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- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 19 hours ago:
I’ve found it’s pretty good at refactoring existing code to use a different but well-supported and well documented library. It’s absolutely terrible for a new and poorly documented library.
I recently tried using Copilot with Claude to implement something in a fairly young library, and did get the basics working, including a long repetitive string of “that doesn’t work, I’m getting error msg [error]”. Seven times of that, and suddenly it worked! I was quite amazed, though it failed me in many other ways with that library (imagining functions and options that don’t exist). But then redoing the same thing in the older, better supported library, it got it right on the first try.
But maybe the biggest advantage of AI coding is that it allows me to code when my brain isn’t fully engaged. Of course the risk there is that my brain might not fully engage because of the AI.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 19 hours ago:
If you know what you want, its automatic code completion can save you some typing in those cases where it gets it right (for repetitive or trivial code that doesn’t require much thought). It’s useful if you use it sparingly and can see through its bullshit.
For junior coders, though, it could be absolute poison.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 20 hours ago:
Sounds like vibecoders will have to relearn the lessons of the past 40 years of software engineering.
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 5 days ago:
I’ve read that Mohammed even wanted to merge his movement with Judaism, but Jewish leaders rejected him, and apparently that set some bad blood.
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 5 days ago:
Are you sure about that 3000? I thought at the time it was mostly the 6th year of the rule of some king, emperor or governor (Herod, Augustus or Quirinius, most likely), although the Bible doesn’t even provide those kind of dates.
As far as I’m aware, having a single universal reckoning is something that Christianity invented in the middle ages. But still based on the rule of Jesus as king, of course.
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 5 days ago:
I’m a Christian in the Calvinist tradition, but I try to follow Jesus more than Paul. Paul was in my opinion very much a pragmatic who tried to spread Christianity in Greece, and was willing to compromise a bit with Greek sensibilities (which included slavery and misogyny). When in doubt, I look to Jesus instead.
Also, I think Calvin went a bit too far overboard on some things. The reformation was a good thing, but that doesn’t make him right about everything.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 6 days ago:
Cool. A couple of decades ago I read about former astronaut/physics prof Wubbo Ockels working on something like that but with kites. I’ve never heard of any production version of that coming off the ground. I hope this does better.
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 2 weeks ago:
They want to go back to the 1950s, don’t they? Pretty soon it will be black and white.
- Comment on Need help with printer recommendations 2 weeks ago:
That’s indeed a bad development I wasn’t aware of. Even more so if they base their own software on others, and then block others from their platform.
- Comment on Need help with printer recommendations 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got a Bambu A1 mini that I’m quite happy with. Bambu studio works perfectly fine on Linux, and I can import lots of different kinds of designs from anywhere, but I think you do really need Bambu Studio to prepare the print for this specific printer. I have no idea if there’s any way around that, but is that necessary?
The a1 mini is very good at small details. The main downside is of course that it’s not very big, so not suitable for large prints. It calibrates automatically and is very low maintenance.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 4 weeks ago:
Ah, it’s just a fancy ad. That explains the poor writing.
- Comment on Apple's Greed Is Finally Backfiring 5 weeks ago:
VS is itself short for Visual Studio, the first IDE I ever used, and the first MS product I liked. So VS Code Studio means Visual Studio Code Studio.
Why Visual? Because 25 years ago MS was pushing Visual C++, where you would drag and drop visual components together and then figure out where to put the C++ code to make them work.
- Comment on Apple's Greed Is Finally Backfiring 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, real shame Maemo never got anywhere. I really liked the idea.
- Comment on Apple's Greed Is Finally Backfiring 5 weeks ago:
All these tech giants have their own area where they are the absolute worst, and other areas where they’re not as bad as some of the others.
Apple sucks on app store restrictions, but on the desktop OS, the respect user privacy more than Google and MS do. Google is the absolute worst on ads, tracking and using search to leverage their monopoly, but they’ve also made a ton of cool stuff, including Android. MS makes the worst piece of shit OS and forces everybody to use it while they make it worse, but I’m sure there’s also something they do right.
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 5 weeks ago:
I like the idea, but I’m annoyed by the inconsistency.
The þ is the th sound in “both”, but not the th sound in “the”; that’s a ð.
Ðough, ðat, ðere Þorough, boþ, þree
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 5 weeks ago:
Dude, if you’re going to do this, you should really be spelling ‘that’ like ðat.
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 5 weeks ago:
Why?
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 5 weeks ago:
This is exactly it. It has always been up to the browser to decide how to render a website. There have always been differences. The idea that a browser can honour or ignore parts of the content has always been part of it.
If anything should be illegal, it should be websites 's constant attempts to bypass user preferences. Some of that shit is plain malware.
- Comment on More action than RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 struggles to convince after a few hours' play - EuroGamer 1 month ago:
I don’t think any CRPG is RP heavy. I don’t think it’s possible for a computer game to roleplay. Well, maybe if they integrate LLMs? But generally, any RP happens entirely in the player’s head.
I think CRPGs that are sometimes seen as RP heavy, are just very well written. That’s not the same thing, although I suppose it’s possible for good writing to inspire RP in the player. But that depends as much on the player as it depends on the writing.
I enjoyed the original VTMB a lot, mostly because of its excellent atmosphere.
- Comment on Micro-retirement 1 month ago:
How is this “a new trend”? Also, 2 weeks every 12-18 months is not nearly enough. 5 weeks every year is what it should be.