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I'm a developer who was made redundant, and I'm now casting around for an entirely new job because, likewise, I have no interest in working with AI. It sounds boring, and the concept squicks me out, to be honest.

Out of interest what kind of fields are you looking at?

I expect there are going to be a bunch of people in similar situations to you over the next few years, I'm interested to know where they end up.


I'm reminded of the "MongoDB is WebScale" video:

    as of this moment I
    officially resigned from my job as
    software engineer and will take up work
    on the farm shoveling pig shit and
    administering anal suppositories to sick
    horses because that will be a thousand
    times more tolerable than being in the
    same industry as dipshits like you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

Amazing to re-watch

> "I cannot wait to castrate a 3000 pound bull as it kicks my head in"

How I feel about merging an AI-generated PR these days and waiting for the issues


> "You turn it on and it scales right up"

is my favorite quote from the video.


I've never seen an ATM which took money in envelopes. Does it just take on trust the amount until it's verified by an employee counting it later?

Remember that we're talking many years ago, in the previous century.

The only way to "automatically" deposit cash was to put it into an envelope and then drop it in the machine. IIRC, you used to write the total amount on the outside of the envelope, together with your bank account information.

The machine was emptied at regular intervals, the envelopes were transferred to the bank, and an employee was manually opening them, verifying the amount, and credit your account.


Ah, I've seen that, but there was no ATM. You could just drop the envelope into a box in the bank (to skip the queue at the counters). No way to deposit out of hours, though. The ATM system would have been better.

I have heard that the human trainers for early LLM models were overwhelmingly from West Africa, so some of the word choices reflect that, including a preference for the word delve. This now means that humans from that part of the world are now frequently unfairly suspected of being AI.

I was made redundant (from a web dev job) a couple of years ago, and have been looking for a new job. But the thought of coding with an LLM gives me the heebie jeebies. The very idea makes my skin crawl. I think I need to find a new industry. I don't yet know what.


Slack as an independent app is easy to find, and the icon shows when I have unread messages. Slack in a browser tab is one tab among the hundred or so open in one of my three browser windows. And there's no icon to show unread messages.


OnlyFans isn't just about erotic content. Porn is available elsewhere, cheaper. The platform really is designed to push parasocial relationships. I think it's probably less healthy (for the consumer) than normal porn.

(Possibly less healthy for the performer, too, but it's hard to balance that against the problems performers often have in exploitative studios.)


Messages to clients are presumably handled by the agency, not the performer.


The vast majority of performers on OnlyFans don't have an agency, do they?


What a weird idea. I've found the Typst forum very helpful a number of times. I've never yet engaged willingly with an LLM, and do not intend to.


Is Titter a US company, or is the US government working for Twitter?


Please tell me that first typo was intentional...


I must admit that it was not.


Most of the big names campaigning against immigration are themselves credibly accused of sexual assault. We can see through your mind games.


Even if that is correct. It only means they have enough domestic supply of that kind of person, and there is no need to import more.


Care to elaborate without moving the goalposts?



Does it support amsmath?


I think so, but I'm no expert in typesetting mathematics.


That's not exactly encouraging... My biggest gripe with typst is the various design choices which make writing maths much harder than LaTeX (and given many of the issues with LaTeX usability come from having to use poorly maintained legacy packages, not having basic functionality in the core of the replacement seems naive at best).


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