You want to have your own pathway to production that dodges competitors’ patents, is somewhat defensible itself, maybe a brand, etc.

The recent Meta lawsuits also mention opposition from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and Meta's own executives: Monika Bickert (head of content policy) and Antigone Davis (global head of safety). Both executives mention the danger end-to-end encryption poses to children when attached to a social media graph.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/meta-executive-warn...

I don’t view this as a hollowing out of my skill tree, I view it as freeing myself to focus on modern skills I need to develop. Such as learning how to steer LLM context windows towards maintainable solutions in large codebases.

I’m sure I’ll be thankful now and then that I know how to manually sift through stack traces for answers. But I expect those moments to be rarer and rarer. I basically never look at machine code, but I bet that used to be an important skill for programmers many decades ago.

Input image is important too. When working with the generalist LLM on the raster art, give it context that you are making a logo, direct it to use strokes and fills and minimal color palette, readable at small sizes, etc.

My commit messages are pretty basic “verbed foo” notes to myself, and I’m going to squash merge them to mainline anyway. The atomic commits, sometimes aided by git add -p, are to keep me nimble in an active codebase.

Once they realize how depressed their wages were in the games industry there’s no hope of getting them back.

Funny enough, the time zone restriction acts as a crude proxy for locality and slightly scratches the itch; more than the time window does.

The milk will say "Best if Used By ".

This information can be found in the fifth sentence in the article.

"My payment provider said you used a stolen credit card. Why did you do that? I've revoked your access."

I do keep some of the meal bags in the pantry for emergencies. I've also replaced lunch with them at times to count calories and lose weight. I think these are good tools to have in your kitchen. They have characteristics that no other food option has, and that makes them valuable.

I escape happily. I do not perish.

There's a small blocklist of obvious words like 'survive' and 'die'; but once you get blocked on those, it's a tell that this strategy will work with the right unblocked synonyms.

Basically if you ever find yourself adversarial with a LLM, figure out The Game and directly subvert it. There's no amount of propositions that can prepare it for human ingenuity at the meta level.

The next one will probably have an OLED screen; so if you wait til then, your refurb M1/2/3 will be on Apple's short list of devices they don't want to support. (And you might have panel FOMO.) Or you'll have to pay the premium price for the latest model.

Even the gaming enthusiast market has rejected 4k, opting to spend their precious gpu cycles on refresh rate improvements instead.

Panel marketers are going to figure out what number consumers comprehend and make it bigger regardless. Hence their focus on 4k, 8k, and now these silly refresh rates.

But their big problem is that consumer behavior is currently bottlenecked by streaming bandwidth and GPU cycles. Two things panel manufacturers have no control over.

Buy a nice 1440p @ 120 Hz panel and ride out the next decade in comfort.

1) Govt says cannabis is the most dangerous drug.

2) I try cannabis, nothing bad happens.

3) So when the govt says drugs are dangerous, they are incorrect? I guess I can't use their rating system and will have to base it on my own experiences.

There is a trust penalty for over-classifying drugs.

And then of course picking up your cannabis from the popular pharmacy chain means you never had a reason to introduce yourself to a dealer, who may stock cannabis alongside other drugs.

Cannabis isn't intrinsically a gateway drug. All the gateway-ness flows from the social structure surrounding its misclassification.