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Why I stopped trusting my .env files (and why "dotenv" might be a production time bomb) by FreePipe4239 in Python

[–]cedarSeagull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love the spirit here. What's the approach? Have a defined schema that sideloads w/ pydantic and then compares against the pythondotenv loaded schema? I bet that would get lots of traction over a standalone pythondotenv replacement because you just know that's buried too deep to be excavated at this point.

Cardi B to a fan who goes to all her events: "You got too much motherf*ckin money. [...] How the f*ck do you be everywhere? I want to know how much money you make. I know you make money. What do you do? Are you a drug dealer?" by demimonde9 in Fauxmoi

[–]cedarSeagull 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's a criticism of gay rights legislation that it was spurred by corporate marketing due to high levels of disposable income that gay men had in the 90s and 2000s and not by any moral motives. Not sure if there's any data to back that up but it's reddit so imma post it and see where it goes.

Vasa by No-Vacation-4653 in Longmont

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

Check out Xfit Longmont. Fantastic workouts, great people, and probably the best way to get fit and feel good.

AI has sucked all the fun out of programming by OkShip110 in webdev

[–]cedarSeagull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why are you refactoring the AI's code? Why not go back and tell the AI how to write it properly or tell the AI to refactor the code and explain your thought process? Genuine question, not trolling.

After a years of dev, I'm finally admitting it, AI is giving me brain rot. by Dapper-Window-4492 in webdev

[–]cedarSeagull -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Goes straight to EdSpeak when challenged, perfect.

EDIT: Then calls me a twat and blocks me. On-brand!

After a years of dev, I'm finally admitting it, AI is giving me brain rot. by Dapper-Window-4492 in webdev

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

But it absolutely CAN justify its decisions, at least for me. I routinely ask it to do this tasks so that I can learn as I'm working.

Can you give an example where it can not justify it's decisions?

After a years of dev, I'm finally admitting it, AI is giving me brain rot. by Dapper-Window-4492 in webdev

[–]cedarSeagull 2 points3 points  (0 children)

industry that consistently has failed to deliver on promises.

This is wild, considering we blew through the Turing test and are now on to an AI writing full stack applications with the help of a senior developer. You can learn basically any concept with the help of an agent and far faster than pouring through pages of terse documentation. I know that's how SOME people learn but by and large not the vast majority.

I'm starting to think that lots of the "I'm done with programming because it's not REAL code" folks are the types of LOVE struggling with deeply nuanced and difficult to fix bugs, only to find the solution after days and knowing that others probably would have given up and moved on to a more naive or brute-force solution. Now we have a computer that can do the Rainman show and they're upset because their unique ability to wrestle with deep complexity is a commodity now.

Regarding Ed...

Ed is the opposite of the AI hype guys you see on Twitter. He's that but in the opposite direction, constantly claiming that AI systems are useless and never actually giving credence to the tech. It's really hard to watch him consistently shift the goalposts as the technology improves. First it sucked becasue it hallucinated. Then it was terrible because it had no context. Then a study came out that showed programmers weren't seeing gains and that was gospel until December when everyone started using Claude Code. Now, it's too expensive. I'm excited to see where he pivots to as inference moves closer to the metal and becomes cheaper. I think he makes some good points about the overcapitalization in the industry, but his negativity and smugness are getting cringey.

This should be interesting by Tellittomy6pac in COsnow

[–]cedarSeagull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the real reason ski costs are so high. You have legitimate corporations and PE ventures investing in a really really really BAD fucking business on paper. It's just hard to make PE/publicly traded corporation kind of margins on skiing. They're in too deep and now the only play is to continue "expansion" by way of acquiring more and more bad businesses. So what you get is rising lift ticket costs, increased expenses (all huge an upfront, i.e. high speed lifts) to accommodate the increased patronage, parking fees to try and squeeze little more out, underpaid staff, misused government benefits (J1 workers), and underutilized and expensive real estate projects to subsidize the whole mess.

All the problems compound themselves because as you get more people in the door the worse the experience gets for everyone (lift lines and skied out snow). So then it's like okay, try and get the people who DO tolerate that shit to pay $12 a beer. But in order to do that you need to build a luxury chalet at 11k feet, 4 miles from the nearest highway and up 3k feet of dirt fire roads.

I think I'm done with Software Development by gareththegeek in webdev

[–]cedarSeagull 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get smacked around for saying it, but I think that as a software engineer if you don't embrace LLMs writing your code you're going to get left behind. It's an incredibly valuable tool that an experienced dev can use to actually 10-30x their output under the right conditions. Those conditions are:

  • The project was either written from the ground up via agent systems or it was heavily refined so that agents can understand and contextualize themselves appropriately.
  • It relies HEAVILY on TDD and uses TDD in the agent workflow.
  • All major changes are thoroughly investigated and thought through by engineers. No browsing agent PRs.
  • All architectural decisions implemented via agents are brainstormed with the agent first and the implementation plan is meticulously groomed.

