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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Nah I wasn’t suggesting he’s innocent, I haven’t invested myself enough to form an opinion and the details seem murky and all over the place.

    I was genuinely just curious if that could’ve been a South Park search lol.

    And if it isn’t (and to your point, even if it is), why would someone technically savvy who knows they’re on probation and under surveillance perform that search?

    Was he probing to look for alerts or flags that went off for risky searches? Was it someone else on his device messing with him? Was he just being cheeky? Was he being sketchy?

    There’s too many possibilities and hence I’m not really suggesting he’s innocent or guilty.






  • The other thing with Stack Overflow answers, despite posters often being dicks, is that you got conversation on what the best method was and pros and cons of solutions, and you could ask clarifying questions and determine what the best solution was for your particular situation. And if someone had incorrect info, they’d often be corrected.

    In that sense, if you’re a person who actually thinks through the answers you’re receiving, you can make good use of LLMs but the cost of LLMs (the strain on our planet’s resources) isn’t worth the trade off. You also lose something in terms of how your brain functions when you rely heavily on LLMs imo, because it becomes very easy to lose some good habits.

    That said, if LLMs weren’t such a strain on the planet and weren’t tainted by corporate greed, I would love them as they are a great force multiplier for a worker that knows what they’re doing.



  • Honestly I used to get this, now I just focus on what tangible deliverables I have and if I’m getting them done in a timely manner. If I am, I take whatever time I need away from work.

    I also like working flexible hours. Sometimes meetings bog me down and I have trouble constantly context switching (there’s something called a context switching cognitive penalty). So on those days I’ll relax in between meetings (other than some minor maintenance and meeting prep work), and then I’ll get some work done after hours when I’m feeling more focused and won’t be interrupted. Though this may not be possible for everyone with family obligations.

    Finally, find some fun projects to do at work in between other obligations. Doesn’t have to be some major thing, but sometimes I’ll find an opportunity to develop minor tooling to help myself or my team. I try to find things that will also develop my own skillset.

    Bonus is that a lot of my side projects get brought up during my performance review.

    The above makes it sound like I work way more than 40 hours a week, I definitely do not lol. But doing things at my own pace lets me get all my work done and then some, and I have a work life balance.