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  • "Let's add some more happy stars over here. Whoops! I guess that will be a nebula."

  • This is a great point. There's (maybe)more chance on an AI spitting out a successful RSS parser than a successful curl script.

    Though if I was going to place my bet, I bet there's too much diversity in the training data of both use cases to eat a useful result from current generation AI.

    I've had particularly bad luck coaxing Parsers out of AI, and I've really tried, because I hate writing Parsers. It's almost like writing a valid parser is a huge pain in the ass. Heh.

  • If I have to become a good enough coder to edit code, it sort of defeats the purpose of AI doing the code for me.

    Yes. Yes it does.

    And that's the part they AI salesman are lying to you about.

    The AI that can be created with current science make great copilots, and can never be trusted to pilot anything.

  • Yeah. This guide is going to make some rounds in my peer group. I've got a lot of dissatisfied friends who just need an easy guide to remind them what to try. Very cool!

  • Mastodon seems to be filling this niche (professional networking and job seeking) at the moment. I'm curious if something more targeted is emerging yet as well.

  • ? How the hell they gonna get experience?

    By acting as assistants to professionals old enough to be trusted with real jobs and still young enough to remember where and why and how to do their jobs.

    Exactly like all of us non-trust-fund-babies did.

  • Yeah. Disgusting!

    ...

    Where does a person go to buy those Strawberry Candies nowadays? You know, so I can be sure to avoid it...

  • I don't blame anyone for wanting to claim Bradbury.

    But yeah, I found all his writings progressive for their publication date.

    Anytime a conservative claims a progressive science fiction classic supports their politics, it suggests to me that that particular conservative doesn't read much. Lol.

  • I want to give some credit to this community, and suggest that some vocal advocates for killing Tuvix are just doing so to wind others up.

    I've advocated that Janeway did nothing wrong. My primary motive is that it annoys my fellow Trek fans. I know I'm wrong, but I'm not even repentant. It's such an interesting discussion, and I enjoy being on the wrong side of it.

  • Holy shit, I had to check whether this was the onion or not on this one.

    I susppect that billionaires prefer young people in certain roles because many young people lack the experience to recognize evil instructions.

  • It is.

  • Classic write-up!

    Although, now that I'm an interviewer, I kind of despise FizzBuzz, because nobody thinks clearly during a high pressure interview.

    Whenever possible, I love to talk with a candidate about some concrete past source code they claim to have written. I've better luck putting the candidate at ease and then talking through their contributions to the code.

    Of course, when I get enough candidates who shared source code, I don't even invite the ones who didn't share source code for an interview.

  • Exactly.

  • If the tests pass, then everything is fine... Unless we expected the tests not to pass...then it's time to burn the codebase down and try again after a long vacation to clear our heads.

    Of course, I'll usually settle for fixing the test suite after a long weekend. But in my heart, I'll know what I should have done...

  • There's no reason beyond maybe time crunch why you shouldn't be able to dissect exactly what it does.

    Usually it's mysterious business logic from before the dawn fo time.

  • But, losing a little credibility now buys everyone time for their job search!

  • Before reading this my personal theology was based mostly on defending everyone's right to ask big questions and feel uniquely uncomfortable with all available answers.

    After reading this, it's still that, but amended with a supernatural certainty that non-Abrahamic Dog God can be killed by Robo-Dog.

  • The Pirate's Code Style and Documentation Standard....be more like guidelines.

  • If you're looking for website content to not run without permission, running with JavaScript disabled generally gets the job done. Each site I enable JavaScript for is effectively "white listed" to serve me app like features, beyond static content.