leptons

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by leptons 2mo ago
The people want this administration and their right-wing politics gone, and the right-wing knows it - if the people really wanted the current shitstorm to continue the right-wing wouldn't be so desperate to suppress the vote, gerrymand
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by leptons 2mo ago
>half the voting population of the US wants to live under authoritarian rule That's half the people who showed up to vote, not "half the voting population". 1/3 of the eligible voters simply didn't vote, and from
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by leptons 2mo ago
>The current situation is a result of a nearly unanimous Washington consensus regarding this issue. Not one party vs another. That's nonsense and the voting record proves you wrong. Please link to any privacy related vote that hurts
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by leptons 2mo ago
>There are many instances today of cops forcibly entering a home claiming nothing more than a welfare check, or "we received a call." And there are also many instances of the city being sued, those cops being sued, losing quali
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by leptons 2mo ago
>Those things are of the past now, for the US. It's a temporary situation, it isn't necessarily a permanent situation. Tell me how you think East Germany is doing these days. And no, it doesn't have to take 40 years to rig
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by leptons 2mo ago
>You can rig up a local ide to pathologically commit+push per save The dev system we use for a 3rd party hosting provider (a big one) requires a commit and push for every file save while we're developing. I created a build system fo
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by leptons 2mo ago
"Add to upcoming delivery" is a one-click purchase.
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by leptons 2mo ago
I made one in 1985 for my 10 speed bike, it was pretty fun for a while. I was in my early teens at the time.
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by leptons 2mo ago
> "LIFETIME ACCESS" "Own It Forever" "Lifetime Updates" Who's lifetime? The lifetime of the service, or until whoever is running it loses interest in it? This doesn't seem like a "forever&quot
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by leptons 2mo ago
>Act accordingly I've been looking for a new job where people aren't so reckless... the AI psychosis is heavy at my current job.
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by leptons 2mo ago
That's the old way. The current way is nobody reviews anything. The LLM reviews it all and nobody even reads it, they just click approve, and merge blindly. I wish I were kidding.
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by leptons 2mo ago
But then their bubble would be a pukey green color, and not a nice blue color, and that's scary for a lot of them.
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by leptons 2mo ago
The DOJ had started a lawsuit against Apple due to their rampantly greedy business practices, but who knows where that is going now since Tim Apple gave a golden trophy to the current president. https://www.justice.gov/archi
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by leptons 2mo ago
My company stopped reading PRs (100% LLM) and we're just supposed to click Approve, and then someone else clicks the Merge button. They are absolutely reckless and I'm looking for a new job.
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by leptons 2mo ago
>but a human's still the one submitting the PR for review Where I work, the LLM writes the ticket and does all the coding. As soon as the LLM feels like it's done, it automatically submits and reviews the PR itself. The humans
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by leptons 2mo ago
"Managers" don't contribute much if any value. Someone with creative vision contributes value. That cam be a PM, or the right engineer, and sometimes both if you're lucky. Most of us aren't lucky like that.
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by leptons 2mo ago
I took an online technical interview recently where there was a check-box they made you click before every section, promising you would not use AI to solve the test for you. After they rejected me I had to point out that their test is selec
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by leptons 2mo ago
Maybe you weren't around in the 2000 dot com bubble burst era, but the same thing happened then. Companies hired anyone they could because talent was scarce. A friend of mine who was a substitute teacher got a job as a sysadmin, and he
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by leptons 2mo ago
There have been many times throughout the past when going "downtown" elicited a "don't go" response. And yet there were times when going "downtown" was a fun thing to do. Somehow we got from past "don
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by leptons 2mo ago
> How about we never talk about rewarding management-by-breaking-things? Have you seen who we elect to run our countries?
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by leptons 2mo ago
Just because LLMs exist does not mean people stopped writing themselves. I mean, some people did, but not everyone. It's a kind of AI psychosis to think or suspect that everything is LLM generated.
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by leptons 2mo ago
It's as bad if not worse than the dot com bubble burst - and the current AI bubble hasn't even burst yet.
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by leptons 2mo ago
The last straw (of many last straws) was over the weekend a co-worker sent me a chat "hey can you click approve on this PR real quick?". This only makes me click "Apply" (jobs) instead of "Approve".
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by leptons 2mo ago
I'm in the same boat as you... 30 years of experience writing software, and now I'm just supposed to click "approve" on PRs without reading the PR. I'm just supposed to press a button. I'm looking for a new job
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by leptons 2mo ago
>what are you doing with all your time if you aren't reviewing the code and trying to make it maintainable? I was told I'm not supposed to read pull requests at my job anymore (we all do agentic coding now), I'm just suppo
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by leptons 2mo ago
Seems like you are keeping your head in the sand about how much the AI companies are spending vs. how much they are bringing in. These companies are following the Uber model of pricing, trying to beat the competition and drive them out of t
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by leptons 2mo ago
I had great success with Claude editing and cleaning up STL files that I created by 3D scanning objects using my cellphone. The scans were very messy and the AI made the clean-up really easy.
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by leptons 2mo ago
I'm using AI in many ways but I'm not ignoring that it has some real costs. The code AI writes is too voluminous to fully review. I'm quite disconnected from it, and probably won't be able to maintain it myself. The more
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by leptons 2mo ago
File browsers are probably the worst example you could use here. The actual file manipulations are handled by the OS. The rest of it is just displaying lists of files, so no real speed difference would be noticed in different languages&#x2F
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by leptons 2mo ago
> Even if LLMs get no better than they are today, we will still have valid practical applications that use them. That's only true when they are heavily, heavily subsidized . If that $200/month spend could or should be $2000&#x

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