HarkMahlberg

Stripping the copper wiring from the walls.

They were on Boston’s T stations as well a couple months ago. Maybe they target cities specifically, I haven’t seen any outside tech industry centers.

Meltdown is MSM’s new Slam. Everyone is slamming someone else. MAGA is melting down about everything. When are they not melting down?

Yeah once you explore the whole map, it becomes a typical looter shooter where you’re just grinding for 6 crown weapons. I will say though, having only played for a couple years, the dev team did a remarkable job adding new content over time, and not all of it locked behind DLC. Picking this game up on sale for $5 felt like I won the lottery. It might be “just ok” but I did have dozens of hours of fun in the game with my brother and friends.

GOG’s move into mod support seems pretty prescient now.

Generation Zero. Primo aesthetic, sometimes well balanced, good with friends but not so much solo.

It’s not for the sake of right wing media, it’s for the sake of the normal people who call Los Angeles home.

I get your point, but calling it a war zone is exactly what right wing media wants everyone to hear. It’s a protest, we’ve had one every single weekend since 1/20, in nearly every state, and nobody needed to call the NG.

Let it not go unsaid: fuck waymo, I’m happy to see those death traps burn.

My brain is cooked… I didn’t understand you meant “they” to be part of the meme. XD

I want GOG to getback to what it was before CDPR.

CD Projekt saw potential to look back at their distribution days to offer DRM-free versions of classic games through digital distribution, … They founded a new subsidiary, Good Old Games, to serve this purpose in early 2008.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOG.com

I thought it would be Swen making the comment, happily surprised to see it’s someone else at Larian.

Dismissive of argument because he has no valid counterargument. Thanks for being such a textbook example of bad faith arguments online.

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My God man, say it louder for the folks in the back. A 21 year old answer, heck even an 8 year old answer like OP said, might not STILL be the best answer in the current age. Technology evolves, new languages get invented, old languages gain some new features, and all of that happens at a rapid pace.

I get super dismayed using SO and seeing the top answer predates Rust. (Note I don’t mean to say Rust is always the answer, but that Rust is already 13 years old. Things change.)

which kinda sucks

Can’t wait to meet the successor to M1 Abrams: the M2 Sad Tin Can.

I’ve seen lazy developers take solutions from Stack Overflow, and paste them directly into code with no scrutiny, no testing, no validation. I’ve also seen talented developers take solutions from Stack Overflow, verify them, scrutinize them, simplify or expand on them. The difference wasn’t the source of information, but what the developer did with it.

AI is a crutch for the shameless, careless developers who create more problems than they solve. It’s just made them more efficient at it. Which only creates problems faster than than the talented developers can solve; it’s easy to destroy, but difficult to build. I know talented developers who use AI, but it hasn’t made them faster or more efficient, because their strength is also their weakness: they take their time, they evaluate their options, they scrutinize AI output because they know its prone to mistakes.

My greatest worry is the folks in the middle - they’re neither experts nor novices, just average. I want to see more engineers develop the skills needed to make them experts, but I worry that AI will just make them lazy.

That sounds like treating the symptom rather than the disease. Why automate the toil, when we could remove it instead? The other commenters brought up examples:

generating (the boring) parts of work documents

when I notice auto-generated parts, which triggers that I use AI in turn, and I ask it to summarise all that verbose AI generated content.

The AI wrote a document a human didn’t want to read, so AI then read the document AI wrote. The incentive thereafter is to save, and use, the shorter AI doc over the longer one.

Was any value created by this cycle? We just watered down the information with more automation. In the process, we probably lost nuance, detail. Alternatively, if we all agreed the document wasn’t worth a human’s eyes or keystrokes in the first place… why have the AI do anything? Sounds like we would all be happier to not have the document in the first place.

Much like programming itself, where if you have to write tons of comments to explain what you’re doing and why, your code is the problem and should be rewritten to be more legible. If you need a training seminar on how to use the program, the program maybe isn’t very usable lol.

Well that does work, so thank you for that. But I still maintain that’s crazy unintuitive. If I saw that option in a context menu at least it would be self-explanatory. But the feature as-is would only ever be known if you hovered over a single character and read the tooltip.

Nah mate, SN has no correct way to use it. The interface is fucking horrible. It’s a black hole of information. The search is a stack - if you want to remove a query at the bottom of the stack, you have to remove all the queries, then add them back one at a time. I’ve lost edits to tickets because I dared to have two tabs open at the same time. I’ve seen edits to ONE ticket end up on ANOTHER, again, because of having two tabs open.

No killer feature can redeem it when the basic workflow is hot dogshit.