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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Performative vegetables: veggies you pack in your kids lunch even though you know they won't eat them⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yep, that’s exactly what we do, and it tends to work. Can take a bit for some foods and sometimes he’s just really into just one thing right now, but overall it’s much better than trying to force feed him broccoli or whatever.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Performative vegetables: veggies you pack in your kids lunch even though you know they won't eat them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not bullshit. Research shows that kids need multiple exposures to new foods before they’re willing to accept them. It’s important to keep offering foods a child has refused before (without pressuring them to eat them, by the way).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Performative vegetables: veggies you pack in your kids lunch even though you know they won't eat them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not performative. Research shows that kids can need 8-10 or more exposures to a new food before they’re willing to try it. It’s important to keep offering foods even if they’ve refused it before.

I’ve personally seen this effect with my 2 year old son. Had absolutely no interest in noodles of any kind for a long time, yet we kept offering them, and one day he decided to try them and loved them. In fact, most new foods he eats are a similar story.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

SJWs

2012 called, they want their “insult” back.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Sounds like a pretty legitimate question.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 Debloat Script/Program?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Erm, it looks to me that there is a project to make them work on Linux: openrazer.github.io.

Also… TBH if a mouse doesn’t work on Linux that kind of makes it a bad mouse, IMO. I would just get a different mouse if it was an actual issue. It’s not like it’s a mechanical keyboard or something.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Were you blessed to experience this masterpiece? 😼⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I didn’t play BB when the official servers were live. I played on Dreamcast originally, starting with Phantasy Star Online and later Phantasy Star Online Ver. 2. Mostly offline, but got to play online with dial-up sometimes (which was awesome, because hacking was rampant and a lot of times people would hop into games and do a “rare dump” of tons of powerful hacked or duped items). Eventually switched over to Episode 1 & 2 on Gamecube. Probably put thousands of hours into the games growing up.

Much later as an adult I spent a decent amount of time playing Blue Burst on the private Schthack server with the friends I played PSO with growing up, which was a lot of fun. Really got more of the online experience that time around (and quest access is much better in the online version of the game).

Oh, and I also played Phantasy Star Universe for a bit on Xbox 360 in between, but it uh… Really sucked.

I also played PSO2 a bit off and on, and it’s not bad. Much more fun and faithful to PSO than PSU was, but still somehow lacking the magic of PSO. Haven’t tried New Genesis.

But yeah, PSO easily was THE game of my childhood. Amazing stuff.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Cute. I’m a senior software engineer that has trained many different models (NLP, image classification, computer vision, LIDAR analysis) before this stupid fucking LLM craze. I know precisely how they work (or rather, I know how much people don’t know how they work, because of the black box approach to training). From the outset, I knew people believed it was much more capable than it actually is, because it was incredibly obvious as someone who’s actually built the damn things before (albeit with much less data/power).

Every developer that loves LLMs I see is pretty fucking clueless about them and think of them as some magical device that has actual intelligence (just like everybody does, I guess, but I expect better of developers). It has no semantic understanding whatsoever. It’s stochastic generation of sequences of tokens to loosely resemble natural language. It’s old technology recently revitalized because large corporations plundered humanity in order to brute force their way into models with astronomically-high numbers of parameters, so they now are now “pretty good” at resembling natural language, compared to before. But that’s all it fucking is. Imitation. No understanding, no knowledge, no insight. So calling it “inspiration” is a fucking joke, and treating it as anything other than a destructive amusement (due to the mass ecological and sociological catastrophe it is) is sheer stupidity.

I’m pissed off about it for many reasons, but especially because my peers at work are consistently wasting my fucking time with LLM slop and it’s fucking exhausting to deal with. I have to guard against way more garbage now to make sure our codebase doesn’t turn into utter shit. The other day, an engineer submitted an MR for me to review that contained dozens of completely useless/redundant LLM-generated tests that would have increased our CI time a shitload and bloated our codebase for no fucking reason. And all of it is for trivial, dumb shit that’s not hard to figure out or do at all. I’m so fucking sick of all of it. No one cares about their craft anymore. No one cares about being a good fucking engineer and reading the goddamn documentation and just figuring shit out on their own, with their own fucking brain.

By the way, no actual evidence exists of this supposed productivity boost people claim, whereas we have a number of studies demonstrating the problems with LLMs, like MIT’s study on its effects on human cognition, or this study from the ACM showing how LLMs are a force multiplier for misinformation and deception. In fact, not only do we not have any real evidence that it boosts productivity, we have evidence of the opposite: this recent METR study found that AI usage increased completion time by 19% for experienced engineers working on large, mature, open-source codebases.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Ah yes, “just use it correctly”. All these programmers convinced that they are one of the chosen few that “get it” and can somehow magically make it not a damaging, colossal waste of time.

“Inspiration”, yeah, in the same way we can draw “inspiration” from a monkey throwing shit at a wall.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework supporting far-right racists?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I mean, there’s no real reason laptops shouldn’t like any desktop computer with parts that can be swapped out. Maybe when laptops were first coming on the market with a difficult form factor to work with, but it’s been long enough that modularity should be easy and the default.

If you can swap out tiny little SIM cards in a phone, you should be able to slot in standardized, smaller form-factor components like RAM, SSDs, etc.

And by the way, people can and do swap out motherboards all the time for desktops. There is no good reason to need to buy all new components all the time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework supporting far-right racists?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Umm, Trump has been forcefully expelling people en masse for quite some time now, and detaining large groups of people in horrible conditions (sound familiar?). Have you not been paying attention?

The regime is absolutely, without a doubt, 100% fascist. It’s following the Nazi playbook to a T.

