JDubbleu

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those little things add up though, and it’s not just good at boilerplate. Also just having a more intelligent context-aware auto complete itself I’ve found to be super valuable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a 50% time reduction for the same output which sounds great to me.

  I’d much rather let an LLM do the menial shit with my validation while I focus on larger problems such as system and API design, or creating rollback plans for major upgrades instead of expending mental energy writing something that has been written a thousand times. They’re not gonna rewrite your entire codebase, but they’re incredibly useful for the small stuff.

  I’m not even particularly into LLMs, and they’re definitely not gonna change the world in the way big tech would like you to believe. However, to deny their usefulness is silly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The 1.6 update completed the game extremely well. A lot of the quality of life stuff feels incredibly natural, and I’m loving the new farm so far. Especially since it’s forcing me to >!focus on animals instead of Uber optimizing crops!<.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything for the gnar points

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you like to see in a house IT setup?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Poor insulation, and even if you had drop ceilings you still have headers you’d have to drill through at the top of every wall. Not to mention they look awful and damage easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you like to see in a house IT setup?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Conduit everywhere. Every cable will be obsolete eventually, a conduit run to every room with pull cables makes to do replacing cables doesn’t require a remodel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is no EU cookie banner law⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Consent-o-matic/I still don’t care about cookies both work really well. I haven’t seen a banner in months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could get around this issue by installing Steam via Flatpak so that everything is sandboxed though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The great thing about open source is that anyone can read the code. Even if you don’t read every line yourself there are others who are. In popular projects it’s pretty much a guarantee any suspicious or malicious changes get caught almost immediately due to the visibility of everything.

  As for local-only I trust Bitwarden and their encryption schemes enough that I use their cloud sync, but you can always self host it in a Docker container with no Internet access if you’re concerned about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because by not using a password manager I guarantee you are duplicating passwords between services. This means the second one service you use is compromised, every single service you use with that same email/password combination is compromised. Even if every one of your passwords had a slight deviation malicious actors know people do this and will likely be able to write a program that attempts those deviations on other services. You’re effectively leaving your security up to weakest link in services you sign up for, and security is rarely implemented well.

  By using a password manager you generate a long as fuck, 20+ character long password that is unique to each services you use. These passwords being random and unique to each service protects you from rainbow tables and other hash table based attacks. In the event Bitwarden or another password manager you use is breached anything they get will be worthless as long as your master password is not compromised (which should only ever exist in your head) due to the data being encrypted at rest.

  It is a similar concept to using a secure, trusted middleman for processing payments instead of giving your credit card to every single site that asks for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walmart, Delta, Chevron and Starbucks are using AI to monitor employee messages⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think so because it requires you to provide proof you work there actively, and those who leave are assigned alumni and grandfathered in. It’s mainly just lots of PIP and toxicity that is discussed, and memeing about how dog shit things are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even within SF there’s plenty of great areas, but “peace and tranquility in the sunset district” doesn’t make headlines. SF has a ton of problems and I really hope we can fix them in the long term, but they tend to only be percent in certain parts of the city. Saying all of SF is like this is akin to saying the entire bay area is like SF. They’re both massive overgeneralizations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walmart, Delta, Chevron and Starbucks are using AI to monitor employee messages⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is already a thing. I’m part of a 25k person Discord server for Amazon/AWS employees both current and former. We often discussed a ton about the company’s inner workings, navigating the toxic AF environment, and helping people find other jobs. Nothing ever trade secret level, but that Discord would give any competitor a massive leg up in direct competition with Amazon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lol⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude same. I worked on a stupid niche service called Ground Station, and my favorite call ever was telling a customer their satellite crossed LOS with the ISS so we couldn’t transmit at their scheduled time (you never transmit directly at the ISS for obvious reasons). Somehow even that took multiple explanations for them to get that it was not our fault, and that we’d be breaking the law in pretty much every country on the planet if our antennas did not stop us from doing so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The New Code Editor Zed has a Strong Start, and is now Open Source⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not OP, but my main preference for MacOS comes from the UI/UX of an absolute rock solid OS on top of a unix-like shell. I regularly go months without rebooting my machine with 0 issues like software hanging on wake.

