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MurrayL

@ MurrayL @lemmy.world

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  • When I worked at Apple, I remember seeing code that was 15 years old

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  • None of the posts here have summaries - this community is for a bot reposting from the Hacker News RSS feed.

    So not only do you not bother reading posts before commenting, you don’t even know what community you’re posting to?

  • When I worked at Apple, I remember seeing code that was 15 years old

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  • Yeah, that’s the sad part. The author seems to understand that something important has been lost, but they’ve been so blinded by the speed and ‘magic’ of agentic coding that they can’t put into words what’s missing or why.

    Like so many engineers-turned-AI-babysitters, they probably no longer understand any of the code they’re responsible for.

  • When I worked at Apple, I remember seeing code that was 15 years old

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  • If you can’t be bothered to read - or even just skim - a linked post, then don’t bother to comment. You’re adding nothing to the discussion and making yourself look wilfully ignorant.

  • Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

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  • I find it hard to believe that anyone generating LLM text cares that much about individual word choices.

  • The best Spotify alternatives to ease your conscience

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  • Honestly, some are better than others depending on priorities, but literally anything is a better option than Spotify on most fronts these days.

  • Phones should have a 'guest lock' feature

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  • The first link I posted is for Guided Access.

    I also mentioned hidden albums because that was the second thing the author requested in the blog post.

  • Phones should have a 'guest lock' feature

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  • uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook

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  • To people who write: How did you start? How do you stay motivated?

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  • I started in school and was lucky enough to have teachers who encouraged me to keep writing. The motivation has always been to entertain; to make people laugh with short stories, comics, scripts, whatever. That carried through to my work at university, and I spent a lot of my free time making goofy adventure games and entering game jams.

    These days I still have the same core motivation of wanting to entertain, but I guess with the deeper idea of wanting to positively impact the world by giving people memorable experiences. But as any writer will tell you, those noble aspirations will only carry you so far. On the days where I’m less inspired, the motivation is getting paid ;)

  • YouTube announces monetization changes that make it harder for new creators to make money

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  • What’s with the editorialised title? How do these changes make it harder for new creators?

  • What was the best generation of consoles in your opinion?

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  • PS2/GC/XB was the last generation where, with very few exceptions, the game on the disk was the entire game. No post-launch patches, no DLCs, no microtransactions.

    I’m not blinkered enough to say those things are always bad, but it was nice to know you could take a game off a shelf and it’d be the complete product.

  • "Beans!" In 2021, thousands of teenagers suddenly developed the same violent tics, every medical test came back clean, and the real cause turned out to be hiding on their phones.

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  • Mass sociogenic illness happens when a group of stressed, socially connected people are exposed to a symptom template that the brain and body can, in a real physiological sense, adopt without any conscious decision to fake anything. The symptoms are genuinely experienced. They are not consciously produced.

    No need to be condescending. Stupidity has nothing to do with it, which you might’ve known had you bothered reading some of those words in the article.

  • I found this on the beach what could it br

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  • Soy sauce doesn’t tend to come in sealed glass ampoules.

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    Should LinuxSucks be removed from Lemmy World?

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  • Believe it or not, straight to jail.

  • Perfect choice of director..

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  • Yeah, but he actually succeeded though.

    Star Trek 2009 revived a franchise that had been dead since Nemesis, reviewed well, is still the highest grossing Trek film ever made, and regularly appears near the top of lists of the best films in the franchise.

  • How do you manage to keep working on a project once the "honeymoon phase" wears off?

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  • Not quite what you’re asking, but I’ve learned that an important thing for personal projects is not to tell anyone about them until they’re basically done.

    For me, getting to explain the thing and talk about why I’m doing it is a big part of what keeps me excited. If I tell someone about a project too early, my dumb monkey brain says ‘ok, good chemicals dispensed! That project is now dead to me’, and I lose all motivation to actually finish it.

    Knowing I’m doing something cool and no one knows yet actually helps keep me going.

    Beyond that? Having a clear plan, with concrete goals that define what ‘finished’ looks like, and clear concrete steps that will get me to that point. Literally a checklist. That way, continuing the work just means working from that list, rather than stressing over what to do next and getting bogged down in tangents and distractions.

    Start with big tasks that feed into your project goals (‘add feature x’), and then gradually break them down into smaller individual tasks that can be completed in a single session of work. You don’t have to break the entire project down at once; I start each day by saying ‘what meaningful progress can I achieve today?’ and go from there.

  • Nvidia finally reveals what controls devs actually have for DLSS 5, and don't worry folks, there are TWO main sliders to control the AI filter

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  • DLSS 5 looks horrendous but let’s not pretend gamers haven’t been able to reshade and mod the everloving shit out of games for decades. Saying it’s not a real game because someone decided they wanted to slap on a cel-shade filter or turn the art director’s carefully crafted dragon into Thomas the Tank Engine isn’t really a defensible position.

  • Do you think that reading watching and hearing traumatic stories help us to deal with traumatic events in our own lives?

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  • Fans of true crime media are overwhelmingly female, and there’s at least one study that suggests it’s because they feel it helps them process and prepare for dangerous situations themselves.

    Further reading here.

  • Netflix hits upon revolutionary new concept: Live TV channels

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  • The problem I have with most of these services is that every channel is too hyper-specific, often literally just playing a single show or, at best, 2-3 shows but in multi-hour blocks. Incredibly lazy IMO.

    To me, the appeal of linear terrestrial TV is having channels that show a wide variety of things throughout the day. If I wanted to see 24 hours of non-stop Mr. Bean I’d download them and shuffle the folder.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    MurrayL @lemmy.world

    How adventurous are you with music?