jtrek

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I feel like a lot of companies don't do things the good way not because the good way is hard, or the bad way is cheaper, but because management is stupid. Stupid or sometimes apathetic.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I will be shocked if it's good. It'll probably sell very well even if it's shit, because of the brand, but I have low expectations.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

Some soulless husks with too much money read Snowcrash (or had their LLM summarize it) and didn't understand that it's a dystopia.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 12 points 1 week ago

Republicans don't speak honestly. They just say whatever they think will get them power and in-group solidarity.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 17 points 1 week ago

This follows from my assumptions.

  • the American South is generally governed by conservatives
  • conservatives have bad ideas on everything
  • public transit is a good idea
  • conservatives oppose public transit
[–] jtrek@startrek.website 44 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I think it's like that dunning-kruger idea. People who are bad at things don't know they're bad, and are poor judges of quality.

So someone who's kind of bad at coding isn't going to know or understand what the LLM puts out, so they won't fix as many issues.

Also humans are lazy, and when presented with something that looks good at a glance, we don't really want to dive deeper.

I saw a PR from someone today at work. Guy's nice but I don't think he's much of a programmer. He asked copilot to fix a warning. It did, and generated a linter error. So he asked it to fix that. It did, but for whatever reason decided to delete an entire function call.

Unfortunately that part of the code has no unit tests, so he just pushed it up for review. I look at it and I'm like if that call is important, don't delete it. If it can be deleted, remove the now-unused code around it. We'll see what he says.

He probably spent more time fussing with copilot than it would have taken to do it right in the first place.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is a horrible idea and everyone involved in its conception and implementation should be barred from working in technology ever again.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 32 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

It's an injustice to hold someone like that for so long and then just let them go like nothing happened. They should be given money and support (therapy, tutors, job placement, whatever).

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well I'm not on Windows anymore so I can't test it out. Does it still have the option to only show text raw and uninterpeted? I absolutely would not want it to, like, show bold instead of **bold**

I wouldn't want it to do anything other than show the literal text, and anything in that direction is a loss via added friction.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Notepad was supposed to be the simplest lightest weight text editor. It didn't need to change.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Xiahou Dun

His image as a one-eyed warrior was popularized by the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in which he ripped the arrow from the socket, devoured his own eyeball, and rejoined the battle.

If they animated all of that I would be suitably impressed.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 27 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I intensely dislike this trope.

It's to have everything abstracted and animated well. You click the dude and click murder, but they're more skilled so it shows them dodging or parrying or whatever. Fine. Believable. They're a badass.

It's okay to let me aim and if I click on their head they die. The arrow hit them in the eye? No one shrugs that off.

Mixing them, like Bethesda games and some ass-creed games, is the worst.

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