Exactly! It seems to understand enough about what the commands mean and is able to carry the context forward even if it isn't exactly executing them.
Sure someone must have posted online about ls and rm, but a jumbled combination of those where the model is able to keep track of files listed, created and deleted in the specific context of the chat? Mindblowing!
I don't recall correctly but there was this patent/paper discussing how Facebook (& perhaps a few others) use the EXIF data to confirm and expand your social graph. I guess processing the pictures already gives them everything they need to identify different people who were at the same place at around the same time. But all that meta data like timestamps, geolocation, camera make and model etc. must definitely provide them a great deal more info to be sure about that.
And if one company can do it, I don't see how others can't or won't do it in the future. And only God knows in what all other ways this information can be exploited.
I recommend everyone to clean up EXIF data before they send out files to friends and family or upload backups to the cloud.
I found the CLI tool at https://exiftool.org/ to be very useful. It helps remove EXIF data from a wide variety of file types and comes with tons of filters and features to observe and selectively manipulate & remove EXIF data.
This is what's so surprisingly scary about time value of money to me. Many "spectacular" investments that double or triple money over a decade or 2 are simply not all that great if you just calculate the annualized return and factor in the inflation.
Back home, I've had so many agents try to sell me inferior insurance and investment opportunities dressed up as insane deals hoping I wouldn't look too much into the details. I was really lucky to come across the folks at /r/indiainvestments who frequently warn about this. But I am sure there are many others who are not aware of these things and fall for them.
Sent in a SQL command deleting multiple million records (intended) wrapped in a single transaction (not intended). The replication queues could not keep up and failed, bringing down most of the replicas. Master server kept trying to recover and maxed out all connections - no DBA could log in to perform manual recovery. We had to hard reboot not knowing what state the system is in and how long it'll take to fully recover. Did I mention that this was a few hours before trading was going to begin?
TBH, my team was very gracious about it and the RCA focused purely on the events that occurred and how to never let if happen it again. No blame game at all.
I believe it is when you review your colleagues, they review you and your manager collates all the reviews to access your performance. Some places allow you to nominate who you want to provide your review, perhaps people you worked closely with the last couple of months etc.
Yep. It was supposed to be a very small change. I blundered. My team understood that and was super supportive about it all too. But this was after it was all fixed.
During the outage though, no one (obviously) had time for me. This was a very important server. The tension and anxiety on the remediation call was through the roof. Every passing hour someone even more important in the chain of command was joining the call. At that time I thought I was done for...
Welp, as a new grad there, I had brought down one very important database server on a Sunday night (a series of really unfortunate events). Multiple senior DBAs had to be involved to resuscitate it. It started functioning normally just a few hours before market open in HK. If it was any later, it would have been some serious monetary loss. Needless to say, I was sweating bullets. Couldn't eat anything the entire day lol. Took me like 2 days to calm down. And this was after I was fully shielded cuz I was a junior. God knows what would've happened if someone more experienced had done that.