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8) the reason microservices get a bad rap because people think they need to move every function into a service.
9) as an engineer, you get paid to do judgement calls and nuanced trade-offs. If you're at the extreme end of a spectrum, you're exceptional, and odds are not in a good way.

Them: Impostor Syndrome isn’t real.

Me:

Hi folks. Want to stop hearing about the bird site? Stop visiting it, stop linking to it, stop driving engagement, mute keywords, temporarily mute folks whinging about it. Just like the other commercial "social" networks, they thrive on misery and conflict, not community. Stop feeding it. It won't kill it, but your circle may stop talking about it.

Let recent events be a reminder: you do not have privacy on any platform that doesn't offer end-to-end encryption. Period.

If you find yourself now perturbed at the prospect of journalists rooting through DMs, save at least some of your outrage for previous owners and executives who couldn't be bothered to better protect your privacy. They had years and years and oodles of cash but spent none of it on real privacy.

This is why privacy matters. Not because you're doing anything wrong necessarily but because you don't know the future.

#privacy #Twitter #endtoendencryption

Where’s main()?

Lawful Good: its own main.c
Lawful Neutral: bottom of the file
Lawful Evil: placed alphabetically

Neutral Good: top of the file
Neutral Neutral: return(realMain())
Neutral Evil: nowhere, generated by a decorator

Chaotic Good: codegen
Chaotic Neutral: the whole program is main
Chaotic Evil: run exclusively from repl

(with thanks/apologies to the Slack crew)

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MacRumors
Do you ever just want to yell at someone “I fucking love you!!”?
Jailbreaking #ChatGPT on Release Day is a terrifyingly entertaining read. https://thezvi.substack.com/p/jailbreaking-the-chatgpt-on-release #GPT3
Jailbreaking ChatGPT on Release Day

ChatGPT is a lot of things. It is by all accounts quite powerful, especially with engineering questions. It does many things well, such as engineering prompts or stylistic requests. Some other things, not so much. Twitter is of course full of examples

Don't Worry About the Vase
"Nobody uses Rust in production", he emailed (with Thunderbird) from his laptop (running Windows) to a mailing list (on AWS, behind Cloudflare), which I then read (in Firefox) on my phone (running Android) after clicking a link (in Discord) to the list archive (served by Fastly).

At the ~30 year mark of a career in development, software architecture and security architecture I am certified in virtually none of it. Almost proud of that, in a way.

Anyone else in the same boat?

#certifiable #uncertified