Man, it’s disappointing how much influence tech already has on Trump. He seems totally captured

I know this is old news by now, but damn it this is a great song.

https://youtu.be/98FoEuBGOIU?si=JeyfFLGkY4XfpnGU

I definitely use it to ask questions and further my understanding. It can be amazing in that way.

But I avoid autocompletion or asking it to write my code directly. I force myself to ask questions as coherently as possible, as sometimes there’s a lot of learning in just figuring out what you’re trying to ask.

But letting it generate the code for me ends up degrading my skill and I feel worse at coding if I use it too much.

I recently decided I want to get very good at writing code and building things from scratch for myself.

Despite working in cybersecurity for many years now, I never got a solid, fundamental understanding of many core coding principles.

I started doing the courses at boot.dev to fix this and I have thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s such a well designed teaching platform.

I also thought the gamification parts of it were kinda cheesy at first but they are genuinely helpful to keep me going and is fun to play along with.

I appreciate you saying that. I’ve definitely learned to prioritize my own projects.

It’s also helped shift more focus back to my family, which has been excellent.

Oh yes, I learned SO much from it. I knew that my team was special and I soaked in every moment of it.

Sadly, I saw the decline coming and tried to help correct things, but as you alluded, it fell on mostly deaf ears.

It’s really taken the wind out of my sails. Our team was very mission driven and were close to accomplishing some very special things. To leave them undone has really hurt me.

Oh man, I feel it from the past 12 months 🤣

Not enough. I used to be on a team of incredible people who did amazing work, but VC fiat economics ruined it.

Palantir is such an evil company

Wasn’t he also trained by the military to build explosives? I thought I remember hearing that people were surprised the explosive was so rudimentary given his training.

I think the framing around AI is just an excuse to expand surveillance even further and LLMs are great for that.

I lived in DFW for 5 years. The one time it snowed while I was there was totally hilarious. I purposely stayed home because the number of car accidents was completely bonkers.

Ah sick, thanks!

Do you know of any podcasts that go deep on this? I conceptually understand what you mean, but having trouble understanding why insurance would have this big of an impact

Ok, I’m one of those people. What is the importance?

The state of security at SaaS/tech companies is becoming so bizarre to me. It’s more about buzzwords and fear mongering than pragmatic engineering to solve real issues.

So often, it feels like a giant performance that we’re putting on to trick customers and other companies to trust us.

The problem is, it’s very hard to verify anything at a technical level since most SaaS is closed source, but the actual code is just one small snippet of a companies security posture.

I’m very curious to explore how #Nostr could completely change the way consumers interact with software that they trust with sensitive data.

#cybersecurity

lol I played this on my phone long enough for the browser to crash and my phone got quite warm. That was pretty fun

Idk if starting with Rust is the best idea. It might be better to learn another language first. But, I’ve not tried rust as of yet.

Unbearable hype man

Exactly right. And openAI is burning cash at an absolutely astonishing rate

Ya, honestly I’m open to that idea too. I could probably make better use of the presets in primal to do this.