Comments by "Traveller" (@traveller23e) on "Fireship" channel.

@sebinohoo2979 if it's made open-access, it seems silly not to make it open-source and copyleft.
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I'd argue with the first. The customer often lacks the understanding to ask for features that make a whole lot of sense, not to mention when they ask advice on something and then ask for the exact opposite of what the advice was.
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Makes one wish that the transputer were still around...
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@jbird4478 What is the binary blob? Does that just contain the trained data, or is it an executable?
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Is it possible for Claude to give itself further instructions? I can see a "bug" causing an unlimited amount of tokens getting used on a machine the user has lost control of. Great for business for sure, and probably something that user protection legislation should prepare for.
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@grainusrainus Which is ironic since it almost certainly collects GPLed stuff. Can't wait til that results in a lawsuit due to copy-paste from GPL via extra steps.
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I really appreciate the inclusion of the word average. If it takes thirty seconds to do a task on a state-of-the-art programming workstation, just imagine on an old Dell laptop with a Duo or Pentium core. There are still some of those out there. And (especially relevant given the nature of a lot of programs these days) make sure it works with an absolutely terrible, or better yet nonexistent, internet connection.
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@Luke5100 Well, in theory yes, but you try getting two teams adding up to 30 devs working on the same legacy codebase to consistently apply any coding standard, let alone your preferred one. 😅 Jokes aside, I'm somehow already a senior enough member of the team that people listen to me at least with regards to this particular thing. Tbh overall I'm just as happy we don't rigidly adhere to any particular rigid guidelines except for "braces on all if statements", since oftentimes the most readable syntax depends on the specifics of the situation. I also don't agree 100% with the Microsoft guidelines, especially where it comes to basic types like int and string.
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Not quite, he missed out on bitfields, several of the keywords (static, register, inline, volatile...depending on C version), and completely omitted mention of the CPP which is pretty important to say the least. Also, he didn't mention all the datatypes, nor go into some of the more complex topics like integer promotion, which overflows are undefined behavior and which are defined, and the challenges of having potentially different byte sizes on different platforms.
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my poor scrum master recently resorted to writing a SO post, and no replies yet :(
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@armoredchimp Maybe. I've never paid for that sort of cloud hosting so I'm not really an expert, I normally stick to desktop stuff.
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I'd guess the limits of AI would be the amount of computing power we're willing to dedicate to it, which in turn is limited by raw resources. Note I haven't mentioned anything about environmentalism slowing things down; history seems to imply that as much as we like to talk about doing things in a greener way, every time there are possibilities for perceived convenience or lower prices we tend to jump on the chance.
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Why mention WSL for windows as a lifesaver right after claiming most games and proprietary software don't work on Linux, failing to mention Wine and Proton?
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The issue I have with what I've seen of Copilot is it's too helpful. If a tool lets you not understand a regex, you're not going to try to understand the regex, and then you'll wonder why your code breaks in certain specific situations. Just learn the tech, don't rely on tools that give you vague translations of what you're seeing all the time or you'll cripple yourself.
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@bazooka712 I thought that until I became one and discovered that a lot of them are just normal dudes. So much for the excuse I'd given myself since forever.
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@wenas_161 pacman has commands to allow you to tell what programs were installed not as dependencies and you can decide from there what to delete. If you're trying to save space you should also clear your pacman cache; it prevents you from installing a package again without downloading but it'll clear up storage.
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@iAPX432 1) fuck you 2) you're a dickhead 3) the recruiters who ask me about SOLID principles are arguably less important participants in technical discussions than the newly-recruited junior with some good instincts but no clue what the LSP is.
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@gonzalobruna7154 Training the model is probably far more expensive than running...it's now that they get to recoup the cost of training
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@peristiloperis7789 I've seen to many of these genius millionaires to take that at face value...
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ehh...they will have to be good but not necessarily productive (at least in a measurable way.
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one does have to wonder to what extent Google is already doing that
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Can you change that setting in your ide?