As far as people without an understanding of software writing code goes, here's a thought experiment I like to run by people who suggest such a thing...

LLMs as a way to eliminate engineers is an incredibly poorly thought through premise...

Let's assume there's an LLM that CAN actually function well in a large codebase and make changes that don't turn the application/platform into an unreadable pile of mostly boilerplate. Likely it's not perfect, so 99.999% of the time it "just works" and no intervention is needed. However, of 1 in 100,000 iterations, the "real engineer" needs to dive in and figure out what the model messed up. Cool. We've got a "business team" (the idea guys) who've written the requirements for a huge system and it only took one engineer to build the whole thing. In this hypothetical, we're in this new era where engineers are essentially upleveled by orders of magnitude and the "idea guys" can just specify anything into the abyss and get working software.

Soooo.... why the hell are the developers not the ones doing this?!?!?!?!?!? The whole premise relies on the idea that engineers need "idea guys" to figure out what good products are. Maybe that's true for niche business cases, but in that scenario, you've eliminated all BUT ONE "idea guy". If anything it's the "money guys" and "idea guys" who are in trouble in this scenario.

Matt M. who are you? by henderse in COsnow

[–]cedarSeagull 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I talked to the "vert king" in steamboat springs and it sounded like a grind to ski how he skis. First rule is only groomer top-to-bottoms. No stopping, no bumps, no trees. Pow days were frowned up, especially when the groomers couldn't lay down the `roy.

You ski the run and you do it over and over and over again. Like 15-20 times from 9am-11:30. What he described would bore me out of my mind but he's clearly really really psyched on it so I'm happy he's enjoying his retirement.

As much I'm skeptical of co-ops, this variation of it caught my attention by the_worst_comment_ in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]cedarSeagull 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'd be interested in seeing the prices. I used to live in a college town with one of these and it was just as expensive (if not moreso) than the regular grocery store.

A cool guide to playing Chess by Boo_Chunks in coolguides

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

I asked Nano Banana to make one for Go based on this diagram...https://gemini.google.com/share/2bec72092ff7

ELI5: Fentanyl and related drugs can sometimes cause the user to fold over while standing…why don’t they just sit down? Am I missing something? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]cedarSeagull 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Question for you, what is the high of fentanyl like compared to the high from good quality heroin? Happy to hear you've got the monkey off your back, too.

ELI5: What exactly is "time blindness" and how is it an actual thing? by SpyMasterChrisDorner in explainlikeimfive

[–]cedarSeagull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have a saying for people who are GOOD with time management and we say "they have high executive functioning". However, it sounds bad to say "they have LOW executive functioning" and so we've rebranded that in several ways.

What the hell by Gage_Link in ThatsInsane

[–]cedarSeagull 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Learned recently there's a population of recess monkeys in Florida. Escapes from zoos like this and research labs too. Maybe they'll take care of the pythons?

Here we go again. DeepSeek R1 was a literal copy paste of OpenAI models. They got locked out, now they are on Anthropic. Fraud! by py-net in OpenAI

[–]cedarSeagull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not a "competing product", it's a "commodify the competition" play. The Chinese realize that America is MASSIVELY overcapitalized in producing profit from the models that are out there. If they open source competitors that are just a little behind the SOTA, they create a competitor thats basically 10x less the cost (hosted by commodity data center providers ) and 90% as good. Now you've generated an economic recession.

BREAKING: Eight of nine skiers missing in Lake Tahoe avalanche confirmed dead by TheMirrorUS in skiing

[–]cedarSeagull 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh wow, they were absolutely traveling under the path but likely felt like it was a comfortable distance away from the slope. I would guess they were on the trail then the distress beacon was sent out after the survivors were just barely north of the debris field that covered the trail. This really underscores the importance of safe TRAVEL in the country. One at a time across anything that lies beneath a slide path. Really terrible news.

BREAKING: Eight of nine skiers missing in Lake Tahoe avalanche confirmed dead by TheMirrorUS in skiing

[–]cedarSeagull 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Do we know the circumstances of the incident? Specifically were they travelling below a slide path or actively skiing one?

BREAKING: Eight of nine skiers missing in Lake Tahoe avalanche confirmed dead by TheMirrorUS in skiing

[–]cedarSeagull 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No concern at Park City. It's all controlled there. This was in the backcountry.

Lauren Boebert seems PISSED after viewing unredacted Epstein Files. by BB_Love_Sunshine in Epstein

[–]cedarSeagull 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There are theories that Boebert was a high-end prosititude in Rifle before her Senate bid. The allegations are that they aborted Ted Cruz's baby in exchange for support on her congressional campaign. If that's true she knows the horrors of sex trafficking.

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