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  • A crazy number of devs weren’t even using EXISTING code assistant tooling.

    Enterprise grade IDEs already had tons of tooling to generate classes and perform refactoring in a sane and algorithmic way. In a way that was deterministic.

    So many use cases people have tried to sell me on (boilerplate handling) and im like “you have that now and don’t even use it!”.

    I think there is probably a way to use llms to try and extract intention and then call real dependable tools to actually perform the actions. This cult of purity where the llm must actually be generating the tokens themselves… why?

    I’m all for coding tools. I love them. They have to actually work though. Paradigm is completely wrong right now. I don’t need it to “appear” good, i need it to BE good.



  • Sometimes.

    In those cases, “there isn’t a yes/no answer to your question because…”

    I ask my jrs simple yes/no questions all the time.

    Did you open a PR? Does it pass the CI pipeline? Did you write a test for scenario X?

    I’m here to help you, but my time is unfortunately limited. If it takes half of our available time just to drag out of you where you’re at we’re all worse off for it.




  • Empathy doesn’t mean you’ll adjust your position. It just means you can RP as someone well enough to come away with an understanding from that person’s perspective.

    You can be empathetic and once the exercise is over, still not budge in terms of your original assessment.

    Empathy is dangerous to fascists. Everything they’re doing unravels if a population is good at it. It’s why they hate it so much. Don’t toss them a free W.





  • Really depends on your home, but a few that I had…

    • If you have wood floors, a bulk pack of sticky felt pads for furniture you buy to not scratch them up

    • Robot vacuum (or vac/mop)

    • Basic power tools

    • Electric lawn mower/weed whacker that uses the SAME BATTERIES as your power tools

    • if you’re a nerd and wanna do “smart home” stuff, don’t buy smart lights, buy smart switches

    • a touchless live-wire tester

    • A label maker

    • Big pack of furnace filters

    • an accordion folder thingy for the billions of documents you’ll wanna keep (receipts/user manuals for appliances), property tax assessments, etc

    • Bulk pack of lightbulbs with the same colour temperature (it looks idiotic if all your lights are different hues)

    • nail-in picture frame hangers, wall anchors (they’re YOUR walls now!)

    • keycode deadbolt

    • most microwaves have a way to enable “silent mode”, do that

    • water sensors (smart if possible), put under your hot water tank and dishwasher

    • double check your laundry room drain actually has a slope to it, and isn’t the damn high point in the room

    • if you’re not living with a romantic partner… I’d suggest not blowing your budget decorating… Let them have the space to feel like they can make the space thiers as well, and accept that means some of your decorations are going to be retired




  • If you’re just running a few services, and will only ever be running a few services, I agree with you.

    The additional burden of starting with proxmox (which is really just debian) is minimal and sets you up for the inevitable deluge of additional services you’ll end up wanting to run in a way that’s extensible and trivially snapshotable.

    I was pretty bullish on “I don’t need a hypervisor” for a long time. I regret not jumping all-in on hypervisors earlier, regardless of the services I plan to run. Is the physical MACHINEs purpose to run services and be headless? Hypervisor. That is my conclusion as for what is the least work overall. I am very lazy.



  • I’m agreeing with Pete Hegseth? WTF is happening right now?

    I mean, listen to your gut instincts, which is that you’re being foolish because he is a fool.

    If your system demands trust, it’s a bad system. If your system has a written set of rules that don’t actually cover your requirements, it’s a bad system. If the “tests” you imagine post-hoc aren’t part of the system, you’re just opportunistically trying to shift the blame.

    You made a deal, set the parameters, and what… Expected the for profit company to ignore their fiduciary duty to shareholders to maximize profit? What is this, your first fucking day of capitalism, Pete?

    His response to this is engineered to shift blame, and he’s coming out swinging because ultimately he is to blame. It’s barely more than a political catchphrase. He literally invoked “America First”.



  • It really depends on where you wanna draw the line on content you remove.

    Reddit and Lemmy both organize posts by vote. Users and the zietgiest are already doing the heavy organizational load.

    I administered a top 100 subreddit. Millions of subs.

    Honestly, what HAD to be removed was minimal. People can disagree. People can lie. People can call eachother bad names. They get ratio’d. I think it’s good for bystanders to see how unpopular some views are. I think the brilliant and nuanced rebuttals to bigotry are beautiful.

    Dealing with power tripping mods was much more labour intensive than the moderation itself. Spam and stalking/doxxing is really what I think needs to be removed. Many/most mods are moderating to control the discourse. THAT is expensive.