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  • Nah, they don’t just like it; they’re married to it. And with that into the clan that wanders around the steppes, downvoting every thing that challenges them and their beloved. This is, in essence, The Browser War that really doesn’t have any other participants.

    Is their beloved good? lol, well it’s constantly in the news for all the wrong reasons. Is it a good experience? If you’re into being a sub, yes. Does it perform well? Such questions are not allowed in the clan, but they believe it to be so based on clan size.

    Most of all, they swear against Chromium, but park their Steam icons right next to Firefox on their desktop trays.

    There is no mercy for anyone seen not using Firefox. Mixed-browser friendships are an abomination. Not caring much about extensions is death.










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    We’re all just a brain. The only thing we have in common is that we had no choice in our existence, the vessel we’d occupy for it, and where that vessel would geographically and socially land.

    If you look into it any further than that, you’re a fuckwit.

    Be who you are and don’t change who you are for anyone else’s ideas. Nature gave you an incalculable chance to see it for a brief moment before your bits go back to BAU.

    Don’t waste it worrying about what fuckwits think.




  • I think people assume the AI code goes first, but it’s not really like that.

    I just busted out a half day of coding. Really impressive stuff for my standard and was just in flow with little optimisation breakthroughs popping in my head as I made it through. Output looks great, all working as expected, documented and commented my new things in case I forget them later or want to explain them to the team.

    But later, I’ll probably run it through a model real quick and expect at least one change, usually around tidying things up or an opportunity to optimise a block here or there a bit more. Basically tighten up any loose screws or be pointed to big obvious things I somehow missed.

    Really, I think that’s how most devs are making use of it. It can be frightening the shit LLMs come up with starting for scratch (that goes with anything), or even 60-70%. Doesn’t matter how good the prompts are, at the end of the day, it’s relying on Frankencode sourced from all over the place to apply solutions. It has no consistent and familiar, style, logic, or “accent” in its language. But if it’s got an established and detailed base, concept, and direction (such as a mostly completed chunk of code), frequently enough it’ll assist well with finding dumb shit.

    It’s like a final phase thing, to get you beyond, “It seems work work well; good enough.” to “It’s definitely working well. This is done for now.”

    I like to think that’s what’s going on here because anyone with even moderate developing knowledge/skill/experience totally sees just how bad LLMs are at coding.




  • It’s easier to use their names

    Deci = 1/10th
    Centi = 100th
    Milli = 1000th
    Micro = 1,000,000th
    Nano = 1,000,000,000th

    Deca = ×10
    Hector = ×100
    Kilo = ×1,000
    Mega - ×1,000,000
    Giga = × 1,000,000,000
    Tera = × 1,000,000,000,000,000

    Etc prefixing the thing being measured.

    So you know what a centimetre, gigabyte, megaton, kiljoule, etc. are.

    Other easy conversions too, like 1kg = 1L of water.

    And it’s metre. Because a meter is a measuring device and all this shit is Latin (metrum) like proper science stuff be. Americans don’t even use it, so they can fuck off with their misspelling.

    And that’s it. You now know the metric system. You probably now realise you’ve been using it all along for many things.