The Chinese think in terms of 1000-year dynasties, not 6 month short term profits.

USA has no chance of remaining competitive if they keep up their current strategy. Chinese chips are well on their way to surpassing American ones over the next 10-20 years

Don’t forget “author”, as though that’s relevant for anything

Writing code is the reward for doing the thinking. If the LLM does it then software engineering is no fun.

It’s like painting - once you’ve finally finished the prep, which is 90% of the effort, actually getting to paint is the reward

New Zealand copies a lot from USA, we are slowly becoming less civilized

I was finally at a job where I could use Linux at work. Things were great for about a year and then BOOM we get acquired and the new company forces MacBooks on everyone.

I. Friggin. Hate. MacOS. The biggest pain point is the keyboard shortcuts, 15 years of Linux muscle memory…

My point is I can very much relate to having to use unproductive shit for work and the daily reminder of why it’s not on my personal devices

Oh wow, you’re right.

+1000. one of my coworkers keeps thinking he’s saving time with AI-generated code but what he’s really doing is pushing the thinking downstream when we have to pick apart the absolute garbage that gets generated.

PR feedback gets turned into AI prompts and the cycle continues. It’s exhausting

Yep, I’ve seen MS flight simulator fans basically create entire cockpits in their house with a crap tonne of screens for 180-degree vision and hook up all the 3rd party peripherals.

There’s just no way this will ever work seamlessly on Linux

What are you going to do, send them money? That information isn’t private, people have to give it up all the time to receive money…

“Don’t touch working code” stems from “last person who touched it, owns it” and there’s some shit that it’s just not worth your pay grade to own.

Particularly if you’re a contractor employed to work on something specific

I will forever recognize the Baar Sophia font from the fansubs of Naruto which got me into anime in the first place

Ahh good ol’ Aegisub. I have great memories of subtitling anime in my late teens before I got a girlfriend and the fansub scene died when Crunchyroll took over.

I was also one of the people helping test Aegisub on Linux (2009-ish), I wasn’t a programmer at the time but I remember a dude called ‘verm’ in the IRC channel who did a bunch of work to make Aegisub stable on Linux. He taught me the difference between little endian and big endian, I guess he was bored that day

Managers love yes-men so the more biased the better

Reminds me of the the sexydancingladies skit from Viva la Dirt League

Ah, yes, you’re right. If the focus is just on not giving money to Google then SponsorBlock is unnecessary.

However, I also find most sponsored segments obnoxious as hell so SponsorBlock still helps with making the YouTube experience better in general

What’s currently being marketed as AI reinforces that there’s always someone who can do your job worse for cheaper

I’m just waiting for the “cheaper” part to change. Surely these VC’s will want to see some ROI on the stupid amount of money these hosted models cost. There’s no way the subscription fees being charged cover the actual cost of running the models, so something will have to give eventually

Nvidia on modern Linux (Wayland) is garbage and I’m buying AMD next time.

Like seriously, people will try and tell you “oh you can install the proprietary driver easily now and they’ve come a long way”

Sure, but it’s still garbage. I can’t even full screen a video in Firefox without a it crashing and a bunch of apps simply refuse to work without shitty environment variable hacks to drop back to software rendering

I’m not a noob either, I’ve been using Linux as my primary OS since 2008

Nah win2k pro was really, really slow compared to xp

I mean, Firefox + uBlock Origin + SponsorBlock makes YouTube usable without giving Google more money

I can afford neither, but if I had to save up for one it would be the BYD.

American cars are just large, stupid and inefficient. Also the parts are very expensive here in New Zealand