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I have simply cared about "optimizing output" long ago. Ironically, I think I ship a lot more stuff than people who waste all their time optimizing their life away.

Somehow in the Netherlands it seems we have mostly managed to escape this. But it's just because people didn't really put any decoration on their menus before, and no decoration is still cheaper than shit AI decorations.

I was 0.00% off on eyeball. Beat me: https://eyeball.rory.codes

(It was pure luck)

This is fun but you need to put "click the line" higher on the page. It took me a while to figure out what I was looking at.

It's basically every game targetting consoles. Good luck finding any real infos about the Nintendo SDK API on Google.

I got one of those random 2auth codes email and I assumed my password had been compromised. At least it's some kind of relief to know that it's only a compromised Microsoft email address...

Should we stop giving fun test tasks to our job candidates?

Yes

This site really has become a parody of itself.

Might? They have had that for a year at least. Plus an entire office block of slave workers in Cambodia.

Seasonality of mood and behavior in the Old Order Amish (Raheja & al), shows reduced rates of Seasonal Affective Disorder in the Amish population.

So at least they are quite happy during winter.

Holy fuck that is really cool

On my side, I can give many examples of random software that became significantly worse since the AI trend started.

Trainline is practically unusable for purchasing itineraries that go accross multiple european countries. GitHub Actions now contains a bunch of extremely frustrating random bugs. Grammarly somehow gives worse copy recommendations.

Really cool looking stuff.

That's very optimistic.

It's a watch. It's an item that literally has one single job: tell the time accurately. It goes without saying that it should do a pretty good job at this and be accurate.

Because this site is basically dead for any other subject than vibecoding and AI agents.

Aider is integrated with git

When I was a teenager, tiny core saved me for a few months. My laptop had died and all I could use until I got a replacement was an old desktop computer we had around with 256MB of RAM. It was around the end of the windows 7 era, so even Xubuntu was struggling on such an old computer.

Tiny Core ran surprisingly well and I could actually use it to browse the web and use IRC.

Not only just one run per model, but no metrics other than total return. If you pick stocks at random you have a very high chance of beating the S&P 500, so you need a bit more than that to make a good benchmark.

This resonates with me. Last week I got stuck on a bug where GitHub actions was pulling ARMv7 docker images when I specifically requested ARMv8. Absolutely impossible to reproduce locally either.

Wages for your typical engineer stopped going up 5+ years ago

Not true for Western Europe. Getting more than 60k euros yearly as a software engineer was hard in 2019, it's now basically impossible to get less than that.

Having a data science degree doesn't really mean much by itself. There's a lot of graduates that come out of it with no marketable skills.

And no, coding is not the new poetry. I wish people would stop spamming this website with doomer nonsense like this.

I don't think so

Sorry to be the one breaking the news to you, but I don't think this site has been a "hacker forum" since at least a decade.

No, Google was 10x better than any competitor until they started actively sabotaging their search product in the past 5 years or so.

ChatGPT feels like an inferior product when compared to Claude or Qwen.

The Netherlands has its own semi supply chain, from photolithographs to chip design to printing the actual chips.

Yeah, LLMs are absolutely terrible for GDscript and anything gamedev related really. It's mostly because games are typically not open source.

If you were an actual "greybeard" your references would be Pets.com and Worldcom. Those didn't end the same way as Uber/Tesla.

If the US government has to find 1T$ somewhere, it isn't very good for US treasuries you know.

Glad I'm not american!