I struggle to review a 1k line change. When people give me such big changes I normally don’t believe they’ve reviewed them either.

Don’t you already know because you switched from Ubuntu to fedora or something last month?

Even better, they used to release twice a month (minimum), it’s been 4 months now.

I use helix for all my developer work and nano for “I need to edit this config file buried somewhere in /usr/…”. I never remember to do Sudo -E

Input is an attack vector, better to remove it.

I come from the school of “there are only 3 tags; form, button and div”

Hilariously, my work laptop is a windows machine, and it’s fully managed. I’ve never gotten the teams app to work. No mic, no audio, no connection, etc. eventually I just ran it through Firefox and magically, all these problems went away!

What a clown show.

Those are such weird responses, is that user an agent?

Instead of “yes I vibecoded X because of Y” we get the classic respond like you’re trying to hit the word limit on your essay.

Sure this is a pretty funny screenshot, but this is a rewrite of gnuutils not a rewrite of libc.

Imagine reinventing preprocessor macros in go…

I can only think of 3 cases in as many years lol.

1. KDE patch at beginning of the week made it so scrolling the start menu crashed the desktop, fixed in ~3 days
2. LY changed the service to call it so I got booted into the TTY next time I started my PC
3. There was a wifi card update which stopped my wifi from working, fixed with a power cycle.

Don’t know where arch got its reputation of being held together by hopes and prayers, maybe it was more unstable in the past?

Dementia is a memory leak lmao!

If this is where the toml train ends I will be happy with it. If they do a yaml, I will be very upset.

I vaguely remember hearing this this was only really available for toy code and that this function created the class ignored the arguments and qualified println when you compiled it, so it wasn’t actually that useful?

Polling the API every second, are you crazy?!

Whenever I try and get a proper explanation of a monad from the internet I get these miserable opaque examples which make me go “sorry I asked!” But I think a monad is basically just single type that when unwrapped gives you the result of a calculation and some metadata about the calculation.

I think it’s more like Rust’s Result or Option types then go’s tuples but I’d say they both basically count.

I had a fun one this week! I needed to make an SQL query that would aggregate rows by invoice and date, but only aggregate 5 then overflow to a new row. I also needed to access the individual row data because the invoice items weren’t summed, they were displayed on separate columns!

I ask my senior if there’s an easy way to do this, he comes back with “chatgpt says you can assign row numbers then get individual row data with % row number”

I go to Gemini and ask “how to aggregate rows by 5 and get individual row data out?” It says “you can’t” (since when has Ai’s been able to say you can’t do X) So I ask it about the modulo operator and it gives me an example that doesn’t really work. After screwing around for a while I give up and decide I’ll just run this query 3 times. 1 for rows 1-5 then for 6-10 and one more for 11-15 that’s so many rows surely no one will break this.

Isn’t the “passive aggressive licence” just MIT?

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I agree with you, it was more of a commentary on “what would happen if we had AGI tomorrow”.

We’ve been 3 months away from AGI for a few years now and it’s debatable if we’ll ever get there with LLM’s. Looking into the results of AI tests and benchmarks show that they are heavily gamed (tbf, all benchmarks are gamed.) With AI though, there’s so much money involved, it’s ridiculous.

Fortunately it looks like reality is slowly coming back. Microsoft’s CEO said that something like “AI solutions are not addressing customer problems.” Maybe I’m in a bubble but I feel like overall, people are starting to cool on AI and the constant hype cycle.