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MajorHavoc

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  • Elon Musk Reportedly Emerges As a Potential Intel Buyer, Involving Qualcomm & Global Foundries In This Blockbuster Deal

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  • Yeah.

    And there's a very good chance that Elon spends his waning years in and out of every court, trying to stay out of jail.

    Source: Rockefeller's biography.

    And that's actually the optimistic version, from Elon's perspective. There's been plenty of rich assholes in history that didn't have to worry about the courts.

  • Almost 50,000-euro compensation payout for Spanish man whose erection lasted more than 30 hours | Sur in English

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  • I mean, whose life partner hasn't received $5k from their government to compensate them for distress from their prolonged sexual arousal, right? Right?

    Edit: I have no problem with compensation here.

    What they went through is brutal, and government payout can help them a bit and incentivises the health system not to fuck up this badly in the future.

  • Almost 50,000-euro compensation payout for Spanish man whose erection lasted more than 30 hours | Sur in English

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  • Yeah. Really hard. Not dicking around. That probably really took balls.

  • looks good to me

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  • --yolo

  • looks good to me

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  • Thanks. I hate it.

  • Standing desk

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  • And after buying the expensive motorzed desk, may as well spring for a good seat.

    Plus the tall chair gets rid of any need for an expensive motorized desk!

    Oh, wait...

  • The fourth branch of the U.S. government [Tom the Dancing Bug]

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  • 10/10. No notes.

    Also, I now realize that "Dumbass Billionaire" is a single unambiguous word.

  • Path of least resistance

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  • That's a great point. And come to think about it, the flamethrower drones may work better alongside the attack dogs.

  • Path of least resistance

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  • With auto targeting tranquilizer dart firing turrets, of course.

  • Path of least resistance

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  • I understood that reference!

  • Am I crazy in thinking that bash is good enough for production?

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  • Fair enough.

    Here's what I remember: invoking SQL containing inserts from bash has resulted in lost data, when fairly unsurprising database things happened, since bash didn't really expect to be in charge of logging the details of the attempted change. For the error, it wasn't something surprising - maybe it was "max connections reached", stuff that will just happen sometimes.

    The data loss was probably solveable in bash, but the scripter didn't think to (and probably would have needed more effort in a full development tool).

  • Cory Doctorow proposes that Canada break ranks with international IP law enforcement

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  • What are devs displaced by AI going to do in the future? Is there an actual plan?

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  • Agreed on all points.

    That said, I am smarter than the asshole CEOs, and the current state of computer security is abysmal.

    So there's still some hope that we are barreling toward my (mostly) benevolent reign over endless Michael Bay blockbuster summers.

    Hopefully, for everyone's sake, reality will fall somewhere in between.

    But joking aside, money isn't the only form of power. There aren't that many billionaires (compared to he rest of us) and a billionaire's influence is limited by what the rest of us will or won't do.

  • What are devs displaced by AI going to do in the future? Is there an actual plan?

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  • You're oversimplifying things here there are a lot

    I think... we're agreeing?

    My point is that what is currently possible with AI doesn't solve any of that.

    People in this thread keep discussing growth in programmer productivity as if programmer typing speed and number of languages known are the limiting factors of programmer productivity. They are not. It's all the other bullshit that makes (the vast majority of) programming projects fail.

    My source: I know so many programming languages and I type insanely fast. My team is also productive beyond all reason. These two tidbits are only related in that I tried and failed with the first before succeeding with the second.

  • What are devs displaced by AI going to do in the future? Is there an actual plan?

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  • I'm actually anxious this is where it's going.

    If we end up there, I'm going to charge so much money, and I'm going to have all kinds of pain-in-the-ass clauses in my contract.

    If I have to clean up the stupid again, everyone else is going to be doing doing some stupid shit that I find funny, in exchange for my help cleaning up their mess.

  • What are devs displaced by AI going to do in the future? Is there an actual plan?

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  • Yeah. In this wild scenario, only the people who can crack the robots security protocols, and reprogram them, will have any influence over society.

    I promise to be a benevolent ruler.

    Except Michael Bay will have to return to making Transformers movies full time. Sorry about that, in advance.

  • What are devs displaced by AI going to do in the future? Is there an actual plan?

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  • Yeah. The whole job is figuring out just the right away to say "pretty please" to the computer. The ways it's done changes every decade or so. The fact that it's a huge pain in the ass has yet to change, in spite of decades of marketing promises.

  • What are devs displaced by AI going to do in the future? Is there an actual plan?

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  • AI isn't ready to replace coders, but it's quickly going to make a dent on the numbers needed.

    Let me push back on this a bit - this belief comes from the assumption that I, as a hiring manager, need more team members because they can only type so fast.

    My actual need for separate development team members is to achieve a bench depth of two people in each of the seven specializations necessary to keep my employer un-bankrupt. (My annual bonus is better if I somehow miraculously cover the 14 specializations necessary to make us never look like idiots. But these are wishes, not miracles.)

    I don't currently see any sign that AI will ever materially affect the number of people I need to hire.

    In contrast, the specific individuals I hire have massive impact on how many others I need to hire. One person with three specializations brings me massive savings.

    But I pay my people to understand our organizational domains of expertise. LLMs don't bring any new understanding whatsoever into the organization.

  • What are devs displaced by AI going to do in the future? Is there an actual plan?

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  • Now lets say A.I makes developers 50% more productive

    That's wildly optimistic. If I recall correctly, early studies are showing the 51% of participants who saw any improvement, reported an average of a 20% improvement.

    Even granting that optimism, since 5% of all software projects are on time and within budget, we may look forward to a whopping leap to 7.5 out of every hundred software projects arriving on time and under budget, in a best case scenario.

    The hard truth no one wants to talk about is that the average software development team is awful.

    This glorified parrot tool of LLMs is one of the coolest we have seen in awhile, but it's not going to materially fix the awful state of the field of software development.

    The average software development team doesn't understand how to deliver high quality maintainable solitions on a reasonable timeline.

    AI may mildly improve the delivery timelines of the still very incorrect and over-budget solutions delivered by the average development team.