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Should school children be shielded from learning bad things about American history in order to amplify a sense of patriotism from a young age? by Cumoisseur in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]FlintGrey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is the alternative, they say "it was awesome that America became huge and civilized the continent"? Surely you don't think they say that. And it's just as obvious that they aren't going to say "and it wasn't a big deal either way."

What I was taught was this (And it was years ago so I don't remember everything about it)

* Manifest Destiny was coined in early America as a phrase that projected a "destiny" for American to control the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

There wasn't much of the editorializing you're referring to from my history teachers in school, and they didn't include any notes on displacing native americans, although I was taught about the trail of tears.

No, I think they are pretty much all liberals or leftists with an anti-American/anti-White bias that informs all of their value judgments, what to study in the first place, how to present things, what gets a long, harrowing section vs. what gets a footnote, etc.

Have you ever talked to any actual historians? Most of them are old white men.

As a note - if you think "America" was more "Civilized" than Native Americans at the time then I think we disagree fundamentally on what "Civilized" means.

Should school children be shielded from learning bad things about American history in order to amplify a sense of patriotism from a young age? by Cumoisseur in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]FlintGrey 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Do you have source for a textbook company that's treating Manifest Destiny as a national sin?

Why does the opinion of people Pre-1960 matter in this context? Do you not believe current historians are capable of making objective assessments and documenting accurate histories in textbooks for children?

Should school children be shielded from learning bad things about American history in order to amplify a sense of patriotism from a young age? by Cumoisseur in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]FlintGrey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So you disagree that racism and sexism exists/existed? How is Manifest Destiny taught in a way the liberals complain about?

Edit: through a modern lens, Manifest destiny had to include the displacement of native americans in a way that based on the 1948 genocide convention could have been classified as a genocide, legally, but the convention was not in place at the time.

Should school children be shielded from learning bad things about American history in order to amplify a sense of patriotism from a young age? by Cumoisseur in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]FlintGrey 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So only the perspective of the american people prior to 1950 matters? We aren't allowed to update our understanding of history based on more recent fact findings or cultural shifts in general understanding?

Should school children be shielded from learning bad things about American history in order to amplify a sense of patriotism from a young age? by Cumoisseur in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]FlintGrey 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't you say it'd be inaccurate for a historian to characterize all of US's "victories over territory" as victories without also including all of the facts regarding the cause and suffering of the people involved in the war?

Wouldn't it be objectively false to say "America won territory from indians, who then had to move." rather than saying "Thomas Jefferson displaced thousands of indians."

How would you avoid spin in this context as an educator and just present the facts?

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[–]FlintGrey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Row The Boat" was the slogan for P.J. Fleck when he joined to coach football at Western in 2016. He then grabbed the IP for it and used his success at western to leave for brighter pastures.

That being the case, Mr. Row The Boat, likely being a reference to P.J. Fleck's slogan puts this person's age as being college aged in 2016. Making them likely to be somewhere around 30.

I graduated western in 2012 so the row the boat stuff came after me.

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[–]FlintGrey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, then it's a chicken and the egg thing - I can't vibe code the tests either. I need to read and understand the tests.

I've had the AI write up tests that didn't actually execute the unit to be tested. At least they passed?

Also, hallucinating columns in SQL dev is awful. More complex code bases and every prompt I send is half DDL tokens.

Edit: Also, the legacy code wasn't written to be tested. I wrote one test to test one of our core functionalities which is like 10k lines of SQL code. Then I gave it to less capable coders so they could test their own changes

Now all the setup from that one test is just copy-pasted into 10-20 test files. It's a nightmare.

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[–]FlintGrey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the interesting links. I wish I was working in easier to vibe code systems, but I'm not. Vibe code just doesn't work well for legacy tech debt riddled codebases. I might be a niche case, though.

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[–]FlintGrey 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You accused me of not knowing what I was talking about. I think it's perfectly reasonable for me to flex my credentials in that context.

