takeda
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- Comment on howy mowy 3 days ago:
They will say that this is not the same (kind of like Vance has old pictures being dressed as a woman), but if Bugs Bunny was released today it would be labeled woke.
Drag queens are doing this for comedy, that’s why their makeup is over the top and that’s why many have a massive beard.
- Comment on howy mowy 3 days ago:
Isn’t interesting that some people who grew up on these cartoons would today say that those force “LGBT ideology” on kids, if those exact same cartoons were produced today?
- Comment on US | Epstein scandal broadens as trove of letters from famous figures published 4 days ago:
Release the Trumpstein files
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 4 days ago:
They think they can hire less SWE because of it. Though from my experience all benefits it gives are neutralized by mistakes or does. I have to pay more attention to what it produces to find bugs (and they are subtle, and even then successfully sneak them).
I also frequently notice that I actually can produce more concise code for my user case.
And it is plagiarizing (Microsoft apparently provides some legal protection against a lawsuit, but I don’t know if that is for everyone).
A while ago I found a bit less popular code and it came with library. I didn’t like their implementation so I started writing my own and copilot basically was suggesting the code from the library I tried to rewrite.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 4 days ago:
I’m wondering about why they got fooled. Have they noticed that LLM can do a better job than then and they think that this will also translate to software engineering?
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 4 days ago:
Copilot is shit.
Exactly, my company provides license for copilot and I use it, and while it has some highlights most of the time it actually is more a nuisance than help.
It especially annoys me because it hijacks autocomplete based on types with is own that frequently has subtle bugs, so now if I have it enabled I need to be on guard all the time. With the traditional autocomplete I could just trust it to be correct.
- Comment on GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorship 6 days ago:
I haven’t played it, but people say Being a dik game is quite good.
- Comment on Cybercrooks use Raspberry Pi to steal ATM cash 6 days ago:
It’s the Register, it is targeted to people familiar with technology.
- Comment on Assange joins pro-Palestinian protest on Sydney Harbour Bridge 6 days ago:
- Comment on Great Advertise 1 week ago:
I dunno, DUI is serious, you could kill someone. Maybe it is a long and expensive process to make sure people will remember it and not drive while being drunk?
- Comment on Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations 1 week ago:
Same, I got Alexa (the first one with a good speaker) when attended a sales event of another company. I set it up, but after seeing its network activity even when no one was home I shut it down and didn’t use it again.
I don’t understand why people don’t feel weirded out by having an always on listening device.
- Comment on Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations 1 week ago:
Musk on the other hand already experiments on adding ideology and use such bots (makes as regular users) on social media.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 1 week ago:
Microsoft said this, but this likely applies to AWS and GCP too.
- Comment on Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA 2 weeks ago:
If they going to brick the console they better refund the money.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 2 weeks ago:
Because you don’t publish details of investigation. You publish indictments once investigation is done. That’s essentially weaponization of DOJ.
Republicans were promising to release (and suggesting Democrats are on it). Now as they have the power, they refuse. Claim the files don’t exist then that they are fake, then they are boring.
At this point it is very clear that trump is in them.
- Comment on Time travel doesn't work unless you also have teleportation. If you travel to the past/future, Earth will be in a different position in its orbit, and you'll die in space. 4 weeks ago:
That’s why they used Delorean.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 5 weeks ago:
I learned that somebody already did such thing: stopice.net and it existed before this app even.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 5 weeks ago:
stopice.net? Yeah that looks like much safer alternative to iceblock
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 5 weeks ago:
I think it might be simpler.
All the app could do is to report location of the user to ICE.
While people might be interested to show up to ICE raids, immigrants might also want it to know places to say away from.
Since the app is on the phone the location can be tied to the phone number and since they are going after documented immigrants they might have phone numbers from their applications.
I think this should be a mobile website instead of an app is the goal was privacy.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 5 weeks ago:
The problem with phone apps is that they already have access to personally identifiable information.
I would much prefer this was a mobile friendly website.
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 1 month ago:
They had the same at SpaceX
- Comment on Reddit assemble 1 month ago:
Yeah it never was about ideology, it was always about supporting USSR and now Russia. This is why they nearly indistinguishible from each other despite supposedly being on the opposite side of the spectrum.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 1 month ago:
LOL, this meme has two layers, as they say “real sciences don’t need “science” suffix in the name”
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 1 month ago:
I see a lot of people blaming this on AI and raised interest rates.
The real reason for this stagnation is Section 174 of IRS code that was added by the 2017 tax cut bill. The section took effect in 2022 and was added to balance the budget.
This section basically doesn’t allow to deduct cost of the software engineers and they are amortized over 5 years (10 years for international engineers). This puts some strains to regular businesses, but it kills start ups, as they are required to pay taxes even when they are still not profitable and might not even pay 5 years.
Lack of start ups means there is smaller number of openings which is lower mobility. Combined with amortization, it discourages hiring new people as again it requires 5 years.
I see this being dismissed and “it is definitively the interest rates and AI” AI is nowhere close to replace software engineers, in fact from the coworkers that enthusiastically embraced it I see lower quality of code. Interest rates actually came back to what they originally were before 2008.
The hiring issues started exactly when section 174 went into effect. I think the hiring craze in 2021 was only because companies realized that with slim margins in Congress a bill won’t pass that will repeal it so they were hiring like crazy before it become a law. Indeed Democrats were trying to repeal it, it even pass the house, but it was blocked by Republicans in the Senate. Because God forbid they would help Americans and in turn let economy to look good under Biden.
- Comment on Tesla customers in France sue over brand becoming 'extreme right' 1 month ago:
Maybe not, but there’s some merit in it. Initially it was a highly desirable car, now one is ashamed to be in because owner is a Nazi. Another problem is that there’s much higher risk that someone else will damage it (again, because if the owner).
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 month ago:
I’m not involved in LLM, but apparently the way it works is that the sentence is broken into words and each word has assigned unique number and that’s how the information is stored. So LLM never sees the actual world.
- Comment on So it begins... 2 months ago:
I don’t think that hurts trump in any way, he is saying what everyone else’s was saying and it doesn’t look like he saw the files either.
- Comment on So it begins... 2 months ago:
Could this just be an act, as people weren’t believing musk was truly leaving and was planning to just operate from shadows?
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 2 months ago:
At least it did. Can you access !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ?
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 2 months ago:
If you want to also access those communities then yeah, if you don’t then doesn’t matter.