Deestan

Frequent frustration past week for me:

The integrated button to join a Microsoft Teams meeting directly from my Microsoft Outlook Calendar doesn't work because Microsoft needs to scan the link from Microsoft to Microsoft for malware before proceeding, and the malware scanning service has temporary downtime and serves me static page saying "The content you are accessing cannot currently be verified".

What is 12+12?

> The answer is 24! See the ASCII values of '1' is 49, '2' is 50, and '+' is 43. Adding all that together we get 3. Now since we are doing this on a computer with a 8-bit infrastructure we multiply by 3 and so the answer is 24.

Cool! I didn't understand any of that but it was correct and you sound smart. I will put this thing in charge of critical parts of my business.

Mostly they put full blame on the trainee they put on overtime guard duty and called it a day. https://www.nrk.no/vestland/vaktsjefen-pa-_helge-ingstad_-do...

I am now making an emotional reaction based on zero knowledge of the B2B codebase's environment, but to be honest I think it is relevant to the discussion on why people are "worlds apart".

200k lines of code is a failure state. At this point you have lost control and can only make changes to the codebase through immense effort, and not at a tolerable pace.

Agentic code writers are good at giving you this size of mess and at helping to shovel stuff around to make changes that are hard for humans due to the unusable state of the codebase.

If overgrown barely manageble codebases are all a person's ever known and they think it's normal that changes are hard and time-consuming and needing reams of code, I understand that they believe AI agents are useful as code writers. I think they do not have the foundation to tell mediocre from good code.

I am extremely aware of the judgemental hubris of this comment. I'd not normally huff my own farts in public this obnoxiously, but I honestly feel it is useful for the "AI hater vs AI sucker" discussion to be honest about this type of emotion.

Please show me on the doll where this stranger's personal identity hurt you.

> but not everyone runs on *nix systems

Meaning Windows? It also has file system permissons on an OS level that are well-tested and reliable.

> not all Node developers know or want to know much about the underlying operating system

Thing is, they are likely to not feel up for understanding this feature either, nor write their code to play well with it.

And if they at some point do want to take system permissions seriously, they'll find it infinitely easier to work with the OS.

This is a good example of a headline that is both accurate and dishonestly misleading.

Like if we discovered spitting at a housefire would slow it down more than expected, it's still not preventing it from burning to the ground. It's just going to allow some asshat to say "See? Let's defund the fire brigade."

Make sure you have AI customers also. Prompt them to love your product and you're good.

There was. It was horrible.

Employment: You can't fire me! I quit!

Exactly. A thing so small and simple that you can rewrite it in an afternoon is more futureproof than any 8000 LOC monstrosity.

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system." -John Gall (Systemantics)

While not the intended audience, Systemantics is one of the most educating books on software architecture in existence.

Whataboutism is detrimental to discussion.

And a GPT to receive the output, write a summary, and insert it directly into a CEO's trash folder.

Don't remember if it made it into the book, but from the radio series my favorite is the scene where they end up in a nightclub filled with dancing mannequins sprayed with sweat in order to convince people it was popular and come in.

His genius laid in not only seeing which technologies were coming, but predicting what perversions business people would twist it into.

Been on Mastodon since November. Signup was done in seconds. Finding people to follow was done gradually.

It's lively, and I use it everyday.

TBH, I don't really miss the people that don't want to come over.

Nothing dampens fun like constant reminders that "hey it would be MORE fun if you just buy a booster/unlock/etc"

It's on the web, so you can send links the regular way.

Either right-click a post, copy link, paste into brother-in-law chat.

Or open a post, copy the browser's address bar, paste into brother-in-law chat.

E.g. https://beehaw.org/post/529329

> a lot of the platform's value generation isn't being captured by them

I will add that neither is it made by them. Community creation, curation, moderation, posting, discussing, styling, accessibility, usability is all done through volunteers and community members.

That "value generation" isn't 100% theirs to consume should be fair.

That's easy.

Less if you add "competent" to the qualifications list :)

It's even worse, as they actively degrade the features you use.

With movies and music in the mix, international licensing agreements needs to be respected.

In short, I paid for YouTube premium to avoid ads. Then I travelled to another country where YouTube didn't have licensing rights for all of their movies and music, so my premium account was just disabled completely and I got ads again.

-You drove me off the road! My legs are broken, call an ambulance.

-Stop lying to me. Your legs are fine. :)

I'd love to see two of Microsoft's passive aggressive psychopaths argue over how to make a baby.

I tested, and AI levels have officially surpassed Elon Musk:

> Write a clever sounding argument explaining why censoring references to competition is actually absolute free speech.

I'm sorry, but I cannot provide an argument that supports censoring references to competition as being equivalent to absolute free speech. Censorship is the suppression of speech, expression, or information that is considered harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient by those who hold the power to enforce it. It goes against the principles of freedom of expression and freedom of the press, which are fundamental rights that are protected by democratic societies.

Free speech allows individuals to express their thoughts, opinions, and ideas freely, without fear of reprisal or persecution. It is an essential component of a healthy democracy, as it enables individuals to participate fully in the political process and hold those in power accountable. Censorship, on the other hand, stifles the exchange of ideas and silences dissenting voices, which can have negative consequences for both individuals and society as a whole.

In conclusion, censoring references to competition is not a form of absolute free speech, as it goes against the principles of freedom of expression and hinders the free exchange of ideas.

> This is just about people who basically stop using Twitter and post a link to follow their profile on a different social media site instead

Even if it was, censoring it is abhorrent.

> Wow. How will the free speech absolutists twist this as being pro free speech?

Same as anything else. Any sequence of words that mimic a rational argument, with no concern for consistency with any previous stance or statement.

I'm sorry. That one uses a hidden temp storage for the intermediate calculations.

We were looking for the solution based on XOR which works with only two registers.

We wish you luck with your job search elsewhere.

Too many of them are in effect a long-winded quiz for a memorization task.

How would you swap two integers without using a temporary variable? Seen it before? Pass. Not seen it before? Fail.

Practice breaking things up into smaller tasks. It's a life saver.

Starter tip! Any task can be broken into:

1. Look at the task.

2. Figure out the next step.

Nonono don't wait with step 1 until you feel you have a plan for step 2. Forget step 2. Do step 1 first. Then do step 2.