magic_lobster_party

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[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

Yes, I’m just elaborating.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Politics is about influencing other people. Engineering is about managing constraints. Sometimes these constraints come from other people. If you want to influence a constraint you don’t like, then you often have to influence other people (i.e. politics).

I don’t see anything strange with this.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 16 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Speaking up against the manager is politics though.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

Dealing with uncooperative people. Most work related stress comes from other people.

People who don’t communicate what they want but it needs to be done. People who don’t listen unless it’s coming from themselves. Or people who are simply too incompetent for their job.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 78 points 2 months ago (19 children)

It’s wild how ideas like Hyperloop were seen as reasonable ideas 10 years ago. The naivety.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The English language is not sufficient enough to describe biological gender without making broad generalizations.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago

2025 was the year when Xbox was outsold by Nex Playground. Xbox is not even top 3 in yearly hardware sales anymore.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 86 points 2 months ago (19 children)

The Democrats will find a way to completely mess up this opportunity.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This only checks that functions are called in the right order. Not that the functions are doing the right thing or if the functions are called with the correct arguments. Quite pointless testing IMO.

For example, it won’t capture cases where cmdChargeCreditCard returns a payment ID that exists for cmdCompleteOrder to use.

Set up an in-memory database, or test against a real database. You don’t test side effects by pretending that the side effects are correct.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

After you’ve cloned everything you’ll Arc<Mutex<>> everything.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I suspect code hallucinated by AI tend to also be more difficult to fix. If the developers can’t understand the code, then it’s likely the AI itself won’t ”understand” it either.

Another crisis in software will come.

 

It has effect! People are buying less American.

According to Systembolaget (the liquor monopoly of Sweden), there has been a drop in sales of American liquor by 17% this year. This is likely caused by boycotts after the tariffs introduced against Europe.

Long term, this may have an effect on which goods they buy in.

 

The UK's new act blocks access to adult content without identification. Turns out, you only need a copy of Death Stranding and a phone to get around it.

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