thebardingreen
@thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz
- Technology Consultant.
- Software Developer.
- Musician.
- Burner.
- Game Master.
- Non-theistic Pagan.
- Cishet White Male Feminist.
- Father.
- Fountain Maker.
- Aquarium Builder.
- Hamster Daddy.
- Resident of Colorado.
- Anti-Capitalist.
- Hackerspace Regular.
- Traveler of the American West.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better 3 hours ago:
Somewhere in Season 3 is where I finally completely lost interest. It’s been slowly coming for me for a while. It wasn’t even a conscious decision, I stopped watching mid episode and haven’t cared to start again. I don’t even really remember what was going on (some Gorn related thing). At some point I had pulled out my phone and stopped paying attention.
Apparently, this season seems to be controversial, some people really love it and that’s great. Not here to hate on it or try to take that away from them. But I think post Discovery Trek really isn’t for me and I’m just feeling done.
- Comment on Awooga 20 hours ago:
“Hentai Mommy boobs” is the technical term for those.
- Comment on Mood 1 day ago:
“I don’t vibe with the sea and ships are skibidi Ohio.”
~Charlotte Darwin.
- Comment on You're Welcome, Grandma! 2 days ago:
My grandmother was like that. She literally left me the stick my grandfather used to beat my dad his and brothers.
- Comment on THE SIMULATION 3 days ago:
Simulation reveals possible miracle cancer curing drug could allow information to travel faster than the speed of light,
- Comment on AI giants race to scoop up elusive real-world data 3 weeks ago:
Well yeah, they can’t keep training their models if all the available data is slop from their models.
A future is coming where it can just be your job to let an LLM observe your life 24/7… And that might be the only job available.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 3 weeks ago:
I think Tesla. I want to ask him about a bunch of the rumors and conspiracy theories about him. I’m sure almost all of them are bogus, but I’d love to know.
My son picked Einstein. He’s curious what his last words were.
- Comment on These new Captchas are getting out of hand. 3 weeks ago:
- Runs off to make a captcha that uses lioconcha hieroglyphica.
- Comment on Every question you ask, every comment you make, I'll be recording you 3 weeks ago:
I mean, I didn’t bother teading the OpenAI ToS or privacy policy.
I just assumed they were recording everything I did and would probably sell it get in the opportunity.
- Comment on Help. 4 weeks ago:
I am forced to admit that I knew that.
But my partner of 8 years has DID.
- Comment on Help. 4 weeks ago:
I can make that tomorrow…
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 4 weeks ago:
That guy they got to play Stephen Hawking in ST:TNG
- Comment on born 2 l8 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on beaver girls rise 5 weeks ago:
Nyan?
- Comment on MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Scott Bakula will be attending STLV. 1 month ago:
Indeed.
- Comment on Why front-end development will persist 1 month ago:
I’m working with a team where my business partner and I are external consultants, but they also have internal developers (who are mostly very junior and need hand holding with things like using git).
Anyway, the CEO (without talking to us first) hired a pure vibe coder with no software engineering experience to build the user interface. Super nice guy, super easy to work worth, super eager to learn but OH MY GOD THIS CODE.
A lot of my work is / has been in cybersecurity (mostly for the space industry / NASA adjacent projects, but also less recently for start ups and fortune 500 companies). This app is the worst I’ve ever seen. The AI writes things SO weirdly. 30k lines of typescript to do something we could have done in 6k. Reams of dead code. Procedural code to do repeatable tasks instead of functions / classes (10 different ways of doing the same thing). API keys / data base credentials committed to git. API Keys stored in .env but then ALSO just hardcoded into the actual API calls. auditability
AND no. At the end of the day, it wasn’t cheaper or fast than it would have been to hire us to do it right. And the tech debt now accumulated to secure / maintain this thing? Security is a long term requirement, we’re bringing a buddy of mine in to pentest this thing next week, I expect him to find like 10-12 critical vulns. Wow.
tl;dr: If a project requires security, stability, auditability, or the need to quickly understand how something works / why something happens, DON’T vibe code it. You won’t save money OR time in the long run. If you’re project DOESN’T need any of those things (and never will), then by all means I guess, knock yourself out.
- Comment on Internet regulation is entering its hall pass era 1 month ago:
Driving wider adoption of alternative social media and privacy tools.
Although I expect them to try to come for us and our tools at some point.
- Comment on What's the story in your field? Here's mine 1 month ago:
TBH, 98% security problems in the Python ecosystem boil down to mission critical projects using old versions of libraries or straight up unmaintained libraries, where the library in question is 100+ megabytes of who knows what, but the project only imports one function, the utility of which the devs could have recreated themselves in 15 minutes without needing to use the library, especially lately when everyone just imports what the AI tells them to import.
- Comment on What's the story in your field? Here's mine 1 month ago:
Image This is me.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Saved me a click.
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 2 months ago:
Darth Tyrannosaurus.
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 2 months ago:
Is there actually any biologic mechanism to generat and conduct electricity at a high enough voltage and current that it can ionize air over a distance as large as that (looks like at least 1/2m) without damaging the actual animal doing it?
Midichlorians. The ability to cause an extinction level event is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 2 months ago:
We tried to build systems that perform a kind of basic, rudimentary, extremely power intensive and inefficient mimicry of how (we think maybe) brain cells work.
Then that system lies to us, makes epic bumbling mistakes, expresses itself with extreme, overconfidence, and constantly creatively misinterprets simple instructions.
Hmmm… Actually, maybe we’re doing a pretty good job…
- Comment on Jupiter 2 months ago:
And I went to Venus, to get more…
- Comment on Pick up artist 101 2 months ago:
Too many ads lying to me about hot single chromosomes seeking casual syngamy in my area.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS 2 months ago:
Tekeli-li
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The Gorn 2 months ago:
I agree with basically everything you said, although I’ve found more things than just the Gorn in SNW to be cranky about. While TNG era never TRIED to get science and engineering right… they tried WAY harder than SNW, which is saying something and NOT a good something. It’s like TNG’s attitude was “We know we’re goofy, but we DO have techno bable consultants, and we try to link some of what we’re doing to real physics and engineering” while SNW is like “We don’t even care, rule of cool in a hollywood hipstery writer way, we don’t really know what we’re talking about, nor do we care.” Major pet peeve of mine.
Also, I love Carol Kane as an actress, but she’s just Lillian in space, and honestly, I really didn’t ever need that.
Certainly, some of my joy in the show also just has to do with it just being better than Discovery (for which I’m like…oh thank god).
Lower Decks was a better show.
- Comment on Dear Kevin 2 months ago:
Having worked with a bunch of Boomer and older Gen X EEs, it is a fucking misogynistic boys club of white ass old men with undiagnosed autism. I have never heard so many racist and sexist jokes in the workplace.
So this surprises me not at all (in fact, I think I’ve heard it before, but as “Black Boys * * *”).
- Comment on Ach aye, Scottish words for plants 3 months ago:
I always thought it was a “Dandy Lion,” like a fancy Victorian gentleman lion.
Also
“Uhuhuh… you thaid blow balls.”
“Yeah! Heheh! Yeah!”
- Comment on You yiffing people are everywhere, I stg. 3 months ago:
Not futa enough.
