Pretty cool, but notice how he still uses touchpad to move through the source code.

Any ideas on how to automate that? I guess I can page up/down with a keyboard, but then how do I move cursor to a specific part of the code?

I think Google's product has that: https://play.google.com/books/publish/autonarrated/

That sounds pretty bad though

Sounds like fun! Although I'd prefer to build something, like a barn or a house.

I remember I used to kick-start myself into flow by doing "useless" things like rearranging code around, doing small renames for consistency, etc.

I need to return that that practice, as I find it harder and harder to interest myself in what I'm doing...

... except for software written in Rust, obviously.

... as if memory management issue is the only source of software vulnerability.

True but a reduction of 70% is nothing to sneeze at https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...

Only a small fraction of those 70% is memory management errors.

What do you mean? That 70% represents memory management errors.

70% are memory safety errors, a fraction of which are memory management errors.

Incorrect memory management leads to memory safety issues. That's what those words mean. You manage the memory, you get it wrong, you have a potentially exploitable memory safety issue. It sounds like you're just playing with words.

Fixing memory management errors fixes some memory safety issues, I agree with that, I only disagreed with your quantitative claim that you can fix all memory safety issues this way.

How can one become better at office politics? What are books to read / courses to take?

Recite from an eldritch cursed hand-crafted copy of "How to Win Friends and Influence People" written in blood, backwards and upside down, under full moonlight, in an eerily silent forest clearing.

(Light* animal sacrifice may also be required.)

I was forced to read that book and 'how to be a superstar'. Due to a manager who disliked my bluntness in saying things were broken. He wanted me to punch it up with doublespeak to make him feel better.

They show how to manipulate people. But not solid advice on how to do the right thing.

I don't think that anybody thinking in terms of "winning" friends and "influencing" people is worried at all about doing the "right" thing.

Honestly, I read the book about 15 years ago and my takeaway at that time was that... actually, It's OK to be nice to people and to let your desire to help them manifest itself. At that point in my life I was kind of a little shit and was utterly paranoid of being taken advantage of and viewed interactions very transactional.

So, yeah... That's not what I took from that book at all. Maybe I should read it again because maybe it's not really as I remember it, since so many people seem to hate it?

I feel like a lot of people judge "How to Win Friends and Influence People" literally by the cover. Its main message is to continually improve your own character. (What I took away anyway)

While there are definitely some toxic books out there (the "## laws of power", as an example. I don't remember what the number was but it was two digits), I don't think How to Win Friends is one of them.

Maybe I worded that a bit strongly. As the reasons for me having to read it still irk me. But the root is how to draw people in by being nicer. It is a form of manipulation and not true to who you are. Now given that there is nothing wrong with improving yourself to be less of a jerk. Those books do have that sort of advice. But the advice is given with the intention of manipulation. I may be being harsh on them. But that was my takeaway. Decent advice but bad intentions.

I think the once perfectly ordinary idiom of “winning friends” has fallen out of usage in the (many) decades since that book was written, to the extent that people now – just like you here – read something nefarious into it that wasn’t originally there at all.

This is a good and rather funny thing to read: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/

Get burned by them repeatedly and try to understand why/how. Also watch The Godfather and maybe The Sopranos.

My realization from that article is that I'm stagnant because I can't be wordy.

It's all very simply for me. Either I know something or I don't. If I know, I tell exactly what I know. If I don't I say "I don't know".

But sometimes it's useful to be like the author, and be able to pull sentences and paragraphs out of nothing. I have coworkers like that, and they sound smart. They frequently get their way because no one sane can listen minutes-long elaborations of the simplest of points. People get bored, and say "yes" just to run away. No one questions these guys, since no one wants to swim in the pool of their rhetoric again.

This is what the author should be teaching about. The article is shit otherwise.

I feel that NYT should stop paywalling articles about Fox. That would be a good for educating public about them.

Right now all I have is a vague title. But I bet if I go to the Fox I'll be able to freely read their position.

You can check if is is archived https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/04/18/b...

It’s all bullshit either way.

There is no way to estimate "probable consequences", as it all is happening very fast.

Which hints on the fact how interesting / in demand this technology is.

I for one will be happy to enslave an AGI if that makes my life easier / better.

This is one of those cases where I can't help myself but ask: Why couldn't you find more worthwhile thing to do?