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Yeah, where is all the hate coming from? Writing software is difficult, challenging and, at some level, fun.

Appreciate the sentiment, but in my humble opinion, seems like they should lean into creating even better automated testing, because adding all the new bugs to their suite of automated tests would be a more certain way to decrease their chance of happening again.

But, in a sense, this still incorporates your idea, because the devs and QA must be given the mandate of finding these bugs, and also towards making the automated tests cover the bug's related test cases (as well as charged with improving the test code itself, which is often in a mediocre state in most code bases I've seen at least).

Ah, I see, round 1 is just the initial weeder, while on top of this, you'd like devs that are using LLM's for automation. Sounds like a good balance:)

Haven't coded for a couple years (but have been a dev for two decades) and haven't used LLM's myself for coding (not against this), so am really just curious, wouldn't you want to know if a dev can solve and understand problems themselves?

Because it seems like tougher real-world technical problems (where there are tons of dependencies with other systems in addition to technical and business requirements) needs for the dev to have an understanding of how things work, and if you rely on an LLM, you may not gain enough of an understanding of what's going on to solve problems like this...

... Although, I could see how devs that are more focused on application development and knowing the business domain is their key skill, wouldn't need to have as strong an understanding of the technical (no judgement here, have been in this role myself at times).

hee-larious:)

Well, I guess like everything, it's up for personal interpretation, which is why I think that success is still only one of the factors in determining viability as a mate. Yeah, what I have tended to notice is that the few friends I have that come from rich families, often from foreign countries and grew up with servants, is that they are limited in ways that I don't really see as someone I'd regard highly as a mate. They often lack simple basics skills, like fixing simple things around the house or the social skills to treat others as equals (well, this last one I only know one person like this). To me, coming from a lot of money can actually be a negative.

Yeah, for me, success is just one of the factors, but to each their own - and I am sure I'm personally biased, because I have not be as successful as I would have liked in my own career paths. If I was really successful, might be saying something completely different (would hope not, but who knows?).

Hmm, I only half agree with your statement on success being a effective way to gauge a mate's value. Yes, success indicates some level of ability, but is in no way a true measure. For instance, a person who has gained his fortune mainly by inheritance and little work of their own is not nearly skilled as a person who has done it nearly all themselves. Or, often someone is in the right place at the right time, but they themselves are fairly average (maybe they joined a randmom startup and was always a junior member of the company, but still became super wealthy because the company IPO'd and they happened to have a decent number of shares).

I'd agree though on average it does indicate some greater chance at being more skilled, but for me at least, success doesn't directly gauge a mate's value. Like many things, it is a lot of factors that all need to be considered together.

agreed. Intelligence needs to registered and felt by the participant at a fundamental level (like physical attractiveness). Very good point.

really interesting idea:)

Yeah, if I remember this correctly, studies have shown that a man's level of success effects a woman's determination of how attractive they find him (where the reverse isn't nearly as true. A woman's level of success doesn't affect a man's determination of attractiveness)...

It was years ago when I saw this, and after only a quick search, can't find any studies on exactly this online, but am sure these have been done.

Actually, for me, this is both not and a little surprising. Not surprising because confirms that attractiveness in males is actually important to women (as a puny example of a man, have known this all my adult life, haha). But also it's a little surprising because (if remember correctly) there have been studies showing that success is supposed to be an important factor in how a woman views a man's attractiveness, that the more successful they are, the more attractive the man seems and vice versa. This makes biological sense, because a more successful man would mean more access to resources and status (And maybe not surprisingly, the reverse is not true, where men are evaluating woman's attractiveness. Success has little impact on attractiveness). Yeah, would think intelligence in men would have made a bigger impact...

...Although, attractiveness is of course tied to success as well, with more attractive people tending to be more successful than less, so maybe women are also picking up on this as well?

Okay, maybe I spoke to strongly, it is very widely used and does have some nice ideas (Spring Boot is awesome). But it's just my opinion that Spring does give a lot of new devs the idea that Java is overly complex. And for me at least, I've only needed to use dependency injection once throughout my years as a dev (worked in many companies, large to small). Had to rename a class in a large microservice and didn't have to do a search and replace to rename all the places it was used.

But, in my opinion, the cons outweigh the benefits. It adds a lot of complexity for a feature that is rarely used. Am sure if used in a major refactor it'd be nice, but some search and replace is much better than adding an entire layer to your system that in many ways is not strongly typed (auto-wiring), and also adds an entire set of steps to the debugging process. Am actually pretty good at debugging Spring wiring problems, but still don't think you should have to have learned the art of Spring wiring just to debug something relatively simple - how your components are linked together - and all done at runtime.

To me, if tool builders want to support dependency injection, it should be done at the compiler level, along with the rest of the linking of objects. Yeah, don't think dynamically wiring objects is all that useful for a very large majority of builds... ... thought it over, I think I'd like this actually. A new, dedicated component type where the Java compiler checks your DI. That might be very nice. Yeah, also because having a component type will support using DI where it should be, at the component level, not on every class like it tends to be used.

