@retoor overestimating security

I'd say it's even worse now

knowledge of how things has been forgotten. this makes both hacking harder but also defending against hacks harder

defense means you have to know how everything works. offense means you just have to find one exploit. this means as people forget how things are built, the hackers will be favored by the asymmetry of this game setup

the globalists and those behind them did a... like a plan for the future of the world, and there were 4 scenarios. one of them was that hackers ran rampant and everything was infested by illegal activity and such. I definitely feel like it's far more common now than it was in the 90s. the flavour is just different, it doesn't look the same. everybody is a script kiddy now, and the reason why is because it literally works. imagine if they graduated out of being script kiddies? if there was actually ever an incentive for them to get good? lol. ticking time bomb

@antigermanist I mean that's always been an option

when there's a will there's a way. it's not intelligence or capabilities people should be scared of (but they are, in psychological studies and such), it's intentions and their fueling capacity that really do the damage in the world. spirituality > material supremacy, no contest in the least. it's just a matter of spending the time

@retoor also in the old days nobody really knew each other. it was very impersonal. nobody discussed anything. it was one of those high capacity communities where everybody was showing off

but now that there's less users it's more "intimate" so to speak, so as consequence 100% people are having more interactions with the app, because it's more deep / intimate than thousands of users who don't know each other and would basically rarely see each other, other than the app celebrities (which kind of sucks I think cuz I don't like the whole celebrity thing, I think it becomes alienating and cult-like in a community)

@retoor how about devrant in terms of unique user interactions?

I was around a bit when devrant was very popular. dead now considering you'd get 3k-6k upvotes on a post before, and now there's maybe 20 unique users since posts go up to about 20 upvotes

@retoor well that one in particular was using grunt for caching and I removed grunt and 12 other packages and just... asked the transpiler library directly to uhhh... give me the string of the generated content and just wrote it to file using std functions, bam caching

it's not lines like code golf it's that people do a lot of useless things and could just not be doing that

another one was a 4k+ file... and the guy kept rewriting the same logic 7 times. so I put it into a method and the file was 1.2k lines after lol. those ones are trickier though, because coupling stuff like that can reduce your agility later on when stuff changes, and it can be hard to figure out that certain functionality is the same or you might have to make an options because it slightly differs in some places

but normally I find people just use packages where native methods they already have at their fingertips would've been fine, or they don't know certain native methods exist

there's so many damned children around now

lockdowns made everyone fuck

western modern world is the only one where both genders work, probably. so it's probably to do with them just never spending any time together

I mean poisons in the food and kids being too expensive and women being messed up from men being brainwashed into thinking they're too good for condoms therefore have to mess up the woman's hormones by requiring her to go on the hormonal pill which then makes them infertile might have something to do with it also. but bonobos have a terrible fertilization rate and are still fine cuz they have the time to fuck for every occassion

@atheist apparently there's various forms of encryption that are quantum computer safe. I didn't pay attention though

I know this was a concern in crypto though, and they have backup algos ready to go and nobody cares. they've had them for like 6 years

hearing with eyes is called synthesia. it's when sensory processing in your brain gets crosstalk

I got that once when I smoked a lot of weed early on but never since. I'd just see dancing auras floating in front of me with a bunch of colors. was pretty fun, makes existence feel all magical

strange a lot of programmers here wouldn't like weed. during my comp sci degree a lot of people smoked weed, and that was before it was legal. it was statistically bizarre

I meant to weed last night but didn't. this always happens!

@antigermanist yeah at some workplaces you have to go through legal to use packages

sounds like a nightmare

then also if you upgrade a package you have to go through legal. aka nobody is updating them

at that point it's more comfortable to have internal libraries. at least you can update them

@retoor in terms of complexity hobby projects are far more complex than any professional ones I had

so I don't know. really depends if you got the specs right or not. cuz the difficulty won't be figuring out the logic, it'll be if the specs were clear and you missed a part. which is probably why part 1 of a rewrite was to do integration tests first and then you run them on the rewrite after if you had a lot of time

also professionally I had people give me 2 weeks to do something that took me 3 days in tools and domains I had no knowledge in... then that guy got chewed out by management instead of me getting a raise. cuz I was very good. actually some dude from some fancy company said I was "very smart" (but that was me before and not now post sick). probably others are not gonna experience it the way I'm describing. I would take other people's code and in some instances change 90 lines to 12... felt kind of bad I was throwing out their work lol, but less code is easier to maintain

ok after trying to find an actual rust community and find finding shill bought ones... there's no organic rust enthusiasts

figured out I can just consume a mut self without & 😋

@retoor yeah Microsoft took down the repository that hosted all the plugins. dicks

yay website loads now

there's some rich billionaires going on conference presentations to other rich businessmen and theyre saying "u gotta be lean! think not in 20 years for your business, but 2-3!" and advocates that you MUST hire one AI kid or u'll be left behind. it doesn't matter who the kid is, they just need to have a passion for AI

