Tidal energy is being used in many countries. You don’t have to block the canals. You can build structures in coastlines, or just put underground generators that run automatically without any dams because the water moves without the dams as well

True, but we have to know AI is making it wayy worse. The same people who were barely getting by, are now using AI to write softwares that’ll be used for years to come. And other people that don’t have developer experience and aren’t good themselves don’t have any idea and really trust those developers because “they make things happen” like “magic”. Previously they’d take a lot more time to make something work, it’d be shitty, but it’d be obvious for any developers that come after them. Now detection is hard, and the volume has increased.

I know, I have the same problem after leaving Reddit. I used to get reviews, and users for my programs when I shared it there. In lemmy I rarely get views

And then you’re back to the social media, just on the other side

If you’re sharing graphical elements then I prefer pdfs when you know it’s final, and you want to make sure people see it how you intended, and you want it to be vector format. Similar thing if the information is some complex format/layout. People can zoom in instead of having their device messing it up.

But I agree on simple contents like documents, tables, and such

Honestly if you’re starting from scratch, I’d say learn rust. It’s not that hard if it’s your first language because you don’t have to unlearn stuffs from other languages. Plus the compilation errors will really teach you what you did wrong how to fix things. And using clippy, it’ll tell you how to do things better and remove redundancies.

C is easy to learn in terms of syntax, but it’s hard to write correct code as the program gets more complex. Python is easy to write but doesn’t teach you much. I find rust as easy to write as python, but c like speed.

I think that’s one of the problem with people that are only of a “finish this task cheaply for now” mind.

Having something run in 0.1 second vs 1 second is fine when a user is running it for one thing. So they consider it good or instantaneous. And later they have to do it for 1000 other things, and they don’t think that saving time in that “instantaneous result” there would save so much more time. They just go “it’s 1000 of these so it takes time”. I’ve found functions that open a db file, read one entry and close it. Then that function is called for each entry they have to read later. In a preprocessing step where they know all the entries they need beforehand. And even the data tyoe to store it is nor preallocated, they just append it on every data read; again on a fixed number of entries they need.

I understand performance not being the most important thing, but I’d expect least a basic understanding of design that has unnecessary processing.

I think that’s true for many tools. Programming tools are the one thing that has most advancement because so many programmer are there to improve on them. And even if you don’t use it, not knowing about it completely makes it a bit odd. Although most tools I have used to make flamegraph were as easy as just running the program as a argument to another program that tracks the function calls.

I was in a meeting with a senior software engineer, who makes a shit ton more than me. While sharing my screen he saw flame graph I had for one program I was working on. They asked “what is that?”, I was taken back, and said it’s for looking at which functions are taking more time. Then I was asked “where did you find it?” I was shell shocked, didn’t know how to answer that. Similar things have happened before where I taught them certain things, and they go “great find”, like dude, I didn’t find it just now. That’s basic knowledge if you work with database.

I am not even a developer hire, I’m self learned, and because the company doesn’t have many developers they gave me some of the tasks and I’m doing it because it’s more fun than my job responsibilities, and when I don’t have enough tasks.

They’re the same family, if you let a potato plant flower and bear fruits it’ll have little cherry tomatoes looking fruits. Haven’t tried eating that though. And it’s harder to grow from seeds

You’re free to use a vibe coded linux kernel that you trust enough to run everything on your whole computer. I don’t

I think that’s honestly how it goes. If you’re efficient and just get more tasks, or get called off for not working (if you’re done with work and doing something else), then you have to pace yourself. Lot if work I get is copy paste this from here to here that takes hours, I could have written an script to do all that in the time I spent cooy pasting, but then I’d be the only one who could do it again. Even though the next time it’d take 5-10 minutes

Yeah. I think sometimes it comes from using a lot of shitty softwares that only work with “happy path” so they like to repeat what works and won’t experiment (because that means repeated work).

I have a lot of “we have to do it this way”, me: “this is better”, them: “we always do this way”.

As well as, me:“hey it’s easier this way, I think clients will like this way, even if we do the original they have to switch eventually”, them: “no, they asked for this, we NEED to do this”, me: “can we ask?”, them: “…”, i talked to the clients and they were already thinking about the new one and had no problem, saved us weeks of work trying to back port an already existing solution

Yup I had a HR personally message me saying the person I recommended doesn’t have a certification needed for the job. They have that in a different state, getting it in the state the job is in is as simple as saying “hey I passed the same exams you guys take (it’s national), I’m registered and practicing in that other state, can I get approved here?” And they say “sure”. It’s small documentation and a bit of waiting period, but that’s shorter than the training period of the job itself. I said a bit about that but they’re like they don’t have it in this state. Which I’d understand if it’s just a way to say no without saying that person is not qualified for other reasons. Because most other openings I see in our industry gives the candidates 6months to get the certificate because it’s easy

Assume all that is true, AI can really do well in these fields, but there are some other fields it can’t do well in.

Now who is going to work on those fields? Who is going to take the risk of studying for it, practicing for years, being an expert in the field that takes maybe a decade, and the AI can suddenly solve your field too, and you don’t get anything.

It’s from 2017, from a Facebook group. So yeah, different target audience, probably

It has been a while since Boku no hero was completed, one piece still hasn’t lol

I understand it works for people, that’s why they don’t do it. But me for example have a gag reflex where either I need to control the suction tube, or I need to spit. Before moving to US, I’ve always seen dentist chair with a little sink next to it, so I think it is a good convenience.

Maybe consider it like slopes on the sidewalk, or the tactile pavements. You don’t need it, but it’s there for people who need it, and is kind of an standard now.

Whatever the thing you lay down on is called lol

Idk where this post came from, American dentist don’t seem to have sink next to the bed. I thought it was just one place, but it keeps happening.