TehPers

This is a title of all time. Seems like it’s supposed to teach how to express empathy, not how to have empathy. That title goes in the books for being a fuck up of all time.

It’s been fine for me as well. The article’s definitely a bit tin-foily in a lot of sections, so I’d go to specific ones that you care about and look at those instead.

I just use it as an alternative search engine that is supported through a subscription rather than ads and sponsored results. Being able to manually rank sites is also super helpful and lets me bring sites like MDN to the top while pushing w3school and etc below it.

Anything beyond that, as far as I’m concerned, is extra. Not selling user data is a big extra though, and I’ll likely reconsider if that ever changes.

Well my choices were this or Apple, and F-Droid was only available on one of the two.

Already on Android, but this will be me once Google starts shitting on its users and enforcing that new policy.

They’re real. In gated communities.

I’ve seen it before, but the homes cost multiple millions of dollars. Not in my price range lol.

This is exactly how most developers are being asked to use it

[citation needed]

At work, we get emails, demos, etc constantly about how they’re using AI to generate everything from UI designs (v0) to starter projects and how they manage these huge prompts and reference docs for their agents.

Copilot’s line-by-line suggestions are also being pushed, but they care more about the “agentic” stuff.

I watch coworkers regularly ask it to “add X route to the API” or “make a simple UI that calls Y API”. They are asking it to do their work.

I have to review these PRs. They come in at an incredible rate, and almost always conflict with each other. I can’t review them fast enough to still do my work.

Also, we get AI-generated code reviews at work. I have to talk to a chatbot to get help from HR. Some search bars have been replaced with chatbots. It’s everywhere and I’m getting sick of it.

I just want real information from informed people. I want to review code that a human did their best to produce. I want to be able to help people improve their skills, not just their prompts.

I’m getting to the point where I’m going to start calling people out if their chatbot/agent/LLM/whatever produces slop. I’m going to give them ownership of it. It’s their output, not the AI’s.

Edit: I should add that it’s a big company (100k+ employees)

This isn’t how we’re being asked to use it. People are doing demos about how Cursor or whatever did the bootstrapping and entire POC for them. And we already know there’s nothing more permanent than a POC.

These tools are meant to replace inexperience with incompetence, and the beancounters at some clients are likely satisfied those words look similar enough to pass muster.

This seems like it pretty much sums things up from my experience.

We’re encouraged (coughrequiredcough) to use LLMs at work. So I tried.

There are things they can do. Sometimes. But you know what they can’t do? Be liable for a fuck up.

When I ask a coworker a question, if they confidently answer wrong, they fucked up, not me. When I ask a LLM? The LLM isn’t liable, it’s me for not verifying it. If I’m verifying anyway, why am I using the LLM?

They fuck up often enough that I can’t put my credibility on the line over speedy slop. People at work consider me to be a good programmer (don’t ask me how, I guess the bar is low lol). Imagine if my code was just whatever an LLM shat out. It’d be the same exact quality as all of my other coworkers who use whatever their LLM shat out. No difference in quality.

And we would all be liable when the LLMs fucked up. We would learn something. We would, not the LLM. And the LLM will make the same exact fuck up the next time.

Also American and I love stracciatella. I usually like to try some new flavors when getting gelato, but it’s a solid flavor to fall back on if I’m just not sure.

Also, I would think very few Americans actually know what it is. From my experience, most know the basic ice cream flavors, but a lot might not even know what gelato is.

LLMs are super cool. You provide text A, and text B, add a little cosine similarity or something, and you’ve got a distance between the two texts.

Right, they also generate text. I guess embeddings aren’t really new.

Well the embeddings are nice anyway. Makes it easy to do semantic text searching (or even images or other kinds of inputs). Not sure what that has to do with the general public, but it’s great if you’re writing a search tool.

FYI if you didn’t watch the documentary, it’s great. Well worth the watch (when it’s back).

I disagree. Bringing that hardware to a desktop form factor is incredible and opens it up to be used in ways that wouldn’t be possible in a mobile form-factor.

None of those ways are gaming. It’s not a gaming PC. It’s for very specific workloads.

Also, from my experiences, I’ve only come across issues with games that are already buggy in general. I don’t play a lot of multiplayer games though, and the couple I do play either have no anti-cheat software (it’s unnecessary) or whatever they do have is non-invasive.

There are definitely games out there you want Windows for since they either won’t run on Linux, or the effort required to run them just isn’t worth it. But it’s like you say - consoles can’t play all games, only those compatible with the console, and generalizing “PC” as a console is not really fair to begin with given the modularity of a PC, hardware/software requirements of games on it, and what software may not exist anymore. Plus, you get most of what you want by dual-booting, plus none of the advertising crap Windows throws at your face these days when on Linux.

As a Steam Deck upgrade, seems like a decent choice for a home console. But I also think someone who can build a PC from scratch (or knows someone who can) would want to consider some SFF builds.

The Framework Desktop’s CPU (both options) is great. For a laptop. Or a handheld. It’s not really a desktop CPU. The fact they got it in a desktop with the configurability that comes with their custom mainboard is incredible. But while it’s super cool if you just want to share your system memory with your GPU for training a model, for example, it’s not going to have the performance that mid to high end builds will on more demanding games.

For the same price and some deal hunting, you should be able to put together a decent SFF home-console-style PC with a more clear upgrade path.

Banning 4chan for that reason would be valid if they had a law against that to enforce.

But in the same way you don’t go after someone for tax evasion in a country they’ve never been to or interacted with, you don’t fine 4chan because they won’t start collecting IDs from users when the company is not even in your jurisdiction.

Either way, I can’t imagine people there missing 4chan. They just need to give a valid reason to block it instead of BSing a fine.

The platform choices of the general public tend to be like this. Whether the platforms becoming large leads to them being shady, or whether the results of them being shady is what draws people to them, I have no idea.

Either way, a lot of people use TikTok, and there’s no changing that, at least easily.

DDR5-6000/CL28 should be fine. Make sure to enable the XMP/EXPO profile in your BIOS after installing it.

You can follow hardware reviewers like GamersNexus, LTT, HardwareUnboxed, etc if you want to stay up to date (which is what I do), or look at their content if you just want a review for a product you’re looking at.

It’s less of an issue now, but there were stability issues in the early days of DDR5. Memory instability can lead to a number of issues including being unable to boot the PC (failing to post), the PC crashing suddenly during use, applications crashing or behaving strangely, etc. Usually it’s a sign of memory going bad, but for DDR5 since it’s still relatively young it can also be a sign that the memory is just too fast.

Always check and verify that the RAM manufacturer has validated their RAM against your CPU.

Air cooling is sufficient to cool most consumer processors these days. Make sure to get a good cooler though. I remember Thermalright’s Peerless Assassin being well reviewed, but there may be even better (reasonably priced) options these days.

If you don’t care about price, Noctua’s air coolers are overkill but expensive, or an AIO could be an option too.

AIOs have the benefit of moving heat directly to your fans via fluid instead of heating up the case interior, but that usually doesn’t matter that much, especially outside of intense gaming.

Very few things need 64GB memory to compile, but some do. If you think you’ll be compiling web browsers or clang or something, then 64GB would be the right call.

Also, higher speeds of DDR5 can be unstable at higher capacities. If you’re going with 64GB or more of DDR5, I’d stick to speeds around 6000 (or less) and not focus too much on overclocking it. If you get a kit of 2x32GB (which you should rather than getting the sticks independently), then you’ll be fine. You won’t benefit as much from RAM speed anyway as opposed to capacity.