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.

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Hot take: LLMs can write lots of code really fast, but that kind of doesn't matter to 99% of the businesses out there because their processes to validate and deploy out that code is so jacked up that they can't enjoy the benefits of a 10x speed up.

Moreover, everyone else receiving the new features can only digest them at a given rate so even if you 10x valuable output, your users might only be able to take it in at their existing 1x rate.

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Signal is not fucking around with the warning if you try to enable screenshots on the Windows client.

"Disable screen security? If disabled, this may allow Microsoft Windows to capture screenshots of Signal and use them for features that may not be private."

I was so impressed by this that I went to take a screenshot to post here and instantly got got by the same screen security feature I was going to disable in the first place.

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@lcamtuflcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: That is depressing. Social media gives you the ideal training engine for free though. You can A/B test all sorts of shit at light speed to maximize it's engagement metrics. You could just wire us a gradient descent algorithm to your metrics feed and train yourself right?

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Today’s fun English suffix is “-age”, a very flexible nounifier.

“-age” can be stuck on a verb to mean “the thing that is verbed”. Luggage, coverage, appendage, wreckage.

It can be stuck on a verb to mean “the place where verb happens”. Storage, carriage, anchorage.

It can be stuck on an adjective or even another noun to abstract the word’s core concept. Shortage, postage, percentage, roughage, leverage.

It can go on a concrete noun to refer to the noun’s quality collectively. Peerage, sewerage (all the pipes), footage (length of film), mileage.

Then there are words which look like they might have an “-age” suffix but it’s just a coincidence. Sausage, message, advantage.

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