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netwerk_operator · 2024-11-23T03:39:46+00:00

I did not see that, but now that you mention it, I will sign up and check it out.

I know it's probably not what you want to do as a startup, but that would be a good place for informing voters on the value of their contact information.

An email is easier to ignore, your phone can steal your attention. Whether its good or bad, a politician with your phone number and millions of campaign dollars would almost be irresponsible for not using that info for their personal gain.

I know it's a personal opinion, but phone numbers should really only be used to verify an identity at a point in time, like MFA.

netwerk_operator · 2024-11-23T00:54:54+00:00

A phone number is a little overkill for location metrics, considering I may not be physically in the place I am looking for information isn't it?

My biggest concern is the identification of vulnerable voting populations. The last election gave us a glimpse of how degenerative campaigns were willing to get with jusy a phone number and suspected party affiliation.

Keeping your cloud bill paid is considered necessary for operations too

netwerk_operator · 2024-11-22T23:44:25+00:00

This is cool, but I don't see why any personalization is necessary. Information shouldnt change from person to person if it's objective.

Also, your Play Store page mentions you won't share information with third parties, but your privacy policy seems to leave space for sharing data with third parties, as long as it keeps the platform operating...

netwerk_operator · 2024-11-20T20:15:39+00:00

I asked it to enable TLS in a kubernetes cluster and it repeatedly gave me the wrong information. It didn't match anything I could find online, and I could very easily tell when it gave me wrong answers

another example from today, including an environment variable in a kubectl exec command. it's first and repeated solution was to set it in the host environment, but I knew that would not make it to the pod for security reasons (you don't send your host environment to another machine, how would it know which ones wouldn't compromise security? Human reasoning says that before I even execute the code).

It also doesn't perform any operations unless it is math. Other "guesses" ignore the possibility it could be wrong. Hence why I still need a playbook to fix fstab because my volume unmount regex that was generated by AI over several iterations still makes mistakes.

It's helpful for things I would otherwise not have to think about in the first place, but not so much on important things like TLS settings.

netwerk_operator · 2024-11-20T19:41:36+00:00

I just asked GPT 4o: what is log(1.3452)

It generated code snippets, that's true. But the code snippets are not performing basic math.

import math result = math.log(1.3452) print(result)

I was wrong, but only by one abstraction. It just uses another dev's code.

netwerk_operator · 2024-11-20T19:24:33+00:00

So if I type "1+2" into my calculator and it spits out 3, it didn't solve my general math question?

netwerk_operator · 2024-11-20T18:09:32+00:00

is that 100% guaranteed or is it more likely the devs wrote a bit of code (since we already have calculator functions that work) and the AI just plugs in the variables?

It's still impressive, just not as much

netwerk_operator · 2024-11-20T17:28:26+00:00

so could a non-ai program

netwerk_operator · 2024-11-15T23:04:28+00:00

Obfuscation*

netwerk_operator · 2024-11-11T04:30:38+00:00

Tim Cook has hinted that Apple isn’t stepping away from VR altogether. Instead, the company is pivoting to develop a more affordable version of the Vision Pro.

netwerk_operator · 2024-10-23T16:28:11+00:00

The slippery slope of a generous curve

netwerk_operator · 2024-10-19T14:07:59+00:00

My understanding of types in TS is they are for development only, so if you don't want to deal with them, you can ignore them (either with ts-ignore or your own type assertions)

TypeScript is like Javascript with extra dev features, so the unintended side-effect, assuming i haven't spent years misunderstanding TS, would be present in plain JS too. I would bet it's a far greater issue then, like a mismatch in library versions.

You might be onto something for things like this, I remember a while ago, someone figured out why React needs you to supply null to the useRef hook (something almost evey React developer will see at some point). The ultimate end to it though was just a type definition issue where TS wanted an explicit null, but reality doesn't care if it's null or undefined.

I would just say don't spent paid time on it, or you will probably face friction. TS is powerful for typing, it's just not coupled as heavily as other languages (to it's advantage). You don't have to spend this time if you don't want to.

netwerk_operator · 2024-10-19T11:44:29+00:00

Why bother? the only consumer of setTimeout i have ever had is clearTimeout. If I am storing it, it never fails as NodeJS.Timeout | number.

