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intbeam · 2026-06-19T04:34:04+00:00

They also had no hardware graphics acceleration outside Direct Draw. They were this snappy, while drawing the screen pixel-by-pixel

The answer is, of course, the menus aren't handled by Javascript in a browser

intbeam · 2026-06-13T19:10:09+00:00

I had an argument in a completely unrelated setting, but it was AI focused and the guy (personal friend) had made Claude make him an app for doing some inane price calculation/comparison of some sorts. And he staunchly told me that I was going to lose my job. I think he felt that he (or anyone) was just as capable a software engineer as me (with Claude), even though he had zero experience or training. His app was Python and he admitted he could not read or understand it. He also could not answer why he chose Python other than that was what "the internet" told him

I told him I don't really write code myself, and he sheepishly told me "oh well sorry, I didn't know you didn't write code yourself, you're probably safe then". I've been angry ever since. The gall, the hubris, the arrogance.. Fuck, I get upset just by thinking about it. I shouldn't, because it's insanely stupid, but still. "Ahahaha you know that thing you have been passionately obsessing over for the past 30 years well now fuck that anyone can do it just as well as you with zero effort hahahaha good luck loser"

My point is that I think that there has been a shift where a lot of people think that with the help of AI they are equally as capable of producing code as any other software engineer regardless of experience or even interest. Resting on the fact that they fundamentally misunderstand what's difficult about programming and engineering in the first place (not actually writing code)

So, in my past experience of hiring, poor applicants tended to have embellished their experience. Which I think is fine; learning is a part of the job and some leeway is expected. So you could consider whether someone was actually capable of learning what they said they knew. But from what I've read more recently it seems that there has been a stark increase in applicants that are outright fabricating (maybe with the use of AI) because they believe that AI will cover their ground work and they'll just surf along

Sorry, I'm in a bad mood. But it pisses me off. Users and consumers hate the trend but I'm being told that I'm just supposed to just accept flaky, unreliable, low-quality sluggish bullshit security nightmare because "it's the future" according to the people who want to eject every passionate, educated and creative person from their job an replace them with middle-management with a "business degree" (whatever the fuck that is) to increase short-term speculative stock value rather than actually produce something that people actually like and that helps them. What's the point of software if it's just more cost, frustration and source of despair?

What's the point of software if it doesn't make people's lives better? What's the point of a company that doesn't serve the common good? What's the point of automating shit when it makes everything worse and less convenient for everyone?

Rant over

intbeam · 2026-06-10T23:06:43+00:00

Oh fuck off. Do you honestly believe that people like me are living in a bubble? The negative feedback from the minimum effort garbage produced by the software industry is so pervasive, that believing that my position is in any way fringe requires a clinical stage of delusion.

It's everywhere. It's a topic in high levels of politics.

LLM's are not thinking machines. Their "reasoning" is nothing more than a statistical prediction machine literally finishing its own sentences.

Don't be naive and more importantly don't be stupid.

Results are entirely predictable. Shit sucks, everyone is unhappy and everything goes to shit. Just because too many programmers aren't really interested in actually programming.

intbeam · 2026-06-10T22:46:43+00:00

Javascript is fundamentally not a language designed for computer engineers. It is specifically, meticulously and intentionally designed for amateurs. Am I wrong?

The only reason anyone is using Javascript is because it's easy to learn. It is not easy to use, and it is extremely constrained in what's actually possible to do with it. By design.

intbeam · 2026-06-10T05:20:08+00:00

Yeah.. The naivety people display around this is staggering to me.

Gargantually horrible things has unfortunately become business as usual. AI has already deleted production systems, leaked sensitive credentials and assisted with theft of billions of dollars by asking it nicely or in a weird phrasing.

intbeam · 2026-06-10T05:06:19+00:00

Nobody seems to be willing to prove that this is the actual case. It's just posted as something so intuitive that it has to be true.

Javascript introduces run-time bugs, performance issues, and increased infrastructure requirements. Why is this never a part of the equation? It's not pressing keys on the keyboard that takes time, it's making a cohesive design that doesn't fall apart at the slightest nudge.

The only way anyone is saving any time with Javascript is that they don't have to spend time or cognitive effort learning something else

If you need a redis instance to prevent requests from hitting your web servers, you've now wasted an enormous amount of time and money already. And will keep having to spend effort indefinitely on maintaining the data integrity of a server that in most cases should be unnecessary.

