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themaninblack

@ themaninblack @lemmy.world

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2d ago

No refunds for 15,000 Australian ticket holders after Candace Owens’ tour cancelled
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themaninblack @lemmy.world 2d ago
Sucked in!

2d ago

Meme Checkpoint

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2d ago

Meme Checkpoint

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5d ago

Professional software engineers of Lemmy, are code reviews still a thing in the age of "AI" assisted coding?

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themaninblack @lemmy.world 5d ago

The biggest things I can see are:

the AI just pumps out text. There’s a bias for producing more code, when something more succinct or terse or a workaround exists
the AI has little idea of standards and usually doesn’t have the architectural context in mind. This produces solutions in the local maximum and not the global maximum. Maybe there are other places that feed more context into the model/provide examples that make it better.

So basically, it writes junior level code which is fine but it needs serious review by someone who has seen better examples. I fight with AI models all the time when they provide snippets because I’ve seen a bunch of different implementations and know how to poke it.

Also, we should keep in mind that these models are going to get super expensive soon, so the scope of use cases that are worthwhile will drop

6d ago

Pizza Hut sued over new AI system that ‘caused cascading operational breakdowns’

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themaninblack @lemmy.world 6d ago

6d ago

The AI boom hasn’t stopped U.S. companies from hiring cheap offshore labor, and overseas call center employment is still skyrocketing

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themaninblack @lemmy.world 6d ago

Much nicer people TBH

1w ago

.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this

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themaninblack @lemmy.world 1w ago

A lot of nonsense apologia in these comments. Motivated reasoning and carefully cherry-picked sources. A fixation on the long history of western imperialist propaganda. Edgy contrarianism, ultimately.

What you won’t see much of:

Direct and lengthy criticism of China (the kind that isn’t just damage control)

Citations from respectable research journals

Admissions that Marxist / socialist / etc nations have their own propaganda machines

Teens and Chinese agents, it is late, go to bed, you’ve got TikTok tomorrow.

2w ago

Software Engineers Say They're Losing the Ability to Code Now That AI Does It for Them

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themaninblack @lemmy.world 2w ago

Agree completely but I wanted to add: you can also get into an incomprehensible mess without vibing. Just follow the serverless flask tutorial, start writing raw SQL, and away you go!

I asked Claude today about why a coworker was getting errors and it almost exploded.

2w ago

Europe is moving to block Microsoft, Amazon, and Google from handling government health, financial, and legal data

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themaninblack @lemmy.world 2w ago

The guilt alone is your absolution

2w ago

Unironically at this point

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themaninblack @lemmy.world 2w ago

Good summary.

I’ve been working a while and think the latter things combined with the unfamiliarity of MDM/IT management tools in Linux has stopped much wider adoption.

So many industries just MUST run a few key apps that were designed and battle tested in windows long ago, as in wet lab science, manufacturing, and medicine to name a few I’ve seen.

Also stability (sorry but it’s hard to beat a MacBook).

2w ago

Trump wants to check on the gold in Fort Knox because ‘they steal a lot’

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themaninblack @lemmy.world 2w ago

No, he will follow the pattern of buying calls on gold beforehand, then detonating a nuke in Ft. Knox so the gold supply is irradiated, making the value of his gold skyrocket.

This was in a movie once. I think it was called “The President That Couldn’t Slow Down”

3w ago

Kamala Harris wants the DNC to release its autopsy report of the 2024 campaign

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themaninblack @lemmy.world 3w ago

The document says:

Popular policies wouldn’t allow us to maintain a fundraising edge
We lost enthusiasm because of our vigorous defence of Israel
Biden should have dropped out earlier, and there were people aware of the risk of a bad performance in the debate
Harris didn’t do enough to differentiate herself from Biden and the opposition in (yet another) anti-establishment election

3w ago

Chief Justice John Roberts says American public wrongly views the justices as ‘political actors’

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themaninblack @lemmy.world 3w ago

What does he think he’s doing by constantly complaining about this?

Justices consider their words carefully before speaking. What could possibly be the reason beyond letting off steam… repetitively and publicly?

Is it to tamp down public criticism of the court? If so, who cares? It won’t work, and they have lifetime appointments.

Is it out of guilt because the assertion is obviously factually untrue?

Maybe some of these guys just watch way too much Fox News and conservative media. They’ve been airing grievances just like these outlets. LOOKING AT YOU ALITO

3w ago

Kids are using fake mustaches, VPNs, and their parents' accounts to get around age verification

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themaninblack @lemmy.world 3w ago

It seems more like adults virtue signalling to each other than crafting legislation grounded in reality.

Everyone knows this was never going to stop kids. It’s weirdly controlling.

That having been said, if you’re resorting to all the stuff I would have done as a tech-oriented kid to …access Meta products? Then I don’t understand you.