- lowbloodsugar
- Oh god no.
I mean I suppose you can make breaking changes to any API in any language, but that’s entirely on you.
- Lol. When I first came to the US I was amazed how backward it was compared to the EU. You still used checks. I had to carry a fucking pen to buy things. Cell phones? Lol no. We're all using phones literally in the Matrix movie, and what did the US have? Nada. You are funny. Let me guess, the USA is #1 in education, #1 in health outcomes? What is the USA #1 in? #1 in dumping toxic waste into the watertable, I think, is that the innovation you're talking about?
- >There is no excuse for making people pay
I know! I was just out shopping for a towel and these armed gunmen grabbed me and pulled me into this store and held a gun to my kids head until I bought them a new iPad Pro M5. I am traumatized.
Oh, no, wait, I remember, my kid wanted an iPad Pro for their art and for school. They liked their wacom, but the iPad was more portable, and with the keyboard, it was perfect for taking notes.
- I have developed a language for writing structured queries. Based on this article, I have decided to call it SQL.
- One day, all personal transport will be AI, and lunatics like me who enjoy performance driving will have special vehicles we drive at a track. Self driving cars are great. That you can’t afford one is just a matter of time.
- Anyone who is laughing is a sucker and an idiot. You keep thinking this administration is incompetent, when in fact they are achieving all their goals. At this point anyone saying they are laughable should be assumed to be part of the propaganda. Ho ho ho, looks at the silly Nazis with their silly swastika.
- This thread is just full of people discussing why industrial looms are bad. The factory owners don’t think looms are bad. You can either learn how to be useful in the new factory or you can start throwing shoes.
- a) is exactly what AI is good at. b) is a waste of time: why would you waste your precious time trying to predict a result when you can just get the result and see.
You are stuck in a very low local maximum.
You are me six months ago. You don’t know how it works, so you cannot yet reason about it. Unlike me, you’ve decided “all these other people who say it’s effective are making it up”. Instead ask, how does it work? What am I missing.
- Interesting. I find that Claude 4.5 has a ridiculous amount of knowledge and “I don’t know how to do that in Rust” is exactly what it’s good at. Also, have you tried just modifying your route table?
- iOS26 is a shit show. Glass looks terrible on my old 12 Pro Max, and just recently it has started trying to connect phone calls to my child's iPad Pro. That is, the speaker button, which previously I pushed to enable the speaker, now pops up a menu with other nearby devices listed in an annoyingly small font. My wife finally asked me for an Android because all her friends get far better pictures. Something isn't right over there, and a lot of people are leaving.
- Sure. Or you can let the language do that for you and spend your tokens on something else. Like, do you want your LLM to generate LLVM byte code? It could, right? Buy why wouldn't you let the compiler do that?
- >in the real world are more expensive: health care, housing, cars.
Think of it another way. It's not that these things are more expensive. It's that the average US worker simply doesn't provide anything of value. China provides the things of value now. How the government corrected for this was to flood the economy with cash. So it looks like things got more expensive, when really it's that wages reduced to match reality. US citizens selling each other lattes back and forth, producing nothing of actual value. US companies bleeding people dry with fees. The final straw was an old man uniting the world against the USA instead of against China.
If you want to know where this is going, look at Britain: the previous world super power. Britain governed far more of the earth than the USA ever did, and now look at it. Now the only thing it produces is ASBOs. I suppose it also sells weapons to dictators and provides banking to them. That is the USA's future.
- The rich own congress. At this point, it's all regulatory capture.
- So I've got a crate I built that has a type that uses unsafe. Couple of things I've learned. First, yes, my library uses unsafe, but anyone who uses it doesn't have to deal with that at all. It behaves like a normal implementation of its type, it just uses half the memory. Outside of developing this one crate, I've never used unsafe.
Second, unsafe means the author is responsible for making it safe. Safe in rust means that the same rules must apply as unsafe code. It does not mean that you don't have to follow the rules. If one instead used it to violate the rules, then the code will certainly cause crashes.
I can see that some programmers would just use unsafe to "get around a problem" caused by safe rust enforcing those rules, and doing so is almost guaranteed to cause crashes. If the compiler won't let you do something, and you use unsafe to do it anyway, there's going to be a crash.
If instead we use unsafe to follow the rules, then it won't crash. There are tools like Miri that allow us to test that we haven't broken the rules. The fact that Miri did find two issues in my crate shows that unsafe is difficult to get right. My crate does clever bit-tricks and has object graphs, so it has to use unsafe to do things like having back pointers. These are all internal, and you can use the crate in safe rust. If we use unsafe to implement things like doubly-linked lists, then things are fine. If we use unsafe to allow multiple threads to mutate the same pointers (Against The Rules), then things are going to crash.
The thing is, when you are programming in C or C++, it's the same as writing unsafe rust all the time. In C/C++, the "pocket of unsafe code" is the entire codebase. So sure, you can write safe C, like I can write safe "unsafe rust". But 99% of the code I write is safe rust. And there's no equivalent in C or C++.
- The article reports Microsoft SDEs complaining about Copilot and being forced to use it. It's "worse than competitors' tools."
No shit. But that's hardly everyone is Seattle. I'd imagine people at Amazon aren't upset about being forced to use Copilot, or Google folks.
- And the gutting is done by the people she described as the parasites.
- Gatekeeping basically. Neurotypical only please! Could Andrew have yielded his voice to someone who is good at PR? Sure. And that’s how people give up and burnout.
I’m ok if sometimes a nerd displays some emotion online.
I’m corporate, so I have to manage my shit. I use LLMs to manage that. I’m glad Andrew has a space where he doesn’t have to.
- “We aren’t making any money by not using AI. Please give me money for courses on how to not use AI so that you can not make money too.”