Low code is a real practical way to increase developer productivity. And some of the current tools achieve exactly that already.

Of course, that usually lead to a increase on the number of jobs. The AI people want to believe it will completely replace developers, what can only lead to fewer jobs.

MS can’t force that one to use AI on development. But they can force almost everybody up.

“It doesn’t matter that we are burning 1 trillion dollars with no pat to revenue, because we will create God and it will make money meaningless.”

"Also, it will cure cancer and solve Global Warming. I know dumb people like you that can’t even get a trillion dollars to burn care about those things.

I will never unsee it now… and I’m not even disappointed.

I basically never have this problem on Linux.

I think programs can’t hold removable media busy by default on Debian. If you remove, you lose whatever changes aren’t there. Either way, Linux programs just read files and close them, they mostly don’t keep files open.

Dropbox is lying.

Windows may be lying too, but the only thing certain is that dropbox is lying.

AI should start breaking code much sooner than it can start fixing it.

Maybe breaking isn’t even far, because the AI can be wrong 90% of the time and still be successful.

Nah, they also don’t like when we move slowly and keep things working either.

If you use moodle, it has a plugin for that, with instructions.

If you don’t use moodle, you may want to check the instructions on the plugin anyway.

You think you are tacking ‘real’ issues with your servers, but to the average user you seem just as crazy as a guy with a basement full of beans and piss jugs, screaming about the government is watching us constantly.

The government is watching us constantly. There’s no doubt about this and if you think it’s not, you are the crazy one living in fantasy land.

At the same time, how do you think a basement full of beans would help? The entire path from “the government is bad” to “therefore I’ll have a hole full of food where I can live by myself for years” is dumb magical thinking that can be shown to not work by simply looking around or reflecting about oneself for a second.

There are many valid reasons to be concerned about a disaster. And yet nobody doing your traditional prepping for anything larger than a tornado deserves respect.

Yes. I’m divided into “hum… 100 lines is larger than I expected” and “what did he mean ‘from scratch’? did he write the parser combinators? if so, 100 lines is crazy small!”

But I’m settling in believing 80 of those lines are verbose type declarations.

I remember an issue where Amazon said it took a long time to fix some problem because, despite all their dev tools not being linked to AWS, their door system ran in it and the developers couldn’t get to their computers.

because they’re hard-coded to a DNS to avoid shifting IPs due to things like NAT

One of the many, many things we shoved into DNS was service discovery. It’s not because of NAT, it’s because we want to seamlessly support migrating from 1 server to 10 billions of them without reconfiguring anything.

The solution in indeed to migrate to IPv6, but that’s because IPv6 multi-cast is actually usable. This time it’s not because of NAT.

Java has the hash interface for using in containers. You don’t need to override equality for it.

This has been F5’s second week.

Crowdstrike is scheduled to be on the news the next one.

Looks like instead of guides, you have to sit down and study it in depth.

CSS is far from perfect, but it’s very likely the best theming framework that exists out there. In every context.

If SO doesn’t have the answer to your question, LLMs won’t either. You can’t improve that by prompting “better”.

They are just an easier way to search for it. They don’t make answers up (or rather, they do, but when they do that, they are always wrong).

If you regular builders can’t be composed as values…

That may be regular, but it doesn’t make them good. Some times you need that, and it’s ok, but that shouldn’t be most times.

I wonder what you think “configuring” means.

A monad is a builder that lets you use previous partial results to make decisions while you build.