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getFrog

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  • What food can I grow at home to save grocery money?

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  • Whatever you end up growing, if you have the space for it consider setting up a compost pile (You can compost in a tiny bucket, it just takes longer than hot composting). Reason is that basically any plant you grow can benefit from compost, but buying decent compost at the store is kinda expensive.

  • 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market

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  • Nope, no other reason! I'm just getting a decent deal on PC parts when I let my employer buy them for me so I have a tendency to splurge on tech without really double-checking the specs. Can't justify that with the current RAM prices though haha

    But thanks for the tip! I'll keep it in mind when I do actually decide to upgrade sometime

  • 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market

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  • I built my first PC last November and because RAM was about 2-3 times the price that it should have been I passed on it. Now it's like 5x the price and it's not even a choice anymore, but I think I still made the right decision by not financially supporting those prices. Got 16GB of second hand SODIMM and some Sodimm to Dimm adapters and honestly the PC is fine. In my original parts list I had planned to get 128GB just to max out the board and not think about it ever again (would have been a reasonable 550€ back in September) but now I think I'll actually coast a bit longer with my 16GB. It should be fine for the next few years at least, especially since there's no overhead from Windows BS on my machine.

  • Mint

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  • Oh hey that's Eric!

  • Whose death would you want to have prevented?

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  • Kelvin Kiptum. He was one of the greatest prospects in really advancing marathon world records. It might take another few generations until someone with the same kind of potential enters the scene.

  • Software engineers that refuse to use AI, do you fear your reluctance to use this technology will impact your career when other software engineers will use it in their work?

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  • My company started providing every programmer who wanted it with Github Copilot in like 2023, iirc. I declined it (we were still allowed to decline it back then, sigh). My process of thought was that it takes almost zero skill to "learn" AI tools, but once they're part of your workflow you become reliant on them and your actual rate of learning stalls. I still wasn't particularly experienced or good at programming back then (only started my IT career in late 2021) so I wanted to heavily invest in myself and level up my skills as much as I could.Fast forward to today, and there is a significant skill gap between me and the coworkers I was on par with when Copilot was introduced. I'm still not some kind of superstar programmer, but when it comes to my specific niche (React/Typescript) I'm considered one of the go-to people to consult within my department. Meanwhile some of my colleagues still need almost weekly reminders to use let/const instead of var (yes we have a linter, but they accidentally turn it off sometimes...).

    About a month ago management started hard-pushing their AI bullshit. Everyone is mandated to install and use Claude Code. So.. I did. It took me maybe a day to learn, most of which was spent fiddling with IntelliJ (I took the chance to migrate from Windows IntelliJ to using its Linux build within a WSL, it's such an improvement!). I did all the mandated Claude tutorials and everything I got out of it is more resentment for my coworkers. This tool really is made for total morons. Even the "advanced features" like writing custom hooks and subagents or connecting to custom MCP servers are just so... stupid. If that's the most complicated thing they do on a day-to-day basis, I am very much not surprised about their brain atrophying.

    Anyways, I am now also the go-to person my colleagues approach when they need help with their Claude setup. Because the guy who self-identifies as competent in AI topics just straight up lies way too much, as he can't handle being perceived as anything but extremely smart and competent (which just wastes everyone's time, since finding issues is way harder when he insists his first hunch is always the 100% correct solution and doesn't admit it when he makes a wrong assumption).

    I'm very much not worried about my job security (someone with the capacity to actually understand the code they write is much more valuable and harder to replace, plus I hold a lot of knowledge about our existing product) but I'm certainly having a hard time applying for new jobs. Recruiters and managers really are stupid enough to think that using AI requires any sort of deeper skill, so putting AI on your CV as a skill is basically required nowadays (I still refuse to do it). And the AI bros whose applications I'm competing with are just much more comfortable with lying about their actual coding skill and competence, so on the first scan my resume does end up looking worse than theirs. But I have absolutely crushed every interview that I was actually invited to, because faking technical skill in actual conversation is way harder. I'm not too pessimistic about my prospects of finding a new job, even if the market definitely sucks right now.

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    Is it true that asshole bad boys are generally more likable than other guys?

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  • Is it true he’s more likable than a ‘nice guy’?

    A nice guy or a 'nice guy'? Bc the guy you described definitely is more likeable than one of them.

  • It's a real bargain when you realize it'll fit 6-8

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  • not enough space for my shoes

  • Gen AI and big tech makes me dread the future.

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  • Does anyone have any thoughts that may somewhat help me feel less dread?

