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by blibble 8mo ago
> The CA/B is accomplishing absolutely nothing for security and absolutely everything for centralized control and platform instability. is it their fault? with the structure of the browser market today: you do what Google or Apple t
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by blibble 8mo ago
> are you an AI? no, I'm a competent engineer maybe you've not worked with any
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by blibble 8mo ago
> GitHub used to be a fantastic product. Now it barely even works. it's almost as if Microsoft bought it, isn't it?
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by blibble 8mo ago
forgejo doesn't need half a supercomputer to run it
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by blibble 8mo ago
> We all write insecure code in our first pass through no, we don't
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by blibble 8mo ago
I think software engineers in the right place can actually do far more damage than most doctors and lawyers the scale is simply humongous just look at what facebook has done to our democracies
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by blibble 8mo ago
for a computer science degree in the UK to be accredited, the chartered institute mandated an ethics course therac-25 was in there and now everyone's shoving as much generative excrement as possibly into everything as quickly as possib
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by blibble 8mo ago
presumably slophub's now dogfooding GitHub Agentic Workflows?
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by blibble 8mo ago
zero because they tell you to stop being so stupid and run apt install gcc
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by blibble 8mo ago
the "AI" bot closing the issue here is particularly funny
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by blibble 8mo ago
> but why would you want one involved in any continuous degree with your CI/CD because helping you isn't the goal the goal is to generate revenue by consuming tokens and a never ending swarm of "AI" "agents"
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by blibble 8mo ago
writing a C compiler is a 1st year undergrad project C was explicitly designed to make it simple to write a compiler
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by blibble 8mo ago
> Linux desktop environments are developed by its users wanting the best experience possible. have you used GNOME?
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by blibble 8mo ago
that worked real well for cloud computing aws and gcp's margins are legendarily poor oh, wait
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by blibble 8mo ago
Simon Willison has publicly posted many times that he finds it frustrating that people call him a shill for the AI industry I don't think it's unreasonable to say that your enumerated list would be considered beyond simply being e
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by blibble 8mo ago
it is a very, very strange thing to witness even if you can be a prompt engineer (or whatever it's called this week) today well, with the feedback you're providing: you're training it to do that too you are LITERALLY training
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by blibble 8mo ago
> Nothing I've ever built has lasted more than a few years. maybe this say something more about your career decisions than anything else?
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by blibble 8mo ago
> I'm still fascinated every day by JetBrains IDEs. have you used them recently? terrible, is the word I would use (as a customer since the 2010s)
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by blibble 8mo ago
that is a very long attempt at backwards rationalisation just say it's for the money, people understand that but this sort of post is simply gross
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by blibble 8mo ago
on monday they'll have to update the article > 900 former Google employees
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by blibble 8mo ago
> I see people at work who are drooling about being able to have code made for them .. but I'm not in that group. people seem to have a inability to predict second and third order effects the first order effect is "I can sip a
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by blibble 8mo ago
> What they have always criticised is that it makes it harder to do so than MV2, and the difficulty of implementing dynamic filtering with it gives the advertisers an upper hand over adblockers. it's more than this the filter list i
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by blibble 8mo ago
we are ALL negatively impacted by generative excrement I have to use Windows at my day job and my god, I'd prefer Windows 3.1
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by blibble 8mo ago
pray tell, how I can practice my craft from prison
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by blibble 8mo ago
no, this is what massive subsidy looks like
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by blibble 8mo ago
> Consequences for me messing up are far less severe than the consequences for a PE messing up. if I approve a bad release that leads to an egregious failure, for me it's a prison sentence and unlimited fines in addition to being st
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by blibble 8mo ago
> Where this analogy breaks down is that the work you’re describing is done by Professional Engineers that have strict licensing and are (criminally) liable for the end result of the plans they approve. there are plenty of software engin
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by blibble 8mo ago
it's not that one, but it's in my parents house you'll forgive me if I don't ring them in the early hours of the morning... remember C was specifically designed to be easy to compile (hence anachronisms like forward decl
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by blibble 8mo ago
indeed building a working C compiler from scratch is literally in my "teach yourself C in 24 hours" book from 30 years ago
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by blibble 8mo ago
have you used Windows 11? file explorer takes 5 seconds to open

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