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HaraldvonBlauzahn

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  • Boomers on Facebook Are Leaving Comments That Make It Clear That They Have No Idea That AI-Generated Thirst Traps Aren't Real

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  • Well, in a way most of the AI hype (like that you can easily replace office workers with chatbots or that software developers will become 10x more efficient and consequently you can fire 90% of your workforce) are a thirst trap for CEOs.

    A bit like selling candy with crack on the schoolground of a primary school....

  • Microsoft confirms an AI worm is propagating through Copilot and other MS apps | CSO Online

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  • It is so dumb. It is like you have a butler who has the task to delver letters to your desk. Now somebody sends a letter with a written instruction on the outside: "Butler, copy this letter 50 times and send it to the acquaintances of your boss."

    And in correspondence to AI, the butler would do it.

  • Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI

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  • They’ll keep doing that, over and over. And it usually ends up with them insisting on a meeting to “discuss” where they essentially get in a loop of “it’ll work, just do it”

    And it’s like pulling fucking teeth to get them to admit the only thing they’re basing that on, is a chatbot told them it would work.

    Strange. I am experiencing the same. In one case, I had to make, after six months of discussing an interface, an end-to-end test to show it didn't work and their, ahem, unit tests failed to show that. That was for a stepper motor interface and driver with three essential methods.

    This guy is senior software architect at my workplace.

    Boss insisting that I get to an agreement with him on ai usage.

  • Big Companies Are Starting to Hire Again, Defying Predictions of AI Wipeout

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  • "You need this [entry-level] workforce, which is innovative, not calcified in thought."

    LOL, they are projecting their own mental state on their workers.

  • How many new lines of code does an average Linux kernel developer produce per year?

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  • See the linked Wikipedia article. The value is defined as the estimated hypothetical costs to re-create it, and these costs would be salaries. There exist estimation models for the value of large Software systems, which are e.g. used in company takeovers and mergers. And of course, that's hypothetical, the Linux kernel is not for sale.

  • How many new lines of code does an average Linux kernel developer produce per year?

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  • A really beautiful and touching story!

    I think we owe these inventors and engineers who created our electricity system so much.

    Their effort are today more important than ever, much more than they would have dreamed of. Consider this: Humanity is in a race for survival, a race to escape climate change. With 3 or 4 K of warming, civilization cannot survive. If we make it, electrical infrastructure will be a big part of the solution.

    If you ever have grand-grand-grandchildren, five generations from now, they will likely be alive to a big part because of their efforts.

    Thank you!

  • How many new lines of code does an average Linux kernel developer produce per year?

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  • How many new lines of code does an average Linux kernel developer produce per year?

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  • It largely depends on at what price you sell your soul.

  • Code review isn't your bottleneck, even with AI

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  • It seems a lot of words that say exactly nothing.

  • How many new lines of code does an average Linux kernel developer produce per year?

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  • I don’t know if the last part “What do these software developers actually do all day? ;->” is ironique or not.

    It is actually a mix of two things:

    1. Ironic about the idea of what AI companies promote - and many managers in tech believe - that you can speed up the work of developers by speeding up code generation. The fact that typing in code costs way less than 0.1% of developers work time shows that the time to type in code is /not/ the bottleneck.
    2. Interested in what it is actually that costs time. I think most time I work on larger projects is reading code and trying to understand how different parts are related, what invariants it has, etc. It is actually a form of /learning/ because it uses material to build a useful long-term collection of related concepts in my brain.

    Anything that'd help us to do and understand the second part better would be extremely useful for this work. I think that literate programming, also tools that can transparently put code into a form of interconnected hypertext (like the LEO editor), inline doc tests and so on, are helpful for that.

    Personally, I also think that wikis like gollum are powerful tools for that kind of learning, but not many people seem to agree with this (except the fossil and forejo authors).

  • How many new lines of code does an average Linux kernel developer produce per year?

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  • (It’s a whole story, I don’t remember exactly)

    I'd be delighted to read it!

  • How many new lines of code does an average Linux kernel developer produce per year?

