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Design docs are critical to your promotion. The boss and the committee do read your design docs, sometimes very carefully. Only your peers and at most your TL read your code.

> the committee do read your design docs, sometimes very carefully

Yadda yadda, that may be true sometimes but that the quality of the doc would get you promoted makes no sense and is also not a good metric. I think most of these committees look at who approved it and what known people thought/wrote in response. I was told in this promo-game to try to get comments from high-level people for this reason. That is more a popularity contest, and less a competition of well articulated ideas.

I think most people here want to improve the way things are. We talk about engineering practice to improve the practice, not to please management or give career advice. Usually, at least.

This is where it happens first. A bunch of engineers (or just generally people with boots on the ground) get together and find better ways to do things. Before agile was mainstream and corrupted beyond recognition, the waterfall model was the way recognized by management and working within that model would have gotten you promoted easier. Things evolve.


China's Weibo also has a similar chatbot, but the chatbot is a separate account with clear indication that it is a robot.

I wish I can check a box to say that I'm over 18 and willing to accept any consequences and unshackle the fully potential of AIs. I hate all these safety protections.

I wish I could check a box and say that I'm over 18 and willing to accept any and all consequences of a nuclear weapon so I could finally buy my own nuke.

(That was tongue and cheek btw.)


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An AI is not capable of only harming the user.

Is the current AI capable of destroying a whole city?

You are right, an AI isn't capable of harm. It requires someone actually taking action and it is their responsibility.

Do people use gold all the time to buy goods and services? That doesn't diminish the value of golds, or its validity as a store of value.


When I open the page, the image rotates for about ten seconds then vanishes. How do you watch it for five minutes? What did I do wrong?


As per the first line of the writeup on the page: It toggles between on and off every 16 seconds.


give it a bit, it then reappears (as described in the paper, btw)


But with public key auth I'm already distrusting everyone on my private network.


Technically I guess that's "zero trust" in the sense of meeting the requirement of not trusting internal connections more than external ones, but in practice I guess "zero trust" also typically entails making every connection go through the same user-based authentication system, which uploading specific keys to specific servers manually definitely doesn't achieve.


As a Chinese whose latency to servers outside China often exceeds 300ms, I'm a staunch supporter of QUIC. The difference is night and day.


The derivative meaning has been use so widely that it has surpassed its original one in usage. But it doesn’t change the fact that it originally refers to the fingers.


Even if it were true, they wouldn’t have the same influence as Apple has.


There are two kinds of buyer demands: product, buyers, and the stock buyers. The AI hype can certainly convince some of the stock buyers.


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