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ashughes

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  • Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 - Plans move to Rust, with help from AI

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  • Assuming a full-time employer engineer works 20 days a month, that’s 50,000 lines of code a day.

    Assuming an 8 hour work day, that’s 6,250 lines of code per hour, or 104 lines of code per minute.

    This is humanly impossible without using AI and automation at every stage of the process. Good luck with that.

    I’m guessing where we’re headed is software “engineers” becoming AI prompt “engineers” for design, development, review, testing, and shipping.

    Buckle up, shit’s gonna get wild.

  • Senate Representation vs Eligible Population

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  • So I guess proportional representation skips a generation.

  • Reccommending a Linux distro for a friend

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  • I don’t have a recommendation other than don’t recommend something to your friend for which you’re not willing to provide tech support.

  • Reccommending a Linux distro for a friend

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  • Fact. I game on Debian (mostly through Steam flatpak) and it works great. I tried the so-called “gaming” distros and eeked out 0-5% fps gains while also experiencing paper cuts or bugs in other areas of my daily driving that weren’t present on Debian. I’m not into e-sports so so long as I’m not hitting a 30 fps floor I’m fine. The time I save not having to navigate paper cuts I get to put toward fun things, like actually playing games.

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  • Is DeleteMe.org real? Looks too good to not be a data stealing scam.

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  • Reject Convenience did a pretty good breakdown of DeleteMe, Incogni and the data broker industry on their YouTube channel a while back. It’s a good overview but, fair warning, it might send you down a bit of a rabbit hole after watching.

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  • Where do you get your news?

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  • If you aren’t just looking for “news of the day”, The Ferret is a good source for Scotland-based investigative journalism.

  • No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog

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  • I think this is just panic from the higher ups at Mozilla who have no idea what in the fuck the company should be doing or is about, even.

    As someone who started their career as a volunteer at Mozilla and was fortunate enough to become an employee (although am no longer), I can say with a fair amount of confidence that this has been their standard operating mode for over a decade. Nothing I’ve seen from them since I was let go has shown me they’re operating any differently.

    I still support Firefox because I oppose a browser monoculture owned by Google, and the advocacy work the Foundation is vitally important. The Corporation lost the plot ages ago though, and does more harm to Mozilla’s mission than any other player out there. No amount of re-orgs or pivots can fix this.

    I hope, someday, for Firefox to be freed from the Corporation as a sustainable community run project (like Debian), with infrastructure sponsored by the Foundation and others who want to see it continue. Unfortunately the Corporation will never let Firefox go because its existential for them, and will be stuck in this panic cycle for as long as Google keeps them on life support.

    Anyway, still using Firefox and pruning all the weeds from it each release, but it’s become exhausting.

  • 🤏🤏🤏

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  • Hey, I’m a millennial! I not only remember Crossfire and SLI, I still hold a grudge against Nvidia for killing 3dfx.

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  • Nice try, Officer, but I’m not falling for it.

  • Anyone in tech confirm?

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  • Can confirm.

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  • Yeah, feed the AI slop to AI as a prompt and watch it slowly eat itself. Like the late Ray Liotta being fed his own brain in Hannibal.

  • How do I learn to "like" AI for work?

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  • This actually made something click for me: why I haven’t been able to find work for 3 years in software QA. It’s not that AI came for my job or that it replaced me. At some point people stopped caring about quality so the assurance became moot.

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    Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over 'wasteful' Calibri

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  • Reading the “In Crime and Politics” section of the Calibri Wikipedia page, I can’t help but think the motivation here is so the State Department can release falsified documents predating 2006 without being found out.

  • Thoughts on cookie monsters official cookies of the year?

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  • Macaroons are not cookies, they’re a sandwich.

  • Where do you go to find your recipes?

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  • Venezuela calls Trump airspace closure warning 'colonialist threat'

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  • Precursor to an invasion. It’s basically a warning to the rest of the world: all flights going to, from, or through Venezuelan air space would do well to divert around it because soon that air space is going to be a war zone.

  • What the hell is even going on at this point?

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  • He’s basically cosplaying as Senator Palpatine. We all know what comes next.

  • What are the best reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

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  • This except I convinced my parents they didn’t actually need a computer in their lives anymore. It is win-win.

  • Fugees rapper Pras Michel sentenced to 14 years for illegal donations to Obama campaign

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  • too ludacris a proposal

    I see what you did there. 😁