My frustration is that no one is validating AI output, at least on my team. We’ve mostly been working on CVEs recently. I won’t deny that AI has accelerated the process, in that instead of spending large amounts of time researching problems and applying the fixes manually, I can just copy and paste the answer it provides … But generally the answer is text like “updated the vulnerable package,” even though we haven’t (because usually the updated package isn’t available, to continue this example).

Many on my team are experienced and competent and even those people are just relying on the CI pipeline to validate for them, but so far as I can tell it just checks to see whether the vulnerability is mentioned in the configuration files.

Some of the team members are new. I’m 100% certain they’re just copying and pasting.

I am experienced. I was trying to do the job right by validating before I made entries, but I was repeatedly chastised for being slower than the people who are just copying AI output. My company hasn’t outright said but has heavily implied “if the customer [who provides the validation pipeline] doesn’t care, why should we?”

Can you also talk to my employer’s IT department?

Really, it’s probably true of most things that are scored. (There are probably exclusions for things you want to bend but not cut.)

That looks like the Rocketeer.

They’re not nice.

They’re superb.

Everything is made up and the points don’t matter.

I am not and never have been in possession of a vagina, so please don’t think I’m trying to tell anyone who is their business. That said, I saw diva cups being discussed and strongly recommended on reddit ten to fifteen years back and suggested one to my wife, then girlfriend, since everyone who said they had used one also said they were a much better experience.

She was resistant at first and I didn’t push since it’s her body, but apparently she took the recommendation to heart because one day one showed up at our house (not my doing) and she’s used them continuously (when needed) since then.

She has occasionally described their workings, in humorous terms, to me. I approve because she’s happier and they create less waste.

edit: To be clear, while I do approve, I didn’t mean to imply that it was a deciding factor.

Nice!

My primary laptop has a physical slider that slips an opaque cover over the integrated camera. It’s so subtle that I didn’t notice it until I’d owned the laptop for at least a year.

Looking up the exchange rate, that’s between 3-4x my already rather lavish home, which I’m very grateful to occupy and terrified of losing. Canadians must be doing well. Good for y’all!

You have a $1.4m home? Dang.

My parents heartily believed in honesty. Even regarding mythological figures, they basically said “some people believe in them, some don’t” and tried to provide context for me to decide myself whether to believe. My kid hasn’t brought this up much but when they do I try to emulate the same behavior.

However, when I was in second grade, my teacher told me there is no such thing as negative numbers. Looking back on it, she was trying to teach remainders. She asked what you would get if you took seven pencils away from five pencils. She intended to say you can’t have negative two pencils, which I acknowledge, but that and some other stuff she said and did disillusioned me with public education for a long time.

Someone so consistently responding to themselves is pretty entertaining.

I find it offensive that no one here has mentioned Rachel.