mlen

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[–] mlen@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If the purpose of a metric is to show adoption, the metric can be defined in a way to show adoption. Could be just an effect of promo driven culture, AI push and good'ol Goodhart's law.

Like, how do you even measure when code is ai authored and when not. If you insert 25% of a variable name and the autocompleter guesses the rest of the name correctly, are the remaining 75% AI generated?

[–] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you actually need to share your bookmarks? I found that bookmarks in Firefox and an RSS reader hosted on my nextcloud are enough for personal use.

[–] mlen@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

Meanwhile in the LLM "search engine" land: https://a2mi.social/@dave0/113031300914816116

Surely it is helping to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful

[–] mlen@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I run into this process every time I visit Poland (mostly because I visit so rarely that I forget) and every time I'm astonished how seriously fucked up it is.

The most annoying part is having to scan a receipt in order to exit the self checkout area.

In the stark contrast to the above self checkout process in Switzerland works so smoothly. Mostly because nobody is subjected to the bullshit described above. There's even an option to grab a scanner, scan everything on the go and just pay at exit.

[–] mlen@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] mlen@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I think ClownStrike is the name they deserve

[–] mlen@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago

Ugh, just reading the summary made me want to puke. What the fuck is wrong with those people. Who the fuck thinks that delegating the responsibility to computers is a good idea. Can't they cope with the outcomes of their choices and need to outsource that responsibility to some magick software

[–] mlen@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

Thanks, I hate it

[–] mlen@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So does Java. /me runs

[–] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

He also did sawzall, but thankfully that didn't get widely adopted

[–] mlen@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's called "data chauffered": instead of following the data, tell it where it needs to take you

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