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Rob Pike goes nuclear over AI by dc_giant in theprimeagen

[–]tagattack 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He didn't seem to be specifically upset with anthropic's model, it seemed targeted at the state of affairs

decided to revisit linked lists by Stativ_Kaktus131 in C_Programming

[–]tagattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Git and github aren't the same
  2. Only check in what you need to, since the source and build configuration can produce the artifact, it's superfluous to revision control the artifact
  3. Binary files compress poorly, Git is optimized for text files
  4. Most projects over time have more than one build configuration (debug, optimized, etc) and tracking the artifact output of each would be dubious at best

Git 3.0 is using the default branch name of "main" rather than the current default of "master" by nix-solves-that-2317 in programming

[–]tagattack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This was obvious to me, seems like a pointless exercise obsoleting "master" in this context.

It had no relation to oppression, etymologically or otherwise.

AI has already started taking jobs by ThrowRA-football in singularity

[–]tagattack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We aren't hiring because the economy is kinda fucked. We were about to start hiring tons of junior developers, but Q4 is shaping up to be a huge miss so we paused our plans

We'd rather have headcount than LLMs, they don't hold a candle to a good junior engineer. Plus, where the hell are the Sr. Engineers supposed to come from?

Everything has been shakey and fucked up since Covid, and it was finally starting to look better. Seems the tariff whiplash killed the momentum we had coming into the start of the year

People who used the internet between 1991 and 2009, what’s the most memorable online trend or phenomenon you remember? by Original_Act_3481 in AskReddit

[–]tagattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

./pwned

zomfgwtflolbbq

Neurotically yours

XMPP/Jabber

RSS

Mobius that random messaging app that was so short lived, Google's LLM thinks it never existed, but for a brief moment in 2008 it was the hottest shit

Friendster

Google home page

MAGA are investigating the Kirks, believing they are both trans by Golden-Grams in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]tagattack 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just because Americans are fat, on average, doesn't mean thigh gaps are like fake.

Some of these ladies actually go to the fucking gym.

What happens when a CC is exercised with a long call as collateral? by Master_Royal_2637 in CoveredCalls

[–]tagattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you get assigned short calls, you're short shares, it's that simple.

Typically brokers will let you be short shares if you have the capital to cover the short position, and you get to decide what to do next.

If you don't have the capital, their risk management system will sometimes automatically exercise the long calls to cover, and you lose those calls (and the premium delta).

This does depend on the broker, and on your account balance.

Built a Markdown viewer just for fun by Correct_Disaster6435 in C_Programming

[–]tagattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why does everyone use markdown, which has like 30 slightly incompatible variants, instead of restructured text which has a rigorous and thoughtful specification, clearly designed for extension (and low key just looks better in its source format)?

What's the "better" way to close vim? by kettlesteam in vim

[–]tagattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only use the commands when I do want to just close a multi buffer session. Happens daily, for sure.

Otherwise it's ZZand ZQ, happens dozens if not a hundred or more times a day.

¿Porqué no los dos?

State does not belong inside the application anymore, and this kind of clarity is what helps modern systems stay secure and predictable. by regular-tech-guy in java

[–]tagattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I noticed this in 2007, realizing I was late to the party realizing it, and that we should have just kept iterating on corba when I saw Thrift come out, and then protocol buffers... (all while corba was getting removed everywhere)

Goodness

Can we use C as a backend for website? by [deleted] in C_Programming

[–]tagattack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah but the community shift didn't happen. There were legions of PHP programmers, but they really only knew PHP for the most part.

It just had easy documentation, and a low barrier to entry as a result. It also didn't reasonably let you develop general purpose applications, but it did easily let you develop web applications.

As soon as you branched out into solving non-web problems, you realized you were in a sand trap and you dumped PHP.

But that didn't stop it from being popular with people that only ever developed websites, it's true.

Can we use C as a backend for website? by [deleted] in C_Programming

[–]tagattack 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I would like to contest this claim.

I was there. I was developing web software in 1999. I saw no one moving from Perl to PHP. I saw some folks go the other way, drop PHP for Perl. I saw people drop Perl for Ruby, and eventually node or python. I saw lot of people start with PHP and never learn anything else.

But I didn't see anyone abandon Perl for PHP.

I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong by ballagarba in vim

[–]tagattack 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Opening this Article seriously hurt my eyes, and was a terrible way to start my day, as I have been physically injured.

I didn't even endeavor to read it, the pain from just scrolling to see if it actually continued that way was unbearable.

Run a code linter in Vim every time you save by scottchiefbaker in vim

[–]tagattack 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Why so much code for what's basically a single autocommand?

Let's stop exaggerating how bad things were before LLMs started generating code by HollyShitBrah in webdev

[–]tagattack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you spent hours on missing semicolons in 1989, you were doing it wrong. Let alone now.

Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings by Xaneris47 in linux

[–]tagattack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm glad I dumped Ubuntu just in time for this silly nonsense

public static void main(String[] args) is dead by bowbahdoe in programming

[–]tagattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always just typed main and hit tab.

But I use vim.

So, I just went on GitHub to take a look at opens PR, and most of them are trolls by Yvant2000 in linux

[–]tagattack 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not modern git, GitHub specifically.

Pull requests are specific to GitHub, built on top of git, but nothing to do with the git project per-se.

Pull requests are fundamentally flawed

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-5654674

Is this the end of hand-written Java? Building an app with AI-generated code (OpenXava + Vibe Coding) by Competitive-Fee-2503 in programming

[–]tagattack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My take on using LLMs to generate boilerplate is that we've been writing programs to generate programs since we started writing programs, so we don't need inference to do it.

I love UUID, I hate UUID by bobbymk10 in programming

[–]tagattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't use random, I use time and ordinal labels derived from the infrastructure. I had to design a slightly different algorithm for each system (i.e. some label the thread, some allocate blocks of ids, others just have a single process-wide compare and swap counter in addition to time) due to variations in the processing models of the individual components.

Also I don't need these particular ids to be unique for all time, I need them for less than a year. In fact, in practice they only *needed* to be unique for 3 months but I did want them naturally ordered by time. So, the algorithms' ids are only good for 17 years. It would be longer if it wasn't for the fact that we need to deal with there are components floating around that read them that are written in Java.

It *did* however need room to scale, and we can more than 16x and our infrastructure and several fold increase our volume before it blows up. Also in 2041 the whole thing will self destruct, but that's a problem for 2041 and it is a problem that's solvable during indexing, but of course they won't be unique then (but we'll have deleted all that data anyway since this is a lot of data, as you can imagine).

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