But aren’t we all really just several LLMs in a trench coat?
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Adventures in part-time distributed team management in moral gray areas. Ask me about embryo donation. Or killer robots. Or the early Christian church. Or, look, I have a lot of interests, ‘k?
@ntnsndr @Typowyzyd I don’t understand how we are still having this conversation in 2023, which is totally on me, to be sure. But I’m willing to keep trying! Your article seems to assume that not only are there no more cops with guns, but there’s no guns at all. All of your examples require human bridges between the real world and the blockchain. What happens to your scenarios (and in particular, to your human bridges) when you add guns back in, but still don’t have any cops?
So I hired a couple of #frontend developers this week and they're getting stuck into things. Now I'm interviewing for a #backend dev, and boy, did the first one not go well. Fortunately it was short enough that I can fit the whole thing in one toot.
<intros>
Backend Dev: I can't agree with the #sqlite and monolith choice
Me: what would you suggest doing instead?
BD: things in the industry are done with #microservices
Me: and why is that?
BD: if you want to learn about this, you should Google
Me: I don't want to know about *how* that's done, I want to know *why*
BD: look, I'm a paid expert...
Me: I know the answers, BD, what I need to find out is if you do
BD: when you go to a dentist, you don't interview them first
Me: I'm not coming to you to clean my teeth, I'm talking to you to find out if you are the dentist whom I want to clean my teeth
BD: ...
Me: look, let's save ourselves some time. We aren't going to work together well. Best of luck with your next job.
@clarkesworld I ponder the analogy with photography's impact on painting. As cameras became more common art explored surrealism. I can imagine a future in which my Kindle can compose space opera on the fly with exactly my preferred mix of aliens, mystery, and romance whenever I need escapism, and human-authored stories have gone all House of Leaves or Feersum Endjinn.
I’ve started measuring my sleep in sleep cycles. A sleep cycle is 90 minutes of uninterrupted sleep. If I can get four of those in any given night, the following day will be ok. The fifth seems to be an unnecessary luxury 🤷🏻♀️
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Anyway, if there’s some folks out there who would accept $50/hour to sling pixel-perfect React/next.js for the next couple of months, point them my way? Especially if they have experienced assisted reproductive tech and grappled with questions around leftover embryos?
#FediJobs #MastoJobs #FediHiring #FediHired #MastodonJobs #GetFediHired
@lauren imagine trusting him to keep up the supply runs to Mars
@shakespearenut this is also why we haven’t found any evidence of alien life, and probably never will
There is an art to writing job ads, as there is an art to writing anything, and writing in general.
In the corporate world I see a lot of reactivity in communication: "I was asked to write a presentation", "I need to write a doc", "how do I write an <x>", etc, and anytime anyone in my org mentions in passing that they're writing anything, I always pull them up with "what is your goal? What behavior is going to change in your audience as a result of reading/seeing what you're writing?". It's annoyingly rare that anyone has thought through an answer to that.
The bigger the audience, the more important it is to be clear about how you're trying to change your audience's behavior with your message. Just "affecting" them or "informing" them or "advertising" or "advocating" or "visibility" is aiming far, far, far too low.
My recruiting agency is concerned.
Agency response rate specialist: "I am writing about a recently posted ad.
Unfortunately, it has stirred up a controversy among the male community. To make it more clear, I've attached a link to the discussion that broke out under the promotional post. Comments are various, although most are negative about the title of the advert.
In view of this, I have temporarily suspended the announcement until we determine what, if any, actions you would like to implement. :)
For my part, I recommend that you gently rephrase your offer so that it sounds more neutral. 😉
Please let us know what your position is on this issue."
Me: "nah, I'm good. Ship it."
(I wasn't quite that cavalier in my actual reply! Most folks on the forum got that the language is deliberately anti-discriminatory, and I'm still seeing 60%+ applicants with male names, so it's just the MRAs self-selecting out and therefore everything is WAI as far as I'm concerned.)