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- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 1 day ago:
<blink>Welcome to my web page under construction</blink>
- Comment on I Quit 1 day ago:
AI because its dumber than them and useless.
I am much better at washing dishes by hand than my dishwasher. I still mostly let my dishwasher have a crack at things to spare me from usually having to bother.
It’s a bit trickier with AI, as it’s more obnoxiously screwing up when it screws up, but at least upon occasion it’s able to spit out a few mind numbingly lines of code that would have taken me longer to type myself.
- Comment on Simpler times? 3 days ago:
I didn’t suggest that people who are abused tend to go down this path, I’m saying of those that abuse others, they themselves were likely abused.
I don’t know the percentage, but hypothetically if 2% of people abused go on to abuse others, this would be true without even saying anything about 98% of abused people.
- Comment on Simpler times? 4 days ago:
Abusers often are “paying forward” abuse they suffered.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 5 days ago:
Oh man, I remember seeing things go from burned in subs to sub tracks with all kinds of nice functional markup and managed font color schemes and such to… Slapping white text with no border/shadow in the bottom middle of the video unconditionally without formatting…
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 5 days ago:
Note that even if by all practical terms a business isn’t growing, then it’s still growing.
Part of the whole deal is that there’s an intent for the money supply to change for a roughly 2% inflation. In an oversimplified sense, the idea self be that everything gets 2% more expensive, everyone gets 2% raises, and investments at least generate 2% returns.
We’ve basically decided that we need to trick ourselves into feeling progress by making “standing still” look like growth. So if someone had flat income year over year, they actually lost in real terms.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 5 days ago:
Kind of miss how much effort went into fan subs, with notes explaining things that didn’t exactly translate without context…
- Comment on Spokesperson 6 days ago:
Like I’m going to look it up. Feel like he went MAGAing recently and I haven’t heard he died, so I’m guessing he is still kicking.
What would shock me is if someone pointed out a MAGA celebrity that has actually been relevent in the last 20 years, other than as a MAGA personality. Only one I can think of is Kanye West, but he clearly went deep off the end of crazy very publicly.
- Comment on Spokesperson 1 week ago:
Pretty much all of the NAGA celebs are “people who you hadn’t thought about for least 20 years who are bitter no one cares about them anymore”
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 week ago:
Thing is both statements can be true.
Used appropriately and in the right context, LLMs can accelerate some select work.
But the hype level is ‘human replacement is here (or imminent, depending on if the company thinks the audience is willing to believe yet or not)’. Recently Anthropic suggested someone could just type ‘make a slack clone’ and it’ll all be done and perfect.
- Comment on With a final screech, AOL's dial-up service goes silent 1 week ago:
Mad Maze…
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 week ago:
I will concur with the whole ‘llm keeps suggesting to reinvent the wheel’
And poorly. Not only did it not use a pretty basic standard library to do something, it’s implementation is generally crap. For example it offered up a solution that was hard coded to IPv4, and the context was very ipv6 heavy
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 week ago:
A VP and his taking head sycophants at my work has not shut up about it. They went through some trouble to automatically measure employee use of the AI and made it a performance measure. So now we have it generate code so we don’t get fired and mostly throw it away.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 week ago:
I thought that as well and got some code from someone that left the company and asked it to comment it.
It did the obvious “x= 5 // assign 5 to x” crap comments and then it got to the actually confusing part and just skipped that mess entirely…
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 week ago:
Yeah if I use it and it generatse more than 5 lines of code, now I just immediately cancel it out because I know it’s not worth even reading. So bad at repeating itself and falling to reasonably break things down in logical pieces…
With that I only have to read some of it’s suggestions, still throw out probably 80% entirely, and fix up another 15%, and actually use 5% without modification.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 week ago:
Yep, going through that at work, they hired several consultant companies and near as I can tell, they just asked employees how the company was screwing up, we largely said the same things we always say to executives, they repeated them verbatim, and executives are now praising the insight on how to fix our business…
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 week ago:
Based on my experience with claude sonnet and gpt4/5… It’s a little useful but generally annoying and fails more often than works.
I do think moderate use still comes out ahead, as it saves a bunch of typing when it does work, but I still get annoyed at the blatantly stupid suggestions I keep having to decline.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 week ago:
I sometimes get up to five lines of viable code. Then upon occasion what should have been a one liner tries to vomit all over my codebase. The best feature about AI enabled IDE is the button to decline the mess that was just inflicted.
