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Comment on I deliberately bet like a problem gambler. DraftKings made me a VIP. in ~tech
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Comment on I deliberately bet like a problem gambler. DraftKings made me a VIP. in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentI wish there were some law for addictive-by-nature-products that they HAVE to spend some % of money coming in to fund non-for-profit addiction help services like AAA or what have you. This is one...I wish there were some law for addictive-by-nature-products that they HAVE to spend some % of money coming in to fund non-for-profit addiction help services like AAA or what have you.
This is one more thing on a pile of things that I can't believe we as a society pour money into and expect nothing from them in return.
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Comment on Ukraine struck Yandex data centers, Russian bots went silent—now questions are mounting in ~society
snake_case Link ParentWhy are Trump's tweets the only one with an empty engagements' change field?Why are Trump's tweets the only one with an empty engagements' change field?
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Comment on All eighty books banned in Minnesota last year came from one school in ~books
snake_case Link ParentEven worse, imagine never realizing that, and becoming part of the next generation of bigoted morons.Even worse, imagine never realizing that, and becoming part of the next generation of bigoted morons.
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Comment on AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentYeah I think it was just a clickbaity titleYeah I think it was just a clickbaity title
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Comment on AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentControlling what ip addresses can be reached from the deviceControlling what ip addresses can be reached from the device
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Comment on What Flock actually costs cities across America in ~society
snake_case Link ParentEvidence that this company started out evil, honestly, what sane person sells license plate readers to HOAs. Thats like selling internet points to teenagers. Everyone knows they don’t need this...Evidence that this company started out evil, honestly, what sane person sells license plate readers to HOAs.
Thats like selling internet points to teenagers. Everyone knows they don’t need this and this is actually bad for them, except for the teenagers.
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Comment on AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentThis actually really sucks, I think the title is a bit misleading and a lot of comments here are missing the point. To spread a botnet before one needed to create a script to install a static copy...This actually really sucks, I think the title is a bit misleading and a lot of comments here are missing the point.
To spread a botnet before one needed to create a script to install a static copy of the botnet software on each machine. The software could only be so small, because it had things to do, so some really small machines were ignored.
Now the botnet software only needs to infect one machine, and theres no limit in the size of the software because it can be spread across multiple machines. It can grow and change at will.
Security software will have to focus less on what the software looks like and more on what the software is doing, and I really can only think of using whitelists, which by nature is hostile to the actual user. What a mess.
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Comment on Software developers are not okay in ~tech
snake_case (edited )LinkI went through a bit of a doomer phase like last year or the year before but then my company started paying for me to use AI to develop and I actually kinda like it. I get things done in hours...I went through a bit of a doomer phase like last year or the year before but then my company started paying for me to use AI to develop and I actually kinda like it. I get things done in hours that used to take me days, and our teams cadence hasn’t caught up so right now that leaves me time for completing things on my own years-long backlog like refactoring/cleanup/new features to make releasing easier.
In the background Ive always been kinda doomer, I left a job in healthcare where I was actually helping people to be at this job where no one needs me to do the work that I do but it pays like 4x was I was making in healthcare so I’m just taking their money while I can cause I’m sure that this isn’t sustainable and eventually our society will need everyone to do useful work.
I think that attitude has kinda helped me a little, like, I was always working a useless job, AI has just made it so less of my brain power is spent on said useless job.
Software development wasn’t ever really my life’s calling, I was always just decent at it, and even more decent at leading projects, so AI making it such that I don’t have to write code much any more doesn’t really bother me. Its actually fine, cause people interrupting me with meetings all day made writing code really difficult, and I cant keep people from doing that, so its nice I don’t have to write code any more. This is much less stressful than having to write code and not having the time to do so.
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Comment on Software developers are not okay in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentI’m gonna stick with it until they lay me off and then I’ll go for a masters in whatever looks good at the time. I’ve got leadership skills and so far they’re just making me do both development...I’m gonna stick with it until they lay me off and then I’ll go for a masters in whatever looks good at the time. I’ve got leadership skills and so far they’re just making me do both development and project management so thats kept my income safe for now.
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Comment on Software developers are not okay in ~tech
snake_case (edited )Link ParentHonestly we’ve all been doing this for many years already by hiring contractors to build entire platforms by themselves with very little oversight. It doesn’t matter what country they’re in, the...Honestly we’ve all been doing this for many years already by hiring contractors to build entire platforms by themselves with very little oversight.
It doesn’t matter what country they’re in, the company makes the decision to hire like 100 contractors to build the thing and like 5 devs to oversee it and the whole project is a massive dumpster fire and somehow makes it to prod anyway and then the company is stuck with it for years until they decide to rewrite it and rinse and repeat.
Now it’s just 5 devs overseeing the AI in those companies that do things like that.
Not all companies do it that way, though. My company hired full time workers in other countries so that devs are always producing code 24 hrs a day and we are definitely dealing with slop, but we were before, and on some teams the AI has actually helped enforce code standards.
The massive issue we’ve having is that it often produces code that looks right, but isn’t. It’s so easy to pass on your own misunderstandings to the agent that sometimes we end up with features that, for example, don’t take into account established scope and permissions requirements. This seems like something that will be solved with time, though.
