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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Moves to cut out the FBI appear to be in line with a pre-election memo drafted by his legal advisers and fits with Trump’s enduring suspicion that the agency is part of what, without evidence, he believes to be a “deep state” machine within the federal government bent on undermining him.

    Trump administration does something obviously illegal and unethical

    FBI: “Hey, that’s illegal, you can’t do that.”

    Trump: “Look at this deep state organization trying to prevent me from doing my job”










  • While introducing bugs is certainly a risky side-effect of AI coding, the history of software development has included controversial changes in the past, including the transition from assembly language to higher-level languages, which faced resistance from some programmers who worried about loss of control and efficiency. Similarly, the adoption of object-oriented programming in the 1990s sparked criticism about code complexity and performance overhead. The shift to AI augmentation in coding may be the latest transition that meets resistance from the old guard.

    Stepping away from assembly did have that effect though. The tradeoff was that code was easier to make and easier to optimize, but its undeniable that it did lead to a loss of control and efficiency.

    Similarly, the shift to object-oriented programming also increased performance overhead, but the tradeoff was that you can seamlessly reuse code which makes larger projects more manageable.

    The article is right that AI coding is probably here to stay, but all the disadvantages that people are highliting are real concerns that won’t go away, they’ll just be adopted as the new normal.




  • I’m sorry about my neighbors, things are fucked up here.

    The oilsands have warped the economy so much in this province that any political party that doesn’t align with the wants of that industry specifically is seen as the antichrist.

    As a result, we also get a lot of the anti-gay, anti-trans rhetoric that comes part and parcel with right wing politics.