Comment Re:Old news is so exciting. (Score 1) 43
I had the head of accounting personally come to my cubicle for a $200 expense.
Comment Re:Proprietary software needs to be abandoned. (Score 1) 43
I still have really angry memories of having to change every single function that called a regular expression because all php did was reverse the parameter order and rename the function.
Wait until you learn about Python 3.
Comment Re:Believe it if you will (Score 2) 14
there's a reason for the Hayflick limit
Is there? What is the reason? Let me know, maybe we can win a Nobel together.
Comment Re:Copilot can you respond for me? (Score 1) 123
The thing that smells off to me is that Slashdot itself mangles Unicode every time I paste it into a comment box. So I'm reluctant to accept the implicit premise that software written entirely by humans has already conquered all the easy problems and that AI-generated code must therefore clear some uniquely high bar before we acknowledge it may be useful.
If Slashdot code ever gets open-sourced, I'll fix the Unicode.
Comment Re:They can do a better jon than most people (Score 1) 123
You...can't even write complete sentences.
Comment Re:Yes. (Score 1) 123
Your comment makes me think you've never used an LLM to write significant code. Why not advise to use an AGENT.mr?
Comment Re:No (Score 1) 123
Do you know how many SV companies let you log in with an empty password because no one tests negative cases? We are so broken as programmers.
Comment Re:It's complexity related (Score 2) 123
Most of them will smugly tell you everyone knows e.g. std::unordered_map is slow (and you're implicitly a moron for using it), change everything to their own implementation on a Friday night then bugger off.
It's amazing how few programmers are willing to use a profiler, even if you show them how and why. I don't know what braindead rock our profession collectively crawled out from under, but it's the rock that is allergic to simple tools to solve the problem.
Comment Re: They write themselves, folks (Score 1) 16
It's the most popular language.
Comment Re:So much for do no evil (Score 2) 50
There are 640 acres in a square mile
[Sighs in metric]
Comment Be careful (Score 1) 31
As soon as money gets into your hobby, it will ruin your hobby. Not that PHP could get much worse, but that's my opinion and some people like it. (Personally if I had made PHP, I would have written it in FORTH, with syntactically significant colors).
Comment Techically an impossible challange (Score 1) 41
Since the AI can literally copy humans at any time if it 'chooses' to, it can therefore sound exactly like a human when it 'wants' to.
That is, even if you wrote a 100% perfect human/AI distinguisher, there are times when it would be wrong because the AI produces words that were exactly produced by a human.
That is, even if you wrote a 100% perfect human/AI distinguisher, there are times when it would be wrong because the AI produces words that were exactly produced by a human.
Comment Re:Maybe they should fund generating capacity inst (Score 1) 101
The proper response to being in an area where datacentres are crowding in is "lobby your elected officials to increase property taxes and not give out tax increment financing deals". Tax everything, and tax it well. They'll stop building new datacentres in your area, and the ones that are there will (unless they were given a long-term sweetheart deal beyond your already-low tax rates) start being cash cows for your area.
Comment Re:Just me but... (Score 1) 48
Really, you don't see any difference between Elon Musk and, say, John Stankey? Is John Stankey actively transforming the US into an autocratic fascist-adjacent state?
Comment Re:Just me but... (Score 1) 48
Would you buy from a company called Plantations Inc which proudly advertises that all of its products are made by daily-whipped slaves? Are there no limits to how self-focused you are in your consumption?
It's one thing to say "this particular issue isn't mine, so I'm only going to think amount myself". It's an entirely different issue to have no moral bounds.
