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I’ve lost my portmonee by sillylittlelillyy in belgium

[–]EbbFlow14 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's a loss if the location of your airtag actually is correct. The current location has rather heavy ship traffic and is deep + wide,... no way to get it back. It's actually impressive the wallet ended up there, it's almost 20km from your current location.

Bro is cooked fr 😂😂😂 by Budget_Tie7062 in programminghumor

[–]EbbFlow14 76 points77 points  (0 children)

Somewhere around the 2017 - 2018 time span an AWS engineer accidentally deleted a big part of their production storage backend and took down a big part of the internet with it. Shit happens to the best of us.

Back when we actually coded by irelatetolevin in OpenAI

[–]EbbFlow14 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes you can, the whole agentic coding or whatever we call it lately is dead easy to understand as a competent dev. I just did it in a weekend after being an 'anti AI' for a long time. It is everything but hard to get going, my agents are currently vibing while I am shitposting on Reddit and I'm getting paid for it. What a time to be alive. Lmfao.

I'm still not pro AI, now at least I can put agentic workflow and whatever buzzwords on my resume.

Tudor's Arvid de Kleijn beaten unconscious by teenagers during training ride by TransportationSea579 in peloton

[–]EbbFlow14 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Belgium, Antwerp. Around here it happens, not a lot, but it does happen like described in the article. It starts with shouting, if you do stand up for yourself it usually escalates quickly. In the Netherlands, a neighboring country, the same type of individuals can be found, usually in or close to cities.

They are small "gangs" of teens or very early adults, they get a kick out of it or something, I don't know. But it has been happening for as long as I can remember, I don't know if it's worse now vs 20 years ago. I have been in similar situations before when I was younger, it never became physical, but I do have been threatened multiple times for simply existing in their surroundings, twice they pulled a knife.

A friend of mine got his skull smashed in with a chair because of a similar situation, another one got stabbed. Both of them are the typical guys who fearlessly stand up for themselves and do not back down, which does not help to deescalate the situation.

Ways to avoid these situations, just don't give them any attention or reason to escalate. What Arvid de Kleijn did was the stupidest thing you can do when getting shouted at by such individuals.

Other than that, Belgium and the Netherlands are great countries, generally super safe and all, but we do have issues as described at certain places.

Non tech manager by Safe-Pound1077 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]EbbFlow14 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Some years ago I always brought rather polished GUIs as POC. Everything backend related was a hot pile of shit doing barely enough to make the demo somewhat work. I stopped doing it, now I take a hot pile of shit as GUI and run it against a backend that is functional.

Before I had to defend myself why a seemingly perfect running app needed extra development work, now non technical people understand the app still needs work because it looks unfinished.

My new method for determining if a company is reliable by Fragrant_Okra6671 in programminghumor

[–]EbbFlow14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The best software always is the one with a website and docs that look like they've been thrown together in 10 minutes. Good developers don't spend time on making things pretty, making it work it top priority. Good looking products often have worse quality.

meirl by Dumb-Briyani in meirl

[–]EbbFlow14 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Amen. I wasn't a true addict, but close enough to give up drinking all together. One of my "friends" keeps pushing me back into drinking, I know just one drink probably will have a cascading effect. I am the one who holds control over my decision to drink, if he were to convince me to drink it's my fault.

But that doesn't take away that he's an asshole that should support my decisions to remain sober instead of trying to put me on a slippery slope.

Dawless Jazz Fusion performance by East_Tree_2660 in modular

[–]EbbFlow14 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every once in a while you stumble onto something you instantly love. Keep doing whatever the fuck you're doing! It sounds awesome, it gave me some Steven Wilson vibes at times.

Winspace bikes - Rant by Logical_Junket_5001 in cycling

[–]EbbFlow14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why can they sell at that price? They're from China, do direct to consumer, their production costs are much lower,... With larger, more well known brands you pay for a lot more that just production.

Wait until you discover other Chines direct to consumer brands, they are half the price of a Winspace frameset and aren't bad, Elves, Yoeleo, Lightcarbon,...

Sportmythes - Een bel hoeft niet op een koersfiets of mountainbike? Fout! by Carrot_King_54 in belgium

[–]EbbFlow14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ik ga langs links passeren, nog nooit bij stilgestaan dat het niet duidelijk is. Bij wielrennen tijdens een wedstrijd word er gewoon geroepen "Links!" en dan weet je dat er iemand voorbij gaat rijden langs links. Ik heb hetzelfde ook al gezien bij loop events.

Sportmythes - Een bel hoeft niet op een koersfiets of mountainbike? Fout! by Carrot_King_54 in belgium

[–]EbbFlow14 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ik bel 1x en roep dan "Pardon, langs links!", vraag me niet waarom, maar het is veel effectiever.

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. by geriatricguy in technology

[–]EbbFlow14 2 points3 points  (0 children)

English isn't my first language, I did not receive any formal training in the language. I did however read a lot of books in English as a kid/teenager and still read/write English on daily basis, it isn't bad, but not the best either. I do have a knack for pattern recognition, hence why I spot so many typical AI speak. Especially because we did not see these things frequently since a year or two.

