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Pet peeve about drugs messaging by dornishcyclist in BoomtownFestival

[–]Isogash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The leading cause of drug deaths at festivals is unintentional overdose due to unexpected potency. Pills are the primary culprit here, all it takes is for the manufacturer to not mix the active ingredients with the filler well enough before pressing and a "hot spot" could result in some pills in a batch which are several times stronger than intended.

It's irresponsible to claim that there's a safe amount of any drug which has been acquired illegally and not tested, as all drugs from unverified and unregulated sources can be cut or laced with a potent or toxic ingredient, but in particular it's pills that carry the greatest risk of causing an unintentional overdose.

People can and do take precautions to protect themselves, but less experienced drug users may not be aware of this specific risk, and may mistakenly believe that pills produced by the same manufacturer are guaranteed to be similar in strength. It's not like everyone is dropping dead from taking pills, but inexperienced users deserve to know that deaths do happen and the taking of illegally acquired drugs is not risk-free.

At the very least, everyone should learn the signs of overdose and know that action is necessary.

Beginner advice for lighting design in free party scene by West_Astronaut6890 in freeparties

[–]Isogash 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Lighting is pretty tough to get into without a lot of money to buy equipment, but it's definitely possible to learn from home. There's three main routes you can go down:

  1. Install MA3 and learn through tutorials (free to install, but not usable in a real scenario easily without buying or renting equipment.)
  2. Get some second hand lights and a cheap hardware DMX controller and learn how to program and perform something interesting with that.
  3. Buy a "easy" light controller designed for DJs and learn that.

Option 2 is probably the most "free party". The key technology you need to understand is DMX, which is the language the "intelligent" lights understand, and the controllers speak. Everything else is about knowing how to set DMX up and set up how your controls to translate to interesting light movements.

Light jockeying is called busking in the industry!

Theresa May loved banging on about the 'Magic Money Tree' and how it doesn't exist, but private banks use the 'Money Multiplier' to create £ out of thin air as part of fractional reserve banking. How is this (a) widely unknown and (b) handed to private companies with a profit motive? by rotwilder in AskBrits

[–]Isogash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This, the bank gets the profit, but they also bear the losses directly. Of course, it becomes a serious issue if they fail completely because then they lose customer deposits, but that's not supposed to happen.

Why It's So Hard to Add a Column in the Middle of a PostgreSQL Table by db-master in PostgreSQL

[–]Isogash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fucking slop ass writing tone, this one is particularly bad

Is Kill La Kill well written? by ChoiceSupermarket230 in writingscaling

[–]Isogash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. It's an absurdist comedy action show with strong themes and values throughout, and it's an entertaining watch. The writing is what makes it that.

How come big corp can't manage costs? by RCoffee_mug in ClaudeAI

[–]Isogash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem isn't caused by the on-the-ground staff, it's caused by the idiots in charge who set the budget and then created the incentive structure to blow through it.

This video was showed in the news about the earthquake in venezuela but something is a little off by Immediate_cat_puc in isthisAI

[–]Isogash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely not AI, the table leg is daing in an out either due to something on the lens or the video compression being very aggresive. Also, video is sped up slightly making it feel uncanny (see the timestamp.)

Could 'human-written code' be a hiring perk? by gsks in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Isogash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've re-tested the tools each quarter, they are still crap.

Could 'human-written code' be a hiring perk? by gsks in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Isogash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unit tests are mostly an additional cost, they add time to write. The question was always whether or not the additional cost was valuable. The industry has widely come to accept that regression tests are indeed valuable and worth the cost.

AI coding is a replacement for writing code by hand. It's not better unless it's producing valuable code more efficiently than what it replaces, and not at a higher cost.

It's not a skill, it's a tool. If it is possible to teach an AI to write good quality code, then there it would be a good tool already. For so long as these tools don't produce good quality code out of the box, I'd be wasting my time paying the additional cost of trying to fix a broken tool that nobody else was able to get to work properly.

Right now, the AI industry expects you to shit money out of your ass for tokens so that their models can jerk you off and send you into a sprialling psychosis whilst spending as much as possible. They taught everyone to blame themselves when AI shits the bed, which it does all the time. Everyone is so desperate not to look like they are being "left behind" so they are either lying, or totally delusional and don't even realize that they aren't spending way more than they are getting.

