Jesus fucking Christ, what a read. It really was the wild west days back then, huh? Sony was out there just putting straight up malware on audio CDs.
Glad I don't work with you.
The only real person I've ever really heard talk about Erlang was the developer of Sonic Pi. Sonic Pi is a live coding music program, so naturally it has a lot of parallel code. I think it was on the se-radio podcast where I heard it (at least pre pandemic if you need help finding the episode, haven't listened in years). Basically he said he wished he'd used it because it makes what he needed to do very easy, which is adding and removing live music loops and modifying them.
How goofy do you have to be to interpret someone as asking for some advice as not wanting to succeed?
Honestly, I'd sit down with the product folk(s) and see what their thoughts are. As devs, we generally decide how moreso than what. Ask what some pain points are.
My gut feeling when I hear about an AI contractor who makes a vibe coded executive report is pretty abysmal. It feels very snake oil salesman, but I think a lot of contractors*(like the subject matter expert types you bring in, not "non FTE" contractors)* are sort of like that just out of necessity. They need to market themselves as being useful moreso than actually being useful.
But that's pretty pessimistic. I wouldn't tell your coworkers that (unless they also seem to have the same impression lol). Executive reports are useful for marketing. Does your business need to market itself? Sort of the inverse snake oil salesman maneuver lol. I'll give an example,
My company does some cyber security stuff. Along with the product that provides a way to monitor, we offer a team that monitors as well. One issue brought up at our last quarterly planning was that many clients have difficulty understanding the value of our product. An example was that one person said "well y'all aren't sending us any alerts, the last folks sent us a lot. What are you even doing?" Well, it turns out the answer is that we filter many false negatives out so they don't even end up in any sort of review queue. But they don't see that, they just see queues with little to nothing. So a goal was to get a nice executive report dashboard that showed this information in a way that's easy to understand. That way if some, perhaps aloof, executive gets the idea that "we don't get any alerts to review," they'll also have some tool that very easily shows them "of X alerts fired, Y% were deemed false positives by our team, Z remaining went into the queue."
Now, none of that is AI necessarily, but it's also something that I as a dev would never really think of. At least where I have worked. I don't work very closely with customers, and when I do they are often "internal customers" who I can be more informal with.
I'll just second what multiple others have said as a footnote, but do try to be aware of costs. Tracking AI costs should be something you try to do early. Like others have said, AI is heavily subsidized by investors right now. That's just the way out economy works. People get an idea, build it, woo investors, and then focus on growth instead of profitability. As long as they can convince investors, they don't need to be profitable. Once they can't convince more, they have to look into an IPO and/or becoming profitable. That's basically where we are now. I think I seen the phrase "tokenpocalypse" used.
Who knows, maybe two years from now we'll look at this AI craze the way we look at the NFT craze from a few years ago.
Congrats on the promotion though. Trust your instincts. Be honest. I think even being candid about your reservations with AI is wise.
Rich person after making a thing: This thing is super dangerous and nobody else should be allowed to make it. However, I can be trusted to use it, but nobody else should ever be allowed to make this dangerous thing.
Missed that it was two different people at first.
the tortilla and the baked potato are similar in that they're just empty vessels waiting to be filled
Just like me fr fr
Microsoft talked with the dev of AppGet to make winget, but refused to hire him.
Given the way society is currently set up, if we pursue space colonization then it'll become a luxury for billionaires to escape an unlivable planet. Worse, the hoards of the capital will have even less desires to fix things.
(This is not some doomer or accelerationist take, just hating on billionaires.)
Reminds me of the Presidium from Mass Effect 1 and the Stranger from Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye.
This will likely have some technical inaccuracies because I've never dealt with something this specific with PSUs. I have two slots for PCIe. I have a 3070 ti which has two 8 pin connectors. Each of this PSU's cords for the PCIe slots (minus that mysterious 600W one which I think is not for anything I'm doing due to the size) goes from the 12 pin on the PSU to two separate 8 pin connectors (well, 6 with the optional 2).
My gut feeling is to just plug a single cord from the PCIe slots I to the two slots on my GPU. But I'm wondering about what would happen if I plugged two cords into the PCIe slots separately and then put a single connector into the GPU from each. Would that be better/worse/the same/catastrophic?
I'm wondering if it has something to do with dividing the current among the different rails in the PSU or something? It has a little jumper to enable "overclocking" which does something like combining the rails, but I'd rather not fool with that. And it also might be totally unrelated to the other question. The jumper is, of course, just out of view of the pic, but it's also not really relevant.
Edit: I went with one and it's working fine.
Sorry for the horrible picture. It's hard enough to see with my eyes, let alone get a pic.
My guess
The left sort of looks like the outside of the cable so I think that's ground.
NOOOOOOO!!! This is a website! It has text prior to the PDF, just put the damn article there! The website clearly already supports HTML, otherwise we wouldn't be seeing anything!
(But yes, I still like those formats, I just think it should be a no brainer for a website to actually have it's contents as HTML.)