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Submission + - Candy Corn Is Made of Bug Secretions (archive.is)

know-nothing cunt writes: The Atlantic reports:

Here's a tip if you ever want to ruin a Halloween party. Seek out the most squeamish-seeming adult or child you can find in the act of consuming candy corn. Then tell them they just filled their mouth with bug secretions. If this fact alarms you — or if you’re an inveterate hater of candy corn and thus think that you have been spared — I regret to inform you that by eating many classic Halloween candies, you are, to some extent, eating bugs. More precisely, you are eating a bug by-product that is in many cases listed on the package as "confectioner’s glaze." This glaze is used on jelly beans, Milk Duds, Junior Mints, Whoppers, Lemonheads, and Sugar Babies, to name a few.


Comment Re:Coding interview is dead (Score 1) 146

"Where is your evidence to support your causal assertions?"
They said it themselves.

You are full of shit.

"Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab said on Monday it is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, or more than a quarter of its global workforce, as the technology giant looks to âcontain costs and help fund its massive AI investments."

https://www.reuters.com/techno...

"The company told employees in March that it was cutting thousands of jobs as it faced investor pressure over raising huge amounts of debt for its AI infrastructure buildout."

"Oracle has started telling employees that it's cutting thousands of jobs, CNBC has confirmed, as the software maker deals with a plummeting stock price tied to hefty capital commitments for building out AI infrastructure. "

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/3...

"Today we're laying off over 1000 Epic employees. I'm sorry we're here again. The downturn in Fortnite engagement that started in 2025 means we're spending significantly more than we're making, and we have to make major cuts to keep the company funded. This layoff, together with over $500 million of identified cost savings in contracting, marketing, and closing some open roles puts us in a more stable place."

"Since it's a thing now, I should note that the layoffs aren't related to AI. To the extent it improves productivity, we want to have as many awesome developers developing great content and tech as we can."

https://www.epicgames.com/site...

"Probably half of the suggestions AI wants to do for me is stupid or else just plain wrong", I'm still waiting to see your work. Maybe it's just you.

I didn't say this. You can't even keep track of who you are talking to.

Comment Re:Coding interview is dead (Score 1) 146

"Everyone should provide evidence to support their personal experiences", you made the claim buddy. Got nothing?

Wasn't it you who asserted industry layoffs are due to AI use?

"The vast majority of the software industry is embracing this tech as a productivity booster and you can just look at the layoff statistics for evidence. Microsoft is massively profitable but recently offered buyouts to 60k employees. Oracle laid off 13% of staff. Cloudflare, Wix, and Epic Games furloughed 20% this year. "

Where is your evidence to support your causal assertions? Oh right it doesn't exist because you are full of shit.

Comment Re:Coding interview is dead (Score 1) 146

"psychologically manipulative shills spewing nonsense divorced from reality". I'm not trying to sell you anything, asshole.

Yes you are, your words speak for themselves shill.

'how to be an end user of an LLM constitutes some kind of "skill" is frankly absurd on its face'
Hilarious! Go look for a job telling the interviewer that.

Anyone can use an LLM. Unless you are applying for a job at a code mill an interviewer who focuses on tool use is doing themselves and their organization a disservice.

Comment Re:Blame the correct thing (Score 1) 195

Not like IPv6 solves anything with lots of ISP blocking inbound IPv6 connections.

Even in this situation IPv6 is still a huge benefit because peers are able to prime the ISPs association tables to enable direct communications amongst themselves. You might still need a third party to facilitate the setup of the communication yet data channels are still able to be maintained directly between peers.

Comment Re:Coding interview is dead (Score 1) 146

"Probably half of the suggestions AI wants to do for me is stupid or else just plain wrong", lets see some examples. What were your prompts, what were the responses, and what models were you using.

Everyone should provide evidence to support their personal experiences to ZipNada's satisfaction. Of course ZipNada the sealioning shill will never be satisfied. It will always be you are doing it wrong or not using enough or using the wrong one.

Comment Re:Coding interview is dead (Score 1) 146

"talking points any shill would shill". Hey, don't use AI tech. I sure don't care and I don't see why anyone else would.

I like LLMs and have a collection of them. I have prompts running in the background continuously most every day. What I don't like are psychologically manipulative shills spewing nonsense divorced from reality.

Meanwhile people looking for IT jobs are going to have to show that they do know how to use it effectively or get passed over, as the headline article explains.

What does this even mean? AI tools are dead simple to use and prompt engineering is long dead. What is left and in how many weeks from now will it have completely changed? This whole notion knowing how to be an end user of an LLM constitutes some kind of "skill" is frankly absurd on its face.

Submission + - Well, shit.

Cpt_Kirks writes: Patrick Stewart dead at 86.

Comment I love the Internet (Score 2) 195

The Internet is a robust global interconnected network of peers able to communicate with any other peer on the network for the cost of admission.

Protocol specifications and world class implementations are freely available to everyone.

High performance hardware enabling single peers to provide information to millions is cheap and (was) readily available.

High level world class server and client stacks and related technology are also freely available to everyone.

There is zero excuse for anyone here to be whining about the state of the Internet.

Comment Re:Coding interview is dead (Score 1) 146

You are welcome to show examples of how a seasoned senior programmer plodding along manually can get more quality work done in a week than an average worker-bee with a good understanding modern AI assistance. ...
What would impress me is if you can do better with AI assistance than I can. Can you go from an initial idea to a crafted proposal to a phased implementation plan that would probably work in about 30 minutes if I give you access to any model you want to use? Can you describe your workflow to me and show that it generates good results and why (using AI for that of course with full markdown documentation)? Can you get AI to create a complete product workflow for the solution to a problem along with some kind of build and deployment cycle, and get it running on one of the free cloud servers? Without writing a line of code? What if we now changed the spec some, how would you work it in? ...
The vast majority of the software industry is embracing this tech as a productivity booster and you can just look at the layoff statistics for evidence. Microsoft is massively profitable but recently offered buyouts to 60k employees. Oracle laid off 13% of staff. Cloudflare, Wix, and Epic Games furloughed 20% this year. And as they have said, Anthropic uses their own product to write almost 100% of their code and are gearing up for an IPO valuing them at $2 trillion.

I think you've pushed all of the talking points any shill would shill. Focus on proposals, documentation, deployment, signaling this is the future and will cut costs + you're good as dead if you don't use our product. I don't see anything you've missed.

The only slight wrinkle is the stunning lack of real world results. Layoffs are a result of economic conditions and corrections for pandemic era hiring not "AI". When AI gets to that point it will be obvious to everyone. Right now it is just another tool and you are very much high on your own supply.

Comment Re:Is any company managing to make AI anything pay (Score 5, Insightful) 92

Are you sure? There's so much money tied up in circular loans and IOUs based on potential profits that I'm not sure they are.

For example: NVidia invests billions into OpenAI and Anthropic, who then use that money to buy NVidia products. Has NVidia actually made any money, or does the "demand" for the product simply drive up the speculative stock price?

=Smidge=

Comment Coding interviews are a waste. (Score 1) 146

Your best engineers will be AuDHD, and AuDHD folk don't do well in these sorts of synthetic tests.

I can code in 20+ languages for over 12 different OS', write code that's good enough for CERN to run for particle accelerator data collection for a decade, have accelerated systems by an order of magnitude by understanding the poem space better than their previous engineers, but I am abysmal at exam style settings.

The software industry is riddled with SEs who write abysmal code but can pass a coding test easily. They're the folk that you have always needed to reject but didn't because they ticked a box.

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