What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

Kevin Beaumont @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
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Shared by Em :official_verified:

“Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy”

1) it was never a high wave, and waves go down
2) it’s not a surprise to a large number of people

The minute you see a bunch of business execs getting excited about something is the minute to begin to roll your eyes, generally.

economist.com/finance-and-econ

Image features a webpage from The Economist, with a headline discussing investor expectations for AI usage, stating it is not increasing as anticipated. The subtitle mentions recent surveys indicating flatlining business adoption.
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樂流 @exilestories@threads.net
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故事就是，有個山區黑心文盲山寨王垂涎又富又有學識的年輕美女，因此拐帶了個女大學生，搶走她的家當後再困她在山村裡燒菜做飯。她每次想逃就呼她巴掌拳打腳踢，戴著花她的錢買來的粗金鏈，問她能做自己老婆了到底還有什麼不滿、竟然還想逃走，唸過書就以為自己很高貴明明只是臭婊子，一邊罵一邊往她身上吐口水。

所有曾經試圖救她逃出生天的人都被他和他的同夥不是趕走就打死了，每次有人救她，他就會更粗暴地對她拳打腳踢。

後來她被打到害怕、打到服軟、放棄掙扎，變得唯唯諾諾，他就嗤笑出聲，所謂富家女原來不過爾爾。

她最後自殺死了，他給她立了塊墓碑，上面寫著：我最愛的老婆。

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dan @danabra.mov@bsky.brid.gy
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an image that comes to mind is that i’m strapped to a unicorn running around in circles vomiting rainbows nonstop and my job is to nudge it by the horn so that the rainbows form the desired pattern

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leyrer @leyrer@23.social
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A cross-party group of lawmakers will urge the European Parliament to ditch internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous software in favor of a European alternative
politico.eu/article/get-us-off

Get us off Microsoft! Lawmakers press EU Parliament to change in-house IT.

“We cannot afford this level of dependence on foreign tech,” lawmakers say in letter obtained by POLITICO.

www.politico.eu · POLITICO

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Honič Péra 24 hodin @honicpera@snac.lab8.cz
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Plány na využití lithia pod Krušnými horami postoupily, s jeho zpracováním se počítá na místě bývalé elektrárny Prunéřov 1. Společnost Geomet může na stavbu nového závodu získat až 8,8 miliardy od státu, s podporou v týdnu souhlasila vláda v demisi.

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dan @danabra.mov@bsky.brid.gy
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i’m still adjusting but the way i look at the code has changed a bit since it doesn’t pay off to really commit it into my long term memory — it changes so much reading code now feels more vibey, like im looking mostly for layering and knots or wrinkles. i try to get it to unwrinkle wrinkly parts

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Sue Smith @sue@glasgow.social
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Shared by jnkrtech

I sometimes see people describing resistance to LLM assisted coding as gatekeeping and I get that, software engineering culture is absolutely rife with gatekeeping, I quite literally dedicated dedicated my career to developer education because I want more people to have access to these opportunities.

But here's the thing, in order to fully participate in the world of software you will still need to learn to code, giving people the impression that isn't the case is not empowering.

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dan @danabra.mov@bsky.brid.gy
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one takeaway i’m getting used to is there’s absolutely no reason to settle for the first thing it writes on the contrary, the refactors are much easier now as long as you can express where you want it to go. so you can keep nitpicking on pretty major aspects of the code structure and layering

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