Posts by phryk@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #Ast665r1RfdqUGU2k4 by phryk@mastodon.social
2025-04-08T16:53:54Z
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All of this is, of course, complete bullshit as learning an actual skill is the opposite of rigid, programming is essentially the creative field most removed from any real-world constraints and every craft (including programming/software engineering) is, by definition, a goddamned art form.
(DIR) Post #Ast666WUxSooYttAOG by phryk@mastodon.social
2025-04-08T16:56:53Z
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My projection is that we'll probably see a huge explosion of projects created like this.LLMs shitting out the most convoluted shitty codebases with the worst security imaginable, inline documentation that's just straight-up wrong and nobody understanding how anything works or relates to each other.It will probably take a couple years until this completely explodes and companies will beg any halfway competent software engineer to please rewrite all this garbage from scratch.
(DIR) Post #Ast66BxyiilrRZmgPw by phryk@mastodon.social
2025-04-08T17:00:17Z
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Many companies will of course try to eschew complete rewrites, instead making actual humans interact with these garbage codebases and it will be grueling for the humans involved and the projects will still be inherently unfixable.We can only hope that the majority of companies like that go bankrupt, but given my personal experience, there's always a surprisingly big amount of holdouts of spectacular incompetence.
(DIR) Post #AujKOwBSsW8crWeA9A by phryk@mastodon.social
2025-06-02T19:50:51Z
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@futurebird boop its snoot!
(DIR) Post #Av3K2dFNsx6qjzlb72 by phryk@mastodon.social
2025-06-12T11:21:07Z
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@futurebird Back when I was in elementary school, we had someone who was basically doing an internship as part of their formal training to become a teacher.They were still highly motivated and we talked a bunch about the education system. She told me a lot about studies and pilot projects giving amazing results by increasing student autonomy.Back then, I was still naive and thought schools would improve – but since then student autonomy has only been clamped down more and more.
(DIR) Post #Avw21g2P2LwqlO41Z2 by phryk@mastodon.social
2025-07-08T19:31:30Z
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@quinn How the fuck do we live in a world so stupid that this is a statement that actually has merit and might be unironically true? :thonking:
(DIR) Post #Avw21wvaExav9A0JnM by phryk@mastodon.social
2025-07-08T19:46:53Z
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@quinn Honestly, up to that point I was still somewhat regularly lurking on 4chan and I quite liked that the brony culture brought some explicit positivity to the site.In hindsight, them being "run out of town" was probably instrumental to really crystallize the hate culture already on there into seeding what would then become the alt-right…So, yeah, absolutely demented statement – but definitely not without merit.
(DIR) Post #Aw3g9RhRaNMystEtai by phryk@mastodon.social
2025-07-12T13:20:06Z
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Man, fuck programming. I think I'll just drop the entire hobby and do woodworking instead. ¬_¬
(DIR) Post #Aw7z5uGCtj8vTYnoGW by phryk@mastodon.social
2025-07-14T15:11:35Z
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@futurebird please get jacked so that if we ever meet, you can pick me up and carry me around. :3
(DIR) Post #AwjFqGcYaBm8n2OC6S by phryk@mastodon.social
2025-08-01T14:43:56Z
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@futurebird Sorry if I missed some sarcasm in there, but for an explanation: Staying in Epsteins good graces for continued access to abusing his trafficking victims seems to be the obvious one.
(DIR) Post #AwjGuNwpNoXocuOlHc by phryk@mastodon.social
2025-08-01T14:56:00Z
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@futurebird Yeah, I don't think it would've made much of a moral difference if the girls trafficked had all been 18 when it happened to them.I also don't buy that Epstein had so many rich and powerful visitors and none of them could figure out that something was deeply wrong there, independently of the girls ages.At least to me it looks like we're dealing with a class of people who legitimately believe they are above law and morals.
(DIR) Post #AwjJ4ylLYqoVbsCvSq by phryk@mastodon.social
2025-08-01T15:20:12Z
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@futurebird Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and assume that it's the latter for at least a sizable chunk of the people who were involved with Epstein.As far as I can tell, rich and powerful people virtually always have a completely warped sense of self-esteem, with many of them seeming to think they're damn near gods, i.e. inherently better than us plebians.
(DIR) Post #AwjK1DJtazRrYQ8UVc by phryk@mastodon.social
2025-08-01T15:30:52Z
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@futurebird Yeah, this is the sort of thing why I'm allergic to idolizing people – not just myself, but when I see others doing it, too.It's why Jacob Applebaum could be a rapey asshole for years on end before enough people finally spoke out and he was kicked out of the community – he was culturally entrenched because so many people idolized him…
(DIR) Post #AwjK3Xbb95Af31Wf5s by phryk@mastodon.social
2025-08-01T15:31:17Z
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@futurebird Yeah no, you were definitely not the problem there, that sounds hella predatory.
(DIR) Post #AwyNp1qXk3PvgOFbSS by phryk@mastodon.social
2025-08-08T21:40:50Z
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I kinda wonder if LLMs will start pestering people live on IRC for solutions to code problems… :thaenkin:
(DIR) Post #B08wPmoRU0bJijKBWa by phryk@mastodon.social
2025-11-11T17:18:55Z
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In the spirit of whatever the fuck you want to call what the senate democrats in the US just did, I would like to point USians to a very pertinent slogan that has been in use in Germany for over a century now:Wer hat uns verraten? Sozialdemokraten!Who betrayed us? Social democrats!It just never loses pertinence because we apparently haven't been able to internalize this lesson on a societal level.There's also songs – like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-dT5mvnk40
(DIR) Post #B08wPsfnh3FltfKMt6 by phryk@mastodon.social
2025-11-11T17:25:21Z
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Another pertinent song in this context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y0xkvw-u3sWer hat uns verraten? Die Sozialdemokraten! Wer war mit dabei? Die Grüne Partei!Who betrayed us? The social democrats! Who was with them? The green party!Equivalents for these two parties seem to exist in many places and most of them have a common feature: When in doubt, they'll always place the neoliberal capitalist world order over their self-professed values of social progressivism and environmentalism.
(DIR) Post #B08wPyMAYx7DWWBm7c by phryk@mastodon.social
2025-11-11T17:28:43Z
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Do I have a fix for this? Besides "we need political parties with actual values" – no. But I think it's nice to know that we share some of our pains.
(DIR) Post #B08wQ3bF4L8vmiHNoG by phryk@mastodon.social
2025-11-11T17:40:07Z
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I think the best we can hope for our USian friends to happen is that by the time this disaster of a government is finally done, the US party system will have splintered into something with more than two parties.
(DIR) Post #B0xU7znZI1Vk8IdVuC by phryk@mastodon.social
2025-12-06T02:57:34Z
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/2998935/ram-is-so-expensive-samsung-wont-even-sell-it-to-samsung.html"RAM is so expensive, Samsung won’t even sell it to Samsung"That sure is one of the headlines of all time. :tinking: