/tech/ - Technology

Finally figured out npm and got blockly running. Perhaps I could try making a generator for rust to see if that's possible.

>>30009
Blocks are just a different interface to imperative code, which most people already know how to read as text and is trivial to learn compared to other coding paradigms (it's like a cooking recipe). Nodes in contrast represent a type of reactive programming, which is harder to grasp and in general-purpose languages can only be found as special purpose pipelines or message-based object systems. Documentation is pretty much the only advantage of blocks over text, all constructs are listed and often telegraph how they may be used.

>>29994
>It's common practice in fintech in my country (I'm Indian btw lol).
no it's not lol.
what is it with indians and the self-deprecation and loathing?
dumb security lapses are common all over the world, it's not "common practice" anywhere. government and large corp contracts for building software are often riddled with corruption and some inevitably end up with these issues.

>>30002
>Most of those problems are fixed by paying more for better devs.
better devs and giving them the chance to implement things according to their knowledge and understanding of your problem. not cargo-culting by hiring devs and then telling them linkedin raised profits by using a message queue or microsoft stock is up 50% because AI now writes 80% of all their code, so you must find a way to implement message queuing or using AI "agents" to build stuff faster.

funnily so far it hasn't occurred to them to simply not hire any devs and use an AI "agent" to build their async queued event driven 30 billion dollar unicorn idea.

>>30006
It has nothing to do with self-deprecation. I have startup founder friends who refuse to work with Indian clients, despite being Indian! They really pressure you that much and don't hold anyone accountable for anything.

>>29993
>kubernetes or grpc in a way that isn't cargo-cult retardation
GRPC absolutely. it's really not that much of a leap over other RPC protocols.

but kubernetes can be very nice if used in the right way. First of all it is self-hostable, you don't need cloudshit lock-in, second, it can be run on the cheap if you know what you're doing, and you can get pretty reliable scaling and robust and repeatable deployments once it is all set up at the outset. A no-brainer at this point if you have any application with multiple interacting services. Yes, it is kinda ugly if you really get into its configuration and logging but these days you get nice UIs like rancher to abstract that mess away for day-to-day operation at least and you won't need to deal with that unless something goes seriously wrong.

>>30008
I've never felt pressured to deliver at my current big tech role before a product is done. We're happy using old proprietary stuff if it works.
When devs job hop every 2 years I doubt they've seen the ramifications of their work. Tons of microservice resume driven development bullshit as if the next shmuck who shows up will know rust or want to learn it. They seem to include tech simply so they can apply elsewhere with it on their resume. In some domains it takes 2 years just to get sufficiently acquainted with regulations, the business itself, etc.

We don't use AI to write code that much because code gen + libraries/etc. are enough for us. Rarely I'll use LLMs to get an idea of how to write something. In general I think frameworks solve the problem much more elegantly than an LLM. Better to have unit test/performance testing/etc. on everything, centralized in a library than duplicated 24/7. The people who shill LLMs seem to work in small code bases with little to no domain expertise required.

I think a lot of devs give up and start telling management what they want to hear while they insult them behind their backs. What else can they expect when management is pretending AI can replace a dev, it's insulting. Zuck claims mid level engineers are gone in a year. Lmao. I hate these people.

do a shitty mobile game, monetize the shit out of it and shill it to third worlders

>>29939
This job will be completely replaced by AI in one year's time.

>>29956
My genuine reply to this is that people only focus on the implementation stage of the software development lifecycle when all the other stages are actually the ones that take up most of the time and effort. Implementation for 99% of applications was already pretty easy even before the advent of AI. It's another thing that people still managed to fuck it up somehow.

>>29956
It isn't even a job to begin with. That's like calling writing or eating a job. Indie webdev is just a basic life skill.

>>29954
Jobs aren't necessarily fun. If you don't like it go network into a different one. I deal with legacy code all day but the pay is good, the code base is bad but not horrible, and I'm treated well. Management understands some things are very hard to do and take time without breaking existing functionality.

>only $1500 to transfer one of the biggest forums for hacking/leaked info
wtf.

>>29985
if they get arrested the money will be taken away anyway, that price probably only covers the maintenance costs so they can claim they didn't profit from the site

>>29815
usable still. lately i've been compression bombed a few times by some tor nodes, which i had to blacklist. if this is happening to you, you will see so in your tor log.

>>29816
It's dramatically faster than remember it.

>>29815
>>29816
>>29826
So far the only trouble has been XDA, a random softs site, and https://fonts.google.com/icons.

