- My coworker does this. PRs with random files from other changes left in, console logs everywhere. Blatent issues everywhere.
I find it extremely rude they chuck this stuff at me without even having read it themselves. At least these days I can just chuck the AI reviewer thing on it and throw it back to them.
- The people who knew about those things back then know modern infrastructure today. I'm sure if you asked the average web dev 12 years ago what write-back io is they wouldn't have any idea.
Perhaps the only trend is more companies not hiring anyone who specialises in infrastructure and just leaving it as a side task for React devs to look at once every few months.
- I think the number is probably a bit skewed by the fact a lot of companies offer unlimited access to udemy and such, so people "start" courses without any commitment or cost, and then predictably drop off fast or don't start at all.
Personally I just found none of them really worth doing. They felt almost not genuine in a way, like they cared more about profiting from courses and gaming the system than actually teaching you something. I switched to learning via Youtube videos and found it much more educational than the paid courses.
- 12 years ago I certainly did not know why a servers IO would be slow, short of just the physical storage was slow. I think you might just be overestimating how much stuff people knew rather than the whole population forgetting how filesystem and IO internals work.
- Are people really declaring the $30 amazon card they got for Christmas?
- In country phone numbers are quite hard to get since they have to be activated with ID. Sure scammers could start using stolen IDs, but that's already a barrier to entry. And you are limited to how many phone numbers you can register this way.
Presumably with further tie ins to government services, one would be able to view all the phone numbers registered in their name to spot fraud and deactivate the numbers they don't own.
- I'm struggling to see the benefits. All I see people using this for is generating slop for work presentations, and misleading people on social media. Misleading might be understating it too. It's being used to create straight up propaganda and destruction of the sense of reality.
- One of the best things platforms started doing is showing the account country of origin. Telegram started doing this this year using the users phone number country code when they cold DM you. When I see a random DM from my country, I respond. When I see it's from Nigeria, Russia, USA, etc I ignore it.
It's almost 100% effective at highlighting scammers and bots. IMO all social media should show a little flag next to usernames showing where the comment is coming from.
- I've only ever seen this style as a satire of hustle bros. So I assume it must be a real thing originally.
- For most people. Your human right to not be shot sits above your right to drive anonymously.
- Temporarily it's fine. Store it for a few weeks and then destroy. If something happens to the jogger on their jog we can grab the video, if nothing happens, it's deleted.
- At least on the flipside. Code scanning tools are getting increasingly good. We finally moved to github at work and it's scanned the whole repo and pointed out tons of concerning security issues in the code. Not sure if it's powered by AI in any way (I assume not since they would scream from the rooftops if it was) but it's pretty useful.
- This is such a common issue I've seen in so many API backends, where sensitive fields on a record are getting sent to the client and no one notices because it's invisible in the UI.
- I've had pretty good luck with the Steam Deck for CEC, at least with the Apple USB-C hub.
- I wouldn't be surprised if eventually clients just start rejecting certificates that are too long. Imagine if someone bought a domain, but a previous owner is holding a certificate for it that lasts 15 years.
At least under the new scheme if you let the domain sit for 45 days you'll know only you hold valid certificates for it.
- For this to be a problem LE would have to be broken for an entire month. And even then you'd have ample time to move to something else.
- AI scrappers made it so much worse. Now most things completely block VPN users who aren't logged in. Reddit and Youtube will refuse to load anything until you log in if you are on a VPN.
- Apple runs all the heavy compute stuff overnight when your device is plugged in. The cost of the electricity is effectively nothing. And there is no impact on your battery life or device performance.
- Depends what you are actually doing. It's not enough to run a chatbot that can answer complex questions. But it's more than enough to index your data for easy searching, to prioritise notifications and hide spam ones, to create home automations from natural language, etc.
Apple has the ability and hardware to deeply integrate this stuff behind the scenes without buying in to the hype of a shiny glowing button that promises to do literally everything.
Too often I see developers getting personally invested in business outcomes which they don't have a stake in. Getting frustrated when they don't have the final say.