https://paulgraham.com/avg.html

Go and Python and Typescript all have their own footguns.

I assume Rust is the same, but haven’t used it personally to see

https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm once upon a time, but I haven’t really had multiple dev computers for a while

Also the number of outcomes isn’t connected to the solution space reduction the way you say. If you don’t know whether the fake coin is heavier or lighter, both tilt-right and tilt-left are effectively the same result. So at least your first test really only has 2 meaningful outcomes.

In general, you’ll only reduce your solution space DOWN TO (not by) 1/(number of distinguishable outcomes) if the possible solutions are evenly divided among those outcomes. It’s easy to have a problem where “result 1 narrows it down a lot, result 2 doesn’t tell us much”

If you don’t know whether it’s heavier or lighter, after the first test shows uneven you still have 6 coins possible. You can do it in 3 tests only if you know lighter vs heavier for the fake coin.

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Oddly enough, out of all of these the one the compiler has the best chance of optimizing out is the last one

To avoid our company, don’t buy our product?

To avoid all AI, well first you’re going to have to degoogle. And then probably any tech company larger than 1000 people is going to have some place where they use AI, so you’ll want to get on openstreetmap, Lemmy, mastodon, i.e. all the free software versions of things that you can. There’s a lot of overlap with privacy-focused people there. Also basically no shopping online - Stripe and probably most other payment providers use ML for detecting fraud.

And then if you’re doing web development you probably have to consider things like scrapers. Something like Anubis https://anubis.techaro.lol/ can help with that.

There’s probably more I don’t know/haven’t thought of.

I am building it! Or, well, not it anymore but a product that is heavily based on it.

I think we as a company recognize that the, like, 95% of AI products right now are shit. And that the default path from now is that power continues to concentrate at the large labs like OpenAI, which haven’t been behaving particularly well.

But we also believe that there are good ways to use it. We hope to build one.

The thing your boss is asking you to do is shitty. However, TBQH humanity doesn’t really know what LLMs are useful for yet. It’s going to be a long process to find that out, and trying it in places where it isn’t helpful is part of that.

Lastly, even if LLMs don’t turn out to be useful for real work, there is something interesting and worth exploring there. Look at researcher/writers like Nostalgebrist and Janus - they’re exploring what LLMs are like as beings. Not that they’re conscious, but rather that there’s interesting and complex things going on in there that we don’t understand yet. The overarching feeling in my workplace is that we’re in a frontier time, where clever thinking and exploration will be rewarded.

Go to a local PC repair shop? Will be much safer than giving someone on the Internet access to your PC. Like probably 95% nothing awful happens (esp picking some random Lemmy person) but in that 5% they will drop a keylogger, get your banking login and clean you out.

Sell the bag to a lich to keep him from robbing graves, collect big $$$ for the unique magic item, and the bounty from the town

Potion of Water Breathing: DOES NOT RETAIN AIR BREATHING

Cube of instant castle: Say the keyword ‘open’ to transform this cube into a '200x’200 castle. The transformation happens instantly, and if you’re caught in the area of effect, be prepared to get smashed. The cube is hard of hearing.

It’s a furby right?

Does it need to be physical? I’d expect data on a well funded S3 account or a tar snap account to live 30 years

If you actually want to use paper… QR codes. The format is simple, broadly distributed, and has error correction built in. It’ll make the whole process a lot easier than trying to roll something yourself.

Rufus is great! I worked with the maintainer to fix a bug in hardware they didn’t have and it was a very pleasant experience.

Except his “house key” is a bump key.

Yes, arson.

How much do you blame Germans? As in the ones from 1940s?

We might not have started killing people yet but the signs are here, for anyone who cares to know their history. We had a Nazi salute at the inauguration for Christ sake.

Yeah. It’s shocking that your friends and neighbors are party to this. It was to many Germans too.