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- How much of your coding is done by AI coding agents these days? Posted on June 21st, 2026 | 33 comments
Do you have a poll idea?
The reason that every major university maintains a department of mathematics is that it's cheaper than institutionalizing all those people.
Do you use ham radio? (Score:3)
A: Yes
B: No
C: What's ham radio
D: CowboyNeal is my local ham
Several ideas (Score:2)
2. Who is to blame for wars.
3. How to stop all wars.
4. Favourite pastime.
5. Favourite food.
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Do you drive an EV?
- Yes
- Never!
- Planning to
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Re: Several ideas (Score:1)
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1. Scaremongering.
2. Inherently dangerous.
3. A tool that can be used for good or bad.
4. Impossible to create.
5. CowboyNeal's favorite pet.
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Adjusted Gross Income?
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AGI is the epic football player Hagi, as voiced by French commentators.
Bond Girls (Score:2)
poll idea - sustainability in tech (Score:1)
preffered energy source now (Score:3)
wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, tidal, biomass, coal, natural gas, nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, CowboyNeal's farts
Have you made preparations for ww3? (Score:2)
Yes
No
Bust into cowboyneal's bunker
Do you vote in online polls? (Score:2)
Do you vote in online polls?
- Yes
- All of the above
What is better, linux or windows? (Score:2)
Lol
Re: What is better, linux or windows? (Score:3)
Emacs or vi?
Re: (Score:2)
neovim, of course. Escape Meta Alt Control Shift is an os which seems to be lacking a text editor. :)
Re: What is better, linux or windows? (Score:2)
Why not both?
I have a suggestion too:
Best office suit:
* MS Office
* LibreOffice
* Both
* Neither (specify in comments)
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Why not "How do you create your documents?"
"LaTeX", "asciidoc", "word", and "LibreOffice" could be among the answers.
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Better: "What do you *mainly* use to create your documents?"
I use both LibreOffice and MS Word, taking advantage of what each of them does better, but mostly I use LibreOffice, which I consider better for typing.
Re: What is better, linux or windows? (Score:2)
Hand written in postscript.
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ROFF
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I think an office suit is supposed to be: not sport shoes, dress pants, white or light blue shirt and tie. Now if you want to talk about office suites...
Comment Modding (Score:3)
5
10
15
Other
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Can not comment when left up too long. (Score:1)
Natalie Portman (Score:3)
Options:
* Naked
* Petrified
* Both of the Above
* Hot Grits/Pants
Did Magnus do anything wrong? (Score:1)
Rust is... (Score:4, Insightful)
1. Oxidized iron
2. A programming language
4. By far the best album from Harm's Way
5. A movie that may never get released
6. CowboyNeal's favorite color
OpenAI Drama was ... (Score:3)
Do you take part to Slashdot polls ? (Score:2)
* Yes
* No
Re: Do you take part to Slashdot polls ? (Score:1)
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Sigh...that's what makes it funny
interesting meta-poll (Score:2)
https://slashdot.org/poll/3224... [slashdot.org]
I think it would be interesting to look into the poll archives - they go way back to 1999 - and ask the same question now and link back to the original poll. Some answers may need to be changed but I think it would be interesting to see how tech, culture, etc has evolved (both in the poll results and the comments).
Yes I do but I refuse to share it! (Score:2)
It will not help my case in any way, and I will not arn any wonderful comment points for it; but it makes me very human!
Poll Poll (Score:1)
1. Yes.
2, No.
3. I am a meat popsicle.
4. CowboyNeal should decide.
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Libertarian poll (Score:2)
If libertarian principles were applied, motorbikes would be:
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Resource Hub to Defeat the DataTheft Enterprise (Score:1)
Nearly every new electronic device is infested with data collection -- DataTheft -- that users neither want nor need. Corporations want us to give up trying to protect our privacy, but to defeat this unwelcome personal invasion we need a resource hub to help us find, identify, and disable or destroy components and firmware responsible for the theft. Should this Resource Hub be formed and funded as:
(a) Political lobbying group funded by contributions
(b) Repository and wiki for detecting and disabling DataThe
Should Slashdot Support Unicode? (Score:2)
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I mean, sure, there have been two or three times that I've wished I could paste a single word of a foreign language (typically, either Greek or Japanese) into a slashdot comment.
But it's absolutely not worth it. The lameness filter is barely effective as it stands.
Fusion (Score:1)
Whatâ(TM)s your partnerâ(TM)s profession (Score:1)
Whatâ(TM)s your partnerâ(TM)s profession?
