Nate Cox

Those experts are clearly not fire fighters. A closed bedroom door can be the difference between having time to escape and having time to be flash fried.

Counterpoint: billionaires are proven liars and the scum of the earth so anything said during a debate is about as reliable as wet toilet paper.

A data center is a warehouse-size building that holds a sea of computer servers that run day and night, collecting, processing and storing data for the internet. Giant ones are needed to run A.I. models that teach computers to think like humans.

They absolutely do not. They do not think like humans. They do nothing of the sort, not even close. We need to crush this marketing narrative.

A stochastic parrot does not think like a human.

You need some kind of filler if you want seams to disappear, like bondo. The filler will be ugly though so you’re going to need paint for sure.

Clever design can make seams less visible but the joints are always going to be there to some degree.

Or just live with the seams lol.

Fixing your warping/shrinking will make them less visible too.

The problem with automated tests is that they only test for the narrow slice of things you actually think to test for. They don’t cover the gamut of things you didn’t think to test for.

They also only test how you write them to test for, which means if you make a bad assumption somewhere along the way your tests can’t help you find it.

Peer reviews cover two very important things:

1. Knowledge sharing and de-siloing
2. Logic and assumption checking

A fresh set of eyes and a different perspective is just so important to writing robust, quality code.

I’ve been writing code as a primary hobby and then as a profession for 26 years. The boilerplate has never been the bulk of any of my work, and we’ve had excellent tooling to eliminate the actual boilerplate for decades.

The work has always been the specialized parts, and the fun part of software dev work is that so much of it is bespoke and creative and unique beyond the grasp of the stochastic parrots.

Don’t let it dissuade you. See my comment here on this topic: https://programming.dev/comment/23859190

One thing I adore about the souls games is how everyone has a unique and personal experience with bosses.

A boss that I got on my first try may take you a week of banging your head against it; but, that is no indication that I’m just better because two bosses later I will be banging my head against a different boss that you just breeze through.

Same

Cherry picking and goalpost escalation all the way to the top.

It is not.

I don’t understand this comment thread. I paired and updated my steam controller on bazzite in gaming mode without needing to use a second controller, keyboard, or mouse.

I’d love sources on “got more people to quit than just about anything.” Do you just mean “move from cigarettes to vaping”?

Everything I’ve ever read has indicated to me that vaping is significantly more addictive than smoking because the nicotine levels are way, way, way higher. This also causes them to be worse for you than regular smoking because nicotine is a major carcinogen.

Yeah. Mostly. It might help to lend credibility to a stack of better evidence, but by itself it means nothing.

The goalpost escalation I constantly see in these threads is both hilarious and deeply frustrating.

“You need to be a good dev to use these!” “I am a good dev and these tools suck.”

“No like you need to be enterprise level good” “I am an enterprise level dev with credentials far exceeding the baseline offered.”

“No but you need to have written code recently!!” “I was writing code yesterday.”

I am now waiting for the obligatory “well your coworkers must just be fixing all your code you screw up” because the pro-ai crowd has no argument for the tech not based on “u suk”.

So is this just a secret plan to turn our troops as orange as Glorious Leader by making the only edible thing on the ship carrots?

That meal looks like loose shit and boiled gym mat with carrots.

I wiped macos and installed proxmox on it. The wireless didn’t work well, but I had a dock laying around with a cat5 plug that worked just fine. Has been going strong for a few months now.

I use a 2015 MacBook pro. The screen was busted so I removed it and disabled the lid switch. Works great.

Downside to laptop as your homelab: got that spicy pillow now permanently plugged in. Maybe consider pulling out the battery.

Let’s not idolize Carter too much. I like a lot of what he did, and I obviously love his “old man building houses for the needy” golden years, but Carter was also the beginning of the dismantling of antitrust which is the primary reason we have wealth consolidation and market capture as the de facto norm today.

He started the ball rolling with a bizarre policy of “big businesses are good for everyone” which meant antitrust laws–while still on the books and our official policy–simply stopped being enforced. Regan capitalized on this but Carter started it.

No.

GenAI is a breeding ground of ethical and moral problems that go way way way beyond ads in commit messages.

You can absolutely be emotional about a tool that boils away all our water, ruins people’s health and sanity by building enormous light, noise, and polution sources next their houses, and steals our intellectual property to increase the wealth consolidation of the few even further.