JFC how many novel-length emails do you get in a week?
I think a more constructive way to handle this problem is to train people to write better emails.
gerikson
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They suck at technical explanations too, unless it's a Wikipedia link.
Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged:
CryptoPunk sells for a fraction of its likely market price due to zombie smart contract
Sounds like a great solution people will be prepared to pay OpenAI $100B in the future for, and not at all like an incremental upgrade over StackOverflow with extra ecocide added.
JFC that's a horrifying story
This was before I was made redundant ,which happened for unrelated reasons and was ok.
I worked at a startup. Before I started, the company had an NT server running Exchange, which contained all customer relationship data, emails etc. The box was also a fileserver. One day, space was running out. The "admins" (== developers who only knew Linux) solved the problem by deleting all the "*.log" files cluttering up the filesystem, thereby effectively lobotomizing Exchange.
After some weeks a highly-paid consultant gave up. The company needed a new email server.
The devs decided to use qmail, because "secure". To translate between the firstname.lastname@company.com address to the firstname_lastname directory, a Perl script was inserted between qmail and the mailboxes. As time went by, this Perl script metastized to include email renames and even out of office replies. It grew to ~300 lines and was run on every single email that arrived.
After a while we got acquired by grownups who knew how to manage Exchange. I discovered that if an email was misplet, it wasn't bounced, instead it was forwarded to root's email account, which was a couple of gigs in size.
I swore to never touch email administration again.
Programmers hate programming and love code reviewing, right? Right?
EVE Online creator CCP announces a new game with BLOCKCHAIN and it's not going well:
Apparently they got investment from A16Z:
I almost made it but couldn't be arsed to replicate the explanation text
Was hoping to talk about it but i dont think im going to find that here.
If only you'd asked ChatGPT "is awful.systems a good place to fellate LLMs"
"AI, please summarize this LW"
"Certainly. Here is the summary: give all your money to Yud or burn in virtual hell forevermore"