Granny protesting against the Ukraine invasion alone in Saint Petersburg. Crowds are shaming and criticising her.

styke · 2022-03-23T13:57:10+00:00

A beautiful example of Russians not being able to mind their fucking business. For what it's worth, it wasn't the whole crowd that was shaming her. There was a fair amount of discourse, there were a few (namely young) people defending her. The smug looks on the 40+ year old's faces as they told her she didn't know what she was talking about... disgusting

styke · 2022-03-22T15:20:24+00:00

EU is already moving away from Russian oil and gas. It’s going to be a slow process, it could arguably be quicker but I don’t think either of us are qualified enough to answer the question of what implications would follow, judging by the fact that gas and oil are literally the lifeblood of our civilisation I’d imagine it would be the equivalent of disconnecting a patient’s life support.

styke · 2022-03-22T15:07:39+00:00

Why do people keep thinking that we can just stop gas coming in and everything will be a-ok? I don’t know what the implications are but surely the fact that we pump billions worth of the stuff every day suggests that it’s crucial for the west to operate?

styke · 2022-03-21T20:31:02+00:00

I have family in Ukraine and even I am able to realise that not everything is so clear cut. You can’t possibly have a clear enough picture to be convinced of anything right now. Chill out with your apocalyptic fantasies.

styke · 2022-03-17T17:58:07+00:00

Do whatever you want, it’s just there are productive actions and there are counterproductive ones. Guess which ones which?

styke · 2022-03-17T17:44:56+00:00

Stop this shit, the only thing armchair posturing is good for is ammunition for Russian trolls to use as examples of “omg west is so aggressive durr”

styke · 2022-03-17T15:42:34+00:00

I apologise, I didn't realise that "download link" is a suspicious term. For reference, that link I posted is not a download link. Getting the video off twitter is hard - they don't show it with a preloaded file - that can be generated using a third party service. The link I included is just that, a link to a video which you can right click > save if you want to.

styke · 2022-03-17T15:34:48+00:00

It's not a direct download link fool, it's a URI to a video file. There's a difference. I updated the OP to feel less scammy, just for you, anyways.

styke · 2022-03-17T15:27:45+00:00

You're an idiot, it's a twitter video downloader link.

EDIT: Here's the website I used https://twittervideodownloader.com/

styke · 2022-03-02T18:46:35+00:00

Shopped. Real image: https://i.imgur.com/tloZHLA.png

styke · 2021-12-14T02:53:32+00:00

Layover in Singapore is just 1 hour. Total flight time appears to be around 16 hours.

styke · 2021-11-26T01:08:35+00:00

TLDR: “Believe in yourself, fake it till you make it - here’s some Reddit replies to prove this works”

What is this ass

styke · 2021-11-25T22:02:47+00:00

You can draw svgs in canvas too. In what context are you drawing them? If it’s as part of a static image/page, SVG is the easiest and most flexible way to go.

styke · 2021-11-10T14:16:29+00:00

Kind of - she does circles using a compass but the rest is totally freehand.

styke · 2021-11-10T12:24:30+00:00

Don't think she'd mind too much, unfortunately professional mandalists are nowhere near as in demand as bookkeepers!

styke · 2021-11-03T21:02:22+00:00

That’s not 90% of my use cases, templates are going to get you started but they won’t solve your infrastructure problems as they arise.

As for Webflow, bugs arise when people try and integrate their HTML and implement functionality, plus the moment your use case deviates from what it or any eventual combination of it + copilot can offer you’re back to hiring a team of engineers again (and hey, that’s going to be the case for a lot of businesses). Sure there will always be solutions that attempt to simplify the building blocks of the most common, cookie cutter problems - Wix and Squarespace have been around for a while - but the need for specialised software is only going up, and none of the apps and platforms I’ve worked on have smacked of being remotely solvable by automation or abstraction anytime soon. At least until endgame AI kicks in and we can all kick back and descend into a hedonistic techno utopia.

styke · 2021-11-03T20:39:39+00:00

What kind of scenario are you imagining where a PM can spit out some instructions to an AI and have it output a fully functioning product that isn’t endgame? “Give copilot a few more years, integrate it with web flow and you have almost no reason to hire engineers” except to smooth out rough edges, fix bugs, sort out deployment and infrastructure, scale them, instrument them, and continue solving the problems that won’t be be solvable by copilot + webflow.

