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Best part? It's always somebody with years of experience. Exactly the demographic that is supposedly able to use this shit safely, but my impression is they're just as bad as the novices

This is happening IMO because of one of the fundamental issues with software dev (and this predates "AI" and was one of the themes of my first book):

Most software projects fail and most of what gets shipped doesn't work. The way the industry is set up means there is little downside to shipping broken software

@joshuatj what the whaat, is this real?

@joshuatj mindboggling!

@hipsterelectron I'm not sure what this means. How did Google interact with Twitter? what did I miss?

@quat

I have never walked (+ 1 ferry) from home to work, but as of today I have done all the parts of it, so I know by personal experience how I would do it.

It would take about six hours, as opposed to 35 min when I take the MTR.

@hipsterelectron The One Weird Trick secops doctors don't want you to know!

On a serious note, running it all non-privileged helps you do it in corporate environments with arbitrary restrictions, or in e.g. a dynamically spawned container on some cloud service.

@hipsterelectron I prefer this level of selfknowledge at least.

I spent a summer fighting yoctolinux, and man, that thing really tried and always got it wrong.

I alternated between calling the bitbake tool "bit baka" or pronouncing it "bit-ba-ke" and deciding that "bake" was short for "bakemono".

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It's so freaking good!!!#TShirtSpotting

Some people will join a meeting or workshop with 200 people, not have any leading role in the meeting, not say anything for half an hour, then still feel the need to say "sorry, need to drop" when they move to their next meeting.

@evan Also when reading the question I was thinking this question has to be about a done-ish project to be anything comparable? Not someone still working excitedly on getting something working and solving the core problem?

I think many (most?) people would use all their available time to get something going and useful, and then settle into maintenance mode – maintaining compatibility with dependencies, handling incoming issues and PRs, etc – unless something specific kicks them into feature mode again for some time.

@pinskia

@milesizdead @Em0nM4stodon If they're shouting at each other, maybe. People on speaker phones are always louder than they need to be.

The PDF is here and is absolutely crackers, MIT should be ashamed of themselves for letting this out the door.

https://cams.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/Safe-CAMS-MIT-Article-Final-4-7-2025-Working-Paper.pdf

The management at my org is thankfully very good and gets it, but if you are struggling to explain to your management as to why they should stop sucking the GenAI marketing juice and chasing the AI laser pointer like a cat and instead do foundational security, explain it a way they'll understand: AI.

as far as i can tell, because go-git has a "/v6" at the end in its go.mod, it breaks all of the "sure, here it works" suggestions people give

The only pair I would have mentioned off the cuff is Sheung Wan and Central (and Hong Kong Station, same thing as Central really, you don't blip out of the network when you walk from one to the other). There's a walkway bridge connecting Shun Tak on top of Sheung Wan Station to IFC on top of Hong Kong Station.

But the other day I realized that also Wan Chai Station and the new Exhibition Center Station are fully connected. Cool, but that's not the exciting thing yet. I would have guessed it or figured it out if someone asked, they're both in Wan Chai, which is rich with interconnected towers.

No, what's cool is that this got me thinking: How close are we to having a connection between these two clusters? Admiralty and Wan Chai are a bit disconnected and I don't see that closing soon, but Admiralty and Central are very close. But there's no way to reach the Statue Square entrance of Central without crossing the actual Statue Square from Admiralty.

Or so I thought! I wasn't sure, so today I went to check it out.

We're not talking completely underground now, Central/Hong Kong+Sheung Wan and Exhibition Centre+Wan Chai are connected by bridges, buildings etc, the point is you have a roof over your head at all times.

So I went to Admiralty and Central, and I realized you have no less than two almost-connections.

The first one is Admiralty->Cheung Kong then HSBC->Central; I kind of knew this one. From Lippo Centre you can cross over the highway to Cheung Kong Centre, fully covered, but then you have to cross the road to HSBC before you're in the bridge complex connecting most of core Central.

The second connection Admiralty->Central goes through the newly built The Henderson, which is just across the road from Statue Square. The Henderson is the tower that looks like a pile of classic Coca Cola bottles stacked into a tower.

Now, I thought that from there all you can do is just walk across Statue Square to enter Central Station, but there is a walkway bridge being built from The Henderson to AIA Tower, it looks like it will be finished any week now. And there's an entrance to Central Station just outside AIA.

Until that bridge is finished, you can take the circular stairs down to Statue Square, and you'll be exposed at the top of those stairs, but then you'll be under the stairs themselves, and then you can walk up a covered ramp to AIA Tower again.

So, you can walk all the way from Sheung Wan, over the bridge to the IFC, through HK Station, through Central, up to just outside AIA, cross the sidewalk, walk the bridge to The Henderson when it's ready, walk through Admiralty, walk the tunnel to Three Pacific Place, and then you're technically in Wan Chai, although not very close to Wan Chai Station.

Shun Tak to Three Pacific Place, that's four MTR stations, 2.6 km the way the crow flies, dozens of malls, hundreds (thousands?) of employers, and the only part that exposes you to the sun and rain is 20 m of sidewalk and, for now, 5 m of stairs.

I think that's pretty damn cool.