Joseph Mente

DevOps/SRE by day, GameDev by night.

[Joseph Mente @astropuffin]

Oh noes! https://t.co/WlZfqkqeso

[Joseph Mente @astropuffin]

@humphd GitHub's marketing stats on Copilot are BS, but it's mostly because they cite ONE limited study on a greenfield basic webserver. They don't tell you about the real stats. When we did an internal study on real codebases the productivity gain seems to be 5%, NOT 55%. Still helpful!

[Chris Paukert @CPAutoScribe]

This is terrifying: a marketer pinged me for quote permission — common for a journalist. Only I didn’t recognize the text as something I’d ever said. Pumping it into Google returned nothing.

I asked where he got it: ChatGPT. AI fabricated a quote and attributed it to me.

🧵

[Council Member Tiffany Cabán (D22) @CabanD22]

In 2022, NYers had to pay out $121M in NYPD misconduct settlement fees — the most in 5 years.

That’s nearly 4x what the Mayor is trying to cut from libraries, forcing them to slash hours, services, & programs.

I asked the PD what our tab will be this year. Watch their response.

[Martyn Schmoll @martynschmoll]

When cops, insurers, and media yap at you about road safety being a “shared responsibility”, show them this. People outside of cars actually have very little control over their own safety in our hostile transportation environment. No amount of rule-following will save them.

[April King ���� @CubicleApril]

truly hope that nobody writes a twitter API library using the official client’s API keys, as that would almost certainly violate their terms of service.

these are the keys that they would want to avoid using:

https://t.co/KHuTNIfKEZ

[Joseph Mente @astropuffin]

@todaywasawesome @lunixbochs Voice WILL be a common interface eventually for many tasks, but the human interfaces have to be changed at their core to work well for it. The current generation of "voice assistants" are fundamentally flawed in their design. I have a "smart house" and I hate it every single day.

[Joseph Mente @astropuffin]

@todaywasawesome Because voice is inherently a terrible interface for a highly structured interface. It's also nearly incompatible with a graphical interface, which all modern computers assume. I have really bad RSIs, so I use the excellent https://t.co/XalyJo0Y64, written by @lunixbochs.

[Dr. Clare Brock @Clare_Brock]

Wow. Unbelievably sexist and dated policy from @budget
Way to guarantee I won’t use them since I don’t share a last name with my spouse.

[Teresa Kubacka @paniterka_ch]

The moral of the story: do not, do NOT, ask ChatGPT to provide you a factual, scientific information. It will produce an incredibly plausibly sounding hallucination. And even a qualified expert will have troubles pinpointing what is wrong.

[Themperor Kennedée🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedytcooper]

No more modern nonsense, return to tradition

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Every day @costplusdrugs uncovers generic drugs that are insanely priced. If there is a generic that you can not afford , or that is charged for hundreds or thousands of dollars to your employer's insurance, please reply with the name and we will see if we can source it. Thanks

[David C Bell @MovieHooligan]

Musk declares something he knows nothing about, is corrected by an employee who explains the problem, and then fires that employee and presents their ideas as his own. If this doesn't sum up his entire career I don't know what does.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

When you share a tweet, the URL copied contains a parameter ?t=XYZ. This is the encoded user ID of the person who shared this tweet (aka your user ID). Twitter can track this way who views the link that you shared elsewhere.

To maintain privacy, manually delete this parameter.

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

Hey, if you voted in #CO03, Lauren Boebert’s district, and your ballot was rejected, you have a week to fix it!

It could make the difference.

[William Pietri @williampietri]

I want to dig in for a bit on this set of Slack replies from a Twitter manager talking about undoing some of the layoffs.

[Joseph Mente @astropuffin]

I would have donated much more this cycle if someone I trusted didn't share my phone number (along with millions of others) to be bombarded with hundreds of text messages asking me to donate. Way to demotivate your own voters democrats. If only the other side wasn't worse.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

If you’re a Twitter (or any) employee subject to mass layoffs, New York has a WARNS law too.

NY WARNS requires 90 days notice for mass layoffs from large employers.

Employers who violate may be required to back pay your wages and benefits: https://t.co/B59Smc2ybA

[ahmet alp balkan @ahmetb]

I’ve survived the Twitter layoffs. However, many teammates experienced in Kubernetes are now looking for a new job. 😔

If you're hiring k8s SWE/DevOps, please reply with a job posting link or contact info so they can reach out to you. 👇🏼

[Lisa Bloom @LisaBloom]

Hey Twitter employees getting laid off tomorrow! IMPORTANT INFO from a CA employment attorney (me):

CA's "WARN" law requires Twitter to give you 60 days notice of a massive layoff.

A layoff of 50+ employees within a 30 day period qualifies.

I know you didn't get that notice.

[Lisa Bloom @LisaBloom]

Twitter employees, DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING when you're laid off.

Consult with an attorney first.

Buried in the fine print may be a waiver of your rights under CA and federal law.

Those rights are important and valuable!

#TwitterLayoffs