@joneaves.bsky.social
Programmer/creator of Bouncy Castle Cryptography. Builder of software, teacher of developers. 'pewsey' on most gaming platforms Returning to cycling. Dad of George and Otto. Contains lethal doses of hyperbole. he/him.
One of the bigger issues is the very large list of disclaimers that "this report may miss things, bad luck". Like dudes, this is why I'm paying you. Most of the significant post-purchase costs I've encountered aren't covered by those reports anyway.
We need to normalize making millionaires too scared to express a political opinion.
LLM centrism is distinct from people who work in the field and are excited about specific applications while recognizing its limitations, the difference is subtle but very, very important
It actually rules to watch LLM centrism develop in real time. "Ok yes, tech bros are taking things way too far but LLM skeptics are just as silly, surely we can all agree that it's a transformative new technology and we all need to get onboard" and like, bro. Bro. We know who's side you're really on
Canavan is a fucking enormous big Australian baby. So, that works out.
GST is a regressive tax. The idea of a "consumption" tax is generally weird, because it's a "tax on the economy" which isn't really a good place, because the dragons don't participate in that way. Tax hoarding, not spending. Tax transfers of wealth without economic activity.
Yes. I use it to "give me a version of this TS thing in Java" - like "google translate", but burning down a rainforest. It's great for that, fuzzy token matching and all. Also good for "we had an incident due to 'this code' - find it in all our repositories". It's bad at "add feature"
I've been using addons to augment my skills for many years. If this actually worked, I'd onto this faster than an Australian F1 driver into the wall.
Is that Shooter McKenzie sporting a leadership showdown spray tan?
Bellsy. Can play.
I'm expected to believe now that businesses who are using "AI" extensively in their software development processes are keeping it a secret?
If you want to see some guy from Melbourne with an Italian name write-off his car it's not hard. Happens all the time.
usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”
Can play.
They're fucking idiots to start with, and then no idea what they're doing with a drunk automation robot
More of the people posting things that I would take to my grave if I was this fucking careless and dumb. alexeyondata.substack.com/p/how-i-drop...
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I demand Charlize Theron marry me but here we are 🤷🏻♀️
This wins the internet today.
You summoned me?
Self important people getting their fee-fee all knotted is serious. Makes them all sad, and we can't have that
Just been talking with a mate about "AI mandates at their work". So, to actually get work done, and to "appease" they wrote some python scripts to do the actual work. Then, they wrote some Claude skills to call the python scripts when they needed to execute them.
David Boon has entered the chat.
Yup. Post-truth society. It's been going on for a lot longer than people recognise. Social media is not the cause, it's just (amusingly) democratised disinformation. I think about what I was taught growing up, and I'm horrified at how "white truth" it was slanted. Just astounding.
Go you good thing! They did a study about this in some wild socialist country (like Norway) where they found that if the other person perceived you were walking faster towards them than they were walking, they would yield.
Yup. It was a pretty cool infograph that showed all of that. Like 1979-ish it started (possibly before tbh). Showed the "date", the "reporter" and the "time to nukes" and it has consistently been 2m or less for 40 years. Manufacturing consent at its finest.
Somebody posted a timeline a week? ago showing the "reports" for the last ~20 years of "country we didn't like that has mostly brown people in it" is "within 1 week of nuclear weapons". It was very, very sobering and shows the underlying rationale pretty clearly.
I joke a little bit here, but for a long time I've discussed with teams if we care if meteorites hit the DC, and what that means for our resiliency.