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So far my Steam Machine is giving me 0 fps.

How is this possible if they are using AI to write, test, and review the code? Isn’t AI supposed to make a single seasoned developer 1000x more efficient and produce better code? “Programming logic issues” are a thing of the past aren’t they?

/s

Hey come on now! That firework explosion rock out ending of Starfuckers really makes you feel like you’re at a Def Leppard concert!

I know it’s not the popular one, or the influential one, and I guess Trent wasn’t too happy with it at the time, but The Fragile has become my favourite NIN album. Maybe it’s just nostalgia, but there’s something about the flow of the album, recurrent musical themes, and just how well it’s written and produced.

I didn’t catch the satire either, but I think it’s because I don’t know you and, well, people say a lot of dumb things on the internet. It is sad that discourse has gotten so stupid that I thought you were serious.

I assume “real cat” as in no longer a kitten. Like a term of endearment: “all grown up like a real big cat!”

Technology isn’t always the answer. This adds more cost to the car and more maintenance cost, when the solution is to simply turn down the lights and make sure they are at the correct angle.

It’s also more complicated to operate. Supposedly my car has this feature and I have no idea if it’s working, but maybe I’m misunderstanding the manual.

We have a tendency to add technology and complexity to solve problems, but I’ve always tried to live by the saying “a good engineer knows what to leave out”. Though I do still over engineer things from time to time.

If you’re truly honest about wanting to improve your skills then do not use AI!

Just write code. Any code! It doesn’t matter. Spend the hours problem solving and debugging and banging your head against the wall. That’s how we all learned and gained experience. But also reach out and seek help about specific problems you can’t solve.

For a project idea, how about a program that uses the Lemmy API to scan resent posts for Python topics. It’s something that can start basic but can be expanded upon. Start simple by just scanning posts from the last day. Then expand by adding a configurable date range, scanning several communities, multiple topics, presenting notifications, etc.

Holy fuck this is racist!!

And yes, the Epstein files show that the rich are raping and assaulting.

This is cool and it’s nice to see some acknowledgement and self reflection.

I actually like async Rust and I feel that they made the right decisions there. It’s amazing that I can use similar constructs for a web server as well as a small embedded board. But the low level Futures stuff does get hairy. I still don’t really get the relationship between Pin and Unpin, and any time I have to write a Tower Service by hand it feels arcane. Fortunately I rarely have to go down to that level.

The tacit knowledge is interesting. Is there an ecosystem that doesn’t have that to some degree? Node and Python feel even worse to me, though I admit I don’t work with those as much. Still, if I ever have to look for a Node library, I get worried that I might be inadvertently installing some malware. That said, I am about to sit down with one of my juniors to start on a new Rust project, mainly because I want to help setup the initial crates (tokio, tracing, anyhow, clap, etc…). Efforts like blessed.rs are a good start. Or maybe there are some good “starter kits” using cargo-generate?

Either this reply was meant for another thread or this is an absolutely wonderful example of whataboutism and straw man!

“We have to do more to give people hope when they’re suffering with mental illness — give people a sense that they can take back control of their lives,” Poilievre said, citing the promotion of fitness as a way to combat mental health issues.

Supporting a robust public healthcare system with national pharmacare will go a long way towards that.

Supporting affordable childcare will go a long way towards that.

Having an actual environmental policy will go a long way towards that.

Listening to actual experts instead of random xitter posts will go a long way towards that.

Actually supporting workers instead of just paying lip service and only supporting billionaires will go a long way towards that.

In fact, just disappearing entirely will go a long way towards that.

Agreed! I think both linting and type checking are extremely important to Python, but it’s also an extra step that far too many people just don’t take. And honestly, I used to get tripped up sometimes with setting up Python tooling before I started using uv.

Unfortunately I also have to work with the occasional Python script that someone just slapped together, and that’s something far too easy to do in Python. It does kind of remind me of vibe coding. Initial velocity seems high, but if you’re not thinking about it, long term maintenance tanks.

That’s not to say Python is bad, and there is certainly a lot of good Python code out there too. But it’s a language that does make it easy to make a mess, which will probably be compounded by LLMs.

I find that Python requires a fair bit of discipline to keep it readable, and I’ve seen some very unreadable code written by people. Vibe coding with Python’s dynamic nature seems like a match made in hell.

Other countries understand they need to have a rapport with their neighbours. These separatist morons seem to think they can just leave and everything gets better. In other words, they think they can do literally everything on their own. It’s fucking stupid.

Balenciaga

It won’t be discounted, but I’m looking forward to Death Stranding 2 which is out that day.

This is fun! It reminds me of the old webrings.

I figured out how to power it though. Small fusion reactor in each module! Technical hurdles remain, including sustaining the reaction and extracting more energy than input.

Can I get billions in investment now?