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The amount of complexity added for the gains is depressing. I am confident a human and about 5 minutes with chrome debugger would yield better results with a fraction of the complexity at a fraction if the cost and in a fraction of the claude baby sitting time.

Reading this shows the authors have a profound lack of fundamental understanding on how to effectively optimize in the web domain.

This isnt claude being bad but how wild it is watch people from the cutting edge of ai brag about pretty mediocre gains.

maybe my brian is memory holed but twitter used to not require an account which made the whole public square gov thing very valid even if u were banned for political reasons u could still read and be informed.

x requiring an account to even read content from gov officials has to be a massive insane deal breaker for anything gov official.

i hate x, not because of elon but because it is still just twitter where the format breeds the most disgusting human interactions possible. Everyone is performative in every interaction which leads to a net negative. Instragram and meta cannot even claim such a divisive crown although they win on other fronts.

No, bluesky is just yet another twitter with the same fundamental problem because the format is the issue not the politics. At least on bs i can generally read without logging in tho so it wins for me.

RTS games are a niche now so this makes total sense. No one has time for them esp on competitive scene where the older games perfectly capture what audience exists.

Games these days need to have an almost hard cap on a “round” or session wrt to time. I need to know that the game will be over within x minutes’ish. The attention span is small. Almost all indie games have adopted this structure.

What fans really want is NOT another competitive rts but more campaigns and coop. Neither will convinced execs to dump cash into it unless it is a live service game with dlcs. Sc2 did this for a bit with a coop mode that did ok but not ok enough to continue.

Unpopular opinion i am sure but i stopped playing Nintendo games years ago. All their main games are so derivative of their source mechanics that I get bored 10 minutes past the loading screen. At this point mariocart, mario world xxxi, zelda remake of a remake, they all feel like fifa or cod to me albeit far more polished.

Nintendo as a company is also extremely odious but that is a given of all companies these days so i give em a pass.

And, breath of the wild etc mechanics are almost all pulled directly from other open world games although they were a first for nintendo.

This is only true in America. American culture has become one where your worth as a person is based on money. If someone has alot of money, they must be better, smarter, etc, than everyone else who has less.

I dont think this holds as strongly in other countries. Other countries do not have the religious like worship of money that is the usa. Having a Phd is seen as higher status than making millions on legal scamming.

My Indian coworkers talk more about people in their country helping other than who is richest in India where the us folks talk about nothing but stonks and what car they will buy next.

A part that rubs people wrong is that they have no choice and competition doesnt exist outside the vc ecosystem. VC can subsidize a non profitable model for a decade often with an ipo that isnt profitable for another decade of net zero value creation. It isnt capitalism.

It is a pay to play game where if you are not in the club, you have little chance of playing let alone winning.

The cherry on top is the culture of cheating, lying, stealing, and all kinds of other “disruptive” tactics is actively encouraged and cheered on. This is while claiming to be altruistic too.

The public is growing a strong deep hatred of sv, whose only response seems to be calling everyone poor and laughing. It is sad, because I still think technology is a force for good.

this is an oddly dismissive comment that says more about the commenter then what is commented on.

generating an ai image is vastly more costly than loading a webpage…but still not that costly compared to most other things.

this is depressing in the same way content slop or fyp feeds are fun.

if you want a silly pic with ur kids, just pay someone on fiver. it will be only slightly more expensive and likely far more exciting for kids as they have to wait for the dopamine hit.

Idk I find it almost painful how obvious it is to the point of borderline embarrassment.

It is like when MUI/bootstrap/tailwind came out and made it increasingly easier for no design chop folks to press a button and get a decent design going. It is like watching a kid in a candy shop when systems engineers can vibe up a webapp without having to touch html/css/js.

i think people took this too literally.

To put it another way, comments are for irreducible complexity ir external systems outside your control.

