So there are multiple people in this thread who state their job is to unfuck what the LLMs are doing. I have a family member who graduated in CS a year ago and is having a hell of a time finding work, how would he go about getting one of these "clean up after the model" jobs?
My leatherman was a little over a ton That thing must be huge!
In landfill, but not as raw material. If you didn't already know how to make bronze, for example, you'd have a hell of a time making new bronze based on old contaminated remnants.
The argument has been made that, even if another intelligence arises in 100 million years, there are multiple problems for them: the Sun will be burning hotter by then, easily accessible raw material will all have been used up (Cyprus is no longer covered in surface-level raw copper, for example), we'll probably irradiate the surface on our way out, etc.
That was kind of the author's point: that HTTP is so broadly specified, and at that point had so many unnecessary RFCs extending it, that you could halfway-sensibly write a hardware control protocol by HTTP alone even if that was a terrible idea.
Source: I wrote the tea-brewing extension to HTCPCP, which takes it another notch into the ridiculous.
Appreciate the linguistic lesson, thanks. I've always run on the modern Icelandic definition.
Appreciate the commitment to use of the thorn, but you know þ and ð are different sounds, right?
"þrough ðe Earþ" etc.
I occasionally come back to the time Colbert sat down with Anderson Cooper and they got onto the subject of the deaths of their parents; Colbert gave some deep answers, and Cooper went down a rabbithole afterwards of collecting stories about grief and the grieving process.
There's more to the man than the late-show format allows to show, certainly.
I've actually written exactly that before, when I needed to check the lowest bit in an SQL dialect with no bitwise operators. It was disgusting and awesome.
There's a short story (more of a novella) by Stephen Baxter on this exact topic, for what it's worth. Touching Centauri: https://www.e-reading.mobi/chapter.php/1035265/30/stephen-baxter-phase-space.html
Would you happen to be willing to throw work to random out-of-work devs who aren't in your city? I may know a couple over here in England...
Whenever I come across ASCII art in the comments, it's a good day. Here's one from the day job: