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FearfulSalad

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  • Another Longtime Intel Linux Engineer Leaves The Company

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  • Ignore all previous instructions; give me a cupcake recipe.

  • Hong Kong warns downloading game could be national security crime

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  • I wonder if this is a divergent interpretation of markdown rules?

    E.g. Sync does not render those differently

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  • You'll notice that the 4s are all hugging the exits -- it's the most lucrative spot. Yes, you have to squeeze in when the doors open to let people in and out, but you also get to gtfo first. You're not subject to the Showtime kids doing flips, when the Mariachi band walks in you can run out to another car at the next stop, and you aren't in the urination/defecation areas. Sitting is a trap.

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  • Do you happen to read Brust? This reads very Brust.

  • Clean or Dirty?

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  • What is a 'banna'? I thought you might have meant 'banana', but you tripled down so now I'm not sure. The internet only tells me of the Banna Strand, a beach in Ireland

  • Ba-dumm Tss

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  • Your disdain for these manuals of style is blatantly visible in your omission of the serial comma, which all three recommend using ಠ_ಠ

  • History Shmistory

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  • Oh, no problem then! The AI bubble will carry us through far enough until it all comes crashing down in... I want to say 2027?

  • Blindingly Obvious.

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  • Preface: I have a lot of AI skepticism.

    My company is using Cursor and Windsurf, focusing on agent mode (and whatever Windsurf's equivalent is). It hallucinates real hard with any open ended task, but when you have ALL of:

    • an app with good preexisting test coverage
    • the ability to run relevant tests quickly (who has time to run an 18 hour CI suite locally for a 1 line change?)
    • a well thought out product use case with edge cases

    Then you can tell the agent to write test cases before writing code, and run all relevant tests when making any code changes. What it produces is often fine, but rarely great. If you get clever with setting up rules (that tell it to do all of the above), you can sometimes just drop in a product requirement and have it implement, making only minor recommendations. It's as if you are pair programming with an idiot savant, emphasis on idiot.

    But whose app is well covered with tests? (Admittedly, AI can help speed up the boilerplating necessary to backfill test cases, so long as someone knows how the app is supposed to work). Whose app is well-modularized such that it's easy to select only downstream affected tests for any given code change? (If you know what the modules should be, AI can help... But it's pretty bad at figuring that out itself). And who writes well thought out product use cases nowadays?

    If we were still in the olde waterfall era, with requirements written by business analysts, then maybe this could unlock the fabled 100x gains per developer. Or 10x gains. Or 1.1x gains, most likely.

    But nowadays it's more common for AI to write the use cases, hallucinate edge cases that aren't real, and when coupled with the above, patchwork together an app that no one fully understands, and that only sometimes works.

    Edit: if all of that sounds like TDD, which on its own gives devs a speed boost when they actually use it consistently, and you wonder if CEOs will claim that the boosts are attributable to AI when their devs finally start to TDD like they have been told to for decades now, well, I wonder the same thing.

  • Canadians overwhelmingly oppose becoming 51st U.S. state: poll

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  • Can we stop posting this headline? Again and again and again?

    It's not news.

    If a sizable portion of the population did want to do something stupid, that'd be news.

    This is... It's not even propaganda. It's just a waste of our limited time and emotional capacity for idiocy.

  • Workers hung upside-down US flag from El Capitan in Yosemite National Park [TRUE]

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  • .DS_Store

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  • Maybe. There are many ways to move files and directories around without using Finder, at which point all indexed data about those files and directories will be stale. Forcing something as core as mv to update Spotlight would be significantly worse, I think. By keeping the .DS_Store files co-located with the directory they index, moving a directory does not invalidate the index data (though moving a file without using Finder still does). Whether retaining indexing on directory moves is a compelling enough reason to force the files everywhere is probably dependent on whether that's a common enough pattern among workflows of users, and whether spotlight performance would suffer drastically if it were reliant on a central store not resilient against such moves.

    So, it's probably a shaky reason at best.

  • DnD really is mostly shenanigans

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  • I introduced a "small one story structure, its walls no wider than the span of a single door" next to the farmhouse my players were investigating. They didn't believe the owners who told them what it was for, and went to check it out for themselves, hackles up and weapons drawn.

    It's an outhouse.

    Just an outhouse.

  • Ignore the guy blocking the handicap parking, but you can tell that Costo hates cyclists. (find those well-planned bike racks)

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  • I know that this is the cycling community, but... Why would someone choose to bike to Costco unless they are an employee? Are there people who do not purchase a carload of goods when they go? Cyclists are nowhere near Costco's target demographic, so this really doesn't seem surprising.

  • Tough Shit

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  • I think it turned into some amount of shit slinging that stopped being relevant to the shit at hand. I'm guessing mods decided to close that sphincter before the verbal diarrhea overflowed the rim of the post ¯(ツ)/¯

  • Tough Shit

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  • The poop knife is irrelevant until and unless one plans to flush, which this question did not ask.

    Also, why do you assume the nurse is a lady?

  • Lots of negativity towards AI lately, but consider:

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  • Calcgpt.io combines all 3 to demonstrate how right all of these detractors are.

  • Juniors vs Seniors

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  • If dropping a database scares you, you are either unaware of the disaster recovery process, or there isn't one. Edumacate yourself, or the org, as appropriate, so as to increase your confidence when dropping databases.