Gesundheit

Bitches. My employer mandated 4 days a week over 2 years ago. 😮‍💨

AI has been good at auto-completing things for me, but it almost always suggests things I already knew without even web searching. If I try to get advice about things I know nothing about (code wise) it’s a really bad teacher, skips steps, and makes suggestions that don’t work at all.

I’m guessing there’s been no software explosion because AI is really only good for the “last 20%” of effort and can’t really breach 51% where it’s doing the majority of the driving.

Apropos to use the term “driving” I feel. Autonomous vehicles have largely been successful because the goal is clear (i.e. “take me to the grocery store”) and there’s a finite number of paths to reach the goal (no off-roading allowed). In programming, even if the goal is crystal clear, there really are an infinite number of solutions. If the driver (i.e. developer) doesn’t have a clear path and vision for the solution then AI will only add noise and throw you off track.

I swear there was an XKCD for this. Not the frameworks one. One about being a “monster” for making another JS framework.

That sounds fair. I hate “tests” that involve things you’d never do on the job.

Interesting. What do you think happened with those you didn’t test? You think they were making stuff up or senior at their job is a far cry from senior at your job?

Neat idea. Seems useful for something like a Codium server too. Keep source local but code, compile, and run(?) on the remote.

In a different timeline I’d say this is amazing. At this point anything that exposes my personal info, without express permission, is not going to be used to my benefit.

The only time it really helps me is when I’m following a pretty clear pattern and the auto-complete spares me from copy-pasting or just retyping the same thing over and over. Otherwise I’m double-checking everything it wrote, and I have to understand it to test it, and that probably takes most of my time. Furthermore, it usually doesn’t take the entire codebase into account so it looks like it was written by someone who didn’t know our team or company standards as well as our proprietary code.

I would try myself but don’t have an X account and don’t want to cause a miscarriage or lung cancer in South Memphis.

As I’ve found out recently, finding true alternatives can be difficult. Take bread for instance. I just discovered Bimbo Bakeries own at least 26 brands. So when you’re on the bread aisle you probably have a moderate to high chance of buying one of their products.

For anyone confused by this, it helped me most when someone said if there were 100 doors you’d have a 1% chance of guessing the right one off the bat. Then if they revealed 98 doors that weren’t the prize, giving you a chance to swap, you’d be a fool to keep your original guess.

More than one definition of altitude sounds the scariest. That’s literally the kind of information that keeps planes from crashing into each other.

I don’t hate advertisements on the whole but the sort of aggressive ways in which advertising is delivered. YT ads can be relevant to you based on data collected about you but it still really feels like an assault to interrupt or preempt a video with an ad that isn’t relevant to the video I’m about to watch.

The “sponsored content” parts of some videos don’t feel nearly as intrusive or out of place. They’re also easier to ignore. That’s really been the big change to the Internet in my mind. Ads have gotten more obnoxious, obvious, and harder to ignore. In newspapers or magazines we generally got used to the ads and could, for the most part, filter them out. Imagine a magazine where the actual articles were sealed behind the flap of an advert. We’d lose our shit, and that’s how it feels with the Internet for the most part.

It might be against YT ToS but he could have shorter versions on YT and say the full version is on PeerTube. Biggest issue rn is probably advertising. Most people wouldn’t think to look on PeerTube, if they know it exists, so nobody wants to post to PeerTube. The Reddit API fiasco was a boon to Lemmy so this could be as well, but steps need to be taken while outrage is fresh.

For me it really depends on the use-case. A lot of times I want persistence but don’t really care to access the data outside of the container. So rather than using the extra brainpower to make up folders myself and ensure paths don’t change I just let Docker handle those details for me. Also I use Podman a fair amount and it seems to be more troublesome when it comes to bind mounts.

I probably made a small mistake in setting that up but I tried making the dedicated “home movies” folder and it wouldn’t show my videos.

Only issues I’ve had with Jellyfin are reduced flexibility in naming/organizing files and inability (for me at least) to detect personal media.

These are a good alternative to RPis. Just be aware some of these are sort of haphazardly assembled so they might have cooling issues or bad power supplies.

Maybe this isn’t a thing in the UK but look into a contracting/staffing company. It won’t be high quality work but it’s work and they won’t waste your time if they think you’re unhireable.