Seems like clickbait. Wikipedia does not need actual visitors that badly.

Are we not allowed to talk about an interesting intersection of advertising and politics?

You know this is a discussion board, right? If you didn’t want to discuss, why are you posting?

putting in the design effort to improve the tools in the ecosystem

They have. The problem is that they generally cause as many problems as they solve. Adding another layer in software is often as harmful as it is helpful.

LLMs are nice in this regard, because they don’t really add another layer, but they do take care of the excessive boilerplate that’s easily understandable.

But… That’s where you’d put this crap. Notepad had one job, and it did it well.

It’ll sometimes do dumb and/or redundant or too complicated shit. Pile up a couple of those and your codebase can get unmaintainable fast.

I find if you give it small chunks and keep an eye on it, it’s great.

I think one of my recent prompts was “Create a procedure that creates an example configuration file with placeholder values. If a config file doesn’t exist on start, give a warning and create the example config.”

It also works great as a replacement for an ORM.

I understand how to turn the results of a select statement into an update statement, but the AI does it a hell of a lot faster.

I find if you give it small enough chunks, it’s easy enough to review. And even if you do have to correct, it’s generally easier to correct than it would be to write it all by hand.

Also applies when the dev could know what they’re doing, but just doesn’t care to.

A diy VPN is exactly the disaster scenario of vibe coding.

Go to their GitHub and look at issues and their comments first.

Reddit was profitable off of just minimal advertising and Reddit Gold. I’m concerned about video hosting, but I think mastodon and Lemmy can scale just fine.

We have apps for that, and they’re typically a pita. They certainly take longer than just talking through your order.

It’ll go the other way, eventually. Keep the experienced people who are willing to use AI and can handle the more complicated things AI can’t.

But for now they’re just firing people and hoping things still work later. Since research and development both have delayed results, they can celebrate their win immediately and not pay the consequences til later.

Man, wouldn’t it be nice if both of our counties didn’t have ridiculous propaganda and fascism so that we could just cooperate on shit like this without having to worry as much about maliciousness on a state level?

difficult to argue against.

Well, except for this one.

Two of the largest drivers are religion, christians wanting their Sharia Law, and Russia taking political control of the US.

Capitalism is in the top three, sure. It’s also part of the driver of that technology.

I don’t think we should worship capitalism as we have, but I don’t think getting rid of capitalism as a whole solves more problems than it creates.

Give me capitalism with heavy socialist controls and political separation please, thanks. The general idea of using money as a measure of what society owes you isn’t terrible. It’s allowing that measure to get so out of whack and have such inordinate control of everything that is the problem.

Parasites. Are those the ones that bring in a bunch of resources and give them to the host?

The complaint that got blamed on capitalism was:

The information age gave way for the misinformation age, where everything is fake.

and if there’s one entity/person most responsible for that, it’s Putin or the GOP. Most of it is political, and very little to do with capitalism itself. Except that capitalism surrounds and is intertwined with everything.

Still, if you get rid of capitalism, it doesn’t get rid of politics. I’d argue that the root of the issue is the GOP trying to hoard power (money and otherwise), and power is going to exist with or without capitalism. Is North Korea capitalist? Do they have issues with disinfo?

This Christian Sharia Law movement doesn’t exist for money.

Part of it is cultural and habit and that is something you can just decide to change. It helps if someone brings it up, like this post, or you might not even think of it.

I bought a $10 power strip / surge protector last week. It was the first time this occurred to me. I pulled out the manual to throw it away, and it was only my experience in writing technical documentation that made me stop and consider actually reading/skimming it.

Maybe I’ll change this habit. Maybe I’ll start reading these things.

Of course some of them aren’t meant to be read. But you can usually tell pretty quickly,

Are you? I didn’t see it. If you’re trying to make the opposite point, why don’t you cherry pick the other way. Let’s see what you’ve got or if this headline is just bullshit.

I’m currently running 50/50 windows/Ubuntu. I’m no Windows fanboy. But I’m also a software dev and I understand deprecating useless shit, something Windows doesn’t do much of.

I’m not using any software that doesn’t have an upward swipe gesture for jumplists. How can people stand losing features like this?