I really wish running your own mastodon was as accepted as running your own email server. There’ll be no “blue check mark” problem if your company runs the server and only provides accounts to employees.

No. The have nag screens for donations, but they don’t block on principle.

Biggest button needs to be “Disable lane keeping assist” and that should sort most of the stress he refers to.

Building new houses that are cheap to run, and don’t need gas lines put in place should be a positive.

As a long term LibDem voter, mainly because of PR, this is one of the few issues I disagree on.

Another elected house isn’t desirable and I’m generally fine with it being a house full of experienced politicians and subject matter experts. I’d like to reform the appointment process to avoid the stuffing we’ve seen from Johnson and Truss. The Lords Spiritual should be ended as a group. I have no problem with community leaders being appointed, which may include religious leaders, but not as a fixed role in the house.

I see all of that as fairly minor reform. Not rip it up and start again.

Having binary blobs linked into your kernel is a maintainability nightmare. You’re allowing a third party to link their buggy drivers into the heart of your platform. It breaks any security model you have, and brings with a bunch of bugs that are impossible to debug.

Nvidia were the worst offender and it culminated in this:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/linus-torvalds-says-f-k-you-to-nvidia/

I think you’re underestimating how badly it taught them. I see a lot of developers (when interviewing) that are unable to reason about code.

Lot’s of people learn how to cook by following recipes, but they don’t try to get work in catering or running restaurants. That requires a different level of understanding.

SO was the coding recipe book. It was fine for hobbyists. Not professionals.

As a senior developer I have no idea how I’d get an AI to autonomously keep a small subsystem maintained. If I was replacing junior developers, that’s what it has to do.

Everybody in my team gets to own something. What you own depends on your capability. You learn by doing. No dogsbodies doing busy work.

The Rust kernel devs are …

1. …asking the maintainers to lock down APIs which the C devs purposefully leave malleable, in part, to avoid binary blob drivers being feasible.
2. …asking maintainers to accept code into their subsystem whilst being told, you don’t need to know Rust to an expert level…trust us. Cross language interfaces always have nuance and make good attack vectors. Understandable that maintainers are cautious.
3. …creating quite a lot of hassle for no a lot of improvement. Systems are only as resilient as their weakest components. The cross language interface is always going to be weak. Introducing a weakness to get improvements probably only succeeds at making the whole weaker.

Honestly SO fuelled the rise of the cut and paste developer. I won’t be that sad to see the end of it, and the LLMs that scraped it soon after.

"New ChatGPT with Ads!

Giving you that Google feeling once again. "

Armies on paid personal generating content?

I see absolutely no problem with that.

Just wait until there’s no stack overflow to scrape.

I think it comes down to how it’s used.

An LLM model is nothing unless it’s used to process some other things. It does something. It predicts the likeliness of words following a sequence of other words. It has no other purpose. It can’t take the model, analyse it in a different way and extract different conclusions. It is singular in function. It is a program.

Data has no function. It is just data.

Is Maxine code “code”? And I don’t mean assembler, I mean the binary stream read by the processor.

I’d say yes. People have programmed it. It’s where the verb “to code” comes from.

These models are no different. They are binary streams that encode a function, a program, into a form that can be interpreted by a machine. Yes, a computer generated the code, but that’s nothing new.

AI isn’t code

Yes it is. It defines a function from input to output. It’s not x86 or Arm code. It’s code that runs on a different type of machine. It’s a type of code that you may not be able to read, but it’s still code.

Don’t need a degree, but computer programming is fundamentally logic and algorithms. You need to have internalise reasoning logically. In some ways critical thinking is closer to programming than trig is.

Is 20% faster than intel a step up, generation on generation?

Lots of other new cars have lane keeping assist and automatic braking, BLIS, adaptive cruise control etc, and so on with more capable sensors and can for the most part drive without input from the driver better than the Tesla

Self driving is a huge step on from these things though. Hyper cruise control is easy in comparison and that’s what those features give.

Self driving means capable in all situations and all conditions. Not just highways.

Getting interview practise is no bad thing. Being interviewed is a skill you learn to be sure.

I think a lot of people miss that interviews in the technical world are often not smartly dressed exams. Some are, but those are probably jobs where they won’t mentor you and invest in you. They expect you to come fully developed.

Good interviewers are trying to imagine you as an every-day team member. Will you…

• …work well with others?
• …be engaged with the problem space?
• …ask for clarifications or just make assumptions to avoid appearing “dumb”?
• …let a lack of knowledge on something become a road block?

Knowledge is easy to give you. These things are much harder to teach.

Also, knowledge based questions might be designed to find your limit. So if you don’t know something, that doesn’t mean it’s pointless from that point on. The interviewer may just have pushed you to your limit, and only they know if that was good enough. Keep going, stay engaged.

I don’t know if any of that helps you design your bot, but maybe it gives you some ideas about being an interviewer.