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TremendousJudge

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TremendousJudge··on Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
I have mentioned it several times lately, but if the analogy was correct, people would be committing prompts and not code. High-level source code gets committed, binaries don't. If prompts were really "just a higher level of abstraction", then there wouldn't be a need for saving the code. Or at least you'd see people publish their prompts and chat history alongside the code.
TremendousJudge··on I'm going back to writing code by hand
If they were equivalent, people would be committing the prompts and not the code
TremendousJudge··on BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets
and what's the tesla equivalent for the BYD dolphin?
TremendousJudge··on Why TUIs are back
Recently, I have used both Zed[0] and VSCode[1] remotely via SSH. It works just fine, and it was painless to set up. I remember years ago last time I tried, it was a much harder process.

[0] https://zed.dev/docs/remote-development [1] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

TremendousJudge··on LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction
I'll believe that LLMs are like compilers the day a repo contains only the prompts and no generated code.
TremendousJudge··on The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility
While I agree in principle (slack works just fine as a firefox tab, thank you very much), if the application needs filesystem access, it's not going to be viable.
TremendousJudge··on Our newsroom AI policy
It's not evenly distributed. Big labels get much better payouts per listen than independent artists
TremendousJudge··on Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
I guess such an old edition is in the public domain
TremendousJudge··on Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
really? there are ways of putting music on Spotify that don't involve paying a fee upfront at any time?
TremendousJudge··on Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
I wouldn't say that porn is not allowed on every platform. basically every mainstream "content posting" platform (fb, ig, tw, tiktok, etc) allows softcore porn, and in fact pushes it on users, both on content an on advertising. if the same was true with AI music I wouldn't bother with the platform
TremendousJudge··on NASA Artemis Posters
the film they were using for these pictures allows for way higher resolution scans than 1080p
TremendousJudge··on The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
yeah, but the guys selling the courses were/are all obsessed with being at the beach
TremendousJudge··on Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left"
that sounds like somebody's dream job
TremendousJudge··on Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?
for which society? the American society, maybe? they get to feel good about themselves

for the societies all over the globe that have been the targets of such policies for more than a century, I think it's better to call a spade a spade. the non-American politicians and aristocrats that benefit from US imperialism get to hide much better if the Americans are "the good guys"

TremendousJudge··on 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History
George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia is about his experience in the Spanish Civil War, published in 1938. He was there between '36 and '37 I think. It's pre WWII, and I found it very interesting for the same reason you say here: his account doesn't have the benefit of hindsight. The civil war wasn't even over when the book was published. It's very interesting to see his perspective, what things he saw coming, and what things he didn't.
TremendousJudge··on BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers
What I find most amazing about all this is that this is literally the market that Tesla was aiming for. Affordable EVs for regular people was their whole thing, they were years ahead of BYD, already had an established brand, they just had to keep doing what they were doing, adding cheaper models to their lineup, and they would be much stronger competitors.
TremendousJudge··on BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers
They've been on this path for a while now. The reckoning has to come at some point right?
TremendousJudge··on Honda is killing its EVs
isn't that at least partially caused by the rubber tire particles?
TremendousJudge··on Oil hits $100 a barrel despite deal to release record amount of reserves
It's also amazing that, if the rich, non-oil producing countries of the world actually went and transitioned away from oil, these ""problematic"" countries would lose all their power. All the middle eastern militaries are founded by oil an gas exports, the autocratic regimes are kept in power via military might, and the only reason why they matter in the international stage is that they export oil and gas.
TremendousJudge··on US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]
yeah I'm on the same boat. I just have an old laptop hooked up to the tv, which can access a shared folder on my main computer that has all the media. I control it with a wireless mouse, and get an actual fast UI with a web browser instead of the usability nightmare that is a smart tv UI. this is all Windows though, I guess it's possible to have Linux access a Windows shared folder, I've been meaning to look into it for a while
TremendousJudge··on US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]
it's interesting that if you want to watch a movie, torrenting is pretty much the same it was 20 years ago. at this point I torrent movies that are on Netflix (that I have a subscription for) simply because it gets me a better bitrate much more reliably.
TremendousJudge··on Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)
While it's not surprising that's in the top, it's surprising by how much. ~1/7th of the world population, but ~55% of coal consumption is pretty unbalanced IMO. Of course, the real reason why is that China is the world's factory so the energy consumption is huge as well.

I think the real takeaway here is that the world depends on the industrial production of China, which is powered by coal. We are all using that coal to buy cheap Chinese manufactured goods, and the sooner we come to terms with this the better. Whether a single country uses coal or not is irrelevant for tackling carbon emissions, if we're all basically exporting our carbon emissions to China.

TremendousJudge··on Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/coal-consumption-by-count...

China is the world's top consumer of coal, and accounts for more than 50% of the world's total consumption of coal.

TremendousJudge··on Where things stand with the Department of War
maybe they should make the person with the codes black. I think several cold-war presidents probably wouldn't have a problem with that
TremendousJudge··on RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs
> A machine from 5 years ago feels just as fast as a brand new machine.

Except you can't install Windows 11 on it, and the org has to trash it anyway to keep up with security requirement (I know people on that line of work, they're all angry about it)

TremendousJudge··on Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?
> Singapore is a business masquerading as a country

I don't see why this would lead the country to being well organized. All the big businesses I've seen are very inefficient and disorganized internally, where decisions are made slowly, mostly to benefit the decisionmaker's little princedom inside the company.

TremendousJudge··on Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch
Ironic considering I've yet to see one of those be able to sprint 100 meters
TremendousJudge··on Oracle is underwater on its $300B OpenAI deal
The apartment you bought also actually exists and you live in it (or somebody else does, same point). This isn't really the case with this investment
TremendousJudge··on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change
Is there any video production software that runs on Linux well nowadays?
TremendousJudge··on iPod Socks
I also used to have a bare phone policy, but I had to change it after everybody decided to start making the damn things out of fragile glass. Yeah plastic screens are uglier but they don't crack
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