You think that nationally subsidised and otherwise loss-making companies is the free market?

I appreciate capitalism isnt popular on lemmy but let’s at least base the discourse in reality over propaganda.

The free market is about having little to no government control. Therefore any market that includes the Chinese market can not be described as a free market.

I would argue that banning Chinese companies would demonstrate more, not less, commitment to a free market.

Because everyone uses them.

They just swallow it hole. Teeth were just slowing them down all along.

Honestly im proud of the problems I’m able to solve today now that I can use AI to do it so quickly.

Even when I stop and manually check all the work the AI has done, it’s still much faster and I’m having to rely on my knowledge and experience to do so. When I’m vibe coding I’m relying on that same knowledge and experience to architect the solution rather than deliver it.

Ive seen the other side- the colleagues who all of a sudden think theyre engineers and are unknowingly exposing critical commercial data to our competitors. That side is scary…and gives me hope that my role while changing, is far from dead.

Also I have hobbies - i only work to pay for them. If “the man” wants to pay me to spend tokens…fine by me. I’ll be here to clean it up if it all goes wrong.

I’m just trying to do my job in the system I’m in friend.

I know I’m gonna get flamed for this, but here goes.

I have vibe coded a system at work that has enabled me to deliver value in a fraction of the time I expected. My verification steps have been around whether it does the things I told it I wanted it to do. I’m not maintaining the syntax and I’m not expecting anyone else to. Ever.

That said, our teams that deliver products that touch customer data or financial records…they shouldnt (and dont) engineer this way. The tech isnt there (yet).

Let the flaming commence.

I’ve used NordVPN for a couple of years and never had reason to switch. None of it gets in my way, and it’s just worked.

I’m sure others are just the same, but ive no reason to put in effort to change when I have a working solution.

Plus it’s double effort cus I dont think anyone else does a meshnet alternative so I’d be setting up tailscale too.

I’ve had a bit of a tumble

this quirkiness doesn’t materialise in real world applications on any scale that makes it harder to deal with than the alternatives.

My first foray into doing anything remotely close to programming was substituting things in other people’s TCL scripts. I had no idea what I was doing…but i was somehow getting results.

I curently have no idea how this person did this, and so as a bare minimum id have to learn that in order to know where to start replacing keywords. Maybe it’s completely trivial, but the fact remains I do not know and so I would have to learn something.

So yes, even if they’re “just replacing keywords” they’re still learning something. Even if you consider it trivial or mundane.

That’s a solid point

I hate Trump, I think he’s an evil traitor to humanity.

However I also think he’s me in this picture. I would stand there awkward as fuck watching everyone else who knew what to do take action.

Not sure what people expect him to do here? But maybe that’s because im as flawed as he is. In this regard that is.

RFK pulled a blinder. He gtfo of there licketysplit…cus he knew the photos of him failing to offer effective medical aid to someone in need were about 0.06 seconds away. In-fact if you look closely you can see the RFK shaped smoke ring on the edge of the photo.

I agree entirely

You know they’re say the same about you right? Verbatim.

That looks strangely like a long range rifle that c would be well served putting up a prepared defence or neutralising an unsuspecting target. Neither of which are aligned with home defence.

For home defence I want a shotgun. High lethality that doesn’t go bouncing down the road looking for another victim.

Europe has this. You should too.

Um but wtf is all the water draining to? The work surfaces?

Also imagine knocking this over. Fml.

Just the good ones.

The other day a dude was using his phone on speaker in the gym. Just sat there on the machine casually having a conversation on the phone and not doing a whole lot of working out.

I asked him if he could use the phone normally and made the “hand to face” gesture and he just mumbled a “yeah” and took it off speaker.

Now if he had considered my request outlandish, presumably there would have been a little friction in this exchange? But no…he knew exactly what he was doing, why it was annoying, and immediately how to remedy it.

Why the fuck are people using speakerphone instead of the God damn normal speaker to have their conversations? They know it’s annoying.

Oh, so thats where the phrase “the audacity of it” comes from