Damon Kaswell

I have never watched any part of the Super Bowl. I would watch the hell out of that, though.

Don't forget: The fascists want you exhausted, depressed, and weak.

Make a point of sleeping well, taking time for yourself, and getting exercise.

a cartoon character is riding a flying vehicle in the air Alt: A scene from the Jetsons where George Jetson packs his flying car up in a small suitcase.

We were promised jet packs and flying cars. Instead we got AI slop and enshittification.

You gotta understand, logic doesn't work on Republicans. They also claim that cutting taxes raises tax receipts for the federal government, while simultaneously insisting that we have to cut spending. Because of tax cuts.

These are not sane, rational people.

In that other timeline, she's being constantly attacked from the right as "too woke," and the fact that the Epstein files showed conclusively that Trump is a child abuser is swept under the rug. He's hosting an insane TV show in Russia now.

It's been fascinating to watch MAGA people post things like, "This isn't what I voted for" after they're affected personally by the regime.

Sometimes I just want to take them aside, pat them on the shoulder, and gently whisper in their ear, "But it is. It absolutely is what you voted for."

I hate to say it, but maybe it's time to finally let Alfred be dead for real. Give him the Uncle Ben treatment; he shows up in memories and alternate timelines here and there, but let Alfred's death be a new driving force for Batman's fight against crime.

A picture of Alex Pretti, a registered nurse and U.S. citizen who was just murdered by ICE agents.

His name was Alex Pretti. It shouldn't be forgotten.

Murder. This is straight-up, undeniable murder. These monsters are murdering people in the streets for exercising their 1st Amendment rights.

Another Linux user checking in. I use it for both work and gaming. I have a corporate laptop with Windows on it for when I absolutely have to get on the VPN, but other than that, everything just works without fuss on my Linux machine.

I will never understand people in Congress and SCOTUS willingly giving up their power to a dictator. Have they literally learned nothing from history? Do they not understand that once they are disposable, the dictator will inevitably dispose of them?

Why do they think they can ride this tiger?

And they're sabotaging themselves over the long term.

Coding is like any skill. It will atrophy if you stop using it. All these "vibe coders" in a hurry to divest themselves of all knowledge about how to actually write code are making themselves unemployable in the long term.

Thirty two years later, and that still goes fucking *hard*.

Gotta say, I like this trend of making it easy to find the fascism supporters and block them.

Go if you can. Make Congress realize the insane bastard must be impeached and removed.

Either Congress asserts the only actual power they have and moves to #impeach the pedophile madman, or they effectively cede power and cement his status as a dictator.

If the Republicans in Congress don't realize this means they must impeach and remove him now, then Congress no longer matters at all and we live in a dictatorship.

Is this a good rock drill? Or does the mess it makes - requiring a lot of manual effort just to figure out what it did - counterbalance the benefits of its speed?

The rock drill can indeed hammer faster than most anyone. But unlike the one John Henry faced, about 10% of the time this one hammers steel spikes into random things, puts half a dozen spikes in the same rock hole, drives spikes in a circle, or just stops a fifth of the way through a job.

Okay, let's think about this. In the story, John Henry won, at the cost of his life, against a steam-powered contraption that could do the same repetitive manual labor more efficiently.

In this analogy, software developers are John Henry, and large language models are the steam-powered rock drill.

Look on the bright side: If you walk into a company that needs help like that, you've got guaranteed job security for quite a while.

This seems like one of the better uses I've seen LLMs put to, but might I make a suggestion? Since you're not having ChatGPT write code itself, it's very likely you could replace it with one of the small language models that can run locally, such as Llama.

Wow, that is absolutely amazing. Visceral, in the best sense of the word. Sums up how I've been feeling about it as a writer of both software and stories.

Thanks for the honest answer, and of course DRY isn't always applicable. It's a rule of thumb, not a mandate.

I'm glad to hear every line gets reviewed, though I have to admit to some skepticism. LLMs excel at producing a LOT of code very quickly, and it's easy to fall into the trap of skimming it.

On that last one, LLM-based development is killing the concept of DRY code at an extraordinary speed. No one cares if the same/similar function or class exists in a dozen different places, because 1) they've forgotten how to trace where they're being used anyway, and 2) it doesn't make builds fail.

...areas atrophy and vanish among developers who've come to wholly rely on LLMs in real time. And when I review their code, I'm finding really elementary mistakes. Not ones that trigger build failures, of course. But race conditions? Memory leaks? Duplicated functions spread all over? Absolutely.

Genuine question: When was the last time you actually spent enough time on the code Claude is producing for you to deeply understand what it does, how different modules interact with each other, and find the sort of subtle problems IDEs don't identify?

I ask because I'm watching skills in those...

YouTube video by rlcarnes Rockwell Retro Encabulator

Maybe one of these will help!

Pretty sure it's a joke to make fun of vibe coders.

I'm glad we don't have this problem where I work. My product managers know full well the problems with them trying to write PRs for anything, even documentation, and never do it. They stay firmly in their lanes, and everyone's happier that way.