Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

"Unleash your team's full potential as a #ProductManager - go from being just a team member to a coach! Set clear strategies, foster individual growth & team culture, and be the front line protector 💪 #PMlife #Leadership #TeamManagement"
https://nexteam.co.uk/post/product/product-managers-are-coaches

Meta. OpenAI. Google.

Your AI chatbot is not *hallucinating*.

It's bullshitting.

It's bullshitting, because that's what you designed it to do. You designed it to generate seemingly authoritative text "with a blatant disregard for truth and logical coherence," i.e., to bullshit.

confession: as someone with ADD, I often imagine myself putting my focus on a task **and then** doing it until completion.

It's romantic, and exciting. Like an action movie.
But, this is basically never how it works out.

BTW, mastodon has thoroughly eclipsed Twitter as the meeting place for developers and clear-thinking users. I don't imagine you'll see too many more Twitter links from me.

@vyruss will publish a new #PostgreSQL extension called pg_statviz tomorrow.
He announced it today a #fosdem #pgday .
It sounds very promising.
The extension will be published on GitHub https://github.com/vyruss /pg_statviz

The first talk of the day here at #FosdemPGDay (a #Fosdem fringe event) and Gunnar ‘Nick’ Bluth is on the #PostgreSQL stage talking about how we can learn from his big big fail, titled “LFMF: How a CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY led to a 6 hour downtime” - lots of painful laughter in the room

aww #comic #wholesome

Do y'all have any ideas on where—besides Mastodon, Twitter, LinkedIn, Planet Postgres, PostgreSQL.org, and blog posts—that I should be spreading the word about the open #CFP for Citus Con: An Event for Postgres 2023?

The #CitusCon CFP will close on Sunday Feb 5th @ 11:59pm PST.

It's a virtual dev event. The team is hoping for talk proposals about:
- #PostgreSQL #opensource
- Citus database extension
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

https://www.citusdata.com/cituscon/2023/cfp/

Here is a reminder that some people actually do good things with the fuck-you money they make from selling a company.

I wish there were more @liewegas⁠es out there.

https://news.ucsc.edu/2018/01/year-of-alumni-weil-sage.html

https://twittoons.com/67

Maybe if #universities were treated as places of learning to learn and think critically instead of certifications for the job market and substitutes to employers investing in staff, students would be better equipped to question and challenge #AIhype and less inclined to think something like #ChatGPT is a reliable replacement for library-style research skills.

#openSUSE will be in Hall H at #FOSDEM this year. Comes see us if you have any questions about the community, distributions, tools or projects. https://news.opensuse.org/2023/01/17/learn-more-about-os-alp-at-fosdem/

The Intel 8086 microprocessor (1978) revolutionized the computer industry and led to the popular x86 architecture. It uses microcode, breaking machine instructions down into simpler micro-instructions. By studying the chip under a microscope, I can explain it. 🧵