1. S.T.E.M
2. Education
3. Medical
4. Retail
5. Finance
6. Other / Construction / Energy / Agriculture
7. Iâ(TM)m single, you insensitive clod!
Cowboy Neal? (Score:2)
1. Cowboy Neal
2. Cowboy Neal
3. Cowboy Neal
4. Cowboy Neal
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Just some small suggested tweaks:
1. CowboyNeal?
2. CowboyNeal!
3. Cowboy.Neal.
4. CowboyNeal...
(and maybe add 5. "Cowboy" Neal)
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Add:
0. All of the below
Volume of liquid to clean a cylinder (Score:2)
When cleaning a cylinder (i.e. baby bottle or thermos), you can: quickly rinse it out, add some soapy water, and vigorously shake the cylinder. But how much soapy water by volume is most efficient?:
A) less than about 1/5
B) about 1/5
C) about 1/4
D) about 1/3
E) more than about 1/3
What will humanity be like in 1000 years? (Score:1)
Which "decelerator" card you had? (Score:3)
A) S3 Virge
B) Matrox
C) ATI Rage 1/2
D) Skipped 3D acceleration until 3Dfx/Nvidia
E) Something even worse
Re: Which "decelerator" card you had? (Score:3)
Z) Cromemco.
When will be the year of the Linux desktop? (Score:2)
Come on. We have never seen this one?
Options could be:
1) Next year
2) Ten years from now
3) When heat death of the universe happens
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Unicode in source (Score:2)
Should Unicode be permitted in source code comments?
1) Yes, of course
2) No, ASCII only because Unicode isn't available in all fonts or editors
3) Only once Slashdot properly handles it
4) Only in CowbyNeal's code
Censorship Circumvention Strategy (Score:1)
A. Encryption.
B. Steganography.
C. Anonymizers and VPNs.
D. Sarcasm and Inuendo.
E. Graffiti in Bathroom Stalls.
F. Torches, Pitchforks, and Assault Rifles.
G. Mass Emmigration.
H. CowboyNeal's Telepathic Communications Service.
Firstly: (Score:3)
When will a human colony exist on the moon? (Score:1)
If you needed a new home PC today... (Score:3)
If you needed a new home PC today, how would you go about acquiring one?
1. I would buy the components and assemble it myself.
2. I would buy the components and have a trusted person build it for me.
3. I would buy a pre-built computer.
4. Cowboy Neal serves as my personal computer and is irreplaceable.
On an average Wednesday, how many different... (Score:3)
On an average Wednesday, how many different personal computers (using a desktop OS) are booted up in your home?
1. 0-2
2. 3-5
3. 6-10
4. >10
5. It really depends on if Cowboy Neal's attending the Wednesday LAN party with his 10-box setup.
On an average Wednesday, how many different computer-like devices (iOS, Android, Fire, Roku, etc.) are booted up in your home?
1. 0-2
2. 3-5
3. 6-10
4. >10
5. Why use devices? Cowboy Neal recites his doomscrolling in Gregorian chant every night in my living room!
How are your retirement plans panning out? (Score:3)
How are your retirement plans panning out?
1. Retired and loving it.
2. Retired and bored.
3. Retired and broke.
4. On schedule to retire with reasonable income at a reasonable age.
5. I'm might be able to retire with a reasonable income at a reasonable age.
6. I honestly don't know how/if I'll be able to retire.
7. I'm actually scared that I can't ever retire.
8. I'll only retire if the Cowboy Neal cloning project is able to successfully grow a replacement for my position.
What is the correct way to put on socks and shoes (Score:1)
2. Sock, sock, shoe, shoe, tie, tie
3. Sock, sock, shoe, tie, shoe, tie
4. Sandals
5. Barefoot
Is your anus bleeding? (Score:2)
2. No
3. YAAAAAAAAY
Favorite C-Based Language? (Score:1)
B) C++
C) C#
D) Objective-C
E) HolyC
F) CowboyNeal-C
Do you have a technology credential? (Score:2)
Seriously guys... (Score:2)
Cowboy Neal probably does
The guy is purportedly been with the company for over 26 years. Do you really think he still has new poll ideas, after the site is throwing up this one? Is Cowboy Neal even still working for Slashdot.org???
What are Cowboy Neal's preferred pronouns? (Score:1)
Browsers (Score:2)
Poll: Why aren't you using Firefox as your web browser?
Options:
* I love surveillance ...
* I work for Google
* I value {something} over privacy
Probably a couple other options. {something} could be speed, compatibility, bloat, Electron, I dunno.
VGA Connector (Score:2)
Do you still use a 15pin VGA or DVI-RGB connector every day?
Trump 2024? (Score:2)
Nuff said. We can get rid of a lot of idiot and spamming commenters by the results. Just delete their accounts entirely and laugh about it.
You can decide which "side" I consider to be idiots.
Spoiler alert (ROT13 if you don't want spoilage) (Score:2)
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Zork! (Score:2)
Zork!
a) What?
b) At your service!
c) Gesundheit!
d) Cowboy Neal still plays text adventures
next NASA rover goes to... (Score:2)
Where should NASA send its next rover?
1) Mars
2) Ceres
3) Enceladus
4) Ganymede
5) Titan
6) Cowboy Neal's basement
Regarding health protection during 3D printing (Score:1)
Are you taking precautions for health protection during 3D printing (VOCs, microparticels)?
Yes
No
I will once it's reached 4D.