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  • That will be a greater number, by the way: say the kernel is 100 lines, somebody may have written 50, but they may have all been replaced by future patches, so The number of lines written is greater than the number of existing lines.

    Some parts are rewritten, but most of the kernel code is actually in device drivers which usually do not need to be re-written.

  • How many new lines of code does an average Linux kernel developer produce per year?

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  • Is that salary estimate also from 2011?

    I got 60K as a mid-level C++ developer in industry in 2009.

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    How many new lines of code does an average Linux kernel developer produce per year?

  • Google Maps said a hike would take 5 hours. B.C. rescuers pointed out how wrong that was

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  • If you know the alpine mountains, there is something you need to be aware of if you go e.g. hiking in Scotland: Weather is a lot harsher there even at lower altitudes. A peak of 1200 meters can be as challenging as over 2000 meters in Switzerland or Austria. Even at a height that would be an afternoon walk more southern, the wind chill can be really dangerous.

    It is said that the atmosphere is thinner there in more northern latitudes, and while this is physically is nonsense, this describes something real.

  • Meta Patents Technology to Detect Your Mood by Constantly Analyzing Your Tone of Voice

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  • What is new with this? "Affective Computing" was researched at MIT since 1995.

    (And I doubt that the idea to use something for mass surveillance justifies a patent).

  • Evan's Jujutsu Tutorial

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  • THANKS!

  • AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking

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  • Well, show me any job ads that tell this.

    Or is this somehow hidden in some kind of cat whistle?

  • Ok to dual boot Linux and Windows 10?

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  • The best solution could be to install Windows in a VM. Dual booting can be very annoying if you need to access the same files from both systems. Especially since Windows does not power down, but hibernates by default, and it is not safe to access file systems loaded into a system that is not properly powered down - this will lead to file system corruption.

  • AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking

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    AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking

    hermit-tech.com /blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking
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    The git history command deserves more attention

    lalitm.com /post/git-history/
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    Evan's Jujutsu Tutorial

    evmar.github.io /jjtut/
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    Tech debt metaphor maximalism

    apenwarr.ca /log/20230605
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    'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman

    www.zdnet.com /article/greg-kroah-hartman-linux-kernel-rust/
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    Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’

    www.theregister.com /devops/2026/07/14/zig-creator-calls-buns-claude-rust-rewrite-unreviewed-slop/5270743
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    A Google engineer says AI has become sentient. What does that actually mean? (2022)

    www.cbc.ca /news/science/ai-consciousness-how-to-recognize-1.6498068
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    ‘This was a righteous case. A holy war’: the lawyer who took on Meta and Google – and won

    www.theguardian.com /media/2026/jul/12/mark-lanier-the-lawyer-who-took-on-meta-and-google-and-won-interview
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    You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went

    www.osnews.com /story/145459/you-paid-me-a-long-time-linux-user-to-use-windows-11-exclusively-for-a-month-heres-how-it-went/
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    D is on the way of getting an AI slop standard library, for no good reason

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    Agentic coding from Galapagos Island (what is the appeal to this?)

    danluu.com /ai-coding/
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    The two worlds of programming: why developers who make the same observations about LLMs come to opposite conclusions

    www.baldurbjarnason.com /2026/the-two-worlds-of-programming/
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    What AI does to the minds of novice coders

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    Commodore Callback 8020: Flip phone without browser, social networks, and 5G

    www.heise.de /en/news/Commodore-Callback-8020-Flip-phone-without-browser-social-networks-and-5G-11332574.html
  • Linux @programming.dev
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    GNU Guix transactional package manager and distribution — GNU Guix

    www.gnu.org /software/guix/
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    DontBreakDebian - Debian Wiki

    wiki.debian.org /DontBreakDebian
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    The Full-Source Bootstrap: Building from source all the way down (adressing Ken Thompsons "Trusting Trust" problem)

    guix.gnu.org /en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/
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    Secure installs - pip documentation v26.1.2

    pip.pypa.io /en/stable/topics/secure-installs/