jtrek

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

You all are real speedy on these. Took me 20 (albeit I was at work so there were interruptions)

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can also buy drm free music from sites like Bandcamp. I don't feel bad buying from smaller groups. Joyride! might actually notice the $10 from me buying their new album.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 22 points 1 month ago

This experience helps users quickly understand content

They really think we're stupid. Unfortunately, they may be mostly right.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

Kind of an anti-intellectual meme, honestly. After like 9th grade reading level, one can learn that it's not about finding the meaning in the text. It's about finding a meaning and supporting it.

It doesn't really matter that much what the author meant. What matters what's actually in the text.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Public servants shouldn't be allowed to own stock, except maybe through some sort of arm's length diversified portfolio managed by a third party. Like, you can put money in Vanguard's index funds, but you can't pick individual stocks. Maybe. I would also accept that you just aren't allowed to own stock. Put your money in government bonds or something.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not surprised it's a Republican.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago

The point of school is to learn stuff. Facts and methods. Teachers aren't typically asking you to solve math problems or summarize a story because they need the answers.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 35 points 1 month ago (5 children)

This seems to be a common pattern. Conservatives recognize a problem (eg: housing is expensive) and then come to some pants on head wrong conclusion (it's the {outgroups})

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

And yet so many people who would be replaced if this AI stuff worked seem so eager to embrace it.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

One of the core pieces of capitalism - "You do the work and I keep the profits" - is undesirable. I would say it's even unjust. Children would recognize it as a problem.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 59 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I'm so tired of hearing about AI at work. They don't have the fundamentals of software development down - no tests. no linters. no automatic deployment. Dependency management is a joke. Code reviews are a rubber stamp. They only this quarter stopped people from SSH'ing onto the prod machine and making live, not in source control, changes. But they want everyone to start leveraging AI. Spending untold piles of time and money on it.

It would be far cheaper and more cost-effective to spend like, a week, on software development fundamentals.

Meanwhile, I've stubbornly forced my way through various processes and red tape to get a bare minimum of checks that run automatically on PR. This week it found someone had pushed a script with a fatal syntax error, gotten it reviewed, approved, and merged. My check goes live and flags this before it's in prod. No one cares. Management still just wants to talk about AI.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's like that thing where if a meeting has women talking for 20% of the time some men freak out about how it's all women all the time.

They're emotionally keyed up so it feels like a bigger deal, and they're emotionally keyed up so they're not going to rationally assess this. That'd assuming they're acting in good faith to begin with, which is not a given.

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