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Solarpunk noooo
- Comment on The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere 3 days ago:
This rumor persists for so long. I’ve been in tech for now twenty years, and juniors say this all the time. Also, I’m hired to replace archaic code with modern equivalents, so my perspective is one from the other side.
A few key things I discovered:
- Companies that need devs of an archaic language are extremely rare. I’m talking about like you won’t see it on job boards until they already have 1-2 people in mind already.
- Usually the people they hire have been doing only that for years. Usually retired computer scientists or professors.
- The pay isn’t high at all. I remember seeing a position that needed THIRTY years, and their offer was nice, but low on the tech side. I made double the salary. If you work at META or Alphabet, you’ll be making 4-6 times as much.
Finally, those archaic systems get forced into retirement. Yes, there are still integrated systems like ATM and missiles or whatever that use these languages.
But that’s so extremely rare that they’re still being maintained. Because companies will allocate a budget to have some dipshit programmer like me come in, rewrite the functionality in whatever language (the last one I did was a interface from a PoS system to a web application, which I did in PHP), and then throw away the code.
- Comment on AI content on Wikipedia - found via a simple ISBN checksum calculator (39C3) 6 days ago:
Which is kinda my favorite thing to do as of late, and what I prefer AI be used for.
I’m not taking about building a suite of black box tools. But tiny scripts to scrape, shape, and generate reports. Things I used to pull in a dozen node libraries to do and manually configure and patch up.
You know, busy work.
- Comment on Ready set go 1 week ago:
Ah yeah don’t take shit post too seriously.
For me, this meme was just a Matrix joke.
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- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 1 week ago:
You can have a little AI, as a treat
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- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is 100.00% decompiled 1 week ago:
I used to do this with Gameboy roms in the late 90s! I can’t remember which emulator, I think it was No$Gameboy or something that had a hex editor and I manually started changing bits and documenting what it did. Spent like a week just touching every digit, changing something documenting.
I didn’t even understand hexadecimal at the time either so it wasn’t even scientific.
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- Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card 2 weeks ago:
I think the root issue is still real:
- Person buys a gift card from a store
- Apple says its fraud
- Locks account and refuses to elaborate
- Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card 2 weeks ago:
but I’m learning that a LOT of people are either / or with phones and computers;
My knee jerk reaction was to say something smart ass like “well they should get a computer” but you’re absolutely right.
The customer service woman I talked to was surprised I could talk to her and browse the internet (on a laptop). She told me most people use their phone for everything. I met college kids who were typing their papers on their phones. My mom never owned a computer until I gave her one, and she leaves it in the corner “for emergencies”.
I have no answer. People will continue uploading their lives into Google photos, Facebook galleries, whatever - with no backup, and hope those companies store their data. I think the average person is fucked.
- Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card 2 weeks ago:
The Terraria dev who had his Google account locked out because of whatever bullshit.
Don’t ever put anything secure/critical in places that aren’t yours.
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- Comment on Alas! 3 weeks ago:
This is going to sound shit but I don’t care.
I can’t stand talking to morons. I talk matter-of-factly. I explain the problem. I say “Do you want X, Y, or Z? I’d recommend Z.” And these idiots still reply with vague no-answers and then I get shit on because I point out their stupid behavior.
Anyways, now things are better because I just use AI slop to fix my writing and send that garbage to them.
And you know what? It fucking works. If their answer is still vague garbage, I repeat. Copy their slop, put it in ai, tell AI to give a professional response, paste that slop right back until I get an answer.
It’s been saving me a dozen headaches. And chances are these fuckalls are using AI already so fight fire with fire.
- Comment on Alas! 3 weeks ago:
One fed up customer service staff member took a screenshot of the boss’s email and drew an arrow + circle, and that was the whole reply to our email chain.
It made my day.
- Comment on North Carolina (NC) is just built different 3 weeks ago:
Most of my shit posts are done while I’m taking a literal shit.
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- Comment on Is this real life? 3 weeks ago:
Damn DEI woke Charlie Kirk here.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 3 weeks ago:
I keep forgetting this show exists and it’s so good.
It just doesn’t show up on my feed unless I look for it.
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget voting!
Oh and open a bank account!
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 3 weeks ago:
My wife calls it rub down.
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 3 weeks ago:
Well yeah. These women were suffering from extreme bouts of hysteria.
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 3 weeks ago:
Oh who does this now? Do they do home visits?
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 3 weeks ago:
For a good time, for a good time call
- Comment on wow, I just found out that Donald Trump has been awarded inaugural FIFA Peace Prize 4 weeks ago:
Does it come with FIFA Bucks because if not…
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- Comment on Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense 4 weeks ago:
Same. I don’t mind it if it was done by say you know a group of writers who can find craft it or people who just hate that s***. But but Google’s job is to get more clicks and get more eyeballs. So I don’t trust them to game their own systems.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 4 weeks ago:
Why not also the company that does the IDs?
And hell, also the porn site?
Its all a big money making scheme.
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