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@lauriewired My biggest issue is that Wayland and Xorg both have poor support for multiple resolutions at once. My two main displays are 3840x2160 but I have a third display that's ultra-wide at 5120x2160. The tearing is *real* when all three are on and I'm doing anything but coding.

what's your new years resolution?

@lauriewired Yeah. Hard pass. I find LLM's to be helpful in tiny bursts, and it often takes more time wrangling them to stop making stupid mistakes than it would have taken me to just code it myself.

that's gonna be a no from me dawg

@_andrewthecoder @lauriewired I wrote a simple API using Symfony (I know it well) for work. I kept track: 73% of the code made by paid Claude 4.5 was wrong and required me to fix it. Its not just you. I'm sure most people who make big claims are like that guy whose vibe-coded app was hacked in seconds.

@lauriewired I don't understand what these people are building??? I can't even get Claude or Gemini (both of which I actually paid for) to write good tests for me... am I just that bad at proomting? Are are people vibe code really simple apps?

@lauriewired In 2012 I was building a PHP app for univ. research. The code itself looked fine (I showed many people) but the output was usually wrong and not always in the same way. Finally after a week of going crazy I threw a Hail Mary and disabled opcache. Voila! Thanks Zend: stale opcodes

It’s one of the better teaching moments. It’s very tempting to “debug by print statements”, but this is one of the clearer situations where that strategy can burn you! I can’t show you the real snippet…for obvious reasons, however I’ve written a quick little example that demonstrates the behavior. What’s the worst Heisenbug you’ve encountered? gist.github.com/LaurieWired/df…

one of the trickiest C++ bugs I’ve experienced involved the *physical* location of data in memory. writing some tricky string decryption code, it worked...sometimes recompilation slightly shifted the layout of the stack, which by pure luck contained a “safe” number

@MKBHD Boy, oh boy, did I go kicking and screaming into the Gestures camp back when it was first introduced, but now buttons feel so...time-wastey and slow.

Gestures. Final answer

I refuse to watch videos that tell me to "wait 'till the end."

@lauriewired I spent a full weekend back in February segmenting my network (a to-do list item I've had for years) into "IoT," "VMs," and "Trusted." Everything works as it should, and I don't lose sleep over the $10 PTZ camera from China that stares at one of my enclosed 3D printers.

VLANs protect you as much, if not *moreso* than traditional antivirus, yet I barely know 2 people IRL that use them. IoT garbage? VLAN Work PC? VLAN Gaming Console? VLAN Who cares if something is compromised if it can't talk to anything useful.

@Levikonn @ModernVintageG Damn, you got a raw deal. Regular Pringles are like saddle-shaped rice cakes. I also got Orange Cream coke, but in a 20oz bottle.

@ModernVintageG I got regular pringles which is bs

It's here #NintendoSwitch2

@ModernVintageG I also got Sour Cream and Onion (my favorite) but I got Orange Cream Coke, which seems like a horrible idea. I will not be tasting it.

@diannahaze Early boarding group means I can stay away from people at the gate, too—no need to worry about seating, overhead storage, or any of the other stresses associated with Coach.

@diannahaze I have one kidney (a recent development) which put me in the penultimate risk level for COVID. Doctor's orders were "1st class, if you can afford it." I can, with moderation; I can say that it makes a huge difference. More literal breathing room, fewer people, etc.

Traveling (on a plane 😱) soon for treatments. Got any tips for staying safe while traveling?? I’m nervous. Also nervous about the crash afterwards. 😩

@lauriewired I asked an iptables question that caused a 17-minute reasoning session. It was dead-wrong and suggested that I drop all traffic in both directions, unless the origin was a 10. subnet (128. was defined in the question.)

i've developed a terrible habit of assuming LLM output is going to be garbage if it "didn't think long enough"

@ElectroBOOMGuy Complex Job, Would Stay only because the job market for my people (Software Engineers) is the most brutal it's ever been, right now.

If you work in any government position, based on your job complexity, if you were given the choice to quit now and receive 8 months worth of your salary, OR keep working as is, which one would you choose? Answer honestly!

It's too bad ChatGPT isn't smart enough to teach Sam Altman what a glass house is. I'm sure DeepSeek's tech could help him out.

I'm so fat, my scale showed me a continued fraction, today.

Yeah; I'm going to buy a 5090.

@thephysicsgirl Super Mario Odyssey and Mario Kart are A++. Starlink is also a really fun, methodical game; a balanced mixture of gathering and action like Zelda, with Star Fox making a titillating cameo (I *badly* want another SF title.) Sonic: Frontiers—excellent.

Any good video game recs for the Switch? I liked a lot of the Zelda games, Portal, and Ori and the Will of the Wisps. I tried Pikmin 4 and Stardew Valley. Didn’t really like them.

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