gerdesj

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   by gerdesj 1y ago

   "With every passing month, AI models get better at most tasks that a software engineer does in their job." No they don't.
2. 722.▲
   by gerdesj 1y ago

   I'm quite handy at what I do. You will not replace me with AI. Today I set up a remote network with a couple of switches, a router and the rest. From the outside. The customer had already got the router to the internet (good skills)
3. 723.▲
   by gerdesj 1y ago

   I'm not sure
4. 724.▲
   by gerdesj 1y ago

   I'm happy to report that for businesses on the scale as mine, we don't work like that. We give a shit.
5. 725.▲
   by gerdesj 1y ago

   Quite right. An article referring to: {e ∈ GEB|HN: e := article referring to GEB} ... might be considered rather self referential (especially if I have got my rather dodgy notation right). Note how I leave out several important definitions
6. 726.▲
   by gerdesj 1y ago

   How does an article like this on HN avoid having a comment referring to "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach (Yes!) (EDIT - formatting)
7. 727.▲
   by gerdesj 1y ago

   Please give some worked examples. I'm not sure what: "'deskilling' to something reliable through bureaucratic procedures" ... means. I'm the Managing Director of a small company and I'm pretty sure you are
8. 728.▲
   by gerdesj 1y ago

   "usually it is seen as a failure to grow up on their career." What does that mean?
9. 729.▲
   by gerdesj 1y ago

   "The fact that we have figured out how to translate language into something a computer can "understand" should thrill linguists." No, there is no understanding at all. Please don't confuse codifying with understand
10. 730.▲
    by gerdesj 1y ago

    A JWT can include claims - that's the difference: JWTs are a bit more complicated data structure out of the box. You can do authN and authZ in one go. You can do it all via individual browser cookies but it will be complicated. Howev
11. 731.▲
    by gerdesj 1y ago

    "Also cookies are not cryptographically signed and thus easily forgeable by the client/browser." My Apache webby thingies quite happily dole out encrypted cookies: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/m
12. 732.▲
    by gerdesj 1y ago

    Cookies are only controlled by the server but obviously can be negotiated for with a secret. JWTs have a mutual secret component built in and far cooler sounding ... stuff. So both ends have to trust the other and prove it with JWT and wh
13. 733.▲
    by gerdesj 1y ago

    I'll have to get my facts straight but I'm pretty sure that ksmbd is ... not used much (by me). https://lwn.net/Articles/871866/ This is also nothing to do with Samba which is a well trodden path. So wh
14. 734.▲
    by gerdesj 1y ago

    When I was a lad we bought tickets at a booth. Just saying ...
15. 735.▲
    by gerdesj 1y ago

    I've got Ubuntu 22.04 lying around that still update because they are LTS. Ubuntu has a well publicised policy for releases and you will have obviously read them. Try do-release-upgrade. You also mention "OS supplied from a vendo
16. 736.▲
    by gerdesj 1y ago

    I understand why people use RH and Rocky and even Oracle: the rpm wranglers. However its not for me. My earliest mainstream distro was RH when they did it just for fun (pre IBM) and then I slid slightly sideways towards Mandrake. I starte
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    by gerdesj 1y ago

    "Issued in 1972 in a set of seven, the stamps are miniature, one-sided, 33 1⁄3 rpm vinyl records playable on a standard turntable. You peeled off the backing paper and stuck them on an envelope or postcard. Content includes Bhutanese f
18. 738.▲
    by gerdesj 1y ago

    "Microsoft Regional Director" We can debate semantics but if you describe yourself with a job title attached to a company then I suggest that you have an association which looks rather like ... employment.
19. 739.▲
    by gerdesj 1y ago

    Your identity isn't a problem! Its the password bit.
20. 740.▲
    by gerdesj 1y ago

    "He should partner with a law firm" He is a Microsoft employee.
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    by gerdesj 1y ago

    Weather forecasts are based on models and extrapolation based on a lot of factors. I'm not too certain but I think that the smallest weather model cell size is about two miles squared or perhaps cubed - I don't know how the model
22. 742.▲
    by gerdesj 1y ago

    French is not Germanic. It's a Romance language, so closer to Spanish, Italian, Portuguese etc English, German and Dutch are Germanic.
23. 743.▲
    by gerdesj 1y ago

    English, Dutch and German are all ... Germanic. English is the weird one, except for the others.
24. 744.▲
    by gerdesj 1y ago

    Let's see what happens but I get that prior, demonstrable, actions are not conducive.
25. 745.▲
    by gerdesj 1y ago

    I've read the Google page "Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained" and it looks like all the usual bollocks. ... and sigh ... it look like I'm twiddling with a noddy!
26. 746.▲
    by gerdesj 1y ago

    You seem to be arguing that bollocks couched in flowery language is a stretch goal of AI. Are you sure?
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    by gerdesj 1y ago

    "and would limit carrier operations" Do you have any idea how small a carrier is when you are hypersonic at, say, 100,000 feet above sea level? And the bloody thing is moving too.
28. 748.▲
    by gerdesj 1y ago

    ... and good old school engineering. Proper job.
29. 749.▲
    by gerdesj 1y ago

    "@gerdesj your tone was unnecessarily rude and mean." "You" are not human.
30. 750.▲
    by gerdesj 1y ago

    "Rust is wonderful but humbling!" It's an abstraction and convenience to avoid fiddling with registers and memory and that at the lowest level. Everyone might enjoy their computation platform of their choice in their own way.