I work between systems and app dev. Systems have comments more often esp in shaders but my god informing me that a variable named isActive is for if something is…active, is useless noise. Same with the majority of comments that a type system already tells you. In my career, these have been ~90% of the comments I see. Since ai, all new code it is 100%.

Most of the replies examples are a sign of bad system/code but it is not always controllable. A legacy code comment of, the api requires strings for boolean values in the form “yes” and “no”. That is useful but it is also a code smell.

A concrete example, a vendor decided to define a proto with a flattened array of objects so there are some 1800 uniquely named fields on it. In many downstream consumers, this is a real performance issue besides being confusing. A comment may be good there. The thing is, this was still solvable if up at the root of where this vendor’s hardware logs data remapped it to something sane so every downstream system wouldnt need a comment explaining wtf is going on.

I see comments as when you want to explicitly answer why code smells right when a reader is smelling it.

Only recently came across this guy and if u ignore the standard social media hyper hype hype he has, I dont think he is wrong even his 2024 predictions.

US has 1.5x the money supply since Covid. This means everything has to go up 1.5x to reach the same parity from before. eg inflation. All corporate earnings are going to inflate as 1b yesterday is 1.5b today.

There is no whete for these mega corps to go. They dont know how to grow. meta becoming well meta with the vr crap is case and point. meta blowing billions on a few hyped AI people is the nail.

Other than cloud, microsft/google aimt doing anything. xbox? nope, hardware? nah. It is all attention economy or selling the pick axes for it.

the only mega corp that still seems to be moving the needle is apple which i think speaks volumes.

Eds point is that AI tam or expectations are insane full stop and he admits coding has a use just not as big of a tam. Gen ai in art, music, etc did not take off at all esp compared to code. this makes sense, no one pays an artist 500k/year. their time is worth little compared to coding.

Where he is wrong tho is that this is not new. there is always a hype cycle of nonsense that screws the little people. what is new is the level of polarization. it feels like ai psychosis right now in ways that remind me of crypto but worse because ai is actually useful so people are even more insufferable.

as others have pointed out, the reality is not this. id go further and say almost all comments are evil.

Excuse me if I am harsh, read the damn code. If you do not understand the language, that is a skill issue. If the code is confusing, then the code is bad and no amount of comments will ever change that. Professional engineering isnt an intro to databases class.

I am excusing language conventions which may have comments as part of its idiosyncratic nature.

ram? coding instances? i suspect this is not doing any inference on the machine and i also suspect the ram use is due to a bagilion node/python processes running.

nothing like 600mb of for type check server another 500 for webpack and another 600 for the inevitable electron wrapper you didnt know about. python isnt as bad but still not great.

do people on here not know that things like forbes 30 under 30 are a pay to play game? do they not know that 90% of car influencer reviews are carefully curated by mrketing agencies? and yes apple is notoriously controlling about it too which is the reason to why it is unlikely to be apple driving this.

Having done exactly this for adding accessibility into a crypto wallet in the past, (yes crypto wanted even the disabled), it is plainly obvious why this is not standard.

It is an absolute train-wreck trying to get everything to work and for the overwhelming majority of products it isnt work the effort. It isnt like you put a wheelchair ramp up and are done. It is a constant battle with every change.

It is just another one of those things where the minuet minority suffers. Now if a company got some tax write off for it, that would change things.

Classics are still there, at least they were for me. Then again, i didnt have the pleasure of experiencing American public education.

As much as i do agree, overtime language does eventually change but it can happen over our dead bodies

I bet cost is of no issue with the capx where it is at. It is almost certainly organizational. Meta throws money at every problem and it never seems to workout for them.

The guy that was part of FTX, fired from openai for alleged theft, got billions in a hedge fund somehow then lost billions. Why are all these people so scummy? It is like voting Trump three times in a row.

I added to the memory, system prompts, and the prompt itself and every soa model still litters code with the most inane useless crap. I will then get code to review from a coworker using fable/opus. It has more lines of comments then code.

