themaninblack

@themaninblack@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s my point of no return. Leaving in two weeks forever. Good luck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any open-source project that serves the same purpose of Duolingo that can be self-hosted?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I made a PHP-based one a while ago before Duolingo offered Swahili. It probably needs a little upgrading, ha. A cool project and you can do it for most things. Oh plus it’s raw PHP so snappy as heck you youngins. github.com/ryanchausse/githeri

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you quit a job you didn't like or was toxic, didn't the financial hit scare you?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am a homeless man in San Francisco because I quit a public sector job that I was not allowed to fix with my good-ass coding skills. I have no regrets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is truly the Signs of automobiles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what may buoy them is the fact that you must append “Reddit” to searches, however, ChatGPT, DuckDuckGo, and Kagi are giving them a run for their money

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How will I find financial stability if I live in a third world country with a toxic sociopathic/narcissistic mother, I have no skills (at least I think so), no time and therefore no money?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve messed with Spanish, Italian, German, and Swahili. It is not my opinion that these languages are more difficult to learn than English, even with the reduced pronouns and gendered nouns.

  I think you’re doing great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About 75,000 Deloitte staff have been given access to a generative artificial intelligence chatbot to create PowerPoint presentations and write emails and code in an attempt to boost productivity⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really hope this goes through, because the pile of dogshit they sold my municipal government can’t fairly be called code.

  It’s astonishing. I will never ever deal with that company if I have the opportunity in the future because of how utterly incompetent they were creating a “microservices architecture” for us which is in effect a series of AWS Lambdas running random Python that do not coordinate, suffer from race conditions, and in many places do not do the thing in the first place.

  It’s the second worst code I’ve ever seen. The first was home grown at another public sector job.

  The cost for this shit that could have been replaced by a simple Flask app? Or even a well structured, in-lined Python script? $1.5 million. Ongoing costs in the hundreds of thousands per year.

  This should be a $20-50/month EC2 instance.

  Absolute garbage.

  No, I am not underestimating the complexity requirements nor the communication overhead/competing stakeholder interests and all other manner of externalities.

  Deloitte belongs in the dust heap.