Amen.

Stop providing distractions to the assholes around me, they are dangerous enough as it is.

If you know what you’re doing, no. If you don’t know what you are doing, yes.

The difference is the knowledge you gain from traditional learning and experience.

I agree that books are much better resources to learn in a structured way. This builds a solid foundation where you can then use LLMs to fill the boring gaps.

You’re doing it right, using it as a tool to learn.

I’m doing the same to get a handle on Python. I question the steps, compare it with other sources, and try to get comfortable coding it myself. I then use it to review my code, and get further insights.

It’s a tool. Just another tool.

These are some of the most pragmatic engineers out there. They don’t pick up any new tool just because it’s trendy. I’m old enough to have watched Torvalds create Git virtually overnight because the kernel devs hated Bitbucket.

If they can work with LLMs, they must have found some use case for it.

From my limited experience, it can be a good help to point out flaws in my code, not so much at generating what I want it to do.

Layer 8 issue.

As someone looking from outside, it feels like a lot of this could be minimized if the US fixed their electoral system.

It’s an arcane system that makes the votes of the middle states more valuable than the outer states. Which means deeply conservative states get to say who runs the country.

So you end up with a religion driven police state, fueled by technofeudalism. Not unlike the regimes you keep overthrowing.

Good article detailing what to expect when dealing with these automated blackholes.

Reminded me of some of the trouble I went through when I operated a live email server. Getting out of those lists is hell.

I hope they enjoy Farscape, because that’s what they’re getting of they eavesdrop me.

You’re clearly upset with the leadership of your country. How does piracy change anything?

When you live in society, you should obey the laws OR fight to change them. Pirating stuff is a weak form of protest.

1. There’s always a risk, especially with such a desirable bait. If you have no problem with having your system be part of a botnet (or worse), go right ahead.
2. I care. When you are responsible for other people, getting hit with a large fine or jail time is not an option.
3. Part of the price goes to the developers. Not as much as in indies, but that’s life. That does not justify pirating stuff.
4. At least we agree on something.

Not my cup of tea, for a number of reasons:

1. from a security standpoint, I would have a very high probability of downloading something nasty;
2. from a legal standpoint, authorities frown upon such behaviour;
3. from a moral standpoint, people who produce games should be payed;
4. from a personal standpoint, I don’t like any of their games.

Everytime this dirt bag speaks, I wish I had more Epic accounts to cancel.

I do hope there’s a special place in hell for people like this, where they are spanked for all eternity with a soup spoon.

Forking projects to put a different coat of paint on them is just silly. It’s still the same project, it’s just got your sticker on it now. You still dependent on upstream decisions. If things change too much for your liking, you have a growing patch management issue on your hands, and that’s not fun. But hey, you’re free to do it, that’s the beauty of FOSS.

Reminds me of the Linux distros that just fork Debian, stick a new theme and logo, create a website and voilá. Nah, mate, it’s still Debian.

There’s nothing wrong with forking a project, IF you can and intend to maintain it – hell, that’s the whole basis of FOSS.

Forking it to make a point with no intention to maintaining it is just an easy way to gather clicks and stir drama.

IMHO the effort is better spent fighting the politicians that are shoving this down our throats, or should we fork all the tech that gets affected by bad political decisions?

A prompt driven etch-a-sketch would actually be awesome, and I think it could be built with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W and a couple of stepper motors, so pretty cheap.

1. Fork a project that you have a problem with;
2. Write a strong worded manifesto;
3. Revel in those sweet sweet internet clicks;
4. Try to gather a team of seasoned engineers to keep and evolve the project;
5. Most likely fail, look for the next controversy, repeat.

You never forget your first successful docking procedure.