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- How much of your coding is done by AI coding agents these days? Posted on June 21st, 2026 | 33 comments
My favorite IQ test:
If it happens once, it's a bug. If it happens twice, it's a feature. If it happens more than twice, it's a design philosophy.
Just a friendly reminder. (Score:5, Insightful)
Polls DO NOT BELONG at the top of the news feed.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Re:Just a friendly reminder. (Score:5, Insightful)
Long time users DO NOT BELONG on the site anymore.
Re:Just a friendly reminder. (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, only young hipsters that love to share stories on Fuckbook and Twatter are welcome on Slushnuts now.
Re:Just a friendly reminder. (Score:5, Insightful)
Unfortunately I think I agree, it's been getting a bit worse over the years and I think I've hit my maximum on it. I don't think slashdot is a bad site, but it's not the same one I joined up to years ago. There are other places to go now where it really is "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". Not every article has to be geeky but I feel that the content on the geeky posts themselves have been watered down. Polls in the main part of the page aren't what pushed me over the edge. The editors aren't adding in more technical thought into the articles summery if anything they water it down for the masses. The comment system I find is broken, outright wrong, and the culture around here has gone to shit. There was a shift before cmdTaco left but since his departure it's been a much swifter downward drop in what I want I want in this site.
I hope it continues to add value to people who like those things, and want those things but for me it's probably a site I'll hit up occasionally and comment on even less than I have. It makes me sad, I've been lurking and commenting on here for probably 15 years. The news stories slashdot broke with things like the 9/11 event, the lawsuit and the debates in the comments on SCO trials, scientific debate, it was a great time.
Wish you all the best, See you.
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I'm sorry. You didn't phrase your complaint in the form of a Facebook or Twitter share. We don't speak Neanderthalese around here.
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Unfortunately I think I agree, it's been getting a bit worse over the years and I think I've hit my maximum on it. I don't think slashdot is a bad site, but it's not the same one I joined up to years ago. There are other places to go now where it really is "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". Not every article has to be geeky but I feel that the content on the geeky posts themselves have been watered down. Polls in the main part of the page aren't what pushed me over the edge. The editors aren't adding in more technical thought into the articles summery if anything they water it down for the masses. The comment system I find is broken, outright wrong, and the culture around here has gone to shit. There was a shift before cmdTaco left but since his departure it's been a much swifter downward drop in what I want I want in this site.
I hope it continues to add value to people who like those things, and want those things but for me it's probably a site I'll hit up occasionally and comment on even less than I have. It makes me sad, I've been lurking and commenting on here for probably 15 years. The news stories slashdot broke with things like the 9/11 event, the lawsuit and the debates in the comments on SCO trials, scientific debate, it was a great time.
Wish you all the best, See you.
Emphasis mine. The editors aren't overtly doing much of anything except selecting stories (and I have my doubts about how transparent that process is). We've had new features added to the site like the godawful Video Bytes, the Share Buttons, and the Read More links getting removed, and other features are missing or broken (maybe it's just me, but I haven't been able to change my Firehose threshold in over a year, for example). There was predictable bellyaching in the comment threads because unannounced sig
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It's not just you. In classic mode, I can vote up/down only the top level or most recent stories, but I've never seen the rainbow colors, nor the slider that used to be there to show the threshold.
Please.... (Score:2)
Such an old and tired rant...
While we're at it (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:While we're at it (Share on twiiiitter!) (Score:4)
Ah, so it is that way for everyone else to.
That is totally retarded UI design. Most people would not expect to have to click on the title to load the comments. And that action is already used for expanding minimized articles.
Obviously the entire idea is to get accidental clicks on their fucking "share" button.
Seriously, does Twitter and Facebook PAY for this sort of advertising?
Icons on Titles (Score:2)
That is totally retarded UI design.
It would also be nice if the icons for each story did not cover the title of the article on the front page too. How anyone though that obscuring the end of a title with icons that give a vague hint as to the topic was a good design I'll never understand.
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Happens on phones.
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Bring back 'Read more' or a 'View comments' link or button PLEASE!
I put together a user style [userstyles.org] that attempts to undo some of the recent changes, including this one. It might be a little rough around the edges, but it's made the site much more usable for me.
I'm planning on maintaining it (at least for a while), so any suggestions are welcome. It's also public domain if anyone wants to go nuts.
Re:Just a friendly reminder. (Score:5, Funny)
Cliiick here to share on tweeter and faceberk! (Score:2)
Another insightful comment that needs to be shared on Farcebook and Tweeter! This is so important that the entire fucking page has to be filled with buttons ADVERTISING these sites.
