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  • BillyClark@piefed.socialtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldHi.
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    16 hours ago

    “Is now a good time?”

    “I was just watching an ad and thinking how much I wished the ad and I could have a conversation. Because I just don’t spend enough time with advertisements. If only they were interactively read off of a script that responded awkwardly to any of my responses. My brain isn’t quite completely rotted yet, and I almost had a little bit of free time. Also, I was thinking how my cell phone’s battery was far too high, and hoping I could whittle it down somehow. So, yes, now is the perfect time for you to be an interactive ad!”


  • It’s a bit of a change of mindset to begin thinking that you can’t trust a PR even a little.

    It has never occurred to me that other people trust PRs, even a little. I mean, that they might think about it in those terms.

    This explains a lot to me.

    Why does it take me longer to review code than other people? They trust the person who wrote it, but I don’t.

    Why is it that when my coworkers think a person is untrustworthy, that they always end up begging me to do all of that person’s reviews. It’s because I’m not bothered by that. I already treat everybody as untrustworthy.

    I’ve never understood how other people think when they do reviews, I guess.


  • Forgetting AI for a moment, I am always shocked when I am reviewing a coworker’s code and it’s obvious that they themselves didn’t review it.

    Like, they sent me a PR that has a whole shitload of other crap in it. Why should I look at it when you haven’t looked at it? If you don’t review your own review requests, you’re a failure of a programmer human.

    And I would be a failure if I approved such a request.

    Getting back to the post, where is all of the review? The coworker should have reviewed the AI shit, whether it was code or documentation. The person who approved the PR should have reviewed it, as well.

    Every business with more than one programmer should have at least two levels of safeguards against this exact thing happening. More if you include different types of test suites.

    This post describes a fundamentally broken business, regardless of the AI angle, and so it’s good if everything is broken. With such a lack of discipline and principles, I say let the business fail.



  • BillyClark@piefed.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldSoda pop
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    It’s just a regional dialect thing. Where I grew up, we called it “coke,” even if it was a Dr. Pepper. That’s the only one that is truly irredeemably wrong.

    I had to train myself to call them something else. (I chose “sodas” because that was the only alternative I knew.)





  • Yes, that post is a great reminder that we can make things too simple, but Trump’s administration frequently parrots Nazi propaganda specifically, and we have been told that Trump keeps a book of Hitler’s speeches next to his bed.

    If anything, I think Trump’s administration is so ignorant to history that the Gestapo comparison is more valid, because they likely don’t know about this other history, so they’re just copying the Nazis directly.