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76% of all respondents are using or are planning to use AI tools in their development process this year, an increase from last year (70%). Many more developers are currently using AI tools this year, too (62% vs. 44%).

What the fuck. That's horrifying. I also though that every sensible workplace bans the use of AI.

A friend was telling me about a discussion between CTO's at a conference, where they were talking about whether it's even worth it to hire junior developers anymore, since there's a high risk of them just being "AI-raised", without much (or any) experience of coding without AI. And, this survey result... I can see where they are coming from. The future of programming looks pretty bleak - our job will not be replaced. It will just get worse, with good developers being more of a rarity.

And the amount of people who use vim or neovim as their IDE is surprisingly high. Is it skewed by sysadmins?

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Feel free to draw here.

Thank you for the detailed explanation. It's pretty confusing situation, but I think I kind of get what happened.

I agree with the last point, I always found it weird that it basically depends on subjective ratings. I don't doubt the neutrality or professionalism of the judges, but it must be super hard to stay objective and not make mistakes.

From time to time I watch some scam-hunting youtubers for fun, because some of them have really perfected their game and listening to scammers raging is fun, but it's also super unsettling when you realize they also talk like that to real victims. It's unhinged.

So, if I get it right, they scored her wrong because they though she stepped out of bounds, but she actually didn't. The coach appealed the scoring, and it was ruled that it was indeed ok, so she got points, which fairly placed her to 3rd place.

Now, it was overruled, because he appealed it 4 seconds late? That sounds pretty unfair, because it's not about her performance, which was eventually scored fairly and should get her to 3rd place, but about the process of the appeal, and by such a narrow margin.

While I get that such rules are in place, it feels wrong. Needless bureaucracy, and in this case there wasn't any malicious attempt to lawyer-up to get a medal she doesn't deserve, it was just a wrong scoring that should've been corrected.

This situation sucks for all the involved.

So, they say that "We have provided enough resources and money so that there should be enough to provide shelters for all of the homeless".

Shelters are saying they didn't get enough resources. That means either someone fucked up the calculation, did a bad job in estomating how much is needed, or they tunneled the money from the program. People responsible for distributing and planning the funds for the program should be the ones criminalized, not the homeless for whom apparently isn't enough space.

Unfortunately, what's probably going to happen is more taxes for people without children. It has already been considered by some parties here in czech, and it infuriates me. I'm also mostly sure that's what will happen, turning people without children to second class citizens they can leech more money from, with an excuse that they are not building our society enough. And you will get some lower-income, anti-work people spamming children even more, to abuse the benefits and support you get for them even more.

One night when returning from a party at work, I've decided to stay a while longer in the tram to escort my co-workers to the tram central hub (which was like half an hour of tram ride), instead of getting out at my home, which was only 5 minutes from our workplace.

When I got into the tram back home, there was an older guy with a carboard robot costume, who was talking to someone about his work in the theater. Because I find people like that interesting, I decided to move closer and sit next to them, so I can listen to their pretty interesting conversation. I've tripped and basically literally fell into their conversation, and the other guy left, so we started talking. It turned out he does a prop-guy on movies and for theater, and we hit it off pretty well. He also lived literally 3 minutes from my place, and we have decided to go have a few more beers at his home, which was basically a storage lot full of random stuff without much furniture - just random props, one bed, and a lot of beer.

I've messaged my GF that I'll be late, since I'm drinking with this pretty cool old guy, and send her a picture of the place. Her reponse was "Wait, isn't that ?". Turns out, he was a prop guy on a movie they were filming a lot of years ago at their old family house when she was young, and not only he was the most fun guy to be around there, always sneaking out to drink with them, but also briefly dated her (late) mother, so he's basically her step-dad. Since he's pretty old-school, no social networks, internet and barely a phone, we did exchange contacts and since then have seen him a few times, and it was always a treat, like getting us to the backstage of theater production. But the way we have met is so, so random and the odds of something like that happening are mind blowing. I usually don't follow random people home, but here we have hit it off so well that we wanted to keep talking and it didn't even felt weird.

This is the first time ive heard about microg. How is the app support with it? Can you run every app that needs play service? I have Google Sandbox installed only on a second Graphene profile, and use it for bare minimum of apps that dont work without it, Bolt app, mostly weird MFA for work or package tracking apps i use once per month, while disabling most of their permissions. Will microg improve my situation in this case to be worth switching over? Does it work without root?

A good reminder to always set your password manager to auto-lock (with PIN for convenience) after 3-5 minutes. The PIN makes it easy to re-log, while not being bruteforceable (AFAIK after few failed attempts it reverts to password), and if someone would get to your PC, either physically or remotely, they won't be able to get all your passwords.

One of the best jackpots I've ever found during Red Teaming engagements was when I RDPd to a server through pass-the-hash, only to find an unlocked password manager with passwords for most of the other servers, service and admin accounts.

One of the best explanations I've heard about difference between most text editors (nano, notepad, vscode...) and Vi (and it's derivatives, like vim, neovim, helix, etc) is that Vi doesn't have editing shortcuts, but editing grammar. So, you can do a lot more a lot faster, if you take the time to use it, and the more you use it, the faster you can get.

While I'm sure there's a better definition what exactly is meant by grammar here, a similar example would be like the difference in capabilities between plain text search, and regex. In Vi*, you have shortcuts for navigating almost everywhere you'd want - next word, start of next word, end of next work, next parameter, next matching bracket, etc, and also have a lot of commands for searching or selecting text. And you can combine all of that with numbers, i.e 5se would select everything up to the end of fifth word, I think.

And you can also record and replay macros on the fly, on multiple lines at once. All done with relatively simple key combinations and commands, that may take a while to learn, but once you get proficient at them, you never have to take you hands of your keyboard, and you can do almost everything you ever need really fast, way faster that you'd be able to in regular IDE.

On the other hand, Neovim (and vim-like IDEs) are something like Rust. Everyone likes talking about it, and most programmers admire it, but everyone has actually learning it on their ToDo list for tomorrow for the last few years. Me included.

You are right, calling it a contradiction was not exactly accurate. Or rather - it did contradict some of the narrative that is pushed by Delta, about CS not providing any support in the first few days, which it sounds like isn't exactly true. But most of the case will indeed still need more receipts, that's true.