And I thought "beta" was going to ruin this site. They manged to do it without.
Share this on Twitter and Facebook!1!!11 (Score:2)
Don't forget to share this insightful comment on Twitter, Facebook, and whatever those other "social" sites are. Apparently that is important! :P
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I agree, but to be fair in this case it appears to me inline the same as an article. I don't mind it that much though it will probably result in fewer votes on any given poll as it is pushed further down by other articles.
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Especially when they are in the middle of the news feed later.
And ... (Score:1)
MY favorite (Score:3, Funny)
Voight-Kampff by a mile.
Helping the turtle (Score:2)
One of the most famous Voight-Kampff questions goes like this: "You're in the desert, walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down and you see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and flip the tortoise on it's back. The tortoise lays there on it's back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't. Not without your help -- but you're not helping. Why is that?"
Because she was limping, and I've got her on her back for a moment to s
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Voight-Kampff by a mile.
Describe in single words, only the good things that come in to your mind about your mother.
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Lemme tell you about Slashdot Beta.
It's a trap (Score:4, Funny)
I can't help but suspect that our collective IQ is somehow being assessed by this poll.
Favorite test (Score:1)
A big piece of Ikea or similar furniture with no instructions...
missing option (Score:2)
Trivial Pursuit, of course.
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Profesionally, I prefer something along the lines of Turing, myself. But then I (still) do IT support for a living. If the something/someone I'm conversing with is intelligent enough to follow the instructions I'm providing, that's all I really care about.
Personally, I don't much care about specific IQ testing so long as someone has the capability to not just ask, "why?" but also take the initiative to seek out the answers from reliable sources. I'll respect ANYONE that does that, even if the answers the
Relevance? (Score:2)
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When I was in 3rd grade I got an IQ test to determine whether I should be bumped ahead a grade or not.
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When I was in 3rd grade I got an IQ test to determine whether I should be bumped ahead a grade or not.
I guess my question would be *when* were you in the third grade? If it was last year, then I guess "they" are still administering IQ tests.
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Ah, I gotcha... that would be 1990-1991.
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I went to school in the 1960s and 1970s...
Which was the basis for my question. Who measures IQ anymore?
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Re: Relevance? (Score:1)
I picked Woodcock-Johnson (Score:1)
For the wrong reasons. Kind of a reverse IQ test, really.
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The Mensa question (Score:5, Funny)
My favorite IQ test is to find out what people think of Mensa.
If they think Mensa is an impressive organization--they're average-ish.
If they think people in Mensa are geniuses--they're below average.
If they're in Mensa, they're an idiot--regardless of intelligence.
If they think Mensa is an organization of idiots who are simply skilled as solving silly puzzles--they pass.
Re:The Mensa question (Score:5, Funny)
Bonus points if they think Mensa is populated by middle aged alcoholics in bad sweaters who want to lure young blood in to "solve puzzles".
Re:The Mensa question (Score:5, Funny)
The puzzle is in my front pocket...
Complete bunk? (Score:1)
Whatever an IQ test measures, how can it be complete bunk? There seems to be at least a loose correlation between IQ and things associated with intelligence.
Why is there such vigorous opposition to IQ tests? The opposition to IQ testing seems to go beyond just casual dismissal.
I'm not trolling. I really want to know.
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Whatever an IQ test measures, how can it be complete bunk? There seems to be at least a loose correlation between IQ and things associated with intelligence.
Why is there such vigorous opposition to IQ tests? The opposition to IQ testing seems to go beyond just casual dismissal.
I'm not trolling. I really want to know.
Among other things: political-social reasons - measured in multiple studies, the [self-censored] race has an *average* IQ of 80, when the "white" race has 100 and the "yellow" race has 105 (some people believe that the [self-censored] race, because of its *average* IQ level at 80, has its members commiting 52% of "Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter" and 56% of "Robbery" crimes, while being only 13% of the population in USA).
note: some things are [self-censored] because i try to recover from my bad right
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More recent research shows that, once things like economic status are controlled for, the different races have roughly the same averages. They have different distributions, though (and the same goes for comparing male to female intelligence test distributions).
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you know what I'd like to see? (Score:2)
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Being able to move the indicator up the scale with your mind like in Forbidden Planet. That's probably the only fair IQ test.
Physical disabilities (Score:2)
So why don't IQ tests have dexterity and reflex tests?
Probably because including P.E. in an IQ test might be considered discriminatory against people with strong minds but weak or ill-formed bodies.
