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mattbrowndev, 26 days ago to random

(I work at Slack, opinions my own) A bunch of people are sharing viral social media posts saying that we train LLMs on customer data. It's a story that slots neatly into the hype/doom narrative around AI.

But it's not true — we even wrote a whole blog post about it last month: https://slack.engineering/how-we-built-slack-ai-to-be-secure-and-private/

Not discounting the other concerns around LLMs (e.g. hallucinations, environmental impact) that are totally legitimate.

cc @sebastian @derickr

chrishuck, 3 months ago to random

I kinda wish @siracusa hadn’t mentioned SDXL Lightning on the recent @atpfm

It is mind-boggling.

https://fastsdxl.ai/

ramsey, 3 months ago to random

Is there an easier way to understand Rust’s built-in data structures.

I’m reading code, and I see Box<T> (where T is obviously some other type), so I ask, “What is a box data structure?”

I look it up, and the Rust docs say, “A pointer type that uniquely owns a heap allocation of type T.”

That could be any number of data types. Why is this one called “Box?” What does it do that’s different from other pointer types? Is it the fact that it’s “uniquely owned?” What does that mean in practice?

ramsey, 3 months ago to random

I’ve always wondered whether Michael Caine makes an uncredited cameo in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life during the “Every Sperm is Sacred” musical number.

There’s a scene where Terry Jones is the priest performing a wedding, and the bride and groom have their backs to the camera, and they turn to look at each other and sing, “Every sperm is good,” and the groom’s face, from the side, looks like Michael Caine, to me.

stroughtonsmith, 3 months ago to random

One thing that does need an update, fast, is Apple's 30Hz hand tracking for games. Seeing it side by side with a Quest 3, with physical controllers updating effectively 1:1 with hand movements, rotations & more, it makes Apple's solution look so dated, clunky, and just plain bad. Apple’s skeletal hand tracking is the resistive touchscreen of VR input — controlling an OS with oven mitts. If Apple doesn't have a team working on physical controllers it's hard to see this platform having a 3D future

mekkaokereke, 4 months ago to random

My hot take on the Vision Pro is the same as my hot take on every AR/VR/Mixed Reality headset produced in the past checks notes 20 years: "If most women can't use your product for 4 hours straight without throwing up, don't try to tell me that it's the future of anything." I said what I said.

Women can use a smartphone indefinitely without nausea. They can use a laptop indefinitely. A gaming console and TV indefinitely. But XR headsets cause motion sickness in most women in under an hour. 🤷🏿‍♂️

ramsey, 6 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to php

Today, I was cut in layoffs. I’m so gutted because I loved this company, & my team was the best; I’ll miss my team most.

Now, as I look ahead, I’m searching for a staff/principal role where I can help other developers level-up through mentoring, tooling/infra, architecture, & improving DX. I’d love to work with a company contributing to open source & even to the #PHP programming language itself.

Update (27 Feb 2024): Thanks, everyone! I’ve accepted an offer. Please see update in thread below.