Have you checked whether you can just go into the bios and turn off shutoff on lid close? That’s what I did on the shitty ex-workstation Dell laptop that I’m running my Jellyfin server on and it works like a charm. Dell also has a “turn off absolutely all lights” button, which also has to be enabled in the bios iirc.

Yo, this was uploaded 45min ago and I see no link to that legendary weightlifting forum thread where they try to figure out how many days a week has? Shame! Shame, I say!

Honestly I just kinda want to dunk on you, but I could absolutely imagine that “Ask AI to make a whole new website every time you want to have a website for something instead of going to an existing one” will be one of those completely stupid things that people will be doing with it. Maybe they’ll even get to a point where they invent some kind of way to deterministically style those websites the AI makes with your favourite colors every time, so that you’ll always have a familiar looking interface. Maybe you could even apply those styles in some sort of cascading manner, like if you only want to style specific parts. AI should really get onto that, I bet it’s the next big thing.

Eh, never considered myself a particularly moral person, but I did end up as a car-hating vegan somehow. So we’d have some pretty nice walkable towns and good falafel places.

slop

+1 for purelymail. 10$ a year unless you’re a crazy big user, bring your own domain and everything just works. Been on there for over a year and had absolutely zero issues so far. Plus the 10$ isn’t even per user or per domain, it’s just per admin login. There’s like 6 different addresses on my account, which my husband and his mom have been using too. It’s crazy good value.

huh, so they’ve never used npm?

I don’t need the serotonin and dopamine inside my gut, I need it in my brain. …Will shoving an orange up my nose work?

Like, if I’m doing something for myself, that’s exactly the place where I wanna do something amazing,

That’s always my intention with my personal projects too! But that always results in “Wow I just learned how to do this thing much better, let me refactor the whole project to do it perfectly everywhere” followed by my Adderall running out. So there’s just so many half-done refactors I either forget about or abandon because I get a new idea the next day, but that’s totally just a skill issue.

You’re right though, the code I write at work is much worse, but my Company hosts their own GitLab instance so the code we write can’t even be used to poison Copilot :(

you literally have access to all the code in the world

I’d like to believe that they were honorable enough to not secretly train on code without people’s permission. But realistically they totally did exactly that, but just made the AI Model this incompetent through some other engineering blunder.

Also, random side thought - training only on public repos probably yields you way higher code quality as opposed to training on both public and private repos? I assume we all have some very messy private repos that we’re too embarrassed to publish because the code quality is absolute shit … right?

Whatever you end up growing, if you have the space for it consider setting up a compost pile (You can compost in a tiny bucket, it just takes longer than hot composting). Reason is that basically any plant you grow can benefit from compost, but buying decent compost at the store is kinda expensive.

Nope, no other reason! I’m just getting a decent deal on PC parts when I let my employer buy them for me so I have a tendency to splurge on tech without really double-checking the specs. Can’t justify that with the current RAM prices though haha

But thanks for the tip! I’ll keep it in mind when I do actually decide to upgrade sometime

I built my first PC last November and because RAM was about 2-3 times the price that it should have been I passed on it. Now it’s like 5x the price and it’s not even a choice anymore, but I think I still made the right decision by not financially supporting those prices. Got 16GB of second hand SODIMM and some Sodimm to Dimm adapters and honestly the PC is fine. In my original parts list I had planned to get 128GB just to max out the board and not think about it ever again (would have been a reasonable 550€ back in September) but now I think I’ll actually coast a bit longer with my 16GB. It should be fine for the next few years at least, especially since there’s no overhead from Windows BS on my machine.

Kelvin Kiptum. He was one of the greatest prospects in really advancing marathon world records. It might take another few generations until someone with the same kind of potential enters the scene.

My company started providing every programmer who wanted it with Github Copilot in like 2023, iirc. I declined it (we were still allowed to decline it back then, sigh). My process of thought was that it takes almost zero skill to “learn” AI tools, but once they’re part of your workflow you become reliant on them and your actual rate of learning stalls. I still wasn’t particularly experienced or good at programming back then (only started my IT career in late 2021) so I wanted to heavily invest in myself and level up my skills as much as I could.
Fast forward to today, and there is a significant skill gap between me and the coworkers I was on par with when Copilot was introduced. I’m still not some kind of superstar programmer, but when it comes to my specific niche (React/Typescript) I’m considered one of the go-to people to consult within my department. Meanwhile some of my colleagues still need almost weekly reminders to use let/const instead of var (yes we have a linter, but they accidentally turn it off sometimes…).

About a month ago management started hard-pushing their AI bullshit. Everyone is mandated to install and use Claude Code. So… I did. It took me maybe a day to learn, most of which was spent fiddling with IntelliJ (I took the chance to migrate from Windows IntelliJ to using its Linux build within a WSL, it’s such an improvement!). I did all the mandated Claude tutorials and everything I got out of it is more resentment for my coworkers. This tool really is made for total morons. Even the “advanced features” like writing custom hooks and subagents or connecting to custom MCP servers are just so… stupid. If that’s the most complicated thing they do on a day-to-day basis, I am very much not surprised about their brain atrophying.

Anyways, I am now also the go-to person my colleagues approach when they need help with their Claude setup. Because the guy who self-identifies as competent in AI topics just straight up lies way too much, as he can’t handle being perceived as anything but extremely smart and competent (which just wastes everyone’s time, since finding issues is way harder when he insists his first hunch is always the 100% correct solution and doesn’t admit it when he makes a wrong assumption).

I’m very much not worried about my job security (someone with the capacity to actually understand the code they write is much more valuable and harder to replace, plus I hold a lot of knowledge about our existing product) but I’m certainly having a hard time applying for new jobs. Recruiters and managers really are stupid enough to think that using AI requires any sort of deeper skill, so putting AI on your CV as a skill is basically required nowadays (I still refuse to do it). And the AI bros whose applications I’m competing with are just much more comfortable with lying about their actual coding skill and competence, so on the first scan my resume does end up looking worse than theirs. But I have absolutely crushed every interview that I was actually invited to, because faking technical skill in actual conversation is way harder. I’m not too pessimistic about my prospects of finding a new job, even if the market definitely sucks right now.

Is it true he’s more likable than a ‘nice guy’?

A nice guy or a ‘nice guy’? Bc the guy you described definitely is more likeable than one of them.

Does anyone have any thoughts that may somewhat help me feel less dread?

A lot of people feel the exact same way, but are just too burned out at this point to say anything. The AI sycophants just scream the loudest atm, doesn’t mean that they’re holding the popular position.
So you definitely aren’t alone and will always have plenty of options to hang out with people who aren’t brainwashed by that stupid thing.

Whoever the guy was who posted about not pooping for a few days

The humble white baguette you get in every supermarket for like 0.7€. It’s not mindblowing, but it’s consistent and I love it for dipping into soups and soaking up salad dressing.

All I know about it is that it’s the distro Linus Tech Tips keeps choosing, despite having problems with it every time.