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New comment by daerogami in "AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering"

daerogami — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:05:41 +0000

It just means a religion with a formal structure and leadership behind it. The term points to the institution and its influence, not the beliefs themselves. An unorganized religion is basically personal or informal practice without a central authority, like an individual or essentially a book club.

New comment by daerogami in "I tracked Amazon's Prime Day prices. We've been played"

daerogami — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:02:50 +0000

How is this news, seems more like an ad for a price tracker? Sales from online ecommerce to Black Friday in stores have been facades for well over a decade. Amazon has been marked-up AliExpress garbage for a long time as well.

New comment by daerogami in "Apple bans entire dev account, no reason given"

daerogami — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:30:49 +0000

My coworker would disagree with you. Slack and Teams never remember the microphone, frequently fails to initialize the device correctly and have to rejoin the meeting. _Never_ have that problem on Windows or Linux.

New comment by daerogami in "Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife "critical window""

daerogami — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:38:58 +0000

> ie pasta ins't very healthy unless cooked al dente, then it becomes much better for the body

That sounds absurd. I think you have been lied to.

New comment by daerogami in "Dave Täht has died"

daerogami — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:37:39 +0000

Youtube then link it everywhere. Here, the Reddit thread that links to here, etc.

New comment by daerogami in "Learn to code, ignore AI, then use AI to code even better"

daerogami — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:19:26 +0000

But haven't you heard? AI gets better every month! It's just like Moore's Law and it will keep getting better because why wouldn't it? It's not like there is a dead-end to something fundamentally built around categorization and regurgitation of existing things.

(Noting this is all sarcasm in case I didn't lay it on thick enough)

New comment by daerogami in "Learn to code, ignore AI, then use AI to code even better"

daerogami — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:09:29 +0000

To add to this, if someone depends on AI (the top-layer in your example) and doesn't learn the the 'how's and the 'why's of programming, they or their organization will be completely beholden and dependent on the organizations running those AI tools. Not a great position to be in.

New comment by daerogami in "Chinese villagers capture video of falling Long March rocket booster [video]"

daerogami — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 06:10:15 +0000

Yes, "only" in the sense that 6 isn't the real figure, not that it is an acceptable number of deaths.

New comment by daerogami in "Low economic growth is a slow-burning crisis for Britain"

daerogami — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 16:56:15 +0000

I agree and it sure seems like people are being intentionally obtuse about this. As if no one has ever expressed exaggerated frustration in this way. Comparing this to Trump is a bit ridiculous.

New comment by daerogami in "You Are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance"

daerogami — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 02:14:07 +0000

I'm curious where your confidence comes from. Do you know many people pulling in a stable income while also living out of a tent, smoking meth?

New comment by daerogami in "Facebook Accused of Watching Instagram Users Through Cameras"

daerogami — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:09:36 +0000

That sounds backwards... wouldn't it be 5% ruins the reputation of the remaining 95%?

New comment by daerogami in "Fuck You Startup World (2016)"

daerogami — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:37:13 +0000

C# developer here. Bit shifting is super useful for defining flags and flags are awesome. In the web app world, I don't really come across the need for bit shifting outside of flags. If I am building something in Unity or GodotSharp, there are far more opportunities where bit-shifting is useful.

I generally agree with your statement when referring to code bootcamp graduates, but anyone with a CS degree should have learned bitshifting by their second programming course; YMMV.

New comment by daerogami in "In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved"

daerogami — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 03:42:42 +0000

In response to 1, you're asking people to do their own research when you have stated the claim. The burden is on you.

As for 2, if it's such a problem, just don't make the argument. It genuinely comes off as wanting people to agree with you rather than any real interest towards engaging in actual discussion.

New comment by daerogami in "The Feds are building an America-wide face surveillance system and ACLU is suing"

daerogami — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 23:03:38 +0000

Only on paper in a utopia. That does not work on a landmass with 327 million people that are trying to engage in commerce, build homes and maintain infrastructure in their communities. You need some managing body to orchestrate the funding, management and execution of a civilization whether its a handful of families or a nation covering half a continent. Having no government for those is a logistical impossibility.

Better to say "the best corruption is no corruption". That is at least marginally less refutable.

New comment by daerogami in "Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder"

daerogami — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 22:22:20 +0000

Gonna risk getting my head put on a stake, but why not just use a GUI git client at that point like TortiseGit/GitKraken/SourceTree?