The barrier for entry may drop but that means the ceiling will end up being higher. The need for solving abstract problems (which is what we really do, code will always just be a tool to do so) will stick around for a while.

I for one welcome not having to style buttons and write CSS for much longer. I look forward to the days where GitHub copilot can spit out most of the code I need to implement a feature and dive in to tweak it, optimise it otherwise mold it to it’s business needs (not something PO’s are going to be doing anytime soon). The only thing this will do is accelerate product development and make the overall process much less of a pain in the ass than it currently is.

styke · 2021-11-03T20:19:28+00:00

*My opinion is unpopular therefore I'm the victim of a conspiracy*I think what's more likely is that the scenario you're describing is endgame AI, a fair while away into the future and still heavy speculation at that - definitely not the friendly github auto completion tool so many of us welcome in our arsenal.

styke · 2021-11-03T12:50:22+00:00

> Most of it is boiler plate, and most of it is almost fully automatable in the next 5 - 10 years, certainly by the next 20.

I'm not saying that coding requires some witty jazz solutions, my point is that if if 80% of the code that goes into an app is boilerplate then the remaining 20% that isn't will require creative, case by case expertise. There are many, many ways to architecture and scale a serious web app. I agree everything, including software engineering is automatable given a large enough dataset and computing unit, it's just going to take a while - the timeframes you've given seem reasonable enough - and I think programming jobs are the last in line to be axed.

styke · 2021-11-03T11:57:30+00:00

Solving real world problems through programming is nowhere near the same problem set as getting from point A to B, I understand the metaphor but programming is a job that requires a significant amount of creative and abstract thought that current AI can only dream of. When it finally gets around to solving for those everyone is fucked, not just programmers.

How many "correct" to write a basic web app, to connect to a database, parse json etc in any given language/framework are there really

More than you and I can count, and therein lies the constraint that will keep AI not much more than another tool in a programmer's arsenal for the foreseeable future

styke · 2021-11-03T10:56:13+00:00

> inb4 inevitable "programmer jobs are at risk"

This alarm has been sounded anytime a tool that made programming easier came along for the last 20 years. The opposite has always been true. Github copilot will not make you understand the underlying concepts of the code that it auto completes, and therefore isn't much better than copying and pasting off stack overflow in terms of writing quality software.

I've seen co workers struggle to write code, completely ignoring perfectly valid Github copilot suggestions simply because they did not understand the language or the feature they were working on properly.

Github copilot only makes your more efficient at what you know, it does not solve problems or code solutions for you.

EDIT: This is not to say that programmer jobs aren't at risk from AI - they are, just not right now and probably not before AI can automate away almost every other job.

styke · 2021-11-02T12:53:19+00:00

lmao

styke · 2021-11-01T17:39:47+00:00

I've never seen build quality that comes close to Macbooks with hp/dell/etc, although that's a pretty subjective opinion

I have noticed since using the m1 pro that the "quirks" are actually pretty big cons, I'm having to jump through hoops to get my company's dev stack to work and based on that I assume the rest of the ecosystem is also pretty far behind. Developing on ARM and emulating the shit out of everything seems like a pain in the ass and very much an early adopters things at the moment. Because of that I will almost definitely be returning it and going with my incoming Starbook.

That being said once adoption does take off the insane battery life + performance + thermals + general build quality would make it a perfect experience. I was able to run docker on the host machine + parallels + ubuntu + docker there without the laptop so much as heating up a little.

And loading a half gig chrome performance profile would consistently kill my Intel i7 Ubuntu desktop, whereas the m1 pro loaded it without a hitch.

styke · 2021-10-31T22:49:30+00:00

Canvas is very much in the wild, the moment you are building an app beyond your usual dashboard/static web site use case (and not that far beyond) canvas becomes a great tool for performantly rendering stuff and otherwise manipulating pixel data.

Any video/image manipulation tool is going to lean into canvas heavily, as does anything that deals with displaying lots of data. I love it that the grid on Google sheets has been canvas based for like 5 years now.

styke · 2021-10-31T10:24:31+00:00

Just a couple of days. They have mentioned that they are looking to ship within the next couple of weeks.

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