Pictured above: microslop’s PR lead

Iirc the south bridge now aggregates masked interrupts and groups them together instead of pestering the CPU a whole bunch

Yep that’s the one

And Google and meta get the “anonymized” data regardless which is trivial to deanonymize…

Yeah

There’s a revelation about coding that all programmers realize relatively early in their careers: code is read far more than it’s written.

You write something once and someone is going to need to read it and understand it for years or decades.

Managers never understand this if they don’t need to touch code…

Yes, you can ship product faster. In the coding world we call these “footguns” meaning something ideally suited for removing your foot, sometimes including your entire leg.

I’ve seen AI produced code bases and they’re unmaintainable. I’m not exaggerating… AI is great at narrowly scoped problems but it can’t see the full project context at once to architect a solution like a senior engineer can. It can’t wrap its head around it fully for a large project. You end up with hundreds or thousands of files (where a dozen or less would suffice for a human made version) and insane amounts of duplication and wasteful code.

AI is amazing at making rube Goldberg machines in the shape of a code base…

What AI is phenomenal at is making unit tests and well defined integration tests for your code. Sometimes even regression tests. That is a superpower that can dramatically speed up a programmer.

I firmly believe AI is a tool, not a replacement for programmers. It doesn’t have the ability to replace them yet (not even mythos. Which is going to be more expensive to run than a senior dev who is more reliable in their output.)

Low code solutions always cause layoffs and then a mad scramble to hire devs back, often on the terms of developers. The pendulum has always swung back…

“AI hangover” feels like the right term. They went on an AI bender, shit out a massive unmaintainable code base nobody understands (and anyone who could have was laid off or fired months ago) then suddenly SHTF and they need to hire real humans to maintain it because Claude hiked their token multiplier by a factor of 9X.

I’ve heard of companies hiring interns and junior devs again to do the ditch digging work that’s suddenly too expensive for AI to do with token price increases.

What is AI for then? We already know it can’t do the work of a senior developer…

British person detected? Or maybe you’re just from Vancouver?

Yeah this is a well known tactic in the US government. Backdoor dealings outline how to make a split vote and pick a fall guy to protect the party’s image.

I.e. the Democrats failing to stop Trump’s war in Iran a few weeks ago where some random nobody was the fall guy that time. It looks like Democrats tried but failed and they can blame it on some inconsequential Rando who isn’t up for reelection

The military industrial complex owns everything. The machine exists for their benefit.

😱😱 Democrats are so weak and misguided! They can’t oppose Republicans properly! We need to fight over this more instead of considering a 3rd party that breaks this entire dynamic (maybe call it the wrench party?)

I’m old enough I only had social media in highschool, and knowing how bad kids are in elementary and junior high I think having access to social media and messaging apps then would have destroyed me. The level of bullying you can pull off with Snapchat or WhatsApp groups is cruel and unusual.

But muh universal healthcare death panels!

Unrelated but you’re reminding me of the load bearing mac mini at Twitter

I edited my original comment to append info to clarify. Deleting it would remove an important part of this whole conversation I think.

If you read my sources (and my previous comments, “as per my last email”) a lot of these biases and headwinds disappear with education. As stupid as it sounds, just running an ad going “a black female candidate can garner just as much political support as a white male candidate” can have a strong effect in her campaign.

The core disagreement I think we’re having is whether or not this should even be identified as an issue. I believe it should be as per my previous comments.

as far as I can tell, you don’t think it’s an issue and shouldn’t be contented in an election

Yeah you’re right it’s not an issue that needs to be identified and educated to the general population. We’ll just run a candidate again and act surprised when she loses despite the polling we’re getting saying she’s going to win…

If you won’t accept Standford as a source tell me in advance what sources you accept and I bet I can find studies from that institution as well supporting my argument…

Edit:

This feels like:

“Here are sources proving people don’t change their mind when presented with sources to foundationally back up a claim they don’t agree with”

“I don’t believe that”

