even if you revoke my access if I know the GUID from when I had access boom I am right back in, and sooner or later you'll create some other endpoint that leaks valid IDs undermining your assumption about the need to blindly guess them.

that's not how any of this works.

this only applies to Chromecast second generation hardware. I guess what you're talking about is Android TV but in this case it's managed by the TV manufacturer and not by Google

I turned it on today after weeks and the first thing it did was update itself. it's working.

Not my experience. Our 1430W printed and printed and printed for almost 10 years with bulk ink from bottles (i had a continuous ink system). We'd be printing 2-3 A3+ pages, photo quality every day.

Heads finally died catastrophically.

We recently replaced it with a newer model with the EcoTank system (basically a factory continuous ink system). It's much faster too. The ink is reasonably priced but of course, bulk ink is much cheaper. We'll see what sort of ink we'll be installing after the factory bottles run out.

We bought an HP LaserJet 1100 in 2001. The only reason we aren't still using it is because it came apart. All plastics failed. the thing just crumbled apart. But man it was a fantastic printer.

Sure, parallel port only. But the thing even had PostScript (IIRC). Or maybe it wasn't PostScript but something similar - i remember it had FONTS and you could cat a text file with commands and have it print in different fonts (ok, yes, my LX-810 already did that in the 80s, but 2001 was the era when we were dumbing down peripherals and all depended on the CPU, modern printers just print a raster image, not a sequence of commands). It even had a slot for a RAM stick in the back!

That was our first laser printer and it was a game changer.

sure because applying tariffs on raw materials you don't produce sure is going to work great.

that's the key difference: you code. most people in tech above 50 seem to be now in "management positions" and code small scripts as a hobby to show you how clever they can be about a very specific task.

the worst kind is the ones that "used to code" and want to tell you how to do your job, even though they are not using the same technology stack. i had one of those. guy was a Foxpro programmer and he did all sorts of stupid things. then i learned "that is actually how you do things with foxpro". 10 years later he's still salty that "the company killed off the foxpro version of the program and had us rewrite it in .NET. i don't understand why. foxpro was perfectly capable". .. the app is a web app that connects to a bunch of external backends. and yet, he still couldn't see why foxpro wasn't adequate (or the fact that it has been unsupported by microsoft for 20 years now)

this is the kind of people who want to tell you LLMs are completely useless.

no because:

it violates copyright
it doesn't produce secure code
i wouldn't trust something from a machine
it can only write toy languages like JS and python, not REAL languages like C. real men use C, kid
script kiddies can't code
GET OFF MY LAWN now where did i leave my pills LINDA!!! DID YOU SEE WHERE I LEFT MY COPIUM? /s

sadly, the audience here is mostly over 50, or even 60. they are not in touch with the reality of "sitting down and coding" every day.

these people bitch about how "we young programmers can't do simple programs anymore" as if the complexity of today's software even remotely compares to what they were doing with Delphi in the 90s.

the reality is that in the 80s and 90s you made a product, it had clear requirements, and it was thoroughly tested. the program did what it did, and nothing else. nowadays you need to support every combination of browser, phone, and computer screen, with changing DPIs, and change the layout accordingly. and you're also supposed to support whatever cloud service you use, but leaving the door open to switch to on prem. you have to make every fucking function a "lambda" but also be able to deploy everything as a scale-out monolith. you need to support a traditional SQL database with 1000 read-replicas so you can scale, but you also have to be able to export stuff to the data-hungry data scientists or the C-suite with PowerBI. and you have to do redo everything because the company now expects a new version every week - but not because they are trying to deliver shit, but because there is so much competition and everyone is in a race.

the people bitching that LLMs suck are not in touch with reality. it's boomers who get offended by whatever news they consume tell them to be offended about. they haven't even tried chatgpt because they "Refuse to". it's like those people who for some reason feel proud to tell you "i don't know who taylor swift is and i have never heard any of her songs".... but bro, you know who she is (you heard about her) and you HAVE heard her songs, if not on the radio, on the news, or even when shopping at the supermarket. it's the same with current AI. you think you are above it, and really ,you're surrounded by it.

And I asked chatgpt to rephrase my previous post:

It’s clear that much of the audience here is over 50 or even 60, and many seem out of touch with the reality of 'sitting down and coding' every day.