Will take a look:)

Sad, spring is killing java

Agreed, the spring framework is completely against the spirit of Java. Yeah, auto-wiring was a terrible idea - why do I have to guess what components are going to be pulled in? And why do I have to figure this out a runtime?

The features of Spring Boot are nice, but Spring itself should probably be put out to pasture. Someone needs to write a good alternative to Spring and start promoting it like crazy (probably something exists).

Actually, the part that that person was focusing on was that the fertility rate is below the replacement rate. Yeah, if we also decrease our immigration rate, our population could peak out even in a decade or two: https://www.axios.com/2023/11/09/us-population-decline-down-...

Used to do them, and really want to start again. For me, felt more awake than I ever have been. And, your body feels like it's running at its best for a short while - think it's partially because, at least for me, I tense like every muscle in my body before that super cold water hits me. It's like a mini work-out.

Yeah, that's my theory too on one reason it hasn't fully crashed (meaning "the world running out of greater fools"). Unlike tulip bulbs or the dot.com crash, bitcoin is a world-wide phenomenon so there is large supply of bitcoin buyers. Yeah, even the dot.com crash was done in the highly regulated US stock market.

Also thinking, since it's extremely difficult to regulate, was wondering if some very clever people with huge holdings have formed a cartel and are doing a lot of price manipulation to prevent it from fully collapsing (maybe even during a rise in price, causing it to drop early to prevent a major run up). But that's just a theory.

Yeah, i really dislike bitcoin, but have to admit, it has been a very profitable investment for a lot of people (and still hasn't completely crashed like expected)...

... although as a form of currency (as opposed to an investment) for El Salvador, it looks like it's a failure

Ah true that, congress (and the law) definitely isn't very consistent in their enforcement, nor well thought-out.

And actually, didn't fear China, but the invasion of Taiwan is becoming more and more real. A bit scary.

I understand the sentiment, and in the short term I agree with you (what can a foreign-controlled tik-tok going to do to us?). But think giving influence to our online behavior directly over to an adversarial foreign-power doesn't sound like a good idea. To me, it reminds me of WWII and the codebreakers in England who broke the German codes. They didn't use it to decode messages all time, because they didn't want to alert the Germans, only during significant events. Yeah, control over a major social media outlet could be a tool to use selectively during important events to influence the masses. Not in a good idea in my opinion, but am no expert in this.

Well, it does offer an avenue for inacting some form of ban. And not so sure it's all that morally low.

Because what China's ban of US social media might say is that China recognizes social-media's power to influence the populace (think Russia's use of Twitter and FB in the 2016 election). Yeah, am actually in favor of some form of restrictions, because we as a country need to realize that social media is a tool that can be used against us.

Yeah, if it was an outside country owning a major US newspaper, it'd be more clearcut.

ridiculous

You're statement is true, would should not do the same thing in terms of discrimination, but the two situations are a bit different. Your talking about culture, while this deals more with a outside government's influence on our populace.

For me, think the ACLU makes a valid argument, that this could set a bad precedent. But, the Chinese government already has a system to at least partially monitor and influence what some businesses do (requiring corporations to have role for the CCP in their charters). https://www.csis.org/analysis/new-challenge-communist-corpor.... It doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility that the CCP uses tik-tok to influence the US populace (think Russia and its use of social media during the 2016 election of Trump).

Yeah, this situation is pretty messy.

Feel (some) of your pain - was bullied some in school, and actually had terrible compressed nerve problems that made sitting in high school all day terrible. But think what this person is saying is that this probably isn't the experience of most students. And in all humbleness, would have to agree, don't think me and my friends wouldn't say it's was an extremely abuse experience.

Not saying it doesn't need to be fixed, but that like most systems handling large volumes, for better or worse, it caters to the majority:(

I agree with this (as the bloggers seems to too). Yeah, dealing with all the different personalities you see at school is an important skill, as is dealing with difficult situations. Yeah, would like to think I was in general a nice kid, but had some share of being bullied, and unfortunately have also bullied another kid (neither were common in my life, but you had to learn how to handle these situations, and also make mistakes to learn from them). Yeah, this understanding of people is super useful, and for me at least, the corporate world can be just as ruthless as a school playground. Need to know how to navigate all those egos.

Wow, it seems like the UK education system is a very severe environment. Remember Anthony Hopkins saying the same thing about it being brutal, having received abuse from both the teachers and the other students.

Yeah, just from my perspective having gone through the US public schools, the schools here seem to be a lot more open and friendly (following the American stereotype). But at the same time, we probably have a lot lower standards in terms of learning, and also the US has a lot of variation in school quality.

I have really bad vision too (my prescription is left: -8.00, right: -7.50). Tried this out, and yeah, really works! And realized, you need the best resolution screen possible, because you can see every detail. Not sure how much I'll use this is the future, but good to know it's always an option!

Although, even if it doesn't directly work in humans, it might be a stepping stone to something similar that might.

Ah, you must need to be using a keyboard:)