blackn1ght @ blackn1ght @feddit.uk

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From outside looking in, kicking the Tories to the fucking curb is a huge accomplishment.

This is more of an own goal from the Tories rather than there being a serious competent alternative.

I actually accidentally did this at school way back when. My mate and I decided to have an "Excel" race, where we'd start at the top of the sheet and see who could reach the bottom first by holding down either down arrow or pg down (this is obviously fun when you're 15).

Anyway, I reach the bottom, many laughs are had, go back the top, continue with whatever bullshit assignment we'd been given and then sent it off to the printer. Went onto some top down mini golf flash game and pissed about on there for a bit, until the teacher stands next to me and slams down a massive pile of paper onto my desk. She didn't look impressed.

Turns out I must have put a space or some random character at the bottom by accident and printed it. However the biggest issue was that I'd put my name in the header for the sheet, so every single page had my name in the top corner.

What’s worse is they contract in a fixed price for the power generated which is way higher than renewables can generate it for. So we’re paying more for our electricity.

I guess they do this due to the enormous amount of investment needed to build a nuclear power station, so need some way of guaranteeing returns on it?

Why not all of England's protected areas?

It is really not a big change to the way we work unless you work in a language that has very low expressiveness like Java or Go

If we include languages like C#, javascript/typescript, python etc then that's a huge portion of the landscape.

Personally I wouldn't use it to generate entire features as it will generally produce working, but garbage code, but it's useful to get boilerplate stuff done or query why something isn't working as expected. For example, asking it to write tests for a React component, it'll get about 80-90% of it right, with all the imports, mocks etc, you just need to write the actual assertions yourself (which we should be doing anyway).

I gave Claude a try last week at building some AWS infrastructure in Terraform based off a prompt for a feature set and it was pretty bang on. Obviously it required some tweaks but it saved a tonne of time vs writing it all out manually.

I have the lemmy.ml instance blocked, some non-English speaking and anime communities blocked.

I feel like it's more the sudden overnight hype about it rather than the technology itself. CEOs all around the world suddenly went "you all must use AI and shoe horn it into our product!". People are fatigued about constantly hearing about it.

But I think people, especially devs, don't like big changes (me included), which causes anxiety and then backlash. LLMs have caused quite a big change with the way we go about our day jobs. It's been such a big change that people are likely worried about what their career will look like in 5 or 10 years.

Personally I find it useful as a pairing buddy, it can generate some of the boilerplate bullshit and help you through problems, which might have taken longer to understand by trawling through various sites.

Lovely garden! Even the piece of wood seems surprised at the hedgehog!

Sync users: what's an "update"?

Does this not stress you out? It's stressing me out!

When you're new to Lemmy but you make one pro Ukraine comment on ml/grad/hexbear.

Maybe the adults are actually just as short as the baby

Getting the UK public to be on board with just a digital ID isn't going to fly

They're selling it as a tool to fight illegal immigration, so I suspect it'll go down well with the public.

Well yeah strictly you don't, but the idea of having a single machine under someone's desk as a build server managed by one person where you have multiple dev teams fills me with horror! If that one person is off and the build server is down you're potentially dead in the water for a long time. Fine for small businesses that only have a handful of devs but problematic where you've multiple teams.

Bottom line for most business though: As long as the cost makes sense, why bother self-hosting anything. That's really what it comes down to. A bonus too, as most companies like being able to blame other companies for their problems. Microsoft knows that, and profited greatly with Windows Server/Office/etc. for that very reason.

Yup, exactly this. Why waste resources internally when you can free up your own resources to do more productive work. There's also going to be some kind of SLA on an enterprise plan where you can get compensation if there's a service outage that lasts a long time. Can't really do that if it's self managed.

I'm talking about in a professional environment. You basically need a team to manage them and have a backlog of updates and fixes and requests from multiple dev teams. If you offload that to something cloud based that pretty much evaporates, apart from providing some shared workflows. And it's just generally a better experience as a dev team, at least in my experience it has been.

My worry about this idea is that it would be a requirement for you to have the ID on you at all times. I hate the thought that you basically have to have your id on you wherever you go just in case the police stop you. I know realistically you're likely to have your phone on you anyway but still.

If it's also a requirement, would the government have a scheme to help people buy a phone if they can't afford one?

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It's not like internal build servers are 100% reliable, scaleable and cheap though. Personally I've found cloud based build tools to be just a better experience as a dev.

Feddit.uk is pretty good for this. I think our defed list is pretty minimal.

I mean after that, once the server is shut down and hosting bills are paid.