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New comment by someoneiam in "GPTs and Feeling Left Behind"

someoneiam — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 06:55:16 +0000

You sound like me. I've found some good uses for them generating ansible files for example (the output is regularly wrong, even with the latest and greatest model, but easy enough to correct). But otherwise, there always seems to be a cutoff in the complexity of a project where the ROI of just having to have built everything myself, and thus being completely immersed in the codebase, seems like it would have been much greater then prompting something to frankensteinian life.

But most of all, I love the act of programming and cannot imagine myself giving that over to an LLM. "Managing" an LLM is to me a soul crushing - maybe anti-intellectual, but definitely boring - task. And if that is what we as professionals will be required to do in the future, I'll just change profession.

New comment by someoneiam in "Accountability sinks"

someoneiam — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 09:17:58 +0000

Well, they say that, but in my experience at least, that is just conjured up as a more palatable explanation after the fact. While I do think that a certain, even significant, amount of automation is good, there is also a large mass of unemployed that can undoubtedly be trained to fill these "human interaction" kind of roles (support). This workforce is still not hard to find at all. We just don't want to do that - there is not a single western country left that has low unemployment as its key prerogative.

New comment by someoneiam in "Programming with ChatGPT"

someoneiam — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 19:32:06 +0000

I think (based on observations from my admittedly flawed in many different ways workplace) the difference with Stackoverflow assisted development is scale. ChatGPT seems to have massively boosted the productivity of mediocre developers.

Obviously not saying that LLMs aren't empowering competent developers and spawning useful projects. But their ubiquity seems to have coincided with an avalanche of terrible code, at least at the fairly disorganized organization I work at.

New comment by someoneiam in "How to prevent Lyme disease this summer"

someoneiam — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 07:26:37 +0000

I think that is just what happens if you live in tick-dense areas and do a lot if outdoor activities. I take every precaution, and remove approximatively the same number of ticks per season. Some places are just like that. Once, I rested with my right hand against the ground, just a couple of seconds, and upon lifting it up I noticed around 30 ticks crawling on it.

New comment by someoneiam in "We're seeing an ongoing attack against our primary network provider"

someoneiam — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 06:24:36 +0000

I agree! Never been happier with an email service and hope whoever is attacking them gets struck by a second lightning, some years after the first.

New comment by someoneiam in "Mutant garden (cartesian genetic programming)"

someoneiam — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:27:22 +0000

Strange. I'm on a low end android and it was impressively smooth and loaded instantaneusly. Just came off LinkedIn for a contrast, where every touch of a button gives me time to refill my cup with coffee.

New comment by someoneiam in "A new project: multi-track audio editing (2005)"

someoneiam — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 10:51:50 +0000

Reaper has a plethora of built-in effects and you can script your own in JS or Python or EEL2. You'd have to use third-party synthesizers though.

That said, the GUIs of said effects are basic, but I personally still find them useful.

There is no difference between the evaluation, non-commercial and commercial tiers.

I'd say, give it a try, the days when Reaper was a niche DAW are way in the past. Especially if you like the idea of being able to customize every corner of your DAW, Reaper is the no-brainer choice.

New comment by someoneiam in "Words that don't translate into English"

someoneiam — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 09:44:14 +0000

Yeah, I really don't get how they arrived to that conclusion. The meaning of bella figura is good impression, it really isn't ambiguous at all.

New comment by someoneiam in "How I lost control of our bank accounts to a phone scammer"

someoneiam — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 17:06:13 +0000

We had some employees working from a coworking space last year, and we would receive invoices from The coworking biz addressed to "MR Company Name". They would frequently omit our VAT number as well. Of course, we could not pay those invoices, and whenever we got in contact with their support The response would be so delayed that we already had received multiple warnings and threats from their automatic invoicing system. They did eventually get their shit together and voided all The junk invoices they had sent us, but it took three months or so... And this was a huge player in coworking, not a small indie bussiness.

New comment by someoneiam in "Rust is the future, C is the new Assembly: Josh Triplett (Intel)"

someoneiam — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:36:55 +0000

IIRC at least in Nim the GC is optional. Never tried it myself though, so I have no idea how it feels to manage memory manually with Nim.

New comment by someoneiam in "Time to Get Serious about Tick-Borne Diseases"

someoneiam — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 18:15:48 +0000

My Lyme story is probably one of the less dramatic posted here, but it is telling that I feel like I was relatively taken good care of compared to many others here and elsewhere. My first symptom was the classic erythema migrans (bullseye rash), which was painful on its own, but given that this was during summertime in southern Italy it got unbearable at times. I saw a doctor who told me I had probably been bitten by a spider or lizard, but nothing to worry about. I asked him about Lyme but he insisted there were no ticks in Italy (!)... Eventually I got low fever and terrible upper joint pains, as well as deformed nails and fingers (the second stage of Lyme). This was still not enough for the doc as again, there are no ticks in Italy... After a short time Bell's palsy kicked in (severe facial paralysis and a drastic change in taste in my case) and then I knew that I was 100% dealing with Lyme. So off we go to Italy's main institution for infectious diseases where they tap me for an insane amount of blood to analize, and tell me I will stay at the hospital for maybe a week. Tests came back and Lyme was positive, even though there are no ticks in Italy... I ended up staying at the hospital almost two months with antibiotics pumped intravenously multiple times a day for hours. After recovering I had to go to the hospital for health controls every 2-3 months or so for a around a year.

And I was lucky enough to go through this during a time where antibiotics are still effective at fighting bacterias. One of my biggest fears is entering a post-antibiotic era, where bacterias grow resistant at a faster rate than we are discovering new antibiotics. If we keep misusing them, to erroneously treat ourselves, to feed livestock, pumping the rest products into rivers, this might not be such a far fetched scenario.