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Comment Yeah, right. (Score 1) 121

I've been hearing this “programming is over” story for a few decades now, each time a different variant but sooner or later all with the same result: Failure. Some attempts are simply forgotten, others have been spectacular, but every damn year some imbecile comes along believing that you can change the work of developing an information system from scratch without having to know how to handle a computer, this AI hysteria is only lasting so far because of the billions and billions that big companies are putting into this tulip purchase... sorry, “miracle scheme to make easy money”.

Once and for all, get it through your heads: Unless someone presents me with a TRUE AI, or “AGI” as they call it now to differentiate it from the imbecility of calling these pattern recognition algorithms “AI”, there is no way to produce consistently functional code without using someone (a PERSON, to be very clear) who has studied and been trained to do so. And every idiot who tries to claim otherwise is just trying to justify the billions of dollars they're throwing away trying to do this.

Comment Re:It's the next Dot Com Bubble (Score 1) 124

It's always the next get-rich-quick scheme. Before yesterday it was tulips, yesterday it was High-Frequency Trading, today it's “Artificial Intelligence” (in quotes because it has nothing to do with real intelligence, never has and probably never will).

And I always see people falling for these schemes again and again, with ever greater consequences, because greed always trumps logic and reason.

Comment Re:Linux: the neckbeards' albatross (Score 1) 221

That's basically what he wrote. Linux now has a chance to become a more widely used desktop simply because Microsoft is apparently determined to sabotage Windows, but if the Linux community doesn't get their shit together, they'll keep publishing their own distros by complete inability to agree on anything (over 600 different versions this far and counting) where none of which are actually good enough to be used as a general purpose desktop operating system (instead of necessary but niche uses).

At this point in the story I think it's more likely that Android will take over Windows or maybe SteamOS (which is Linux, but actually usable and more or less stable)

Comment Re:This (Score 2) 59

One of the things that made 4chan so huge is that had this bizarre mix of relatively normal people and the absolute worst dregs of the internet

More or less. Regardless of its flaws, 4Chan is one of the few places where you can still have an opinion that goes against the “bubble”. For example, if you try to post an opinion on Reddit that goes against the group's opinion you'll be banned very fast. And I'm not talking here about opinions that would actually be crimes or universally wrong, I'm talking about trivial things where the reason you get banned is merely to be different from what the group thinks, imagine things like “I like green” and the group likes blue.

Comment Go to hell Microsoft (Score 1) 95

So some random piece of shit at Microsoft thinks it would be a “breakthrough” for me to put my important documents in their “cloud” and rely on crappy “programs” (they're just crappy web pages) made in javascript for all my important work.

And the worst part is that there's always a complete imbecile within the corporations who swallows this shit hook, line and sinker and still manages to convince the bosses that it has to be applied by force to all other employees.

Comment Oh gods... (Score 1) 338

I deal with large, old systems for a living. They're intending to redo a system that even I would think carefully before dealing with, using “developers” who only know how to deal (poorly) with javascript and have no idea how to structure data correctly, and for the icing on the cake thinking that all they have to do is insert AI to cover the gaps?

Goodbye USA social security system.

Comment Re:Corporate security (Score 1) 96

You merely want control, power over your users. Because if that weren't the case, you would know that nowadays it is much more important for the user to simply know what he is doing (or learn how to) than to trust some "miracle antivirus" or to put so many prohibitions that the user can literally only look at the computer and not be able to do any work on that computer.

Comment Re:Ditch PHP (Score 1) 112

Short version, because in the long run I found out that PHP is a shitty language when you want or need to make a good system. You can make it work? Yes, you can. But badly. Or not as good as it could be.

It's especially worse for me because I need to make systems that will be in use for decades, so the language I'm based on can't keep throwing away compatibility every year, and even worse if I use frameworks that then throw away this compatibility once a month instead of once a year. I finally managed to get rid of shitty Laravel, which I tried to keep working but after a lot of experimentation I concluded that I would have to rewrite the system because of a version change and seeing the history of the framework it was guaranteed that the following year I would probably have to rewrite the system again.

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