Schneemensch

@Schneemensch@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There will still be people who are able to rapidly learn with AI on their side and people who fail to do it. The fast ones are able to focus much more on the underlying problems and less on language specifics. The definition of low level and high level programers will change in the context of AI. Nobody today is implementing a linked list outside of university and in the future nobody will be needed to write the repeated code which still is needed in a lot of frameworks.

  But of course there might the point of a critical collapse if AI only learns from its own code and inefficient code gets repeated constantly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I do understand all of the scepticism in this thread, I have to say that I am personally amazed by GitHub Copilot.

  I am just ramping up in a new company working on web development with Angular and Spring Boot. Even though I have 0 experience with this and have a background in python and C++, I got productive extremely quickly thanks to Copilot. Of course it does not work without flaws and you still need programming knowledge to wirte proper prompts and fix smaller issues in the resulting code. But without it I would be much further behind. It was even able to fix some issues in the html just based on a description of the issue I am observing in the webpage.

  I do not think it will replace all programmers, but I do think it will replace some low level programmers who did repetitive tasks as the good programmers are extremely accelerated by only having to type subsets of what was needed before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu...⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it is a given that you can create scenarios for every law that make the law look stupid.

  I doubt that the amount of 9 seater cars with enough people inside is actually significant to recalculate the law.

  The decision by weight is most likely done as this is a value which can be easily evaluated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu...⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By my European standards that is definitely an SUV for me. It is less about ability to see a pedestrian than it is about the ability to kill if someone gets hit with a high vehicle front.

  It is also about taking up a lot of space. European streets are small an parking spots are also small. These big cars frequently take up more than 1 parking spot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As a SW Engineer from Germany, you will be surprised how much code exists in other languages. But I would expect companies on the edge of technology, who are either working closely with universities or with open source, that they usually chose English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can barely tell the difference between 60 and 165 hz on my monitor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am totally with you. I have had a 144Hz monitor for 2 years now. I am 100% sure that everything was configured correctly and I could spot some small differences in the UFO test. But other than that I do not feel any differences in day-to-day activities or games. Windows reset my frequency settings occasionally, but I never noticed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2846: Daylight Saving Choice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but that still means you are not reaching someone by phone at work during 4 hours of you previously mentioned 8-17 Windows.

  As someone currently working from Ireland with my usual office in Germany (laptop still configured this way) with a Team from India and DST ending next week, I would prefer to drop the calculations and just remember when each colleague approximately comes online. That is not the same for each colleague and day anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2846: Daylight Saving Choice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But you are making assumptions which are not really true anywhere. Working hours I Spain and Germany are already white different. Main reason is of course that they share the same time zone by law, but are not geographically in the same time zone. But there are some additional differences in culture which extend this effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I do not have a problem with looking at the connector when I can see it. But often enough I am fumbling a cable into some connector behind a PC, docking station or at night when the light is out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lego drops prototype blocks made of recycled plastic bottles as they "didn't reduce carbon emissions"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They stated that the new mater lies would not live up to their requirements on longlivity and quality. Abs which is currently used is quite stable and can and is therefore be used for generations.

  The new materials would lead to faded and broken Lego bits after some years and degrade the brand perception. Since new stuff would need to be bought then this would be less CO2 efficient.

  For other PET products we usually do not have any longlivity requirements. Plastic bottles barely need to survive for a year and therefore the recycling process is still much better than producing new plastic.

  In short: It is better to produce 1kg of CO2 once every 30 years than 0.2kg of CO2 every 5 years.

  I am sure there is still some typical greenwashing in the calculations, but it makes sense to me that they do not want to reduce their quality standards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked Microsoft Email Reveals Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Really Wants to Buy Nintendo -⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am 30 years old and I have a switch and a Xbox Series X.

  I use both, depending on the game I am currently playing. The Zelda gaes on the switch have been awesome and some of the Mario games as well.

  The Xbox can deliver better graphics and with this more demanding games, but I cannot play them on the train or on vacation and that are actually the most times where I find time to play.

  If I am at home with time to play I am still on the PC playing with friends.

  For the price the Switch has definitely given me more value than the Xbox, even though I do like the Xbox.