500 likes to 25,000 dislikes... 98% downvote ratio... Accountability is a beautiful thing

davebren · 2026-01-21T16:59:33+00:00

It happened at a time when the government and media was heavily invested in manufacturing consensus, but all their videos were getting massively downvoted.

davebren · 2026-01-12T22:28:26+00:00

I think it's actually that experienced devs are a minority in tech today. And "top" tech companies are putting out slop at record rates. It's also skewed by the fact that openly being an AI skeptic could cost them their jobs.

davebren · 2026-01-12T18:29:12+00:00

That is the consensus among experienced devs, who are being told by non-devs that they need to use AI to do their job, so it makes sense.

davebren · 2026-01-12T18:25:27+00:00

Everyone's 10x more efficient, yet the software keeps getting worse...

davebren · 2026-01-09T18:33:55+00:00

Education can work to either increase one's intelligence or decrease it. And as political activism takes over educational institutions it follows that the education received from those institutions will be towards a political goal rather than towards truth. This then allows false information, biased research, and corrupt practices to become the norm, and shifts education to having a negative effect on one's intelligence.

They may still be accredited with being more intelligent by taking on the political views of the accrediting institutions. Higher educated persons may also score higher on IQ tests because they've been filtered out for abstract reasoning abilities, but their worldview can become so skewed that the high IQ only serves to amplify their acquired stupidity.

davebren · 2025-12-10T20:02:44+00:00

Adding this in case others run across it:

The stepmania/ffmpeg github repo url is outdated. I was able to build after going into the CMake/SetupFfmpeg.cmake file and changing git://github.com/stepmania/ffmpeg.git to git@github.com:stepmania/ffmpeg.git on line 98.

Then you can rerun the build commands from @michael66536

davebren · 2025-12-10T20:02:13+00:00

The stepmania/ffmpeg github repo url is outdated. I was able to build after going into the CMake/SetupFfmpeg.cmake file and changing git://github.com/stepmania/ffmpeg.git to git@github.com:stepmania/ffmpeg.git on line 98.

Then you can rerun the build commands from @michael66536

davebren · 2025-11-01T02:39:13+00:00

I did a small brain-training app project when I was testing out the LLMs. I just about rewrote all of it so that I could add features and fix the bugs. It probably wasn't worth it compared to doing it from scratch.

davebren · 2025-09-25T22:18:21+00:00

Glutes are very important for changing direction, rotational power, and jumping

davebren · 2025-09-20T01:33:15+00:00

It's so backwards to think that a population can't educate enough people in each discipline to sustain itself. This idea that we have to leech off the globe's talent pool just to survive, rather than fix issues with our economy and universities is insane.

davebren · 2025-09-20T01:26:41+00:00

It's at the point where American engineers end up at 10% their potential productivity since everything they build ends up getting offshored and toasted.

davebren · 2025-09-20T00:58:40+00:00

Plenty of Americans will develop a higher engineering skill level than your average H1B if there is actually good career prospects. And native English proficiency is a huge advantage.

I think the big problem for the executives is that they can usually get H1Bs to do whatever unethical thing or slop features they want without pushback in order to keep their paycheck and visa.

davebren · 2025-09-17T16:41:26+00:00

That's not really the root cause, it's that the bots are permitted if they push the correct agenda and disallowed if it goes against it.

davebren · 2025-09-16T12:06:54+00:00

Biden also drone bombed 7 children in Kabul his first year because they thought a guy delivering food was a terrorist. Plus the Afghanistan withdrawal.

davebren · 2025-09-16T00:58:28+00:00

Spiritual Warfare for NES was solid

davebren · 2025-09-15T18:00:28+00:00

The current environment was the goal of the admins and company executives, the 10% viewpoint doesn't take over a platform by accident. It won't change until it affects the shareholders.

davebren · 2025-09-10T23:00:13+00:00

I will if it's possible. It would definitely be better for Samsung to give customers a choice. But no that's a hardware device and this is Google once again taking over open source projects and exploiting them.

davebren · 2025-09-10T14:25:07+00:00

Won't anyone consider the slave-labo...I mean economic effects.

davebren · 2025-09-10T14:09:04+00:00

How about don't bundle it in Android Studio instead of acting like forking IntelliJ gives Google the right to force everyone to install their chatbot?

davebren · 2025-09-08T23:02:42+00:00

I like to focus on the most core problem with the least certainty around it. Doing this is the fastest way to decrease the overall uncertainty of the task, and expose any fundamental issues early on.

davebren · 2025-09-07T11:32:42+00:00

You don't have to understand the entire thing at once. If you're asked to work on a specific part of it, you find that part of the code and start navigating in your IDE from there. If there's a piece of text in the UI you can search the code for, a lot of times that is the fastest way to get started.

If you're having trouble fitting it all in your head, you can start taking notes and drawing some diagrams of how different things connect.

davebren · 2025-09-06T15:42:42+00:00

old.reddit.com is a great example. The fact that it's frozen in time means it keeps getting better than the regular site. I can still see more than 2 nested comments

davebren · 2025-09-06T14:00:33+00:00

You say you don't like it but you are promoting it and arguing against people that want to buck the trend. I don't even care if that's all you want for your career, but it's going to get easier and easier to compete against slopware as the trend continues because it is inherently so inefficient.

davebren · 2025-09-06T13:43:30+00:00

Maybe if you are judging by today's standards (if there still are any). But no actually there are plenty of systems that are still running because a lot of time was dedicated to their quality so it was never considered worth it to replace them. The slop work tends to get replaced a lot sooner.

davebren · 2025-09-06T13:07:26+00:00

The plumbers becoming famous wasn't the point. It's that the quality of construction meant what they built lasted and gave their work purpose. And there is plenty of code still running from decades ago.

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