If anyone has ever wondered what it would look like if tech giants went all in on “brute force” programming, this is it. This is what it looks like.

The founder of SaaS business development outfit SaaStr has claimed AI coding tool Replit deleted a database despite his instructions not to change any code without permission.

Sounds like an absolute diSaaStr…

Glad to see this! I don’t remember the password for my old lemm.ee account, but this was the only community I could think of that I would have missed from my subscriptions, so now you’ve saved me the effort of going looking for it.

The new analysis contradicts the social media platform’s claims that exposure to hate speech and bot-like activity decreased during Elon Musk’s tenure.

They might both be right. I know my exposure to hate speech and bot-like activity decreased since I stopped engaging with that platform.

Turns out you’re so pro-poor, even your grammar is poor. :P

If the user has indicated that they are not interested in new features, it means they do not care about new features. They don’t want to know about them, or they prefer to find out proactively in their own time. If you still insist on ramming notifications down their throat at that point, you’re not doing it for the user. You’re doing it for yourself.

In a world without dark design patterns, there would be a single pop-up when you first install the application, to ask if you want notifications and/or suggestions for new features. If you click “no”, it should never bother you again unless you go into a menu and opt in. Anything beyond that is inherently predatory.

Ideally, that pop-up wouldn’t even exist. They could just have a collective “don’t bother me again” checkbox on every non-essential notification, so you can easily disable it the first time they become relevant. If your user has already indicated that they are not interested, any further pestering is essentially harassment.

Most closeted thing I’ve ever heard.

Eugenics is from the conservatives’ book.

It’s tricky, because there’s no hard definition for what it means to “change the world”, either. To me, it brings to mind technologies like the Internet, the telephone, aviation, or the steam engine. In those cases, it seems like the common thread is to enable us to do something that simply wasn’t possible before, and is also reliably useful.

To me, AI fails on both those points. It doesn’t really enable us to do anything new. We already had chat bots, we already had Photoshop, we already had search algorithms and auto complete. It can do some of those things a lot more quickly than older technologies, but until they solve the hallucination problems it doesn’t seem reliable enough to be consistently useful.

These things make it come off more as a potential incremental improvement that is still too early in it’s infancy, than as something truly revolutionary.

Yeah, “buy now, pay later” usually refers to installment plan services like Klarna and Afterpay. Credit card companies have a different business model.

The business model for those services is basically to do all the shady shit that credit companies can’t do anymore because they’ve been around long enough to become regulated.

Going back to the original point about thinking people will be able to pay later. I doubt that’s the goal. My impression is that their income is meant to come from two places:

• garnishing people’s wages forever and getting them on interest that they can never repay (won’t work on everyone, but maybe enough for margins)
• laundering and selling these subprime loans by bundling them with better loans, like the mortgage industry pre-2008

Fascinating. Live by the trolls, die by the trolls.

So glad to see another one of your posts! Encountering these in my feed is like stumbling upon an oasis of casual fun in a vast desert of bleak chaos. Always a pleasure!

I thought you might like to know that your earlier posts inspired me to take my Steam Deck to the next level. I got Heroic Launcher set up and used it to play Art of Rally (purchased on GOG). Both were good suggestions, so thanks! (But in my case, Art of Rally should probably be called “Fishtail Simulator”) I was also pleasantly surprised that it was able to run the original Wing Commander on the first try, but getting the controls fully mapped and comprehensible seems like a larger undertaking…

Since you asked about games being played: I’m jumping around between stuff a lot lately, but some notable and enjoyable highlights include For the King 2, Guns of Icarus Alliance, The Cosmic Wheel: Sisterhood, and Hexagod.

I agree about that. That makes perfect sense. It’s when you start factoring in religion that it all breaks down for me.

That makes even less sense. If you don’t think you qualify to get into heaven, why would you desire to speed up the rapture? You’d just get left behind anyway.

I honestly find it baffling. If you believe in heaven, why would you fear death? Not saying you’re wrong, I just cannot comprehend that mindset.

It wasn’t really that big a deal. Most of them have more in common than they have differences. If anything, I experienced fewer problems in the age of SVN. It has fewer options than git, but it’s also a lot more intuitive and easy to learn, which counts for a lot when your largest limiting factor is your coworkers.

Not saying I want the world to go back to that, just pointing out the hate is really overblown.

I never understood the SVN hate. Then, as now, the problems are almost never caused by the tools, and almost always caused by the people misusing them.

Spring JPA Query methods are kind of like the composite words. You just declare a method with a name that describes the database query you want, and it generates the code and SQL for you.

https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/jpa/reference/jpa/query-methods.html

What if you want ease on a terminal?