mastodon 4.7.3Computer nerd. Avid collector of retro computing gear. Ham radio operator. Gear head. Wannabe pastry chef. Amateur runner.
Actually autistic and ADHD.
Living in the Palm Springs area.
Current status
I'm really starting to question if I can remain in tech. Or at least within tech companies.
Philosophically I'm hitting my limit with how it's going.
But I can't really leave without losing, well, everything. So. Fuck my life I guess.
seeing a post about "vibe coding" for the Atari ST makes my soul die
I've always had trouble with learning to do OOP in Ada. This blog post helped a lot:
https://entropicthoughts.com/object-oriented-programming-in-ada
as a result my Ada impl of Crafting Interpreters is starting to do something. Well, I can read a file through the Streams_IO package, and that'll let me actually write the lexer.
And I will never watch any Olympics event again.
I liked Corin Nemec on Stargate SG1, but Jonas was no Daniel Jackson
Every once in a while I see a tech related thread that gives me some hope.
Yes that was vague intentionally.
I also regularly see really detailed, long prompts that are given to a AI.
The time it takes to write something that detailed, and the test cycles, cannot be that much faster than just doing the task yourself.
Maybe having 32 years of professional experience gives me a bias there, but I'm having a hard time challenging that bias.
Updated to a Hue Bridge Pro and got my bedroom lights working again
it's starting to feel like home
I would like a directory of LGBTQ Twitch streamers
trying to find them on Twitch's website itself is not good
I'm not saying there aren't usecases for AI, but I'm just not seeing it in coding.
Humans have a hard time writing detailed enough specifications to start with - and that's what's required for an AI to work. It can't make the cognitive connections a human brain can.
Maybe someday it can, but at what cost?
"AI is the future"
I could not get Claude to understand today that it could consult a git log, run find, awk, grep without asking for my permission today
no matter how I phrased it or configured it, it kept prompting me.
If I wanted to do that manually, I wouldn't have asked Claude.
This is a tool I'm required to use at work, and it actively slows me down.
Well let's see here.
One person, Mike Johnson, blocked the funding bill.
Trump is now going to allocate funding himself. Which he doesn't have constitutional authority to do.
These fuckers need to all be put in prison.
Permanently.
I still find it amusing that Dom DeLuise's son Peter was a producer and writer for Stargate SG-1
and of course Dom had a character on the show too
This is sad. LittleBigPlanet was such a great game. I still miss it.
https://kotaku.com/littlebigplanet-3-servers-shut-down-fan-project-lbponline-ddos-attack-2000693676
I want a way to turn my 4U servers into towers
it's not hard to change the PC to it's own tower case, but the IBM i server can't easily do that
The new Muna album is fantastic queer pop.
oooh my OpenEVSE finally shipped
So what job boards do people use anymore?
If the AI tooling works for you, that's awesome. But this feels like dictating if you use emacs or vi or VSCode in some ways.
I made it exactly 12 minutes into the movie "Mercy" before I turned it off.
It's not just that the premise is bad, but the effects and "UIs" in it are even worse.
Hello Alexi Lalas showing up on Next Level Chef
Season 3 needs more Abbott.
I didn't see myself liking Al Hashimi at the beginning of the season
And that conversation between Abbott and Robby?
