natecox
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- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 15 hours ago:
It’s funny that you’re not even sure you can do that extremely simple thing in my original comment faster than I could prompt an LLM.
No, see, this is called “having integrity” by not asserting as fact a hypothetical. I am 100% certain that I could knock out your hypothetical in one command in less than a minute but since I didn’t go actually do it I didn’t pretend that I did.
I do love the whole “oh but it knocks out all of the mundane stuff” as if that’s the primary part of our job. I have been doing development for about 30 years and I have spent so little time on mundane tedious tasks in that time. Certainly not enough time to justify the ecological impact of LLM data centers (even if they actually worked as well as advocates claim).
I wish all of you people would stop knocking what you’ve never even tried.
This is your prejudice showing (the only way someone would not like this is if they haven’t tried it). I have tried it, and I found it to be a waste of my time. What I saw was a stochastic parrot providing me objectively wrong answers to questions and code that I needed to completely rewrite before it would function as advertised.
That product is not worth drinking the worlds water and ruining people’s quality of life near data centers over. It’s not worth the theft of IP and original thoughts, the obvious copyright violations as it crawls the web (ignoring every standard “do not crawl” marker I know of), the extra cost to site hosts as LLMs savagely barrage their pages. It’s not worth lining the pockets of already super rich VCs as they exploit blockchain 2.0 until the bubble bursts. It’s not worth the real human beings who have already lost their livelihood because an executive is frothing at the mouth to replace people with machines and has been promised AGI “any day now” by LLM spokespeople who don’t seem to understand that whole integrity thing above.
The hate that you see might have something to do with the willingness to ignore all of the above so “save some time” on the alleged “mundane tasks” people seem to think dominates the industry.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 1 day ago:
This is what LSPs are for, or even like just a baseline knowledge of CLI tooling (honestly, like, just
mvandsed). You do not need an LLM for any of what you’ve described, and I would argue that I can probably do it faster by hand than you can prompt your LLM and debug the slop it hands you back.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 1 day ago:
It’s hard to find programmers these days who aren’t using AI coding assistants in some capacity, especially to write the repetitive, mundane bits.
God damn it, stop it with this. No it isn’t. Most of the devs that I personally know won’t touch LLMs with a ten foot pole.
- Comment on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector 2 days ago:
And so the current Intel chipset I have will be the last I ever own.
- Comment on Why do new Silent Hill entries attract so much negativity? 2 days ago:
I am salty as fuck about PT.
As a standalone entry it was absolutely fantastic, I loved every second of playing it. As a demo it got me so incredibly hyped about the full game.
And then Konami pulled some of the dumbest shit I have ever seen.
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 1 week ago:
My dude, I worked home renovations for many years. Nice try to discredit me rather than my argument though.
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 1 week ago:
I’m not an expert on it, I’ve only watched a few videos on it, but from what I’ve seen they add structural elements between the layers at certain points which act like rebar.
There’s no framing of the walls, but they do set up scaffolds to support overhangs (because you can’t print onto nothing)
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 1 week ago:
I mean, “to 3d print a wall” is a massive, bordering on disingenuous, understatement of what’s happening there. They’re replacing all of the construction work of framing and finishing all of the walls of the house, interior and exterior, plus attaching them and insulating them, with a single step.
My point is if you want to make a good argument against LLMs, your metaphor should not have such an easy argument against it at the ready.
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 1 week ago:
I hate the simulated intelligence nonsense at least as much as you, but you should probably know about this if you’re saying you can’t 3d print a house: youtu.be/vL2KoMNzGTo
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 2 weeks ago:
- Chrono Trigger
- Final Fantasy 7
- Expedition 33
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
This is confirmation bias, you know it’s possible so you’re discounting downsides.
Yes, a connector can fit in the watch, but the internal footprint of the connector is comparatively huge. All the other components of the watch would need to be designed to fit around a large connector essentially directly in the middle of the device internals.
If that’s really important to you, more power to you. I don’t have an issue with it existing. I do have a bit of a problem with pretending that compromises aren’t being made in features to accommodate it.
A standardized magnetic pogo pin connector would meet my needs quite a bit better, personally.
- Comment on Cloudflare gets involved in the battle against piracy, blocking streaming websites in the UK — and VPNs won't help 4 weeks ago:
The title here is misleading.
Cloudflare “getting involved” would imply they decided to act of their own volition; which is not the case here.
“Cloudflare compelled to block specific piracy sites by court order” would be a more honest title.
We should at least take the time to be mad at the correct people.