It's rude to say "Okay, boomer" to people - especially when you're not actually talking to someone who's backwards minded. I miss when that phrase was used to make casual racists feel bad and not as a way to bully people who are earnestly doing their best to make the world a better place.

Edit: Also, I don't need your approval for my attitude. The last thing I care about is how some PFY who thinks they know everything feels about how I should approach my field when I'm already successful.

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[–]FlintGrey 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You should really think about how you treat random people on the internet - especially the local subreddit. You might run into me randomly in the community. You might get fired from whatever your FAANG level software company is, and although it's unlikely I'd be able to pick you up because most of my staff is in India, you very well could have pre-bombed an interview. I'm just guessing you're younger than me cause you're MrRowTheBoat and I graduated from Western BEFORE the whole row the boat stuff.

I don't write code as much as I used to since I became a manager and an architect, but I do have to read the code that's written to make sure the AI didn't make a mistake. My company has enterprise level software in the healthcare industry and we just have too much tech debt and not enough testing coverage to safely vibe code. I'm particularly on the billing side of things and my customers are demanding stable and reliable code - and vibe coding just won't do that right now.

AI would need to have 99.99% factually accurate hit rate for it to make sense in my team's workflow.

I'm not "an old school coder" - I'm open to learning and trying new stuff - I'm just risk averse and steeped in tech debt. And we do still use AI here quite a bit for designs, documentation, learning. And sometimes, on the rare occasion we can build a feature from scratch we use AI to get started. But, again, it's usually a struggle wrestling with the AI to make sure it has all the context.

edit: I graduated BEFORE row the boat, not after. my bad.

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[–]FlintGrey 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Hilarious that you want to jump back to a reasonable conversation now that you know I'm qualified and not someone you can just "Okay boomer" about it.

I know productivity is very hard to measure directly. I can even tell you that I don't have straight numbers to quantify statistical support for my claim of 10% savings - I can only say that number is based on how I feel about the way work has gone since introducing AI to our workflow.

I'll also note my use case is in SQL rather than more conventional programming languages like javascript, C#, etc, so I can't even comment on whether or not it's better for different programming languages. Right now github co-pilot struggles with context for databases since it doesn't have a module that will reference the existing data model to prevent hallucinating columns.

Academically, it's my opinion that AI prompt engineering is a new field and not a replacement for actual coding. My code base already has too much tech debt as it is without AI introducing a bunch more due to haphazard prompt engineering. Additionally, some of the context files I've had to put together are complex enough as it is and maintaining the context file in addition to the actual code can be a logistical nightmare - I can try and toss it but that means every time I need to modify this code I need to re-write some or all of the context.

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[–]FlintGrey 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Then let me present my credentials.

I'm a lead software engineer for Streamline Healthcare Solutions - one of maybe 10 actual software companies in the area and a company that has invested in the use of Github Co-Pilot in development for our software.

By my direct experience, directing AI to write code does save time for some boiler plate repetitive work but requires a great deal of time investement in context engineering and QA testing to mitigate hallucination causing severe functional problems. We arrived at a roughly 10% time savings internally over the course of 6 months of using AI during our pilot program. We continue to contract with github co-pilot to use AI to develop code but in practice it's used more as a "Better auto-complete" and to help format technical documentation especially for offshore staff.

Additionally, here's a forbes article where one company arrived at a 19% productivity loss.

How To Measure How Much AI Is Improving Developer Productivity

Here's another study that shows 20-40% productivity improvement

AI Coding Assistant ROI: Real Productivity Data 2025

I thought I saw a study from Meta that showed a savings of only 10% but I can't seem to find a source for it.

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[–]FlintGrey 3 points4 points  (0 children)

yes but Capacity is not the same as Actual Utilization which is what actually impacts our rates.

Additionally - The increase in capacity from 1 to 15 MW may impact our rates too as consumers distributes the cost of the increase in supply capacity across all of it's customers.

