The OFFICIAL programming thread
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If you use Google services (youtube, gmail) etc. Install chrome and only use it for those services. If you use Microsoft services, install Edge as well and only use it for those. Get a privacy hardened browser for your regular browsing. I use LibreWolf but there are others with different tradeoffs. Brave is a popular one that’s compatible with Chrome.
Using multiple browsers is a bit of work and I’m not sure how much it’s worth it. Not saying you are but none of the above will protect you if you are doing anything illegal. it’s really just to piss in the data brokers cereal.
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heh, i don’t use any services, neither google, ms, nor any others. i don’t even know what “services” are.
i don’t even use email.
i do nothing financial online.
i do use firefox, mainly just for weather reports and browsing here at LOT, and a little “shopping”-browsing for farm-related products, and rarely any other odds and ends. on public wifi i hit youtube when i have time, once or twice every 2 weeks.
and i am still wanting to protect my privacy from those fcuking fcukers.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
I don’t blame lithu for this, it’s coming from a dozen places and this website is no different to any other but:
I just logged into OT with a browser I never use for this website and only scrolled through the last 10 pages of this thread. UBlock has blocked 119 third-party cookies, the overwhelming majority of which exist purely to track you across multiple websites and then onsell the data about your browsing habits.
Now I could use something like UBlock in every browser but it’s way too aggressive given I want to support advertising and the like.
These would have to be from the content preview windows… I suppose the content preview cannot be done server side easily, the webpages will realize it’s a bot and you’d need to keep fighting that.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
The enemy of my enemy is…
Just another one of many enemies?
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So I guess we aren’t losing our jobs?
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Yeah I watched that and found the results she cited from studies matched my experience. Problem is that the studies she cited are all based on current or last generation LLMs so I think it’s too early to call it dead as a replacement for us. I’m just hoping I can do my job for at least 5 more years, 10 would be better, so I can reach some goals that I probably couldn’t doing other work.
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I think, and I suppose I’m kind of qualified to speak on the subject, that the big change LLMs and other associated ML (two tower models, distilled LLMs, etc) brought us isn’t in replacing programmers. It’s in making problems formerly intractable for small companies tractable for small companies.
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And the question of how big the AI hype should be isn’t “how far till AGI”, but “are there well monetizable products which haven’t been made yet”.
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The real question is, “How long until ultra realistic bisexual female sex robots are affordable?”
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“More than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers,” CEO Sundar Pichai said on the company’s third quarter 2024 earnings call.
More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI
The company had a strong quarter thanks in large part to AI.
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No wonder searches suck anymore.
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If you write
“if (Doe”
and you get an AI™ auto complete to:
“if (DoesCamelCaseCamelHaveManyHumps) {”
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@tigger said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
If you write
“if (Doe”
and you get an AI™ auto complete to:
“if (DoesCamelCaseCamelHaveManyHumps) {”
80% of your code as been written by AI.I prefer doesCamelCaseCamelHaveManyHumps. Makes it easier to read and pleases the eye.
As for does_camel_case_camel_have_many_humps, that clearly is a waste of screen estate and storage space.
Also, spaces > tabs.
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FFS:
I’ve been creating code around JWT tokens since maybe 2016 and I’ve never once heard that it was pronounced “jot”. Who are the terrorists that keep naming shit like this?
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They should be called JRR
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
FFS:
I’ve been creating code around JWT tokens since maybe 2016 and I’ve never once heard that it was pronounced “jot”. Who are the terrorists that keep naming shit like this?
CICS, a major IBM user package from way back, is normally pronounced by saying the acronym letters, but the old school guys say kicks.
Be prepared to read up on a living dinosaur or shark from ancient times still out there. Wiki even has the pronunciation entry.
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Do the old-school guys get their CICS on router sixty-six?
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@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Do the old-school guys get their CICS on router sixty-six?
Yes. Although talking to routers is more a VTAM/Telnet server- TCPIP running under an onboard UNIX VM thing.
Ya VTAM thinks it’s 1983 with proprietary IBM datacomm and they just basically made an onboard UNIX server and ported in all the UNIX stuff. I call it fooling grandpa.
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It’s good we keep the nerdiness combined to this thread so it doesn’t infect the others.
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@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
It’s good we keep the nerdiness combined to this thread so it doesn’t infect the others.
Say that’s wrong. Thanks Gustaf, it’s like you’re ringing the dinner bell for all those delicious threads to nerdify!!!
I Didn’t Believe that AI is the Future of Coding. I Was Right.
CICS - Wikipedia
