to update) themselves are an anti-pattern.
I run a bunch of stuff using Home Assistant via the Zigbee integration - the Zigbee host on the local server gets to decide where to install updates from - which was the security mechanism for most most software for most of history.
Get your stuff from a reputable source. Signage keys are nice, but they don't work as the sole security measure in an unsound supply chain.
I would, but for a different job just for sustenance. I don’t love my job, but it isn’t a total grind either. I’m working because it pays. I live in a developing country and would use a good chunk of the $10 million (if I had it) to get out to, preferably, an English speaking developed country (it’s not as easy even then). Nevertheless, I think this could be a life changing amount (positive or negative) for most people around the world.
>A decent engineer in the US could make 5x their equivalent in most European nations. Staff+ engineers at FAANG could make 5x that. People in a good position tend to not like rocking the boat.
So... 500k is the normal pay and 2.5mil is the staff+ pay, right? How many people you know actually make that?
As pointed out by evgpbfhnr, I do avoid using environment variables and justify it (though with different reasoning than yours).
Your justification is the kind of thing I mention as out-of-scope (for my purposes!) in my conclusion:
> There are also many bases that I don’t cover and routes through which sufficiently-smart malware could easily still obtain the secrets I’m working with.
/proc/$pid/environ, /proc/$pid/mem and other such vectors (ptrace, bpftrace, equivalents on other platforms) are real, but:
- they're not vectors of _accidental_ leakage like dumping the full process environment to logs or shell history are
- they rely on privileged access existing at the time that I'm handling the secret, while logs or shell history can be obtained _in the future_
- they're not the kind of thing I expect broad-spectrum malware to go rooting for: the memory of all processes is a lot of data to classify/exfiltrate, and if I were a malware author I'd fear that that would be far too resource-intensive and thus conspicuous. Browser cookie storage, password manager databases, keylogging, and the like are much easier and more valuable pickings.
> The clock was recently overhauled, and is acting as the master clock again. For years, the hotel's time signals were coming from an electric motor clock and then a quartz time standard. But they've reverted to the pendulum clock. Error is about 5 seconds a month.
Can't anyone donate them a retired Cesium clock? Or, at least, a GPS receiver.
Yeah I have come across it too, I have also met examples like the woman you describe. But we don't really have to rely on personal anecdotes. The rise of anxiety in young people over the last 20 years is well documented. Someone who's really determined to pick holes in this will say that doesn't prove causality, it could be multivariate or it could be other things completely, and they're right, we're probably not going to find a gold standard scientific study proving my point. But if someone thinks this increase in anxiety is not tied to how people react to speech, online and off, or if they try to handwave it away as unconnected to the broader social change I'm describing, they're being obstinate or they're trying to protect their sacred cows... for another example we have many many people of all political leanings (including apolitical) these days talking about how they've disappeared from public social media and retreated into private chat groups because the public discourse is just too dangerous. That is cancel culture. It is real. It has had precisely the deleterious effect on society which I described.
I'm now working on a real world legacy Elixir project in my day job and man oh man do I miss well defined types. Coming from Go, it makes a huge difference to my productivity when I'm able to click through fields and find usages of things, which comes down to the excellence of the Go language server. I know that the Elixir language server can infer some of this, but the language server in my experience is very fickle and flat out doesn't work if you have an older Elixir project.
I'm paying keen attention to Gleam to see if it can provide a robust development experience in this way, in the longer term.
Really like it, only thing some of the cells can be jittery and rapidly switch back and forth between two symbols, making for an unpleasant effect, maybe there is a way to smooth this?
fedora / fedora immutable (the aurora project under the universalblue umbrella has a really nice batteries included setup).
Fingerprint reader, backlight, etc, everything works (at least for my thinkpads). I think any recent model everything should work out of the box.
I have a hard time believing that this v0, from 2023, achieved comparable results to Gemini 3 in Web design.
Gemini now often produces output that looks significantly better than what I could produce manually, and I'm an expert for web, although my expertise is more in tooling and package management.
It was 1999 I think, I was doing a placement at a media company. One of the PAs was heavily pregnant, an old guy in the office said to her "My my Jane, your breasts are coming along nicely."
