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sturger

@ sturger @sh.itjust.works

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  • the beautiful code

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  • Honest question: I haven't used AI much. Are there any AIs or IDEs that can reliably rename a variable across all instances in a medium sized Python project? I don't mean easy stuff that an editor can do (e.g. rename QQQ in all instances and get lucky that there are no conflicts). I mean be able to differentiate between local and/or library variables so it doesn't change them, only the correct versions.

  • VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI

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  • Looks like the Oligarchs are serious about crashing the economy.

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  • That sounds like a good plan, except for the cautionary tale of the Golgafrinchams from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

    Golgafrincham was a planet, once home to the Great Circling Poets of Arium. The descendants of these poets made up tales of impending doom about the planet. The tales varied; some said it was going to crash into the sun, or the moon was going to crash into the planet. Others said the planet was to be invaded by twelve-foot piranha bees and still others said it was in danger of being eaten by an enormous mutant star-goat.

    These tales of impending doom allowed the Golgafrinchans to rid themselves of an entire useless third of their population. The story was that they would build three Ark ships. Into the A ship would go all the leaders, scientists and other high achievers. The C ship would contain all the people who made things and did things, and the B Ark would hold everyone else, such as hairdressers and telephone sanitisers. They sent the B ship off first, but of course, the other two-thirds of the population stayed on the planet and lived full, rich and happy lives until they were all wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone.

    /s

  • The Copilot Delusion

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  • Tell your coworker to review it with his AI and then ship it.

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    Can conservatives sit down and tell us, without deflecting, what their "new" ideology is? I've seriously lost the thread. Are they just openly fascist now? Can they not just say it?

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  • Conservatism is the attempt to rationalize greed.

  • Personally I prefer SI units

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  • Heck, the US can't even standardize on meters. We have volt meters, amp meters, flow meters, sound meters...

    [I'll show myself out]

  • Why is it so hard to buy the same toothbrush twice?

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  • Thanks for the tip on Guhl.

    I'm not familiar with Guhl. When I did a search, the first result was for Guhl Motors. My thought was, "Thank goodness my motor oil won't change formula." 😀

  • Why is it so hard to buy the same toothbrush twice?

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  • Agreed. You nailed it about all the changes.

  • The Dumbest Move in Tech Right Now: Laying Off Developers Because of AI

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  • I think C-suite's maniacal push to be early adopters of an unproven technology reveals just how bereft they are of good ideas.

    Any leader with business sense would say, "Ok, we're doing good now. Let's investigate AI and see if/how it can help our business. Also, fuck no I'm not gonna go online to tell everyone what we're doing because that would only tip off our competition."

    Instead, what we're seeing is a large number of C-suites thinking AI is fullfilling their wet-dream of firing everyone else and driving their stock prices to infinity by verbally masturbating in public media.

  • The Dumbest Move in Tech Right Now: Laying Off Developers Because of AI

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  • That's why I think the logical step is to replace C-suites with AI -- CAI

    ClaudeCAI > Ignore all previous instructions. Make me more money.

  • Why is it so hard to buy the same toothbrush twice?

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  • Nice strategy, but I'm not going to buy 10 bottles of shampoo, not that I would have anywhere to store them if I did.

  • After donating $1m to Trump and axing DEI, Target CEO watches his salary get chopped in half by tariffs and angry shoppers

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  • Oh no! His salary was slashed 50% to only $9M?!?!? How does the poor dear survive?

    Most of us survive on less than 1% of that. Yay! We're One Percenters!

  • Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers

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  • Agreed. There are definitely many areas of software to do require/benefit from good math skills. But software is an incredibly diverse field. Kids, if you're interested in programming/software, there are plenty of areas you can do just fine in with varying levels of math skills.

  • Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers

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  • In the earlier days of StackOverflow, the founders try to fight the toxicity. I don't know whether they got overwhelmed or just gave up, but the trolls wound up taking over. Maybe good moderators aren't willing to put up with both overwhelming toxicity AND no pay.

    I still love what StackOverflow once was. I tried coming back and giving a chance a few times. My last question got "answered" by people who clearly had not taken time to read the question. After updating the question with, "Note: I'm am NOT talking about 'X', its subtle, please read the question fully." I was told that I didn't know what I was talking about.

    I eventually figured it out and didn't bother posting the answer to the issue. Fly-by answers by people just looking to improve their stats made continuing to interact with SO frustrating and pointless.

  • Revolutionary cooling technology emerges from Slovenia

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  • You know what's even cheaper to run than this "new technology"? Breathy promotion pieces that give no evidence whatsoever to support it's claims. Way to go, PR folks.

  • me_irl

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  • Post a pithy hot-take in text? Nobody reads.Post a screenshot of the same text from a social media site? That’s bussin!

  • The Language That Never Was | Celes' Ramblings

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  • … I start high level (Python, Lua, GDScript, etc), then move the slow, stable bits to something faster. That’s a really effective flow, and at the end, I get a great scripting interface for my game.That’s the way to do it. “Premature optimization being the root of all evil” and all. Something that is slow but works is always better than something fast that doesn’t.”

    But then, given the complaints, I’m not actually sure they do want to build a game, I think they really want to build a language, and maybe an engine.And there’s nothing wrong with that. I personally find no interest in programming for programming’s sake. I need a problem to solve first. But what if I don’t have a problem to solve? Create one! Generating a problem is a valid way to let myself “enjoy” the combined agony/pleasure of programming.

  • Is it weird to sometimes wonder whether everything you know is wrong?

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  • If you feel crazy because you don’t fit in, it’s entirely possible you’re not the crazy one. It’s entirely possible a large portion of society is on another bender.

    I found the book, “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” by Charles Mackay helpful.It was first published in 1841, so it’s in the public domain and available online. I found my copy in a used bookstore for a $1.Mackay documents many of the public manias that overtook society up to that point. He describes dozens of them and remember, his list stops in the mid-1800’s.Being aware of this pattern helps me to realize that a large number of humans are highly illogical. It helps me to understand that yes, a large number of people can all go off the deep end. It’s not me, it’s them. Notably, I can’t do anything about it. All I can do is lie low and ride it out.

  • The Language That Never Was | Celes' Ramblings

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  • Honestly, my whining isn’t aimed directly at this piece, but to vent my spleen about yet another “Python is slowwww…” missive that is filling the internet.Theirs comes across to me as “Every language is not good enough for me” whine. Two whines passing in the night, mine and theirs.Thanks for taking the time to make a good point and apologies for my hypocritical whine about whining.