JDubbleu @ JDubbleu @programming.dev

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That's interesting given that in California pre-school is 4-yo and kindergarten is the year after that.

I don't think so because it requires you to provide proof you work there actively, and those who leave are assigned alumni and grandfathered in. It's mainly just lots of PIP and toxicity that is discussed, and memeing about how dog shit things are.

Even within SF there's plenty of great areas, but "peace and tranquility in the sunset district" doesn't make headlines. SF has a ton of problems and I really hope we can fix them in the long term, but they tend to only be in certain parts of the city. Saying all of SF is like this is akin to saying the entire bay area is like SF. They're both massive overgeneralizations.

I can't think of any neighborhood in SF where I'd choose one of these places over literally anywhere else. Too much good cheap food here.

This is already a thing. I'm part of a 25k person Discord server for Amazon/AWS employees both current and former. We often discussed a ton about the company's inner workings, navigating the toxic AF environment, and helping people find other jobs. Nothing ever trade secret level, but that Discord would give any competitor a massive leg up in direct competition with Amazon.

It's trained on western media so this shouldn't be surprising as those are the two biggest threats to the western world. An AI trained on China's intranet would likely nuke the US, Russia, and select SEA countries.

I mean I live in the most expensive region of the US and live pretty comfortably, but go off paying to see ads and have content taken from you I guess.

Please never bring up CNF again. I'm a year out of college, two years out of finite automata, and I still shudder when it's brought up.

Do yourself a favor and rent a floor sander for like $80 bucks a day and save your orbital sander for the edges next time. That or duct tape the orbital sander to a stick.

That was a pretty interesting read. However, I think it's attributing correlation and causation a little too strongly. The overall vibe of the article was that developers who use Copilot are writing worse code across the board. I don't necessarily think this is the case for a few reasons.

The first is that Copilot is just a tool and just like any tool it can easily be misused. It definitely makes programming accessible to people who it would not have been accessible to before. We have to keep in mind that it is allowing a lot of people who are very new to programming to make massive programs that they otherwise would not have been able to make. It's also going to be relied on more heavily by those who are newer because it's a more useful tool to them, but it will also allow them to learn more quickly.

The second is that they use a graph with an unlabeled y-axis to show an increase in reverts, and then never mention any indication of whether it is raw lines of code or percentage of lines of code. This is a problem because copilot allows people to write a fuck ton more code. Like it legitimately makes me write at least 40% more. Any increase in revisions are simply a function of writing more code. I actually feel like it leads to me reverting a lesser percentage of lines of code because it forces me to reread the code that the AI outputs multiple times to ensure its validity.

This ultimately comes down to the developer who's using the AI. It shouldn't be writing massive complex functions. It's just an advanced, context-aware autocomplete that happens to save a ton of typing. Sure, you can let it run off and write massive parts of your code base, but that's akin to hitting the next word suggestion on your phone keyboard a few dozen times and expecting something coherent.

I don't see it much differently than when high level languages first became a thing. The introduction of Python allowed a lot of people who would never have written code in their life to immediately jump in and be productive. They both provide accessibility to more people than the tools before them, and I don't think that's a bad thing even if there are some negative side effects. Besides, in anything that really matters there should be thorough code reviews and strict standards. If janky AI generated code is getting into production that is a process issue, not a tooling issue.

Dude same. I worked on a stupid niche service called Ground Station, and my favorite call ever was telling a customer their satellite crossed LOS with the ISS so we couldn't transmit at their scheduled time (you never transmit directly at the ISS for obvious reasons). Somehow even that took multiple explanations for them to get that it was not our fault, and that we'd be breaking the law in pretty much every country on the planet if our antennas did not stop us from doing so.

It's also more accessible than ever. People have had over 20 years to write software to make piracy better, and it's less of a pain in the ass for me now than streaming services. The most idiotic thing companies could do right now is restrict access to legally bought content.

I mean if you have access but are not using Copilot at work you're just slowing yourself down. It works extremely well for boilerplate/repetitive declarations.

I've been working with third party APIs recently and have written some wrappers around them. Generally by the 3rd method it's correctly autosuggesting the entire method given only a name, and I can point out mistakes in English or quickly fix them myself. It also makes working in languages I'm not familiar with way easier.

AI for assistance in programming is one of the most productive uses for it.

Not OP, but my main preference for MacOS comes from the UI/UX of an absolute rock solid OS on top of a unix-like shell. I regularly go months without rebooting my machine with 0 issues like software hanging on wake.

I know there are a lot of exclusive creative apps, but all I really use my MacBook for is code, typical browser stuff, music, slicer/web interface for my 3D printer, and to interact with my home server. I'm not an open-source/Linux purist by any means, but pretty much all the software I use is widely available on all platforms. It probably helps that I bought a MacBook after growing up with Windows/Linux, so I came into it with a set of software I was familiar with that already existed on other platforms.

It still seems incredibly over engineered. Every window I've used in the US has a latch you flip out that prevents the window from opening more than a couple inches so that it's still effectively locked. Newer windows here are also all double or triple panes with inert glass in between the panels for insulation.

If you hit us-east-1 and us-west-2 I truly believe 95% of Western websites would not be fully functional. Most people either rely on, or rely on a service that in some way relies on those regions. Every time Lambda has gone down in IAD it takes with it many ordering applications and tons of physical badging systems around the country.

Yeah while the European windows are interesting I don't really get why having a window open 50 different ways is useful. It seems like an over-engineered solution to just cracking the window. I also can't imagine it's more reliable than the good ole vertical/horizontal sliding windows which are just a window in a track.

Many houses in the northeast have the old school vertical sliding windows with an extra glass pane that can be dropped in front of the screen. This creates an air insulated barrier between the internal and external glass panes and even on the 100+ year old windows I've seen they insulate very well.

This feels like when the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers combined to make the Megazord.

I'm cautiously optimistic because despite their solution being simple in nature it will still take a fuck ton of work and community effort to get the proposed Protonfix DB going. With that said I have no doubt this will be awesome once it's completed, and I cannot wait to try this out! Stuff like this makes me wish I was a systems/OS dev and not backend/API/cloud.

Damn, this looks WAY better than when I used Thunderbird in 2020. Gonna have to give it another try on my work laptop since I use Outlook there.

Which indirectly led to this wild as fuck bug that nuked some poor user's data.

https://youtu.be/qzZLvw2AdvM?si=FznMm9CQxD-da9S6