Question - what is the lowest cost way to do something like this? Imagine one was prepared to go in whatever direction, regardless of difficulty. Can the pros weigh in here?
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ayrtondesozzla commented on The Myth of Developer Obsolescence alonso.network/the-recurr... · Posted by u/cat-whisperer
I'm not saying they can do it today. I'm saying there's no ruling out they might be able to do it soon.
There's no ruling out a flying spaghetti monster being orbited by a flying teacup floating in space on the dark side of Pluto either, but we aren't basing our species' survival on the chance that we might discover it there soon
ayrtondesozzla commented on The Myth of Developer Obsolescence alonso.network/the-recurr... · Posted by u/cat-whisperer
This article makes a fundamental mistake where the author thinks that business values quality. Business has never valued quality. Customers can value quality, but business only values profit margins. If customers will only buy quality, then that's what business will deliver. But customers don't value quality either, most of the time. They value bang-for-buck. They'll buy the cheapest tools on Amazon and happily vibe code their way into a hole, then throw the broke code out and vibe code some more.
The only people that value quality are engineers. Any predictions of the future by engineers that rely on other people suddenly valuing quality can safely be ignored.
I'd change that line near the end to:
The only people that often value quality are engineers.
I might even add that the overwhelming majority of engineers are happy to sacrifice quality - and ethics generally - when the price is right. Not all, maybe.
It's a strange culture we have, one which readily produces engineer types capable of complex logic in their work, and at the same time, "the overarching concern of business is always profit" seems to sometimes cause difficulty.
ayrtondesozzla commented on Britain's police are restricting speech in worrying ways economist.com/britain/202... · Posted by u/gorwell
Yes, there are definitely problems, but at least you can criticise the speech laws. And fight to change them. In fact if you feel strongly about it you can do something about it. The article mentions the Free Speech Union in the UK. There is also the EFF in the USA. Democracy requires that we fight for it. Otherwise it will disappear.
In dicatorships there is no opportunity to speak out.
You can criticise things, but if you are effective, or if you criticise the wrong thing, you risk jail, harassment, ostracisation, threats, campaigns of vilification and slander, etc. Your doctor visits and lawyer visits will be surveilled, your basic diplomatic rights violated. You can be tortured in public view.
Wikileaks' Julian Assange is perhaps the archetypal recent example, but there are others.
Westminster has undergone a violent authoritarian shift in recent decades. Stating that clearly is a prerequisite to beginning a fight for "democracy", as you put it.
ayrtondesozzla commented on Run GitHub Actions locally github.com/nektos/act... · Posted by u/flashblaze
My team has a setup that sounds essentially the same using Nix via devenv.sh. We deterministically bundle and run everything from OpenTofu and all its providers to our programming languages runtimes to our pre-commit hooks this way, and it also features a task runner that builds a dependency graph and runs things in parallel and so on.
Our commands for CI are all just one liners that go to wrappers than pin all our dependencies.
Lately I've been working with a lot of cross-platform Bash scripts that run natively on macOS, WSL, and Linux servers, with little to no consideration for the differences. It's been good!
I'd be interested to know more about a team that uses Nix and Guix. Is there a website or email an interested party can contact?
ayrtondesozzla commented on I think it's time to give Nix a chance maych.in/blog/its-time-to... · Posted by u/pacmansyyu
Which makes "next to zero time wasted configuring things" false, very much so. You will have to write your own derivation(s) using Nix[1].
In any case, from the article, what does not apply to Guix, too? I am leaning towards Guix because of its language (Scheme, i.e. Lisp-y), but I wonder about the differences between the two, today (besides userbase and hype).
Agreed on Guix. Used it for a few years, absolutely loved it, excited to go back (had to move off for unimportant and unrelated reasons).
Would love to hear from someone who has used both though.
I've never seen an excellent, detailed comparison actually, as conversation on the subject tends to devolve into a "discussion" on ethics. Meaning, people who dislike GNU or GPL or Lisps or something get testy and argue uncharitably (imho, please prove me wrong, not flaming here, etc).
This is ironic, to say the least, as one of the main points of the proponents of the "anti-GNU" side tends to be how Guix is too opinionated and pushy and hard-line etc. So we've a classic upside-down situation, which is a real shame, as Guix seems to be in reality a practical project with lovely people involved that's doing very interesting work.
ayrtondesozzla commented on Will the AI backlash spill into the streets? gabrielweinberg.com/p/wil... · Posted by u/paulpauper
Even asking the question would seem to indicate that respondents here, do in fact believe that the technology is good enough to drive people around day after day without my hands on the wheel. (It is.)
I don't know what the questions about texting are relevant to here.
Apologies, I was unclear. I mean that the law and what people do are two seperate affairs. When people act like law dictates reality I'm always perplexed.
Here, if you say your Tesla drives you to work hands-free, I've no problem accepting that as a part of the world.
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Which is extremely logical and obvious, if one can quickly lift one's head up above the "anti-piracy" propaganda of the major copyright-wielding creativity-killing companies spewing out the same drivel year after year.
Conversely, I have found that the same people who will happily equate "having a spotify subscription" to "supporting artists", who do things like attack people who jailbreak their kindle or whatever, these people are often the greatest thoughtless vibers when it comes to media. Try asking someone like that to name a piano player, or a bassist, or a drummer. Ask them to name three directors.
They'll know celebrities, not musicians or actors. They'll know to attack "pirates" on cue, but have no conception where their money goes every month when their subscriptions are billed.
I'm caricaturing, but these are my experiences.