Didn’t seem that bad to me (though I’ve definitely read books with better flow), I had that exact same thing with Game of Thrones.

Can’t wait! I’m really glad I discovered it through the show, now on book 10 and on one hand I can’t wait till I finish and at the same time I’m dreading it.

I’ve opened infinity on my phone if Firefox is to be trusted.

Pirated CS6 runs amazing using Wine. Or so I’m told.

Does additional 32 GB of RAM actually help there? I’d assume this is mostly CPU-intensive work.

Given the person said they’re 28, I’m actually older. And I decided to not be a dick about it and to not pretend that everything was better when I was young. Everything was different, sure. Some things were better, some were not. But I decided to not do the whole “back in my days” thing because I always found it stupid and luckily that didn’t change with age.

Eh, if you’re into computers, you’ll find your way. My first “programming” adventures were writing batch/vb scripts and putting them in the startup folder and watching the teacher lose their shit when when their computer turned off after five seconds. Or watching all of the classroom open and close the CD drives 50 times when we were the first to have an IT class that day.

Glad you can read and repeat stuff! I presented it as such to avoid wannabe smartasses, guess they still arrived. Since we’ve touched on the subject of managers and hiring, do you often hear the phrase “not a cultural fit”? Wouldn’t surprise me.

If an old geek argues with a senior architect about architecture, I kinda think the architect is the one who’s right in 99% of cases.

Sure, sure, old man. Everything was better when you were young.

There never was a majority of people who were into computers. It was always a minority. And I’d argue that nowadays there’s more developers because there’s simply more people with access to computers.

Some of them won’t like them, some will be neutral and some will be “geeking around”.

And having seen some code from people both older and younger, the younger ones are better (note that it’s my anecdotal evidence). And you at least can train the younger ones, while the “experienced” will argue with you and take energy out of your day.

I’m so tired of the stupid “when I was young, everything was better”. You know what else was exactly the same? The previous generation telling you how everything was better when they were young. Congrats, you’re them now.

Can’t speak specifically for Germany, but one thing that comes to mind for the whole of the EU is healthier food. Basically everything here will be healthier, unless you go out of your way to eat healthy in the US.

Also the obvious language barrier unless you learn German. Not that you can’t get on with English, but it’s gonna be a subpar experience.

Also if you’re into travelling, the whole EU is open to you, just a few hours ride will take you to sometimes vastly different cultures!

If you ever come visit Czechia (one of the neighbouring countries), feel free to ping me and we can grab a coffee or something.

Their filament sucks, the only thing good about it is the RFID that tells AMS what colour it is.

If they do official support for people with developer mode turned on that’s fine by me and the issue is pretty much solved, I don’t mind losing cloud connectivity if I get full control over the printer and can do my own cloud if I want.

Pff, just use the numbers directly:

${1} = "value";
${2} = "DOGE";

That makes it possible to do stuff like:

for (${152} = 1; ${152} <= 2; ${152}++) {
    ${666} = $${152};
    print(${666});
}

This is a valid code, btw.

Exceptions are now illegal and therefore won’t occur, so no need to check for them

Ah, I see you’ve met C++ developers.

Yes. That’s exactly how we got the first image generating AIs - people took a huge amount of pictures and described in detail what’s in there. That’s how AI knows how to generate “a cat in a space suit standing on a moon” - there were a lot of pictures described “cat”, “space suit”, “standing”, “moon” etc. and the AI distilled the common part of each image matching the description.

And there are plenty use-cases to have a description of what’s on an image. For example for searching through images based on what’s in there.

Well, some jobs are probably being replaced. Like, I can imagine someone being paid to describe in detail what’s in a picture and writing it down would be replaced pretty quickly.

But if the article means programmers, devops, sysadmins etc., then hell no, there’s no way the current iteration of AI can replace them and instead of spreading misinformation, the article authors should focus on real reasons the layoffs happen.

But that doesn’t bring as many interactions as doom news of companies replacing us with a smart text predict software, does it?

What did you use? I usually use Syncthing to get my files onto/from the Deck. I also use it to sync my mods, that way I have the same experience whether I turn on the PC or the Deck.

You can’t, you have to move instances.

Can it hurt you, though? My guess would be every sane compiler and interpreter optimizes this.

What a fucking idiot. I’m itching to refund it just for this statement alone.

Loved that browser, it was so amazing compared to all the half-assed default browsers. Good old days of J2ME.

I also used its bigger brother on Symbian because it rendered the web better, but it was way too memory-hungry.