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Exactly, wokism (at least how it's perceived by the non-ideological) is about representation for the sake of representation. Which doesn't apply when you're using the sport's (arguably) greatest athlete to promote a product, regardless of race.

Honestly one of the most egregious things I've read about the NHS - actively promoting behavior that makes the lives of innocent children unnecessarily harder, and forcing everyone to contribute to supporting frankly disgusting behavior.

Yeah, and where's Bombadil Inc.?

Go for it, if you need suggestions just ask

> if you step out of this forum and the culture you are in, you will be offended every day

You're not alone, there's just a weird culture in the West at the moment of signalling empathy without demonstrating it. Calling out the usage of a specific word is just an example of it that you've just experienced - don't put too much stock into these people's opinions, even if you get them to "approve" of you all it will take is a slight change in the direction of the wind and they'll burn you at the stake for something else.

Not to mention over time the meanings of these words shift and change because - and repeat after me - language is just an expression of internal thought processes. Eliminating and banning language does nothing to limit the thought processes: people will still want to express the feeling of something being "retarded" even if they cannot use the word "retarded" - eventually the new word being used will be considered "offensive" and the word will shift again but the meaning will stay the same.

Say what you want and stand behind it. Don't let these cry-bullies police your language.

Very much similar experience to yourself, when I was learning from YouTube tutorials I refused to copy/paste from their repos and instead typed everything out. Maybe changing variable names or structure.

I can definitely say it helped me learn a lot more than just blindly copy/pasting everything over.

Yeah I highly doubt that claim, if it were true, buddy would be getting a massive signing bonus from OpenAI/Anthropic + endless press noise about it

Not GP but honestly I don't even spend 10% of my time writing code - even if these tools were perfect code generators that could read my mind (instead of having to prompt) it wouldn't significantly impact my work.

They should be running pre-mortems every morning at this point

inb4 "EvERyTHing Is PolItiKz"

Nah don't worry, I'm sure Cyril will setup a commission for this

> See what players think about the latest World of Warcraft patch. It's absolutely shit and broken

Crazy to me that the loot tables are still broken for some players/characters, they've tried to fix it several times now, and it's still not working - Since (some) endgame gear can only be obtained this way they've effectively soft locked those players/character out of the endgame.

Context: Some players are always receiving the same drops i.e. a belt. Rather than a varied loot table that gives them a chance to get items they need.

I prefer the old name, it was much more memorable because it's funny.

"Yeah I'm playing with my Coq to try and get it working again"

This is probably the most insane take I've read all year. As though an LLMs don't have an increased chance to bork code when they have to write it multiple times for different platforms - even LLM users benefit from the existence of libraries that handle cross platform, low level implementation details and expose high level apis.

A while loop, some prompts basically amounting to "this is how you format a system call" and "make no mistakes", there's also a regex + executor for detecting and executing system calls.

Look at the JWT standard, it usually contains things like claims, roles, user ids, etc.

If a consultant made the same mistakes I'd expect the consultant to be held accountable, not the client business that hired the consultancy - they knew they didn't have the requisite skills and so outsourced to an "expert" (and therefore can't be judged for not knowing how to secure their software since they did everything possible)

In this case the "client" is fully liable for the security issues.

> Wanna get back to hunting for that metal song?

Absolutely flawless save chat

Well, I have something to tell you about the last decade+ of EU immigration policy

This is my take too - LLMs aren't an excuse to lower our standards, they're the reason to raise them.

Put simply LLMs perform better on better code.

I think what matters more than the abstract class vs if statement dichotomy, is how well something maps the problem domain/data structures and flows.

Sure maybe its fast to write that simple if statement, but if it doesn't capture the deeper problem you'll just keep running head first into edge cases - whereas if you're modelling the problem in a good way it comes as a natural extension/interaction in the code with very little tweaking _and_ it covers all edge cases in a clean way.

Seems to have been removed, I'm getting a 404

No need to make it easier though

At that point you lose all potential gains from just using AI - it's harder and slower to read and understand a bunch of verbose slop and then clean it up

Not OP but I hold myself to that standard, and the honest answer is that at best it's the same.

> and post the original along with the translation

this so many times - it's so incredibly handy to have the original message from the author, for one I may speak or understand parts of that language and so have an easier time understanding the intent of the translated text. For another I can cut and translate specific parts using whatever tools I want, again giving me more context about what is trying to be communicated.

Seems strange, for decades we allowed developers to use what made them comfortable, you like notepad? go ahead and use it. Don't want an LSP? that's fine disable it.

So long as their productivity was on par with the rest of the team there was no issue.

Suddenly, everyone needs to use this new tool (which we haven't proven to actually be effective) and if you don't you don't belong in the industry.

- Ones who see it generated something bad, and realise it'd be faster to just hand fix the issues than babysit an LLM

Yep willing to bet that the majority of people saying "users don't care how well the code is written" will crash out when some software they're using is slow and buggy, even more extremely if it glitches and deletes their work.

Just like how most people don't care how well a bridge is designed... until it collapses.

Same, although I actually remember enjoying this particular poem in class.