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I wish I had mod points, for this is insightful.
If most of the IQ tests were accurate, ... (Score:1)
Draw-A-Person test (Score:4, Interesting)
WISC is the one I took; Draw-A-Person is the one I'm studying.
WISC and WAIS are the Wechsler intelligence scale for children and adults respectively. So I understand those to mean "I took Wechsler as a child" and "I took Wechsler as an adult".
I remember taking WISC when my school was deciding what sort of individual education plan (IEP) was best for me. Until ninth grade, the schools originally thought I was gifted plus ADD. But after I grew out of my Ritalin dose, I was retested, and it turned out I have what was then called "Asperger syndrome": gifted plus a mild case of autism spectrum disorder.
Lately I've been reading the literature about a different test called Draw-A-Person. Originally designed by Florence Goodenough in 1926, it approximates a child's intellectual maturity by giving the child five minutes to produce a full-body figure drawing with pencil on paper and then counting how many of several dozen features. The number of features correlates somewhat with the "mental age" metric of IQ tests. It's not valid enough to use alone, but it's good for warming a child up for more formal tests. It's also easier and cheaper to administer in a multilingual setting than a verbal test, which is important to help developing countries' underfunded education systems get intellectually gifted or disabled children into appropriate academic tracks quickly.
But Draw-A-Person is not without its flaws. Some of the features it checks for aren't present in every culture. For example, an Eskimo child will not draw "ears" because of the parka, and a Pakistani child will not draw "knees" because those are considered a private part in Muslim countries. Some revisions of the test also grade legs in a way that penalizes wearing a skirt. There are even a few ableist tendencies in the grading scale as well. I've been working on an article about Draw-A-Person [pineight.com] that describes the flaws and offers a few possibilities for fixing them.
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I am a fully capable adult human, graduated at the top of my undergraduate class, and I'm pretty sure the draw-a-person test wouldn't go all that well for me.
Re: Draw-A-Person test (Score:1)
Yes. I can only draw a person with a circle and five lines.
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Psst: If you draw both arms as one horizontal line, you will only need four lines.
There see: you had just improved the IQ score! Try not to look down upon us mere mortals.
Time Shares (Score:4, Funny)
CTSS, ITS, and VPS (Score:3)
If you don't buy one, give yourself 120 points. If you buy one, 90. If you buy more than one, 50. Unfortunately a relative of mine has a 50.
So where would that put MIT, which developed the Compatible Time-Sharing System [wikipedia.org] and Incompatible Timesharing System [wikipedia.org] operating systems? By that metric, anybody who leases a VPS has bought a "timeshare".
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Cowboy/Neal IQ Test (Score:2, Funny)
Your IQ is the ratio of polls containing a CowboyNeal option that you answer to the number of polls NOT containing a CowboyNeal option that you answer.
Why IQ tests are bunk (Score:4, Insightful)
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Please highlight when stories are polls! (Score:2)
Firstly so I can know, secondly so I can decide whether to skip it (this one was interesting and has a couple of good comments).
Or move them to the sidebar as it should be...
IQ tests (Score:1)
My ex was a grad student in psychology. I got to take a lot of IQ tests,
as well as tests skewed/designed to detect specific problems.
She gave up testing me when I started asking her what score she wanted, or what specific problems to show up....
It's Obvious (Score:3)
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We need an IQ test that is reliable (Score:2)
Consider how useful it would be to give someone a test and determine their potential.
Is that possible? Possibly not. I'm not sure really. But the value of such a thing is enough to make the attempt worth it. You could sort people brave new world style.
Alphas, betas, deltas, gammas... No wasted effort trying to teach idiots to be scientists or engineers.
Is that mean? If the state is providing the education for free or heavily subsidizing it then the state has a right to expect a return on that investment. An
1980s BBS IQ Test (Score:1)
For IQ Test Press alt-H
Idiocracy (Score:2)
If you have one bucket that holds two gallons and another bucket that holds five gallons, how many buckets do you have?
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If you have one bucket that holds two gallons and another bucket that holds five gallons, how many buckets do you have?
An unknown number of buckets where n>=2.
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Very clever, but "another" would rule out the single bucket situation unless you are using a very different definition of the word.
Mental health (Score:2)
Throw imaginary stick (Score:2)
My favorite IQ test works like this: 1. Throw imaginary stick. 2. IQ is inversely proportional to distance run.
That test is just for dogs though... usually.
Take it from a dummy (Score:1)
I aced the Wonderlic exam. Which just proves IQ exams are worthless.