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barotalomey··on Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney
Sure, I get that. But the term gained popularity in 2012 it seems, according to google trends.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=SJW&hl=e...

And there's a entry from 2011 in urbandictionary.com, so maybe that's around when it was coined.

barotalomey··on Redis is open source again
> When my provisioning system installs a package by name, i expect it to work in the same way as before.

But where do you put the blame?

The distro for making that change, or the redis company for breaking your software stack?

barotalomey··on Redis is open source again
Problem is, redis threw their users under the bus by relicensing [1], and user would end up with an outdated redis version.

1: https://github.com/redis/redis/commit/0b34396924eca4edc52446...

barotalomey··on Redis is open source again
> But money are needed to pay the folks that work at open source software

Cute. Can I have a check for my redis contributions now please?

barotalomey··on Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools
Awesome, finally!
barotalomey··on Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI
RIP Microsoft
barotalomey··on Show HN: Discorss – RSS Feeds for Discord
Oh... I got too excited by the headline.

Thing is, I have a RSS reader already. It's free and open source, isn't updated 8 times a week, works without access to your microphone and it would never try to sell me Nitro.

What I want (and what I thought this was), is to be able to convert certain discord channels into rss feeds.

To OP: If you want a self hosted feature complete rss aggregator, I recommend you try https://www.freshrss.org/

barotalomey··on Did 5G kill the IMSI catcher?
TLDR; No: just rebranded
barotalomey··on Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney
> Usually, acronyms are followed by the full wording the first time they are mentioned.

I'm sure they did at the time this (SJW) acronym got popular. That was maybe 10-15 years ago.

barotalomey··on LLMs can see and hear without any training
Primarily, processing input.
barotalomey··on Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney
In 2025, most online users have learned how to look things up using.. the internet.
barotalomey··on Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney
> by contesting the very existence of articles on individual episodes of TV shows, software, or video games, which are all completely uncontroversial on the English one.

In the first year or so of the english Wikipedia, I was very engaged in adding content but never really tried to engage with the community. I started adding articles about my topic of interest at the time, which was New York 80s punk and hardcore bands. Soon, I had the lot of my articles deleted for "lacking relevance".

I haven't been contributing much since.

barotalomey··on Paper2Code: Automating Code Generation from Scientific Papers
That's how nothing ever works outside fiction.
barotalomey··on 15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python
That's why github added emoji reactions many years ago, so you can express "me too" without spamming the notification systems.

https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/add-reactions...

barotalomey··on Defold: cross-platform game engine
google "godot 4 tutorial", not "godot tutorial"
barotalomey··on Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age
> You and I do not understand assembly language.

Having written z80 and x86 assembly since the 80s, being knee deep in several decompilation projects and a couple of emulators since then, I can safely tell you that I do know a handful assembly languages and at least 2 syntaxes.

I believe other seniors have similar skill sets, for now.

barotalomey··on Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility
Rather, it's the version without a dependency on PERL.
barotalomey··on The problem with "vibe coding"
Eh, if that was the point then please, go ahead and show me this magical AI system that produce "edible" level of code then.

All I seen so far is badly generated boilerplate and enough template spaghetti to confuse some CS dropouts by the looks of it.

barotalomey··on The problem with "vibe coding"
Obtuse maybe, but I'm not missing the point. Their point is nonsensical, given that LLM generated code isn't "as good as fast food compared to home made meals" or even comparable to "food".

Go ahead and explain why I'm missing the point.

barotalomey··on The problem with "vibe coding"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
barotalomey··on AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem
> If anything, LLMs have surprised at much better they are than humans in understanding instructions for text based activities.

That's demonstrateably false, as proven by both OpenAI's own research [1] and endless independent studies by now.

What is fascinating is how some people cling on false ideas about what LLM is and isnt.

Its a recurring fallacy that's bound to get it's own name any time soon.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43155825

barotalomey··on Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility
The real treasure was the friend I found along the way

https://github.com/keszybz/add-determinism

barotalomey··on SeedLM: Compressing LLM Weights into Seeds of Pseudo-Random Generators
You might find The Library of Babel fascinating [1, 2]

1: https://libraryofbabel.info/

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9480949

barotalomey··on The order of files in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ matters
Hence the tradition of numeric file naming in *.d directories.
barotalomey··on AI 2027
> and you have not provided arguments to that effect

The burden of proof lies on those with extraordinary claims. I am simply skeptical.

barotalomey··on The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 1: The Acquisition
Ah, so that's why Minecraft got so incredibly popular, because realism. /s
barotalomey··on AI 2027
You meant to say that people's expectations have shifted. That's expected seeing the amount of hype this tech gets.

Hype affects market value tho, not reality.

barotalomey··on Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age
> The gap between Sr and Jr skills with close as AI gets better.

Sorry, but as the wind blows, we only have indications of the opposite so far and it's wildly reported as a generating losing their ability for deep thought, relying too much on automated code generation. This is especially damaging for juniors, who never get the chance to learn the tricks of the trade in the first place, and they're the ones having a hard time explaining what the code the LLM generated even does.

Seniors will be few and far between, and we will charge premium for fixing up the crap LLM created, which will fit us great before retirement.

Good luck when we are retired.

barotalomey··on AI 2027
It's always "soon" for these guys. Every year, the "soon" keeps sliding into the future.
barotalomey··on Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from c. 1300
The 40th known copy of the work of fiction "Suite Vulgate du Merlin"?
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