moron4hire

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by moron4hire 2mo ago
I actually don't think it's worth noting. I think, if a particular code standard issue is really of value, it will be obvious. You will propose it and nobody will argue. I think the fact that code standards are contentious is proo
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by moron4hire 2mo ago
"Use /* */ for comments, not //." I find stuff like this hilarious. No software project has ever failed, or even slow down one iota, because of the comment style. This is just someone's personal "ick&
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by moron4hire 2mo ago
If you have such a test suite then you really don't need AI to write the code for you.
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by moron4hire 2mo ago
> Humans reading texts historically come with little negative consequences IDK, we do have laws against opening other people's mail. Those have been on the books for hundreds of years. Seems like someone figured out a while ago that
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by moron4hire 2mo ago
I have never heard of this. Not saying it doesn't exist, I don't know what it's like to get involved as a maintainer, but as a regular user just asking questions on the mailing list, I never received any abuse.
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by moron4hire 2mo ago
You are such a typical German, afraid of the law. There are laws that are important like murder and stealing and then there are laws that are not important like jaywalking and being a public nuisance. You need to stop treating the latter li
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by moron4hire 2mo ago
Well good for them I guess
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by moron4hire 2mo ago
I took my kids out of school and took an unplanned day off work in the middle of an important meeting series to drive 5 hours west from Virginia to Ohio to see the last eclipse. The schools and my boss were both yelling at me, both saying t
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by moron4hire 2mo ago
"Meta Muse" immediately made me think of Metamucil. Product teams really need to hire at least one or two people with a 12-year-old's sense is humor. They need to winnow all the potential stupid jokes out of their product nam
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by moron4hire 2mo ago
I'm talking about OpenAI, not GPT 5.x Flash Uranus Edition Brought to You by Costco, specifically because I recognize the model as just a tool. OpenAI was, at the very most generous interpretation, massively incompetent and negligent.
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by moron4hire 2mo ago
Having experience breaking into networks is not the same thing as learning about the techniques used and the classes of vulnerabilities exploited by attackers.
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by moron4hire 2mo ago
Speaking of that "obviously impressive" line, I'm getting really tired of something like that line seemingly needing to be included by anyone doing any criticism of agentic systems. The most common form of it is "these m
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by moron4hire 2mo ago
I've patched many security vulnerabilities in projects without ever once needing to break into a competitor's network.
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by moron4hire 2mo ago
I'm not some Google/Microsoft/whatever engineer who's been working on highly scalable, highly available systems. I've mostly worked in consulting on small projects. I have never not had problems with the defaults on
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by moron4hire 2mo ago
What is "abstract CS" about binary trees and serialization?
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
The hype train the caught me was VR. I'm reminded of the Microsoft Hololens. It was an incredible feat of engineering. At the same time, it was--at times, literally--a painful experience. There was a vision of the Hololens being a gene
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
It's blockchain for gaming all over again, putting the cart before the horse.
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
If it's open source, where is the source? I couldn't find a link to a repository. There is a link to GitHub on the Contact Us page, but it's just a link to github.com.
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
Nothing to do with the database itself. It's the tooling necessary to give the agentic harness access to the database that is the problem.
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
It's the underpants gnomes again. - Vibe code a bunch of small projects that we couldn't justify ROI before - ??? - Profit
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
Those sort of ideas are unlikely to yield major benefit, though. This is basically replicating the plight of the solo open source dev, writ large. Individual programmers have long built the thing they've cared about on their own time (
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
Back around 2015, I did an experiment where I spent most of my working day in VR (mostly spent iterating on some interaction space designs in TiltBrush). I had many of those feelings directly after. It actually felt uncomfortable to be arou
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
> I actually had to backpedal on my gaming PC from Kubuntu recently, I'm sad to say. The support for the RTX 5080 is just too rough. What? That has nothing to do with KDE. And Ubuntu is one of the happy paths for driver support. T
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
It's really not that bad. KDE is perfectly usable by default. More so than the only options you get on macOS or Windows. And, if you are so inclined, you can spend that extra effort to make it sing just to you. So, the hyperbole here
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
It's interesting that an article extoling the virtues of the em-dash isn't using them correctly. They don't get spaces around them.
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
I've thought about the specific example of distorted menu photos before as well and to me it also signals intelligence level in the proprietor. I can't imagine myself in that position, looking at that and saying, "yup, that&#
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
Fake news. There's no such thing as good pizza in NYC :P
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
My wife and I just doesn't a weekend at a craft show (she has a hobby writing sci fi books and we go to street fests to sell them). There were at least TWO vendors selling "hand made" paintings that I could tell were AI gener
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
It's the corporatization of all aspects of life. It's so bad of a problem that many people voluntarily adopt the style of neutered corporate branding in even their own things. Listen to how people talk: we used to laugh and call p
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by moron4hire 3mo ago
I've been at my current company for just over three years. I manage a small team of developers at a medium-sized consultancy, building internal tooling for our data analysts. One of my junior developers started the same day I did; we w

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