mhoye but seasonally spooky

My friend also mentioned a bit of veteran professional advice for the young ops team member some of you may need: The moment a lawyer who does not and cannot contribute anything starts - somehow, mysteriously - joining your incident calls, they're there specifically and only so that conversation is sheltered from regulatory scrutiny by attorney-client privilege. And that means shit is way, way worse you realize and you need to start thinking about protecting yourself.

https://mastodon.social/@oration/117533008158449710

Agriculture $200B
Health care $150B
Military $800B
Chatbots $3,600B
Utilities $150B

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my country is dying

Just saw someone loudly proclaim "BONKWAVE > DONKWAVE" , and....

Look, you know you've got genre homework ahead of you when you look up some music term you've never heard of and find an argument that it's _way, way better_ than this _other_, music genre you've never heard of.

Much gratitude to @ErickaSimone for periodically reminding us that we are actually living in a miraculous golden age of music that's bigger and weirder than you think.

Anyway here you go: https://music.bonkwave.org/the-four-seasons-of-bonkwave-autumn-waves-3/

Ever had that feeling in your stomach you get when you’re trying to root-cause-and-restore some outage and find out that the backups for your failed service are on the same physical strata as the service itself?

Well, funny story but Binance’s emergency fund seems to also be held in cryptocurrencies.

True story: I was once able to help Dr. Knuth with The Art Of Computer Programming, by finding contact information for somebody he owed one of his famous cheques from the Bank Of Sans Seriffe and putting them in contact.

I believe that this is the atomic value of possible contributions to TOACP and computer science as a whole. No smaller or less significant contribution is possible.

I wish I could find a proper link to cite this, but [gestures vaguely].

Maybe 25 years ago now, I remember Don Knuth writing about withdrawing to retool some hashing algorithm he'd been working on, explaining that while all their testing appeared to produce a promisingly uniform randomness, somebody clever had using tried using a linear sequence of integer seeds - 0,1,2,3,4.... that in those conditions the hash showed alarming signs of being very nonrandom, but nobody had thought to test it like that before.

Thinking about that a lot this week. For some reason.

RE: https://floss.social/@josch/117509332813075752

I think the middle ground "maybe LLMs" choice was quietly, secretly rooted in a hidden contempt for other people's work, particularly anyone "not technical". No LLMs for code, we'd never use LLMs for something that important obviously, but for _documentation_ sure. For _graphics_, for _art_, obviously. Those things aren't _code_, you see, they're not _important_.

But, it turns out they are important. And they make it clear who and what you're willing to sacrifice, so you can feel important.

Aight, done.

@ErickaSimone @corbden

These locker rooms aren’t in a field somewhere formed by the erosion of wind and rain; they’re in buildings owned by institutions that often as not have well earned track records of enabling abusers and covering up sexual assault. I don’t know how many women out there hate men per-se, but I know plenty that hate the institutions we’ve create that shelter and empower the worst behaviours of the worst of us, and that sure seems like a reasonable way to feel.

"Hilariously, this results in the LLM giving their younger-brother an unplugged controller."

https://eliastaylor.com/noexploit/

Services have resumed chez me, to my significant satisfaction.

(Me, whispering: Maybe the reason PHP is everywhere and in everything is that ease of use, ease of modification and ease of deployment are actually good things and making easy, fun things safe is way, way more important to real world practices and uptake than trying to graft ease of use and fun onto guarantees of safety that computing has never been willing, much less able, to really guarantee anyway.)