nightsky

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[–] nightsky@awful.systems 13 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Don’t worry they will use ChatGPT to learn all the COBOL they need.

Oh why would they. They will just rewrite it from scratch in a weekend, right? And reading the original code would only pollute the mind with historic knowledge, and that stands in the way of disruptive innovation.

(btw I appreciate your correctly nested parentheses.)

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So after billions of investment, and gigawatt-hours of energy, it's now "not too bad for throwaway weekend projects". Wow, great. Let's fire all the programmers already!

Apart from whatever the fuck that process is, it is not engineering.

And to think that people hated on Visual Basic once... in comparison to this stuff, it was the most solid of solid foundations.

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 9 points 9 months ago

Not clicking those HN links, decided years ago already that site should not be part of my life anymore at all. The few times I have deviated from that rule since, I regretted it.

As for the more general topic, I feel so bad for all trans people with everything that is unfolding. It's horrible. But be assured that there are many peope in this world who are on your side on this. Wish I could say something more useful, but I'm at a loss of words.

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

That is indeed troubling, casts a shadow on Project Gutenberg's judgement. Now I wonder how long until Wikipedia falls too :( Gosh, I miss being excited about new tech. Now new tech is just making things worse.

About that book, so it is more "good bad" instead of "bad bad"? Maybe I'll take a look, some light/weird reading might be better than doomscrolling (and these days there's so much doom to scroll).

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago

I have to keep reminding myself that this is the technology that they all claim will soon do all our work, our arts, our science, everything.

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 6 points 9 months ago

Rituals can be good, but yeah, agile standup meetings are not the good kind. Luckily I don't have them daily... several times a week is already draining enough. If they were daily, I would just burn out. And the standups are IMO not even the worst part of agile...

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is it too early to hope that this is the beginning of the end of the bubble?

Also, does someone know why broadcom was also hit so hard? Is it because they make various networking-related chips used in datacenter infrastructure?

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

And people believe this … why?

Maybe people believe that all the AI stuff is just magic [insert sparkle emoji], and that can terminate further thought...

Edit: heh, turns out there's science about that notion

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