Unfortunately, no one can be told what a file is. You have to see it for yourself.

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the file system goes.

Even more effective given that they’re probably shooting at civilian ships.

If they were announcing Starcraft 3 (and it was going to be an RTS game) I can understand there being some excitement around it even four years in advance because there’s so few RTS games being made.

But a Starcraft shooter? Meh.

Do you mean the first time they announced StarCraft Ghost or the second time?

So this is actually the third time they’ve announced a Starcraft shooter.

Prostitution?

What is it you think I forgot? No one’s forgetting how there’s people spending a lot of time trying to convince everyone that anything that recognizes the existence of Jews should be labelled “zionists” and be a target of hatred.

I also haven’t forgotten then general pattern of posts on “Lemmy Shitpost”. One day Gal Gadot is the target of your two minutes hate, next day it’s this guy I never even heard of before.

Also I haven’t forgotten that this isn’t the first time in history people have acted this way. Not everything is about comforting you by making you feel like no one notices this pattern of behaviour.

On Youtube you can just click on subscriptions and it only shows content from channels you’re subscribed to. If you make some effort to curate the channels you’re subscribed to, there will be some pretty good content there.

To me, this should be the default page with the recommendation algorithm being an “explore” option to find some other channels to subscribe to.

The big problem with social media is you have millions of people competing with each other to grab attention. If the goal were instead to convince people to subscribe to their channel, people might actually put some effort into creating better content instead of trying to be the first to get out their hot take on whatever is going on. If they adjusted their interface to start up on the subscription feed, and have an explore feed which show maybe ten channels that have had a lot of subscriptions recently, it would probably solve a lot of problems with shit shit tier troll content dominating social media.

Yeah I know there’s some really deranged people on the internet.

It’s a bizarre thing when people think that proving the existence of a narrative is the same thing as something being true.

Apparently there’s a synagogue in it so some people are upset by that. You’ll of course claim that Zionism is not the same as antisemitism, while also spending a lot of time reading a lot of articles that tell you to hate a video game because it shows a synagogue in it.

Not everything has something to do with Zionism FFS.

Yeah I get it, you’re someone who goes along with the narratives from articles that an algorithm selected for you. I guess you just got comfy with going along AI algorithms in your information consumption so you assume others will too.

Do you completely fail at critical thinking? I’ll slow it down so you can understand:

1. Linus sees sloppy code written by a human

2. Linus sees sloppy code written by an AI

Why did #1 not corrupt him have decades, but #2 definitely will? There is no reason, sloppy code is sloppy code whether written by a human or written by an AI.

You’re equating shitty developers becoming vibe coders with a skilled software engineer using a tool. I think you just don’t know the difference between a junior developer and a senior software engineer. Maybe you just don’t have any experience in software development and are just reading articles on random websites.

You assume humans don’t ever write sloppy code and Linux Torvalds has never before encountered someone wanting to merge in sloppy code before. If in decades he hasn’t gotten comfy with sloppy code written by humans, why would he suddenly be merging in sloppy code written by an AI? He’s never been worried about hurting the feelings of a human that’s writing sloppy, do you suppose he’s going to develop empathy for an LLM that’s writing sloppy code?

The people that go all in on vibe coding are people that aren’t very good programmers to begin with. They don’t really understand how to write code and then suddenly they can make things work quickly. Well sort of work. At least work about as well as they could with their limited skills.

People that are actually good at programming know what good code is. After decades of working with code and knowing what it’s supposed to be, you don’t suddenly become a vibe coder saying eh, it kind of works, good enough, ship it. Its the people that were never able to write high quality code to begin with that do that. It can do the job of a lazy programmer that has a low standard of quality. For a skilled developer, it can sometimes save on typing on some simple tasks, and a good developer knows when it did something wrong and be all Thanos and say “fine, I’ll do it myself”.

Anti-intellectualism doesn’t help yours.

It’s a classic scammer tactic to create a false sense of urgency, so people sign up for something without thinking.

Slow down, and do some critical thinking. The promise of AI is that you can type in a simple prompt and the AI will figure out all of the complicated computer stuff for you. How would someone be “left behind” by this technology? Do you suppose that experienced developers will lose the ability to write simple sentences?

I don’t think people will loose the ability to type in “make that button green”. Even if AI fulfills it’s promises (which is doubtful, read up on the halting problem) someone who knows how computers work will be more employable than someone that only knows how to write prompts. Because the person that knows how computers work can also write prompts and will be better at doing that than someone that doesn’t know anything about computers.

More important in this day and age is learning how to spot a scam. Someone pressuring you to do something immediately is likely scamming you.

It’s especially essential to mark the code as AI generated. AI makes mistakes just as humans do. Problem is AI makes different kinds of mistakes than humans.

A human will tend to forget to do something they were supposed to do. An AI will do a bunch of unnecessary shit.

Also you can tell that a human didn’t put a lot of thought into some code (no comments, sloppy variable names) so you’re more likely to say “yeah ok, I used to make that kind of mistake when I was younger” and just fix it. AI generated code will have all kinds of comments which normally makes you more hesitant before making a change. It looks like someone really thought through what they were doing, but in reality it’s something generated by an LLM and no real thought was given to the code.

Dude merges in code into the kernel originating from how many thousands of developers from around the world?

Read the LKML if you think he’s a guy that’s prone to getting comfy with merging in sub-par code.

LLM is just an algorithm.

Think in terms of any other algorithm. If someone said they use a particular algorithm for everything, that would be a bad programmer. But if someone else said they would never ever use a particular algorithm because it’s the tool of the devil, would that be a good programmer.

Software engineering is about knowing when an algorithm should be used and where it shouldn’t be used. LLMs don’t change that, it’s just another algorithm. The engineer should make the decision not marketing hype. But the decision should also not be made by reactionaries.

I think you should read up on WWII. After going through a civil war, Spain was not in any shape to contribute much of anything to the fascist side in WWII. After WWII, France wanted the allies to do a regime change in in Spain, since they weren’t comfortable with fascists on their border for obvious reasons. But instead the allies opted for containment and isolation. It sucked for people in Spain for decades, but after Franco died they moved on from fascism. Regime change eventually happened in Spain without the need for other countries to invade.

Right now nobody in the Middle East is all that happy living next to Iran. Iran is pretty fascist, so do you think Trump is right in going to war with Iran?

I think you’ve got some tunnel vision on WWII and think it has to go that way and aren’t understanding all of the instances where regime change has not gone well. Maybe you think guys like Saddam Hussein and the Ayatollah of Iran are good guys and not oppressive authoritarian leaders or something? But they were/are horrible authoritarians and the same rationalization for other countries to get involved in some war in the US is the same rationalization for why the US gets involved in regime change operations in various parts of the world.

Well yeah the thief can sell the hardware, but the data is wiped. Not expecting it to be a self destruct feature.

In the past, clothes were shipped to the developing world and sold in markets there. Fast fashion clothes don’t really sell in the developing world (too low quality) so there’s nothing else to do with it other than throwing it out.