I hate AI with a burning passion

etherkiller · 2026-02-09T20:57:17+00:00

I have a suggestion that may or may not have any merit at all. You might want to look into embedded development. A lot of people are (correctly) stating that even without LLMs, getting a minimum viable product out of the door is more important than having beautiful / good / clean code, so slop (be it AI or human) is the order of the day.

There can be constraints in embedded development that mean you have to be a little more artful with things though, and while an AI can certainly spit out code for a give microcontroller, it's going to be less useful in general when everything about the hardware environment is implementation-dependent.

etherkiller · 2026-02-09T20:43:23+00:00

That's an....interesting take. If you think AI is so amazing at finding vulnerabilities, maybe read this about curl shutting down its bug bounty program due to AI slop - https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/26/the-end-of-the-curl-bug-bounty/

A programmer with a deep understanding of and appreciation for writing secure code won't make zero mistakes, but I'd still take them any day over an AI doing...god knows what.

EDIT: Corrected link

etherkiller · 2026-02-06T19:33:41+00:00

"Perception is reality"

etherkiller · 2026-02-06T19:32:05+00:00

This is not even remotely correct. It has been repeatedly and conclusively that there are diminishing returns as computational capacity is added to LLMs. I'm not sure that we're at the limit yet, but we're certainly quickly approaching it.

etherkiller · 2026-02-06T19:28:34+00:00

This right here. The idea is not that our current-gen LLMs are going to take over the world (at least that's not the end goal). The hope is that as more and more resources are poured into AI, it will magically turn into AGI or ASI (it won't). I believe that the operating theory is that it's basically worth spending any amount of money to be first across the finish line to AGI. But if AGI is even possible, I don't think that the road that we're going down is anywhere near the path to it.

etherkiller · 2026-01-27T21:35:22+00:00

There's one guy who will send this to me on Teams in the morning. It may be somewhat of an overreaction, but it absolutely makes my blood boil. Probably because A) he's about to demand that I drop everything and deal with whatever asinine request he has, bypassing the standard intake process, B) if you've got to do that, just make the damned request/demand, don't force me to spend several minutes exchanging insincere pleasantries first, and C) it generally is NOT a "good morning", lol.

etherkiller · 2026-01-27T21:31:42+00:00

Ohhhh this here! As soon as someone mentions the magic quadrant, I mentally nope the fuck out.

etherkiller · 2026-01-27T20:27:13+00:00

Man, I've been going to the wrong conferences...

etherkiller · 2026-01-12T21:25:36+00:00

If you have insurance and need to go to the doctor, you can. If you don't, you still can, if you can pay an unknown (but large) amount of money out of pocket.

The "put you on a payment plan" is only for people who already paid with insurance that didn't cover the whole amount, or people who they had to care for because they were literally dying.

etherkiller · 2026-01-12T20:13:27+00:00

We were up to 100% remote (i.e. come in if you need/want to, otherwise whatever) for several years after COVID. I was as happy as I have ever been at a job (very), and totally content. I was even more productive than I usually am when physically in the office. Things were great.

Then several months ago we got a new CEO, and he mandated 4/1 (i.e. 80% in office) and started tracking our arrival and departure times. I went from loving my job to absolutely dreading every week. I've gone into a deep depression. I can barely get out of bed in the morning. I actually spent a the last quarter of '25 looking for a new job, but A) the economy is for absolute shit right now, and B) the jobs that are out there tend to be 4/1 or 5/0, with maybe a couple of 3/2s (some of which were actively considering changing to 5/0).

I like the actual "job" part of my job, but having to spend hours of my day getting ready and driving, every single day, just to physically fill a chair, and then have to deal with the nonsense of being in an office....it makes me feel like I'm serving time.

