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Comment Aging occurs in stages (Score 2) 53

And yeah, for me, 48 years old was the big downslide. So many small things start going wrong at the same time. And the maddening thing is, you still feel young inside. It's just that you slowly give up on stuff because the body doesn't follow. It's like seeing opportunities disappear and doors closing. Not fun...

Comment Re:Old enough to remember (Score 1) 115

A long time ago...

Seriously the site with the most potential so poorly run that those in power imposed zero tolerance for anybody trying to solve a problem different than the way they would solve a problem and would nuke your karma to the point where you couldn't participate if you disagreed with them.

Comment Can we retire the Admins too? (Score 1) 115

Ever have difficulty disconnecting an RJ45 cable? Well, here was our opportunity to just cut the damn things off instead of figuring out why the little tab wouldn't release the plug."

Sums up in two sentences, the general intellectual capacity of a Stack Overflow admin.

Seriously, I've never encountered such a toxic "help environment" as Stack Overflow. If you search for solutions you'd get 10 year old answers that no longer apply. If you ask a new question, their admins admonish you because the question was asked already (10 years ago).

Comment The kindest thing that can be said of AI (Score 1) 59

is that at the moment, it has human junior engineer-level skill. This means it's also liable to do stupid mistakes out of inexperience, that turn into giant screw-ups if you put it in charge of critical stuff.

I did my share of root rm -rf's when I was a young programmer but my boss didn't let me do it on the primary database machine. The wost that ever happened was that I deleted my own copy and had to reinstall my machine.

If you're dumb enough to make AI work on important stuff, you're a bad "manager" of your AI junior engineer.

Comment AI is no better (Score 1) 151

Bash command line operations with mv and wildcards will bite anyone who blinks. When I move content I copy, verify copy, rename directory of old content and wait a day or two and then delete.
If I was driving gemini I would have said: "copy contents to a new folder and confirm copy each file is successful, rename old content with _backup suffix." This is embedded in the dev-ops DNA.

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