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Doombot1 , in Such a pain in the sas

As someone that works writing firmware for SAS devices… it’s happened all too many times

onlinepersona , in Such a pain in the sas

Happens to the best of us🤣

I spent what felt like an eternity debugging a website because it wasn’t updating. You gussed it, I was looking the build output of webpak in the wrong folder.

Anti Commercial-AI license

it_depends_man , in Nobel Prize to Be Awarded to Forum User From 9 Years Ago With Same Niche Problem

Your joke, but as a short video by joel haver: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnUpTyKSjag

foobaz ,

Joel is amazing. Love his stuff.

fibojoly , in Sysadmin comes out of the goon cave. And he is not happy in the slightest.

For some reason it reminds me of When Sysadmins Ruled The Earth, a short story about sysadmins dealing with the apocalypse.

MehBlah ,

No reason why it shouldn’t.

TheSchatz ,

I’d never read that story until now, thanks for sharing!

kuberoot , in Old timers know

This is from before my times, but… Deploying an app by uploading a pre built bundle? If it’s a fully self-contained package, that seems good to me, perhaps better than many websites today…

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

That’s one nice thing about Java. You can bundle the entire app in one .jar or .war file (a .war is essentially the same as a .jar but it’s designed to run within a Servlet container like Tomcat).

PHP also became popular in the PHP 4.x era because it had a large standard library (you could easily create a PHP site with no third-party libraries), and deployment was simply copying the files to the server. No build step needed. Classic ASP was popular before it, and also had no build step. but it had a very small standard library and relied heavily on COM components which had to be manually installed on the server.

PHP is mostly the same today, but these days it’s JIT compiled so it’s faster than the PHP of the past, which was interpreted.

raspberriesareyummy , (edited ) in Not everything can be done in constant time, that's O(k)

N00b. True pros accomplish O((n^2)!)

JPAKx4 ,

Your computer explodes at 4 elements

suction , in I Will Fucking Piledrive You if You mention AI Again

Awesome, now do one on “the cloud”

Kcg ,

XXXX on the cloud. We have YYYY in the cloud. Gahhhh

archomrade , in I Will Fucking Piledrive You if You mention AI Again

if you continue to try { thisBullshit(); } you are going to catch (theseHands)

This is the most beautiful thing I’ve read all year

whotookkarl , in I Will Fucking Piledrive You if You mention AI Again
@whotookkarl@lemmy.world avatar

As someone who conferenced some basic ML research in early 2000s and then left academia for a boring/stable software engineering gig in a non IT org to escape the hype bubble only to end up having to talk to people about ML/AI frequently this article speaks to me.

tatterdemalion , in It's called attaining divinity
@tatterdemalion@programming.dev avatar

But quiche is tasty!

mossy_ , in COMEFROM

Guy who worked at my place before me kept using these and GOTO statements all over the place.

His name? Cotton-eyed Joe

match ,
@match@pawb.social avatar

Reference to Cottoneyed Joe considered harmful

mossy_ ,

I almost spat out my drink when I saw this

hakunawazo ,

Thanks for the catchy tune, now the song sticks in my mind again. Last time was long time ago. :)

lseif ,

where did you COMEFROM where did you GO…TO

match ,
@match@pawb.social avatar

where did you COMEFROM, cottonEyedJoe2

xmunk , in I Will Fucking Piledrive You if You mention AI Again

Fucking awesome writing style there - and a lot of salient points. The only weakness is that it’s preaching to the choir - the use of jargon and technical references probably makes it inaccessible to anyone who doesn’t agree with its conclusion.

That said, it’s wonderfully cathartic.

dactylotheca ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

That said, it’s wonderfully cathartic.

Right‽ This was seriously the best rant I’ve read in ages; not only was it spot on, it was fucking hilarious.

