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Any good tech reviewers out there that focus on hardware meant for development, creative work and system administration instead of consoomer laming slop? I know only of level1techs and servethehome.

When was a young lad watched Hak5 and the predecessor to Level1Tech.


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>got assigned to a new project
>built and maintained by a singular techlead level asshole who improvised the whole thing as he went along with no planning or standards
>he did this while overpromising shit to the client
>very shitty error handling
>literally zero documentation or API specifications
>no unit tests whatsoever
>no deployment pipelines
>packages containing critical vulnerabilities haven't been updated in months despite the client shouting about it
>code in testing isn't even the same as code in production
>the entire team is clueless about the whole thing
>throw me into the project without any prior knowledge of the codebase
>didn't even provide me with the creds needed to clone the 10 or so repositories until 3 days in
>can't even set up the environment locally without doing some voodoo bullshit
>just got to know yesterday that the guy who built this mess has already quit, and this is being hidden from the client
>literally a half-year long backlog that the client cannot stop shouting about to me
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>>29645
Will definitely look into it. I have started taking compsci subjects seriously now as I don't intend to be a soydev my entire life.

>>29647
Nope, I can't. Or it ends up getting escalated.

>>29648
ada is a meme, never take anything the tor poster says at face value

>>29649
>ada is a meme
The existing standards with multiple implementations say otherwise (rust in comparison is embarassing with it's "standard follows reference implementation" attitude and truly deserving of being called a meme). You might not see Ada much outside specific niches, that doesn't mean it isn't an exceptional tool, maybe not the best to learn about compsci admittedly.
>>29648
Ada as a language can be daunting, not because it requires compsci knowledge, but because it's type system forces many (good) restrictions you need to code around. You also won't find it in any curriculum, most use python, java or formerly lisp.

>>29650
If they can't update some shitty dependencies they certainly won't rewrite it in a language that nobody at the company knows.

>>29648
Can't you work during the meeting?


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What are your thoughts on AI and its development?
Not just pertaining to art but all types
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>>29600
I honestly don't get why people care so much about """AI""". this technology has been used for decades, and in most cases, it's a tool and/or a glorified assistant. at most, it can "replace" humans in repetitive, low responsibility, short scope situations

>>29601
you can run local models, though you need a lot of resources, and even DIY, though that requires even more resources unless you are fine-tuning them.

>>29615
It's because we hate money but love porn.

>>29611
>All evidence indicates that AI capabilities will continue to rise.
This is somewhat presumptuous given historic AI winters.
Further we've seen exponential decay in scaling with investment cost.
This is all the while AI has been massively unprofitable.
DeepSeek is a good indicator that there might still be some early gains to exploit however.

https://cameronrwolfe.substack.com/p/llm-scaling-laws

>>29620
<All evidence indicates that AI capabilities will not continue to rise at the same rate.
In mature codebases like those of Google and Microsoft we've already seen 20%-30% LLM generated code.
In immature codebases the rate is even higher with 25% of YC startups being 95% LLM generated.
Think we're going to see people getting used to these tools very quickly, even if development stagnates.
It's not too terrible to think of them as an advanced search engine and auto-completion system.
We should see an increases in the productivity of office workers of all sorts; and reduced burden as well.
Further there's going to be a change in the nature of knowledge away from specific and "complete" and towards broad and "indexable".
These two things to me are the most interesting features of this change in the mode of production.

>>29619
We really, really love porn


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Is Elon actually good at math and physics? How good is he in economics? It does feel like his knowledge of economics is actually shit but I keep seeing people saying he was an A-grader in school and uni.
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He's a savant who is good at making big numbers get bigger

Dumb af.
Everything they write about him is a puff piece.

He's low autism score and uses capitalism to steal the identity of intelligent people.

>>29623
cringe censor

>>28553
I used to think he was smart but if you actually lislen to him speak for any extended period of time you realise hes dumber than a bag of rocks. he gets fixated on words that he thinks makes him smart, like saying 'triage' multiple times in interviews. for decades the media gave him a pass unfortunately they're still fixated on him being racist than a complete and utter con artist. if his father hadn't practised apartheid in the 80s he would literally be that wierdo incel guy at work that nobody likes and drops unsolicited opinions on bad video games and cringe reddit movies


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>Vibe coding, sometimes spelled vibecoding, is an AI-powered programming practice where a programmer surrenders to the "vibes" and power of the AI, while ignoring the details of the generated code. After describing a problem in a few sentences, a programmer can watch as the AI codes a custom solution such as an app or website.

>In a March 2025 video "Vibe Coding is the Future", managing partner Jared Friedman said that AI has generated 95% of the codebases for a quarter of the current batch of Y Combinator startups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding

How fucked are we?
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>>28692
I work in data so I think I'm safe… hopefully

>>29193
Pretty sure synthetic data is leading to model collapse, probably why ChatGPT 4.5 underperformed despite being degrees of magnitude larger

>>29193
>>29262
Synthetic data has to be filtered for quality and novelty, otherwise it does lead to model collapse. It doesn't always result in that, though.

However, even if they don't lead to collapse, they hit the diminishing returns wall more quickly than original data.

