bitwize

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by bitwize 7mo ago
Well, yes, but AI can also give you wildly incorrect answers with alarming frequency. I know, I know, "skill issue"/"you're holding it wrong". And maybe that's vacuously true, in that it's so hard to
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Been a middle-class IT drone much of my adult life. This is not my dream. In fact I just realized that one reason I don't like AI dev tools is because they turn me into the kind of dickhead manager I despise: one who doesn't under
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Dijkstra also mockingly described software engineering as "the doomed discipline" because its goal was to determine "how to program if you cannot". "How to program if you cannot" has been solved now.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
We were almost there, back in the 80s. A vice president at Symbolics, the Lisp machine company at their peak during the first AI hype cycle, once stated that it was the company's goal to put very large enterprise systems within the rea
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by bitwize 7mo ago
I calculate tips and such in my head because I can do it faster than whipping out the calculator app on my phone and poking the numbers in. I still memorize phone numbers. Hey, today that counts as "not using a database".
726.
by bitwize 7mo ago
"I'm Mr. Meeseeks, look at meeee!"
727.
by bitwize 7mo ago
I'm more concerned about the "falling behind" we're doing chewing up compute generating, and then running, LLM slop. That is a lot of energy used and heat generated for a less-than-optimal payoff.
728.
by bitwize 7mo ago
The guy who dismissed Dropbox.
729.
by bitwize 7mo ago
Is it feature-parity with Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro? If not, then it's not professional.
730.
by bitwize 7mo ago
Gell-Mann amnesia. The things it tells you about things you don't know are things that would make a knowledgeable person go "dude, wtf? That's totally wrong."
731.
by bitwize 7mo ago
I don't consume more than like a few grams per day to sweeten things like coffee, as well as the 5g or so in a single Munk bar. I seem to tolerate it well.
732.
by bitwize 7mo ago
I saw a putative 3D animation of a fly whose brain had been digitized and then run in a simulation. It buzzed around, sipped food it had found on the ground, even rubbed its forelegs together as flies do. A true Dixie Flyline. We live in st
733.
by bitwize 7mo ago
Munk Pack is a good brand. They're like Kind bars but sweetened with allulose.
734.
by bitwize 7mo ago
Try allulose-sweetened stuff. Allulose is a sugar your body doesn't metabolize like sucrose. It has zero calories and does not increase your blood sugar. It's a component of maple syrup and so does taste a bit maple-y, but better
735.
by bitwize 7mo ago
The guy's still a narcissistic asshole and likely sexual predator, but when even Bill Gates says the UI sucks on Microsoft products, you know the rot runs deep .
736.
by bitwize 7mo ago
It takes a team of Ph.D. level engineers to implement left-hand taskbars in a performant way! You can't expect ordinary folks from the Windows shell team to code at that level!
737.
by bitwize 7mo ago
Hewlett-Packard split into two companies some years back: HP Inc. which handles the consumer PC and printer business; and Hewlett Packard Enterprise which handles all their server and enterprise stuff, and consulting.
738.
by bitwize 7mo ago
I've never actually encountered one who didn't. Just like I've never been able to actually quit on Tuesday and walk into my next role on Thursday the way Hackernews told me "any halfway decent developer" should be a
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Employers check your work history. You'd better be able to back up having the amount of experience they require with paid, value-delivering work at past employers, or they'll pass.
740.
by bitwize 7mo ago
No, this is wrong. AI has drastically shortened the time and effort between idea and implementation. The upshot being, that not only do you get things done faster, but things you wouldn't otherwise countenance doing are now within re
741.
by bitwize 7mo ago
Your freedom phone will not be on your carrier's device allowlist.
742.
by bitwize 7mo ago
I'm not sure how you would translate sistemas operacionais de terminais which is covered by the law, but to me it reads "terminal operating systems". If a terminal has its own OS, it is probably not "dumb" in any
743.
by bitwize 7mo ago
The Debian apt repository is a "covered app store" under the law, as is any place that makes software available for download.
744.
by bitwize 7mo ago
That sounds even more absurdly elitist today in part because "How to program if you cannot" is literally a solved problem now.
745.
by bitwize 7mo ago
Because the features need to be planned by product people, broken down and turned to stories in JIRA. The dev teams need to get together and play planning poker to determine who gets what story and approximately how long it should take. The
746.
by bitwize 7mo ago
No one actually complained about Linux becoming more "professional" in terms of meeting high engineering standards. Just about corporate control over the process. There was a study that found code with more F-bombs in the comments
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by bitwize 7mo ago
My sister was just such a representative going door to door in Connecticut. This was likely a factor. The southern coast of Connecticut, being in the shadow of New York and thus dense with rich exurban homeowners, is a prime market for such
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by bitwize 7mo ago
If you have a connection to California, you can be sued in their courts. I don't know whether providing (not selling, that certainly counts) an OS to California residents from outside California counts as a connection, that's some
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by bitwize 7mo ago
It's the law. If you live in the United States, and a minor in California uses your OS that didn't check age, you could be liable for up to $2500 per occurrence. That can add up quickly if California schoolkids discover your OS do
750.
by bitwize 7mo ago
Well, yes: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/12/25/the-eldren

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