DireTech

@DireTech@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Speaking for the US, major universities may be there for research, but they are a small portion of the mass of schools across the country.

  People have mostly been getting degrees to get a good job since at least shortly after WW2. It’s silly to pretend people are going massively in debt without the expectation of a return on that investment.

  Nothing against people learning for the joy of learning, but I absolutely hold schools accountable for not making job prospects clear when most of the students are both young and ignorant of the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why LLMs can't really build software⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you see another video about this? The one linked only showed the walls and still showed them doing interior framing. Nothing about windows, electrical, plumbing, insulation, etc.

  What they showed could speed up construction but there are tons of other steps involved.

  I do wonder how sturdy it is since it doesn’t look like rebar or anything else is added.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So Long to Tech's Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Since when is a 300 person company a startup? I feel like you lose any claim to that long before you hit 100.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You literally assumed the article was correct and said ‘his actions were illegal as hell’ when all it has is a picture of him throwing a rock. Your comment seems to presume guilt but I’m going to assume he’s innocent until there’s actual evidence shown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After how many felony charges were dropped in LA from police falsifying testimony, I’d have to see a full recording of him throwing a rock and hitting the cop to believe they had the right guy and the pictures weren’t unrelated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This was all via chat so much faster than the painful voice prompts. I agree those are terrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The kind of AI I mentioned isn’t a massive resource sink. I can run that sort of thing locally on my own computer. They don’t need supercomputers for level 1 material.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, AI chatbots are at least useful for the basic repetitive things. Your modem isn’t online, is it plugged in? Want me to refresh it in the system? Comcast adding that saved me half an hour a month on the phone.

  I fully believe they’re at least as good as level 1 support because those guys are checking to see if you’re the type to sniff stickers on the bottom of the pool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨uBlockOrigin is porting uBOL to iOS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s wrong with Safari on iOS? I prefer Firefox on my computer but on my phone all I want is better adblocking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 is already running custom graphics through exploit one day after launch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s the only reason I’ve considered it. However, things have changed a lot since the Switch 1 came out. Existing Switch emulators will likely work well on Switch 2 soon given the similar hardware and the Steam Deck massively raised the bar on what I expect out of a portable system.

  Plus the controller still looks like it sucks for adult hands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Working as a solo dev on a project you know by heart is literally the easiest work to do. If you’ve never had to work on a large old codebase you have no idea just how hard it can be to make changes.

  I’ve done this sort of thing for years and I would not even give an estimate on a change for a new project without some time to look at the code base.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t be done is usually shorthand for the cost massively outweighs the benefits. No different from remodeling a building. Like coding, literally anything is theoretically possible but sometimes you’d have to redo so much existing work it’s never going to be worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I have a cupcake. And then I take the frosting off the cupcake. Is it still a cupcake, or a muffin?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even the Wikipedia article points out sweet muffins are only really different in that they’re usually not frosted and I’ve seen plenty of bakeries do that too.

  They may have once been different, but modern American muffins and the mixes bought in stores frequently have more sugar than cake batter while using the same ingredients. They’re just breakfast cake.