"Good intentions" can easily pave the road to hell. I think a book that quickly illustrates this is Animal Farm.

Part of learning to understand others means developing cognitive flexibility.

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I have always wondered what drives someone to enable elites who tend to so destructively prop themselves in society at the expense of others. Surely it can’t be only money or power? So is it influence alone?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushim_(Uruk_period)

I had success extracting the existing conversation and adding it to a new window, but gave up after trying to modify the ChatGPT UI (i.e. to format what I'd just pasted in so it'd look like the conversation left off where I branched). The UI just kept re-rendering/re-painting itself non-stop, overriding what I changed. I didn't try to push past that. I'm sure I could use JS or something else to massage the UI further, but it didn't seem like a non-trivial task. Maybe something to look into some weekend.

https://github.com/lulzury/got-branch-convo

After blocking like 1000 accounts and adding tons of words to my mute list, and seeing the same crappy timeline, I finally just deleted my account and joined Bluesky. Browsing Bluesky honestly feels like a breath of fresh air.

i.e. you did not get enough sleep, you are feeling sick or just feeling tired

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And if so, why can't we just solve that problem using some sort of decentralized solution?

Complexity (Section 2): Complexity is the root cause of most problems with software. The danger of complexity comes from its impact on our attempts to understand a system. Being able to think and reason about our systems is of crucial importance. Simplicity is hard.

Approaches to Understanding (Section 3): Testing and Informal Reasoning are two common mechanisms used to try to understand systems. Improvements in informal reasoning can lead to less errors being created, while improvements in testing can lead to more errors being detected. Testing alone is inadequate because while it can be used to show presence of bugs it can never show their absence. When considered next to testing and reasoning, simplicity is more important.

Causes of Complexity (Section 4)

State: Complexity arises from the presence of many possible states of a system. It is difficult to conceive, describe, and test large number of different states of a system. Informal reasoning relies on case-by-case mental simulation of behavior, which buckles as the number of scenarios grows. For every bit of state we add, we double the total number of possible states. The more we can do to limit and manage state, the better

Control: Control is concerned with the order in which things happen. Control is almost always an implicit part of the language and forces the programmer to specify control. Subtle and hard-to-find bugs can happen when reader assumes specified ordering is significant when it is really not.

Concurrency: Concurrency results in adding further to the number of scenarios that must be mentally considered. We can no longer be assured of result consistency in the presence of concurrency, even with known initial states.

Code Volume: Code volume is the easiest form of complexity to measure. In most current systems complexity exhibits nonlinear increase with size of code.

Other: Complexity breeds complexity - complexity is introduced as a result of not being able to clearly understand a system. Simplicity is Hard. In the absence of language-enforced guarantees, mistakes (and abuses) will happen. The more powerful the language the harder it is to understand systems constructed in it.

Out of curiosity, is the primary reason you don't recommend fixing the nonce issue in this specific case due primarily to the pitfalls in doing so or is it more nuanced and related to the general issues mentioned in the articles above?

A naive perspective could be that one uses AES-GCM because it is used in so many places, such as TLS or SRTP, and someone who is not very well versed in cryptography assumes it can be the way to go.

Does personal information get sent to OpenAI or Claude as part of the functionality? Can users request deletion of their data, and if so, what is the process? Are there specific protocols in place to ensure security? (i.e. Do you use encryption at rest?).

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/texas-fights-goo...

The grass is always greener on the other side. I promise you the work at these "high-quality" places is no more glamorous than that being done at other places.

Maybe the position at the other firm, although smaller, might end up being a different, maybe even better experience?

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