I’m not a fan of AI personally, but the “copying others’ work” argument never resonated with me. The internet makes copying data trivial - if you still get worked up over people using a technology that has been trivial since the '90s, well, I don’t know what to tell you, but you’re just not going to win that one. People are just going to keep doing it anyway and maybe it sucks, but there’s nothing you can do about it.

The only reason file sharing is illegal today is because nobody bribed politicians to keep it legal.

I can confirm. I’ve worked for two different companies since 2023, and in both of them, there was a cabal that were super hyped up on AI while the rest just ignored them. In one of them, it was half the company, but that company was more like a cult… People in my current one are more level-headed, but that just makes the divide look even bigger.

Something about convincing people about things their income depends on…

There’s probably also a tragedy of the commons kind of situation. Yes, it’s bad, but everyone else is doing it so you have to as well. If 99% of people do it and you don’t, you’re even worse off than everyone else.

Economics often turns into a terrible social policy.

They don’t actually believe a single word they say. They’re just too scared to stand up to their shareholders.

Well, actually, they do believe it. They’re just delusional. Because they’re too scared to stand up to their shareholders.

It has been obvious for far too long that ICEs will go extinct and be replaced by EVs.

The people who have been holding out have no excuses at this point. They should have started the transition a long time ago.

Big congratulations to the people of Hungary. Hopefully this is the start of a much better chapter in their country’s history.

Even the early internet didn’t have content of this high quality

“Young people enjoying their youth in ways that make older generations scornful and jealous” - the perennial headline

Damn! Matchmaking is definitely really hard at high MMR levels, and I remember back when I read reddit about how many people would post angrily about matchmaking - there’s no easy solution to that problem at that point. I remember watching a twitch stream after TI9 where Ana was fountain farming an opposing team until they got an abandon. (The deserved it for being asses in the allchat to be honest, but the skill gap was still obscene.)

But at the same time, your experience is exactly how I figured things would go if I ever tried to play Dota seriously. When I played football in my teenage years, I realized that eventually, you reach a point where getting better stops being fun because everyone else is equally talented and trying their hardest to get to the next level too. At that point, I realized that I just wanted to have fun and stopped competing. Still played recreationally in my regional league though. We had terrible results, but losing on a bad team was a lot more fun than winning on a good one.

Glad to hear that Dota helped you kick all your bad habits. It’s always good to find a silver lining, no matter how crappy the situation is.

In my case, it’s age. I only have so much free time during a day, and ruining it on a shitty Dota2 pub match just makes me feel like trash for weeks later. Even today, I cringe when I think back on some of the stupid things I did in that game.

The last thing I need is more embarrassing memories running through my brain when I’m trying to sleep at night.

I got to about the same level of ascension in Slay the Spire. Eventually, I realized that dying 10 times in a row before getting the dream deck for finishing a high ascension level just… wasn’t that entertaining. When a game has too much RNG, it becomes about as much fun as flipping a coin and trying to get heads 5 times in a row. Oh and also, when you do get that perfect deck, it becomes even more stressful making sure that you don’t screw it up and have to start from the beginning all over again!

Now I just play with ascension off entirely. The A20 achievement is the only one I don’t have, and probably never will.

I feel this. I can’t even play a game of chess online without feeling stressed out. I love playing against friends, but against anonymous strangers, I just can’t do it. It’s a damn shame - I sank about 3000 hours into Dota 2, and about 98% of it was against bots.

I do enjoy co-op games these days though, but again, it’s still better with friends.

It’s hard to be a contrarian in these kinds of positions (I’ve been there, and it didn’t end well), so I wouldn’t be too outspoken, but at the same time, try to innocently point out the issues with approaches like this. I would just try to point out the flaws in this approach, the same that we would for any other kind of programming fad - without making it seem like it’s an agenda, of course.

For example, any time teams are looking for feedback - code review, retrospectives, etc. - just point out the flaws on why vibe coding is a bad idea and bring it up casually when the time comes. It doesn’t hurt to be honest as long as you don’t come off as being an ass about it.

“I don’t have time to read through that much bullshit.”

Maybe phrase it a little more kindly, but that’s what I’d try at the very least. “I have other priorities at the moment” could work too.

Super Metroid. It’s supposed to be a classic but I can’t stand it. I just hate the way the physics feels so slow. Jumping and left/right acceleration just made the game feel terrible to play.

The Metroid prime series were great though.

I don’t know much about Sun, but they seemed like a cool company - Java, Solaris, Sparc. A lot of people sounded pretty upset when they got acquired.

So far! Don’t worry, Silicon Valley will think of another new, even bigger scam in no time!

Why are root privileges needed to move and search for files in the home directory?

Yes, of course the codemopolitan directory could be owned by root, but why??

Yes, breaking the dependency on cloud providers is already extremely hard. But breaking the dependency on mobile OSes is going to be dramatically harder. What good is digital sovereignty if all users are still tied to American products to access those systems?