Readit NewsHowever many, probably half, that I work with, and most that I worked with overall for the last 25+ years (since after I dropped out) have an engineering degree. Especially the younger ones, since this century it has been more focus on getting a degree and fewer seems to drop out early to get a job like many of us did in my days.
So when American employers insist on giving me titles like "software engineer" I cringe. It's embarrassing really, since I am surrounded by so many that have a real engineering degree, and I don't. It's like if I dropped out of medical school and then people started calling me "doctor" even if I wasn't one, legally. It would be amazing if we could find a better word so that non-engineers like me are not confused with the legally real engineers.
And proper software developement definitely has engineering parts. Otherwise titles are just labels.
In a loud city where it doesn't matter anyway, yeah well, who cares.
I don't understand why you think tracking user access rights would be infeasible and would not scale. There is a query. You search for matching documents in your vector database / index. Once you have found the potentially relevant list of documents you check which ones can the current user access. You only pass the ones over to the LLM which the user can see.
This is very similar to how banks provide phone based services. The operator on the other side of the line can only see your account details once you have authenticated yourself. They can't accidentally tell you someone else's account balance, because they themselves don't have access to it unless they typed in all the information you provide them to authenticate yourself. You can't trick the operator to provide you with someone else's account balance because they can't see the account balance of anyone without authenticating first.
But I guess they want something like training the chatbot as a LLM once with all the confidential data - and then indeed you could never separate it again.
Did anybody bother checking with Microsoft? XML/XSLT is very enterprisey and this will likely break a lot of intranet (or $$$ commercial) applications.
Secondly, why is Firefox/Gecko given full weight for their vote when their marketshare is dwindling into irrelevancy? It's the equivalent of the crazy cat hoarder who wormed her way onto the HOA board speaking for everyone else. No.
There was not really a vote in the first place and FF is still dependant on google. Otherwise FF (users) represants a vocal and somewhat influental minority, capable of creating shitstorms, if the pain level is high enough.
Personally, I always thought XSLT is somewhat weird, so I never used it. Good choice in hindsight.
Edit: but I only know of mowers noise level from what I experience walking around, I don't own one, nor did I research that model number. Maybe I will.
Nicely framed! Something I am often in limbo about: how open/intimate can I be with this or that person. Often you only see the thin line after you stepped on it or over it. Then it leads either to shame or regret.
Indeed bravery is needed to walk close to that line.
I recently learned as well that expressing emotional intimacy can be seen as a dance. You reach out and bravely await a response that might come or not, and that might be positive, negative or indifferent. Your move, their move, and so on.
Maybe try contact improvisation, then it becomes a literal dance. Emotions expressed as body motions. And you act and react to others. Exploring, moving forward, or backward and block yourself again. How you feel it. And also deal with rejection. Cool, that move was too much, I back off. No big deal, I also set my own boundaries. And maybe I open later. But all that I didn't really learn in school or in childhood. There I rather learned to keep my walls up.
If that's not the case, GP must be a madman.
So they surely ain't as loud as a combustion lawn mower and are pretty silent in comparison, so maybe you won't notice them in the city with its background noise. But in rural areas I perceive them as noisy even on daylight with normal noise level. And I never saw anyone using them at night - for a reason.
And as for gp .. he is already shadowbanned and you likely cannot see his answer (I have showdead=true). He reacted poorly I think.
What if the question is asked by a college student?
I learned a lot by just stepping through the code with the debugger of libaries I used. That brought more practical insight while learning about design patterns etc. In the end, it is all about patterns. Finding the right pattern for a given problem.