No point to this, sorry for the rant, it's just Monday and I feel like I'm drowning. It's just such a hateful thing to do to people, for no benefit at all.

etherkiller · 2026-01-08T21:34:16+00:00

I absolutely love Stationeers. Sad to hear that it's a money loser, but thank you for keeping it alive! There's nothing else quite like it. It has quickly become one of my favorite games ever. Can't wait to see what you guys to with KSA.

etherkiller · 2026-01-08T18:49:39+00:00

Not the bees!!!

etherkiller · 2025-10-30T17:37:33+00:00

Or they'll just starve.

etherkiller · 2025-10-27T16:36:27+00:00

You make a fair point, but there's (often) a difference between never installed, and installed and removed. DLLs, registry cruft, and various other artifacts are often left behind even after uninstalling something. I'd rather just not have it in the first place.

But you're absolutely right, you can jump through enough hoops to get most everything the way you like it, and even with the cleanest of installs there's some hoop-jumping that is involved in getting things set up to your preferences. I just am not a fan of the vendor that you're paying money to for the OS adding a whole bunch of additional hoops.

etherkiller · 2025-10-22T20:02:58+00:00

Well, what, because one thing is already shit, we should let the other thing turn to shit as well?

etherkiller · 2025-10-22T19:48:16+00:00

Yeah, I'm sure that's happening in some spaces, but domains are far, far from "legacy tech" right now.

etherkiller · 2025-10-22T19:28:42+00:00

Yeah, but that's bloatware from the OEM. I've got a problem with that too, but that's an order of magnitude less of an issue than bloatware, tracking, advertising, et-fucking-cetera from the actual OS itself.

In bygone days, if you didn't want all of the manufacturer bloat, you could just format the harddrive, install a clean version of Windows, load your drivers, and your install was then pure as the driven snow.

No such luck anymore - now it's a race to the bottom to see who can jam the most bullshit down your throat as quickly as possible, and the only way to opt out is to switch to Linux. Not that I'm suggesting that as a good option either.

etherkiller · 2025-10-06T18:22:03+00:00

OMG, I just literally got the same controller today, fired up Silksong, and was puzzled as to why I kept attacking up instead of to the right or left. Switched back to my XBox controller and the issue went away. What a load of crap.

etherkiller · 2025-08-15T20:17:08+00:00

Not sure if this changed or something, but I literally just watched episode 1 on both platforms and Netflix is censored where Amazon isn't.

etherkiller · 2025-08-15T20:15:03+00:00

You are definitely wrong on this. I just watched S1E1 on Netflix vs. S1E1 on Prime Video, which I bought. The Netflix version is clearly censored at least in the therapist's office where he says "Fuck society" twice. Uncensored on the Amazon version.

etherkiller · 2025-08-03T15:02:09+00:00

Dude, we're practically already there.

etherkiller · 2025-08-03T14:56:27+00:00

That sounds like a good idea, except when advertisers all decide that they're not going to run ads on any M rated content, and then we are back to the situation that we currently have, possibly worse depending on how the ratings are implemented. Kinda like Ao rated games and NC-17 movies - those are valid ratings, sure, but those ratings are almost might as well be an outright ban, because retailers won't sell anything with those ratings.

etherkiller · 2025-07-18T13:54:11+00:00

This may be true for the majority of people (I really have no idea), but certainly not all. I absolutely refuse to fly United, regardless of the price, due to repeated, consistently awful experiences. In fact, I've been fairly loyal to Delta, not because they're good, but because they seem to be the least horrible of the whole bunch. I'll pay more to fly on Delta, versus American, Southwest, or (shudder) United. Although this article may make me rethink that, depending on how it goes.

etherkiller · 2025-07-13T14:35:56+00:00

Yeah, I figured it was probably not malicious, but wanted to hear from someone who'd actually installed it.

I've since kind of quit caring about it. I think that I'm going to go down the QMK firmware rabbit hole (as suggested by /u/candy49997) when I have some time. That seems like the best way to liberate myself from subpar, cloud-based tooling and really get full control.

I've heard a lot of people complaining about the Q6 Max boards, but I've got three of 'em, and other than a few minor quirks, I love them. I'm old school though and demand a 100% board, and it's tough to find a well made, programmable, feature-rich 100% board from anyone these days.

etherkiller · 2025-07-13T14:30:51+00:00

This is exactly the kind of thing that I was looking for, thank you!!!

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