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  • big yellow skips

    A trash container? I'm neither Bri'ish, or 'Murican, so I have no idea 😂

  • I think I've seen a video showcasing this tactic. Dude with a Syringe just running around, picking up his teammates as soon as they downed. It was great :D

  • It’s what clocks are “supposed” to be set at

    Even better for us Dutchies: CEST shifts us one hour, but our timezone is the same as the rest of the mainland, but technically we're inside the UTC zone, so we're actually shifted 2 hours from where we're supposed to be!

    Fuck the economy, I want our times fixed, so we can sleep better!

  • Still less criminal than the admistration so very shaky ground for this claim.

    Sure - I won't disagree there 😂

    All current drug problens themselves were created by republicans who they invented the drug war in the 70s intentionally to curtail free speech of Vietnam war protesters.

    It always comes down to the USA having their little 2-party system. They seriously need to fix that, and break up both Dems and Reps.

  • No, Ozturk is suspected for supporting Hammas - maybe he's selling Fentanyl for Hammas? 😂 But if that's true, out she goes. If it's not, I hope she can sue their asses for defamation and whatever else can stick.

  • Which of those countries have decriminalized Fentanyl? I bet it's none of them.

    Weed is fine, obviously.

  • like in other progressive Nations.

    Show me a progressive nation that has decriminalized Fentanyl (which is what the woman was caught for last time).

    If we're talking weed, I 100% agree - that should be decriminalized everywhere.

  • While I agree that it's not appropriate, that woman was a drug dealer who returned illegally into the USA - I will shed no tear for her.

  • Presuming you're writing in Python: Check out https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/

    It's an all-in-one tool that combines several older (pre-existing) tools. Very fast, very cool.

  • What if it's either that, or suicide? I imagine that people who make that choice don't have a lot of choice. Due to monetary, physical, or mental issues that they cannot make another choice.

  • That was clear from GPT-3, day 1.

    I read a Reddit post about a woman who used GPT-3 to effectively replace her husband, who had passed on not too long before that. She used it as a way to grief, I suppose? She ended up noticing that she was getting too attach to it, and had to leave him behind a second time...

  • Andrej Karpathy (One of the founders of OpenAI, left OpenAI, worked for Tesla back in 2015-2017, worked for OpenAI a bit more, and is now working on his startup "Eureka Labs - we are building a new kind of school that is AI native") make a tweet defining the term:

    There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.

    People ignore the "It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects", and try to use this style of coding to create "production-grade" code... Lets just say it's not going well.

    source (xcancel link)

  • Remember when the $2.50 Oblivion horse armor DLC was considered to be ridiculous?

    Blizzard now sells mounts at the price of 90 EUR, ~1.5x the base price of the game itself...

    TBF, it's a useful mount, but 90 fucking Euros...

  • Jenkins is neat if you use a shared repo. Yes, the functions are weird (a file is a function, and the function inside is named call.), but having a default list of *Pipeline.Jenksfile (ingestionPipeline, modelPipeline, parserPipeline, dataProductPipeline, etc - data engineer here) is so nice. You can also specify which branch of that repo you are running as well!

    It's less neat if you previously had to migrate off of a Jenkins that had everything running as root, to a Jenkins that doesn't.

    At least if you fix a bug for a function that's used in multiple pipelines, it's fixed everywhere. Or if you fix a bug in a single pipeline, it's fixed for multiple repos.

    edit: the Groovy language isn't great though. Not being able to pass kwargs in my own order, unclear how to define the pipeline (somewhat lacking docs, grabbing working examples from SO). I wish something like Python would've been used instead.

  • Dialectical Materialism

    How about "a tug-of-war between owners and workers for jobs, resources, and technology"

    Three examples:

    Factory Work and Labour Unions

    Early 20th-century factory jobs involved long hours, low pay, and unsafe working conditions. When workers tried to unionize, factory owners often resisted, viewing unionized labour as a threat to profits. This created a direct conflict: owners wanting to keep costs low vs. workers demanding better wages and safer workplaces.

    Automation in Warehouses

    Warehouses (e.g., Amazon fulfilment centres) are increasingly adopting robotic systems to speed up sorting and packing. Employees might feel pressure to meet higher performance metrics set by a partly automated workflow, while also fearing that further automation will reduce human jobs. Here, the “tug-of-war” is between technological efficiency (and profit) vs. workers’ job security and well-being.

    Tech Industry Outsourcing

    Companies sometimes outsource tech-related jobs to countries with cheaper labour costs. This lowers expenses for the company but can lead to local layoffs and economic hardship for employees in higher-wage regions. The conflict revolves around the benefit of increased profit margins for the company vs. the material needs of domestic workers who lose their livelihoods.

  • The USA actually spends several billions, if not trillions on Medicare (meant for the old) and Medicaid (meant for the poor, and single mothers, and young children) combined.

    In 2023, the federal government spent about $848.2 billion on Medicare, accounting for 14% of total federal spending.

    source - and that's just Medicare.

    I agree with you that it's weird that corporations get a bailout, instead of selling the company to competitors, but no need to act like the USA doesn't spend a TON of money on its citizens, keeping their head above water :)

  • Here's a summarization of the summary (also done by AI, because lazy):

    The author recalls his initial reluctance to speak publicly after a past misstep and later revisits the subject by examining how movies, such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and WarGames, dramatize computers. He contrasts these cinematic portrayals with the subtle influence of everyday technologies like email and PowerPoint, and criticizes modern development tools like Visual Studio and IntelliSense for potentially diminishing deep coding skills. Ultimately, he champions a return to fundamental programming to rediscover the pure joy of coding.