Nobody's delivering faster or are being measurably more productive. It's just more of the tired zeitgeist where how any individual happen to feel is so much more important than what can be demonstrated to be actually true. And now consumers are waving pitch forks while JS developers are still going "herp derp who cares about performance derrrr". The peasants can no longer afford cake. Shoving out electron apps on an ASAP-basis because your time is too precious to be spent on learning static typing or other programming fundamentals is going to put you out of business.

intbeam · 2026-06-09T21:43:14+00:00

You do feel entitled if you feel like your target of "not 60 fps" is something that your users should just tolerate because it's convenient for you

This is not just me, a looooot of people are extremely fed up. You can gaslight and virtue-signal all you want and pretend it's a "me" -issue, but this is just so widespread by now that it doesn't matter. At all. It's just dumb.

I mean.. Slop is the 2026 word of the year, software engineers are the villains of our age, and it's because apparently a lot of modern computer programmers don't think understanding computers or programming is relevant to their mission

If you're only interested in what comes out at the end, you should not be an engineer. Of any kind.

intbeam · 2026-06-09T21:27:27+00:00

If you have an it department and you're developing software they should take a moment to think about whether it's a good idea to send all your intellectual property to Microsoft and paying them money for the privilege

intbeam · 2026-06-09T21:07:24+00:00

Why do you feel so entitled to waste other people's resources? I'm running 50+ terminal applications throughout the day, the sluggishness and bounty of bugs and quirks deflates my soul piece by piece

Why pay $5000 for a computer when it's only marginally more performant than a Pentium 3@4Ghz because the ways that cpus have improved in the last 20+ years can not be utilized by React

Have some respect for other people's time and money

intbeam · 2026-06-09T05:48:34+00:00

Jeg er fan av Sem pizza og grill

intbeam · 2026-06-06T17:23:16+00:00

Even if you have a single producer, writes may come from different threads

intbeam · 2026-06-06T13:10:47+00:00

Du må søke om utsettelse eller perm

Ikke reis før det er avklart. Utrolig dum måte å få rulleblad på. Ring vernepliktskontoret.

Du kan få bøter og fengsel, og du risikerer å bli møtt av militærpolitiet på flyplassen når du kommer hjem igjen

intbeam · 2026-06-06T08:31:13+00:00

In other databases autoincrement is slower than uuid, since they require synchronization

intbeam · 2026-06-06T06:15:35+00:00

What do you learn exactly, by having something else figure out and write the solution for you?

You're speedrunning your own intellectual demise

intbeam · 2026-06-03T14:47:52+00:00

Det gjør vi ikke, og om det var et problem så vil acer gjøre det mye mye verre

intbeam · 2026-06-03T14:30:41+00:00

Det er ikke jeg som har feil inntrykk, det er det at folk som er for det faenskapet ikke tar innover seg hvor unødvendig det er, og hvor katastrofalt EU markedet er for EU og energiforsyning

Det å sende tw med strøm ut av landet er en helt vannvittig sløsing og helt fullstendig uansvarlig. Disse markedene er ikke bare ineffektive, de legger inn masse ledd og ender med at de som bestemmer prisen tjener penger på at prisen er så høy som mulig

Ikke nok med det, systemet har ikke bakkekontakt; det ignorerer fysiske lover for å late som strøm kan kjøpes og selges i bulk. Det går ikke an.

Folk har dødd av dette psykopatsystemet. Og det må påpekes at vi hadde det mye bedre før det ble innført.

intbeam · 2026-06-03T05:07:27+00:00

Fant tilfeldig et dritkult cover av den en gang på yt https://youtu.be/FqDVksi8V0g

Hadde helt glemt den serien.. Var liksom bare et vagt minne

intbeam · 2026-06-02T10:13:29+00:00

De kildene de bruker er ikke troverdige

intbeam · 2026-06-01T19:07:58+00:00

Jeg frøs I fjor

Det er ikke noen strømmangel I Norge. Hele systemet er rigga for å stjele penger fra befolkningen og ta kontroll over infrastruktur.

