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Post by mschuster91 »

15155 wrote: post #369
lazyasciiart wrote: post #281

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Many industries have hit this without AI. One example is surveying: it used to be that you’d have a crew of survey techs moving around equipment and measuring reference points, a crew chief, and a licensed surveyor directing and signing off on them. Those techs and crew chief were the future surveyors, as licensed surveyor requires x years working under supervision. Now there’s one or two guys out there with a total…

They still teach surveyors how to throw chains in schools.

It's kinda valuable to know the fundamentals and how to work even when technology fails.

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Post by jamesbelchamber »

kelvinjps10 wrote: post #353

I remember learning to code with replit, the people from the course recommended replit because there was no setup to do

I used to teach with it - at classroom-scale it was really good. Unfortunately they shut all that down a little while back, and there wasn't really a good replacement. Which was a shame.

Seems to have worked out for them, mind!

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Post by davedx »

tim333 wrote: post #327
CharlieDigital wrote: post #304

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A friend used Replit to prove out a startup (it worked) and what worked for him is that Replit has a whole platform integrated with their coding assistant that include hosting and backend runtimes. So his cycle time of vibe-deploy-test was very short and very simple for someone non-technical. No need to think about how/where to deploy, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), etc. Just vibe and deploy. (He did end up movin…

I think experienced programmers underestimate how tricky it is to sort the deploying to cloud platforms bit for beginners.

I'm an experienced programmer and deploying is a clusterfuck these days. It's by far the worst part of making software

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Post by femiagbabiaka »

flumpcakes wrote: post #383
femiagbabiaka wrote: post #359

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Literally hilarious.

So UK citizens were not kidnapped? Or are you implying the UK were not doing intelligence flights, but were attacking Gaza directly, or had boots on the ground directly? Because I have seen absolutely zero reporting to infer that.

Like all defenders of the indefensible, you will shift the goalposts incessantly to suit the narrative you wish to defend.

First it was, "The British military isn't doing anything in Gaza, anyone who says otherwise is lying."

Now it is, "The British military might be doing something in Gaza, but they're justified in doing so, and it's limited to protecting British citizens anyways."

What will it be now?

"While the Ministry of Defence (MoD) claims these flights are solely for locating Israeli hostages held by Hamas, AOAV found that the RAF conducted 24 flights in the two weeks leading up to and including the day of Israel’s deadly attack on the Nuseirat Refugee Camp on 8 June 2024, which killed 274 Palestinians and injured over 700."

https://aoav.org.uk/2025/britain-sent-over-500-spy-flights-t...

"On October 19, 2024, four days after it had been at RAF Brize Norton, the “Re’em” aircraft with registration 272 appeared directly over Gaza at 7:32 p.m. local time, less than 5km away from Beit Lahiya, a city in north Gaza. Three hours later, at 11:20 p.m., the IAF bombed a residential complex in Beit Lahiya killing at least 73 people.

On October 24, 2024, nine days after traveling to the UK, the same 272 aircraft was located at 9:30 p.m. less than 5 miles from Jabalia camp. An hour later, at 10:40 p.m., airstrikes were recorded destroying apartment blocks in Jabalia. The aircraft remained airborne patrolling the airspace near Gaza until it was recorded at 10:36 p.m. near Ashdod, a coastal city near Tel Aviv, flying towards Hatzor Airbase."

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/revealed-uk-labour-israeli-mi...

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Post by ItsABytecode »

quietbritishjim wrote: post #340
amiga386 wrote: post #338

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1dzq41n4l9o > Giving evidence earlier, he said the group's only intention was to "break in, cause as much damage to the factory as possible, destroy weapons and prevent the factory from reopening". I count "causing as much damage as possible" to be violent. While I think graffiti taggers "damage property" but are non-violent. But in many places, rival gangs blow up/set alight/demo…

> I count "causing as much damage as possible" to be violent. That is just not what the word violent means (unless used figuratively but I don't think that's what you mean). It means hurting, or attempting to hurt, a person (or maybe an animal). Setting fire or blowing up a home which might have people still in it is certainly violent, but destroying property for the sake or property destruction is not. Of course, de…

I don't really understand the distinction here. Are you saying that it's not possible to harm someone by damaging their property?

