throwatdem12311

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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
As a Ruby developer this video about Pharo smalltalk made me a smalltalk believer — not surprising because Ruby was heavily inspired by smalltalk. https://youtu.be/HOuZyOKa91o
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
And I don’t want work bleeding into every aspect of my life. When I’m out doing something I’m not working. When I’m working, I’m working - and it stays in the place that I work. Bring tethered to work 24/7 isn’t freedom from work, it
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
America is at-will employment and employers can basically make up whatever rules they want. California has some labour laws with regard to hand tools for tradespeople (and maybe other things I’m not familiar with) but pretty much everywher
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
Because I’m not putting work in my pocket.
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
I still point at laugh. Somebody has to. These people are insane and think they shouldn’t have to follow any rules.
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
They can require certain “brands” of tools if it’s deemed necessary for some other requirement of the job. In the case of Copilot it’s because Microsoft’s tools already check all the boxes for their enterprise partner requirements and have
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
It’s generally legal for employers to require employees to supply their own tools as a condition of employment as long as it doesn’t reduce their wage to below minimum wage. Why would developers be any different?
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
> development environment First screenshot is of a phone. Yeah I’m never installing a coding agent on my phone.
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
Friend of mine got a new job. He’s required to and only allowed to use Copilot (because muh trusted enterprise partner). He also has to pay for his subscription/usage out of pocket. Of course they didn’t tell him this until after on-
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
Never gonna happen when governments could just bomb the data centres.
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
I didn’t say it wasn’t impressive, I said it wasn’t black magic.
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
Hard disagree. All of my favourite games of all time have dynamic difficulty systems. Not stupid stuff like levelling up enemies in Bethesda games - but actual skill based games that get harder depending on how good you are at it: Resident
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
And Lutke is a fascist. All the biggest proponents of AI seem to be fascists. Weird.
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
It’s not black magic. We know how these things work. They had the guardrails off and gave it a task and it did it in a roundabout way because these things have no ethics or judgement. If you did this you’d already be in jail.
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
This is just extortion with extra steps.
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
So wait…they were specifically testing cyber capability and they didn’t notice it doing funny business until after it was done? Did they just…let it do whatever with nobody watching?! Are they flipping serious with this?
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
My entire university education was evaluated mostly by proctored closed book exams and oral defenses. AI proof 10 years before AI.
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
Code generation was never the hard part. Knowing wtf you’re supposed to actually write was always much harder and this hasn’t changed. It’s not hard to write a loop or an if-statement. It’s hard to actually solve a problem with them at
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
Just bought a B550 and a Ryzen 5 5500. Both were on sale on newegg. 30-40% off so and under 200 bucks. Grabbed a new case since my current one is practically falling apart. Will be back in business in a couple days. Thanks for the advi
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
You will own nothing and be happy.
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
Thanks for the advice gone look into it more this weekend
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
I’ve been pricing out my various options but the notion of replacing a 10 year old motherboard with another 10 year old motherboard is kinda lousy. The PC I replaced when I bought this one was such a huge improvement. My options basically b
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
“use lower cost models” “use price controls” Truly revolutionary stuff.
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
Motherboard. New motherboard…so new cpu socket (mine was Broadwell)…and new ram needed. GPU is mostly fine and can probably reuse that but it’s Vega so not the greatest I was due for an upgrade but the prices of everything is ridiculous. T
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
My own PC died and now I’m locked out of my entire Steam library for the foreseeable future. A $2000 PC is literally a downgrade from what I bought 10 freaking years ago. What the freaking hell.
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
Bold of you to assume they’re actual users.
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
From the sounds of it - Devutils on MacOS is an excellent offline (native app) slop-free alternative and the license is worth it for the extra functions and supporting the developer. Boop is free, open source and also great. Not sure what
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
It is going to backfire spectacularly. It’s actually mind boggling to me how stupid business idiots actually are. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/zoomers-ai-sabo...
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
The competence crisis in a few years is going to be apocalyptic.
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by throwatdem12311 2mo ago
> but it would just sound dumb or biased We have one of those: Grok.

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