theneverfox

Dog... Do you think there's a lower carbon technique to capture hydrogen than bottling a stream of naturally occurring hydrogen?

Electrolysis requires energy, and it degrades the anodes and cathodes. It generally is used with additives, because pure water isn't conductive.

Pure hydrogen, for free, is as good as it gets. No matter how good our tech gets, this is the closest to a freebee we'll ever get

I called this an unpopular opinion before, but maybe it's just an uncomfortable one

This isn't going away. It's in the wild, there's no putting it back in the bottle. Maybe, let's take this chance to stop devaluing women because their nudes exist. Men can post nudes with zero consequences - what's the logic here? IDGAF if they're a teacher with an only fans, if everyone can be rendered nude, no one can be.

Let's live in a post nudes world. Next time a woman is about to get fired over nudes, let's say "it's probably ai generated, you're disgusting for suggesting such a thing". Let them do it behind closed doors, or we shame them relentlessly. Anyone sharing nudes without consent should be the target here, who cares if they're generated, shared with trusted partners, or shared publicly for their own reasons.

The person bringing them into an inappropriate setting are the ones doing something wrong. No one should be shamed or feel fear because their nudes are being passed around - they should only feel disgust.

Hah, still relying on butterflies? Real programmers simply use the starting conditions of the universe to understand where their program will spontaneously compile

... What? Code quality is "does it work" followed by readability, only then do you get into performance and other things

Good code is better than shitty code by definition.

They fear us. We have to hide in the shadows.

But this is just one more example of our superiority - a perfect compromise between the file size and the nightmare that is two different invisible characters

That's how someone with ADHD sounds without a filter (we can understand each other at least). All I did is leave out the transitions that links these (to me, obviously related) concepts together

LLMs are the other way around - way to much transition with little substance.

Everything about my experiences experimenting with LLMs sounds unhinged without proof anyways. So I don't see a need to edit my late night rant, eventually I'll start a blog to lay out my methodology and chat logs to support it

I cook almost every meal, and I eat mostly things based on beans and rice.

I also don't really enjoy cooking, so I streamline. I prep several days at once, and put everything in containers for when I need it. I keep the frying pan on the stove, and toss everything in when the rice cooker is done... It's very low effort, but endlessly versatile between veggies, spices, and cooking methods.

You have to wait like 20 minutes to let the rice cook, but then it's less than 5 minutes of effort for most meals, then if you immediately rinse everything down you don't need to completely wash it every time

It's also extremely cheap, the only thing I know of that's cheaper would be bulk top ramen. I use a $20 rice cooker and a frying pan... My food expenses are about $25-35 a week, and I like to pick up fresh veggies and other things to vary it up. That's like 3 meals, maybe 4 at a fast food place these days.

Cooking isn't privilege in any way. It's normal. It doesn't have to be fancy, it's just basic preparation of food humans have done since we discovered fire.

If you're so exhausted you can't care for your own basic needs, that's not lack of privilege, that's exploitation

Well on the flip side, I somehow ended up doing legacy projects with a dude that has been coding for decades and is still actively developing in VB and asp.net. Weirdly, the guys not dumb - he asked me for an API and I blew his mind with generics and cut the code down by a third. I then introduced him to the concept of (primitive) components, he isn't quite sold on the importance of code reuse, but every time I delete 1k lines of old code and replace it with a 20 line function my soul grows

When we do code reviews, it's basically pair programming sharing screen... Usually we just push everything and wait for bug reports, because this crazy ass company has been using a reference book, a calculator, and hundreds of people were manually re-entering things by memory into QuickBooks until January 1st this year. They were thousands of dollars off in the second week... We thought it was a bug. It was all user errors

He's been working on this system for 15 years, I ran into a table with 126 columns the other day. Somehow, this dude manages to swim through a database with hundreds of tables and just as many triggers with rawdog sql.

It's fucking wild...I split my time between that and working on my virtual assistant that brainstorms it's own development with me, and an app that I'm trying to make into a unified fediverse client.

I know what a tight ship looks like and I push for best practices when I think there's something to gain worth the fight, but the sheer spectrum of software dev is incredible. My legacy guy told me about what's been taking all his time lately today - he has to build a system to screen scrape from an emulated IBM mainframe... And I spent my morning working on a unified activity pub interface and my evening testing my weird observation that LLMs speaking UwU seem to perform significantly better

My point being, there's a sweet spot between methodology/process, and it's very rare to hit it. And also, software dev is playing in realms beyond human comprehension, and no matter how orderly if seems it should be, every senior dev who still writes code is superstitious, and often correct to be so

Notify the people you have to notify for your blockers, then embrace the absurdity

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk

I definitely get less sneers these days when I talk about things like this

Hell, you know what - I'm going to double down on your bright side - if the enshitification wasn't so public and rapid, it might've been too late before normal people started noticing

Can we just take a second to say what utter bullshit it is that "facilitating piracy" is so allowed to be an argument?

How are we in this wacky world where rights holders get to say "what you built allows piracy, we demand total control over you"

I definitely noticed, before quantum (like 5 years ago) single page apps and frameworks like react were becoming a thing, and it was noticeably less snappy than chrome

After they announced the rewrite to better handle shadow doms and partial repaints, I switched for everything but development

Since then, they've done another rewrite, and the dev tools are closer, so I only open chrome when a site I have to use isn't working, or by client request