They make a very poor job of highlighting something so important in a dense page detailing how to do what they recommend you don’t.

But they keep implying they are software engineers using JSON in a development capacity… I’d understand a system admin updating a config file to only be familiar with the syntax, but if you’re consuming JSON in your code you either understand the spec enough to implement it, or you didn’t write that code…

Something rubbed me wrong about not knowing what JSON is and insulting web developers as not real software engineers in the same breath.

How is it that you worked with JSON very often and don’t know that it stands for JavaScript Object Notation or what stringify does?

They don’t recommend against it… It’s a detailed guideline on doing it successfully.

That’s not what they’re saying. They’re saying llms are getting so good at revealing vulnerabilities that they have to put focus and effort on finding and fixing them before external malicious actors do.

Yeah it’s faster to find a bug than to refactor a whole codebase to fix it, they’re still using llms to speed up fixing the bugs. If you believe them, anyway.

I do. Their software stacks were so shit and bloated and had many owners with different visions and understanding of what code does what and why and they rely on being closed source to survive penetration, I do believe llms are finding vulnerabilities left and right, and focused refactoring to address legacy human slop can take time, even for a super competent llm that does it correctly in one shot.

Really old software had feature long time ago, new software has it now. Somebody 17 years from now is going to respond to post about multiple cursor support in nowaydudeland with “Wayland got had this in 2026”

And another person will respond “but we’re not talking about Wayland…”

I did, and I responded to your comment in its entirety. If there’s a point you made that I missed, try rephrasing it instead of being snarky…

Unit tests tests known facts and validate requirements, good unit tests are defined after you define your requirements and as you design your infrastructure, not after you write your code. They ensure your code does what you require it to do.

I don’t know what part of your comment I missed reading…

Unit tested test for accuracy, if your code isn’t “shaped to drive tests nicely”, it’s bad code.

They enforce requirements. You do start with code, you start with the “shape”, you architect how your application should be developed and you write unit tests for the functions you already know you want but haven’t written the logic to yet, the unit test validates the logic so you don’t spend 2 hours hunting down a missing negative sign.

Test driven development is not a new concept…

.net (core) is a mature framework and collection of great languages that work really well, perform really well, and is truly cross platform and open source. It’s the best thing Microsoft offers.

The xbone pitch was amazing for gamers who watched tv, it just never worked well out of the box. To actually watch live tv, you had to buy an additional dongle and an antenna, and then after spending all that on setting up your media center, you had to buy the remote separately.

And then the whole experience wasn’t as smooth as it should have been, and cable integration was very buggy in my experience.

Assuming these customers are the reason for the price hikes, their backing out is the demand loss needed to bring prices back down.

Open a corporation and buy your home and turn it into an AI data center.

Only the battery packs… Tesla for example, for what its worth (obligatory fuck Nazi Elon Musk), provides full detailed service manuals for free for ever component on the car.

The fact that Google is behind it is what makes it sketchy. I bet those mosquitoes are carrying 5G.

Truth. Fuck Google, fascist Genocide supporting oligarchs.

Their motives are not pure, for sure. But this program will save many lives, even if its strategic value to Google is long term self benefit.

Also, has anybody thought to ask why Google has 32 million mosquitoes on hand?

This isn’t new, releasing infertile male mosquitoes to reduce the population is a proven technique, and will genuinely reduce disease risk, so the public-health value is real. Why Google has them on hand? Well, they bought the company that started the program (Verily) and took it over, they have a lot of interest in the health and science sectors, not just AI and search/ads.

The real concern is that public health, ecological management, and climate adaptation are collective needs, but they are increasingly being handled through private corporate platforms. Debug can look humanitarian while also expanding Google’s role in governing public infrastructure, deciding how data is collected, how interventions are deployed, who gets served first, and who remains dependent on corporate technology.

Google is using a real public-health problem to develop a scalable bio-automation platform, gain regulatory and municipal trust, strengthen its public image, and position itself inside future public-health and climate-adaptation infrastructure.

They see huge profits and monopoly on technology that will likely become essential to our survival in the future, as they accelerate that likelihood with their reckless environmentally devastating technologies today. They’ll make us pay to use their technology to control pests that threaten our food supply. This isn’t charity, it’s long term strategic planning.

As for the immediate need, we’re gonna need this technology for the devastating future that’s coming, and since our corporate controlled government aren’t doing it themselves, it might be good to let it happen through evil corporations today, and hopefully when shit gets bad enough people will finally revolt and take ownership of it back to society, where it belongs. If not, we’ll continue to be slaves to corporations, but at least half the population won’t starve or die of mosquito spread diseases.

I don’t like that Google is doing it, and you’re absolutely right not to trust their stated motives, and no doubt they’re thinking of all possible evil applications of the technology in the future.

And they removed it for no obvious reason.

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just because the rich are a small percentage of the population obviously doesn’t mean they should be taxed less, that’s a wild statement.

That is a wild statement. That’s not even remotely close to what I said.

Rich people with summer homes in another state are likely not a major percentage of drivers, I’m guessing.

Tolls already handle the mileage part, and they already have different tolls per vehicle class, though the classes are outdated. But that can easily be adjusted.

The only downside of tolls is that they track your vehicle movement, but let’s not kid ourselves, flock cameras already track your movement to your neighborhood, and it’s run by an openly comically evil company.

Then kindly mash the letters on your keyboard randomly, perhaps it’ll form more words to explain what you’re trying to say than your previous attempts, because I’m honestly not clear on what points you’re attempting to make…