These are the same people who love to complain that 'young programmers can’t write simple programs anymore,' as if the complexity of modern software is even remotely comparable to what they were doing with Delphi in the '90s.

Back then, you built a product with clear requirements, thoroughly tested it, and shipped it. The program did what it did—nothing more, nothing less. Today? You’re juggling a mess of moving targets. You need to support every combination of browser, phone, and screen size, adapting to changing DPIs and dynamic layouts. You’re expected to integrate with whatever cloud service your company is using—but also leave room to switch to on-prem if the winds change. Every function is supposed to be a serverless 'lambda,' but you also need to be able to deploy the whole thing as a scale-out monolith. You’re maintaining a traditional SQL database with 1,000 read-replicas for scale while simultaneously exporting data to feed the insatiable appetite of data scientists—or to produce fancy PowerBI reports for the C-suite. And on top of that, you’re reworking everything on a weekly basis—not because anyone wants to ship broken software, but because the competition is relentless, and everyone is sprinting to keep up.

The people whining that LLMs are useless are just as disconnected. It’s the same crowd that gets outraged by whatever their news feed tells them to be mad about. Most of them haven’t even tried ChatGPT—they just 'refuse to.' It’s like those people who proudly declare, 'I don’t know who Taylor Swift is and I’ve never heard any of her songs.' Bro, yes you have. If you’ve been in a store, watched the news, or even just existed in modern society, you’ve heard her. AI is no different. You might think you’re above it—but whether you realize it or not, you’re already surrounded by it.

nice racism, bro.

because this has been tested time and time again, and it has failed every single time. For every romanticized tale of "a single mom that was actually able to pull through because of the money given" there are hundreds of cases of parasites to the system.

I'm from Argentina, a country where the government has been handing out millions of checks to the point that there were 20 million people in some sort of welfare in a country of 45 million. In poor areas, crime is rampant, as usual. And those checks have only made it worse: people have no incentive to look for a job, since they have guaranteed money. But they get bored at home. They need a thrill, a meaning for life. They obviously can't go on vacation with that little money, so they go stealing. One example is gangs that steal expensive motorcycles (often shooting the owners in the process), take photos for instagram with said bikes, and then set them on fire to destroy evidence.

Another example of this is in Europe where refugees are given welfare checks, and this encourages them to either not to work, or underwork since they have the bare minimum.

The problem is that most people pushing for UBI are on a specific narrative that shuts down any other opinion, and of course, I'll be called all sorts of things for my previous statements.

But this isn't a prediction or anything, we're talking about factual things. LLMs do generate good boilerplate code, because they've been trained on it a lot.

This person may have tried it 2 years ago when it first came out and since it didn't meet their needs, they declared it must not meet anyone else's needs. This is blatantly false.

It's ok if you want to believe that. You can lie to yourself all you want but that doesn't really change facts.

The reality is that it generates good boilerplate code.

From the anecdotes I've read about LLM code generation[...]

so you haven't used LLM code generation, that's ok

It's basically just a machine for automating the taking on of technical debt.

wait, how can you opine on something you have never used or seen, and only "read about"?

I HAVE LOUD OPINIONS ABOUT THINGS I DON'T UNDERSTAND.

Wondering when he'll cry the equivalent of "But but but Hunter Biden!!"

literally did in the followup tweet. after withdrawing support, in the next paragraph he blamed the "political caste" as usual.

The drama is still unfolding over here. The opposition party is trying to trigger a market crash. The r/argentina subreddit was completely overrun by troll accounts repeating the same messages all weekend. A low volume "traditional investments" subreddit was also target, very subtle "how do i protect myself from tomorrow's crash?"

The kirchnerists are trying to capitalize on this by triggering a market crash, an exchange rate crash, and a bank run. This is the people we voted against, and this is the reason we voted against them. The problem with their plan is that "big money" doesn't fall for it, is very informed and well aware of crypto scams. Basically a bunch of americans lost a lot of money in a stupid memecoin gamble.

A lawyer in the US filed a lawsuit against Milei. Hours later it was known that the lawyer was detained in the US a couple of years ago for extortion. Demanded 70M USD from a company "or he would release their wrongdoings to the public".