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by yuye 2mo ago
>what it is that is considered valuable. I fear we humans are on the losing end of that reconsideration.
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by yuye 2mo ago
>"huh this is actually 90% what I would have written" The last 10% is always the hardest part, though
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by yuye 2mo ago
>What is windows actually good at? The only reason for me still running Windows is for games. But even that is changing rapidly nowadays. I'm still on Win10, even though it's EOL. I should upgrade, and if I do, I'll upgrad
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by yuye 2mo ago
Who knows? I'm an engineer, not a psychic.
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by yuye 2mo ago
>Strongly recommend Outer Wilds. Falling into the black hole the first time was one of my most scared moments in gaming. I was totally panicking lol The Outer Wilds is one of the greatest gaming experiences of all time. I would love to f
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by yuye 2mo ago
>because one is tired of typing I consider typing to be secondary to software engineering, but I do concede that for those cases that typing really is the bottleneck, LLMs can certainly be of value. Those cases are rare, though.
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by yuye 2mo ago
That I disagree with, though. First of all, Go is a garbage collected language, so can't be compared to C. C is a language that is able to target basically every platform under the sun. It's versatile: User-space applications, ker
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by yuye 2mo ago
You're right, but that doesn't mean those assembly programmers are suddenly forced to write React. Being an expert at assembly probably means you're an expert in low level programming. We still have a need for those people, b
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by yuye 2mo ago
>My big problem is that nobody is working on truly innovative programming languages anymore. How many languages are truly innovative? I'd say the most recent example is Rust, as you mentioned, being innovative with its borrow checke
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by yuye 2mo ago
>It's like an old ASM programmer telling himself that his obscure assembly knowledge will surely still give him great advantages as he is forced to switch to React.js development. The engineers that are truly skilled in writing pure
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by yuye 2mo ago
>Software engineers feeling down should think about software designed to track medication administration, or validate their tax calculations, or to decide whether to flag you for a CIFAS marker, or whatever, and then imagine the generic
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by yuye 2mo ago
"Can websites please stop the trend of giving error messages that are like "OOPSIE WOOPSIE!! Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo! The code monkeys at our headquarters are working VEWY HAWD to fix this!" And just
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by yuye 2mo ago
You mean the same company that allowed CDs/DVDs/USB drives to automatically run binaries by simply adding autorun.inf?
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by yuye 2mo ago
>But what I find increasingly common is that I run into these kinds of frictions even when I do behave as a normie. Often, this friction is on purpose. A good example is how websites show the cookie banner: The least friction will be to
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by yuye 2mo ago
If it forces me to sign in, I'm not trying it.
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by yuye 2mo ago
The same goes for telephony. I reject all phone calls by default, unless I'm expecting a call.
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by yuye 2mo ago
It's only considered "godlike" by those satisfied with mediocrity
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by yuye 2mo ago
>Now you can do something with your time besides writing pointless one-off doo-dads. This is such a disgusting statement that goes against the very core of what open-source stands for. If even only one person got some use out of what the
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by yuye 2mo ago
This has been the standard for a long time. What surprises me is that they're not even putting in the effort to hide it anymore.
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by yuye 2mo ago
Compilers and AI are not the same.
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by yuye 3mo ago
>2. There's a strong superposition of "things are bad" and "we are still the best"; These can be reconciled by good old xenophobia: "Yes, things are horrible, but the way they do it is worse because it is
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by yuye 3mo ago
>There’s a general sense that Germany is a prosperous, influential country. The reason for that must be that things are done correctly in Germany. I'm from the Netherlands(also not living there anymore) and I recognize this arroganc
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by yuye 3mo ago
>AI Assorted Imaginaries?
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by yuye 3mo ago
>Could you describe your usual workflows and usage patterns with AI? I don't. I'm not a gambling man, and I respect my fellow engineers to not inundate them with slop.
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by yuye 3mo ago
>Since programming is still my passion I think it's worthwhile as I can experiment and create a lot of stuff with little effort Yes, driving is my passion, which is why I've hired a private driver to do it for me.
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by yuye 3mo ago
Loads of people do cocaine and have "fun and whimsy" and I'm willing to bet there are even a few out there that have had their life improved by cocaine. Why focus on the negative?
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by yuye 3mo ago
The difference is that drunk driving stocks aren't at an all-time high.
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by yuye 3mo ago
>"I did a Chat output, please fix and review it " is the kind of thing that empowers the people who used to have a minimal productivity, and now lets them to wreck things on an industrial scale. AI is not a productivity multipl
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by yuye 3mo ago
Even if we ignore AI for a moment, I doubt many programmers actually solve the kind of challenges Zachtronics games are known for on a daily basis.
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by yuye 3mo ago
Last time I got a rental car, it was a Mazda 3. I really enjoy how the dial works.

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