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kibiz0r

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  • OOP at home:

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  • OOP at home:

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  • The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have heard that objects are a very good thing - is this true?" Qc Na looked pityingly at his student and replied, "Foolish pupil - objects are merely a poor man's closures."

    Chastised, Anton took his leave from his master and returned to his cell, intent on studying closures. He carefully read the entire "Lambda: The Ultimate..." series of papers and its cousins, and implemented a small Scheme interpreter with a closure-based object system. He learned much, and looked forward to informing his master of his progress.

    On his next walk with Qc Na, Anton attempted to impress his master by saying "Master, I have diligently studied the matter, and now understand that objects are truly a poor man's closures." Qc Na responded by hitting Anton with his stick, saying "When will you learn? Closures are a poor man's object." At that moment, Anton became enlightened.

  • Am I holding an unhealthy grudge?

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  • Don’t trust internet strangers to weigh in on this. Talk to a therapist or someone you trust to thoroughly consider the details that you haven’t (and shouldn’t) share here. Without the details, we’re just guessing, but even then a single post-and-reply exchange is not a good substitute for a full IRL conversation.

  • Stop Closing the Door. Fix the House.

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  • Here’s the thing… code is much closer to doing group therapy than it is to flipping burgers. The final produced artifact is somewhat less important than converging on the tiny itty-bitty details of how to collaborate on the journey of getting there. This is especially true for open source projects.

    Spending time trying to understand the perspective of a chatbot-managed contributor is a waste of time. You’re not going to be able to build a community around having a good developer experience for doing XYZ if half of the people weighing in on “how to do that” are not developers who are directly experiencing the thing they’re poking at.

    Edit: Also, on testing specifically… this is something I see teams get wrong all the time. The real value of a test suite is not from making sure your system works correctly, but from making sure it’s easy to inspect how your system works. If it’s hard to write or modify tests, that’s an indication that you’ve got some unwieldy abstractions floating around. LLMs don’t care about whether the friction of test-writing is increasing.

  • I Am Happier Writing Code by Hand

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  • Except that code is generally made of… other code. And generally gets transformed from some kind of source form to some kind of deployment form. And then executed by some kind of runtime, made of code. On some kind of OS, made of code.

    The level of abstraction at which you make paper by hand is pretty much constant. The level of abstraction at which you make even a “hello world” program by hand is extremely flexible.

    Depending on your operating environment, even an incredibly complex and impressive task may just be a matter of passing the right flag to a CLI tool that you already use.

    Being attentive to the manual experience of how a codebase “feels” is pretty important for making sure a system has a coherent (read: not over-engineered) approach to bridging the high and low levels of the tasks it performs.

    Not paying attention to that, because you can delegate it to a chatbot, is kind of like forgoing having light switches in a room because you can just keep a crane parked outside and have it slam a lighting fixture through the ceiling when you need it and then dump a mound of dirt to cover the hole when you don’t need it.

    Like, that functions and accomplishes the task in a pinch, but you do not want to try occupying that room in person at any point to do any kind of detail work.

  • I Am Happier Writing Code by Hand

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  • In order to be effective at software engineering, you must be familiar with the problem space, and this requires thinking and wrestling with the problem. You can’t truly know the pain of using an API by just reading its documentation or implementation. You have to use it to experience it. The act of writing code, despite being slower, was a way for me to wrestle with the problem space, a way for me to find out that my initial ideas didn’t work, a way for thinking. Vibe coding interfered with that.

    If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking.

    – Leslie Lamport

    Yep. This what I don’t get about people who are using these spaghetti-bots. How do they figure out the right solution to a problem without actually walking around the whole perimeter of the problem?

    My guess is they are not, and they’re just waiting until someone complains and they’ll get a job somewhere else and leave the mess for someone else(‘s chatbot) to clean up.

    Between that and the death of open source, our industry is about to become a disaster area.

  • vouch: a contributor trust management system based on explicit vouches to participate

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  • The “dark forest” internet is in full swing

  • We mourn our craft

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  • I mourn it too, because there are dumbasses like this who are buying the hype and setting the industry back by decades as a result.

  • mullberry figs

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  • When the moon hits your knees And you mispronounce trees Sycamore

  • If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky.

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  • It’s massively impractical. You’re never gonna believe it.

