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2·5 days agoWho are “you guys”?
What’s with the suggestion that they’re injuring people at all? Has it happened?
I find getting the LLM to either generate or rephrase documentation gives a distinctly worse result than doing it myself. I was in a hurry to document a new API from scratch recently and thought I’d try Copilot, but the results were overly verbose and sometimes inaccurate so I ended up rewriting all of it.
The LLM is best for boilerplate code that is easily predictable and verifiable. Beyond that it’s sometimes good for initial suggestions if you don’t know where to start with a tool, after which you can go to the actual documentation. But you’ll need to do that, because half the time the suggestions use nonexistent APIs and methods.
I have always thought that writing code is the easy part of being a developer. The hard parts are the parts management doesn’t appreciate: clarifying requirements, architecting new systems, translating business goals into something codable, letting egotistical know they’re not making sense without offending them, designing effective testing processes, persuading management to prioritize reducing technical debt, and integrating and maintaining existing systems. Maintenance is a huge part of the job that no one gives you credit for. Oh, and if you ever touch the front end, CSS.
I seem to remember he took a poster off the wall to keep as a souvenir, so they killed him. Don’t touch the posters, people.
No one is immune to a concerted propaganda campaign. American propaganda has just been a bit more extreme than most, for a bit longer.
The investment in demonizing scapegoat groups does seem to pay off for the far right. It helps them sell their own ideology as a solution for people’s woes, if they can convince people their problems are caused by the designated scapegoats. It effectively distracts people from the plunder of their lives by rich kleptocrats, while filling them with the kind of hatred that fascism thrives on.
I think the intel was wrong
The intel said that Iran was not developing nuclear weapons. The strikes happened because Trump decided to ignore the intel in favor of the random imaginings in his head, and no doubt Netanyahu encouraged him.
“… they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.”
He always was a master of projection.
It has been working for them for decades. Why stop now?
sometimes the only way something worthwhile ever gets done in the first place is because somebody started on it without realizing how hard it would be.
Yes, that’s a good point. We both benefit and suffer from humanity’s overly optimistic moments.
often the achievement lasts a lot longer and outweighs the trouble by orders of magnitude.
True too, but Columbus might not be the clearest example of that.
Hook up a couple servers to some dams.
As someone who works in IT, I love the optimism of making it sound this simple. Things that I expect to take 10 minutes can end up taking weeks, because there’s always a surprising answer to “How complicated could it be?”
Specifically, since Thatcher and Reagan. The UK never recovered.
A highly selective natural disaster maybe.
I’ll get a cabin in the woods and forget about all this.
Enjoy the uncontrolled wildfires. There’s no escaping the damaging effects of capitalism.
And they quite probably killed the scientists’ families too when they attacked them at home.
There’s also a strong white supremacist aspect to natalism. It’s a form of racial eugenics.
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Saudi Arabia and Israel. The best allies.
You’re no more likely to lose keys with KeePass or KeePassXC than with an online password manager, as long as you keep good backups, and maybe sync KeePass to cloud storage.