VibeSurgeon

@VibeSurgeon@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coventry's light rail technology a 'game-changer'⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Very_Light_Rail

  This has a certain gadgetbahn-smell over it and I remain skeptical.

  Ditching catenaries for batteries make the vehicles heavier, requires them to be out of service for a part of the day to recharge and increases capex per vehicle instead of taking the capex on catenaries.

  The claims of autonomous driving seem dubious - this usually warrants a level of separation that’s rarely afforded to trams. It’s possible, but it for sure requires not cheaping out on the infrastructure.

  Ditching timetables in favour of some kind of demand-driven dispatch reduces the predictability of the network, and also seems unnecessary if the claims of autonomous driving are actually true. Maybe they have to cheap out on the amount of vehicles when making each vehicle more expensive with the batteries.

  Who knows, maybe the numbers work out better than what we can see here, but until then, I remain skeptical. I hope to be proven wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 North American 4 you has been created⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Mexico has breakfast tacos at home, they’re called Tacos de Canasta

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You might want to get that checked out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  RTOs are most often a “one free layoff"-card that businesses play, so firing someone for criticizing it is very much in line with the underlying intent of the policy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Complete hands-off no-review no-technical experience vibe coding is obviously snake oil, yeah.

  This is a pretty large problem when it comes to learning about LLM-based tooling: lots of noise, very little signal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So far, there is serious cognitive step needed that LLM just can’t do to get productive. They can output code but they don’t understand what’s going on. They don’t grasp architecture. Large projects don’t fit on their token window.

  There’s a remarkably effective solution for this, that helps both humans and models alike - write documentation.

  It’s actually kind of funny how the LLM wave has sparked a renaissance of high-quality documentation. Who would have thought?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: starting Feb. 1, passengers arriving at US airports nationwide without a REAL ID or another acceptable form of identification, such as a passport, will face a $45 fee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing they meant an ID card issued in a EU country

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drug dealers hate this one weird trick!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Queue the chubbyemu intro music

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bri'ish Cuisine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Must be ragebait, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can tag a mastodon user in a Lemmy/Piefed-post.

  The caveat being that their server has to be connected to your server.

  You can’t choose another server to log in. Think about it as email - if you are using Gmail, you can’t log in to your email using Hotmail. You can write emails to users with Hotmail, but the login only works for your own email provider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Amazon plans thousands more corporate job cuts next week⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  good benefits and perks.

  Didn’t they literally just introduce free coffee at the office post-pandemic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Amazon plans thousands more corporate job cuts next week⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to say that I would willingly choose to work at Amazon, but I do know the reason. It’s documented here: https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries/software-engineer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They removed the like button. What next, they gonna remove videos? It’s just gonna be ads???⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wind and solar just aren’t enough.

  Wind + solar + storage is both enough and beating nuclear at this point, and by the time the next nuclear power plant actually manages to get online, the calculation will be even further in favour of that mix, on account of the absolutely plummeting cost of storage, which is following the same trend as solar used to, with costs reductions >98%. Not to mention the built-in resilience you get from having a more widely distributed instead of having a few nodes producing the lion’s share of your power.

  I don’t have any ideological opposition to nuclear. If you manage to build it without massive subsidies and taking care of your waste, feel free to build them. That’s happening in exactly 0 places worldwide though.