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mxmbrb commented on The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding   addyo.substack.com/p/the-... · Posted by u/mooreds
hipadev23 · 9 months ago
Yeah. I don't know junior devs, outside of those motivated by an insatiable quest for knowledge and never-ending curiosity, are ever going to close the skill gap when they use AI tools to shit out circa ~2021 best practices from stackoverflow.
mxmbrb · 9 months ago
They won't. Just as most modern devs can't edit assembly and would take days to write a bare bone network communcation, they won't need to learn certain things we did. And they will excell in other skills, making some old aged senior devs obsolete. A senior that uses modern dev tool chains will allways have a huge edge. That has allways been true. But that senior relying only on their hard earned knowledge will become the kind of dinosaurs we knew when we started.
mxmbrb commented on ReAMP, a Winamp Remake in Swift   re-amp.ru/... · Posted by u/rrr_oh_man
diimdeep · a year ago
I must tell to every username out here who implying negative attitude only by pointing out that this is Russian made, you have been conditioned by mass media to become russophobic [1] you must understand that your attitude rooted in propaganda spread by institutions and not in objective reality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Russian_sentiment

mxmbrb · a year ago
Russia has a history of intense state surveilance und state sponsored hacking. Pair that with immense corruption and an authoritarian law system.

Do I think that the USA does the same and is allready in our system? Yes, though a bit less likely and more 'with an option to'. But the big difference is, that we are formally on the same side and I do not have to fear my systems to be made into a Spam-Bot network that undermines individualism and western ideas of freedom.

mxmbrb commented on Bad scientific code beats code following "best practices" (2014)   yosefk.com/blog/why-bad-s... · Posted by u/luu
_the_inflator · 2 years ago
That’s why I fell in love with Objective C. The libraries used a lot of those expressive descriptions for attributes and methods.

I never understood nor understand people who nest their inner loops in an entangled mess of hardly distinguishable digits, which is error prone.

Same for method names.

I try to use speaking out loud to some of my methods: What do you do? And if the answer is getValue I believe it needs renaming.

mxmbrb · 2 years ago
We use this technique as a guide in our company. If someone (knowledgable) would ask "What does this method call do?" and the method name does not answer that, your PR doesn't go in the master.

E.g. getString(path) for loadConnectionStringFromDisk(configFilePath), tryConnect(30) for testSqlConnection(timeoutInSec), even the reader now knows what happens here and what input is expected.

mxmbrb commented on Wikipedia daily most viewed pages   pageviews.wmcloud.org/top... · Posted by u/secondary_op
nr11_bullseye · 2 years ago
Interesting that the 31st and 34th entries "gingering" and "figging" were both linked in a popular reddit thread yesterday: https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/m7x0zo5XzU
mxmbrb · 2 years ago
That's a dead end link. Try to create an archive.org link.
mxmbrb commented on Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating   retro.social/@ifixcoinops... · Posted by u/anotherevan
rmoriz · 2 years ago
Brother (printers and sewing machines) feels like Zoom (audio recorders): a bit conservative but they are very well made and long lasting. And consistent. A USP in today's world of crap-loaded, buggy short living throw away products.
mxmbrb · 2 years ago
We could use an international magazine or media channel that focuses solely on tools that have prooven to be robust and reliable. And on trustworthy companies with good value for money ratio. I'd love to spend double for some things, if I'd be able to know it lasts way longer and works better.
mxmbrb commented on Berlin's indoor pools   bbc.com/travel/article/20... · Posted by u/pseudolus
expertentipp · 2 years ago
> I pay 42% taxes and still these government pools are not only a bit pricy

You're eligible only for making a shopping at Lidl and Netto after work, and for paying Rundfunkbeitrag. As I had heard multiple times while on full time employment in Berlin and seeing over 40% cut off on my monthly payslip: "beggars can't be choosers".

mxmbrb · 2 years ago
It's really hard for me to not think of mallice when people say things like "The governments takes half my money!"

In germany, when having a (quite high) 100k pay, you effectively pay aprx. 32% taxes on it. I think thats fair considering wellfare, healthcare, studying, school etc. is free.

42% is just the percentage you pay on the income beyond ~65000. The first 65k are taxed lower (in increasing steps)

Sure, some financial things are very hard in germany. But especially as a "regular" citizen, or when you have hard times, you are cared for quite well.

mxmbrb commented on Most Americans are oblivious to 'forever chemicals' and risks, research finds   phys.org/news/2023-11-ame... · Posted by u/tcfhgj
mandmandam · 2 years ago
I'm curious how you came to this conclusion - what publication did you read this in?

And, if you please, why do you feel confident enough to imply these chemicals are safe? Are you an expert in biological processes?

mxmbrb · 2 years ago
Thats common chemical knowledge. Don't be that guy.

Still, as other pointed out, he missed the point by a mile.

mxmbrb commented on NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android   newpipe.net/... · Posted by u/vyrotek
endorphine · 2 years ago
I'm watching fine on Firefox with uBlock Origin. I mean, I don't get ads. What else am I missing by not using NewPipe (I don't care about downloading videos).
mxmbrb · 2 years ago
One can't switch to a different tab, out of the browser or lock the phone while continuing listening to the video/podcast/music.
mxmbrb commented on Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds   monash.edu/news/articles/... · Posted by u/clouddrover
SillyUsername · 2 years ago
I'm f'ed as are probably a lot of people who have anxiety or have ideas that wake them up. How the heck is a person meant to stop that? :(
mxmbrb · 2 years ago
A simple realization helped me to get out of the loop of night thoughts a lot quicker:

At night your reasoning abilty is massively impaired by melatonin. Thats why your thoughts keep going in circles and one does not find the most obvious solutions for a problem. There is only one thing to do. Let it go. You are at your worst, you're not supposed to reason right now.

This simple fact fixed crushing night thoughts for me and a friend of mine.

mxmbrb commented on Software disenchantment   tonsky.me/blog/disenchant... · Posted by u/InsiderTesla
mxmbrb · 2 years ago
tldr: the foundational problem is lack of liability

The whole ecosystem of modern programming and software is just insanely opaque. As an enduser you have very little clue who is to blame for an error or a slow machine.

Imagine your car would not been build by a single company, liable for the whole product, but you would buy the individual components from twenty+ different companies, rangin from ibm to small startups. No central planing. They all have their own take on it. They just set a few standarts for how the things bolt up. It would be the same mess.

Like in the earlier days of analog tech, ransomware attacks today are blamed on bad luck. Just put up some Antivirus gemstones in your Outlook and don't forget to get your security christened with some certifications.

But to be fair, people seldomly die from slow software.

u/mxmbrb

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