    A lot of people feel the exact same way, but are just too burned out at this point to say anything. The AI sycophants just scream the loudest atm, doesn't mean that they're holding the popular position.So you definitely aren't alone and will always have plenty of options to hang out with people who aren't brainwashed by that stupid thing.

  • who do you think are legendary lemmings?

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  • Whoever the guy was who posted about not pooping for a few days

  • What is (one of) your favorite kind(s) of bread, and what context do you enjoy it in the most?

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  • The humble white baguette you get in every supermarket for like 0.7€. It's not mindblowing, but it's consistent and I love it for dipping into soups and soaking up salad dressing.

  • What is wrong with Pop OS?

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  • All I know about it is that it's the distro Linus Tech Tips keeps choosing, despite having problems with it every time.

  • Vegans of .fr, .de and .it, what are your favorite snacks?

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  • In Germany, you HAVE to try Crunchips Western Style. It's the best Chip flavour ever. Any normal grocery store should have them.

    NicNacs, those breaded peanuts, are also pretty tasty, but not vegan in their normal version. Only the BBQ flavour is vegan, but most stores carry their own store-brand version of them and those usually are vegan (but you have to go by the ingredients list, it seems pretty rare that they use the actual V-Label).

    For sweets, Katjes is a super solid brand (I bet they're not exclusive to Germany). My fave from them are their rainbow unicorn gummies:

  • Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them?

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  • I feel the same way. Names are weird and icky.

  • What subtle (or unsubtle) personality changes have you noticed in people who frequently use AI as a tool?

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  • Not that I knew the guy before his AI use so for all its worth he was dumb as rocks before, but my manager hired a guy who doesn't know shit as a software architect for our team. Doesn't even really know our tech stack (mostly TypeScript and AWS stuff) but my manager is really into AI so he hired a guy who promised that he'd get us all to adopt AI use.He can't do shit without AI. I asked him to update a few dependencies a few weeks ago and he spent double the time that the Junior on our team takes for the same task, while also overlooking half the spots where he needed to do something, despite the fact that I gave him a clear list of spots that he needs to look at and actions he needs to take. Oh, and it was the third time he had that exact task and he learned nothing from the first few times.

    Generally, his main issues are that he's completely brain rotted and forgets anything you tell him right away (but never acknowledges that he's forgetful and gets defensive instead) AND that he's just incorrect with such a confidence that we're at a point where no one trusts his claims without double checking them. NONE of these things would be a problem if he just had the capacity to acknowledge them. My team is very much not perfectionist, many of us are forgetful and not great at communication (we're software guys, auDHD the the norm) but his ego blocks any chance at improving or adapting his habits to fit into the team.

    Honestly I've just resigned to it. As much as I have a distaste towards that guy, I will leave the company before resorting to being overtly toxic to him and bullying that ego out of him. I've been a bit snarky and vented some frustrations to other coworkers, but in the end we're all just trying to survive capitalism here I guess, so I shouldn't be too hard on him for doing that to his best capabilities. He probably isn't even being paid much better than the rest of us, my company has notoriously bad pay but people put up with it because there's a lot of freedom, good accommodations for parents and ND people and some pretty sweet benefits. Sad to see that management is clamping down on the freedom by mandating AI everywhere.

  • What is your policy on letting a child use the internet?

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  • No internet before they can actually explain how it works. My main goal would be to prevent them from thinking of it as some kind of magic machine that delivers them dopamine. Teach em TCP/IP, Networking, how HTTP functions, how things are actually rendered and what ot actually takes for information to go from bits to images. Then talk to them about how those mechanisms are exploited and how to exploit them back. Advertisement, dark patterns, attention-algorithms and all that. Scoff at them for not using an ad blocker and maybe teach them some small tricks that would make them cool among their peers. I mean, imagine if a Kindergartener showed up to class with their school mandated iPad but was fully able to operate Wireshark lmao

    All that is a hypothetical of course, no way in hell I'm having kids.

  • Previously awkward teens, how did you eventually figure it out?

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  • Unironically, season 1 of Dexter was a big help in jumpstarting it. Bringing baked goods is still my #1 strategy of getting on someone's good side, especially at work haha

  • How often do people typically get paid where you are? How is the overtime? (Specify location)

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  • Interesting, I'm in Germany too and I only recently learned that 'Trial work' without a contract is actually completely illegal (thanks random NDR youtube clip!). But I guess companies know some random loopholes around it?

  • Do I belong in tech anymore?

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  • This is the sign I needed to call in sick for the next few days. This shit is so tiring.