Yeah every other engineering discipline is licensed, bonded, insured, and (typically) unionized. Emphasis on "licensed" as in "you need to complete an ABET-accredited program and pass a licensure exam and complete…
This is a friendly reminder that for about 10 years, "sightwords" (rote memorization) displaced phonics in an attempt to show off a younger reading age. (Plot twist: You can get kindergarteners to "read" via sightwords,…
Emacs can be configured to dump its litter into specific directories instead of in-situ with the files being edited. Please do.
We need 4 things: 1. Licensure 2. Bonding 3. Malpractice insurance 4. Unions Every single other respectable engineering specialty is licensed, bonded, and insured. Most have local unions as well. We are not going to…
At risk of disclosing certain personal details about myself on the internet, I pinky-promise that the two aren't as different as folks without certain cognitive limitations might think. Use the royal "we" with caution,…
I'm under the impression that "two is one and one is none" is old military slang.
I consider them terrible for drawing but excellent for taking handwritten notes that will scan well.
Storytime: Once upon a time, I was a young grasshopper at a small consulting firm at which every employee was issued a Windows machine, our source control system was "\Customers" on C: drive, and our deployment strategy…
Same. (Flash drive + busybox edition).
This is a friendly reminder from a grouchy old fart that 1. You are the engineer of record on all of your commits. 2. As the engineer of record, you have a certain duty of care with regards to code quality. 3. If you…
This is a friendly reminder that although the RSA Factoring Challenge ended in 2007[0], there is still a cool million resting on each of the Millenium Prize Problems. LLMs have not changed the calculus there. [0]…
I appreciate recent EU regulations choosing to penalize corporations on the basis of a percentage of revenue. It effectively mandates a lower-limit on spend for budgeting purposes. Sure, that money might be spent…
"They call them fines because if you can pay it, it's fine"
Build a product worth purchasing.
I am curious how this project compares to Qubes.
I do not appreciate when authors use the royal "we" to speak for all software engineers when admitting to low quality-control standards. I suspect that it is an attempt to broach an uncomfortable topic through…
I'm not saying that LLMs are like compilers. I'm saying that LLMs are like really bad compilers hehe.
Oh dear, I should have clarified what I meant by "identity" here. By "attesting to ... the person who owns it", I mean to talk about "identity" in the precise sense of "identifying" the relative physical location of…
Not if it can lead to higher profit margins instead.
I've toyed with the idea of issuing LTE IMEI-like identity numbers for digital cameras (and a LTE IMSI/SIM-like identity number to identify a paying accountholder who wishes to subscribe to an image-creator attestation…
I'm reminded of the phrase "regulations are written in blood". I'm also tempted to point out that anybody can give high-voltage work a whirl.... once. --- But what do I know, I'm not a sparky, I'm one of them snot-nosed…
"Learn what we believe to be the textbook-correct, fundamental, foundational theories for a topic; learn about the frontiers of new research in the topic; find a niche on that frontier where there's something new to…
I think about LLMs in software today as attempting to provide a similar role as compilers in terms of translating high-level thoughts into low-level details. The only problem is that I actually trust compilers.
1. Read the code 2. Don't. Encapsulate and put yourself in a position to swap out the implementation at will. (Maybe you'll swap out an unnecessary dependency for a simple helper function of your own).
Show the plans, then. Otherwise, we make the reasonable assumption that it's an accident.
Yeah every other engineering discipline is licensed, bonded, insured, and (typically) unionized. Emphasis on "licensed" as in "you need to complete an ABET-accredited program and pass a licensure exam and complete…
This is a friendly reminder that for about 10 years, "sightwords" (rote memorization) displaced phonics in an attempt to show off a younger reading age. (Plot twist: You can get kindergarteners to "read" via sightwords,…
Emacs can be configured to dump its litter into specific directories instead of in-situ with the files being edited. Please do.
We need 4 things: 1. Licensure 2. Bonding 3. Malpractice insurance 4. Unions Every single other respectable engineering specialty is licensed, bonded, and insured. Most have local unions as well. We are not going to…
At risk of disclosing certain personal details about myself on the internet, I pinky-promise that the two aren't as different as folks without certain cognitive limitations might think. Use the royal "we" with caution,…
I'm under the impression that "two is one and one is none" is old military slang.
I consider them terrible for drawing but excellent for taking handwritten notes that will scan well.
Storytime: Once upon a time, I was a young grasshopper at a small consulting firm at which every employee was issued a Windows machine, our source control system was "\Customers" on C: drive, and our deployment strategy…
Same. (Flash drive + busybox edition).
This is a friendly reminder from a grouchy old fart that 1. You are the engineer of record on all of your commits. 2. As the engineer of record, you have a certain duty of care with regards to code quality. 3. If you…
This is a friendly reminder that although the RSA Factoring Challenge ended in 2007[0], there is still a cool million resting on each of the Millenium Prize Problems. LLMs have not changed the calculus there. [0]…
I appreciate recent EU regulations choosing to penalize corporations on the basis of a percentage of revenue. It effectively mandates a lower-limit on spend for budgeting purposes. Sure, that money might be spent…
"They call them fines because if you can pay it, it's fine"
Build a product worth purchasing.
I am curious how this project compares to Qubes.
I do not appreciate when authors use the royal "we" to speak for all software engineers when admitting to low quality-control standards. I suspect that it is an attempt to broach an uncomfortable topic through…
I'm not saying that LLMs are like compilers. I'm saying that LLMs are like really bad compilers hehe.
Oh dear, I should have clarified what I meant by "identity" here. By "attesting to ... the person who owns it", I mean to talk about "identity" in the precise sense of "identifying" the relative physical location of…
Not if it can lead to higher profit margins instead.
I've toyed with the idea of issuing LTE IMEI-like identity numbers for digital cameras (and a LTE IMSI/SIM-like identity number to identify a paying accountholder who wishes to subscribe to an image-creator attestation…
I'm reminded of the phrase "regulations are written in blood". I'm also tempted to point out that anybody can give high-voltage work a whirl.... once. --- But what do I know, I'm not a sparky, I'm one of them snot-nosed…
"Learn what we believe to be the textbook-correct, fundamental, foundational theories for a topic; learn about the frontiers of new research in the topic; find a niche on that frontier where there's something new to…
I think about LLMs in software today as attempting to provide a similar role as compilers in terms of translating high-level thoughts into low-level details. The only problem is that I actually trust compilers.
1. Read the code 2. Don't. Encapsulate and put yourself in a position to swap out the implementation at will. (Maybe you'll swap out an unnecessary dependency for a simple helper function of your own).
Show the plans, then. Otherwise, we make the reasonable assumption that it's an accident.