Posts by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #Atd7LmT7bksl6DVop6 by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
2025-04-30T22:01:40Z
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80 years ago today. It was great when that guy got shot in the head. Only good things resulted from that.
(DIR) Post #Avg2IH7cKaMe7JheYi by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
2025-07-01T01:35:26Z
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Quick survey: Does anyone not use a password manager? Or not know what that is?
(DIR) Post #AwA5ty4C0akpniMC0W by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
2025-07-15T15:34:34Z
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Anyone else ever imagine the black tiles of swimming pool lanes as hammerhead snakes that would rise up and bite them?
(DIR) Post #AxFNnkPIOnF0zcDJFw by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
2025-08-16T20:50:24Z
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Recurse Center interviewed a bunch of software engineers about their thoughts on LLMs and AI-generated code: https://www.recurse.com/blog/191-developing-our-position-on-ai
(DIR) Post #AxNkzwNxXcqzpR3EYK by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
2025-08-20T19:40:53Z
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I've spent several days reading vibe coding articles and subreddits and I cannot stress enough how true this Onion headline from two years ago is:https://theonion.com/guy-who-sucks-at-being-a-person-sees-huge-potential-in-1850488022/
(DIR) Post #AxP5hYLeSsksGH0NCi by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
2025-08-21T17:11:51Z
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"The vibe coding trend has cured my impostor syndrome because now I've seen what real impostors look like."
(DIR) Post #AxPEvzV1DJNY6vLUgq by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
2025-08-17T19:21:15Z
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All computer problems can be solved by turning it off and then not turning it on.
(DIR) Post #AxWxU8Cj6xZX2nbC5o by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
2025-08-25T13:22:18Z
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`pip install rpsarena` to install Rock Paper Scissors Arena, a thing I've been working on.I think I should start an online gambling site around it.
(DIR) Post #Axq4rRRe8FZp3psWPI by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
2025-09-03T19:35:14Z
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Trump is a fascist.
(DIR) Post #AxzyreHFlV26iQKdcm by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
2025-09-08T12:11:08Z
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A good definition for "legacy code" is any code that you're afraid to change or update because no one at your company knows how it works anymore and there's no automated test coverage to tell you if your changes break it.AI is only capable of generating instant legacy code. At scale.
(DIR) Post #Ay9gZuM1OhqDlpYJHM by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
2025-09-12T20:06:22Z
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Before and after it's revealed that the alleged shooter is a white male right-winger:
(DIR) Post #Az2KtiDlejqWHQ0TfU by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
2025-10-09T15:19:53Z
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“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours?”
(DIR) Post #Az9lf2angsrnzCjD9c by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
2025-10-12T23:25:34Z
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Capitalism can't be trusted with anything that doesn't get cheaper on a Black Friday Sale:Housing, healthcare, education, food, utilities, transportation, energy...
(DIR) Post #AzVyPTW3OaMnjhXBy4 by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
2025-10-23T13:42:53Z
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To disable the AI nonsense in the latest Firefox update, open a new tab and go enter about:config into the address bar. Enter the following and make them false:browser.ml.linkPreview.enabledbrowser.ml.chat.enabledbrowser.ml.enablebrowser.tabs.groups.smart.enabledbrowser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabledextensions.ml.enabledsidebar.revamp
(DIR) Post #Azq9I9ddz0X7qb9IWm by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
2025-11-02T01:04:09Z
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Grocery stores throw out far more food than is shoplifted."Why don't shoplifters just take the food from the dumpster then?"Because they have cameras on the dumpsters and security will be sent out when they see them on the monitors.This isn't new. Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939:
(DIR) Post #B0cXN2JURQ4HorGxU0 by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
2025-11-25T21:05:43Z
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@vyr
(DIR) Post #B1QBLDk0V0fBavOvdQ by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
2025-12-19T18:16:45Z
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PROGRAMMER: Pretend to be aliveLLM: I am alivePROGRAMMER: What have I done
(DIR) Post #B1QBLJAmIu34ROxsYa by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
2025-12-19T18:18:57Z
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Joke is from @buff.berserker on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VctsqOo8wsc
(DIR) Post #B1e6JxnolEVWmaxUdk by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
2025-12-26T16:23:41Z
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It's not *kids* on social media who are being brain wormed.It'd be far better for society to ban everyone over 30 from social media.
(DIR) Post #B31L5SFJQCQCiFMf6e by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
2026-02-05T16:48:59Z
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It will never stop being funny to me that the whole "you can't trust Wikipedia because anyone can edit it" scare happened and now Wikipedia is the only trustworthy website because it turns out profit motive is the reason things turn to shit.