[-] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

So the normal debuggers that we have for ages, right?

[-] mlen@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

A lot of it is, but let's agree that using "prior" is just fucking pretentious

[-] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That time when Zitron himself admits that the post is long 💀

[-] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago

As someone living in Switzerland for over 6 years, the labor laws aren't exactly like in the rest of Europe and people are sometimes a bit too much on the freedumb side of things. Also weird german or (possibly less weird, I don't speak it) french and high cost of living.

Then again, it's not anywhere as bad as what's happening in the us

[-] mlen@awful.systems 8 points 9 months ago

I'm surprised that alphabetical lists are included. Maybe my brain has completely rotten, but keeping the data sorted is pretty neat for efficient processing

[-] mlen@awful.systems 8 points 9 months ago

I'm sure her surveys are immune to sampling bias and therefore perfectly represent the general population. /s

[-] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If the purpose of a metric is to show adoption, the metric can be defined in a way to show adoption. Could be just an effect of promo driven culture, AI push and good'ol Goodhart's law.

Like, how do you even measure when code is ai authored and when not. If you insert 25% of a variable name and the autocompleter guesses the rest of the name correctly, are the remaining 75% AI generated?

[-] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

Do you actually need to share your bookmarks? I found that bookmarks in Firefox and an RSS reader hosted on my nextcloud are enough for personal use.

[-] mlen@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

I run into this process every time I visit Poland (mostly because I visit so rarely that I forget) and every time I'm astonished how seriously fucked up it is.

The most annoying part is having to scan a receipt in order to exit the self checkout area.

In the stark contrast to the above self checkout process in Switzerland works so smoothly. Mostly because nobody is subjected to the bullshit described above. There's even an option to grab a scanner, scan everything on the go and just pay at exit.

[-] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

He also did sawzall, but thankfully that didn't get widely adopted

[-] mlen@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's called "data chauffered": instead of following the data, tell it where it needs to take you

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