    These things require silicon (good luck finding sand!), but they’re mostly glass and aluminum (ridiculously rare substances that we can’t use willy-nilly on stuff that only lasts for 25 years, and then how are we gonna recycle that? we have no idea how to recycle glass and aluminum!), and then to make it scalable you’re gonna want some safe battery technology like sodium-ion (but where are we gonna find a bunch of salt on this blue planet?)

  • Help learning low-level dev

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  • If hardware cost/availability is an issue, there are a few hardware simulators out there. Wokwi (ESP32 sim) is free for personal open-source use.

  • the two wolves inside me

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  • Same as the question of “abolish the family” or “make more family shapes”?

    Imo, with both gender and family… the problem is not individuals/groups using these constructs for self-organization and self-expression. It’s government granting legal recognition (and benefits) to some kinds of gender/family but not others.

  • Remember to turn off your rule before twelve/thirty-one/ninety-nine

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_paradox

    The preparedness paradox is the proposition that if a society or individual acts effectively to mitigate a potential disaster such as a pandemic, natural disaster or other catastrophe so that it causes less harm, the avoided danger will be perceived as having been much less serious because of the limited damage actually caused. The paradox is the incorrect perception that there had been no need for careful preparation as there was little harm, although in reality the limitation of the harm was due to preparation.

    …

    Historical perspective can also contribute to the preparedness paradox. From the point of view of historians after the Year 2000 problem, the preventative action taken has been described as an "overreaction", instead of a successful effort to prepare for an upcoming problem.

  • China builds world’s first 20GW microwave weapon that can fire a 60-second burst

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  • What's a word that's code for 'expensive'?

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  • Exclusive, luxury

  • Bitcoin Plunge Reveals Possible Vulnerabilities In Crazy Imaginary Internet Money

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  • Trump’s New 'Prison Camp' Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country

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  • Fwiw, I think Roehri was pretty clear in their initial comment, and while you had a point that two things can be bad at once I can definitely see why they would balk at “whataboutism”.

    Neither one of yall had to keep pushing it this far, but imo if either one of you really owes the other a “whoops, my bad”, it would probably be you.

    It’s not a big deal, and Idgaf if you do it or not. I just thought you might wanna know.

  • Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support

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  • Just waiting for another xz utils situation

  • What games similar to hardspace shipbreaker can you recommend?

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  • Hey there, cutter.

    If you’re really after the deconstruction aspect, then I’m not sure there’s a whole lot out there. But if you zoom out to the level of “methodically tinkering with a system that requires careful attention”, there’s a lot of those.

    Hardship Breakspacer is part of a (pseudo-)genre known as “dad games”.

    • Powerwash Sim
    • Viscera Cleanup Detail
    • Goblin Cleanup
    • Pacific Drive
    • Papers Please
    • Quarantine Zone
    • House Flipper 2
    • Star Trucker
    • Dredge

    On the “hardcore nerd” end of the spectrum, there’s even:

    • Satisfactory
    • Factorio
    • Scrap Mechanic
    • Any Zachtronics game

    A little more chill:

    • Unpacking
    • Potion Craft
    • Please Fix The Road

    Edit: Or for the “scraping my way through out in space” vibe, but less tinkering:

    • Endless Sky (free and open source!)
    • FTL

    Edit 2: Also, repair is probably an applicable theme:

    • ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs
    • Car Mechanic Simulator
    • Space Mechanic Simulator
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL the phrase "Do Not Split", meaning leftist pacificists and leftist radicals shouldn't condemn each others' tactics

    www.teamhuman.fm /episodes/329-matthew-remski
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    AI is draining water from areas that need it most

    www.bloomberg.com /graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-centers-water-data
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X

    www.404media.co /elon-musks-grok-ai-will-remove-her-clothes-in-public-on-x
  • [CLOSED] Demos, intros and related tunes @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space
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    .kkrieger: Making an impossible FPS

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Trump taps key Project 2025 architect Russ Vought to head budget office

    www.reuters.com /world/us/trump-taps-key-project-2025-architect-russ-vought-head-budget-office-2024-11-23/
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    kibiz0r @midwest.social

    Ali Alkhatib - Destroy AI

  • Technology @midwest.social
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    To Stop AI Killing Us All, First Regulate Deepfakes, Says Researcher Connor Leahy

    time.com /6564434/connor-leahy-ai-risk-deepfakes/
  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    kibiz0r @midwest.social

    Cain and Abe-rule