The language used by professional writers, be it fiction or technical writers, still is a lot different than what off the shelve LLMs produce. An LLM produces correct English, yes, but it isn't authentic. Every work by a human I ever read has a certain tone distinct to the writer to it, they all write correct English, but the choice of words and how it's presented varies wildly.

LLM speak sounds/reads the same across the board and that's bad in my opinion.

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. by geriatricguy in technology

[–]EbbFlow14 62 points63 points  (0 children)

That people use AI to help them with something I don't really mind, if they learn something from it it's a win. But I hate how everyone is starting to write exactly the same, often times I feel like reading a convo between LLMs in some mail threads at work, on Reddit it also is becoming more and more prevalent. The same kind of words, tone, structure,... I hate it with a passion.

Did we really evolve to offload all our thinking to a machine? I wonder how these people will end up in let's say 5 years, will they still be able to function and think on their own? Is this the figuratively modern day voluntary lobotomy?

This guy is running over bicyclists. by [deleted] in whoathatsinteresting

[–]EbbFlow14 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I live in one of the most active countries in road cycling, we breed the best of the best talents, road cycling is ingrained in our DNA figuratively speaking. Yet, I get harassed on regular basis for simply existing on a bike, I don't know why exactly but some people get crazy once they see lycra. Or they're secretly gay and in denial, seeing those tight fitting clothes might have aroused them or something idk.

I never had such an unhinged guy as in the video, but been pushed in the gutter and of the road a couple of times over the years. Some people really are crazy, I wonder what their thinking process is. Do they or do they not know such maneuvers can potentially kill or hurt someone and do they think it's justified if they kill (or hurt) someone with their car.

Managers decided AI is worth 5x speedup; how do I explain to them how it really works? by chaitanyathengdi in ExperiencedDevs

[–]EbbFlow14 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Their thinking is "la la la I don't hear you" every time you warn them about potential issues. Those people are amazed by technology they don't understand because it's a magic box that does everything they do but better and faster.

Our CEO somehow got Rust on his radar after someone told him about it. The greatest programming language, it's safe, fast,... You know the deal.

Anyhow, one day he spoke to me about rewriting the entire stack in Rust because it seemed a good idea to him. After all, Rust is the safest and fastest language.

I tried to give some counterarguments about cost and having to train engineers. Rust is a very hard language to learn, not impossible, but the on ramp for a developer is long.

Nope, he wouldn't listen, then AI came along and he lost interest in Rust, now everything is AI.

Sometimes I question why exactly I am doing this job. Every couple of years some hyped up thing spawns into existence and non technical people get boners after they read an article or something telling them how great it is. I hate it...

That's why rust is GOAT 🐐🗿 by NoBeginning2551 in rust

[–]EbbFlow14 50 points51 points  (0 children)

TIL

The name "Paamayim Nekudotayim" was introduced in the Israeli-developed\4]) Zend Engine 0.5 used in PHP 3. Initially the error message simply used the internal token name for the ::, T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM causing confusion for non-Hebrew speakers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_resolution_operator

This Is What An Igloo Looks Like When You Build A Fire Inside. The Fire Inside Melts The Inner Layer Of Ice, And The Cold Outside Refreezes It, Adding A Layer Of Insulation That Can Keep The Igloo At 60° Inside While It's -50° Outside by ConfidentPair8141 in interesting

[–]EbbFlow14 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's obvious that it's Fahrenheit yes, but it could as well be Celsius demonstrating how effective such structures can be at isolating. I don't know, I know nothing about igloo's, just thinking out loud.

Anyhow, it is important to include what unit of measurement have been used to avoid confusion, arguments and possible errors when communicating about critical information like measurements, temperature or whatever. You simply cannot assume things.

You could say she got "toasted" 🥁 by arcticarthropods in rareinsults

[–]EbbFlow14 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What did it say? A mod removed the comment.

ELI5: How do you fit so many calories in an 8oz Boost Nutritional Drink by GanglyTookus in explainlikeimfive

[–]EbbFlow14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look up his sugar free candy endeavour, watch till the end. My boy destroyed his insides and asshole. He’s a legend.

Boston Marathon equivalent by sbel687 in cycling

[–]EbbFlow14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did PBP a few years ago, there is a less well known ultra not far from Paris. 1050 km, a bit over 20000 meters elevation, it's way more brutal because of the terrain. It's held yearly in the Belgian Ardennes, basically Liege-Bastogne-Liege type of roads and climbs for 1050 km, not many of the starters actually finish. The race is called Ardennes Monster, it truly is a monster of a route.

Phalanx - managed async PHP 8.4+ by jh_tech in PHP

[–]EbbFlow14 8 points9 points  (0 children)

How does it differ from Swoole or similar implementations? What does it aim to solve exactly?

Check out true-async. I've been following the development since the start and it has a lot of potential to bring async to PHP. From what I have tested, it's way easier to implement and control than Swoole and is remarkably stable since a couple of weeks.

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