At the end, he hints at moving the project to different hardware… I’m gonna guess smartphones? They already have video decoding hardware and peripherals like cameras and gyros. Controlling the WiFi radio to use Nintendo’s custom protocol is probably gonna require root tho
IMO out of all the areas of programming, web development is going to be the most impacted by AI coding agents. There’s a lot of reinventing the wheel in web dev. You’re basically doing what every other website in history has done, but with a different data model. As such, AI training data has plenty of web dev examples that it can lean on.
MBAs are an actual Ponzi scheme. The university departments that run them are usually not even on the main campuses and are on separate bankrolls because they don’t produce research. Instead, they’re funded by wealthy alumni who just want to pump up the value of their own degrees. Tuition is usually covered by employers anyways, so it’s another case of businessmen scamming businessmen (just like AI). The concepts taught are all common sense things that could be learned in a single weekend.
Wish this worked the other way. Every email I receive from my CEO is at least partially AI generated (he openly admits it)
Is this why Kanye West has beef with Peppa Pig?
I wish I could work somewhere like your first paragraph. My career has been your second paragraph, probably because I’ve only worked on medical devices and we gotta have higher standards than a lot of developers. It also got taken a bit too much to the extreme tho
You worked places with style guides? Did… Did you have a real testing environment that wasn’t prod too?
Yes, and the style guides reached far beyond things like “use camel case”. I’m talking guidelines for how whole blocks of code should be formatted. Also weren’t allowed to throw exceptions at all even though we were using up-to-date modern C++. Some guidelines had good intentions and others were just put in by OCD control freaks that no one felt like opposing.
And yes, we had a testing environment, although we mostly depended on manual QA rather than software tests. Medical devices can’t test in prod, fortunately
I wholeheartedly agree with you that code can be art but I was never able to express myself on that level at my corporate jobs. I was always limited to writing code that aligned with the company’s rigid style guide, and never allowed to implement new design patterns that would’ve improved things but deviated from the way things were done in the existing codebase.
Thus, I’m not too miffed about being forced to use coding agents at work because writing corporate-sanitary code already felt like a robotic process before LLMs existed. Personal hobby projects and open source contributions are where we can express ourselves freely and create our art the way we want to. They’ll never be able to take that from us.
FM radio is jam-packed with ads and most stations don’t even have human DJs anymore. I don’t miss it
That Nerf clone of Unreal Tournament was dope
I feel like this could be a use for LLMs that isn’t slop. It’s not going to catch everything of course but I imagine it would be a whole lot better than nothing
I would also like to know the answer to this.
I have a water-cooled PC and I only add water to it about once a year when the reservoir is around 2/3 full. My loop is water-tight, not air-tight, so water is slowly lost to evaporation.
I would think enterprise loops would be air-tight but perhaps the cost of implementing that is less than paying for water to be added
doesn’t seem to affect them much
cat pukes and has legit hangover
I like them too but a lot of the hype around them is unfortunately pretty cringe. Microtonal music is ancient but it took a couple of dudes in wacky outfits to bring it to the attention of normies and music journalists who act like it’s some crazy new thing they invented
Not a great gif to see right after waking up with a hangover lol
I remember just a couple years ago, when I was on a pinball kick, I did some research to see if anyone had made a real Space Cadet machine and was surprised to see no one had. I remember reading some claims that doing so would be virtually impossible because the mechanisms necessary to recreate the behavior of the game could not feasibly be arranged on the underside of the playfield.
I hope this person proves them wrong
I use Quickbooks Self-Employed for my software dev contracting business
When I first started out, I added my vehicle because I was silly enough to think I might need to log miles as a programmer, but of course I never did. Every single year when I go to file, Turbo Tax chokes because I have zero miles logged and it makes me manually fill out every single vehicle-related tax form (it won’t let me leave them blank). Worse yet, there’s no option in Quickbooks to remove a vehicle.
Also, it somehow completely fucked up the reporting of state estimated taxes this year, even though I had all my payments accurately recorded in Quickbooks, and I had to follow up with the state to get it corrected.
This is software I pay for btw
I don’t think so? Or… maybe that was always the case? Idk, I picked the game back up a few months ago after not having played it since 2017 and I don’t remember needing to login. I even still had my cosmetic purchases from 2016
EDIT: actually now that I think about it, I do also have the Epic launcher installed, so maybe it was picked up through that
It’s a complaint that I really don’t understand. I would love for someone who hates movies with unlikable characters to explain it to me.
I’ve noticed it’s a complaint usually given by people who mainly watch action movies, e.g. my James Bond-loving uncle who didn’t like Marty Supreme because the main characters were unlikable. You’re supposed to admire and root for the main characters in action movies, but who says you have to feel the same way in other kinds of movies?