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Beej Jorgensen

@ beejjorgensen @lemmy.sdf.org

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Instructor, author, developer. Creator of Beej's Guides.

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  • The End of Publishing as We Know It

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  • Lol.. I wanted "DRM". But it's been a long day.

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  • No way rich people are using this shit on their own kids.

  • The End of Publishing as We Know It

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  • I often wonder about the stuff I write, what becomes of it. It's a little disheartening since I love crafting it for best effect... But especially with computer books for beginners, people prefer to ask AI for the answers instead of studying.

    I also just bought 6 sci-fi books from an author I'd never heard of for cheap. I love supporting indy authors, the price was right, and they sold their books directly from the website, no middlemen and no DRM. Perfect.

    But was the author real? I actually did a bunch of research to find out their history and all that before pulling the trigger. I really don't want to read AI stories. But I can see a future where the vast majority don't care. Imagine an endless episode of Survivor or a soap opera, completely generated 24x7 forever. You know that shit would be massive.

    And there might only be a fringe that seeks human-generated content for the humanity of it.

  • The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun

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  • A trick you can use there is to form the connection with different intent, e.g. to learn more about the field. Maybe it leads to something and maybe it doesn't, but at least you learned something.

  • Shuttle: The Space Flight Simulator

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  • The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun

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  • Yeah, we computer people don't typically count networking as a forté. But I fear that while before the network was merely important, now it could turn into the only thing that matters.

  • Ted Cruz can’t get all Republicans to back his fight against state AI laws

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  • States rights! Lol

  • AI Models from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic Solve 0% of ‘Hard’ Coding Problems

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  • Sucks for today's juniors, but that gap will bring them back into the fold with higher salaries eventually.

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  • But Carter had honor.

  • YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto

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  • I'm not worried. The minute the ad blockers stop working I'll finally be able to do something else with my time.

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    What editor or IDE do you use and why?

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  • Vim because it's ubiquitous, starts up instantly, works when ssh'd into a server, and doesn't get in my way with lots of busy interface. Also modal editors are the only way to go, IMHO. 🙂

  • Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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  • I used to pay Google for things back when they were pretty awesome. Haven't paid them a dime for years now.

  • Sundar Pichai is vibe coding. 'It feels so delightful to be a coder.'

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  • I've been messing around with vibe-painting, myself. Damn it feels good to be an artist.

  • Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads

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  • I'm trying to think of something more fucked up, but I'm struggling, here.

  • My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

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  • This guy's argument is that he's a 10xer because he's using AI effectively, i.e. just proofreading its output and deleting the comments. (Also, why hire juniors when you can get the same work for $20/mo?)

    I think this is a losing strategy unless all senior devs never retire and are immortal. (Or unless GAI happens in which case the world economy will collapse and who cares about strategy.)

    It looks like what's happening is that way fewer companies are willing to invest in juniors now, leading to falling enrollment in university, leading to a shortage of seniors, leading to very high dev pay, leading to increased enrollment. Eventually.

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  • Or a process to challenge them?

    😂😂😂😔

  • Companies are using Ribbon AI, an AI interviewer to screen candidates.

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  • "I see you have extensive database experience. Can you elaborate on the white genocide?"

  • Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American

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  • Hypocrisy is considered a strength. So they're definitely not against it.

  • Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

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  • I think you're right that this leads to increased efficiency. But in the case of the United States, we're relying on a bit of inefficiency here to maintain freedom. I would suggest that there's no difference between a dictatorship and an all-seeing government. Restricting the government is important in a free country, and making data on citizens difficult access is one of those restrictions we've been using.