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@SandyofCthulhu Mark Warburg was supposed to be a Texan on one of the Transformers films and he pronounced pecan wrong.

I read a story in which the author, whose hero was Texas, mentioned someone taking a "slice" of Frito pie, and thus exposed himself as a poseur. In a different story, by a different author, the hero went to Waffle House and bought a Belgian waffle - making it clear he had never in fact visited a Waffle House. In the Walking Dead, they go from Florida to South Carolina and can't find a single firearm in any house. "Huh" I thought. "The screenwriters are from Los Angeles." What examples can you give of a writer unintentionally giving away his lack of knowledge?

AIならこういうのが見たい

@ComputerrBooks You know, not all coding projects are web apps.

coding in the early 2000s vs coding now 😹

@CSMFHT He did know exactly how to active the hologram.

In the original Star Wars, Obi Wan Kenobi doesn't seem to recognise R2D2, despite canonically being very well acquainted. If we are to assume he does so to hide his own identity, it's akin to Odysseus recognising his dog Argos but not being able to acknowledge him...

@SWT_Channel I watched it with my daughter. We loved it. Omega is one of her favorite characters. She is much better than Ray.

Q: What's your honest opinion of The Bad Batch?

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@ash_twtz I do iOS development I need a Mac. I also do Windows development. I need a PC. You think all software is Web based? What do you think the browser is?

If Linux is so secure, why don’t companies make developers use it by default?

@PingStruggles This leaves out Win NT 4.0, and 2000. They worked well for me.

Windows 12 better not break the cycle just because it’s vibe coded

A couple of years ago I was about to propose to my girlfriend. Ring in hand. Speech prepared. Everything ready. My roommate Joseph burst through the door out of nowhere, tripped over absolutely nothing, and fell face first through a glass table. Me: (ring still in hand) Me: (staring at Joseph on the floor) Me: (staring at the shattered table) Me: (staring at my girlfriend) Mood: gone. Joseph got a large piece of glass in his eye. Was walking around with a cotton pad over it for two months. I put the proposal on hold and helped him through the whole thing because that's what you do. Then one day Joseph was gone. My girlfriend was also gone. Together. Apparently they bonded during his recovery. Eloped without leaving a single note. I tried to find them. Never could. So if you've ever wondered why I'm not married right now. It's because if it hadn't been for cotton eye Joe I'd have been married a long time ago. Where did you come from. Where did you go. Where did you come from cotton eye Joe.

CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI. So when they play with AI, they see the happy path results, often not considering the next 10 or 20 things that have to happen to get sustainable results from agents. “Look I made this awesome product prototype”. Yes but you didn’t have to review the code before it went into production and fix a bunch of issues. “Look I generated a contract”. Yes but you didn’t verify all the terms before it goes out to the counterparty and didn’t have to wire up all the past contracts to work with. The best thing you can do as a CEO is to use AI a *ton* to figure out the real implications of agents in the enterprise, and come out the other side with an appreciation for both the upside and the real work that goes into them.

Q: How are job postings for software engineers rising rapidly despite AI agents automating coding? A: Because there’s far more code to manage than ever before. We’re already seeing a 14x YoY increase in GitHub commits, and it’s accelerating. AI has dramatically lowered the cost of writing code, so it’s now being used across far more businesses, applications, and use cases. We’re at the beginning of a massive productivity boom driven by the proliferation of bespoke software throughout the entire economy. Coding has been AI’s breakout use case this year. The fact that it’s increased demand for software engineers — rather than decreased it — should call into question the entire “AI will cause mass job loss” narrative.

@theo I much prefer native development to web. I also prefer using native apps over web apps. Web apps run inside native apps. With out all the other development the web would not exist.

Crazy how the web is still the only platform that doesn’t suck to develop for.

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things. —Douglas Adams

@brockpierson If you got a later version with all the Service Packs it was fine.

Windows Vista actually had a pretty nice design, but my goodness the operating system was so bad. What do you think the reason it flopped so horribly?

On my team I still discuss implementation with other devs so I have not lost that. What I have gained is I ask the AI question about things that I never discuss with other devs. I have learned things about c# and Prism that no one on my team knew. Then I share that with the rest of the team. Sometimes the AI starts implementing something different than I intended. That gives me an idea, and I stop the AI and do something better than both our opinions. I’ve lost nothing with AI and I’ve gained a lot.

Situation 1: dev A thinks approach X is correct, dev B thinks Y is the right way. They argue and try to convince each other. Situation 2: dev A thinks approach X is correct, tells the LLM to implement it. There is SO MUCH learning in Situation 1, lost when using LLMs....

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@DevLeaderCa What kind of development do you do? Server side web? Do you do native at all?

You won't catch me using an abstract class in CSharp. I never use them. Well, almost never. 99% of the time I use them it's because I'm using something else that made extending it REQUIRE an abstract class. I use them when I'm forced to. Wait -- What about that other small fraction of time? Only rare cases where it's speeding up some boilerplate code -- which could probably be replaced by code generation. But I'm not there yet. I try to use composition over inheritance whenever I can. If I need shared logic, it's going into a class that can be reused when I compose different things. I've seen too many times development teams push more and more code into abstract base classes. Inevitably, many of them become a dumping ground. And once they're in place, it becomes a hell of a refactoring effort to unwind. I'm not saying there's *no* use for abstract classes. However, in my own development, I can almost always solve related challenges by composition and ditching the abstract class. When do you find abstract classes add value in your development? #CSharp #DotNet #OOP

@SWT_Channel HK47

Who's the most iconic Star Wars droid?

@Troll4Trump @TSoS_ I came here to post this. Rogue One had a similar hit on a ship when they were trying to land on a planet. It did significant damage. I saw it as an apology for this scene in TFS.

@TSoS_ The fact that this did not do more structural damage to the Falcon is why this scene is garbage.

The Flight of the Falcon is an amazing sequence. Seeing it fly through a graveyard of old Star Destroyers is exciting and simply looks incredible. I never understood the criticism that Rey is too good at everything in TFA, considering a) the movie explicitly tells us she has flown ships before and b) she crashes into the first thing she can find. She is struggling throughout the entire sequence and the way Rey and Finn have to work together to get out of this situation is really fun.

@Cernovich Every time a new technology comes out CEOs say it’s going to replace everything and it never does. He’s full of crap.

Yeah. It's honesty hilarious to see otherwise smart men on this site say, "How can anyone be against data centers." Talk about a blind spot.