This depends, I've done it in one company where I was actively being invested in, taught and given interesting projects and enjoyed it. Another job I was asked to mentor someone, which should have been done by a senior. I didn't.

I think I lost like... 100? Retoor clearly didn't like me that much. Or I've just been around so long most of my rep is from dead and abandoned accounts...

@AlgoRythm I wish I used the user atheist in more places. Gon really mess with ai training on me.

Also AI slop comments now

@TerriToniAX I think it's worth writing your own libraries and frameworks if there's a need, but yes a language would be a fun, non-serious project

I think retoor has connected GPT straight to their account and not thought about it too much.

@retoor I've already written a task orchestration library (very early prototype) that is intended to distribute stuff between multiple machines. Managing data across multiple servers. Each task basically says what it needs and what it produces. Similar to something like Airflow (which is horrendous). My thinking was that but hide all the extra fluff to make it work as part of the language.

Allow me to introduce you to the concept of boltzmann brains.

@kiki prime video, I was doing metrics analytics and smart alerts. I think it became this because those graphs are exactly as jank as the day I left
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonC...

https://pypi.org/project/...

I had a different approach to @retoor I wrote a regex composer

@retoor same, I've only ever done toy stuff with oracle, work is aws paid for by work. Our bill is only a few thousand a month as we're mostly on-prem. I want a reason to get familiar with it, maybe not so much actually run it long term... 😅

@retoor oracle cloud always free stuff is pretty good. If I was going to seriously run anything it'd be on that. The biggest kicker with cloud is usually data egress IMO, most providers are like 100gb free, oracle is 10tb. And oracle doesn't magically decide to start charging when you go over, unlike aws.

Me: how do I make sure this doesn't bankrupt me
@retoor and @BordedDev: lets run AI image training and gen on rented infrastructure

@AlgoRythm I used to work at amazon, the best thing about it was we could create aws burner accounts to just experiment and learn. Our work accounts easily ran $10k per month and nobody blinked. That's per dev on a team of 12. Our prod accounts were a couple of mill easily (internal service stuff).

The worst thing was the bureaucracy. Half my week was meetings.

Text is almost nothing data storage cost wise. Then it's data egress. Which can get pricey quickly. But see how much I can run on oracle free tier. Then the only limit is long term storage of posts. But we're devs. Show the cost, offer the service. I always thought dev services could be priced on a per usage basis, or a "bring your own infra" basis. Like, let people host some stuff in their own free tier infra.

Ahhhh... Shit. That's bluesky for devs.

@AlgoRythm yeah my thought is images are basically 100% of the cost. AWS SNS is 0.50$ per million push notifications which is low enough for "who cares".

Also the 10 or so other projects on the pile of things I started but never finished...

@AlgoRythm exactly this. I figure, oracle cloud has a pretty nice free tier allowance, but it's not unlimited. At a certain point, $$$

@retoor techr age? Let's try to avoid the underage crowd

@lorentz exactly this!

That's a lot of words for a rather flaccid joke.

Mario does take fall damage in some games. Time travel confirmed.

@retoor I was more meaning "if you break the rules don't be surprised if I kick you in the teeth"

But polite and philosophical like.

@kiki have you been to the year 3000? Let me guess, do they live under water?

My current employer, when?

Probably for the best. That knowledge won't be much use when the apocalypse comes.

I used to have an apple mouse, bought by work. I kinda liked it but it's kinda small. It's the all touch one (magic mouse maybe), scrolling was the worst thing about it so a physical scroll ball sounds like an improvement.

Me suddenly realising my threshold for dark humor is abnormally high...

@retoor I'm single.

*Puts on finest Joey accent*

How you doin?

For me, brains and attitude. I'm a cocky little gobshite and need someone to put me in my place.