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  I do want to state that there *ARE VALID* applications of LLMs. And I want to motivate why. I just don't have the energy right now to go and sit with Golang and write a packet handler again. I don't feel like doing it because it's a schlepp, and because it just makes me tired. I know how to do it, I am not in the mood for the debugging. Burn-out makes you really evaluate life choices. So I got Gemini to do it for me: What is striking here is that the code looks *very...

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  Still on the subject of AI. The millions of fools (journalists, tech bros, and others) use it in a manner typical of such- they don't care what they are doing as long as they meet a deadline and appease a shareholder. If AI is going to help me get the hard shit right (I cannot, and probably never will fully articulate anthropomorphic animals correctly, especially not hands), I am going to use it. There is a very big difference between getting AI to do ALL the work for you, and using it...

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  I get by with a little bit of help from my friends and good software. I myself am not sure if this is appropriate but @TopazRabbit will have to call it. It's over a year later and here we are.

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  I have been on the job market for two years now, and after being rejected in less than 24 hours after the recruiter spoke so highly of the company, he had a Freudian slip and sent me the actual conversation he had with the company. Based on this, and an earlier comment from a co-worker that actually was involved in my hiring at this despicable company I work for, in 2024, I declare myself done! The way forward will see me fight my way into creating a corporation from scratch, or taking up a tr...

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  Oh and one more thing... The CEO of my current Internet Service Provider sends me a nasty email because of this shit: https://sonic2k.neocities.org/sonic2k_router His company is not mentioned specifically, if anything the FTTH provider is the one I mention because it's them that's to blame. But wow.... just wow... I am slandering apparently...

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  Re: job rejection 2/2: I deleted LinkedIn this afternoon, I am not interested in that anymore. As to what I will do, probably run with the current job until I am laid off, which, in really optimistic terms is within 6 months. Those wonderful engineers in my workplace, them degreed BSc and Ph.Ds that can't even solder a wire, have basically ruined the company. First I will sort my health out, while there is still income, then, I will see how life pans out (and on whose couch my family...

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  @blogdiva@mastodon.social Pretty much this

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  @travisfw @actuallyautistic Regarding funding, I am on a downward spiral as I live far away from the first world and I have to struggle every month to pay my medication and all the living expenses. Then you have the Orange Man with his dictatorial tendencies causing international strife, making my life so much harder, because I live in the third world, so he tanks the exchange rate and the prices of things go up 3 x in a month. Not saying at all that only some of us struggle but yes... righ...

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  @g7izu South Africa. As for the damage caused during the 2003 storms, here's some material: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Failure-in-a-large-South-African-generator-transformer-three-weeks-after-the-Halloween_fig4_222557718

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  @g7izu The last time we had a G4 storm was Halloween 2003, and that thoroughly destroyed my computer at the time, it hit while I was asleep, and induced high voltages in my ethernet cabling. It also inflicted a lot of damage on our national grid, causing billions in damage to key national power grid transformers