He is pretty funny... however I'm not sure what this has to do with Slashdot.
I believe I have the distinction of being the only person in the world to own a copy of The Mythical Man-Month that's been autographed... by Dave Barry.
(I swear I'm not making this up.)
OK, so what is it good for?
LLMs excel at writing filler text which is mandated by some ritual but whose content is unimportant. For example, your fifth-grade report on the life and times of George Washington Carver, which is required work to get a grade but not anything likely to contribute to the sum total of human knowledge.
An LLM can write a summary better than a bored student, but that's really only of value to the student wanting to cheat -- it doesn't benefit society in any way, and the real value of educating the student is lost.
At this point, *all* developers are using AI in some form.
Are you sure it's *all* developers? Not all engineers are "lazy".
Hell, I don't even use Tab-completion in my text editor.
"but, wait! there's MORE" from other shills. Downright dark pattern manipulative.
Ron Popeil had some iconic catchphrases (as immortalized in Weird Al's song "Mr. Popeil"), but I wouldn't call any of them a dark pattern.
But I will say that when it comes to buying appeal, there's nothing like dark patterns to really take the Shein off.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/606/
And you waited until NOW to mention this?
And another thing:
Firefox users
... will not be able to use their add-ons Malicious add-ons can compromise user data
Which is it? Will add-ons be disabled across the board, or will add-ons run indiscriminately, unchecked by revocation lists?
I noticed recently that certain downloads to machines with old TCP/IP stacks and a mediocre wifi uplink were progressing much more smoothly than I was used to, with almost no collisions.
I was actually wondering if Comcast had done something to address congestion (before I knew of this story, I mean â" not confirmation bias), and it turns out that I'm in one of the pilot areas.
The letters RTFKT were chosen to suggest the word "artifact".
Oh, really? Because my first thought was "rat-fucked".
When it the last time you wrote optimized assembler? For me it's over 4 decades.
For me, it was five weeks ago.
These days compilers not only do a better job,
The ones like GCC and clang that saw continued improvement over the last decade, definitely. The 2000-era Metrowerks compilers I'm using to indulge my classic Mac OS fetish, not so much. It's trivial to beat the 68K compiler, even without being clever.
but the source code is more portable.
In most cases, my code was already platform-independent, so I leave the C/C++ implementation in place guarded by preprocessor conditional directives.
Among Microsoft's offers were a 10-year commitment letting European consumers play Activision titles on any cloud gaming service.
What about playing not on a cloud service? I loved the original Starcraft and its Brood War expansion, but I opted to avoid Starcraft 2 due to its online-only requirement.
(I never did finish Brood War's Zerg campaign; any time I want to spend on RTS gaming can go toward that.)
Because you like pain.
That would be the correct answer to "Why should I want a dominatrix to spank me?", not "Why should I use PHP?".
One man's pain is another man's pastry. Especially if he's French.
The community is the main reason to avoid the language all together. If the other users that you turn to for help are nothing but a bunch of elitist Mac-using hopster pricks, then that's your cue to stay away from that launage at all costs.
Yeah? Why don't you write about it in your blag?
When I see people defending PHP, I have the same reaction I get when I see Scientologists defending a religion started by a science fiction author.
The only reason you'd be attacking PHP is so you can hide your own foolish design mistakes. Why don't you tell us what those are? WHAT ARE YOUR CRIMES?
Yes, it's "just as good" as Ruby, Python, or other competing problem-space solutions in a strict Turing-completeness way, but in all pragmatic senses it has been a complete and utter rolling disaster.
Godwin's Law applies just as well to programming language advocacy: If your defense of a language requires pointing out that it's Turing-complete, you lose the argument.
"(for those who don't get it: in music, generally speaking, the sharps and flats overlap. C sharp = D flat)"
Unless you're a music theorist.
And specifically an ill-tempered one.
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire
