I rewatch hickey talks anytime Im a little stuck on a big problem/idea and there's almost always another "ah ha" moment for me.

If the places i work were already on the JVM, i would have switched a decade ago, but I've been in .net world my whole career.

The problem is, they're nothing like transistors, and never will be. Those are simple. Work or don't, consistently, in an obvious, or easily testable, way.

LLM are more akin to biological things. Complex. Not well understood. Unpredictable behavior. To be safely useful, they need something like a lion tamer, except every individual LLM is its own unique species.

I like working on computers because it minimizes the amount of biological-like things I have to work with.

If anyone, or anything, ever answers a question like that, you should stop asking it questions.

2 Devs for companies can start working with proprietary OSes for the businesses they sell their soul to.

3 Who cares what apple is doing.

4 And systemd should not be liable for upholding any of them.

Then one day, I was trying to setup MySQL on a personal Linux machine, and it wouldn't let me use my "standard password" for the admin account. I knew I could just use a different one, but I really wanted to know what the problem was. Took a long time, and I don't remember how I figured it out, but I eventually tracked it to the password ending with '!!'.

It took a while to put it together, and I never confirmed with the dns host support it's what fixed the issue but, I changed my password there, tried the transfer again, and it worked without any help from support. I suspect my plaintext password played some part in a script used in the transfer process, and was outputting the previous command in place of the !! I wish I had asked them if that was it, but if it was, they would have to admit to having my plain text password, or lie about it.