Your candidates aren’t mind readers though. If you want people to ask clarifying questions, you have to ask them things other than comp sci trivia questions.

I love when people call my long hair pretty. Bonus points of you follow it up by complimenting my beard

Some of the Ace’s that I go to have a popcorn machine that you can just grab free popcorn out of, so you’re not far off with the third space thing. Every time I’m in there I learn something new from one of the 70-year-old retirees that only have a job there to get out of the house, and desperately want to share their DIY home improvement knowledge. Last time I went an employee ended up pulling out his phone and showing me progress pics of his bathroom renno lol

You guys hiring? How’s your benefits package?

Awe that’s cute, trying to apply consistency across English words

But not too busy to show up in the token girl boss smackdown scene

During my computer engineering degree I was required to take enough math credits to earn a mathematics minor, and I learned the physics of transistors at a quantum level as part of the core curriculum. Do you think I can call myself an engineer, or should I limit it to just - what was the wording you used - oh yeah, syntax ape?

Social deduction games have never appealed to me and Among Us is possibly my least favorite iteration of any of them. I doubt people would even be talking about it if it didn’t hit big as a streamer game.

So are you saying you’d be ok with your personal property being searched without a warrant on the suspicion that you might own child porn?

The Aztek may be ugly, but at least it’s functional and practical, at least for the purpose it’s built for.

I want sex work to be legal and sex workers to enjoy the same standards and protections of any other worker. Forming a parasocial relationship with a fake digital entity should be way more harmful than paying for a sex worker’s services.

I… Yeah, I just said pretty much the same thing lol

Sure, that’s a very, very robust way of doing things. And I’m not trying to say what you’re describing is wrong either. I’m just saying that some places don’t have the knowledge/ability to set things up that way, so they play fast and loose with prod access. Couple that with giving LLMs free reign over the computer with those prod settings, and you end up in situations like in the original post.

It’s not unrealistic, is all I’m trying to claim. It’s a failure on several levels, but it’s not unrealistic.

Hopefully they’re not storing their production database in git lol. They should be taking backups of the database, but unless they’re making one after every transaction, permanent data loss is a real possibility.

Some places deploy to prod multiple times a day. Trying to coordinate access through a management server in situations like that can get cumbersome. It’s also easier to audit who’s doing what if they connect from their personal environment. Different strokes for different folks of course, but it’s certainly not uncommon to be able to connect to prod directly from a dev box.

Well, sure, but even if a developer correctly tests on a development environment, they still probably have prod settings laying around on their filesystem for the times where they need to put out fires in prod. That’s kinda what it looks like what happened here - the LLM found a .env file with prod settings, and used that config to run destructive tests. All the more reason to not give an LLM side wide reaching access to your computer, but it’s not necessarily an indication that someone regularly tests in prod.

They still do that to millennials. Boomers haven’t stopped berating us for not having houses or giving them grandchildren.

until you fundamentally change society by having strict fines, personal repercussions, and public shaming. . as well as education and wide spread access of disposal receptacles, and a waste recycling system that doesnt just dump 90% of its collected recyclables into a landfill.

Ayyy, thank you! I genuinely missed that snippet in the sea of you telling people they’re wrong.

It seems to me like you’re putting all your eggs into the “recycle” basket though, and ignoring the “reuse” and “reduce” baskets (which are just as important, and are much easier to address). Recycling is hard to do cost effectively, at scale, and can sometimes still be damaging to the environment anyways. Rinsing out your glass jelly jar or metal cookie tin and using them to store leftovers is really really easy. Why not acknowledge and focus on the easy stuff first, and maybe give ourselves more time to develop and refine the hard things like recycling? Who knows, maybe we get to a point where reducing consumption and reusing what we have is enough by itself, and we don’t even need to bother with recycling! Wouldn’t that be neat?

Do you think capitalism is a big driver in our disposable society? To me it seems like the main one. Capitalist economies have to keep money flowing to remain healthy, and the easiest way to do that is to constantly make new products for people to buy - new phones every couple years, new laptops, new computer parts, new power tools with new battery platforms that obsolete the old ones, new styles of clothing that obsolete the old styles, new cars that are better than the old ones, etc etc etc. If so, do you have any ideas on how to address that?

I made no such argument, overtly or covertly. You even remotely thinking that is a failure on your part, not on mine.

What are your constant references to how glass turns into sharp, scary shards that make it unsafe to walk barefoot then?

Your “argument” is hollow. Honestly, you haven’t really presented much of an argument at all. You’ve said absolutely nothing about how to address the disposable society problem, in favor of berating people for wanting to do things in the “wrong” order and dismissing our suggestions and ideas as band aids instead of engaging meaningfully. It’s self masturbatory and uninformed at best, and adds nothing useful to the conversation.

If you wanna talk about how to move away from a disposable society, we’re all ears. If you wanna continue being combative for no reason, I’m out.

Glass doesnt magically make society non disposable

I know, I didn’t claim that. You seem to be arguing against using glass at all though, which is stupid.

I understand that it’s only a small part of the solution. But it is a part of the solution, and should be advocated for, even if we don’t have all the pieces of the rest of a perfect solution in place yet.