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Ever notice how anti-DEI folks lift up some of the least qualified people, proving why DEI matters?

Obama went to Harvard and taught constitutional law at U Chicago; now we get a guy who can’t grasp high school economics. Yet we hear nonstop about diversity hires.

Seen in a Toronto Star headline.

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

I will never understand people who say they wouldn't know what to do with themselves without a job. Having a job steals my life. I don't collapse when get home anymore like I used to, but I wonder if I'll ever write again.

This is my entire life

LLMs modifying 12 unrelated files when I just asked it to fix one bug www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqOC...

I often wonder at the mental model someone has to have about llms and people with advanced degrees to confidently assert this. What does this work look like, can someone point me to the tasks a lay person is likely to be asked at work and that can be well answered by LLM?

If you're not paying for the product, you are the product...

If you're paying for the product, you are the most valuable segment of the product to advertisers

I would like a tiny LLM (TLM?) on my laptop whose sole responsibility is intervening to stop Microsoft doing the stupidest thing possible when formatting dot points.

First of all Copilot; how dare you?

Introducing PreparedConf, the first tech conference with a minimum reading requirement. Prospective attendees are tested for knowledge in a foundational curriculum of engineering and architecture texts, raising the bar above the bare minimum.

If you send a pre-read to the meeting, and then spend half the meeting reading aloud the pre-read, you have very effectively disincentivised pre-reading.

I refer Optus to this excellent example a writing style to explain their “too technical” problem. blog.cloudflare.com/post-mortem-...

Since I'm home sick and X-Twitter may soon expect me to pay for access, I am going to recreate this here: 🎢 ⚛️

Pedro Pascal as classic physics textbooks: a thread

When you can copy text from a PDF it's often mangled, but one of the most useful tasks I've found for ChatGPT is asking it un-mangle it. Similar for copy-pasting text between Word, Slack and Obsidian. It's an absurd way to use so much GPU power.
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Sharepoint doesn't want me to copy and paste text from a PDF, but it can't stop me from taking a screenshot and employing OCR to extract the text. Computers are silly.

I have concluded that most contractors are so busy with work right now and so hard up for qualified staff that they are more or less making up a Lotto number and daring us to say yes.