Beej Jorgensen

This guy’s argument is that he’s a 10xer because he’s using AI effectively, i.e. just proofreading its output and deleting the comments. (Also, why hire juniors when you can get the same work for $20/mo?)

I think this is a losing strategy unless all senior devs never retire and are immortal. (Or unless GAI happens in which case the world economy will collapse and who cares about strategy.)

It looks like what’s happening is that way fewer companies are willing to invest in juniors now, leading to falling enrollment in university, leading to a shortage of seniors, leading to very high dev pay, leading to increased enrollment. Eventually.

Or a process to challenge them?

😂😂😂😔

“I see you have extensive database experience. Can you elaborate on the white genocide?”

On the simple side, Ghostwriter is a markdown editor with no frills.

I also write my books in Vim. I use Pandoc to convert markdown to other formats.

This won’t work for you because it’s not enough space, but other people might consider paying money to a place like SDF. I think it was $3 a month (IIRC) for 800 GB of space, and it’s for a good cause.

I use rsync and gocryptfs to back my stuff up there. I also have local hard drives for backups.

Maybe there’s another pubnix that you can pay to get more storage.

Back in the day, I had local hard drives that I would mirror and sneakernet to my friend’s house every couple weeks. We’d trade drives and then we’d have an off-site.

If I weren’t using SDF, I’d probably set up a home server someplace or talk to a friend who already had one and rsync to that.

I think you’re right that this leads to increased efficiency. But in the case of the United States, we’re relying on a bit of inefficiency here to maintain freedom. I would suggest that there’s no difference between a dictatorship and an all-seeing government. Restricting the government is important in a free country, and making data on citizens difficult access is one of those restrictions we’ve been using.

I think it’s mostly because they’re told to.

A grand says that layoff letter was written by AI.

Some internet rando had a hypothesis that certain types of people actually view their own hypocrisy as a strength rather than a failing. It shows how much more powerful they are than others; others have to obey rules that they don’t. Hypocrisy is only viewed as a failing in other people.

But could I pay for model collapse? I’d be down for that.

I’ve had no joy getting my Brother printer to share over the network with our macs… It seems like the mac sees it for a moment and then it vanishes. The closest Ive come is having the printer wake up when the Mac sent a job, but it didn’t print anything. Prints fine from Linux USB.

Someday I’ll give it a third attempt.

This is how you know “pro-states rights” conservatives are lying to you.

As a motorcyclist… Yeah.

I used to dream of watching a movie then falling asleep in bed while my car drove the 8 hours to my folks’ house.

But I’d want that beast to be bristling with sensors of every kind. None of this “cameras only” idiocy.

Someday. Maybe.

The service can determine what they accept as a password.

And what password manager you use, I think was the poster’s point.

Do it. They’re your constituents. But I reckon the guy who plays 4D chess in his sleep knows this.

XFCE, mostly.

Early Palantirians were naive if they thought this wasn’t the outcome.

Any old slashdotters remember tcwww, The Cursed www? Just me?