cuddlyogre said Reject the push and make this person adhere to the application structure. If you don't stop this now it will cause you tremendous headaches later.,@Ranchonyx I've started building an electron application and I'm finding that js, maybe more specifically node, is not that bad. 

I really wanted to be able to use c# but I need a webview that works on arm64. I tried a dozen different things and electron was the only thing that worked.

It's not as efficient as other languages or frameworks, but being able to build an application with an interface written in a language everyone knows opens up tremendous possibilities and speeds up delivery by a huge amount. 

Now, if I could use electron as the interface to a c# application, then I think I'd really like that.,@Ranchonyx If anything I want to do it to see if it can be done. I really want to know if it is fast enough to work as the GUI of a game doing it like that.,Debian with Mate is very clean and to the point. I use VirtualBox on seamless mode and it it works like a charm.,@Ranchonyx https://youtube.com/watch/...

It's technically possible, which is the best kind of possible.,I'm glad I never offloaded the use of my brain to fancy RNG machines.

Imagine how much better you would be at this if you hadn't either.,@jestdotty You'd be better served by finding a Discord server or a forum where you communicate with people that can help you understand this stuff.,@retoor I have no idea what they are using. Nor do I particularly care.

What I do know is that it slows me down with the nonsense it suggests. No code "AI" has ever been anything other than a hindrance for me and I am sick of it being pushed on me. I will never use it willingly, so please stop trying.

I also don't like that at random my proprietary code is being scanned into some unaccountable commercial Skynet monster without proper authorization or compensation because the company that I bought my IDE from has jumped onto a gimmick train.,I thought Mastodon already killed it. Surely this one will take...,@lorentz It has all the env variables set up so you can do VS related things, where a normal console doesn't. Other than that, the experience is the same.

I much prefer Rider and Clion over anything Visual Studio.,I've had to do everything myself for 10 years so I've had to get good at almost everything. But if I had to pick the thing I'm best at it would be backend web stuff and desktop development. Design is definitely not my strong suit.,I don't have friends, so it's easy. 

I've been told they're important, but they always turn into sources of stress and liability. Maybe it's the area I live in or something to do with my upbringing that attracts those kinds of people. I don't know. I'm old enough that it's not something that bugs be anymore.

I am friendly with coworkers, but they and I cease to exist when they leave the office, so calling them friends would be too much.,YOU TAKE THAT BACK,All while people like me pop their collars, noses a mile high in the air, gleefully shouting "I told you so".

I can happily say I can still use my brain and have improved my skills in the meantime.,@jestdotty Because my job has been directly threatened by higher ups telling me that I'll be replaced by people that use AI. It doesn't matter that it causes me more work and is a huge liability. 

I have grown tired of people threatening my way of life because of fads, trends, and arbitrary diktats they cling to like religion.,@jestdotty I'm not terribly interested in what the psychology behind it is called. I'm just pleased as punch that my way of life is less likely to be threatened by RNG machines and that I can tell everyone that's argued with me about it that I was right.,@jestdotty No insult meant toward you. But I have endless contempt to those that would put me on the street just because I don't conform to some half baked trend.,Oh you have 12 months until you even have to think about it. 

We have 90 days before we need to start. 

Guy, 1993 was yesterday.,If you're going to put your time into something, why not put everything you can into it? You're wasting your time otherwise.,@Lensflare What that really means is the people reviewing the code and/or management aren't familiar with them.,@Demolishun I had a short lived co-worker get irritated because I used a ternary operator.

I don't get it. If it compiles and it works and I don't understand it, I look up why it works. I don't just throw my hands up and whine until the question goes away.,The worst part about everything created the last 10 years is how hopefully dated it will all look in the future. 

In previous decades, it was the style of the thing that dated it. But between 2016 and hopefully not too much longer, it will be divisive political viewpoints shoehorned into places they don't belong. 

All written by self important people without power to change a single thing about the topic they preach to people that either don't care or were forced to have an opinion on who also don't have the power to change a single thing.

It's going to basically be a decade of media and games and literature that no one will return to. A decade where no one could cooperate unless they held the same beliefs as the other person. A decade where nothing meaningful was accomplished. And that's a shame.,I prefer 2024-12-06.,@cprn Someone has never tried calling Comcast before.,I like this one,@cprn You have missed some of the most pure rage that the human psyche can generate.,Considering the current goals of several corporations and governments, all that would accomplish is mass firings in favor of hiring "less entitled" alternatives with "work ethic" that aligns more with their vision of how things should be.,@BordedDev And when I get out of jail, I'll have a really lucrative job waiting for me at the local Burger King.,Intentionally using a Mac for any kind of development is either the pinnacle of spite for Microsoft or an absolute financial necessity. 

Apple's hostility toward anything not made by them makes it a tremendous headache that I never wish to experience again.,@netikras If it's not made by Apple, they make it as hard as possible to use on anything they did make.

@Lensflare Except that it's a huge pain compared to even the most basic Lunux distro to build anything. 

Xcode and the hoops you need to go through with licensing and build errors determined by an RNG are great examples of their hostility toward developers that haven't bought into their koolaid. 

