Activity Log
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 07:55
Some dang good guidelines on using an LLM as editor and interactive rubber duck.
The names are distractingly surface level and brand-specific. But if you can mentally scrub and replace with generic equivalents, the tips are gold.
via @luis_in_brief
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 08:00
@luis_in_brief Ah, that’s nifty. I’m unfamiliar with the app, so with the heavy focus on brand names I assumed some kind of partnership or integration. Will edit!
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 08:19
Sunrise was pretty today.
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 12:21
Filling out a generic personality evaluation for a retail employer. One of the questions to rank myself on is “I am comfortable adapting to new technology.”
You have no idea.
#FediHire
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 12:28
@Johannab “I will break your expensive new devices within 45 seconds. Oh stop quivering. They needed breaking.”
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 12:28
@Johannab …I should consider QA roles.
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 12:58
@grmpyprogrammer yep every human representative of these bots has shown they have no idea of boundaries or civility.
.htaccess and a sharp eye on the logs is the closest I can get to robots.txt for the real world.
I suppose with a little imagination one could get closer, but that might risk violating a few laws.
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 15:16
Thing about living in Tucson as a professional nerd is you get reminded about the tech job market that predates corporate surveillance and capturing eyeballs.
“… looking for a self-starter to join us as we develop augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) training solutions…”
oh interesting
“…for A-10C Thunderbolt II pilot training at Davis-Monthan AFB”
ah yes
i forgot about ye olde military industrial complex
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 15:28
Microsoft pivots from FA to FO
Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI Ars Technica
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 15:49
@ilmari I’d looked before we moved, saw some interesting openings, and then forgot all about it in the chaos of moving. Thanks!
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 18:11
@WuMargaret I’m not sure which unnerves me about the prospect more: the ethical ramifications or the paperwork required for clearance.
I mean
Definitely the ethical ramifications, but the paperwork is intimidating.
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 18:55
Peter Jackson put an elf-dwarf romance in The Hobbit but only Rankin-Bass had the integrity to give Tolkien’s music the cool riffs it deserved.
The Return of the King (1980) - Where There’s a Whip, There’s a Way - YouTube
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 18:56
oh sorry spoiler alert: Peter Jackson’s Hobbit was expensive well-cast garbage.
Should’ve led with that maybe.
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 19:15
@dys_morphia well that is completely optional. The drawings were lovely, the animation was iffy. But Rankin-Bass Hobbit and ROTK remain my favorite adaptations for music and feel.
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 19:17
@drwho Heck, I’ll apply. If they hired me I’d be the best junior backend dev they ever had.
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 19:43
@structuregeek we might have to watch again. I haven’t seen either Rankin-Bass adaptation in many many years.
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 19:45
@drwho it’s a really good recommendation actually. I have loved working with biotech and medical tech orgs in the past, and we moved to Tucson so I could be comfortable on less than $175k.
Seattle area ain’t no SF but it was honkin’ expensive.
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 19:47
@ceejbot spam spam spam spam spam spam spam newsletter spam spam wonderful spam lovely spam oh shit that was a relevant email
Well that’s the personal email. Work was more slack slack slack slack jira slack jenkins jira oh shit that was a PR request
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 19:51
@structuregeek I love the voices in Bakshi’s version, and the coke-fueled rotoscoping experimentation. But I would not want to watch it again.
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 19:52
@genehack June.
The real herald of late spring in the Puget Sound right there, the fruit fly.
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 19:55
@genehack I vaguely recall them being less of a thing in Bremerton, on the West side of the Sound. But soon as I hit Seattle, and also in Federal Way, it was a constant annoyance. Little soaped-up jars of vinegar everywhere.
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 19:56
@farah desert, but yeah.
And here we are.
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 19:57
@genehack I think it’s related that most of the King County side was wetland, with Seattle itself mostly being mud with delusions of grandeur.
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 20:43
Adam Millard does some of the most enjoyable game analysis and philosophy videos I’ve ever seen, and he just dropped one on Rimworld.
I’ll save the tab as a little treat when I’m done with my current task.
How YOU Wrote Rimworld’s Best Story - YouTube
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 20:48
Advice I gave about a cover letter today, that is going to haunt me every h*ckin’ time I write my own cover letter, apparently.
“This bit sounds like a disclaimer, and you don’t need one.”
#FediHire
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 20:55
@vantablack I honest to goodness don’t know how else to post, which makes me so happy to have found so many bubbles within the Fediverse that support and encourage such shenaniganery.
hackers.town: 2024-06-13 Thu 21:00
@Johannab I’ve watched that clip more than a hundred times with more than a dozen captions, and it finally registered that this bird’s actions were laden with intent.
It didn’t give a tweet about the keys. It wanted the plastic bowl barrel dive.