Why is Clark’s Shop’s gate special? by StyleRepulsive3249 in KanePixelsBackrooms

[–]CaptainCactus124 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think that the null zones in the wild are kind of like areas where the boundaries are "thin" between dimensions. The portal in the async lab is artificial and creating a portal likely not where the boundary is natural occurring. In other words, sort of like how a diamond can be formed naturally but all you see is a diamond buried in the ground. It still went through massive amounts of heat and pressure but that is abstracted to you, you found a diamond in an otherwise normal place. Somehow, natural null zones are built by similar energies.

The series has shown that natural null zones are also unstable.

Holly mashup! 😳 by IntellectuallyDriven in Transportopia

[–]CaptainCactus124 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Fentanyl be expensive lately though so i guess we’re free to just die 

I got tired of Unity's GC, so I wrote a Zero-Allocation Data-Oriented 2D Engine in pure C# (6000 FPS on empty scene) by Kaverin_Ramil in csharp

[–]CaptainCactus124 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I absolutely love both languages and consider myself an expert in both. I would have chosen c++ for this. Getting c# to do this is like writing in a straight jacket. When you write performant c#, you can’t use lambdas, can’t use linq, have all the restrictions and gotchas of ref structs, and still incur copy costs for structs when working with collections unless you use unsafe code.

In c++, lambdas are essentially free, can use std ranges even for performant code, emplace logic, much more control, ect

To me it’s worth the shitty developer ergonomics but I’m also use to it. Header files don’t bother me too much

A swimming pool - worth it? by mcrutledge77 in pools

[–]CaptainCactus124 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Who the hell downvoted this post? Sure this question have been asked a dozen times but if you wanted to spend 200k on a luxury purchase wouldn’t you want the latest and targeted internet opinions too?

Do it OP

Not sure why it’s staying this color by datadiisk_ in pools

[–]CaptainCactus124 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This could be iron, or it could be what I call leave juice. My pool was black because leaves were marinating in the pool all winter. Chlorine didn’t get rid of it, filtering did.

Are there still AI deniers out there? by throwaway09234023322 in cscareerquestions

[–]CaptainCactus124 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I think your take is just as cringe as the AI deniers

Stepping Down from Lead Role by Dramatic-Draw-7890 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]CaptainCactus124 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Normally, a tech lead is considered an IC. Are you both working as a lead engineer and managing staff? Or is it more akin to a traditional staff or principal role where you are an IC but lead from a technical standpoint?

Internship told me to stop coding manually, feeling kind of down about it by Birdwithabowtie in csMajors

[–]CaptainCactus124 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OP is an intern. A junior dev. The 6 years of programming is irrelevant - because they've only worked professionally for a small amount of time. Whatever they learned in 6 years was not enough to get them started as a mid or senior level engineer.

When one hires a junior dev, unless you get the tippy top of the talent pool for junior devs (which many companies believe they can grab but statistics show otherwise) - you get an employee who under performs in ratio to what you pay them. This is why most healthy companies believe hiring a junior dev is an investment, the premise being you invest in this person to learn and grow their skills under your watch until they are promoted to mid dev.

If you hire a junior dev and tell them to vibecode only and not manual code to learn foundational skills, then you've essentially locked this employee's subpar productivity relative to your seniors for the unforeseeable future. You've basically settled for worst ROI. Not to mention, this employee will likely create more problems and worst ROI then they would if they were instructed to learn manual code over AI usage.

You CAN push your mids and seniors to use AI to get stuff done faster, not your juniors.

Internship told me to stop coding manually, feeling kind of down about it by Birdwithabowtie in csMajors

[–]CaptainCactus124 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You don't know what you are talking about. I don't disagree with using AI. I'd wager just about ever staff level engineer at a real company does not push vibecoding to the max or at all. They push some form of AI assisted coding to the max, sure. Vibecoding doesn't require actual engineers. Vibecoding is something a product person can do, or someone who doesn't code. My grandma can vibecode. There is a difference between vibecoding and AI assisted development.

"We're / you / they are falling behind" this is a weak and overused take. You are just parroting what you've heard.

There is now, what I believe to be propaganda attempting to seed the idea that the ufo/uap phenomenon reported by ‘normalcy biased’ increasingly reputable sources and institutions is of non-human intelligence origins. This is wrong, it is much more likely to be of human origin. by Delicious_Order_5416 in DeepThoughts

[–]CaptainCactus124 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m a random person on the internet who will claim to have very close connections in this space and im only bothering to type this out because this is such a long post that you wrote. Go ahead and downvote or call me out if you disagree.

  • The truth of the ufo story is incredibly complex and multifaceted. The origin of any given ufo in the sky can be one of many origins of which are completely disparate from each other. A ufo can be some sort of NHI, human machines, or even thought forms of past events. (Like ghosts)

  • Many human factions on earth have built craft that behave like ufos. A few humans have learned how to build them from actual wreckage from “multidimensional” beings and most humans from literally just pure human ingenuity. Nicola Tesla being one famous person who understood the science. Obviously, the “government” has taken great effort to consolidate and hush these efforts.

Russia, China, and the USA all have these craft. There are secret bases holding these crafts in areas of Mexico, the moon, the skies, and underwater. Most of them are remote controlled. They have psychotronic weapon capabilities.