Personally, Debian is the default OS for development, but even Windows is better than Mac for that.,Of the two, I prefer teams. Slack never notifies me of received messages, so I miss important communications all the time.,Sounds like upside down lacrosse.,I don't think I'll ever be sold on the utility of ai when the person is an expert in the subject. Basically, if you know what you're doing, there's no need to use it for that task.

That being said, there will be no escaping the direct effects of ai in the world to come, so it's important to be as much of an expert on it as possible. Being able to build and maintain ai systems will be a golden skill to have.

I'm convinced that the ultimate purpose of ai is to only ever be good enough to fill in where a person can't because there literally aren't people to put there. It will enable one person to fulfill the labor of 20 and that ultimately expertise in a subject will be seen as a luxury that can't be afforded.

I look at it like a seed vault, but instead of saving seeds, it's preserving, in some way, the ability to do things that will be lost if there's no one there to teach others how to do it.,Boilerplate was solved by project templates and reusing code files, so I fail to see how useful that truly is. And you have to babysit everything it generates, so you may as well write it yourself and save the time. Using it for something you know how to do atrophies your skills and should be avoided.

It also enables people that don't know what they're doing to act like they do. Those are the tasks that ai is actually helpful with, because it's not meant to be an expert and can never be.

Imagine a world where you're a good programmer but an awful writer or botanist or doctor, but you have to be all of them because there's no writers or botanists or doctors. That's a world where ai will be unavoidable and not knowing how to use them or being unwilling to will be seen as a liability.,@retoor Congratulations on participating with the ai to create something you don't understand and that no one understands.

Instead of spending a bit of time to build knowledge and skills and understanding, or use what you know to learn more, you jumped straight to the end and now no one knows what you've made and you'd never be able to do it again without the help of ai.

But like I said. That's what AI's purpose is. It's to enable people to act as if they know how to do something even though they don't. There will come a time where that is something we will have to do or what starve, but until then I would love if people would be honest with themselves and others and not claim they can do something they can't.,@retoor Not that I believe you, but I'll pretend that I do. 

Were you doing this before without ai? Could you still do it without ai? If so, congrats. I bow to your hyper intelligence. That makes you a programmer and not the kind of person I was describing.

Can the same be said about almost anyone else that calls themselves a programmer just because they regurgitate something copilot generates for them? 

No is the answer. And it's only going to get worse.,@retoor I'm finally tinkering with the Jetbrains tools and I will admit it is more impressive than I expected. It was able to provide me with a solution to a problem that I just gave up on because I couldn't find an answer.

I still believe that it has the potential to be a crutch and can cause a person's skills to atrophy as a result. But using as a way to consolidate seemingly unrelated concepts into something usable seems to be a good alternative to hours of fruitless Google searches.,The alternative to using Python is that a problem that needs solved goes unsolved.,I absolutely love the delicious irony with openai complaining about their intellectual property being stolen. It tastes like chocolate to me.

Now, to get my hands on the kind of hardware I need to run R1...,The formatting function is a main selling point of Jetbrains tools for me. My settings being synced on every machine I use means I have universal consistency everywhere I work. 

When I work on other people's stuff, I can just format my contribution without affecting theirs.,The only thing worse than Windows is everything else. 

There really needs to be a law that your operating system is not allowed to do things like this. This is a tool, not a media product we're brainlessly consuming for entertainment. It should apply to phones, cars, hammers, everything.,@BordedDev Fortunately, my car stereo touch screen stopped working about year 3 so I can't pair it even if I wanted to. 

It would cost over $1200 to replace, not that I want to. They regularly play blasting harsh white noise as a way to coerce you into paying for satellite radio, so I stopped using it altogether.

The future is stupid.,@BordedDev That cost is if I did it. If the dealer did it, it's well into the $2k range. There are steering wheel controls and a backup camera and probably a hundred other things I have to get adapters for. It's ridiculous. I just play music through my phone on long rides and that's more than sufficient.,Or mouth smacking. There are things I will die not knowing because the people that made those tutorials think that punctuating their sentences with mouth noises makes them sound contemplative or sophisticated.,I'm guessing it's a bunch of colors or a curse word.,I once drove to someone's house knowing all they wanted was to get gossip they could use against me because I knew there was cake involved.,This is how I actually speak if I'm not given 15 minutes to rehearse my order.,@Grumm I have a 4070ti with 12gb of vram and I can run a quantized version of Mistral small almost full speed and it's very competent. The even more quantized version is a little Alzheimer'sy but still good when I need something fast. The 70b models are usable enough if I'm willing to wait.

It really is impressive what we're able to pull off.,At first, the things ai generates look impressive, but the more you use it the more you realize it really is just a fancy autocomplete engine without anything that can really be considered reasoning.,@ScriptCoded It's a more streamlined source of information than a Google search and can save time. And if you can't find an answer on Google. It could mean the difference between a finished product and giving up. 

But if you're doing something even remotely novel, most of the time it  makes things up instead of telling you it doesn't know. Which leads to needing to look up the documentation, which you probably just should have done to begin with.,After Zordon sacrificed himself for the universe, that was the end of the series for me.,Nord is now 150 a year, all so I can train the captcha robots on what a streetlight is. I dumped it.```