Sure I destroyed their car and they weren't able to go to work and got fired, but I didn't physically attack them so no harm done.

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Post by femiagbabiaka »

flumpcakes wrote: post #385
femiagbabiaka wrote: post #322

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I guess those Russian drones in Ukraine aren’t military combatants then?

Well the Russian drones are munitions, so that's not comparable. Is the UK dropping bombs on Gaza? I have seen zero reporting to say they have. The UK might be flying spy planes outside it's airspace when it's citizens were kidnapped. That's not a "combatant". Was the UK a combatant when flying spy planes near the Ukraine border? I think you are way off the mark based on reporting, I'm not even sure how you are comin…

No, they're not dropping munitions, they're simply coordinating with the Israeli military to facilitate the dropping of munitions, doing everything possible save putting boots on the ground (that we know of). So you're right, in that case Britain is more like China in this situation, perfectly blameless.

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Post by cbeach »

oa335 wrote: post #263
cbeach wrote: post #224

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Likud government and charter explicitly calls for all land between the river and the sea to be for Jews.

That is a territorial/sovereignty claim (i.e., rejecting Palestinian sovereignty/statehood in that space). It is not an explicit call to kill, expel, or physically destroy Palestinians, nor does it literally say “for Jews only.”

Under the Genocide Convention, genocide requires specific intent (“intent to destroy, in whole or in part”) a protected group, plus one of the listed genocidal acts (killing; causing serious harm; inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction; preventing births; forcibly transferring children).

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Post by cbeach »

chakintosh wrote: post #226
cbeach wrote: post #224

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> The Hamas Charter explicitly called for the “annihilation” of the Jewish state. See, this is what grinds my effing gears. On one hand you have a party "calling" for the "annihilation" of Israel. On the other hand, you have a part who is calling for the annihilation of palestinians AND they are ACTIVELY doing it. But no, you have to draw an equivalence somehow ...

> you have a part who is calling for the annihilation of palestinians

No you don't.

You have a democratically elected government aiming for the dismantling of Hamas.

Hamas is the proscribed terror organisation that is currently leading Gaza.

Israel is not calling for the annihilation of Palestinians.

The death of Palestinians is entirely the fault of Hamas, whose blatent and attrocious terrorism led Israel with no choice other than to respond with force and defend Israeli citizens from the further attrocities that Hamas have promised.

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Post by [deleted] »

overfeed wrote: post #395
cj wrote: post #330

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Most experienced programmers have no experience deploying apps (or their experience is from earlier in their career). Especially engineers at big companies where there are whole teams dedicated to infra/devops. The percentage of programmers with side projects they deploy themselves is very small. I’d guess less than 10% have a side project deployed somewhere. (And these days

> Most experienced programmers have no experience deploying apps (or their experience is from earlier in their career) Most experienced programmers in my circles have evening/weekend projects. We are notorious for hoarding unused domains for the "brilliant side project" that gets a burst of commits right after domain-renewal time

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Post by miningape »

bdcravens wrote: post #396
kelvinjps10 wrote: post #353

I remember learning to code with replit, the people from the course recommended replit because there was no setup to do

Some criticize that approach, suggesting that you're not learning important skills, but I applaud that approach. Anyone who's ever been in a workshop at a conference, where you have limited time to learn a topic, knows how much time is wasted doing initial setup.

yes this is such a good point, the OG replit could've been the perfect conferencing / classroom tool

Running an IDE in a browser like that is not something I'd ever want to work with long time or experimenting on my "own" computer - maybe it's just me being weird but running the code on the metal I'm holding is much more satisfying.

I'm not sure what features / tools replit had in this regard, but I could easily see it dominating CS education and conferences as the go-to IDE. (then making the real money by monetising the students in the future, i.e. other tools you can sell - even something like replit as a cloud provider), by having features like

  - templates you could share (i.e. one per lesson)
  - live sessions (where the professor could log into many students replit instance and demonstrate)
  - videos built into the editor / streaming / conferencing
  - "homework had-in" features, automated test sharing, etc.
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