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Eva @evaogbe.bsky.social · 1d

Cache invalidation is easy. Just use a cron job to periodically push a message into a message queue that the invalidation microservice can access to run a pseudorandom coin flip that will delete the cache and all its replicas when you flip heads. I'm going to crush this system design interview!

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Baconfat @mwelsh1977.bsky.social · 6d

I hear people of all types, techies, finance folks say “ai is going to”….but it’s here. Why aren’t they talking in present tense? We increased productivity by X..I don’t hear that. And I work in tech.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 6d

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 6d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Jonas Maaløe @jonas.so · 6d

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Eva @evaogbe.bsky.social · 6d

CSS is not statically typed. If broken CSS didn't compile, it would break the web

Eva @evaogbe.bsky.social · 6d

Using AI to code feels like the "AI fucks my wife" poem. I am genuinely surprised at the sheer breadth of programmers who turned out to not actually like programming

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Eva @evaogbe.bsky.social · 10d

sometimes . it . flip ping . looks . kinda . flip ping . cool . though . 🥺🥺🥺

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Eva @evaogbe.bsky.social · 10d

Outed as a Haskell noob 😭

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 11d

The AI bubble, which accounts for over a third of the US stock market, which exceeds the amount of consumer spending, which has literally warped the entire tech industry into an incestuous ponzi scheme of funding, is 17 times bigger than the dot com bubble.

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Eva @evaogbe.bsky.social · 10d

sometimes . it . looks . kinda . cool . though . 🥺

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phyphor @phyphor.one-dash.org · 11d

I have a sentient coin because I ask if it's alive, telling it that Heads is Yes and Tails is No.

I flip it and, would you believe, it says Yes!

But, what's really impressive, is that sometimes¹ it shows Tails, which proves that it is so smart it knows how to lie!

¹ about half, to be honest

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Halloween name @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 15d

"i just use it to generate ideas"

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Eva @evaogbe.bsky.social · 14d

baroque: mommy branch

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 16d

Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia

Tweet by David Sacks: "Wikipedia is hopelessly biased. An army of left-wing activists maintain the bios and fight reasonable corrections. Magnifying the problem, Wikipedia often appears first in Google search results, and now it’s a trusted source for AI model training. This is a huge problem."

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Eva @evaogbe.bsky.social · 15d

Jokes about CSS not being a programming language are zooming rapidly into the direction of jokes about how hard it is to center a div

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Eva @evaogbe.bsky.social · 16d

When the bubble pops, the companies will not have the money to spend on salaries because they already wasted it on AI. Products and services are just going to get worse and the pressure on the people who haven't gotten fired yet is going to increase. There will be fewer jobs than even now

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Eva @evaogbe.bsky.social · 16d

Seems like a recipe for flag explosion. Number(match) is not so much code

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Eva @evaogbe.bsky.social · 16d

I'm not exactly advanced in Haskell and I didn't realize it was possible to not consider it a function

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dan @danabra.mov · Jan 31

fern, with a bit of a sad face: "i would've been happy to learn any skill that allowed me to support myself"

"... it didn't have to be javascript..."

frieren replying: "but you chose javascript"

fern looking back with wide eyes, as if realizing something important

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Spoopy Angelos 👻 @arn.is · 18d

Here's a hypothesis: AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete.

AI could easily replace most management tasks: engagement metrics, OKRs, performance reviews, agile methods, innovation labs... You get it. Bullshit jobs as Graeber would say.

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Eva @evaogbe.bsky.social · 16d

npm install front-end

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Eva @evaogbe.bsky.social · 16d

Grid or flexbox?

Why pit two bad bitches against each other?

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Eva @evaogbe.bsky.social · 17d

My current position: people who hate Tailwind haven't tried it long enough and people who hate vanilla CSS haven't tried it long enough. They're both fine.

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Eva @evaogbe.bsky.social · 17d

Now that I've learned more about CSS from the likes of @alvaromontoro.com and @heydonworks.com, I made a small project with no Tailwind, just rawdogging CSS. It went fine?? I was expecting to struggle like before but I kinda liked not having an extra build step

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