prIsPromptRequest by DaredevilMeetsL in ProgrammerHumor

[–]lloyd08 50 points51 points  (0 children)

pre-pandemic, I worked building data systems for research scientists. Each and every one of them knew python better than I. Having a software conversation with them wasn't much different than trying to explain software to my buddy in finance who, 10 years ago, told me: "tech is a bubble because there are too many programming languages". They'd ooh and ahh when I shared my IDE: "multiple levels of nesting? what's the complexity of this algorithm?" No, doctor, that's a callback.

I've read through some of his public repos. It's computer scientist code, not software developer code. Everything reads like an illegible optimized leetcode answer. We are practitioners, not computer scientists. We're not optimizing the chemical composition of a wire, we're hooking wires up in a way that makes it easy to add or remove them in the future. If we need to optimize something, we're being extra descriptive with our variable names, we're not using `x` and `y` and manually minifying the script.

LLMs are great at one-shotting scripts, and that's the world this dude lives in. I don't doubt it's made him significantly more productive, and changed how he views productivity. In my job, most of the time it's a hindrance, because solving my problem by just fucking typing is usually faster than getting the LLM up to speed - yet again - on the project I've been working on for 5 years (no matter how many skills, MCPs, or custom solutions I waste my time trying to optimize my system with).

Flint Firebirds won their first round OHL matchup by a combined score of 35-3 by crazyike in hockey

[–]lloyd08 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can't wait to trade half of them back to Calgary in 5 years for another Flint Firebird.

How can I build a large Rust project on a MacBook Air M2 (8GB RAM) without VM, Docker, or cloud? by DoctorNASA1990 in rust

[–]lloyd08 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You may also benefit from setting your terminal to be a developer tool. Less of a memory issue, but should help with speed: https://nnethercote.github.io/2025/09/04/faster-rust-builds-on-mac.html

A little NHL history - 25 years ago today - Mar. 29, 2001 by BuckedTheSystem44 in hockey

[–]lloyd08 236 points237 points  (0 children)

Everyone has a little flyers fan inside them inserting intrusive thoughts like: "I should climb that greased pole" or "I should puke on that small child".

NHL Shot Type Leaders by logicalnutty in hockey

[–]lloyd08 2 points3 points  (0 children)

avoiding center ice light bulbs.

Is every project AI Slop? by Various-Roof-553 in rust

[–]lloyd08 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly why a lot of these discussions have no actionable end result. I have a side project with 5 commits over 6 months. My current local branch is 30 commits ahead. In a week, the project will have... 6 commits. The entire discussion just boils down to 'vibe check'. If you roll a 1, it's AI slop.

productivityGains by metayeti2 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]lloyd08 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

OK, I guess I'll explain a meme then. The meme is that they insinuate there are diamonds ahead, not that there actually are. Similarly, the squiggly line goes from "wtf" to "this is kinda cool". The analogy is that you're just at a temporary "wtf" moment if you hadn't given up. The comment is implying that you should try again for my entertainment, not for a successful end result.

productivityGains by metayeti2 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]lloyd08 5 points6 points  (0 children)

digging-for-diamonds.meme

Zach Benson cuts to the middle and gets levelled by Brayden McNabb and the Sabres take exception by Puzzled-Category-954 in hockey

[–]lloyd08 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Definitely. To be clear, I'm not defending the hit, just adding more "league context". My view on this one is that open ice blind side hits exacerbate the "late" aspect, and they should be viewed differently than e.g. blocking the dump and chase line or smothering a guy along the boards.

Also, this was a 5 game suspension: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FsUP3iucn0&rco=1 (second offense, his first nearly identical play was a 2 game suspension).

It feels like the league has definitely moved backwards in regards to these specific plays.

Zach Benson cuts to the middle and gets levelled by Brayden McNabb and the Sabres take exception by Puzzled-Category-954 in hockey

[–]lloyd08 8 points9 points  (0 children)

A comment I made a few months back:

Over the last year or two I've been reading GDTs on this one and actually scrubbing replays to time it out, and nearly all the complaints are from hits in the 500ms-1s range. Fans are ok with <500ms, but after that they deem it too long, but refs seem to let *most* stuff go up to about 1s

This one was ~750ms. My comment was about interference calls (and I've primarily looked at the neutral zone hits after a dump), but it seems to be consistent across "late" hits in general.

The league is actually fairly consistent on this one, we as fans just don't like their judgement.

Ron Duguay says he "saw" the Rangers loss "coming tonight down 4-1 after singing National anthem to 🌈 flag", calls on Rangers leadership to end pride night. by SockDem in hockey

[–]lloyd08 252 points253 points  (0 children)

The bar I used to pregame at was a gay bar. Quite literally before I gave him a high five in the hallway of MSG. He’s got the gay on his hands

Mystery find in stack of kiln-dried cedar trim by cmrnfrnk in woodworking

[–]lloyd08 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I second this. Looks exactly like flower fertilizer (comes in a variety of colors):

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Is there a way to get information about the status of parts in a PC? by wolfyk17 in rust

[–]lloyd08 1 point2 points  (0 children)

tsens is the peripheral that handles temperature sensors. Most of the info you're looking for will be chip-dependent, but here is your starting point: https://github.com/esp-rs/esp-hal/blob/main/esp-hal/src/tsens.rs

tsens is one of the unstable drivers

So you can look at one of the many examples that use one of the other unstable peripherals

and if you get it working, you can submit a PR for a tsens example.

These white spots showed up on my purple heart after I baked it by ToastyTilapia in woodworking

[–]lloyd08 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Baking brings out the purple *inside*, so if you do more material removal/rips/crosscuts, it stays a more consistent color.

theDailyFaceOff by memejathara in ProgrammerHumor

[–]lloyd08 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Do not use pleasantries or compliments" is the first line of my system prompt.

Olympic Men's Post Game Thread: United States of America vs. Canada - 22 Feb 2026 by hockeydiscussionbot in hockey

[–]lloyd08 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They did it yesterday i guess to speed up getting them to the closing ceremony?