It seems he is really desperate for media to avoid Epstein discussion.
Readit Newsmixologist commented on Trump to impose tariffs on European nations over Greenland dw.com/en/trump-to-impose... · Posted by u/lysace
This reads like a junior developer rant.
His dependency count is in hundreds. 90% of his code is glue code between those dependencies. Yet he thinks he is the one that created something.
"You can't have busses roaming around with no way to turn them off remotely."
Hm? Not a single bus on the road in my city can be turned off remotely. There's never been one ever, since bus transport started. So why should, no, must, that be a feature of new buses?
Why do you think that they can't be turned off remotely?
They all have over the air updates. Just push the update the bricks the bus.
Having "a sim card" is less than saying your car "has an on-board computer". In no way does that imply remote control.
Even you admit that most of them aren't for remote control, so what are you agreeing with?
Remote control is just one over the air update away.
mixologist commented on Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down status.postman.com... · Posted by u/helloguillecl
Pretty obvious why if you use the software.
I get the whining, but teams need ways to share their complex workflows, and teams are where the money is for all dev focused software.
That's who pays for all your tools to have free versions.
People who use make and curl to jury rig some unshareable solution together that no-one else in their company would even bother trying to use aren't worth any money to companies.
My experience is the opposite.
Teams that are knowledgeable jury rig their own custom solutions without all the enterprise cruft. They make solutions that fix their problem and they do it faster than the teams who use bloated enterprise solutions.
I am tired of seeing over engineered enterprise solutions that that are implemented and never used because they can’t be integrated into the dev workflow easily. Simple bash script that does the task it was designed to do beats any enterprise crap.
too early to call a winner, though it is disappointing to see US withdrawal from open source. Still the main outcome of open source is distribution / diffusion of the idea, so it will inevitably mean US open source will come back, hopefully via some grass roots maniac, there will be a Linus-like character emerge at some point
user growth has slowed. the technology that should help users is only being pushed from the top, while users refuse to use it. openai pivoted to porn.
does it really feel like they have a chance to recover all the expenses in the future?
crypto grifters pivoted to ai and, same as last time, normal people don’t want to have anything to do with them.
considering the amount of money burned on this garbage, i think we can at least declare a looser.
And why those countries tend to have barely any growth in their economies (i.e. europe).
You do realize that a lot of people in EU are working 4 days a week? Are you aware that McDonalds employee can live by having only one job?
EU decided to distribute the productivity benefits instead of hoarding it into stock market gains like US does.
Btw, you do realize that US commodified investing in Us stocks? Whole world can easily invest in US stock market. Basically, instead of taking care of their own citizens, US economy is paying out gains to foreigners.
I just feel so discouraged reading this somehow. I used to have this hard-to-get, in-demand skill that paid lots of money and felt like even though programming languages, libraries and web frameworks were always evolving I could always keep up because I'm smart. But now with these people like Simon Willison writing about the new way of coding with these agents and multiple streams of work going on at a time and it sounding like this is the future, I just feel discouraged because it sounds like so much work and I've tried using coding agents and they help a bit, but I find it way less fun to be waiting around for agents to do stuff and it's way harder to get into flow state managing multiple of these things. It makes me want to move into something completely different like sales
Be mindful of the context these posts are created in. Don't take the current echo chamber to heart.
For decades now, we are trying to lower the barrier to entry in software development. We created Python, web frameworks and mobile development so easily accessible that you can become software developer by completing a short online boot camp. There is a lot of software developers posting here now who, 20 years ago, would not even consider this job because it would be way over their abilities.
This forum is equivalent if you had a forum about civil transportation that gathers airline pilots and uber drivers. Technically, they both do the same work. Just like in that forum, uber drivers would outnumber airline pilots and skew the topics related to their experience, here we get pushed topics about new frameworks, and AI assisted tools.
When I started working professionally 20 years ago, you could only get job in big companies working on big projects. No one else could afford a cost of custom software. Today, we reduced development costs and we have a huge pool of potential customers who can now afford services of software developers. Web shops, gambling sites, porn sites... This is the majority of software development work today. Boring repetitive tasks of gluing some imported modules together.
Serious development work didn't disappear. It is just not talked about here. There is still a need people who know what they are doing.
My advise is that if you want a satisfying development career, steer clear of latest hypes and don't go blindly following techbro lemmings. And most importantly, don't take career advice from anyone who finds his job so unsatisfying and tedious that he is trying to make AI do it for him. That's a major red flag.
This actually took longer than I thought.
It is really weird that for all my adult content I have to go to a dedicated adult store, yet for games I can find them on Steam and gog where kids shop for games.
You don’t get porn movies on Netflix or Disney stream. You don’t get adult toys in your local grocery store. Why do we sell porn on Steam?
Why haven’t game stores just spin off separate store front for porn content? It is basically free, since they already have the infrasructure.
While being removed from general stores, porn has become very visible on big gaming platforms which majority of customers don’t associate with porn. Backlash is inevitable.
I think we can expect a bigger push against porn in general as pendulum swings back on the other side.
mixologist commented on Behind Silicon Valley and the GOP’s campaign to ban state AI laws bloodinthemachine.com/p/d... · Posted by u/spenvo
Let me get this right…
The same people who said that woman’s health should be left to individual states are now saying that AI shouldn’t be left to individual states.
Weird priorities.