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- Comment on Dropbox lays off 20% of staff, says it overinvested and underperformed 3 weeks ago:
We continue to see softening demand and macro headwinds in our core business
Maybe if you didn’t raise your prices to finance dumb investments, the demand for your core business wouldn’t falter.
If anything I think people’s poor economy is forcing them to get rid of luxuries like Dropbox, and the way for Dropbox to stay relevant is to let prices follow the economy of their customers down.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 weeks ago:
It was promoted to me as a contender for Slack / IRC, not for the kind of direct messaging app that ICQ / MSN messenger was.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 weeks ago:
And then Jabber came to fix it by introducing an open protocol, and Google started supporting it, and all was well. Then when everybody was using Google Chat they severed the Jabber compatibility, locking everyone in to their platform. Now we’re back wading around in enshittified shit and Jabber is dead.
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 4 weeks ago:
Only because bugs are defined as errors in implementation details. You can still have errors in your design (sometimes referred to as design bugs).
And it’s not about “entrusting” to AI any more than I would be entrusting important code to a junior developer to just go off and commit on his own. We still have code review, pair programming etc. As I said, I read the output, point out issues with it, and in the end make manual adjustments to fit what I want. It’s just a way of building up the bulk of the code more quickly and then you refine it.
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 4 weeks ago:
I’ll confess I only skimmed the article, but I don’t buy it and it seems like just a bunch of unsubstantiated opinions.
Using AI generated code is like pair programming with a junior programmer. You tell the junior what to do and then you correct their mistakes by telling them how to do better. In my experience, explaining things to someone else makes you better at your craft. Typically this cycle includes me changing the code at the end, and then possibly feeding it back to ChatGPT for another cycle of changes.
Apart from letting me realize and test my ideas quicker, this allows me to raise the abstraction level of my thinking. I can spend more time on architecture, and less time on the nitty gritty details. I would say it makes me both a faster and a better programmer.
- Comment on Honesty is the best policy 1 month ago:
Yesn’t.
- Comment on I'm going insane 1 month ago:
Not exactly what you’re asking for, but Subnautica slowly builds on a primal fear without resorting to jump scares. It’s increasingly unsettling and you start finding excuses to just stay in your habitat to decorate instead of going outside.
Life is strange has elements of it (think Butterfly Effect: the game) during parts of the game, although it gets pretty explicit rather than subtle.
Oxenfree also has elements of it, with people behaving weirdly etc. But it also mostly gets fairly explicit. Still, no jumpscares.
- Comment on YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50% 1 month ago:
I knew it!
- Comment on Reddit Logging in with Google Accounts Automatically 1 month ago:
I’m 98% sure you can still log in again, it just invalidates the access token that Reddit has received from Google. The effect is that when you log in next time you end up at Google’s authorization screen when you have to explicitly give Reddit access again.
- Comment on YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50% 1 month ago:
Woah. I just cancelled my subscription last week because it’s too expensive, and now they raise the prices. Guess they really don’t want me back.
- Comment on Reddit Logging in with Google Accounts Automatically 1 month ago:
In the security page on Google’s account site there is a card with the title “Your connections to third-party apps & services”. Go there, click “See all connections” and click Reddit. From here you can remove access for Reddit and/or delete all connections between your Google account and Reddit.
- Comment on OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet 1 month ago:
I don’t know how these guys didn’t get a Darwin award yet
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
I can’t imagine how you think it’s incredibly simple. These things are hell to explain to pretty much any normal person who needs to know why there’s no picture on the monitor or why their laptop/phone is not charging, or why the keyboard isn’t working in BIOS (no USB 3 support so you gotta switch to a USB 2 port). Add to that the combinatorial complexity of different cables and hubs supporting different things, and no tools for troubleshooting what feature is missing (and where in the chain) or what is suboptimal.
Worse, sometimes it’s my boss who thinks they can cheap out and get a USBC dock instead of a proper dock, forcing me to run at non-native lower resolutions or unable to use a second screen.
- Comment on "REM sleep is the next AI" 2 months ago:
This has to be a joke
- Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 2 months ago:
Unfortunately the license agreement for .Net forbids any kind of benchmarking.
- Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 2 months ago:
WASM? Are you talking about WebAssembly?
- Comment on Microsoft backtracks on deprecating the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel | Microsoft has either backtracked or clarified its language to remove the note about Control Panel being deprecated 2 months ago:
More like, the devs already knew but some middle manager promised they would remove it without understanding the ramifications, and now they’ve been schooled.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
AI as a general concept probably will at some point. But LLMs have all but reached the end of the line and they’re not nearly smart enough.
- Comment on Threads spotted exploring ads, but says 'no immediate timeline' toward monetization 2 months ago:
that’s when they start filtering out the genuine content and show you mostly promoted stuff
- Comment on The many, many signs that Kamala Harris’ rally crowds aren’t AI creations 3 months ago:
What a disgrace.
- Comment on The many, many signs that Kamala Harris’ rally crowds aren’t AI creations 3 months ago:
It’s crazy that so many people get so hung up on the size of the crowds. Like are you going to vote based on who gets the bigger crowd? What happened to voting based on the candidate’s policies and track record as a politician?
- Comment on Scratch that. Let's do an airstrike instead. 3 months ago:
Better that than screaming as you poop.
- Comment on Meta Reportedly Unhappy With How Much Money Its VR Division Burns 3 months ago:
I think they don’t require that anymore. It’s a “Meta login” which can be separate from Facebook. At least for Quest devices.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
This smells like an SEO article and the link is here to boost it in the Google results. There’s literally no information in there that isn’t just common sense.
- Comment on jeff 4 months ago:
I think of it more as a budding fascist dictator vs a senile moron. Which is why I’m extremely worried that the former wins. At least with the senile moron, the rest of the senate and staff can sort of hamper on reasonably without irrepairably dismantling democracy.
- Comment on Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” 4 months ago:
Others said their local offices had closed since the pandemic
This part is wild. So they closed down the office and then punish the employees for not coming into the office. Tell me this is illegal.
- Comment on Farting 4 months ago:
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- Comment on Systemd 256.1 Addresses Complaint That 'systemd-tmpfiles' Could Unexpectedly Delete Your /home Directory 4 months ago:
I agree his answer sucks, but perhaps the fault still lies with the distribution developers (who should know better), not the authors of systemd. In that context I can understand the resentment expressed by the dev. It’s not directed toward the end user but toward the distro developers, who have implemented systemd in a broken and dangerous way.
- Comment on rounded corners are part of core functionality 5 months ago: