FreedomAdvocate

@FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

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  A good developer learns the tools that are available and uses them appropriately. A bad developer refuses to learn new tools and will be replaced by someone who already did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Future developers will still have to learn the basics. Calculators existing doesn’t mean people aren’t taught basic maths, does it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And as per usual, those hating AI the most are the ones who don’t use it, don’t understand it, and/or hate it out of some misguided ideology.

  Imitative is fine, great even in software development. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Programming languages/class libraries/etc all exist to give standard and functioning ways to do things the way they’re supposed to be done.

  It’s funny that developers the world over absolutely loved and embraced tools like resharper, which was basically AI 0.5 for devs, yet now when AI is the evolution of that, everyone’s losing their mind.

  Knowledge of AI tools absolutely will and should be a part of developer competencies that are evaluated during interviews in the near future, and that includes being able to explain why and when you would/would not use specific AI tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been refusing to use and AI tools at all

  Why? Do you refuse to use autocomplete in IDEs too? Do you refuse to use build and release tools? Why stop there - do you refuse to use computers at all? Just use pen and paper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Lead and senior dev/architect here - not forced to use AI, but I spend my PD (personal development) days and hackathons trying out all new things, as every good dev, and anyone not trying out all the new AI tools is doing themselves a disservice. You will find out which ones are “AI slop”, which are just fancy stored procs or web apps, and which are actually useful for you and/or your job.

  I agree that workplaces shouldn’t be mandating the use of AI, but that’s very rarely the case.

  My team and I have implemented Agentic AI into the business in ways that will save literally thousands of man-hours a year, as well as drastically reduce support tickets, and give non-devs extremely powerful insights into real time analytics that they’ve never been able to have even with PowerBi/Kibana/AppInsights/etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t have to be reasonable, it just has to be what the stock market values it at. That’s how valuations work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  🤣

  I’ve been banned by 2 mods, one of whom banned me from a bunch of communities I’ve never even interacted with at the request of his mate, jordanlund, the other mod who is the biggest power tripping mod on here, who even the admins of the instance admit is a power tripping mod who bans people unfairly. The latest ban of mine was a mistake, as admitted by the mod. He unbanned me, but the ban didn’t federate across to my instance, so I asked him to try ban and unban again. I’ve even got the messages to prove it.

  What a pathetic attempt to derail a thread because all you have are personal attacks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok I see the problem - you don’t understand the comparison. I’m not comparing teslas to Lamborghinis.

  I’m not using the stock market to act like teslas are the gold standard either.

  You’ve basically not understood a thing I’ve said, despite me using the most basic, as old as time comparison tools and logic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If Sony unveiled the PS6 and it was as powerful as the PS2, would you argue that it’s not underpowered?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  AEMO and the power companies will make sure of it. People without batteries will pay absurd amounts for power, and those with batteries will pay slightly less than absurd prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Geez, talk about spreading FUD 🙄

  This will occur for the following:

  • First time user logon after a cumulative update was applied.

  So it happens once, after this update was applied. Jesus christ the level of fake outrage and exaggeration is insane and should be studied.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess, but that’s like saying we have to wait for the benchmarks before we can tell if the 6060 can do 4K120hz with path tracing. We know it can’t, but if you want to get your hopes up then be my guest, you’ll just be very disappointed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The next gen Xbox is a pc. It will run all your steam games, all your mods, all your hacks, and all your pirated games. It will not be spec’d straight out of 2018 like the steam machine though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not in the context that we’re talking about, which is the biggest, most played online multiplayer games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  None of that goes against what I said, or is even necessary to add. The market decides the valuation basically - that’s what I said. That’s what you then said, while saying my statement was “an extremely surface level understanding”.

  The stock market is all about hopes and dreams, expectations, fear, uncertainty, doubt, and a massive dollop of manipulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Says the guy who starts name calling and acting like a child as his first tactic lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  VPPs mate lol. It says that at the end there. When everyone has a smart meter and the only plans available are VPP ones, what do you think the power companies will do with the legislation that allows them to draw all your power from your battery and charge you for it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Saying because we’re debating it means it’s not debatable doesn’t work like that. That’s like saying it’s debatable that the earth is round.

  Underpowered already has context - it’s 2025 and it already won’t be able to play lots of steam games, let alone “next gen” games. It’s less powerful than the consoles it’s attempting to compete with………which came out 5 years ago.

  It’s underpowered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re valued at whatever people will pay for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It can definitely be good enough for many people - that doesn’t make it not underpowered though. You don’t seem to understand the concept, or the difference between value and underpowered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not an ARM cpu though……

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what you’re on about, mate

  I’m pointing out that a game that needs 12GB of VRAM on its GPU doesn’t care if you have 128GB or 512GB of system RAM, because the GPU can’t use that RAM. You’re not going to have games that require 128GB of system memory that also work on an 8GB GPU.

  This isn’t controversial or hard to understand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You took the wrong message from what I said.

  The stock market isn’t “wrong” - it’s the stock market. Tesla is worth what the stock market says it is, quite literally. Hype, corruption……yeah, that’s the stock market.

  You can’t just take “hype” out of the stock market because that’s one of the biggest, most essential parts of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you not understand what I said?

  They’re calling it a 4K60 machine and it has no hope of doing that either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All i did was insult you

  Exactly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry I’m out at the shops and wrangling the kids at the moment, so will do a full reply later.

  Solar feed in charges: repositpower.com/…/the-solar-tax-has-arrived-now-…

  What is happening now doesn’t matter, as it’s all going to radically change as the AEMO plan states that 60% of all grid storage is home battery storage, and that the power companies draw from this at will - and they’re not going to pay for it. Power companies are in the business of making money, and politicians are in their back pockets for those sweet lobbying dollars and post-politics executive jobs.

  To make all this work they need everyone with smart meters, and solar and batteries. What they’re doing now is getting everyone to get them installed via incentives, so when everyone has them they can start stealing your power and charge you for it and there’s nothing you can do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tesla have their valuation because that’s what the market decides they’re worth based on past performance, future predictions, leadership, etc. That’s all there is to it. You think they’re overvalued because you hate their CEO and “founder”. While I don’t agree with the stock market, they’re far more correct than you are. Things are worth what people will pay.

  Teslas are still the flagship EV brand. Not being the highest selling doesn’t change that. Did you not understand the Corolla/Lamborghini example?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. This is made to play current games, and it’s underpowered for that no matter what the price is. It could still be great value while being underpowered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, and Valve have also said that it will be priced competitively with other similar gaming PCs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/vpps-have-pros-cons/

  Also the government recently made it legal for power companies to charge you for your exports, which you need to be on a VPP for them to do, and at the same time the government is incentivising everyone to get a smart meter, on a VPP, and solar and batteries……

  Coincidence?