Oh yeah, I love people who stick SQL lookups in a For Loop. Even better, the coder who puts conditional if (but no then/else) clauses around a dozen raw text execution commands that fire in sequence. So you’re making six distinct lookups per iteration rather than answering your question in a single query and referencing the results from memory.

Internal screaming

Well, you don’t want to waste space by adding the same file path twice

Christ, if you could see the abysmal efficiency of business tier SQL code being churned out in the Lowest Bidder mines overseas…

Using a few terrabytes of memory and a stack of processors as high as my knee so they can recreate Excel in a badly rendered .aspx page built in 2003.

Oh shit, he’s good. He DDOS’d me right back.

I’m not sure what people think AI was ever going to be…

The heavy investment in AI is coming under the assumption that these advanced processes will replace huge portions of the human workforce.

So we don’t need lawyers, because we just put prompts into a Law AI and it gives us a verdict. We don’t need doctors, because we just put symptoms into a Medical AI and it gives us a diagnosis and treatment plan. We don’t need salespeople, because we just put the product into a Marketing AI and it spits out a bunch of comvincing ad copy.

the concept of what a brain is will probably be questioned as well.

We already connect our brains to our computers. We just use screens and keyboards as our interface.

I suppose you could argue that a guy with a calculator or a camera or a chat app is mentally different than one without it. But I think the goal with AI is supplementing human minds, not complementing then.

So much of the drift has just been marketing. Rebranding a Markov Chain stapled onto a particularly large graph as Master Computer from Tron.

Dated a few of Catholics, and they aren’t any grosser than the Protestants, Atheists, Muslims, or Buddhists I’ve been with.

I don’t think she’s planning to date a priest.

No way am I dating a Catholic

There are a lot of hot Catholics.

Going on Reddit for dating advice is a mistake.

The multi year contracts are a meme from the past

I don’t know if I’d can cell phone contacts a meme.

If they lock people in to how their ecosystem works low tech people can’t easily change.

Other people can just mimic the iPhone interface. That’s basically what Android did.

The real difficulty of switching to another device from Apple is the multi-year contract that the phone companies try to get you on.

You’re calling this person stupid, but they’re 90% of the way to getting it right.

If only every technical problem was this easy to solve.

I have multiple people in my IT department who henpeck when they type. If you don’t want him, please send the CV my way.

Carving my soul into seven unholy partitions in order to maintain my unnatural existence as a Windows Guy whose shit still works.

Was that game any good? The mobile version had a Gacha mechanic that scared me off, but it otherwise looked like a really smooth SNES style JRPG.

Most of the abstractions, frameworks, “bloats”, etc. are there to make development easier and therefore cheaper

That’s true to an extent. But I’ve been on the back side of this kind of development, and the frameworks can quickly become their own arcane esoteric beasts. One guy implements the “quick and easy” framework (with 16 gb of bloat) and then fucks off to do other things without letting anyone else know how to best use it. Then half-dozen coders that come in behind have no idea how to do anything and end up making these bizarre hacks and spaghetti code patches to do what the framework was already doing, but slower and worse.

The end result is a program that needs top of the line hardware to execute an oversized pile of javascripts.

I think it’s given us a big wave of “Return to pixelated tradition” style games. When you see 16-bit sprites in the teaser, you can feel reasonably confident your computer will run it.

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