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And remember: they don't call you a nazi because they think you are. They call you a nazi to make you a valid target.

With the factory allegory: code is stock. Stock costs and is a liability hence Lean manufacturing.

Someone(s), somewhere, is paid "big bucks" to be in charge.

That's the person we should charge. If they cannot be charged for this kind of fuck-ups, then they should not be paid anything for simply rubber-stamping anything going over their desk. A simple machine could do their job.

Yup, very parisian. Love how then they almost mock how pain (bread) is pronounced in the south-west where you won't mistake the sounds between the words un pain.

I think you have the same feeling I have with most modern sets (and especially technic ones): not blocky enough and too much smooth curved surfaces. But you can still make blocky stuffs if you want to, while being able to learn modern lego building methods and integrate those curved designs in your builds.

> 'same laptop, but slightly cheaper because there's no battery in it at all'

So, a simple computer? You can even choose your keyboard, mouse and screens.

You can still buy basic brick sets. With lot of nice color nowadays. Like the CLassics or Creator lines: https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/classic

And for $100 you get a lot of bricks to play with and let your imagination go wild. Just don't buy sets aimed at adults and IP fansumers.

I expected (and still expect) a lot from LLM with cross disciplinary research.

I think they should be the perfect tool to find methods or results in a field which look like it could be used in another field.

But if push come to shove any other engineer can come in and debug your senior engineer code. That's why we insist on people creating easy to change code.

With auto generated code which almost no one will check or debug by hand, you want at least compiler level exactitude. Then changing "the code" is as easy as asking your code generator for new things. If people have to debug its output, then it does not help in making maintainable software unless it also generates "good" code.

Every modern (and not so modern) software development method hinge on one thing: requirements are not known and even if known they'll change over time. From this you get the goal of "good" code which is "easy to change code".

Do current LLM based agents generate code which is easy to change? My gut feeling is a no at the moment. Until they do I'd argue code generated from agents is only good for prototypes. Once you can ask your agent to change a feature and be 100% sure they won't break other features then you don't care about how the code looks like.

The thing is, the Toyota methods relies on people on every level to work to improve processes. If you're an employee and know you'll be there 10 years down the line or even until you retire, you have an incentive to improve said processes.

Now check most Western companies: since the 70 / 80, everything is about reducing headcount. Lay-offs, outsourcing, offshoring, now the concept of spending your whole working life at the same company feels like a fever dream. So why would an employee try to improve things for the company when they know there is no future for them there? Better improve their own career and future prospect. So yeah, things like Kaizen are doomed to fail until things change.

Well, anyone using the product of an open source project is free to fork it and then take on the maintenance. Or organize multiple users to handle the maintenance.

I don't expect free shit forever.

One thing most of those lack is an easy way to share screen.

Now if anyone wants to differentiate their Discord alternative, they want to have most of discord functionalities and add the possibility to be in multiple voice chats (maybe with rights and a channel hierarchy + different push-to-talk binds). It's a missed feature when doing huge operations in games and using the Canary client is not always enough.

Yup, I was expecting pgtune being mentioned in the article.

And maybe something like HammerDB to check performances.

My question would be: what are the myriad other projects you tasked Opus 4.6 to build and it could not get to a point you could kinda-sorta make a post about?

This kind of headline makes me think of p-hacking.

Isn't identity theft a problem in the US? Especially because something which was not meant to be used as ID is used as one (the SSN)?

> Like blameless postmortems taken to a comical extreme where one person is always doing some careless that causes problems and we all have to brainstorm a way to pretend that the system failed, not the person who continues to cause us problems.

Well, I'd argue the system failed in that the bad person is not removed. The root is then bad hiring decision and bad management of problematic people. You can do a blameless postmortem guiding a change in policy which ends in some people getting fired.

> How do you suggest to deal with Gemini?

Don't. I do not ask my mechanic for medical advice, why would I ask a random output machine?

> I would kill for a true ambi five-button mouse to replace my old Microsoft Intellimouse, but I've run into the same problem, they just don't seem to exist anymore.

I was going to say Steelseries Sensei but it looks like those have been discontinued.

> I've literally never had the thought of "how do I influence other people." Why is that considered a valuable skill?

If you're a software developer you must have thought "current priorities are not right, we should do X for the users / Y to get better quality" and tried to influence your management to get those priorities moved. Maybe by starting a campaign with your users so the demands come from multiple services and not just you, or by measuring quality indicators and showing how what you want to implement would improve them etc.

That's why you want to start getting coffee with people, maybe go outside with the smokers. It can take months of "work" to get people to propose the idea you want done.

But this kind of influencing won't help your career.

> people simply MUST be doing self-guided experimentation

And self guided exploration is a skill in itself which you have to learn. You can experiment for years and get nothing of it because you don't even measure anything. You can find a local maximum and, not knowing the concept, never try something radically different.

> I would love to transport my motorcycle, building materials etc

Just get a Renault Traffic or equivalent. I don't see any advantage pickup trucks would have against a white van when transporting anything.

Most of those attacks do the same kind of things.

So I'm surprised to never see something akin to "our AI systems flagged a possible attack" in those posts. Or the fact Github from AI pusher fame Microsoft does not already use their AI to find this kind of attacks before they become a problem.

Where is this miracle AI for cybersecurity when you need it?

Same thing with Symfony and its Messenger component when setup to use a database.

> Sometimes, a "bug" can be caused by nasty architecture with intertwined hacks

The joys of enterprise software. When searching for the cause of a bug let you discover multiple "forgotten" servers, ETL jobs, crons all interacting together. And no one knows why they do what they do how they do. Because they've gone away many years ago.

I feel like with opensource projects those kind of "easy to fix but not priority" bugs are a really nice way to keep the door open to new contributors.

You're a new coder and would like to help a project, if possible a big one for your resume? Here are something to get started.

Remember that at its core GDPR was to harmonize privacy laws around the EU to ease the transfer of data between those countries.

> What's the benefit of taking down an online game for a couple of hours.

Competitive MMO. Imagine some event is setup to start at some time and your guild or alliance knows they're gonna lose it and the resource it gives: DDOS the server so it's down during the event so it does not run. Enjoy the fact you kept the asset linked to said event and sell the resources you get for real money.

If you've never played those kind of games you cannot fathom how cutthroat they can become. I'm part of a guild which has a specific intelligence branch with spies embedded in many other guilds and that's playing nice because we're not selling anything.

> Think about managing a park of 100~200 servers with home made bash scripts and crappy monitoring tools and a modicum of dashboards.

Not even that. One repository I checked this week had some commits which messages were like "synchronize code with what is on production server". Awesome. And that's not counting the number of hidden adhoc cronjobs on multiple servers.

Also as a dev I like having a pool of "compute" where I can decide to start a new project whenever instead of having to ask some OPS team for servers, routing, DNS config.

20 years ago, my engineering school accepted a Chinese student directly in 2nd year due to their home university results. Middle of the year he was offered to either go back to 1st year and use the next 6 months to learn passable French or get the fuck out.

No idea if it is still the way to handle foreign students nowadays tho. But I think that's how every school should handle foreign students: no special passes, asked to learn the language to integrate.