Stop sanewashing his actions.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s built-in.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cause and Effect⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not talking about a doctorate, it’s talking about actually taking education (of all levels) seriously because education is the primary means by which a populace becomes in innoculated against mis/disinformation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Right, and if the moderation allows Nazi ideology to run rampant, you have a Nazi town. Especially when it’s all mostly bots spewing Nazi talking points anyway.

Refusing to fight hate speech is tantamount to supporting it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Isn’t it already basically Nazi town?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Actually typing out code has literally never been the bottleneck. It’s a vanishingly small amount of what we do. An experienced engineer can type out bash or Python scripts without so much as blinking. And better yet, they can do it without completely fabricating commands and library functions.

The hard part is truly understanding what it is you’re trying to do in the first place, and that fundamentally requires a level of semantic comprehension that LLMs do not in any way possess.

It’s very much like the “no code” solutions of yesteryear. They sound great on paper until you’re faced with the reality of the buggy, unmaintainable nightmare pile of spaghetti code that they vomit into your repo.

LLMs are truly a complete joke for software development tasks. I remain among the top 3-4 developers in terms of speed and output at my workplace (and all of the fastest people refuse to use LLMs as well), and I don’t create MRs chock full of bullshit that has to be ripped out (fucking sick of telling people to delete absolutely useless tests that do nothing but slow down our CI pipeline). The slowest people are those that keep banging their head against the LLM for “efficiency” when it’s anything but.

It’s the fucking stupidest trend I’ve seen in my career and I can’t wait until people finally wake up and realize it’s both incredibly inefficient and incredibly wasteful.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare bankrolls fascists⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
After the code of conduct nonsense I was extremely skeptical of Ladybird. Seems that skepticism is well-founded. Fascists gonna fascist, I guess.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a brand new Dreamcast game that's out, called Mute Crimson, and it's free⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
When I was a kid I had a disc that had some 100-200 SNES games burned onto it. No idea how we got it… My guess is my dad got it from a friend or something.

I played the shit out of Earth Defense Force, Knights of the Round, and Gundam Wing: Endless Duel with my Dreamcast. Though my mom made me stop playing Gundam Wing because one of the Gundam was called Deathscythe and Satanic Panic was in full swing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3142: -Style Pizza⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Chicago-style pizza too.

But yeah, the diversity isn’t as significant as the comic would lead you to believe.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Just because a lot of people are using them does not necessarily mean they are actually valuable. You’re claim assumes that people are acting rationally regarding them. But that’s an erroneous assumption to make.

People are falling in “love” with them. Asking them for advice about mental health. Treating them like they are some kind of all-knowing oracle (or even having any intelligence whatsoever), when in reality they know nothing and cannot reason at all.

Ultimately they are immensely effective at creating a feedback loop that preys on human psychology and reinforces a dependency on it. It’s a bit like addiction in that way.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨O no⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s just a different kind of difficulty, and of course not all jobs are created equal. But ultimately this rhetoric is the kind of thing the capitalists want. They want to pit “lower class” against “upper class”, when in reality, these distinctions are entirely irrelevant and it’s actually “the billionaire oligarchy squeezing every last drop out of the rest of us”. If you work for a living, you are “low class”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
So completely unqualified to speak to the experience of being a software engineer? Ok.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
So you’ve just been talking out of your ass for the whole thread? That explains a lot.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, fortunately while our CTO is giddy like a schoolboy about LLMs, he hasn’t actually attempted to force it on anyone, thankfully.

Unfortunately, a number of my peers now seem to have become irreparably LLM-brained.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It is, actually. The entire point of what I was saying is that you have all these engineers now that reflexively jump straight to their LLM for anything and everything. Using their brains to simply write some code themselves doesn’t even occur to them as an something they should do. Much like you do, by the sounds of it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
No, good engineers were not constantly googling problems because for most topics, either the answer is trivial enough that experienced engineers could answer them immediately, or complex and specific enough to the company/architecture/task/whatever that Googling it would not be useful. Stack overflow and the like has always only ever really been useful as the occasional memory aid for basic things that you don’t use often enough to remember how to do. Good engineers were, and still are, reasoning through problems, reading documentation, and iteratively piecing together system-level comprehension.

The nature of the situation hasn’t changed at all: problems are still either trivial enough that an LLM is pointless, or complex and specific enough that an LLM will get it wrong. The only difference is that an LLM will spit out plausible-sounding bullshit and convince people it’s valuable when it is, in fact, not.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Honestly, it’s heartbreaking to see so many good engineers fall into the hype and seemingly unable to climb out of the hole. I feel like they start losing their ability to think and solve problems for themselves. Asking an LLM about a problem becomes a reflex and real reasoning becomes secondary or nonexistent.

Executives are mostly irrelevant as long as they’re not forcing the whole company into the bullshit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Based has been around forever, it’s not some new slang.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The line between what is ai and what is programming will be very blurred in the future⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Not only does it not speed up work, it actually slows down work: metr.org/…/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m also in my 30s. I’ve been to a bunch of “girly” concerts with my wife and have had a great time at all of them.

It’s much easier to enjoy life when you let go of notions of what you should or should not be enjoying. Music doesn’t need to be gendered. You can just enjoy it for what it is.

In fact, I’d extend the idea to countless other facets of life: there’s so much pointless gendering in society that does a huge disservice to everyone, men included. I’ll give you a dumb example: I used to hold the notion in my younger years that if I were given a purse to hold, that I had to hold the purse in such a way to telegraph that it wasn’t actually my purse. Like grasp it like some kind of ape man or something. Like… What is the fucking point in that? It’s so goddamn dumb and childish. Now I often take turns holding my wife’s purse (it can be a bit heavy because it also doubles as a diaper bag for our toddler) and don’t give a single fuck about doing so.

I can give you countless other examples where I was raised with incredibly damaging ideas ultimately stemming from toxic masculinity that I have painstakingly excised from my psyche.