GreenWatermelon

In what universe are corpo-controlled walled-gardens considered "Open Internet"?

> no attempt is being made here to bring them back to their original, non-malicious shape.

Because it's impossible unless you ban for-profit social media. Naturally I'd support such a ban.

Hackernews is not social media. Just no. Unless the term os literally meaningless in which case my Company's slack ks social media.

Should it also be the Role of parents to prevent their children from being kidnapped by crime syndicates? Maybe we should also abolish schools because it should be the parent's role to educate their children.

This individualistic line of thinking is downright insane. It's preposterous. We live in a fucking society, no one can do anything on their own. For God's sake parent's shouldn't be expected to fight alone against MULTI-FUCKING TRILLION CORPORATIONS.

Fat load of help all that anti-regulation talk did when the current US Gov can just get all the data it wants from those megacorps.

Yeah let's also abolish laws preventing sale of tobacco and alcohol to children. This will surely lead to a prosperous national.

No wonder the US is collapsing as we speak.

Not exposing kods to addictive drugs while they're still young and naive lowers their chances of consuming drugs when they're adults.

The societies that will allow unchecked access to social media will collapse, just like ehat happened to China during the Opium wars.

Everyone but kids still has access to cigarettes, doesn't mean we should allow sale pf tobacco to Minors.

This is still a trillion times better than the Antisocial media of today. At least they'll interact with their friends.

Online competitive games at least require you to work your brain.

> reads "talking to bots and other low value activities"

> translates it to "stop talking online"

The mental gymnastics to arrive at 2 is insane. Either you're being disingenuous or you actually believe everyone online is a bot in which case telling people to stop talking online is good.

This is the result of years of people sniffing the AI Powder. Our collective intelligence as a species is falling off a cliff.

> Microslop

I see you watched the recent Gamer's Nexus video!

Mid-Senior in MENA. My monthly Salary is around 740 USD (Converted), and while I exaggerated that more than 50% figure, 200 USD/m is still a gigantic chunk of money to spend on something with dubious return on investment.

I believe programming languages are the better language for planning architecture, the algorithms, the domain model, etc... compared to English.

The way I develop mirrors the process of creating said design document. I start with a high level overview, define what Entities the program should represent, define their attributes, etc... only now I'm using a more specific language than English. By creating a class or a TS interface with some code documentation I can use my IDEs capabilities to discover connections between entities.

I can then give the code to an LLM to produce a technical document for managers or something. It'll be a throwaway document because such documents are rarely used for actual decision making.

> Obviously, before starting writing, you could sit down and write a software design document that worked out the architecture, the algorithms, the domain model, the concurrency, the data flow, the goals, the steps to achieve it and so on;

I do this with code, and the IDE is much better than MS Word or whatevah at detecting my logical inconsistencies.

Disagree. No plan survives first contact.

I can spend all the time I want inside my ivory tower, hatching out plans and architecture, but the moment I start hammering letters in the IDE my watertight plan suddenly looks like Swiss cheese: constraints and edge cases that weren't accounted for during planning, flows that turn out to be unfeasible without a clunky implementation, etc...

That's why Writing code has become my favorite method of planning. The code IS the spec, and English is woefully insufficient when it comes to precision.

This makes Agentic workflows even worse because you'll only your architectural flaws much much later down the process.

... Yeah thise tests are probably garbage. The models probably covered the 80% that consists of boiler plate and mocked out the important 20% that was critical business logic. That's how it was in my experience.

For God's sake that's completely slop.

In real Engineering disciplines the process is important, and is critical for achieving desired results, that's why there are manuals and guidelines measured in the hundreds of pages for things like driving a pile into dirt. There are rigorous testing procedures to enusre everything is correct and up to spec, because there are real consequences.

Software Developers have long been completely disconnected from the consequences of their work, and tech companies have diluted responsibility so much that working software doesn't matter anymore. This field is now mostly scams and bullshit, where developers are closer to finance bros than real, actual Engineers.

I'm not talking about what someone os building in their home for personal reasons for their own usage, but about giving the same thing to other people.

In the end it's just cost cutting.

My other 2c: There are Engineers who are concerned by the long-term consequences of their work e.g. maintainability.

