The Chinese think in terms of 1000-year dynasties, not 6 month short term profits.
USA has no chance of remaining competitive if they keep up their current strategy. Chinese chips are well on their way to surpassing American ones over the next 10-20 years
Don’t forget “author”, as though that’s relevant for anything
Writing code is the reward for doing the thinking. If the LLM does it then software engineering is no fun.
It’s like painting - once you’ve finally finished the prep, which is 90% of the effort, actually getting to paint is the reward
New Zealand copies a lot from USA, we are slowly becoming less civilized
I was finally at a job where I could use Linux at work. Things were great for about a year and then BOOM we get acquired and the new company forces MacBooks on everyone.
I. Friggin. Hate. MacOS. The biggest pain point is the keyboard shortcuts, 15 years of Linux muscle memory…
My point is I can very much relate to having to use unproductive shit for work and the daily reminder of why it’s not on my personal devices
Oh wow, you’re right.
+1000. one of my coworkers keeps thinking he’s saving time with AI-generated code but what he’s really doing is pushing the thinking downstream when we have to pick apart the absolute garbage that gets generated.
PR feedback gets turned into AI prompts and the cycle continues. It’s exhausting
Yep, I’ve seen MS flight simulator fans basically create entire cockpits in their house with a crap tonne of screens for 180-degree vision and hook up all the 3rd party peripherals.
There’s just no way this will ever work seamlessly on Linux
I went to Derry and Giants Causeway after watching the Derry Girls TV show (“foreigners fookin’ love the Giants Causeway!”)
It wasn’t wrong, I greatly enjoyed my 3 days in Northern Ireland
I’d go to France again but Paris: never again
What are you going to do, send them money? That information isn’t private, people have to give it up all the time to receive money…
Arguably OpenAI has actual influence unlike anyone calling themselves “influencer”, but yes
I used to dislike tacos because I was brought up thinking these were tacos
“Don’t touch working code” stems from “last person who touched it, owns it” and there’s some shit that it’s just not worth your pay grade to own.
Particularly if you’re a contractor employed to work on something specific
The internet memes will have me believe that Germans are super anal about making sure that trash is correctly sorted.
Is there a bin for ewaste next to the glass, cans and plastic bins?
You must be a fellow data engineer
I thought I’d love a job like this, and it was fine, for a while.
But you can feel yourself stagnating and you know that when they eventually make you redundant you’d struggle to get another job because you spent too long coasting.
I left it for a job at a startup, much more engaging but also much more work
I will forever recognize the Baar Sophia font from the fansubs of Naruto which got me into anime in the first place
Ahh good ol’ Aegisub. I have great memories of subtitling anime in my late teens before I got a girlfriend and the fansub scene died when Crunchyroll took over.
I was also one of the people helping test Aegisub on Linux (2009-ish), I wasn’t a programmer at the time but I remember a dude called ‘verm’ in the IRC channel who did a bunch of work to make Aegisub stable on Linux. He taught me the difference between little endian and big endian, I guess he was bored that day
Watch some Olympic events next time it’s on. Men have a clear advantage, scoring significantly higher. It’s necessary to separate men and women into different categories or women wouldn’t bother participating.
Of course you get the odd man that wants to identify as a women so they can win something they wouldn’t otherwise be able to, modern problems require modern solutions