I absolutely love perl, I’ve fallen out of professional development but I would take a job to maintain a legacy perl codebase in a heartbeat.

Huh TIL thank you, suppose I should make the leap to learn bash properly instead of clinging onto my perl scripts

It’s crazy to think that a handful of people who have floated around Obsidian/Interplay/Black Isle have created (in my opinion) some of the best games to have ever existed.

You put a name like Chris Avellone or Tim Cain onto a project and I’m going to pay more attention to it than any AAA with millions put into trailers and other bullshit to sell you down the river.

Maybe you should try a different roast or cafe?

Think I’ll support the people trying to bring awareness to a humanitarian crisis rather than the people who have arrest warrants issued by the ICJ.

Cute rant though.

Bit more info, this is a common combination for stocks, soups and stews in French cuisine, traditionally 2:1:1 ratio onions to carrots and celery.

In Italian cuisine the essentially same thing is Sofrito, there is also the Cajun Holy Trinity which varies ingredients but is for similar purposes.

This is kind of a staple for a lot of quality cooking, you should at least make a stock from scratch at some point in your life and you’ll see why these combinations are so important if you do so.

Eloquently said by the Musk adviser… is he like 14? 15? JFC…

I could be wrong on this but afaik Samba can be a pretty big attack vector if set up incorrectly, make sure you take the time to harden it if you’re dealing with personal sensitive files.

There’s been some pretty clear cases where the OSRS team has been forced to look into microtransactions, or profit-focused mechanics that have had huge pushback by the player base and they know that.

They can only fight the shareholders for so long, jagex is on its way out.

Sucks but that’s capitalism baby!

I spent more time refactoring AI drivel in my last job than I did implementing my own.

I’m glad LLMs work for the OOP, unfortunately programming isn’t uniform and different scopes and contexts can cause LLMs to create more overhead than they’re worth, I suppose in the same sense that throwing junior devs at a problem until it goes away creates more overhead.

Sure it can figure out X problem and make a PR for it, but did it do it in a clean manner? No.

Did it while working on X, also realise how X ties into problem Y and Z, and that dependency A does not have the extensibility to cover all these problems in a clean and effective manner before baking up a weird solution? Also no.

Do I have to divide my time and attention across multiple different areas of the code base, comprehend, refactor and commit the code that would usually take me 15 minutes to write in the first place? Yes.

They’ve got their strongpoints like the OP said, but I’m not insane or crazy for not wanting to use them. My tools work fine without the use of AI

The reasonable RCP pathways we’re trying to follow require us to remove a net 2 Gigatons of CO2 a year from the atmosphere per year.

And yeah we can’t really do it this way because of entropy unless we work a miracle, best we can do is tip the Earths natural carbon sinks into our favour but we’re doing the exact opposite of that.

Those carbon sinks can also take millenia to find a state of equilibrium as well.

I know I sound like a pessimist so here’s my take from this, these companies have insidiously compartmentalised an existential threat to our species to the confines of the economy.

These companies will never amount to anything significant, they will ride a model of perceived hype around some vaporware tech that flies in the face of thermodynamics.

This detracts from real solutions to a very real problem that falls beyond the comprehension of these arseholes and they don’t deserve our attention much less the time of day.

I don’t know if it’s just me but last time I browsed Reddit or Facebook they just gave me a bunch of unhinged right-wing phobic bullshit.

I dunno if it’s because my privacy skews their data on me or if they’re just trying to feed me misinformation but either way fuck these companies.

Me and the boys are going to be summoning the PRIDE DEMON this month if anyone would like to join.

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Man this question would sink me because of the misnomer that HTML is a programming language.

Luckily for Google, its predictive AIs were clairvoyant on this one and it has been running at 110% evil so any cuts to evilness do not impact peak evil performance.

Programming is a balance of compromises, one has to define a balance between optimisation, maintainability, legibility, security and much more.

The kernel handles a bunch of different ‘low level’ things that are quite complicated (Allocating memory to programs, scheduling what programs the CPU needs to run, creating security layers for users, handling temperature and performance throttling, peripherals etc)

Due to its pivotal role in an operating system, the kernel developers walk a very thin line of compromises to ensure that it can be maintained and still remain performant.

They do all of this while ensuring that any updates to the Kernel do not break older systems when they update (fingers crossed) or they do not break programs specific to the user (Userspace programs)

Friendly reminder that the IPCC models have consistently been conservative in their approach, mainly because the reports are influenced by policymakers and a biased committee before they reach daylight.

You can look this up yourself, there is plenty of criticism from the scientific community.

IIRC the AR6 said it had high confidence that we would not reach 1.5c before 2030 and medium confidence we would reach it around 2035.

Because of this I want to say that the 1.5c limit is an arbitrary bullshit number for policymakers to appear as though they’re aiming for a goal.

There is no safe level of warming, and a large amount of these feedback loops have and may happen because of factors other than ONE fucking number. (E.g Human influence on the Amazon)

A similar point to be made, we tried this style of legislation in Australia.

Under the guise this was for the publics interest, the only ‘legal’ vapes you can buy in the country now are manufactured by Phillip Morris International and other big tobacco companies.

The blackmarket continues to thrive and with it organised crime grows, have yet to see a pharmacy that stocks ‘legal’ vapes.

Police in my local area are either paid off or get black market tobacco products for free to turn a blind eye to this issue, can’t imagine thats limited to my area only.

I’m all for regulation around nicotine products but I sure as shit wouldn’t trust a pollie to make decent legislation around it at this point in time.

Oh suck it up you soft cock Nazi wannabe, can’t have this ketamine addled fuckwit harping on about empathy being a weakness and at the same time ask people to be polite to him for being a shitstain on humanity