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  • I grew up on a farm, basically the rural part of a rural county in a rural state. When I visited San Diego I got on a bus going the wrong direction (which isn’t a thing I even realized you could do wrong). Ended up having to wait an hour for another bus in a sketchy part of town, at night, while in cosplay.

    Felt like that episode of SpongeBob where they get stuck at Rock Bottom.





  • What I haven’t figured out is this…

    If we’re all going to LLMs instead of asking each other for help (or providing help to others), then how do the models learn new things? Aren’t we no longer generating the same volume of consumable data?

    I suppose we can provide feedback to the models to tell them if their solution worked, but I can’t tell if that sort of feedback is more or less useful than just crawling forums.


  • At the tail end of my last job I was saddled with a massive project to migrate a client to a new version of an application. We did this by standing up the new version, copying over their current data, asking them to test it and then cutting over when they were ready. This was a huge undertaking because most clients had one or two environments but my client had 18 different environments so the workload was way higher and everything took way longer.

    On top of the scope they also took updates to these environments almost every night which meant it was a full time job just to keep things in sync, setup a testing window and then try to get them to approve the new state of things.

    I was already burnt out before this all started, but thanklessly maintaining 18 non-production environments by myself for an application that no one could commit to testing or cutting over was driving me insane. I felt such a weight lifted off my shoulders when I quit. It came at the end of months of stress and wasted effort. I couldn’t imagine a reality where anyone else would put up with that work or have a better chance of success.

    Anyway I caught up with some coworkers and asked if that project ever got done. Apparently it got passed to a small team of three to manage and after getting jerked around for months themselves the whole thing fell apart.

    So glad I didn’t waste any more energy on that shit.


  • Toribor@corndog.socialtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldwhat are they bombing yemen for?
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    I know you’re arguing in bad faith so this comment is more addressed at anyone else who comes to this thread and isn’t sure why this sort of attack may be controversial outside of the opsec scandal itself.

    There are ways to eliminate terrorist threats with precision to reduce civilian casualties. They bombed an apartment building and killed almost 60 innocent people. If you think that it’s okay that innocent people die in the crossfire as long as you take out the threat, or that they are all terrorists by association then that’s your problem. The text chain clearly shows they understood they had plenty of time to consider other options, but the Trump administration has no regard for human life.