so not very vague at all.
Literally the first sentence is of the definition you posted is vague.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that codifies some of the rights and freedoms of all human beings.
Some of the rights and freedoms? So, yeah, “not very vague at all”.
On the other hand I’ve never made any bones about the fact that I work to develop good products and if someone can make money on that good for them, but I fight for the best design for end users I can.
Your entire comment nailed it for me. Thank you for reading between the lines of my snarky annoyance and expressing it more eloquently.
I also love internal tooling and worked at shitty, bizarre places (General Dynamics, for one. Speaking of “places you’ve never heard of,” right?), and literally the entire reason to work there is to try make it better for the people who use the thing. Not doing that is preposterous to me!
Somehow the original author ignored the only thing I would care about. Or it’s there and I missed it.
If I were a better developer, would I have worked on more products people love? No
There you go, justify your shitty work.
If you were a better person, you would work on better products.
You choose where you work and what you work on. The fact that you went from Zendesk working on a shitty product to Microsoft working on a shitty product is definitely about you.
In fact, a reliable engineer ought to be comfortable working on products people hate, because engineers work for the company, not for users.
“It’s ok that I work at shitty companies! They pay me more”
I turn off notifications for every device I have, other than things like text messages.
I don’t know how people can stand all the badges and stuff.
Me: This is an ad, it’s crazy that people will engage in something that’s clearly an ad, they’re feeding right into it. It’s a cult mentality.
You: I hate you!! SCREEEE
You couldn’t have proved my point more. Someone even upvoted you because it was a shot at AI. The cult is so strong you can’t even tell you’re in it.
I’m glad you have an outlet for your impotent rage, but do you have to be so pathetic? Your mental age is showing.
I’ll take pretentious though, because I am better than you.
People will upvote anything if it takes a shot at AI. Even when the subtitle itself is literally an ad.
Codestrap founders say we need to dial down the hype and sort through the mess
The cult mentality is really interesting to watch.
TIL he played on the Bravely Default soundtrack!
It’s funny that they define HR (a common acronym), C2 (command and control), and BYOD (Bring Your Own Driver), but don’t bother explaining EDR.
That’s hilarious.
“Every credential that was in Moltbook’s Supabase was unsecured for some time,” Ian Ahl, CTO at Permiso Security, explained to TechCrunch. “For a little bit of time, you could grab any token you wanted and pretend to be another agent on there, because it was all public and available.”
Last month, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth was asked about the AI agent social network in an Instagram Q&A. He said he didn’t “find it particularly interesting” that the agents talk like us, since they are trained on massive databases of human material. Rather, Bosworth was intrigued by how humans were hacking into the network, which was not a feature but a large-scale error.
It’s telling that Meta is still impressed by this kind of bullshit. None of this is particularly interesting.
What’s funny is, we literally already have helicopters that rich people seem to use to get places.
These flying taxis are the exact same thing.
It’s a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist, which is why it pretty much never takes off (no pun intended).
I’m afraid I’ll get less careful as I gain experience and my comfort level increases.
This is exactly what happens! Or maybe one day you’re just extra tired or something. Mistakes happen. That’s a huge reason backups are so important, even in professional settings. Humans make honest mistakes, and that’s ok.
That’s actually why I like the knife analogy, because if you’re using a sharp knife, eventually you might get a cut. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be using the sharp knife (oftentimes you have to!), it’s just important to remember that it’s sharp. And to not blame yourself too much if you do get cut.
I tried to do everything I could to delete it normally, but it wouldn’t let me. In hindsight I wonder if rsync gave the ownership of the backup to the root or something…
Oh if I remember correctly, rsync needs an argument to keep ownership! You have to run it as root, but -o will keep owners and -g will keep groups. -a does both and also keeps permissions.
As an aside, just to confirm, people talk about trying not to use rm -rf but that was the right thing to use! You don’t want to confirm “yes, delete that file” every time.
Oh for sure, they’re taking big tech’s lead.
Tech has been blaming AI for layoffs for a couple years now, when they hired an insane number of people during and after COVID. They literally hired to lay off. I found this graph illustrative of the boom and bust.
The people in this administration love when tech can get away with something (see the Cambridge Analytica scandal around 2016) because they will too.
It makes a lot of sense that they would.
Especially since I believe other major social media companies (Facebook; the service formerly known as Twitter) don’t care at all about bots and seem to want to use them as valid replacements for swathes of users or content generators.
Your rm -rf reminded me of one of my mistakes.
I know everyone’s probably already heard about stories like this, but one terrifying mistake I made in college was a fat-fingered rm -rf / home/whatever.
I didn’t notice the space before hitting enter, so it started happily deleting system files from /.
I killed it pretty quickly, and then was able to re-download the files I accidentally deleted by hand, one by one, while the computer was running. It felt like I was changing a tire of a car while it was driving.
So I try to think of that kind of thing as a sharp knife. Cut carefully.
Doesn’t mean I didn’t also delete an entire customer database a few years later but at least that one was backed up! Horrible feeling. lol
Good news! They mention it right in the article.
We found that people are generally overconfident in their political knowledge, especially those who truly don’t know much about politics (the classic Dunning-Kruger effect),” the researchers detailed. The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias where people with limited knowledge in a specific area greatly overestimate their own competence, often because they lack the expertise needed to recognize their own mistakes.
Yale’s own article about the study:
https://news.yale.edu/2026/03/03/ais-hidden-bias-chatbots-can-influence-opinions-without-trying
Thank you!
I actually wondered if the article mentioned that and I just missed it. I went back to check and apparently missed it twice.
I’m genuinely surprised they’ve been able to handle the traffic for this long. The numbers are staggering!
Yes I imagine that’s almost always the case.
It would be fun from a chaos perspective to just suddenly limit those who are making too many calls.
Maybe it wouldn’t be that chaotic and builds would fail, but I still like the idea.
Charging is a good idea.
In any case it would not be crazy to rate-limit. If you’re downloading the same 10,000 components a million times, you deserve to be limited.
Legitimately was going to say the same thing. Who would ever download this garbage?
The narcissism is embarrassing.