In real engineering disciplines, the Engineer is accountable for their work. If a bridge you signed off collapses, you're accountable and if it turns out you were negligent you'll face jail time. In Software, that might be a program in a car.

The Engineering mindset embodies these principles regardless of regulatory constraints. The Engineer needs to keep in mind those who'll be using their constructions. With Agentic Vibecoding, I can never get confident that the resulting software will behave according to specs. I'm worried that it'll scewover the user, the client, and all stakeholders. I can't accept half-assed work just because it saved me 2 days of typing.

I don't make stuff just for the sake of making stuff otherwise it would just be a hobby, and in my hobbies I don't need to care about anything, but I can't in good conscience push shit and slop down other people's throats.

I'm pretty damn sure the parent, by saying "writing code" meant the physical act of pushing down buttons to produce text, not the problem solving process that preceeds writing said code.

This has real Torment Nexus[0] energy

[0] Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

> value can yet another CRUD app possibly add

Possibly significant e.g connecting multiple governmental agencies so citizens can finish their paperwork in days instead of weeks, schedule appointments instead of waiting from 8am untill 2pm to have you matters settled, etc...

Of course, there isn't much shareholder value on this, so perhaps when Software Engineering becomes a modest profession like many others, improvements to society might start happening.

The industry as it currently stands is significantly antisocial.

lmaoo that's more than half of my salary and I'm pretty well-paid in my country.

Except that the most glaring difference is that compilers are deterministic, while LLMs aren't.

Given the same input, compilers will always return the same output, while for LLMs. They won't, given the same input, they will return different output.

Judging by this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46599464

It seems to be common.

Oh God you fell for the hype and used DHH's juiced up distro. I encourage you to try a properly maintained distro e.g. Ubuntu, Fedora, or Leap instead of a racist narcissist's hobby project.

That would be Kubuntu then.

When I still used windows (until windows 10) I always had to download some DPI fixer program to fix blurriness in many native windows programs.

Text rendering × DPI seems to be one of those difficult problems.

Maybe, just maybe, we should fix the fucked up world we created instead? Shunning the modern culture of individualism would be a great first step, followed by promoting communal culture. Live exactly how we evolved to live for hundreds of thousands of years.

There's a reason it takes a village to raised a child. He idea of only a single pair of adults should be responsible for raising an entire human being is one of the most unhinged developments of the modern era.

For our entire history we used to live in tribes. One person can look after 5 children with only a small extra % of the effort it takes to look after one. Hell maybe even less effort because the kids will keep each other company, and the adult only has to make sure the kids don't kill themselves. The older kids will naturally take charge and the younger kids tend to follow their older-brother figures.

It can still be done today. Children-having adults gather, bringing their children along. The children will be happy because friends to play with. Adults will be happy because socialization + taking a break from entertaining child. You can even play DND or something.

It's so obvious, so simple, so rewarding, but we still somehow fucked it up.

And Linux being good for gaming now (thanks Valve!) makes this option more attractive than ever.

And the inability to run rootkits is a bonus, not a drawback.

It took them AGES to finally implement tab groups and vertical tabs, two of the most requested features that pretty much all browsers browsers had at that point. They can barely hear Firefox users over the sound of google's millions filling up their bank.

That's why my favorite rule for anything and everything* (online or offline) is "Don't be an asshole". If someone starts arguing against it, they're pretty much saying they're an asshole.

*Not applicable to Nations or States, or any place where people aren't free to come and go as they please.

> From guest author, Mike Perham (@mperham), creator and maintainer of Sidekiq.

> I’m happy to announce the Gem Fellowship, a grant partnership with gem.coop, the new open source cooperative in the Ruby community. Contributed Systems, my company behind Sidekiq Pro and Sidekiq Enterprise, is committing to provide $100,000 in grants for each of the next three years. These grants are meant to provide funding to the altruistic people who maintain and improve the open source tools freely available to the Ruby community.

I'm glad to see the folks behind Sidekiq sticking to their principals. They're supporting the same good folks that were responsible for maintaining RubyGems before.

That may have been true before the age of LLMs, but now crawler bots bring down any website in their path.