I have no idea why anyone is listening to this guy. I guess he had a rep in the past that worked out but this is the fucking dumbest advice ever. what kind of stupid angle are they even playing here. & he's just a general businessman thats very rich, hes not like from the AI crowd shilling, though hes certainly shilling for something because how does that even make any sense

but because this important rich guy who is connected to other businessmen who view this whole thing as "alpha financial / business signal advice" I guess here we are. it's rumoured milled as the thing to do for businesses

which is also why your expertise doesn't matter =], even tho ur matter expert

@CaptainRant I'd just get the specs and rewrite it

that's actually how I rewrite bad stuff. I read the codebase, extract the specs, then write my own version and use the old codebase as reference if I don't know how to do something

it's faster than refactoring

also tho not professional advice. you do you

"you've activated my trap card!" proceed to bore them to sleep with the details

strange, I thought you were against capitalism and thought you could get out of a 15 minute city if your government expired all your money cuz you can just jump on the train somehow

people always say you'll learn so much from reading others' code but that has never happened to me

I've never found someone's code to be good

I don't know what's wrong with me

I can spot when people have a natural talent for coding though. seems either you can code well or you can't, and it's really obvious early on

I met a guy in screeps I was TREMEDOUSLY fascinated about. still remember his name. mastodon. I don't know who he was. he was in the same block as me, he was a newbie, and he conquered the whole game just about in a month. I saw his codebase's functionality evolve over time, and he must've been a god. then he left because he won everything and probably got bored. I never talked to the guy and I wish I did. the rare times I meet someone impressive I get like, too nervous. wish I saw his code, too

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most code I encounter I could rewrite in 1/10th the lines and remove all that convoluted logic, so that's for "worst". everything is the worst.

@retoor funny pictures do very well here. I feel kind of guilty whenever I repost a meme and then get more upvotes than I typically do

@retoor you could turn off packages it came with and there was nothing in the IDE that wasn't a package (baseline it was just a text editor)

and everything was hackable

and unlike vscode it didn't give me useless popups like "you don't have a php extension!". I could literally remove any syntax highlighting packages of foreign languages I never used and whatever else. it didn't come with much by default anyway

and the packages for it were better. no stupid side panels that u cant move certain things into or things out of. you could make any panels and put anything into them, plugins etc

and why the fuck does vscode keep fucking moving the size of all my panels around anytime i launch a fucking application. Ive went on a quest to fix that and it's still fucking happening. I changed 3 fucking settings so it would stop micromanaging my panels and it's still fucking micromanaging my panels

vscode just likes to take you behind the dumpster and screw you and you never consented to this

the modules thing fucked everything up and then I left

this is a bus in my city

solar panels leech chemicals beneath them but generate more power than windmills

windmills rot in a couple decades and there is absolutely no recycling plan for them which makes them more harmful than anything else -- damned fracking is required to have a restoration plan and fund before those get approved, "green energy" does not which should tell you about their hypocrisy

lithium batteries explode and also give off toxic chemicals when they do, and work poorly in cold temperatures and are very heavy so most of their energy is used to transport the damned battery which is an awful lot of waste and pollution frankly

climate change science is entirely rife with fraud because the scientists want to get paid & the climate science is a funnel to "green energy" money laundering companies that then buy parts from China (which is doing all the lithium mining and relies mostly on coal burning to manufacture all these things for us)

and CO2 is what plants crave&is mechanically misunderstood

@retoor oh I see. green tea feels like an upper to me lol

but would be way less intense. ok

makes sense then. weed for some reason helps also and I guess that's a stimulant for a while

@retoor no competition. Microsoft doesn't have an IDE to compete with like atom. vscode was basically an inferior copy of atom. and then they bought the parent company that made it, made promises they would continue with atom even though that made no sense, and then canned the whole atom project a year later

I dated a ML engineer who spoke like chatGPT before chatGPT was a thing so I actually just thought this was a normal person writing things because i've seen such a thing

*former atom user sips a tea cup smugly*

Microsoft buying GitHub was a mistake maybe. if github's atom was still alive they'd have to at least try

economy been doing bad. lotta businesses being murdered by it. it's on purpose and the goal

Nvidia keeps breaking expectations though. people keep trying to short it because they think it'll drop and keep eating it because they are wrong

they're positioned to prop up the AI god, so

@retoor I wanna ask what drugs and talk about effects of them on code but maybe I should not reel you into that

@Demolishun chatGPT is the worst for coding

o1-preview is good with libraries and checks its work a lot, but is horribly verbose and expensive

opus is very good at logic puzzles and kind of psychic for human, psychology conversations. my favourite (even though it's one of the older ones now and they can't seem to update it)

sonnet is ok

Gemini at least answers differently from the GPT models but it forces things down your throat. typical Google behaviour

and GPT is literally a hallucinating gaslighting useless thing that will confuse you and waste your time