k17.dev
Dad, CTO @evolution.tech, autistic, avid reader, gamer, politics nerd, MBA.
Mainly working in C#, TS, SQL, PWAs and occasionally AI.
Opinions are personal, expect sarcasm.
https://k17.dev/
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Why spend even that much when you can replace your CEO with a basic GPT subscription and make Open AI pay for it?
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Most cost effective employee to replace. Why work so hard trying (and failing) to replace a basic office admin when you could replace the guy that says nice things to keep shareholders happy?
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It works in both, they are both violent thugs and inveterate wankers.
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Will it have legs?
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At some point, with measles, TB and bird flu all endemic, but no CDC or any attempt to control them, the WHO may have to quarantine the USA. Save the rest of the world from RFK's Nurgle cult.
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Same with HIV, another epidemic in living memory, anti-vaxers don't have a great grip on reality and pay no attention to news. Denial is easy for them, especially if the demographic affected is not them.
Still, the US currently has rampant measles, and that kills kids.
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Covid was 5 years ago. We had car parks full of body bags and lockdown, and we still had anti-vaxers. It's nowt to do with living memory, stupid folks are gonna do stupid, RFK just emboldens that.
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I've bought Balatro on 3 different platforms as well as gifted copies to others. It's still a game I play heavily and easily my most played mobile game ever. It still got money from me just fine without persistently nagging for it or promising content I could have had.
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The vast majority of sites that don't, including every single US based news or content site, just track you without asking.
In the US you implicitly "accept all" because US folks have no rights to refuse tracking.
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The law was a good idea, but nobody in the EU (or any of the European parliaments) understood dark UI patterns, or how far ad-tech will go.
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The sites where you don't see it mostly just track you without asking. This is greedy ad/tracking scum trying to get around an EU law that states people have a right to privacy and you have to ask before setting cookies. They make it as hard as possible to say "no".
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I think it's propaganda targeting those dumb people with the mythology where the US is the only true civilization; every ancient culture was actually aliens. Much easier to be colonial if you think their culture is less valid than yours.
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If you have a bit more time for a longer video, this is an excellent breakdown of the entire scam
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As long as this "help" refers to rigging vote machines and not jumping round on ketamine with a cheese hat giving nazi salutes.
I'm not sure you can get one without the other.
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But in vibe coding or learning contexts this is incredibly toxic - you get a prototype, but it's incredibly fragile, has nonsense error handling and will lock every thread on the server if 10 people visit it at the same time and DB response times dip below 20ms.
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I have a lot of experience with async programming, I can spot these, but it's infuriating how often TAB-complete from the LLM injects this garbage rather than just the function name.
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In JS the LLMs use `.then(x => ...)` without awaiting it, breaking whatever handling you had around it. You might have a spinner and error handling around your call to the server, but deep down some LLM autocomplete switched to a callback (so now you don't)
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But the real pain point is they switch back to sync contexts - in .NET all the LLMs regularly use `.Result`, which looks innocuous but will absolutely lock up your entire server. You need parallel perf testing to spot this, so it's easy to miss in a PR.
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Firstly they suck at the actual syntax, they almost never use `await`, even in an `async` context. In JS they use `.then()`, in C# they use `.ContinueWith()`, and so on.
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This was a couple of years ago now. The age of AI employees has been here since about 2022, they were useless shit then and they still are now.
This is a sci-fi scam from idiot chuds who've never read any sci-fi.
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What about wimples? Any ban on head-coverings ends up also banning nuns and various Christian orders too.
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Just a little complete rewrite of auditing including a resolution for a 20yo problem with time-zones over a system with around 400 million records.
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When you have lobbyists on you really should explicitly state that they are lobbyists and who funds them. You have your own fiscal reporters, you do not need to give these groups airtime for their agendas (which the IFS obviously has).
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Corps can be extremely effective in niche, specialist or dynamic contexts. But, if the project's big enough to feed a Carillion (or similar) then the corp alternative is ALWAYS more expensive, because the money spent is mostly gone from the economy.
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This is why public-private partnerships are so toxic - to the dumb/naive they look cost effective, the corp can do it for less than hiring people direct, but also takes a huge cut for their shareholders that leaves circulation - it becomes a frozen asset instead of thousands of transactions.
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This is something the right (and centre) pretends to not understand - they go on about stopping 'waste' (as in pay to people) with corporate 'efficiency' (if the corp isn't giving the max money to shareholders they replace the CEO with someone who will).
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Most people spend most of their money where they live.
Give someone £100 and £99 goes into the local economy.
Corporations (and very rich people) move money to wherever it benefits them most.
Give a corp £100 and it all disappears to their shareholders.
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He's why we have a block button.
He hasn't had a TV or radio gig in a decade, he's just a controversial dickhead saying nasty things for attention.
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Yes, but only if...
A re-open nominations (RON) is an option
B if RON wins the election must be held again and no losing candidates can stand again.
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That 50% is not to keep the current junior doctors happy, it's to get teenagers thinking: "yeah, that's a hard-work high-stress job that takes 7 years to train as that I'd like to do"
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Both Labour and Tories fought tooth and nail to keep junior doctors from getting a pay raise that matches inflation. The net result is too few new doctors, because who wants to work that hard for that pay? They need to be talking >50% increase now.