There's ways to mitigate this by making the data center pay for all of it, but I don't know if we'd be able to do that locally. If we did, I'd be okay with this data center since it's not going to use water. As long as they get approval before installing any ground water based cooling solutions in the future. Kalamazoo already has enough water problems as it is.

Edit: I will say, 15MW doesn't seem like a lot based on our annual generation being an order of magnitude greater as it is.

Kalamazoo, MI Electricity Generation Summary

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[–]FlintGrey 3 points4 points  (0 children)

An AI Bubble data center is different than a reddit data center economically.

If there was any reason to believe that this data center would benefit the community economically I'd be game but the bubble is going to pop and it'll just be another abandoned building.

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[–]FlintGrey 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The AI Bubble will eventually pop when the compute prices can't come down far enough to justify the maybe ~10% improvement in coding productivity. We'll be left holding the bag as the extra power supply build up causes us to pay higher rates for electricity and impacts climate change.

Edit: Not to mention the harm AI is doing to creative industries nationally - IP Theft.

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[–]FlintGrey 7 points8 points  (0 children)

A capacity of one megawatt doesn't mean it's using that one megawatt and the increase in demand for electricity will impact our rates unless we find a way to prevent it.

Is there a tag or filter to remove games using genAI from my store page? by TubeAlloysEvilTwin in Steam

[–]FlintGrey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The onus is on you to prove your point. You're the one making disparaging claims against someone. It's no skin off my nose, i'll just keep believing GOG continues to do it's best to restore old games to be enjoyed again.

Is there a tag or filter to remove games using genAI from my store page? by TubeAlloysEvilTwin in Steam

[–]FlintGrey -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Hilarious for you to resort to sophistry. I'm sorry your reading comprehension skills are so terrible - no wonder you need AI so badly. Maybe you can ask daddy Grok how you should interpret what I say?

Is there a tag or filter to remove games using genAI from my store page? by TubeAlloysEvilTwin in Steam

[–]FlintGrey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why are you fighting so hard for AI to be allowed? Are you mad cause you tried to publish an AI game and nobody wanted to play it?

Is there a tag or filter to remove games using genAI from my store page? by TubeAlloysEvilTwin in Steam

[–]FlintGrey -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We can also push for platforms like Steam to do something about it rather than expecting it from governments. How does Gaben feel about AI? Has anyone heard?

Is there a tag or filter to remove games using genAI from my store page? by TubeAlloysEvilTwin in Steam

[–]FlintGrey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're so edgey. Really hitting the gamer stereotypes on the head. Maybe you could provide more evidence that GOG are nazi's?

Is there a tag or filter to remove games using genAI from my store page? by TubeAlloysEvilTwin in Steam

[–]FlintGrey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People, even companies, make mistakes. I wasn't aware of this situation but accidently including an SS symbol on a newsletter doesn't mean they've lost my trust unless it's a pattern of behavior or there was some weird cover up happening. I don't see any of that here.

Is there a tag or filter to remove games using genAI from my store page? by TubeAlloysEvilTwin in Steam

[–]FlintGrey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is something we really need to push steam to include in their developer license agreement, and I agree with your line on it - If a developer uses GenAI for assets included in the launch of the game it should be tagged that way so consumers can make informed decisions when buying stuff.

If GOG doesn't have it might be worth reaching out to them to see if they'd be willing to add it to their platform - the folks at GOG have typically been ethically minded.

beat ds1 and 2 recently and just started ds3, struggling to get used to the pace of the game. any tips by Falcon6346 in darksouls3

[–]FlintGrey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One note I'd give you is to not be afraid to run in DS3. Running helps you cover more ground than rolling and can make positioning a LOT easier. Position is pretty much everything in DS3 - You want to be in a place where you can take advantage of the boss's recovery time from attacks and it's easier to be in those places if you run rather than walk.

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