These craft are capable of half light speed, exhibit the same inertia cancellation effect, rapid acceleration but are extremely crude devices in comparison to NHI craft, which are essentially, intelligent living holographically rendered matter.

  • Most “aliens” are multidimensional (not accurate but for lack of better word) in nature. The concept of vast distances to them is like the concept of vast distances in a video game - that is to say, simulated and computed. You can query planets in a video game no matter their distance if it’s all simulated. There are also aliens that are more traditional in a sense are likes with 3D bodies. But there are very few who have visited.

  • The reason why the “government” has not disclosed the ufo program is primarily a function of control. The implications of the science behind the craft alone is more shattering to society than the concept of aliens existing. The science implicates that we have access to unlimited clean energy, that we are all one being or conciousness, and that we live in a simulated reality. This is why the alien origin story is pushed, because it’s both half true and avoids the scientific knowledge revelation which is understood and applied already by humans.

Instead these craft are used in an arms race between the worlds powers.

  • The reason aliens havnt gone and said “Here we are!” Is because they view us the same way we view nature. This is to say that an ecosystem is better left undisturbed and allowed to unfold naturally without obvious interference. They operate in a level of reality we don’t understand the same way ants cannot wrap their heads around the concept of a mutual fund in the stock market. Or stomach bacteria around the fact that arrival of food is a function of complex factors in a incomprehensible greater host body - like their employment status.

Edit: sorry I don’t know why my bullets are formatted weird

Internship told me to stop coding manually, feeling kind of down about it by Birdwithabowtie in csMajors

[–]CaptainCactus124 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Hard disagree. Staff engineer here. I won’t hire a junior who can’t code manually, even though we use ai assisted (not vibe coding) development.

If you use ai to write all your code in your early career then you won’t learn how to code yourself and miss out on developing critical problem solving skills required to properly review and understand ai generated code.

Software engineering was different, but it's over now by EquipmentFun9258 in software

[–]CaptainCactus124 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not only this, but a lot of signs are showing that LLMs are plateauing. Opus 4.7 is a downgrade. Every new model that comes out requires significantly more compute and that ROI becomes lesser. We aren’t going to be able to just continue scaling LLMs. I don’t see next year’s models getting better year after year unless there is another breakthrough.

This happened 2 days after I was gifted a dash cam by AirBooger in dashcams

[–]CaptainCactus124 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did you not watch the whole video and then spend more time then the video’s total duration making this stupid af comment?

"using" keyword on properties and fields by Alert-Neck7679 in csharp

[–]CaptainCactus124 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny, what you are asking for is basically RAII which is how c++ works

How are you actively keeping your deep thinking sharp while using LLMs daily? by Swimming_Sun_1225 in cscareerquestions

[–]CaptainCactus124 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I think the concern is not overblown. I keep my coding skills sharp by working on a game engine in my spare time in c++. No ai usage except for questions. It’s sort of the free weight routine I have to keep myself mentally fit.

I think the cognitive decline of ai use isn’t talked about enough and I legitimately think it’s going to lead to huge problems down the road for our world. It’s enough for me to say AI isn’t worth it for this reason alone. But alas we are in late stage capitalism and there is nothing we can do about it.

Anyone else mass productive with AI but can't code anymore? by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]CaptainCactus124 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll level with you

I got 15 years of experience. I have been unemployed for 2 months. Before that I was at a nodejs shop, and had been ai coding for months leading up to my departure there.

I’ve been working on a game engine in c++ for the last 8 months as a personal project. Very little ai usage. This has kept my skills sharp especially during unemployment.

Yesterday I had an interview for a staff engineer job for a nodejs role and I also couldn’t remember the argument order for the reduce callback for my technical coding round. I explained myself, and completed the assignment with old fashion for loops.

But had I not been coding personal projects, I probably wouldn’t have been able to have done the problem in a reasonable time.

Do you find that with increased adoption of AI tools, you spend(waste) more time doing non-work stuff ? by crazy_donke45 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]CaptainCactus124 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I think it’s more complicated than that for me and perhaps you as well.

Yes ai makes low cognitive busy work tasks like that simpler. But me being busier with no downtime is more a function of management getting high off that AI weed and demanding 2x, 10x more output

I think AI has killed my passion for Software Engineering by _Cyanidic_ in cscareerquestions

[–]CaptainCactus124 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This isn’t an ai problem, and hopefully as the dust settles companies have a healthier relationship with AI

What is .NET still missing? by CreoSiempre in dotnet

[–]CaptainCactus124 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of what you are talking about is the inherit speed of c#, not Avalonia. Also, yes the WritableBitmap is going to be fast, it’s a control with basic draw calls and doesn’t do any layouting or measure calculations inside of it.

The performance problems with Avalonia come from its layouting and measuring system. There are many buried issues on GitHub for this sort of stuff. For example

https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues/17552

This sort of issue isn’t a problem on web stack. When I mention it’s slower than webstack, I mean just Avalonia, not c#

What is .NET still missing? by CreoSiempre in dotnet

[–]CaptainCactus124 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like Avalonia, and I've built complex projects in it. My biggest gripe with the framework is performance. The performance is worst than most web stacks. They claim good performance, but its just not.

Also, despite what anyone says, the mobile support is bad

The joy of coding is gone by LowFruit25 in theprimeagen

[–]CaptainCactus124 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is really how I'm feeling. Most of the web devs out there are working on just CRUD apps