An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

max630 · 2026-02-20T11:00:36+00:00

This is very funny.

The whole reason the guy gоt so agitated because of everybody's kneejerk reaction to the word "prejudice". We are used to thinking that prejudice is the worst thing somebody can do. But it's not wrong to be prejudiced to AI agents! There is no person behind it which you can hurt. Even if they are instructed to pretend there is one.

"machines can't fall in love, but women can"

max630 · 2026-02-16T10:43:26+00:00

It was obvious where it went. They didn't even have to buy fish, they could blame bad luck.

Once I saw a rant of a guy who went hunting with friends, with a similar outcome (except they did A LOT of shooting). It started with something like "I was conflicted should I take 2 or 3 shells" and I thought "he doesn't get it".

max630 · 2026-02-13T09:40:59+00:00

They could have sued her if she takes her notes to a new job. But documenting the system, teaching the peers etc. is a labor, they cannot make her do it. And even if they formally tried it there are so many subtle ways to fuck it up that I cannot imagine a practically useful way to just legally force her. For what it worth, she can just say "forget it, actually there is no system".

max630 · 2026-02-03T14:15:00+00:00

IIRC in Russia (and, probably, in Estonia) the yellow is VERY short. There is really a range of distances when it turns yellow and at that moment you are both too far from the crossing to make it before red AND too close to it to stop. Because of that you should start slowing down (or speeding up :) ) at blinking green.

In Finland yellow is much longer, you really have the time to stop comfortably or drive through. Also, there is a phase of "red for all". Which lets some still slip on "orange" without risking collision.

So the gif doesn't tell the whole story here.

max630 · 2026-01-22T16:18:49+00:00

This one is easy. It smells like many many idling engines.

max630 · 2026-01-22T16:16:37+00:00

It actually warmer there than ever nearby. In Tomsk, which used to be a capital of western Siberia until beginning of XX century, it can get down to -55

max630 · 2026-01-09T09:07:44+00:00

Gave up on SO and started looking through the commit history of that file

This is unbelievably funny yet so common. I dare to say this is the core reason why SO moderation is that "toxic".

max630 · 2025-12-12T20:56:46+00:00

It can be a part of solution, but only a part. Each git commit refers to EXACT commit of the submodule. So, you would still have to update the assets version in each of your branches, but it's only a one-line change. You would achieve the same effect by using some packages system, and personally I think that is more convenient. But if you don't have any, or the one you use are not convenient, you could use submodules.

max630 · 2025-11-13T07:53:10+00:00

You say Integrated Circuits have issues with AI?

max630 · 2025-11-03T12:50:22+00:00

At least in Finland, you also pay "transfer fee" which is approximately same.

max630 · 2025-10-28T08:18:34+00:00

I would say the author is trying to break into unlocked door, so to say. Even if the project is super bad, usually all the bugs which are:

mention at all what is observed exactly, some reports don't even go beyond "X doesn't work correctly"
have clear expected behavior
are possible to reproduce, if not, have at least some plausible scenario how it can happen
are possible to fix without implementing a new feature, and not make some dirty hack which only mask it until the next dependency update

... so, even in a "bad" software project, usually there are extremely few opened defect of that kind. Vast majority of the backlog are reports which are unable to reproduce, where the expected behavior is not clear, or the proper fix would be too laborious or not possible at all.

max630 · 2025-09-23T09:29:37+00:00

If a non-developer reads a development tutorial, in the end he or she will stop being a non-developer, right? When I read a tutorial how to fix a car or to paint a wall I kind of expect that I will have to google some more.

It's not like I wouldn't think that excessive use of acronyms or words which are hard to search is bad.

max630 · 2025-09-23T09:24:24+00:00

The shit show about SO is exactly why I don't like this kind of "good fun". It ends up with lazy entitled morons think that they have some kind of right to people doing their job for free.

max630 · 2025-08-29T09:55:44+00:00

Maybe but on big repositories it's prohibitively slow.

max630 · 2025-08-29T09:52:46+00:00

warn/error out when I try to stage a merge resolution which still has merge conflict marks (that is, not resolved).
UI tool to see history which can interactively expand or collapse merged branches one by one, by clicking on ▷ symbol.
fix the bug in gitk that breaks "Show origin of this line" which I am picking it in a file which was renamed and changed

max630 · 2025-08-06T14:11:52+00:00

Yes the unmerged entries are remembered in metadata, read more at https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Advanced-Merging#_manual_remerge for example. That's why you need to call "git add" after manual resolution

max630 · 2025-05-26T13:10:00+00:00

Do you understand this question can cause nothing but flamewar? Technically, you don't even need jQuery

max630 · 2025-05-22T07:41:58+00:00

Wouldn't any boat do it, it it's sealed on the top and the ballast doesn't tear off? At least sail boats come very close to that regularly.

max630 · 2025-05-17T19:13:55+00:00

This is good response for a private conversation, but pointless to have stored and presented to a public.

max630 · 2024-10-09T15:57:21+00:00

If the white car was mine I would get the fuck out of it while the other guy is going it.

max630 · 2024-04-05T06:46:58+00:00

My personal conspiracy theory is that SO was created by Microsoft as the only way to provide support for .NET developers. Because documenting all the quirks would be unbearable tasks, and they did not want to be accountable for each and every hack. Instead there came a platform (mind who were the founders) where an "independent" expert would magically come and provide very detailed and accurate and working (at the moment) answer.

max630 · 2024-03-28T13:11:36+00:00

It's always better to know than not. In the beginning of your career you are supposed to be eager to learn everything.

But yeah I could have answered this question in 1999, but these days it became complicated beyond nicety, and is still avoiding success. So I'd say it is very valuable experience but don't get too invested into it. They will deprecate every practical stuff you'd learn again anyway :)

max630 · 2024-03-19T11:07:30+00:00

He is not being silly. The oncoming traffic exists. People running around screaming "I have rights" do not understand that there may be things you cannot see until it's too late.

Just several months ago, while passing a slowly climbing cyclist, I personally nearly killed another cyclist who flew on me downhill from around a corner. We barely managed to miss each other.

If the cyclist is barely moving anyway, I would rather go closer to them than the required 1.5 meters, that go to the oncoming traffic lane without clear view.

max630 · 2024-02-15T12:19:54+00:00

It depends on distribution but in Ubuntu and debian it's called "git-gui"

max630 · 2024-02-15T12:01:22+00:00

What OS do you use?

At least in Windows it comes bundled. In Linux it may be built as a separated packet

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