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Michal

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  • TOML

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  • I like this. I also like yaml, I've had very few issues with it and it's nicer to work with than json.

    Json's lack of support for trailing commas and comments makes it very annoying for everyday use.

  • I tried AI, was impressed by it, and it's embarrassing; Need advice

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  • There's a wide gap between skimming it and spending 30 mins. I rarely spend 30 mins reviewing, but then again the PRs are usually not huge, and I the codebase has automated liners, tests, and other checks.

  • I tried AI, was impressed by it, and it's embarrassing; Need advice

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  • Of course the code it generates is pretty shit and full of comments…but it works.

    If it's shit but it works, it's still shit. You are building technical debt that will eventually have to be paid when you get more customers, and current codebase starts surfacing bugs, security and performance issues.

    Before you say it, yes, our codebase is shit, and was shit. We have practically no devops, no real team structure, and something is always on fire, though I’m under the impression that this isn’t very uncommon nowadays…

    Sounds like your team doesn't have a strong technical leadership, or they're prioritizing expansion rather than stability. Maybe you're working for a startup and have yet to turn profit? Or your clients don't care about quality and reliability.

    At only 3 years experience you are still learning, and it's telling that you can already recognize AI slop code. I feel sorry for you and hope you cna find more fulfilling work that will let you grow, but I dont't know what the job market is like right now. I believe that if all you do is interface with AI all day, your job itself can be replaced with AI, so the experience you're getting now may be of very little value as a software engineer. But who knows, AI is a real disruptor, and being able to review and scriutinize AI code can be a skill in itself.

  • Is Windows FOSS now?

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  • Counterpoint: how do you even prove that any part of the code was AI generated.

    Also, i made a script years ago that algorithmically generates python code from user input. Is it now considered AI-generated too?

  • Whats a good hobby to get into, as someones whos home alot with a laptop?

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  • Programming. You need to have a project in mind to get motivated, but it's cool being able to built an app you can run on your mobile device.

  • Early access

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  • Could be understood as "take these words, and write them out in alphabetical order". It's not specifically stated whether letters inside those words should also be sorted or not.

    We take it for granted that we have so much experience communicating, we can infer the meaning without full instruction, but children are still acquiring this knowledge and sometimes take things literally with hilarious results.

  • QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

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  • Maybe he needs a steno keyboard for essays 🤷‍♂️

  • When/how frequently do you replace your phone with a new one?

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  • Implying q10 was not a smartphone?

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  • I genuinely can't tell if it's true or satire 😳

  • tough choice?

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  • to be fair, I think such old codebase in that ancient of a language is going to have a lot of technical debt and predate maintainable code practices. I'd rather work with a modern language. Whatherver LLM spat out - having been trained on modern code - is going to be a lot more maintainable.

  • Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time

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  • Obviously all the possible questions have already been asked, and anything new would be a duplicate.

  • When you were living with your parents, how often would they go through your personal space? (aka; enter your room, search your drawers, your backpack, your electronic devices, etc...) Is this normal?

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  • Never. Once my mum went through my call history because we (me and a friend) were suspected of having pranked my neighbour. We had but we hid it well.

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  • That's false. If you want to make everyone equal, you close the pay gap.

    To me, egalitarianism is making sure neither group is treated unfarly, so they should both receive the same pay for the same work, but also the same punishment for the same crime, etc.

  • The Compiler Is Your Best Friend, Stop Lying to It - Daniel Beskin's Blog

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  • Interesting that you brought up finally. I was learning Rust the last two days and didn't realise it was missing. There may be some other way of handling it.

  • technical debt

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  • It's an abstract analogy but i think it works... When the roof is really needed, it's not possible to fix it because rain / deadline.

    When it's sunny, no deadlines, the hole doesn't impede any work, so there's no need to fix it, difficult to convince PM that it needs fixing.

  • The Compiler Is Your Best Friend, Stop Lying to It - Daniel Beskin's Blog

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  • Combined return types is a Rust feature.

    I recently started learning Rust, and would prefer exceptions. Even Java checked exceptions aren't too bad to work with. Rust approach is Ok though and ir has a purpose.

  • pre-commit hooks are fundamentally broken

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  • Can you share what you use git commit hooks for?

  • pre-commit hooks are fundamentally broken

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  • Amen. I also need to be able to commit WIP quickly if i need to urgently checkout master, or push my code because my laptop battery is about to die and i dont want it to have the only copy of my work.

  • AI content on Wikipedia - found via a simple ISBN checksum calculator (39C3)

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  • People like to help, they don't know that LLMs generate bullshit. This should answer the "why".