Readit Newsduxup commented on DHS admits it no longer preserves text message data for top officials americanoversight.org/ame... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
Aren't they supposed to keep records?
duxup commented on Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law bsky.social/about/blog/08... · Posted by u/Kye
I can't find the comic I saw but I can't find that notes how we tell people and kids to not give out personal information on the internet because that's unsafe.
Now we demand they give all their information and depending on the situation smile for the camera ...
duxup commented on Trump Says Intel Has Agreed to Give the US a 10% Equity Stake bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/wmf
We going for a pseudo nationalization now?
duxup commented on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/donpott
I thought that by the time I was old that the people making the rules would have some understanding of the internet.
I'm old now, they don't :(
duxup commented on What is going on right now? catskull.net/what-the-hel... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I won't say too much, but I recently had an experience where it was clear that when talking with a colleague, I was getting back chat GPT output. I felt sick, like this just isn't how it should be. I'd rather have been ignored.
It didn't help that the LLM was confidently incorrect.
The smallest things can throw off an LLM, such as a difference in naming between configuration and implementation.
In the human world, you can with legacy stuff get in a situation where "everyone knows" that the foo setting is actually the setting for Frob, but with an LLM it'll happily try to configure Frob or worse, try to implement Foo from scratch.
I'd always rather deal with bad human code than bad LLM code, because you can get into the mind of the person who wrote the bad human code. You can try to understand their misunderstanding. You can reason their faulty reasoning.
With bad LLM code, you're dealing with a soul-crushing machine that cannot (yet) and will not (yet) learn from its mistakes, because it does not believe it makes mistakes ( no matter how apologetic it gets ).
Agreed on bad human code > bad llm code.
Bad human code to me is at least more understandable in what it was trying to do. There's a goal you can figure out and fix it. It generally operates within the context of larger code to some extant.
Bad LLM code can be broken from start to finish in ways that make zero sense. Even worse when it re-invents the wheel and replaces massive amounts of code. Human aren't likely just make up a function or methods that don't exist and deploy it. That's not the best example as you'd likely find that out fast, but it's the kind of screw up that indicates the entire chunk of LLM code you're examining may in fact be fundamentally flawed beyond normal experience. In some cases you almost need to re-learn the entire codebase to truly realize "oh this is THAT bad and none of this code is of any value".
duxup commented on Engineers should spend a day each week in support and sales oneuptime.com/blog/post/2... · Posted by u/ndhandala
LONG ago I worked at a company that had the engineering team work in support for roughly a week each year. Those who didn't find a way out of it were by far the best engineers as far as handling escalated support cases. It was like night and day, you could always tell if they had any support experience. Without fail the engineers with support experience solved problems faster and more accurately.
But like all such initiatives it vanished as it's hard to show how awesome it is and your average engineering manager's incentives are not to make support (the red headed step child of most orgs) better :(
It should apply to sales too. I often tell this story:
I was working tech support and a sales guy calls me up and says "Hey my customer is upset that you haven't fixed their problem." I look it up and it's a Priority 3 problem. I tell them, "I have 5 P1 tickets, 12 P2 tickets, and more P3 tickets." (Gave them a run down on our response metrics and so on too.)
They tell me to make their customer's ticket a P1. So I do.
They call back an hour later with the same complaint. I tell them "I have 6 P1 tickets ...."
I eventually got that sales guy and his customers taken care of and gave him a bit of an education on the processes and how to run through the escalation process more effectively. Even so it's amusing how hard it is for folks who don't juggle things like that to understand how that works.
duxup commented on Florida lawmaker floats ban on HOAs amid growing backlash tampabay28.com/news/state... · Posted by u/bilsbie
I upvoted you despite entirely disagreeing with your premise. Yes - negotiate with the county to take over management of the playgrounds and lawn mowing. Yes - make the clubhouse and parking lots open, fee-based and voluntary, and controlled by a private corporation rather than an imposed, taxed service. Yes - return the excess money to the current homeowners, or use some of it to effectuate these conversions.
Honestly, the amount of money you have in reserve, plus the list of amenities you list, makes it sound like the HOA has been sitting on a spigot of endless cash for a very long time and finding nice-to-have things to justify the continued fees.
Cities or counties suddenly having to take over lots of road, playgrounds, sidewalks, street lights, and etc is going to be a big drain on their budget. Sure they could run with the HOA's money for a while but eventually they're going to have to pay.