I get a little paintbrush and paint the leaves of each dandelion with round-up - that ends up killing them but largely leaving other plants alone.
How is this easier than pulling the plant out of the soil?
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Jesus, we've gone from Eliza and Bayes Spam Filters to being able to hold an "intelligent" conversation with a bot that can write code like: "make me a sandwich" => "ok, making sandwich.py, adding test, keeping track of a todo list, validating tests, etc..."
We might not _quite_ be at the era of "I'm sorry I can't let you do that Dave...", but on the spectrum, and from the perspective of a lay-person, we're waaaaay closer than we've ever been?
I'd counsel you to self-check what goalposts you might have moved in the past few years...
I think this says more about how much of our tasks and demonstrations of ability as developers revolve around boilerplate and design patterns than it does about the Cognitive abilities of modern LLMs.
I say this fully aware that a kitted out tech company will be using LLMs to write code more conformant to style and higher volume with greater test coverage than I am able to individually.
I just wore a half face respirator with an activated carbon filter (3M 7503 + 6001 + something over that for particulates, probably 2297). Quality respirators seem like simple table stakes for doing a lot of things these days. It was an off label use of the organic vapor cartridge but it worked fine (it also worked fine for cleaning with ammonia in deep cabinets). I also probably plugged the O3 generator into an extension cord which I could unplug without going in the room, the mask was just to go in and open the windows some time afterwards. It seems like, as with anything, the important part is to know the technicals of what something does and create an overall plan.
I’ve used respirators through prior lab work and be warned the ammonia grade and organic solvent grades are distinct filter packing.
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The biggest one is latency. Network latency will almost always be orders of magnitude bigger than I/O latency. There's a whole class of problems that goes away when latency becomes very small.
Noted, that confirms my suspicion. Thanks.
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Literally prior to the cloud being a thing, for medium sized web apps, this was the way.
I’ve always worked in a datacenter (non cloud) with separate db servers to the app servers. Besides network latency, what is the advantage of collocating the http server and database server on one machine?
It’s always given me a separation of concerns good feeling by seeing a dedicated db and app server and doesn’t seem like much overhead, given they are nearby machines in datacenter.
Also, our main reason was sharing a database license to have a well resourced multi-tenant/app db sever serving peripheral web app servers.
This is a QVC product with the name of a US tech city slapped on it.
Signed, a guy living nearby the home of QVC in a decidedly non-tech area of the US.
Ps. don’t buy future e-waste kitchen ware unless you have accessibility reasons. You can get a good-enough victoronix 8” chef knife for $65 (I paid $36 a long time ago) and a world class chef knife for less than $250.
It used to be that society worked just fine with people of all grades of smarts. But we're rapidly getting to the point that to be able to earn a living wage you need to be above average, especially if you are sole income provider for a while. AI is further steepening that S curve's mid-section.
I think that has more to do with our willingness or ability to value labor in a highly abstracted overseas and automated economy. In addition, there has been a complete disconnect between $1USD purchasing power and generation ability based on capital scale. I don't know what financial crisis or tax policy or free trade agreement or visa program that stems from.
I think that in the knowledge worker class, people tend to confuse their learned skills and inherited starting point to their innate abilities. Illusory superiority is best mocked in prairie home companion's Lake Woebegone, where "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and the children are all above average" [0].
Give kids a stable home environment with loving supportive parents, three square meals a day, 9+ hours of sleep and opportunity to pursue their creative or sports interests and you'll have a class of highly functioning humans of different abilities.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon#The%20Lake%20Wobe...
It does feel like a squeeze just functioning in the current job, housing, and grocery market though. I cannot imagine the stress of being a sole provider. My point is to not conflate genetic superiority to the multitude of factors that go in to making a talented skillful worker, where I think nurture cannot be discounted.
OpenSSH and OpenSSL are completely unrelated projects.
Independent projects but not unrelated since there was a historical dependency from OpenSSH to OpenSSL.
https://serverfault.com/questions/780476/generating-ssh-keys...
My knowledge was a bit outdated by about a decade.
Another component of this theory concerning g is that it's largely genetic, and immune to "intervention" AKA stability as you mentioned. See the classic "The Bell Curve" for a full exposition.
Which makes me wonder what's the point of all the intervention in the form of teaching/parenting styles and whatnot, if g factor is nature and immutable by large? What's the logic of the educators here?
Lower and median IQ people still benefit from literacy, numeracy, and art to function in society. The point of education systems isn’t to boost individuals’ dimensionally reduced 1D metrics but rather enrich their lives and contributions to society. There will always be distributions of abilities and means but that doesn’t justify neglecting the bulk of tax paying people.
I barely know what SSH keys are, but last week when I was asked to provide one for an stfp site at work they said create a pair using putty.
Well I googled putty and found a couple different .org domains, one who which said it was legit but not official, and another which said it was official but looked wildly out of date.
Neither one I could find a download for Mac that worked. The one I tried gave a scary “we no longer allow putty sudo access as it’s dangerous” and when I googled this error I could find no explanation to assuage me.
And since I wanted to make sure what I was doing was legit, I searched for alternatives.
Eventually I discovered I could use command line in mac to generate the keys I needed. But first I installed Xcode then ran the command (I used chatgpt to tell me exactly how to get the type and length I needed). It was easy.
Side note, the whole culture of downloading random software and using it with just a single line in a terminal is always sketchy to me too. But I’m not a coder so I’m not used to it.
If you hadn’t discovered this already with you mac CLI commands, OpenSSH from OpenSSL ‘ssh-keygen’ command is a good way to create SSH keys in ClI and ships in many OSes or is a lightweight download. The OpenSSL website name is unambiguous, which is a benefit.
https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-gith...