BorgDrone
@BorgDrone@feddit.nl
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 week ago:
The math is just fine. Code reviews, even audit-level thorough ones, cost far less time than doing the actual coding.
But the problem never was typing in the actual code. The majority of coding is understanding the problem you’re trying to solve and figuring out a good solution. If you let the AI do the thinking for you, then you’re building AI slop. You can’t review your way out of it because a proper review still requires that level of understanding the problem. If you just let the AI do the typing for you, there’s very little to be gained there as the time spent typing is negligible.
AI may be good at building simple, boilerplate-level code. But that’s what we have junior developers for. Junior developers we need because they grow into medior and senior developers.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t just an issue with a developer putting too much trust into an LLM though. This is a failure at the organizational level. So many things have to be wrong for this to happen.
If an ‘intern’ can access a production database then you have some serious problems. No one should have access to that in normal operations.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 2 weeks ago:
If you’ve ever used it you can see how easily it can happen.
How could this happen easily? A regular developer shouldn’t even have access to production outside of exceptional circumstances (e.g. diagnosing a production issue). Certainly not as part of the normal dev process.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
Apple is not trying to sell this go people like you.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
But it runs full macOS.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
If you know what ‘8GB RAM’ means you’renot the target audience for this machine.
- Comment on Thank you, Enya 2 weeks ago:
Where is Vol. 1 ?
- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 5 weeks ago:
That already exists. Any half decent A/V receiver can do this.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 5 weeks ago:
If they cared about handling of PII they should require ISO 27701
- Comment on Start-up idea 5 weeks ago:
My Miele was €1500, and they are known to be super reliable. They engineer for at least a 20 year life span.
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 5 weeks ago:
Performance is good, but not great, and, again, is trounced by most of its equivalents, even the Surface Book.
Sure, you can find an equivalent priced laptop that will beat the MBPro at one metric, but it’ll fall short on others. It’s faster but it has a cheap case , crappy trackpad, shit screen or terrible battery life, etc.
There are very few laptops out there that are as good in every metric as a MBPro. It is simply the best total package.
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 5 weeks ago:
Locking me in to what and how? It’s a laptop, a tool, not a religion. I don’t give a fuck about any of that shit as long as the OS gets out of the way, stuff just works and I can get on with my job.
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 5 weeks ago:
More like €4400 and it’s used heavily for 8+ hours a day as a development machine. It’s 4 years old by now (M1 Max, 64GB) and it still handles everything I can throw at it without breaking a sweat.
Cheap laptops are nothing but trouble, in the end it’ll cost you more in replacements and lost productivity.
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 5 weeks ago:
MacBooks are frikkin amazing though. There is nothing in the PC world that even comes close.
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 5 weeks ago:
Why would you buy this garbage?
- Comment on They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore. 1 month ago:
That’s fucking insane.
Here, if you’re sick you get sick leave. There is no real limit other than after 2 years of illness you basically go on disability instead of sick leave.
- Comment on They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore. 1 month ago:
How does that even work? How can you transfer sick days? It’s not like you have a fixed amount of days you are allowed to be sick, right… right?
- Comment on Fake moo 1 month ago:
The famous McDonalds quartertonner.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 months ago:
The least common way of a burglary happening is someone picking a lock.
You don’t need a gun to defend against a burglar. Burglars are generally cowards and run away when caught. The whole point of sneaking into your house is to not be detected and commit theft. (taking something without a person noticing it).
What you might need protection from is robbery (taking things under thread of violence). A robber is not going to sneak into your house. They will either kick down your door while you sleep or simply ring the doorbell and wait for you to open. Do you bring your gun every time someone is at the door?
They specifically said they think it’s true that carrying it most of the time isn’t the point.
Then there is no point. They will just wait until you are not carrying to rob you.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 months ago:
But mostly it remains at my bedside as an “in case” if it’s needed. If something were to go sideways, law enforcement is probably going to be at least 20 to 30 minutes away and possibly up to 90 minutes. I cannot rely on either one of the two deputies on duty at 2AM to be anywhere near me if things go bad.
If something goes ‘sideways’ at 2AM, you expect anyone breaking into your house to ring the doorbell and wait for you to wake up?
Even if you carried at all times, and you were specifically trained (think special forces training, not I spend my weekends at the gun range training) then it’s still a toss-up if you will be able to respond fast enough. If they want to harm you, they will. You cannot be hyper-aware of your surroundings 24/7, you need to relax, you need to sleep.
I can’t imagine what life must be like when you’re so afraid that you think you need to have a gun within reach at all times.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 2 months ago:
They want to normalize the position so its the same for every user.
That doesn’t make sense if users aren’t all the same.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 2 months ago:
Leaving it as-is after use is the most efficient (least number of seat movements)
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 2 months ago:
We CAN sustain everybody we have now.
Even if we could (which I doubt) is it even worth it living on a planet that’s this crowded?
- Comment on Cloudflare goes again 3 months ago:
Working just fine for me.
Wow. That must mean it works for everyone.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 3 months ago:
You absolutely don’t need sever-grade hardware for a home/family server
Server-grade hardware makes a lot of sense even for home use. My NAS is tucked away in a closet, having IPMI is so much more convenient when you can’t easily hook it up to a keyboard and mouse.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 3 months ago:
Even the most expensive Synology only has space for 8 drives with only one 10Gbit ethernet port.
You can build something yourself for less with much better performance.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 3 months ago:
Better to build it from scratch, your desktop PC does not have server-grade hardware. No ECC, no IPMI, not enough SATA ports, etc.
- Comment on one bright second 5 months ago:
Supposedly this will happen just after the release of The Winds of Winter.
- Comment on Breakthrough in Huntington’s disease treatment shows unprecedented results for patients 5 months ago:
Was he aware of being a carrier of the gene before deciding to reproduce?
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 5 months ago:
The ironic thing is that this anti-DEI government has some of the dumbest, unqualified people in key positions. Clearly they were hired based on anything but their ability to do the job they were hired to do.
Every accusation is a confession with these people.