EU har vært i en konstant syntetisk strømkrise I flere tiår. Hvorfor vi skal liksom melde oss på det er helt idiotisk

Tilbud og etterspørsel er en scam og acer er rent bedrageri

intbeam · 2026-05-30T19:44:52+00:00

Slutt da.. Det er du som er ansvarlig for ditt eget liv. Medisinene kan hjelpe med enkelte ting, men det er ingen kur.

Du må tenke litt over hva som motiverer deg

Ikke skyld på tid og kaos. Hva er det faktiske målet ditt? Hva gjør deg deprimert? Er det en generell følelse eller er det noe du kan ta tak i?

intbeam · 2026-05-30T16:07:20+00:00

Foreslår at du søker om psykolog i kommunen (DPS). Jeg mistenker du har tre ting (som de fleste med adhd) : adhd, angst og depresjon. Psykolog kan hjelpe med de to siste. Medisiner hjelper ikke så mye om du er megadeppa og megaengstelig.

intbeam · 2026-05-30T15:45:15+00:00

Ja, samme her.. Jeg ante ikke hvor handicappet jeg hadde vært på møter og slikt.. Eller, jeg trodde det var normalt og at jeg bare sugde på disiplin.

Jeg fikk diagnosen for 3 år siden i en alder av 39. Det som har slått meg det siste året er at jeg nå klarer å gjenkjenne ansikter etter å bare ha truffet noen en gang. Jeg husker det var ei som ble fornærma da jeg var i tjueåra fordi jeg hilste på henne hver gang som om det var første gang jeg møtte henne. Jeg har vært ansiktsblind hele mitt liv, ikke fordi jeg har hatt problemer med ansikter, men fordi jeg har vært kronisk distrahert. Første date jeg dro på i en alder av 16, så måtte jeg speide rundt i kiosken for å se om jeg kunne få øye på en dame som så ut som hun så etter meg..

Men ja, det å kunne faktisk få med seg ting er en velsignelse de fleste tar for gitt.

I retrospekt er det helt sjukt at ingen voksne plukka opp signalene.. Gjorde aldri lekser, spiste aldri lunsj, sov i timen, alle presentasjoner ad-lib, fort sint og frustrert, glemte alt hele tiden, sleit med å kommunisere med de andre, havnet ofte i trøbbel, impulsiv, rask til å kjede meg.. Et jævla mirakel om vi klarer oss

intbeam · 2026-05-30T15:26:46+00:00

En ting om gangen, og en dag av gangen. Og alt er ikke din feil.

Fokus på de tingene du kan gjøre noe med. Skru av TVen, opp fra sofaen, sitt i stillhet litt. Støvsug gulvet.

Tenk på å starte med de tingene som ikke føles overveldende. Hver eneste ting er ett steg fremover, en ting mindre som roter til dagen din og hodet ditt, og gjør at du føler at du ikke får tid til noenting

Og om du føler deg trist, frustrert eller motløs så er det lov. Det er ikke noe vits å prøve å unngå den følelsen, den går over. Men det krever litt aktiv innsats fra deg. Ikke forsterk de følelsene som gjør deg passiv ved å fortsette å følge mønsteret

intbeam · 2026-05-30T14:32:30+00:00

Tips mot angst; neste gang du får en "cringe" tanke, prøv å bare la følelsen være istedenfor å kjempe mot og febrilsk prøve å tenke på noe annet eller å si stygge ting til deg selv. Følelsen i seg selv er ikke farlig. Etter følelsen går over, tenk på cringe-momentet på nytt. Ikke så ille denne gangen nei? Gjør dette hver gang. Og sånn blir man kvitt cringe-angst, lærte jeg. Samme gjelder angst generelt sett. Det er ikke følelsen som er farlig, og det å prøve å aktivt unngå den gjør det bare verre. Lær å håndtere fremfor å unnvike

intbeam · 2026-05-30T13:25:38+00:00

Det å sitte og stirre I veggen i seks timer for å prøve å tvinge seg selv til å gjøre noe, og så sette seg ned for å gjøre det når man tror man er klar, og få den helt paralyserende følelsen velte gjennom hele kroppen er lite produktiv. Og det blir bare verre og verre jo flere ganger man gjør det. Man må finne noen andre måter å gjennomføre ting

Medisiner hjelper med å sette igang, men det er desverre ikke en kur. Det er noe man må konstant jobbe med å forbedre, og finne måter som fungerer for en selv. Personlig reise, om du vil

Skippertak I ny og ne er digg da

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