natecox
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- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 1 week ago:
It’s funny to me that this is even up for discussion. It’s been a truism for as long as I can remember that reading code is much, much more difficult than writing it.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 2 weeks ago:
It’s funny that you’re not even sure you can do that extremely simple thing in my original comment faster than I could prompt an LLM.
No, see, this is called “having integrity” by not asserting as fact a hypothetical. I am 100% certain that I could knock out your hypothetical in one command in less than a minute but since I didn’t go actually do it I didn’t pretend that I did.
I do love the whole “oh but it knocks out all of the mundane stuff” as if that’s the primary part of our job. I have been doing development for about 30 years and I have spent so little time on mundane tedious tasks in that time. Certainly not enough time to justify the ecological impact of LLM data centers (even if they actually worked as well as advocates claim).
I wish all of you people would stop knocking what you’ve never even tried.
This is your prejudice showing (the only way someone would not like this is if they haven’t tried it). I have tried it, and I found it to be a waste of my time. What I saw was a stochastic parrot providing me objectively wrong answers to questions and code that I needed to completely rewrite before it would function as advertised.
That product is not worth drinking the worlds water and ruining people’s quality of life near data centers over. It’s not worth the theft of IP and original thoughts, the obvious copyright violations as it crawls the web (ignoring every standard “do not crawl” marker I know of), the extra cost to site hosts as LLMs savagely barrage their pages. It’s not worth lining the pockets of already super rich VCs as they exploit blockchain 2.0 until the bubble bursts. It’s not worth the real human beings who have already lost their livelihood because an executive is frothing at the mouth to replace people with machines and has been promised AGI “any day now” by LLM spokespeople who don’t seem to understand that whole integrity thing above.
The hate that you see might have something to do with the willingness to ignore all of the above so “save some time” on the alleged “mundane tasks” people seem to think dominates the industry.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 2 weeks ago:
This is what LSPs are for, or even like just a baseline knowledge of CLI tooling (honestly, like, just
mvandsed). You do not need an LLM for any of what you’ve described, and I would argue that I can probably do it faster by hand than you can prompt your LLM and debug the slop it hands you back.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 2 weeks ago:
It’s hard to find programmers these days who aren’t using AI coding assistants in some capacity, especially to write the repetitive, mundane bits.
God damn it, stop it with this. No it isn’t. Most of the devs that I personally know won’t touch LLMs with a ten foot pole.
- Comment on Why do new Silent Hill entries attract so much negativity? 2 weeks ago:
I am salty as fuck about PT.
As a standalone entry it was absolutely fantastic, I loved every second of playing it. As a demo it got me so incredibly hyped about the full game.
And then Konami pulled some of the dumbest shit I have ever seen.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 4 weeks ago:
- Chrono Trigger
- Final Fantasy 7
- Expedition 33
- Comment on Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers 1 month ago:
I don’t think it’s really gaming-to-politics. I think it’s more like gaming-to-very-loud-bigot. The fact that bigotry is so tightly coupled into right wing politics is just coincidental.
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 2 months ago:
FWIW I have the color and the non-color libra, and if you’re just interested in reading books where color isn’t a huge part of the experience I highly recommend the non-color version. The contrast ratio and legibility are simply far better.
- Comment on Microsoft uses 'Copilot' for practically everything. A watchdog wants the company to change its advertising. 2 months ago:
NAD
You’d think people who think a lot about advertising would have picked a different agency name…
- Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales 2 months ago:
Price hikes for what, Lenovo? I’m still waiting for them to send me my Legion Go S SteamOS edition that I preordered on day one.
- Comment on What's a TV series you've tried repeatedly to get into, but can't? 3 months ago:
I love that show but it is kinda designed to be hard to watch. I don’t blame anyone for not being able to commit to it.
- Comment on Yes 3 months ago:
lol same. I thought the originals were a myth.
- Comment on Yes 3 months ago:
I’ll take my huge stack of Windows 3.1 floppies and see myself out.
- Comment on Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered 3 months ago:
SC has so much potential. There is real magic in some of the game they have produced; the aesthetic is fantastic and the fundamentals are solid… all of which makes what they’re doing to run the game into the ground so fucking disappointing.
- Comment on Forget foldable phones – LG's 'stretchable' in-car display can grow physical buttons when you need them, and I can't stop watching it 3 months ago:
It still seems like you have to be doing a lot of looking at the controls to use them, which is the whole complaint about a lack of physical buttons.
- Comment on Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Order to Return Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvador 4 months ago:
And thus, fuck them.
- Comment on Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Order to Return Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvador 4 months ago:
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Monday temporarily blocked a trial judge’s order directing the United States to return a Salvadoran migrant it had inadvertently deported.
Fuck you, Roberts.
- Comment on Please answer. 5 months ago:
No. Just, why? Gumby’s whole thing is that he’s made of clay.
- Comment on Please answer. 5 months ago:
Maybe the blockheads finally got him.
- Comment on Please answer. 5 months ago:
Fuck, I remember Gumby. What happened to that guy?
- Comment on nuked from orbit 6 months ago:
Wow what a lousy take from this exchange.
- Comment on Apparently Bluesky lets you require a sign in to view a post 6 months ago:
Unless you’re on a vpn, in which case the whole site is restricted unless you sign in.
- Comment on What's your "this is totally fine and I'm going to have a great time" FPS? 6 months ago:
I know this only because I spent way too long trying to figure out why older games look like ass on the LG haha.
- Comment on What's your "this is totally fine and I'm going to have a great time" FPS? 6 months ago:
Depends on your tv a bit. 30fps is fine on my steam deck, but on my LG OLED the response rate is too damn fast and 30fps looks choppy and terrible.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 6 months ago:
Yeah this strikes me as safeguarding against a possible bad decision.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 6 months ago:
No, who said there was a relationship?
A compound key is a composite key where one or both sides can be foreign keys to other tables themselves; it’s a safe assumption this is probably true in a large data set like social security. A composite key is a candidate key (a uniquely identified key) made up of more than one column.
This basically means that there is a finite number of available SSNs because they’re only 10 digits long and someone intends to recycle SSNs after the current user of one dies. Linking it to birthday is “unique enough” as to never recur.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 6 months ago:
Because a simple query would have shown that SSN was a compound key with another column (birth date, I think), and not the identifier he thinks it is.
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy Reportedly Getting New Content & A Sequel 6 months ago:
I’ve tried to get through HL twice and I really struggle with it. About the time they introduce discount-Pokémon into the game I start to struggle.
A major improvement to the game would be contextual actions. Stop making me swap my equipped spells for every context specific thing.
- Comment on The amount of ads cycling on Fextralife 7 months ago:
Literally half my phone screen is an ad over the main content. Fandom is indeed garbage.
- Comment on Should I ask my boss for tomorrow off? 7 months ago:
I am a manager for a remote team. Sometimes I screw up and forget to double remind the team about holidays. Sometimes I remember but they forget anyways.
Either way, I’m not going to screw someone out of a day of PTO; I’ll usually suggest the coming Friday off as an alternative.
I would be honest, it’s a funny mistake and worth a quick laugh.