Some of you who like working in an office, but have a 90-minute commute to get there, would have a shorter and easier commute if the people who don't like working in that same office didn't have to.

Support remote work, even if you want to be on-site.

#RemoteWork #ReturnToOffice #commute

For those who wonder if AI is coming for their job, @pluralistic puts it quite well: "we're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job". https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/29/pay-no-attention/#to-the-little-man-behind-the-curtain

Although I would add that in some cases, the boss knows that the quality of the work is worse, but it's a feature, not a bug (see for example automated customer service that always dead ends).

Recruiter: and this position is expected to be in the office 5 days per week.

Me: but the job postings says the role is REMOTE?

Recruiter: ohhh that means that there is *a* remote. It’s in the break room. You can use it to change channels. While you’re in the office. Five days a week.

Artifact is shutting down. A bit surprising, but I respect their decision.

https://medium.com/artifact-news/shutting-down-artifact-1e70de46d419

dan harmons comments on how hollywood does this to people are important because, and i cant stress this enough:

COMPUTER SECURITY, DEV, AND ENGINEERING JOBS DO EXACTLY THE SAME THING.

we're not alone.
so, pay attention.

Remember, the teens who come to your door tonight are still trying to adjust to leaving childhood behind.

Be kind. They need the candy more than the darling little ones.

New release of llm-gpt4all - it's now really easy to run models like mistral-7b-instruct-v0 on your own machine:

pip install llm
llm install llm-gpt4all
llm -m mistral-7b-instruct-v0 "ten facts about pelicans"

https://github.com/simonw/llm-gpt4all/releases/tag/0.2