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throwaway613745

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    Comment #46385324

    Customer experience is secondary to making the C-suite more money.

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    Comment #46385290

    DHH also doesn’t like typing in Ruby at all, and Rails is designed around what he likes.

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    Comment #46369110

    Of course they would have milked us that’s why I want Nvidia to stick around, to keep AMD in check.

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    Comment #46367779

    New job title: “vibe coding cleanup specialist”

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    Comment #46367735

    Ghost of Tsushima already is a PS4 game???

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    Comment #46367681

    Steam isn’t a good metric because they sell the game on Battle.Net. CoD is also huge on Playstation.

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    Comment #46367667

    It’s only one of if not the best selling game every year. Totally niche appeal, yeah right.

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    Comment #46367644

    I’ve always been an AMD customer because I’ve despised Nvidia’s business practices for 10+ years. It would still suck if they left the market because who does AMD have to compete w…

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    Comment #46361346

    Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is probably my second favorite FPS game after Doom 2. Nothing has ever really hit me since like the nuke scene did. The set-pieces in Modern Warfare …

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    Comment #46349174

    > what would previously have been a manga Completely out of touch to downplay the entire manga industry as "skill issue". Akira Toriyama totally created Dragonball as a manga becau…

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    Comment #46349141

    > Every time we automate something the luddites cry out about the coming mass unemployment. It has never happened. It has happened every single time.

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    Comment #46348542

    Ultimately, I didn't switch to Linux because I wanted to. I switched to Linux because Microsoft became so actively hostile to me I felt like I didn't have any other choice. No Micr…

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    Comment #46346772

    > Worked examples are step-by-step illustrations of the process required to complete a task or solve a problem. That’s not what having a bot generate your integration is and readin…

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    Comment #46346317

    A browser user agent is a string of text that a web browser sends to a web server to identify itself and provide information about the browser's capabilities, such as its type, ver…

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    Comment #46345968

    The topic is basically irrelevant. I could just edit my post to change the two instances of "vector database" to "vector database integration" and nothing else would change about m…

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    Comment #46345716

    Just speaking from personal experience but the struggle is what creates the learning. I learned refactoring patterns from Fowler's book. But when I tried to actually use them I sti…

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    Comment #46344942

    Blanket ban on AI generated assets, but nobody cares about AI generated code apparently. lol

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    Comment #46340878

    Terry is what happens when extremely intelligent people don’t get the help they need. He was abandoned by his family and society and became the play thing for internet trolls. His …

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    Comment #46338992

    I wonder how deep the hole they're gonna put whoever runs this site into is gonna be?

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    Comment #46332105

    I am using a machine older than eleven years old and can still run the newest version of Firefox and Chrome. I don't think the world needs to cater to people that refuse even basic…

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    Comment #46331995

    "it's more efficient if you ignore the part where it's not"

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    Comment #46331691

    I use it to write tests (usually integration) that make me physically cringe when I think about how dogged complicated they are to write. I'll ask it to write one-off scripts for m…

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    Comment #46328797

    oh ffs, I was just thinking about upgrading my current PC with a new GPU and CPU and just keeping the same 64gb of AM4 DDR4 I already have. But now even the prices for the CPUs are…

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    Comment #46321213

    Because the future and market is certain, don’t you know?