- Comment on Prints appear to be lifting in one corner. 4 weeks ago:
FWIW I wouldn’t do dish soap like all the time, I only go to it when IPA isn’t doing the job. Come to think of it, since I switched to 99% IPA I haven’t needed to use dish soap at all; doesn’t seem to leave behind that residue.
As always, experimenting is the key. If you’ve eliminated wet filament, z-offset calibration, nozzle clogs, nozzle heat, bed heat, bed cleaning, model issues (e.g., low surface area needing brims), and filament feeding issues… that PLA may just hate you.
- Comment on Prints appear to be lifting in one corner. 4 weeks ago:
I’ve seen the alcohol recommendation already (91% minimum) but have you tried washing the bed with hot water and dish soap? Sometimes when my bed adhesion just won’t take I find dish soap solves it instantly.
PLA does have a shelf life, if cleaning the bed isn’t working getting a fresh roll could definitely be worth a try. PLA+ in particular has always seemed extra finicky to me.
- Comment on EPA says it will eliminate its scientific reseach arm 5 weeks ago:
Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, has boasted about cutting dozens of environmental regulations, saying he wants to make it cheaper and easier for industries to operate.
Yeah because we all know the primary focus of the “environmental protection agency” is protecting corporations.
Fuck everyone involved in this bullshit. And fuck everyone with real authority who is choosing to fail to act.
- Comment on US | Donald Trump says those interested in Jeffrey Epstein inquiry are ‘bad people’ 5 weeks ago:
It’s always projection with them.
- Comment on Someone should make an anticapitalist Dexter. A serial killer who kills evil rich people. 1 month ago:
… as a TV show, right? Right?
- Comment on Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus 1 month ago:
I don’t think there is a good answer here. I didn’t really want my kids to have phones either but all you’re doing by denying them the primary social tool of their generation is ostracizing them from their peers.
Being a parent sometimes feels like a series of un-winnable choices.
- Comment on Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus 1 month ago:
Wat? It’s called a colloquialism. It’s a way to describe something I know you know without needing to spell it out.
You’re basically asserting that anything described using an analogy must inherit all the traits of anything else that analogy is used for, which is just silly. It’s a classic composition/division fallacy.
- Comment on Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus 1 month ago:
Yeah, my state just enacted a “bell-to-bell” ban on cell phones in schools for my kids. I absolutely support a ban on phones in class (so long as the school is providing necessary tech to educate with) but banning between class just ignores that phones are an important part of how kids socialize and ripping it away cold-turkey can’t be healthy.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 1 month ago:
I loathe and despise using percentages like this.
500% sounds super scary, but is meaningless without providing the baseline. If there was only one instance before and now there’s 5 it isn’t a significant increase but 500% sure sounds scary.
- Comment on Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
That was a wild ride.
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 2 months ago:
FWIW I have the color and the non-color libra, and if you’re just interested in reading books where color isn’t a huge part of the experience I highly recommend the non-color version. The contrast ratio and legibility are simply far better.
- Comment on Microsoft uses 'Copilot' for practically everything. A watchdog wants the company to change its advertising. 2 months ago:
NAD
You’d think people who think a lot about advertising would have picked a different agency name…
- Comment on Radicle - Federated Git 2 months ago:
This is the first time I’ve seen it and I was pretty interested until I saw the crypto ties.
What a disappointment.
- Comment on Bambu Lab Controversy Deepens: Firmware Update Sparks Backlash 2 months ago:
I support protesting. If they had said “we know this will impact some of our users negatively and we regret that, but we are choosing to protest this change anyways” I’d be much more on board.
Calling it simply useless though I think hurts the protest.
- Comment on Bambu Lab Controversy Deepens: Firmware Update Sparks Backlash 2 months ago:
Orca Slicer’s developer, SoftFever, has publicly declined to adopt Bambu Connect, calling it unnecessary and of no meaningful benefit to users.
This is a frustrating take. If they don’t adopt Connect then at some point Bambu users are going to be forced into that update and will lose what I consider critical functionality. Seems pretty meaningful to me.
- Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales 2 months ago:
Price hikes for what, Lenovo? I’m still waiting for them to send me my Legion Go S SteamOS edition that I preordered on day one.
- Comment on Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message 2 months ago:
Yeah I’m dropping my super subscription and my usage of the app. Fuck AI, and fuck the companies using it to deepen the enshitification of tech.
- Comment on Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered 3 months ago:
SC has so much potential. There is real magic in some of the game they have produced; the aesthetic is fantastic and the fundamentals are solid… all of which makes what they’re doing to run the game into the ground so fucking disappointing.