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I live in Japan and don’t like ranch dressing. I still don’t have a problem with this, really. I think it would overpower the tastes of the ingredients since ranch has garlic, herbs, etc., but that’s their choice.

cowboys have been skipping steps and doing things lazily and poorly well before AI

Of course, but I think not understanding what they’re committing is more dangerous than before (even allowing for the classic “I copied and pasted this from xxxx site”). This is also true when people are fully trusting AI to review code as well.

We use AI for code reviews which I do find useful. It’s still wrong part of the time (sometimes ridiculously so). So far, it’s also failed to provide accurate documentation for various repos which seems like something rather basic. I’m not against all AI (though I do have ethical and environmental concerns with several of the commercial options). I will not have them write code for me, though.

As for the future, we’ll just have to wait and see. I’ve seen a lot of AI budgets exceeded and/or cut. I do think it’s not there yet for a number of tasks but is suitable (again minus certain concerns) for others.

I disagree on that; we lose the muscles we don’t use and I’ve already seen that happening. It’s also making people want to jump straight to implementation without proper design and I think that’s a recipe for trouble.

I was doing a code review this week. There was nothing wrong with the code in terms of structure or performance, but it was doing this really weird operation with an ID after DB insert. I asked about it and the author was like “yeah, that’s weird; I don’t know why the AI did that. I’ll remove it.” My dude, I know you can write good code. Don’t be lazy!

It’s not only boomers here who are into this. I know many in IT here in Japan, from normal workers up through C-suite folks, who fully believe in AI like this and act accordingly.

Either slideshow or presentation still. Presentation with like an overhead projector with someone changing sheets or manually drawn somewhere.

Slideshow would be an actual slideshow projector with slide film.

I think the first time I heard “slide deck” was within the last few years. It was always a (PowerPoint) presentation. I heard “deck” on its own without context (something like “I’m making a deck”) within probably the last 6-12 months and had no idea at the time what that person was talking about.

We don’t need giant, dangerous, shitty trucks like that here.

Yeah, I’ve seen a lot of places around me cut back. Thankfully, I’m not forced to use AI directly. We do have it for code reviews (which I don’t hate as a concept, but would prefer local models trained on ethically-sourced data).

My company has been reducing force multiple times and did one round in a particularly shitty way. Our bonuses were the lowest ever this round despite us all having had to carry more weight. They wonder why our morale is shit.

Definitely for a time in '80s kids wear. I did see adults then (and more recently) wearing them. But mostly farmers and mechanics. Not sure if it were ever adult fashion back then

A piefed account more technically, but yes. I technically have a lot of minor forum-like accounts around the web, but no crossover with my IRL friends, nor do I think I would enjoy interacting with them via these platforms.

I’m the bottom right except no insta, no FB, etc. and only an email address.

I used to run my own mailserver, but I haven’t in years now since it was so much of a pain. Not even the set-up part; that wasn’t the worst thing in the world. It’s uptime, back-ups, and other considerations that just require time and money I don’t have.

I’m on my second gopro (a hero 10). It will overheat in the shade outside in summer. The battery also crapped out quite early, though they did find another one to send me (I bought it new from them directly, but after newer models released). I don’t see myself buying another of their cameras.

Hah, nice! Thanks for the deep-dive. I only ever learnt Plätzchen when I studied German in the early 2000s in the US. At least so far as I can remember 20-something years later.

Well, I went from English (a mess) to japanese (differently a mess), so there is some masochistic aspect in there.

I considered learning Danish, but thought I might start with something a bit more pronounceable (I do not have faith in mastering stød or the various sounds very quickly).

Heh, I was thinking of Norwegian småkake. It’s crazy how much Danish I can read in posts around here now that I’m learning bokmål Norwegian. Well, not that surprising with history, I guess, heh.

In German, it’s diminutive, but it’s not from ‘cake’. I think it means little discs/plates or something, but it’s been a long time.

In some languages, it’s more like ‘cakies’ = little cakes.