In sixth grade we got to go use the computer in the teacher’s lounge to print out a topic from encarta. At secondary school we had to sign a set of rules for using the computer lab. At uni we had a proper user agreement with the IT department. Mostly because we had multiuser systems, e-mail and webhosting at our disposal.

My kid is still a few years from starting school. I’m hesitant to sign any Google EULA on her behalf.

I fixed a test site earlier this week, where someone had decided to test against these for their docker CI.

example.org had an invalid certificate chain.

In the EU we’re limited to a 10% duty cycle for LoRa, so we’re screwed even without traffic.

I run it on a 6650xt just fine. I have to explicitly set what version I want, but no issues.

You should be in a better spot with a 6700xt.

It sure is!

In my case it’s vulnerable while I re-balance.

btrfs can work with mixed-size disks and change RAID-levels on-line, too.

I’m on RAID1 on btrfs, so I just rebalance and remove the disks as they break.

Damn. 2/8 drives in my array have died. I was going to replace them, but at this price point I might just delete some porn instead.

Or buy cloud storage.

My jr developer will eventually be familiar with the entire codebase and can make decisions with that in mind without me reminding them about details at every turn.

LLMs would need massive context windows and/or custom training to compete with that. I’m sure we’ll get there eventually, but for now it seems far off. I think this bubble will have to burst and let hardware catch up with our ambitions. It’ll take a couple of decades.

It’s like having a lightning-fast junior developer at your disposal. If you’re vague, he’ll go on shitty side-quests. If you overspecify he’ll get overwhelmed. You need to break down tasks into manageable chunks. You’ll need to ask follow-up questions about every corner case.

A real junior developer will have improved a lot in a year. Your AI agent won’t have improved.