Well if it makes you feel better I hit 100% and am currently trying to learn rust…

Unrelated but the ventoy usb I keep on me really helped me today after a ram stick decided to die and corrupt my system along with it

I’ve gone for the corpo middle ground and my company picture is the Japanese business blahaj in a suit. I’ve been told, “I don’t even look for your name I just look for the shark, it stands out more”

I too want to leave, do you have any resources I can read to try getting out?

I feel strongly that “next” Thursday should be not the next instance of a Thursday but rather the first instance of a Thursday past the contained set of the current week (so the next row on a calendar). I.e. if it’s Tuesday, “next Thursday” isn’t the Thursday two days from now but the Thursday 9 days from now.

I can’t express the amount of visceral discomfort this brought me.

I’ve also started using it recently and I’m not sure if the way I’m doing it is particularly “right”.

I don’t have a lot of knowledge of practical coding practices because in school we literally had a new project every two weeks so I never learned things like you need unit tests or proper architectural design. It was mostly making sure whatever project there was that week ran and didn’t crash.

So now I’m working as a sysadmin doing the random junk a sysadmin gets pushed on them. What I’ve been doing is telling it my project plan, Claude will write up something that looks better, and I continue to have a back and forth about architecture and libraries, asking it if it thinks any particular idea is good or bad, until I get to a place I’m happy.

Then because I want to learn rust and implement it myself, I’m having Claude basically guide me through creating it like a teacher would, with it taking on a very Socratic tone (“now that we’ve done this, what do you think is the next step?” “We have a list of CSVs so what do you need to do to read their values?”). And I’ve been moving forward but by bit like this.

I don’t know if it’s a particularly good way, honestly, I’d love feedback from anyone who’s done something similar or whatever!

This implies that Pluto is a lovecraftian entity, and that brings me much joy

Barnyard gossip with a pinch of divination. Mad science is actual science but for the explicit purpose of being evil or off the walls whacky; given enough time or a proper application mad science can turn into normal science.

This. I work for a tech company that unfortunately gets quite a few subpoenas, from little police departments to the letter agencies, and I have pushed back on subpoenas and warrants that I felt infringed on peoples rights and “negotiated down” the scope of them. If a company isn’t willing to try and keep their users out of the legal crossfire they’re cowards.

If your game supports controller give me the option to change the button faces to whatever I prefer. Some people like Nintendo button layout, others PlayStation, other Xbox. Whatever it is, don’t hard code one set - they’re just some pngs, support them all.

I use AI as a rubber duck, to compliment the rubber ducks on my desk when they don’t give enough feedback. So it’s use is mostly conceptual, I find that models that provide “thinking” output perhaps more useful than whatever its actual answer is because it asks questions about edge cases I might not have considered.

As for code generation, I hate it. It outputs garbage, forgets things, hallucinates, and whatever thing it writes I’ll have to rewrite anyway to actually make it compile.

As I’m fairly isolated at work I think it makes a good pair programmer partner, so to speak. Offering suggestions that I can take into consideration and research heavily if I think it’s a good one.

Yes, but that it can be temperamental and finicky. If you have a rooted phone currently you need to trick a different service called play protect into thinking that your device is kosher, so to speak; different updates from Google can and have broken the processes that have worked in the past.

Needless to say a solution needs to be robust, the possibility to not access your gov id because a private company changed a process and decides you don’t get to use the same loophole you’ve used till now isn’t great from a technical or security standpoint. I would imagine it’s even more frustrating for non-US citizens as their government is relying on a foreign company with a notably bad track record of keeping services available.

It’s not that such a technology is hard to make, it’s more about adoption. Even better than a particular product we could gather around would be a set of standards that the community could build various products around (so long as they meet those standards). That however feels unlikely from the current US administration and based on the EU’s recent GitHub proclamation on their age verification act.

I don’t know if they’d even be up for it but at this point I think the best option would be Framework getting into it as theyre already trusted by the community.

But even if we get the hardware down there’s another issue - we need an open source, government approved, bank approved Wallet app. There’s only Google or Apple wallet to store important documents on Mobile at the moment. Frustratingly, some governments are using only those two as a source for national verification which is obviously a problem.