- > Retired
You and me both, and for many of the same reasons.
I would point out that in your OPs comment, Luddites get the stereotypical dismissal as anti-tech, which is far far from the reality of demanding good conditions for workers.
For the modern s/w engineer, being granted the time and resources for adequate testing could be considered a "worker's rights" issue. In that context the Luddite allegation could be accurate.
My comment is largely along the same lines:
- I couldn't agree more with the sentiment.
If you, the development engineer, haven't demonstrated the product to work as expected, and preferably this testing is independently confirmed by a product test group, then you can't claim to be delivering a functional product.
I would add though, that management, specifically marketing management setting unreasonable demands and deadlines, are a bigger threat to testing than LLMs.
Of course the damage done by LLM generated code not being tested, is additive to the damage management is doing.
So this isn't any kind of apologism, the two sources are both making the problem worse.
- This is exactly the situation we're in with new automobiles...
- Hope does spring eternal, doesn't it 8-/
If no one manufactures such a product, how does the "market" express this desire?
Buying one toaster, that would last your lifetime, is easily manufactured today, and yet no company makes such a thing. This is true across hundreds of products.
The fact is, manufacturing something that isn't shit, is less profitable, so what we're gonna get is shit. It doesn't really matter what people "want".
This is true for toasters and TVs...
- Hepburn also allows the use of the double vowel, in this case: kooen
- SSH is my "personal cloud"...
- Denial of confirmation bias
- A) I'm not going to watch the video because it's hosted by goggle, and I'm not interested in being goggled.
B) However, even without watching the video, it must be describing corporate product UI, because in the free software world, there is a huge variety of selections for desktop (and phone) UI choices.
C) The big question I continue to come back to in HN comments: why does any technically astute person continue to run these monopolistic, and therefore beige, boring, bland, corporate UIs?
You can have free software with free choice, or you can have whatever goggle tells you...
- Just in my lifetime, the world population, an simultaneously the US population, has tripled.
The world's economic output and productivity are at all time highs.
Natural resources are at tipping points of extreme exploitation, and toxic output is causing other massive tipping points of natural destruction.
And somehow, the population going down is a big problem?
To put it bluntly, this is total bullshit!
If you take the world's most hateful pricks out of the picture, there is no shortage of anything.
The problem is not an availability of resources, it in who gets to keep them.
The best thing that could happen to ease the impact of our human footprint, would be for the population to go down.
Then we wouldn't have to tolerate some of the stupidest ideas in the modern world, like flying people to mars!
Fix where the fucking money goes! Then we can accept the population reduction for what it is, the greatest trend to emerge in recent decades...
- So, given your high technical acumen, why would expose yourself to goggle's previously demonstrated willingness to delete your career's and your life's archive of communications?
Stop using goggle!
It's as simple, and as necessary, as that.
No technically astute person should use ANY goggle services at this point...
- > RiscPC... it's an ARM desktop
Putting this info in the title would have prevented a lot of misinterpretation...
- Yea, if they could keep ALL of the poor people out, image how great that would be!
- To try to dispel the myth of a "coop" being defined as four old hippies sorting groceries in the back room of their run down victorian house in Portland:
The Mondragon Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
Often touted as "the worlds largest coop".
Like any large entity, it's had it's share of criticism as well as praise. But in general, works to the advantage of it's workers, not just for shareholder returns.
- Nice article!
Any talk of tide prediction should always mention xtide:
I've used it with great accuracy in a number of locations around the world.
Another one of those free software packages that's been meticulously maintained by one person for decades...
- You mean how people want to start walking around and doing things after sitting on their ass in front of a computer for 40 years?
Yea, I'm there with your dad...
- After just a short search to try to come up with some numbers, I find that between 60% and 90% of internet DNS servers are running bind.
And yet somehow, the internet has much bigger problems...
- This is all bullshit...
- If my browser is blocking cookies, you don't need my consent, because you're not going to set any cookies.
GDPR preempted...
- I guess wikipedia doesn't agree with you:
"BIND is the de facto standard DNS server"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DNS_server_softw...
9 just being the currently deployed version.
A non-wikipedia reference:
https://dn.org/a-comprehensive-comparison-of-popular-dns-ser...
Although this article does state that bind's "configuration files and options require careful attention to detail".
So, maybe it's not appropriate for the modern hype-cycle s/w development model?
In general, I don't think I'm disagreeing with you, so I'm not sure what message the reply is intended to convey.
Technitium seems like another one of those: "My weekend hobby project was to reinvent fire, and the wheel" sort of things, that seem popular on the HN feed.
My favorite feature of bind is "split views". This allows the same service to provide DNS on the local LAN, as well as authoritative DNS to the internet.
It could be a subspecies of the "machine elves"...