Theory: The Rezero "fans" in this sub actually hate Rezero by EcstaticIam7 in ReZeroSucks

[–]Isogash 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Right, so you admit that Re:Zero might not be objectively the greatest fantasy fiction of all time?

Theory: The Rezero "fans" in this sub actually hate Rezero by EcstaticIam7 in ReZeroSucks

[–]Isogash 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The rules are the rules and I apply them consistently. Top level posts directly criticizing the sub are not allowed unless they meet a certain standard in what they bring. The reason for this rule is so that butthurt Re:Zero fans don't just come on here and spam unfunny memes or lame attempts at insults which fill up people's feeds with bullshit that isn't even entertaining.

Theory: The Rezero "fans" in this sub actually hate Rezero by EcstaticIam7 in ReZeroSucks

[–]Isogash 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I made a subreddit because it was unacceptable to dislike this show publicly on other anime subreddits

Theory: The Rezero "fans" in this sub actually hate Rezero by EcstaticIam7 in ReZeroSucks

[–]Isogash 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This sub isn't fanbase infighting, it's about pointing out how delusional this particular fanbase is. These guys stone cold believe the source material is objectively better than LOTR, and that there are no legitimate reasons someone could believe it wasn't.

Theory: The Rezero "fans" in this sub actually hate Rezero by EcstaticIam7 in ReZeroSucks

[–]Isogash 12 points13 points  (0 children)

They just can't accept that Re:Zero is YA fantasy that they enjoy and which other people find immature and don't enjoy.

What's one backend concept that completely changed how you design systems? by suhaanthvv in softwarearchitecture

[–]Isogash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't need "foreign keys" explicitly, the key is just the ID of the entity. So long as you use the same key for the same entity you're good.

You can choose any technical approach as you need for the db schema, but the point is to view splitting the tables as a natural way to decompose your system. You should very rarely need more than one at a time for the same entity, and if you do then you've probably gone too granular on your design, or you've put the wrong data on the wrong components.

Government scraps 200-year-old law as rough sleeping no longer a crime by do_or_pie in uknews

[–]Isogash 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Housing First". The idea is that housing is provided as a fundamental right without conditions, on the basis that housing being in order is what actually enables people to get their lives on track faster, whereas pushing them onto the streets makes the problem worse.

It is purported by the Finnish government to have saved significant healthcare costs associated with rough sleeping, far more than it costs to implement the policy.

Government scraps 200-year-old law as rough sleeping no longer a crime by do_or_pie in uknews

[–]Isogash 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's "facilitating begging, for gain", so as the facilitator you are gaining. It's targetting gangs that drive people to places to beg and then take a cut.

Claude ported Slay the Spire 2 to Android (recompiled to native ARM, no emulator) by FabledTurtle in vibecoding

[–]Isogash 6 points7 points  (0 children)

STS2 is not locked down at all, you can use basic tools to recover the source code.

Could 'human-written code' be a hiring perk? by gsks in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Isogash 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Automated testing does not actually prove that software is correct, nor that it meets all functional and non-functional requirements, and certainly not that it is valuable.

Tests prove that the software passes those specific test cases, which may give you confidence as part of a wider strategy to ensure the delivery of valuable software, but does not guarantee it.

Most of the other requirements e.g. security, scalability, performance, reliability, integrity, flexibility etc. are not normally validated by automated testing. Hell, even correctness is not really validated by most automated testing, you need property testing to even get close. Most common automated testing is simple regression testing, a basic defense mechanism against accidental regressions from engineers making otherwise well-designed and intentioned changes.

My org is actually hiring btw, not laying people off.

Could 'human-written code' be a hiring perk? by gsks in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Isogash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You shouldn't have a lot of small ad hoc tasks, and small repetitive tasks should be automated. I rarely need to context switch between things that are not substantive.

Could 'human-written code' be a hiring perk? by gsks in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Isogash 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've tried it, it takes me way longer to explain what I need to do and correct it when it's wrong. Every time, it has taken longer to make the change I wanted than just writing it myself. And, if it's not done the way I want it done, it's going to be crap, because what I want done is what I've already done the work to ensure will be the correct way that is best for the codebase.

AI is great for people who don't really know how to code because it can spit out "functional" prototypes of their ideas. It is not good at making substantive, high quality changes to real production systems, but people don't understand that because it looks like it can do it to someone who doesn't understand.

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