This has to be the best way I’ve seen anyone describe what the problem with the current AI woo-woo is:

And then some absolute son of a bitch created ChatGPT, and now look at us. Look at us, resplendent in our pauper’s robes, stitched from corpulent greed and breathless credulity, spending half of the planet’s engineering efforts to add chatbot support to every application under the sun when half of the industry hasn’t worked out how to test database backups regularly. This is why I have to visit untold violence upon the next moron to propose that AI is the future of the business - not because this is impossible in principle, but because they are now indistinguishable from a hundred million willful fucking idiots.

maniclucky ,

Upvote for use of real interrobang alone.

dactylotheca ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

I can’t help but love obscure punctuation

sp3tr4l ,

Ive been calling this the reverse turing test:

Can you tell that a known human being is not an ‘AI’ chatbot, based on text correspondence?

Apparently we are now just going to have AI simulacra of ourselves date each other on dating apps and meet with each other on zoom.

The meeting thing in particular is so fucking insane.

Problem: Meetings waste time and accomplish nothing!

Solution: Don’t hire or train competent people, instead, automate meetings, the transcripts of which will presumably still have to be read, and will likely not make any sense, thus necessitating more meetings.

The goal of technological civilization apparently truly is to create maximum misery via maximizing meetings.

dactylotheca ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

Wait, has somebody actually suggested automating meetings? Like, has somebody said that out loud without a hint of irony or sarcasm?

sp3tr4l , (edited )

Hold on , I’ll edit this when I find a link.

Edit:

Ok, so here is OpenAI wanting to make… well basically it seems to want to have not only an AI agent in a text support chatbox telling you how to fix a problem…

…but give it the ability to completely take over your computer and just do it for you, presumably via Remote Assistance and whatever the Mac equivalent is.

yahoo.com/…/openai-plans-chatgpt-supersmart-assis…

No way this could go wrong and lead to fake support sites just fucking writing a batch file and executing it in the blink of an eye.

Then we’ve got both Zoom and Otter who yes, straight up, want to build AI powered avatars, based on each employee/user and replace the human entirely in meetings.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/…/ar-BB1nGO5m

www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/…/107797330.cms

Fuck the infinite paper clip making machine, we are intentionally trying to make the infinite meeting machine.

dactylotheca ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

Could AI personas attend your work meetings for you? One tech CEO says yes

One tech CEO has drain bamage, I take it. To paraphrase Charles Babbage, I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a statement.

Like, what the fuck is the point of this? If you think meetings are a problem and AI is the solution, there are a countably infinite amount of ideas you could come up with that aren’t this idiotic

Grandwolf319 ,

half of the industry hasn’t worked out how to test database backups regularly

Wait your suppose to do that? I mean, don’t get me wrong, that makes sense, but so far 0% of the companies I’ve worked for do that.

dactylotheca , (edited )
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Yeeeaaah you’re supposed to regularly test that you can actually restore your backups, because boy do a lot of companies find out they can’t only after shit goes sideways and to their horror they then realize that they can’t restore some system’s backups because reasons.

Not sure I’ve worked in a company that did that, and frankly even when I was CTO in a startup we didn’t have automated backup tests – mostly because it was still early days and I just manually tested restoring our in-house service when a change was made that would warrant it. N + 1 other things to do besides automating backup tests so I deemed that Good Enough™.

Anticorp , in Old timers know

True story, bruh.

MehBlah , in Sysadmin comes out of the goon cave. And he is not happy in the slightest.

One of my favorite xkcd.

lung , in I Will Fucking Piledrive You if You mention AI Again
@lung@lemmy.world avatar

Facepalm again and again every time my non technical boss asks me if Ive been using genai to speed up my work. No boss, I haven’t, that actually slows me down

owenfromcanada ,
@owenfromcanada@lemmy.world avatar

“Yeah, but my PC doesn’t handle it well. If my PC were upgraded, it could really gen some AI.”

shield_gengar ,
@shield_gengar@sh.itjust.works avatar

Me, buying a 4070 super on the company’s dime

suction ,

Also doesn’t really make sense without dual 5k screens

AnUnusualRelic ,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

"Sure thing boss, I make all my wallpapers with it "

firelizzard ,
@firelizzard@programming.dev avatar

I used GitLab’s version of Copilot when it was free and that was net helpful. It predicted for loops and stuff and was close enough, enough of the time that it was net positive. Not enough that I’d actually pay for it…

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