AI coding in a nutshell. It makes the easy stuff easier and the hard stuff harder by leading you down thirty incorrect paths before you toss it and figure it out yourself.

I think there might be a lot of value in describing it to an AI, though. It takes a fair bit of clarity of thought to get something resembling what you actually want. You could use a junior or rubber duck instead, but the rubber duck doesn’t make stupid assumptions to demonstrate gaps in your thought process, and a junior takes too long and gets demoralized when you have to constantly revise their instructions and iterate over their work.

Like the output might be garbage, but it might really help you write those stories.

I would note that ads are a source of poor performance, and vectors for infection and compromise of a system through realistic misleading dialogs and outright exploitation of vulnerabilities.

I have had my parents fall victim to viruses and get scammed out of money due to advertisements on purportedly legitimate websites.

If a website doesn’t work due to an ad blocker, my parents don’t need to visit it.

Reactionary bullshit conceivably being promoted by the advertisement industry instead of rising organically (though it really only matters when asking whether its a few loud people, or a bunch of AI-generated noise).

Well he specified static website, which rules out WP, but yes. If your host accepts posts (in the generic sense, not necessarily specifically the http verb POST) that raises tons of other questions, that frankly were already well addressed when I made my post.

DDoS and hacking are like taxes: you should be so lucky as to have to worry about them, because that means you’re wildly successful. Worry about getting there first because that’s the hard part.

Not as a Linux guy, but as a developer, that has to be enabled and configured in the application. It has to have a listener hook into the keyboard events.

Now you could write a program that hooks into the keyboard and invokes another program on button press, but the program would have to have as an option that you could run it with a command line parameter to do the thing you want to do.

I will. It’s mostly the conceptual stuff I need to grasp the context. Me and Google “how to grep” or “how to install .deb files” are old friends.

I use Linux as my daily driver and I still don’t understand half of what people say when they talk about Linux. I support this idea. Not because I have dumb questions, of course, but I think everyone else’s would be very educational…

This helps with writing unit tests as well.

It’s an art, not a science. Which is where I think a lot of people misunderstand software development.

All I could think of.

I’ve tried multiple times to go IP6 only. I mostly thought, despite my reasonable understanding of IP4, that I was the problem in trying to set it up. I found my dns host was being forgotten multiple times a day, set to something invalid, then it would time out and revert back to the working one. I couldn’t figure out how to connect two computers together for Minecraft.

Now I hear it was just garbage consumer hardware and software? Fuck me. So much wasted time and effort to say nothing of believing I had turned into a tech idiot.

That was a problem solved seventy years ago. If there’s no one around, just go. No one cares.

Longcar is looooooooonnnnnng.

I don’t have the experience to refute that. But I see the same things from developers all the time swearing AI saves them hours, but that’s a domain I know well and AI does certain very limited things quite well. It can spit out boilerplate stuff pretty quick and often with few enough errors that I can fix them faster than I could’ve written everything by hand. But it very much relies on me knowing what I’m doing and immediately recognizing the garbage for what it is.

It does make me a little bit faster at the stuff I’m already good at, at the cost of leading me down some wild rabbit holes on things I don’t know so well. It’s not nothing, but it’s not what I would call professional-grade.

The more you use generative AI, the less amazing it is. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy it, but it really can only impress you when it’s talking about a subject you know nothing of. The pictures are terrible, though way better than I could do. The coding is terrible, although it’s amazingly fast for similar quality to a junior developer. The prose seems amazing at first, but as you use it over and over you realize it’s quite bland and it’s continually sort of reverting to a default voice even if it can write really good short passages (specific to ChatGPT-like instruct models here, not seen that with other models).

I’ve been playing with generative AI for about 5 years, and it has certainly gotten much better in some ways, but it’s still just a neat toy in search of a problem it can solve. There’s a lot of money going into it in the hope it will improve to the point where it can solve some of the things we really want it to, but I’m not sure it ever reliably will. Maybe some other AI technology, but not LLM.

It could be elected President with chops like that.

I totally can’t help with the visual impairment, and I’m sorry about that. My sister is mostly blind, but not a gamer.

I have been able to play Steam games on Ubuntu and thus far haven’t had any problems, but I haven’t stressed my system with AAA games, either, because I typically play those on console. That’s all I’ve got, sorry. Good luck!

I spent all my time in utero working on binary division.