Human in the loop
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What people call software factory is often a software sweatshop now
Underdesigned software delivered quickly for the next demo day, and just as quickly left in a software landfill
Factories plan ahead and control quality
The first two are programmer jargon for decades now. The last two I have never heard. Granted I am not in sf
Exactly. Selling in an interview is a two way street. If you apply to a high profile startup, they have already done their part. Now it's your turn.
In general, to have any shot at having a decent career in tech, learn to be proactive even when it’s not as painfully obvious (like here) that you need to.
Do your research before applying to a new place: you’ll learn a bunch if you do (and research w AI is much easier). If applying for a startup, build stuff that helps them, don’t just shoot an application (again, with AI if you know how to use it easier). Etc
Or just don’t, and complain how the market is tough… yea if you still work the same way you did in 2020
I might agree, but side projects are not just code, they could be hardware, crafts, sports, community work, politics etc. etc.
Single responsibility microservices were always a bad pattern. With AI development they are now fully deadly. So much new surface for attacks, and the constant need for deployment coordination. But a whole generation of developers doesn't know another way.
On YouTube a monologue of a guy who was fired from a "people manager" position. He says his job was to protect the team from noise, and his team underused AI because they were not given guidance on how to use it. Oh, buddy...
There is a big battle happening rn for enterprise and national AI budgets. So much that b2c market is basically left alone for now, that's why for a regular consumer it looks like nothing is changing.
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There's that beautiful artisan code that we had so much fun writing manually over the decades
Announcing 3 Critical vulns for hundreds of millions of IoT, Firewalls, OT, and Military devices including: Palo Alto Networks, Comcast, D-Link, HP, Canon, Honeywell, GE, Oracle, Siemens, Rockwell, Digi, Lockheed Martin, Boeing...
The vulns are with GoAhead Web Server which is a backend library used by these devices. There's a patch available from GoAhead but that doesn't mean there's a patch available for the devices yet -- that's up to the manufacturer.
- TLS traffic over DHE ciphers have a 1-byte secret, "04", meaning anyone can decrypt connections to these devices and steal login credentials and session tokens if the client negotiated with DHE ciphers like the latest TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256, which is extremely likely.
- LibreSSL mTLS has been completely bypassed, meaning anyone can connect over mTLS. If you have one of these devices listening on the internet and are expecting mTLS to protect it from attackers, take it offline or patch asap.
- OpenSSL Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) are not enforced, meaning if a user device is stolen or compromised, and you revoke that mTLS cert, nothing actually happens. There are a lot of other attacks this can be used for.
These are critical because these types of devices run our world. Water systems, electricity, military, firewalls, critical infrastructure.
foxio.io/blog/choose-your-ba…
Shameless ripoff of the famous search and rescue drones from Half Life 2
Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks.
By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time.
Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.
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Working on the battlefield look and feel today. Love how the backdrop looks now, but maybe the battle area itself needs a bit of detail
The reasons SR pays a lot more are:
1. It is infinitely automatable, so productivity of a programmer grows almost without limits, quickly.
2. It is an elastic target for investment. If you invest in a physical business you face much more initial costs and time before making returns.
I think many of us working in tech tend to forget that the reason software engineering vs other engineering fields pays (a lot!) more, is a lot more flexible (WFH/remote), and has better perks:
Because this field changes much faster than other engineering fields. The premium is because fewer people are able/willing to pick up new technologies, methodologies so quickly.
But the field had ~10-20 years of stability, and so lots of folks forgot this is why a premium exists. And that AI is just another tech wave: software engineers who pick it up and master it will generally fare better; those not will struggle a lot more.
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Life in the Valdheim valley never stops. Peasants till fields, merchants drive their caravans, robber baron plans raids, and you are hired to bring order to this land.
(setting of the demo campaign)