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@coherentpanda7115 Vim does too ;)
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@michaelmitchell2213 Seems like a good way to land yourself with longlasting trauma as a result of serious emotional abuse at the hands of your own chatbot.
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@1KiloDepartment Presumably a Japanese lawyer.
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I've been gradually working on getting a NixOS system set up on one of my computers as a system for developing Haskell programs, but I've found it significantly harder than Arch (which I have on my daily driver). Mainly I think this is down to configurations requiring rebuilds to take effect as well as the fact that there really isn't nearly the same amount of documentation.
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@kuda1532 Honestly they should standardise app packaging formats so that any packages provided via google play could also be provided at virtually no additional effort on F-droid, Samsung's store, etc
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@gargoyled_drake Building from scratch is only useful if you trust the repo maintainers more than you trust the packagers, unless you plan on doing your own "peer review" of all the changes made to the packages you use.
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I think it should be GPLed and given to some free software group or other but with a yearly development budget paid by google as a slow fine.
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@graydhd8688 I've considered looking into it a few times but never have as I use a tiling WM and didn't really see the need. Is it worth going into in that case too do you think? I feel like the sessions thing could be cool for a couple of my perpetually open terminal sessions, but dunno.
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@tigerboy4705 Useful to keep around after installing too just so you have a rescue device, but yeah
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@AshesWake-sf7uw I watched a colleague import a package without looking into it at all because he wanted to format filesizes in a log line in a nice, human-readable format. He then spent 45 minutes trying to get chatGPT to explain how to use the package. He was my team lead at the time and had several more years of experience than me as a dev.
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@ParadymShiftVegan Yes, but one of the goals in abstraction (aside from cross-platform/architecture potential) is to make the language easier to learn or more convenient. The original commenter was laughing at the grouping together of such different languages, I don't think the goal was to teach people that high-level means "easy".
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OOP languages tend to be good, but if someone tells you to stick to strict OOP principles ignore them. Like any other tool in programming, use it when it makes sense. If your code would be better with a lambda expression somewhere or whatever, do that. The strict OOP cops will tell you not to use inheritance ("antipattern") or static methods, for an example of how over-the-top some of the stuff gets. My controversial opinion would be that it's best to just stop worrying about it and just write code that's readable, low-effort, uses the best tool for the job, and (if applicable) efficient. If the best way forward involves a goto, then fuck it and stick a goto in there. Just double check it was the best way first, and choose a more laid-back coworker to do the peer review. Also, side note: given the choice of C# and Java, go with C#. It's virtually the same, except generics aren't broken in all the core methods ;)
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@divirusp well the difference is if it's abandoned you still have access to the source so if it's important enough to you you can make it work. With proprietary stuff that is usually not the case. Just ask anyone whose lifetime adobe license has expired while they were still very much alive.
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@nobody227 Open sourced projects have been sued before, however they tend to be slightly more resilient as a new fork can pop up every time an old one is taken down. The real issue though is when people get too scared of the company suing them to make a public fork: getting sued for this normally carries significant monetary penalties that are not likely to be recouped.
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@leandrew2725 The worst is when you google "cmd equivalent of [really basic POSIX tool you always use in linux]" and the answer is "there isn't one, unless you count this way worse tool that can do something vaguely similar to what you want"
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@kurshadqaya1684 Is there a real reason to learn vi these days instead of vim? To be fair I'm decently young, but I have never seen a system that had vi where it was not just vim in compatibility mode.
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@homan-awa vulnerable? To what?
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@dheerajvithalkar Much like with houses you can absolutely buy software, you just have to have the money. Software changes hands all the time. Ultimately most of us live in a largely pay-as-you-go world. There is also a philosophical debate to be had regarding what it means to own software, which I suppose ties into debates regarding owning anything else. At the end of the day ownership seems to be a largely cultural concept I believe, but that's a whole other can of worms.
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To be fair to your client, rewriting code generally takes roughly as long as writing it the first time.
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@JarrowJR How does one protect against that, short of using Tor?
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