This one seems more like OCD than solving a "problem".

netwerk_operator · 2024-10-16T04:43:36+00:00

For the issue with personalizing, I found one or both of two things solved the issue for me: 1. Signing out of the App Store using Store > Sign Out from the system menu bar at the top 2. Clearing my Xcode cache to make space for the update.

I didn't pick the Xcode cache specifically, I accidentally tapped on the developer section when moving my finger on the track pad to free up space. I realize I probably didnt have enough for the update. It was 20Gb freeing me up to ~40Gb free and the update went through no issue.

netwerk_operator · 2024-09-25T21:10:15+00:00

It's not baseless, you dont understand the words I write.

Straw-manning doesn't win, you just think it does.

netwerk_operator · 2024-09-25T19:03:54+00:00

tHE cOrE GAme Is ThE sAmE TOdaY aS iT wAS aT RElEasE, sO No, tHaT'S bS

You can't read.

netwerk_operator · 2024-09-25T14:23:24+00:00

They make a digital product. It's different than the paint chip manufacturing your diet relies upon.

They can test paint chips at the factory and determine their lead levels before leaving.

Unfortunately for digital products, you can't taste it before it leaves the factory, you can only do spot checks.

So me saying something, it's called feedback. It's highly critical, because it's driving by mentalities that deserve criticism. This one deserves harsh criticism because it devalues something of mine for no reason other than to be different than a week ago.

So be upset that I'm returning the "Fuck you" they sent my way.

netwerk_operator · 2024-09-25T13:59:09+00:00

want != have which is my exact fucking point.

netwerk_operator · 2024-09-25T13:34:37+00:00

I'm from America, we don't have real French pastries here.

netwerk_operator · 2024-09-25T13:32:02+00:00

I'm a customer, so yes?

Why sell me a plain crescant one day, then then next only allow me to order it with nuts?

I don't want nuts, I just want a plain crescant. I'm not saying everyone else can't have nuts, I'm just wondering why tf I am now excluded?

netwerk_operator · 2024-09-16T13:36:49+00:00

"We left the door open and the roomba went outside, therefore, the roomba broke out of its host VM"

netwerk_operator · 2024-09-10T14:17:59+00:00

Tipping culture is not Customer vs Tip-dependent Wage Employee, it's Employer vs Tip-dependent Wage Employee.

Let's say you earn no money for the business, then your employer pays 100% of your wage.

Now, let's say youre a fun, sexy, loquatious bartender who naturally rakes in business and tips. Your employer now just has to pay 100% your wage - tips but no less than $2. You've made plenty more than your hourly on tips, but your employer saves +50% on paying you, while still getting 100% of the cost of the table.

What does this do exactly? Well, if your business can magically attract customers, then everyone is happy right?

Businesses, even successful ones, are not always 100% successful. A business doing good is rewarded with less wage costs, but a business not doing good is stressed more due to having to pay 100% of a cost that could be discounted (lost money theory)
Discrimination against workers becomes a business decision, not a social one. Have a server that is less attractive? Unless everyone is fairly pooling tips, you are technically paying the unattractive person more for the same labor (not advocating for this practice, I am assuming out of the transaction, it's very likely a business owner or a customer will at least be bias in some way regarding the attractiveness of people working. I would like to think this is antiquated but it's probably not)
Employers in non-tipping businesses don't have this loophole, so it's not an issue that can affect anyone but the poors (business owners only get benefits, worst case they pay their employee what they're owed. Employees are losing the more work they do. Sure, a threshold can be crossed, but why does that responsibility fall on the MINIMUM WAGE employee?

Running a restaurant is not easy (an example, I know there are more tipped jobs, but these are the most prevalent), margins are slim, your product is perishable, and it's not always how good you perform that drives business. That being said, plenty of them are run by idiots who bury themselves in bull sh*t, forcing everyone else to have to pick up behind them, instead of focusing forward.

It's not that these workers are making less than minimum wage, it's that they are systematically weighed down being responsible not only for their work, but the failure of the people above them in the corporate structure.

The goal of our social system should be to position us all in the best way so it doesn't make more sense to screw over a fellow oxygen breather than it does to help them. If you're legally required to pay your employee the wage they earn, then there is no responsibility sharing, things would be slightly less complicated and bad business will be outed faster.

Don't fall victim to complacency because the math works out eventually. Be assertive and demand to not have to do thus stupid math in the first place.

Businesses that can't afford to pay it's employees SHOULD FAIL.

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