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Tech has gone from "I run Windows instead of Linux because I value my time" to "I run Linux instead of Windows because I value my time" in an awfully short period.
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Jack Scott
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mastodon 4.7.2Hi everyone! I'm a software engineer running my own IT consulting firm, trying to make technology a little bit better for everyone. When I'm not doing that, I dabble in permaculture on my family's small farm. I'm also a train fanatic, environmentalist, tea drinker, and lover of the Oxford comma. I also post about home automation, operating system development, woodwork, gardening, cooking, and occasionally travel.
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I'm starting to really like 'vibe coding'...
I've now had several clients come to me to take over projects that another agency was working on because the other agency started using generative AI. Apparently there was a real drop in product quality. I wonder why.
Basically vibe coding is making me money specifically because I'm not using it.
Turns out there is a wrong way to coil a USB cable.
If Microsoft doesn't want us to develop software for Windows, they can just say so...
(the screenshot was taken in Edge)
#Microsoft #VisualStudio
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@xssfox@cloudisland.nz For everybody else playing along at home: I work for myself.
If you don't work for yourself, consider joining your union! If your boss says you shouldn't, join yesterday.
It really annoys me how HTML has for putting CSS in but no for putting JS in. And yes I know it would serve zero practical purpose, but the asymmetry is bleurgh.
Is it just me, or did we used to be able to input latitude and longitude into the search bar on Google Maps and get a result, and now it doesn't?
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@geekygirldawn I read somewhere (and I wish I could remember where!) about the 15 minute rule, which I tell all my new hires: you must try and solve this issue on your own for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, you must ask for help.
Accidentally played in my first tennis pennant match last night. I had so much fun, and didn't do quite as badly as I was worried I would. But holy hell am I sore this morning!
Xero's "Ultimate 10" plan actually means 10% annual price inflation.
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@HopelessDemigod First family computer (bought 1994) had a ~500MB C: drive (486, 8MB RAM, Win 3.11). The first computer I built personally for myself (in ~2001) had a 4GB drive.
Couldn't find a powerboard that would securely screw to the underside of my desk. So I bought a small audio engineering style rack and screwed that to the underside of my desk and got a rackmount PDU instead.
I'm sure this is every logical person's solution to this problem...
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@64kb@icosahedron.website Yes, I had the same experience 5-10 years ago on previously outsourced projects too.
One of the projects I've recently taken on was both outsourced *and* vibe coded. Some of the resulting code was :chef_kiss:
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@ner@fwoof.space @cachondo@defcon.social Asking a generative AI tool to write some code for you given english language requirements. The resulting code usually looks vaguely right and compiles but does something completely different to what was asked for.
In the modern computing landscape, what exactly makes a workstation PC a workstation?
I have my own definition, but I'd like to know what the Internet thinks!