They are a big issue. It’s one of the biggest influences on a political campaign for president by a black woman candidate. I’m going to copy paste from my other comment below

Here’s an article on what I’m talking about

When voters are presented with evidence showing that women political candidates garner just as much support as men in U.S. general elections, voters’ intentions to support women presidential candidates increased by about 3 percentage points, the researchers’ data showed

If they aren’t shown and it’s normalized that a candidate can garner just as much political support then it’s a headwind…

There’s also the belief I’m talking about where people say a woman can’t win, which becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. It also comes down to advertising and education (which are hamstrung by mudslinging during elections)

There are a lot of studies like this. I could go on for quite a while.

There’s also a double bind racial bias where black female candidates are viewed as highly competent but unsuitable for a general election.

We theorize that one driving force is a paradox among Democratic primary voters: namely, that Black women are seen both as more liberal and less electable. Using two different survey experiments, we show that, while most Democratic primary candidates benefit from perceptions of being more liberal, this cannot be said for Black women due to beliefs that they are less likely to win in the general election.

These issues need to be:

A) recognized as real.

B) dealt with through education and normalization.

Ironically your style of comment is undermining A and B by saying none of this is real, and shutting down any conversation about potentially fixing it…

Edit: grammar

Here’s an article on what I’m talking about

When voters are presented with evidence showing that women political candidates garner just as much support as men in U.S. general elections, voters’ intentions to support women presidential candidates increased by about 3 percentage points, the researchers’ data showed

If they aren’t shown and it’s normalized that a candidate can garner just as much political support then it’s a headwind…

There’s also the belief I’m talking about where people say a woman can’t win, which becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. It also comes down to advertising and education (which are hamstrung by mudslinging during elections)

There are a lot of studies like this. I could go on for quite a while.

There’s also a double bind racial bias where black female candidates are viewed as highly competent but unsuitable for a general election.

We theorize that one driving force is a paradox among Democratic primary voters: namely, that Black women are seen both as more liberal and less electable. Using two different survey experiments, we show that, while most Democratic primary candidates benefit from perceptions of being more liberal, this cannot be said for Black women due to beliefs that they are less likely to win in the general election.

These issues need to be:

A) recognized as real.

B) dealt with through education and normalization.

Ironically your style of comment is undermining A and B by saying none of this is real, and shutting down any conversation about potentially fixing it…

Fake tolerable left vs right, while driving a wedge into and causing infighting of leftists so they never coordinate enough to make meaningful change and redistribute wealth.

I don’t believe this either. Her polling was dead wrong up until the last minute, same with trump but the warning signs were there early. I don’t think it was reflecting reality so it’s a bad measuring stick for the situation. Also, don’t shoot the messenger here I’m not supporting this but it’s an important aspect of why she lost even if you disagree with me…

Edit: I’m going to copy one of my other comments with sources below to support my argument, and why this should be brought up and identified.

Here’s an article on what I’m talking about

When voters are presented with evidence showing that women political candidates garner just as much support as men in U.S. general elections, voters’ intentions to support women presidential candidates increased by about 3 percentage points, the researchers’ data showed

If they aren’t shown and it’s normalized that a candidate can garner just as much political support then it’s a headwind…

There’s also the belief I’m talking about where people say a woman can’t win, which becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. It also comes down to advertising and education (which are hamstrung by mudslinging during elections)

There are a lot of studies like this. I could go on for quite a while.

There’s also a double bind racial bias where black female candidates are viewed as highly competent but unsuitable for a general election.

We theorize that one driving force is a paradox among Democratic primary voters: namely, that Black women are seen both as more liberal and less electable. Using two different survey experiments, we show that, while most Democratic primary candidates benefit from perceptions of being more liberal, this cannot be said for Black women due to beliefs that they are less likely to win in the general election.

These issues need to be:

A) recognized as real.

B) dealt with through education and normalization.

Ironically your style of comment is undermining A and B by saying none of this is real, and shutting down any conversation about potentially fixing it…