In the past week I had two cases I thought would be “vibe coding” fodder, blazingly obvious just tedious. One time it just totally screwed up and I had to scrap it all. The other one generated about 4 functions in one go and was salvageable, though still off in weird ways. One of those was functional, just nonsensical. It had a function to check whether a certain condition was present or not, but instead of returning a boolean, it passed a pointer to a string and set the string to “” to indicate false… So damn bizarre, hard to follow and needlessly more lines of code, which is another theme of LLM generated code.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 week ago:
If it’s gone public, then generally going private is a bad thing. It’s usually some investors that are going to do something bad with the company.
A company that starts and stays private may be all the better for it (but that’s hardly assured either). If they are a success and didn’t bring a lot of investors, then it generally means they actually care about the work intrinsically.
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 1 week ago:
Can’t speak to the ‘or whatever’ as there may be things I know that are truly urgently needed, but blood type isn’t really an example of a phone type emergency.
Ambulances frequently don’t even carry blood, and when they do, they usually have a small amount of O blood. The question of blood type doesn’t even come into play. Similarly at the hospital, while they may prefer to match blood type, they will use O blood at least in the short term, with a blood typing test being a matter of a couple of minutes to get the information directly instead of relying on pulling up and using the emergency contact information. This is assuming their medical record doesn’t just already have the information.
As said, I try to be available, but it’s largely ruined by the volume of bullshit calls making it impossible to be at the beck and call of any random caller while also living a vaguely sane lifestyle. So I’ll usually send to voicemail unless it’s someone I actually recognize that I know will only call over an urgent matter.
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 1 week ago:
If it’s an actual emergency, call 911.
If it doesn’t need 911, society needs to accept that people are sometimes just not immediately available and be accommodating.
I will answer my phone if one of a handful of people call me if at all possible, but sometimes it just isn’t in the cards. It’s convenient to take care of seemingly urgent matters that way, but it’s not the end of the world if it has to wait a bit for someone to be actually available.
The world survived for centuries without the ability to immediately get a hold of everyone at a moment’s notice.
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 1 week ago:
It really depends case by case.
If back and forth starts going, then it’s time for a call.
However text first to establish:
- Is it shorter to take care of in text. Particularly if one party of the conversation tends to be needlessly verbose, text can be a godsend to let you skim their BS and cut to the chase.
- If there has to be a conversation, when would be a good time.
- Comment on YouTube will start using AI to guess your age. 1 week ago:
Nah, google accounts are a recent thing, no way can that be a thing… Can it?
Oh hell I’m old…
- Comment on Elon musk is a pedophile 1 week ago:
I think both of them are into young but post pubescent. From what little I’ve seen, both seem inclined to just pretend a little kid doesn’t even exist, but if they are like 14…
I’ve zero doubt that neither cares about age of consent, they have had a life of the world telling them they are special and whatever they want is right.
- Comment on ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt: Could this bot-prevention technique now be obsolete? 2 weeks ago:
It’s about making headless bots unreasonably expensive to make massive requests with.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Single Page Application. I usually associate it with a fairly complicate web “page” that dramatically remakes itself in the browser, but is typically lightweight on the backend.
I would assume this is even simpler than “SPA” would suggest.
- Comment on N. 5 2 weeks ago:
Johnny Five?
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 weeks ago:
Some development teams have their tools chosen for them from on high.
Oh, I feel that in my bones. Executives who think the vendors that butter them up know better than the employees what the employees want.
Commercial sales seem to be 95% about people who don’t really know their product selling to executives that don’t know their actual needs but want to feel important by making the calls anyway. One of the rare businesses that try to be concrete and appeal to the actual users? Sorry, you went over the heads of the executives and they are not interested.
The pattern seems to be:
- Sales people get the client leadership to shell out cash for a selection of stuff they think sounds really good for business stuff, all the buzzwords
- The staff builds a ‘shadow IT’ out of actually useful crap, hopefully at least sticking to properly open source stuff that won’t land the business in legal troubles, but very risky the employees get suckered by ‘non-commercial’ usage license and screw over the company in the process.
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 2 weeks ago:
Ironically enough, this shows how Kirk was actually at least somewhat better than most of the right wing pundits.
He would actually allow others to have the mic. He actually lets the dude speak. If not for that, you couldn’t have a video of him being made to look the fool.
Most of them will refuse to interact, shouting down questions, trying to cut off counterpoints, only interacting via one-way streams and speeches. Generally cowardly refusing to vaguely risk a difficult talking point arise.
He said vile things, but he at least let others speak. And now the right wing is on a crusade to try to suppress any voice that would have stood against, rather than letting them speak.
- Comment on Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say 3 weeks ago:
Well if he wants to say that chatgpt can replace even CEOs, then he needs to be the sort of CEO chatgpt could replace