  I know there are a lot of exclusive creative apps, but all I really use my MacBook for is code, typical browser stuff, music, slicer/web interface for my 3D printer, and to interact with my home server. I’m not an open-source/Linux purist by any means, but pretty much all the software I use is widely available on all platforms. It probably helps that I bought a MacBook after growing up with Windows/Linux, so I came into it with a set of software I was familiar with that already existed on other platforms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans are asleep, post European windows⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It still seems incredibly over engineered. Every window I’ve used in the US has a latch you flip out that prevents the window from opening more than a couple inches so that it’s still effectively locked. Newer windows here are also all double or triple panes with inert glass in between the panels for insulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans are asleep, post European windows⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah while the European windows are interesting I don’t really get why having a window open 50 different ways is useful. It seems like an over-engineered solution to just cracking the window. I also can’t imagine it’s more reliable than the good ole vertical/horizontal sliding windows which are in just a window in a track.

  Many houses in the northeast have the old school vertical sliding windows with an extra glass pane that can be dropped in front of the screen. This creates an air insulated barrier between the internal and external glass panes and even on the 100+ year old windows I’ve seen they insulate very well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, this looks WAY better than when I used Thunderbird in 2020. Gonna have to give it another try on my work laptop since I use Outlook there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese hackers ready to ‘wreak havoc’ on critical US infrastructure with 50-to-1 cyber personnel advantage, FBI director warns⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No. The majority are taking federally illegal drugs in some capacity.

  73% have taken weed in some form in the past year according to a quick Google search compared to 43% of Americans. The California bay area (tech capital of the world) is also very open minded to drugs. I’ve been to many parties here with people openly using cocaine, shrooms, molly, and acid. Never felt unsafe or concerned for anyone because even at large parties (500+ people) people are always looking out for others and keeping everyone safe.

  I honestly didn’t believe recreational cocaine use was a thing until moving here and it absolutely blew my mind. I’ll personally never touch it, but to each their own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese hackers ready to ‘wreak havoc’ on critical US infrastructure with 50-to-1 cyber personnel advantage, FBI director warns⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously this is anecdotal, but of my friends in tech (early to late 20s) I’m the only one who has not used hallucinogens or psychedelics. I don’t think a single one of their salaries (not TC) are under $150k.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z is choosing not to drive⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner and I live in Silicon Valley and it’s cheaper for us to rent a car when we need it than to own one. We’d use it maybe twice a month and at that point rentals just make more sense. We’re moving to San Francisco soon though and at that point we’ll likely never own a car and just transit everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is it possible to start a business if you have no money and skills, but have an idea?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Software engineers experience the same shit. “It’s Facebook, but inconsequential feature that no one will use”. I’ve started quoting people twice my hourly rate from my full time job and it’s gotten it to largely stop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Don’t Mess With Us’: WebMD Parent Company Demands Return to Office in Bizarre Video⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is entirely a cultural problem if that’s what you experience with remote employees.

  My company is remote-first with WeWorks for those who want them. Every meeting 90% of people have their cameras on, and the other 10% are either attending to something more important than the meeting or just not feeling it that day. No one questions them or gets onto them because we’re not children.

  If many people regularly have their cameras off in meetings then maybe your meeting isn’t worth their full attention, and they’re working on something else. Not every meeting needs everyone to be there. I’d wager part of the reason my company doesn’t have this problem is we have an extremely low meeting culture. Impromptu meetings/discussions are encouraged and we often Slack huddle for 5-10 minutes when needed which cuts out a lot of the bullshit.