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Comment on Repo for syncing ipods devices on Linux in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentI havent had that issue, interesting. Ive got an iphone 17e with ios 26.6I havent had that issue, interesting. Ive got an iphone 17e with ios 26.6
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Comment on Repo for syncing ipods devices on Linux in ~tech
snake_case LinkSomeone here turned me onto just installing VLC on my Iphone and syncing music with my linux desktop that way, and thats been working amazingly. Its missing a few features I’m used to, shuffle all...Someone here turned me onto just installing VLC on my Iphone and syncing music with my linux desktop that way, and thats been working amazingly.
Its missing a few features I’m used to, shuffle all and tap/hold options show album/artist but at least it plays flac
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Comment on The mathocalypse in ~science
snake_case Link ParentYeah I mean, maybe? But the thing is that people like being in charge. They like managing their own projects. They like talking to other people who manage other projects. Like, fast food...Yeah I mean, maybe? But the thing is that people like being in charge. They like managing their own projects. They like talking to other people who manage other projects.
Like, fast food restaurants still have counters and drive thrus even though we’ve had the technology to replace those things for at least 20 years and it’s been commonly used for about the last 10 years. Most people prefer the self checkout, but the human option still exists for those who need custom service for accessibility reasons or whatever else.
It’ll end up like, if AI can manage projects, you’ll just have 1 project manager managing like 50 projects at once instead of ~5 that they can do now. We’ll still have the same number of everyone, but they’ll produce way more way faster.
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Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music
snake_case Link ParentLove that one too! Also love Tame ImpalaLove that one too!
Also love Tame Impala
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Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music
snake_case LinkMoth Wings - Pond -
Comment on Tilderinos who split after long (10–15 years) relationships: what led to it and how did it happen? in ~life.men
snake_case (edited )Link ParentIt really just seemed like the easier option compared to breaking up, which would have involved sacrificing our crazy low mortgage interest %, finding a new place to live, deciding who gets to...It really just seemed like the easier option compared to breaking up, which would have involved sacrificing our crazy low mortgage interest %, finding a new place to live, deciding who gets to keep what, and crying the entire time.
It was perhaps a bit different from your situation where neither of us really wanted to leave, but our combined apathy towards each others needs had created a toxic environment where neither of us felt much love for the other. We had become room mates.
It was similar to your story in the sense that we never even gave it a chance, we were both hurt and feeling ignored because we had never once chosen to actually try to be vulnerable with one another. There was a wall up from the very start. We never married because of that wall. The only shared asset we have is the house, and that was just financially required because of the expense. We had for over 10 years managed to keep every valuable item and all of our finances separate because we never quite trusted the other person.
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Comment on Tilderinos who split after long (10–15 years) relationships: what led to it and how did it happen? in ~life.men
snake_case LinkWent through a situation similar to yours but chose to stay, we did just a tiny bit of therapy like 5 sessions or something and settled on the fact that we just need to do an activity together...Went through a situation similar to yours but chose to stay, we did just a tiny bit of therapy like 5 sessions or something and settled on the fact that we just need to do an activity together regularly. We had been living together for like ten years and our daily 'watch tv while we eat' had become the only time we really hung out together, and that wasn't healthy at all.
We started rollerskating or bike riding once a week, and then about once a month we'll have a date night, and it's going okay there's still room for improvement but it's way better than it was. The once a week activity puts us in a situation where we're both working together towards some goal, finishing the workout, the route, whatever, and just being in that situation where we're together instead of against each other made it so that we could start to work on the rest.
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Comment on What foods are better after a day or two? in ~food
snake_case Link ParentThat and it's just super easy to reheat, pop it in the microwave boom done and you don't miss out on anything. There's a lot of foods where texture is important and they're really hard to reheat...That and it's just super easy to reheat, pop it in the microwave boom done and you don't miss out on anything. There's a lot of foods where texture is important and they're really hard to reheat like alfredo, which can be saved, but it's basically like re-creating alfredo from scratch.
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Comment on The mathocalypse in ~science
snake_case Link ParentIt's weird cause like, if your job is JUST pushing out code, then yea, AI is going to take your job. But the reality is many programmers write code for like 1/3rd of their time, and communicate...It's weird cause like, if your job is JUST pushing out code, then yea, AI is going to take your job. But the reality is many programmers write code for like 1/3rd of their time, and communicate across teams, managers, etc the other 2/3 of the time. Sure, AI replaces the code bit such that things that used to take weeks now take me hours to do, which means I could write more code but... the rest of the workflow still hasn't caught up, testing is still slow by nature unless we wanna give up and just have bugs in production like Github does. Planning is still slow, people still take a month to talk about shit before they make a ticket, etc.
Most of my day is spent sitting around and talking about "Do we even really want to do this feature?" or "Is this thing a customer reported actually a bug?" and maybe AI could do that if we told it to, but stakeholders don't want to talk to AI, they want to talk to the developer team. The architect leading the project is going to ask me about the code that I let the AI write and you better believe I'm expected to understand it. The companies that are letting AI just do everything have already found out the hard way that it leads to shitty software, looking at you, Github.
So, I think, while right now it seems like we need less developers, I think it'll end up like the cotton gin - there will be this really expensive task that's a part of the workflow that AI can't do, and we'll hire "developers" who are really just "code managers" who can do that task of being the Subject Matter Expert of the code they let the AI write.
Ymmv on AA but like, you get my point, anything at all would be better than the black life sucking hole that these companies are by nature.
I cant believe we tolerate such entities in our society, things which only serve to suck the life and resources out of us and give nothing back.