Maybe I am some god tier code reader (i am not) but i dont think i have ever found a comment in code to be useful in my day job. That isnt true, i once came across

// submit to the dark lord

Above the function that sent a payment to PayPal for processing. It made me laugh so I let it be.

Yes and no. I can think of easily three decision or inflection points in my life where if i went left instead of right, id be a multi millionaire. I can think of even more where my life direction would have been radically different.

Luck plays a huge part on where you start and land but no one is totally unlucky. Luck strikes everyone across all starting points.

What i have seen with my loved ones that struggle is that they have had many lucky breaks and somehow keep squandering them in a sad self fulfilling prophecy. Success begets success and failure begets failure. Both cycles are reversible.

Keep in mind “success” is not rich/famous but financially stable.

I disagree. Education is about culture and not access. Even when books were rare, families that valued education (even more rare) would do better.

Learning about the world gives you an edge, full stop. Cultures that highly value education, surprise surprise, are far more wealthy.

Today, it is almost harder to learn because of how noisy and manipulative the world is today.

Wrong year as in landing on a giant generational recession at the time period in life when people usually accelerate or maybe a world wide pandemic landing in your formative years.

Wrong year is a much smaller time scale. An example more close to home on this site, you/me just missed the free money cash days of the fango mango tech companies. Sure, there are still some of those jobs but far fewer with where interest rates are at.

Controversial/low quality are both subjective and i am not a fan of putting controversial next to low quality.

I do agree I dont think there is any larger bias other than a homogeneous group but it does question if such a group will up/down vote similar homogeneous content producing overall lower quality discussion and content.

You are wrong and they are wrong but that is ok.

This is an ultra cop out. There are standards in language that are not all “left means right for me so you cannot assume when i say right it is right and not left”

This whole thread around loc is depressing. It speaks volumes of some peoples inexperience working on actual legacy code. Legacy code is not just age or size but that the technical foundation is dated in a fundamental way. A giant monolith running on a now defunk framework using a database only one guy in canada knows about.

Case and point in my day job. The org that owns XMM development does not know how to recover a physical bench that is bricked because everyone who knew how has left. So now they just use simulators…

Interestingly, AI figured out some of this pretty easily for me. But the org has the exact same AI as i do. At the same time another org is close to a year into a greenfield rewrite that has been developed via agentic swarms. Absolute trainwreck.

AI doesnt make bad engineers good. Anyone who says they are doing 4 eng work likely would be without ai too. Those that claim otherwise, are the bad engineers.

It is. And the quality is on par with any us eng. People here forget that the big comp packages are a minority even in the US. The cost tho is much higher than just salary.

I mean some fetishes have science behind why they exist. For example, the part of the brain that process feet is located next to the area that processes genitals. At least, some are explainable. Some are not.

it originated way earlier as a way to help people who have naturally small nasal passages. i guess both mewing and chewing help widen passages. The book breath goes into details but from the perspective of health and not looks. This has been known for like 100 years but mostly dentists payed attention to it.

The fact is mewing and chewing do make a measurable difference…over time. Tiktok promotes extremes as they get more views and the more extreme the more views in a cycle of escalation. This gave birth to sad boys who see the Toyota chivalre’s and think they need the same jawline. Similar sad nonsense has been going on for women too but that has unfortunately become all but normalized.

This is insane to me.

Not every engineering job is entry level or as simple as most fullstack crud. Deeper into industry you find highly specific well defined positions for a given domain. Soft skills matter more the higher the ladder but id take a killer senior who can be difficult over a team of mediocre staff engineers.

Some of us do work on web apps not websites. Two different things. Websites should not be web apps. Web apps should take advantage of links when possible.

The rigid mentality of everything in a browser must conform to some supercilious standard all to keep things “pure” I will never understand. We can have things like figma. It is ok for web apps to exist on the internet.

Right as i say this they have dropped the bage for a more forestry motif