  At my prior job we accounted for 2 hours a day of meetings when planning and it was a fucking drag. Now I have 3 1/2 hours of recurring meetings per week, with a sync for new projects/initiatives every few weeks. I get so much more done every day because I’m not listening to an endless stream of information which should have been an email.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half Of All Skills Will Be Outdated Within Two Years, Study Suggests⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep getting told that AI is gonna replace devs. While copilot at work is fucking awesome to use, it’s also created the scenario where AI doesn’t have to compete with devs anymore, it has to compete with devs who can use an AI to automate the easy stuff and do even more impactful work.

  Not to mention until an AI can coax out what the fuck anyone even wants us to build in the first place I think we’re safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dave The Diver Surpasses 3 Million Sales⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel the exact same way, except that id recommend it for many of the things you’ve criticized it for. The gameplay loop is pretty unique, and the build up to cooking every night implements a level of strategy to the preparations you have to make leading up to it including what fish to catch and how you invest your money.

  The game feels all over the place, but in a really good way. It’s not just a repetitive, “fish, cook, repeat”. There’s a million random ass things that get thrown into the mix which is a complete 180 compared to most games made now. It’s good because it doesn’t really follow the traditional rogue-lite formula that we’ve come to know. It gives off the feel that the developers created the core game, (fish, cook, repeat) and then along the way took a bunch of, “wouldn’t it be cool if we did x” idea they had and threw it in there to mix the game up. It’s a super nice game to play while relaxing as the stakes are low, the story doesn’t require immense focus to follow, and you’re ultimately just fucking around under water as on overweight diver named Dave.

  It feels a lot like a game made for those that don’t play many games, and I think that’s why it’s doing so well. It’s incredibly unique.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not noice⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Edited the magnet link into the original comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Silent Sacking⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that we didn’t think it wouldn’t affect us, it’s that Amazon pays unfathomable, life changing amounts of money to their engineers. Don’t get me wrong there are absolutely insufferable people there, but I’d wager most people are there for the money alone.

  I was an intern at AWS, and my return offer for full time was $220k per year fresh out of college to do 40 hours work weeks with a 24/7 one-week on call once every two months. My sign on bonus (lump sum on first paycheck) was $60k, or almost the average yearly pay of a US citizen. Unless you came from money, you’d take that offer in a heartbeat. I grew up middle class so money like that was impossible to say no to. I knew what I was getting into, and I tried to get a comparable offer right up until my start date, but few companies will dump over $200k per year on a new grad software engineer.

  I got out a few months ago, and it has been the best thing for my mental health. My anxiety is much more manageable and I don’t have week long 24/7 on call shifts, I’m full remote, and my pay is only 10% less. With that said, I wouldn’t change a thing if I went back in time. I have financial stability I didn’t even know was possible, and it gave me a massive headstart in life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not noice⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Myself and one other person have been upholding a torrent of the movie Holes since last June. My ratio is over 30, and I can only imagine how large theirs is since they were the only seeder when I downloaded the movie. I’ve cleared out some older torrents since then, but I’ll be damned if Holes ever comes off my home server at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If only it was like that⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone should be using ISO8601 anyway. yyyy-mm-dd is superior to both and leaves 0 ambiguity to the reader no matter where they’re from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lifehack for naive schoolchildren⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every force has an equal and opposite reaction.

  When you are holding the magnet in front of the car you are pulling the car along through the magnetic attraction between the magnets, and the car is pulling the magnet back towards itself with equal force. However, you can just pull the magnet away as the car gets closer. When you do so you are transferring the force the car is imparting on you into the ground you are standing on.

  If you were to now get on top of the car and hold the magnet in front of it the magnet you are holding would be pulled towards the car, and the car towards it. However, since you are on top of the car, instead of the force the car is imparting on you going into the ground (allowing you to keep moving the magnet away from the car) it would go back into the car. This force going back into the car is identical to the force the magnet you are holding is imparting on the car. As such they cancel each other out and the car does not move.

  If you repeat the above, but replace the magnet with a rope, it’s a lot more clear why it doesn’t work. You can’t pull on a rope while sitting on a car and expect the car to move. The magnetic force is the rope, and you pulling on the magnet is the same as pulling on the rope.