>>28693
>Are people using Wikipedia now for viral marketing campaigns?
Always have been. Wikipedia mainly gets edited for SEO purposes. You may think you are reading information, but look at the citations. Those citations were put there by people trying to promote their work by having it linked to by Wikipedia and therefore juicing Google's search algorithm.

So, why exactly is it not called slopcoding?


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> SQL could be improved somewhat by introducing composable query fragments with statically-typed interfaces. I begin by explaining two areas (testing and reusing business logic) where SQL does very poorly. Then I explain my solution, and how it addresses the problems.
https://borretti.me/article/composable-sql

Please please please I want those functors so badly. I don't have the energy to set up a test db for every damn project I start.
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write your own sqlite implementation with these features. it sounds intimidating but it is not, the logic behind it is very simple
https://blog.sylver.dev/build-your-own-sqlite-part-1-listing-tables

>>29497
>>29499
They don't accept patches from outside their circle. You need to be approved by the devs before you can even contribute with your code.

why do FP lovers always want to generalize the most random shit, like this, and why do they always want someone else to implement the stuff they want?

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>>29506
Testing. The other complaint is true tho

>>29500
? I'm saying you can write your own sqlite -type database, you don't have to go through the sqlite bureaucracy. that blog entry is a really beginner friendly introduction to database design. hell, I'm pretty sure you could easily write something better and more composable than sqlite just by using non-blocking i/o (so it could be integrated into event loops like libuv), I'm sure someone must have already done this


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Terry Davis is such a tragic figure and TempleOS is legitimately impressive, but so much of the epic 4chan stuff around him is just "let's get this severely unwell man to scream the n-word because it's funny".
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>>29307
>needs some degree of linking/indirect adressing associated with that, right?
no. you just have to check that your programs don't overlap. they can and they will if you make a mistake

>represent a notable leap in complexity
it does because it makes it hard to change the .text section while the program is running (in principle you shouldn't be able to)

>>29308
>you just have to check that your programs don't overlap
I had a look at the code of a game (from https://archive.org/download/TempleOS_ISO_Archive/TempleOS_V5.03/Tos_distro_2017.11.20_19-52.iso) and it doesn't appear to be loaded at a fixed offset, the same program can be run as an arbitrary number of tasks. No virtual memory only means each program has to reside in core (TOS ostensibly implements timesharing and threading without multitasking).
>it does because it makes it hard to change the .text section
You would more-or-less have to load object code into W|X marked memory, which comes with the territory. Write protection on the .text segment only makes writing self-modifying code harder.

>>29309
>and it doesn't appear to be loaded at a fixed offset
you don't need fixed offsets to overlap. all programs and all cores share the same address space. the kernel and drivers do have fixed offsets, programs are allocated with malloc (often right next to each other), but because they share the address space you can overlap. here is terry explaining it himself

>No virtual memory only means each program has to reside in core
in main memory, it also means no protections, which would be considered a giant flaw in any consumer os but it is a feature in templeos. the point is that it isn't as impressive as you think, any compiler could do something similar in a similar environment

TempleOS BTFO's the linux kernel, Windows NT does, any project on osdev does

>>29306
I do systems more the programming nowdays


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lets talk about windows 11 and how its better then all the other operating systems like windows 10 andd linux which are slow and suck

and before u get mad and start saying LIUNX IS BETTER WINDOWS IS STUPID just know this i tryed linux mint and it broke my computer really bad like it woulddnt turn on so i had to get windows put back on it but it was windows 10 so i upgraded to window s11 and now is so much better i like the new look and the feature is really not that bad guys!!!
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OP it sounds like what happened when you tried to use Mint was your bootloader was not allowing a startup because you changed the operating system without getting it's permission to do so. Linux distros do have their issues but I am sure that's likely what happened.

>>29444
It isn't enabled in enterprise versions and the like because of that reason.

>>29407
Windows 95 has yet to be surpassed. XP was aight.

>>29446
7
^D

I recently upgraded my w10 2019 ltsc iot to 2021 version
given how steam worked for gaming on linux and many games even work better now, I will prolly not ever go to 11 and go straight to linux when support finally stop, but I have quite some time still

Damn it, I do not want to switch to w11! I wonder if there's a way to get w11 Windows Defender without switching.


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What mobile browser are you using?
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>>29381
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Just use Google Chrome which hasn't been updated in some years or so.
Would like to degoogle my phone, but it seems the rooting software doesn't work on Mac OS.
If anyone had a method that did work on Linux or Mac OS it would be appreciated.
Just fed posting, don't mind me.

>>29383
Ah, looks like you can just install android-tools in gentoo.

IronFox. I use Brave for porn though since some videos don't work on Firefox forks.

>>29386
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I started hosting an image board out of my house, in the past I've also hosted space station 13 servers. Hosting things from my bedroom has become a hobby of mine.
My ss13 is closed now due to disinterest and lack of a player base.
I'm in the process of setting up a home NAS.
I get a big thrill out of connecting to my homelab from my phone.
What else can I host from home that might actually be useful?

A forum.
A library.
A personal cloud drive.
A wiki.

Git forge.
Fediverse microblog.
Communications (XMPP/Mumble/email/IRC.)
Icecast Radio.


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