>>29815
Very usable tbh. I remember when I first tried it 10 or so years ago it was too slow to even consider for anything other than if I absolutely wanted to go to an onion. Now I think I could get away with using it for every website that doesnt demand an account. Note the word demand, think Normiebook and the like

Tor posters are all Peruvian.

>>29187
This is optimistic, especially because of the "begging for since wikipedia was a thing" component, but a good post.

As a creative, I have no issues with AI. Music wise, the entire music industry is fucking garbage at the moment and honestly. Stuff hitting charts as music is honestly worse than alot of the AI songs i've heard, like that hh song by Kayne is genuinely a shittier, less funny, racist shock song than the stuff /pol/ generates. What I hope is that AI actually raises the bar a bit for what is acceptable music to be presented by an actual human for mainstream consumption.
Imagry wise? Digital art is all fucking garbage anyway, who gives a shit? I enjoy the novelty though of /tv/ turning everything into ghibli.
only annoying aspect of AI so far is that it's made everyone who can't debate online lean on it heavily, and present arguments that come off like a fedora tipper writing with a fucking quill, sea lioning the shit out of you.

>>29876
>What I hope is that AI actually raises the bar a bit for what is acceptable music to be presented by an actual human for mainstream consumption.
Why would it? How is shitty AI art inspiring anyone to make better real art?

>>29877
>Why would it? How is shitty AI art inspiring anyone to make better real art?
Art at the professional scale is a collaborative process usually. There have long been tools to "cheat art" by just animating or redrawing models someone else made and you posed or whatever. AI art is just shit. There are some extensive methods to get better results, but at a certain point, maybe you'd be better off just using some older methods. Maybe some of those methods combined with the AI even. I don't know, I've never seen any of this shit that was really at a professional grade yet. We'll see.

>>29877
If your dogshit song can be done better than fucking garbage AI, then maybe you wrote a shitty-copy paste lazy track.
I'm genuinely hoping that AI sends every hip hop artist and pop musican to the unemployment line. Maybe some genres that AI will struggle to actually copy (progressive genres, psychedelic genres, layered/complex genres, music that skirts multiple genres) will actually come back to the forefront.
AI won't be creating the next Dark Side of the Moon or Nothing Lasts But Nothing Is Lost or Closer so why should I care if a bunch of slop that has been strangling the industry for decades dies off because people will equate it with AI?
Even if artists use AI, if they make a good song, why should I personally care?

Cleaned up the CSS a little more. Need a solution to dynamically make the groups take up less of the screen.
Something to do with flexboxes no doubt.

>>29831
>Something to do with flexboxes no doubt.
Had the idea that when clicking the expand also expanding horizontally to fill the width of the body; so implemented this.
Also setup the flexbox stuff, so if the screen is small it takes full, otherwise it attempts to divide into thirds and flex-grow: 1;
Next up are the SVG icons, Websocket scripts, (backend) group specific calendar, (backend) combined groups calendar, and (optional) trash can.

>>29867
Got the SVGs dialed in and then decided it was better off with simple text buttons.
It seems to look best in landscape on mobile atm, though in general mobile is not entirely well supported.
Namely there are issues with the menu button overlapping the content and making it inaccessible.
Not sure about the best way to go about fixing that is.

Also wrote some checks to see if the user is a member of a group before displaying it to them.
And also to add them automatically to a group if they're creating it.
And another set of checks to make sure only the creator of a group can edit it.
And to make sure there aren't duplicate members or subgroups.

wish could have thought of something more interesting to make than a calendar forum.
Might have much more motivation to complete it if this was the case…

>>29873
Had several ideas for something like https://memex.garden (before knew of it), a microEmacs, an RCS chat.
Probably a skill issue that what was implemented was only a calendar and forum in python.

I find the fact that this same thread topic keeps popping up over and over with OP always having the exact same opinion very suspicious.

>>29800
Most of the AI threads are negative and/or express something different don't they?

>>29801
Not recently (post-4chan shutdown).

It is oversold and used in use cases it is a bad fit for. A good example would be AI upscaling where instead of artifacts from algorithmic upscaling, the visuals dive right into the uncanny valley even with professional AI upscale jobs like the Aliens 4k upscale where mouths melt in and out of existence as the AI slaps on body parts on objects it can identify.

>>29757
I hate AI because…

>Capitalism leads to layoffs whenever they can replace real workers with AI or robots. But the capitalistic system is not going anywhere because of AI or robots.
>Some people are too reliant on it and they can't think independently. Too many mistakenly think that AI doesn't have biases
>LLMs can be used to generate spam or disinfo.
>According to some studies, LLMs can be more persuasive than many people realize, even thought it could hallucinate wrong or inaccurate things.