mlen

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[–] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago

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So they expect more cases of data being lost like this?

[–] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

When I do code review these days, sometimes I genuinely can't tell whether I'm talking to the person or to the slop extruder. It often ends up with me repeating the same comment over and over again.

[–] mlen@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

The "we'll save some bucks by removing physical knobs and pose this as futuristic by making some vital functions only accessible via multiple levels of menus on a touchscreen" thing is the worst and should be banned.

[–] mlen@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

Technically superman is a more correct translation for that word (similarly to how superscript is the thing beyond the script)

[–] mlen@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

All roads lead down from the local maximum

[–] mlen@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It's a treasure trove of hilariously bad takes.

There's nothing intrinsically valuable about art requiring a lot of work to be produced. It's better that we can do it with a prompt now in 5 seconds

Now I need some eye bleach. I can't tell anymore if they are trolling or their brains are fully rotten.

[–] mlen@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Rich Hickey joins the list of people annoyed by the recent Xmas AI mass spam campaign: https://gist.github.com/richhickey/ea94e3741ff0a4e3af55b9fe6287887f

[–] mlen@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (7 children)
[–] mlen@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Digressing: The irony is that it's a language with one of the best standard libraries out there. Wanna run a http reverse proxy with TLS cross compiled for a different os? No problem!

Many times I used it only because of that despite it being a worse language.

[–] mlen@awful.systems 34 points 2 months ago

It's easy, just more to Signal

[–] mlen@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

What do you mean by decline? Years ago I've been involved in a local ruby community in Poland and even back then his takes were considered unhinged.

[–] mlen@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Huh, what happened? Would you mind linking some more details?

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