Hot take: 95% of code was slop before LLMs
Citation: being in numerous software dev jobs over the course of 25 years
Companies do not care about pretty, legible, maintainable code. They want “good enough” as fast as possible.
You want to get rid of LLMs, you have to fix corporate culture.
Ah yes, my favorite video card manufacturer, NVDIDA
For those of you with “full-time” jobs: If you could work a 32-hour, 4-day “full-time” work week, but it meant you took a 20% pay cut, would you?
Be warned: I will Star your Pet Photograph
Watched a Secret Galaxy video about Quantum Leap. Remembered that I liked the show and watched it with my folks sometimes.
Checked to see if it’s on Peacock (which we get free with our ISP, Because Capitalism) and it is not.
Checked if it streams anywhere else, and it does not.
It’s only available for digital purchase.
This is baffling since AFAIK it was an NBC show, and there is no technical reason whatsoever they couldn’t have it up to stream. And the literal way we were originally sold streaming was that we’d have thousands of shows/movies, all in one place, at our fingertips.
Anyways, I sailed the high seas and now have passable (if low-resolution) rips of the whole show.
If companies do not provide solutions, we will continue to provide our own.
They say they honor our soldiers, alive and dead... while the last generation that actually fought for freedom was their parents and grandparents. And those people fought to prevent exactly what is happening right now. EXACTLY what is happening right now.
But no, that can't be! they say. That doesn't happen here, that happens in OTHER places, and in history books, and in popular fiction, and award-winning shows and movies -- never HERE!
So they close their eyes, their ears, their minds. It's being blown out of proportion. It's only in those horrible wicked liberal war zone ravaged cities. It only affects the evil and guilty. The economy is doing great, just look at the markets!
Sometimes I feel like I'm going insane when faced with so many people that just keep acting like everything is normal. Yeah, we all need to unwind, we can't focus on the awfulness all the time or we'd go mad... but so many folks just envelop themselves in a "Somebody Else's Problem Field".
God, the absolute hypocrisy of everyone celebrating our "freedom" while worshipping the people actively destroying it. People who have no fucking idea of what "freedom" actually means, except "fuck you, I got mine".
The sheer irony of cheering for "liberty" after our government just provided the most funds in the history of the PLANET to an unaccountable, violent, countrywide secret police force. After our court just said anyone can be kidnapped and shipped off to a torture camp with no due process, no information, and no recourse.
This country is dead, and this is a farce. And so many of its citizens are already dead, they just don't know it yet.
And this music I'm listening to is the music of traitors and idiots, pigs throwing a party for the butcher, thinking they'll be spared.
If they just love Daddy enough.
If they're the right skin color.
If they pray extra-hard.
I just saw someone on Mastodon who identifies herself as totally blind side with ICE against the protesters
And I’m like
You realize the disabled will be the next target, don’t you?
Have you not seen the eugenicist rhetoric spewed by this regime?
How can you be so ignorant?
Tech CEOs need to stop trying to make the Everything App.
They need to be like Doctor Charles Emerson Winchester III from M*A*S*H, who said, “I do one thing at a time, I do it very well, and then I move on.”
APPS SHOULD DO ONE THING VERY WELL.
*ONE* THING.
So my wife is saying 4chan was hacked so thoroughly that it may be a *site-ending hack*. Practically everyone who ever signed up on the site (i.e. non-anon users) has had their private info leaked, including emails and IPs in many cases.
(Warning: offensive language and slurs in the link below, it includes screenshots from 4chan after all)
The “announce tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, and then ‘postpone’ the Mexican ones” move this administration just did is a classic mind game — taking something a way and then giving part back.
So the markets are barely down and people are breathing sighs of relief, despite the fact that the Canadian and Chinese tariffs (and retaliations) will still be *devastating* to our economy.
God, humans in general are *so* fucking stupid.
It doesn’t have to be perfect.
It doesn’t have to be practical.
It doesn’t have to be useful or monetizable.
It doesn’t have to be spectacular, extraordinary, or even original.
Make stuff because you want to. Simply for the joy of making it.
(This is mostly a reminder to myself, to banish all these intrusive self-criticisms. But maybe you need it too.)
We have met the enemy and he is us.
Anyways, if you are ever in the area around Fermilab (near Chicago), I strongly suggest you check them out! It’s a bit of a drive from the city, but well worth it.
(They have two other locations, too, but that’s the one I’m familiar with.)
One more photo from American Science and Surplus, some very old oscilloscopes and meters. Although it’s not the same experience as their physical stores, you can find them online at http://www.sciplus.com. For a long time, their website featured hand-drawn illustrations of products rather than photos — part of their quirkiness — although that hasn’t been the case for a little while now.
Maybe an interesting feature idea for #Ivory: have the age of the post you’re replying to turn gradually redder depending on how old it is, so you know if you’re necro-ing a post that’s two months old. 😅
(Yes, I’ve advocated for replying to posts regardless of their age in the past, and I still do, but it would be nice to be reminded of it just in case!)
(Wait, does HCI stand for human/computer interaction on Mastodon, or is there some other term with that acronym?)