Badabinski

kubectl delete enemy --all made me fucking snort.

When I had a Samsung TV, I hated it intensely and printed a label that said “scamsung.” That TV eventually went to the recyclers with that label still covering the Samsung one.

McDonalds→McDicks→McPenis. I’m mature.

This mirrors my experience. I -Syu on a weekly basis, spend about 3 minutes doing pacnews, and then I’m done.

What is this from?

well that’s no fun!

Only possible AI thing I see is .zed in the .gitignore, but that’s not an indicator of LLM usage. Plenty of people use zed with all AI features disabled.

god, I still love this meme so much after all these years.

EDIT: Jesus Christ, it’s from 2007.

I’m onto you and your tricks with that phone number and I approve

That’s neat!

I have everyone’s favorite thing; unsolicited advice! It’d be cool if it was easier to find the source code. I’m still waking up so maybe it’s obvious, but I ended up looking at the manual installation steps to get the link to https://codeberg.org/Valmond/Tenfingers

God I hated straterra. That shit only ever did bad things for me.

In many programming languages, data comes in different forms. If you want to get a yes/no answer to something, there’s a way to represent that: a true/false boolean (often 1 for true, and 0 for false). If you want to represent, say, a street address, that’s a string, because it’s just a big ol blob of undifferentiated text to the computer.

The joke is about how you ask someone a yes or no question, but they respond with something which is not either of those options.

A string with length > 0 is truthy*, so we’re good!

*in python

Is this real?

That device kinda terrifies me. Like, I appreciate that SCUBA gear is so… simple. No electronics, no batteries, just relatively straightforward pneumatic equipment. At least you’re not very deep if the compressor shits the bed.

Metro 2033 is so good, you’re gonna love it. He wrote such a fever dream of a novel.

Is your container using BusyBox? if so, then it’s not even real wget, it’s just the disgusting awful busybox version.

God I hate BusyBox.

Regex absolutely counts imo. I love it, especially when you combine it with a parser like, say, parsimonious.

Every time I use Mcmaster-Carr’s website, I weep at the lost potential for places like Costco. I wish every store’s website was like Mcmaster-Carr.

God, the fucking comment spam drives me absolutely fucking nuts. I used to enjoy reading 2 consecutive changes with 12 lines of comments because it meant I was in for a hell of a story of woe and misery. Now, it’s just the fucking slop machine doing its thing.

With regards to LLMs being good enough to do our jobs, I don’t think that’s ever going to happen. Token prediction is a neat trick, but you actually need something that can reason and understand to replace human intellect, and nothing I’ve seen on the horizon appears to be capable of that.

Yes, there’s far more code to review and the reviews are extremely fucking frustrating and I can tell who is using an LLM based on the volume and texture of the shit they’re pushing out. You have to check everything excreted by an LLM far more thoroughly than if it had just been written by the senior dev who produced the slop. An LLM is incapable of reasoning, it’s just choosing likely tokens based on past context, so nothing it produces can actually be trusted.

Source—I’m a senior dev at a large software company you’ve absolutely heard of. I am drowning in slop.