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Re:Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3 on Friday October 25, 2024 @08:51PM (#41951585)
Despite being proprietary, 1Password still hasn’t had any fuckery that I am aware of. I have been tempted to switch to an open source solution many times but I think I’ll be parking right here for a few more years yet.
Re:GitButler: Fearless Rebasing on Friday October 25, 2024 @06:59PM (#41950730)
In practice that's never been a problem for me. Work is delivered in functional units and segmented "sections" of code are basically useless on their own for the purpose of debugging.
Re:Throw more AI at your problems on Thursday October 24, 2024 @07:46PM (#41940945)
You have 4 problems because the AI made two more of them up!
We are careening toward that future at a record clip. Maybe not the ending…but the AI girlfriends are already here.
You answered your own question. Mormonism is a cult.
Re:Playstation Vita Architecture (Part 1) on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @08:16PM (#41930589)
This is awesome and feels providential.

I just dug my Vita out of a drawer last week and have been playing some portable ports of some PS3 games that I wanted to play but can’t hook up the PS3 for (ratchet and clank, sly cooper, god of war 1 and 2, and some other indie games).

Was shocked to discover the store is still functional. I bought the PS1 Armored Core games for it.

Love this thing. It really got done dirty in the market and with Sony’s support.

Tempted to jailbreak it and try to make some homebrew stuff.

Re:GitButler: Fearless Rebasing on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @08:10PM (#41930552)
merge feature branches when reintegrating main, squash merge onto the main branch when you’re finished - best of both worlds imo

I never need to rebase, or unfuck a botched rebase or go reflog diving - and the commit history is linear where it matters.

I am way too much of a small fry for the CCP to give a single fuck about me.

Google, on the other hand, can have a massive influence on my day to day life.

Re:Civet: A Superset of TypeScript on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @08:13AM (#41913485)
I’ve been a rails developper my entire career and I’ve seen some sh*t with coffeescript monstrosities. I am so glad we moved away from that, and I won’t be going down that path again.
Re:A New Artificial Intelligence Tool for Cancer on Sunday October 20, 2024 @10:06AM (#41895454)
I'm more skeptical than most on the current wave of AI tech innovation.

However, believe it or not, humanity can collectively work on different things at the same time. And the people putting emoji generators in phones are probably not the people I would want doing cancer research. And many many things that we rely on today were not directly created by research in those topics and were born from innovation in other unrelated areas.

“Buy a different brand of tractor” isn’t the same as “let them feed bleach to babies”.
Grow up
This guy is speedrunning the grifter to bond-villain any% run.
but then how will we prove that you aren’t a GPSlop bot?? If you don’t put your eyes in this database we’ll just have to debank you for your own good. Last thing we need is AI bots emptying out people’s bank accounts right?
Re:Why Does Everyone Run Ancient Postgres Versions? on Friday October 18, 2024 @07:16AM (#41878309)
I agree. It helped me completely bypass any discussion from management about “not high enough priority”. Amazon definitely did me a favour in many ways.
Re:Why Does Everyone Run Ancient Postgres Versions? on Thursday October 17, 2024 @09:07PM (#41875465)
Here’s another reason to upgrade: your version is end of life and your cloud provider forced it.

Thank you Amazon!

complete horse-plop
welp, looks like a conker’s having a bad fur day over this
Re:Project Euler on Monday October 14, 2024 @05:55PM (#41842431)
I love Project Euler, it’s my go-to for learning the basics of new programming languages I want to learn.
Discord stores trillions of messages. If they haven’t figured out how to make a slop generator out of it yet, I’m sure it’s coming soon.
Re:Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete on Saturday October 12, 2024 @11:52AM (#41820004)
So glad I switched to MacOS for my desktop system a few years ago.

Microsoft will never get another penny from me.

Re:We built the best "Bad Apple!!" in Minecraft on Friday October 11, 2024 @09:25PM (#41815557)
This boggles my mind that something like this is even possible in Minecraft.

I build redstone dust contraptions with my 4 year old and it blows my mechanical engineer father’s mind but this kind of animation is just another plane of reality to me.

The day-1 version with broken hitboxes? Yeah

Consort was harder haha

limitations of mathematical reasoning?

They have none. Literally zero. That’s the limit. Thank you for reading my paper.

Re:How long til we're all on Ozempic? on Friday October 11, 2024 @06:35PM (#41814523)
My friend and my father in law both went on it. They both became suicidal and had to stop. YMMV but that’s enough for me.

Eat less. Move more.

I’m lucky. I was forced to go cold turkey after 6 years on SSRIs.

Disclaimer: NEVER DO THIS WITHOUT PROFESSIONAL SUPERVISION

I had about 2 weeks of extreme euphoria and insomnia. Then I was suicidal for about a month. Then about 8 months of rebound depressive symptoms on and off. Never had a single “brain zap” though I was told to expect them.

I will never take that garbage ever again.

Learning to cope with depression and having a good support system beats numbing my brain to zombie mode any day.

Not medical advice. Just my personal anecdote.

Re:Working from home is powering productivity on Friday October 11, 2024 @06:21PM (#41814419)
I am literally at least 10x when I work from home.

I have ADHD and through years of discipline, cultivating my workspace to suit my needs, and hard work I can be productive most of the day in the zone without (much) sidetracking.

Literally impossible for me to do in the modern software dev sweatshop.

I also make more money, can spend more time with my family because I don’t commute, and plenty of other positives.

I love the work, I enjoy working with my colleagues and I can set my own boundaries by setting office hours and scheduling meetings. There is very rarely anything that derails my day anymore. Everything is much better documented because everything must live in confluence or Jira or it doesn’t exist. The company saves tons of money on real estate.

If you can change your processes and workflow to take advantage of tools that suit remote work, it’s superior in basically every way.

Pry it from my cold dead hands.

I beat Consort Radahn before the nerfs.
Re:What's New in Ruby on Rails 8 on Monday October 07, 2024 @01:36PM (#41768615)
If you do node professionally, you should be able to pick up Ruby on Rails in a weekend.
Re:'Students who use AI as a crutch don't learn anything' on Sunday October 06, 2024 @10:58AM (#41757570)
I’m sure there were people that said the same thing about Google. I’m pretty sure they even said the same thing about the written word.

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