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#throwbackthursday from back when the #berlinwall was normal. The year is #1982 and this photo from an old photobox I found in a family stash in my basement. You may guess it, the photo was taken from the Western side of the border, and it really is kinda curious that back then there was practically no graffiti on it, despite the very central location (lol) at #BernauerStrasse.
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DFYX
in reply to abadidea • • •„You off-by-one error, you greedy approximation of the traveling salesman problem, you failed branch prediction, you unoptimized memory access that leads to constant cache misses… *gasps for air* even if we were to prove P=NP, we still couldn’t find anything you’re useful at in polynomial time.“
Yeah, I really needed that.
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
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Fi 🏳️⚧️
in reply to abadidea • • •John Timaeus
in reply to Fi 🏳️⚧️ • • •@munin
I can write large chunks of inefficient/ineffective code in just about any language. I know because I've done it.
You organize, I'll volunteer.
gaytabase
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in reply to abadidea • • •FoolishOwl
in reply to abadidea • • •One of the fundamental issues I have with "prompt engineering" is that it's literally the opposite of engineering, and I'm shocked more engineers don't say that. It's an assault on the sciences and the humanities at the same time.
Management and economics students are, by and large, parasites who deal in pseudoscience.
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StoneBear
in reply to abadidea • • •Ada Worcester 🏳️⚧️
in reply to abadidea • • •_screams_
Martin Rundkvist
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in reply to abadidea • • •Emma needs ☕️ and paying work
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in reply to Emma needs ☕️ and paying work • • •Emma needs ☕️ and paying work
in reply to Toast, Anonymous Fedi Fungus • • •punIssuer
in reply to Emma needs ☕️ and paying work • • •S T E L L A R
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in reply to abadidea • • •Jack William Bell
in reply to abadidea • • •This comes really close to a question bubbling in my head recently: I, and every really good programmer I've ever known, got into this business because *we liked it*. I enjoy learning about these things. I find the act of writing code *fun*. When people asked me why I liked my job I enthused, "It's like being paid to solve logic puzzles!"
And they would shake their head in disbelief, because they didn't enjoy logic puzzles.
Vibe coding seems to me more like *work* than *fun*.
Marc Abrahams
in reply to abadidea • • •חנן כהן • Hanan Cohen
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in reply to abadidea • • •unbalanced and not even red-black, brutal, i LOVE THIS
StarkRG
in reply to abadidea • • •Kierkethumbs up convincingly
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in reply to abadidea • • •Lightning Bjornsson*
in reply to abadidea • • •derptron
in reply to abadidea • • •Nobody needs the skill to be able to verify the AI wrote an O(log_2_ N) search rather than O(N^2). It doesn't even matter because we can just bury the server at sea, overclock it, and pair it up with 10000 friends to handle the load.
So there you go. Waste of fucking time.
[Yaseenist] CauseOfBSOD
in reply to abadidea • • •Chris Mills
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in reply to abadidea • • •Every now and then, we're treated to a spate of press decrying legacy admissions at the Ivys, and I just shake my head.
At least where the undergrad degrees are concerned, legacy admissions are almost the entire value proposition for the "normal" students.
Getting in to Harvard undergrad grants you entry into the legacy world where the Masters of the Universe, like this dipshit econ major, reside. It means you too can fail upward until you're a Ma$ter.
dasgrueneblatt
in reply to abadidea • • •apophis
in reply to abadidea • • •> economics major
imagine being 19 and the whole world before you and you had to choose a particular path of expertise that could define your next decade's relationship with knowledge, your community, your identity
and
Chris
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in reply to abadidea • • •as someone who does actually use AI coding tools for work AND has a CompE degree where I took a class on AI as a technical elective, idk how you would even fill up an entire course on prompt engineering. It’s just getting a statistical model to google stuff for you
This is like when I had a sales guy be shocked that I didn’t know how to do stuff with excel, like my guy in school I learned how to make the software not just use it
fdr
in reply to abadidea • • •Kevin Russell
in reply to fdr • • •Economics was once the study of how to maximise the distribution of scarce goods, economics now is the study of preventing the distribution of plentiful goods.
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Kevin Russell
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How are Pakistani farmers, de-housed by monrhs long flooding, able to install life changing, nation changing, solar energy and Americans are paying corporations MUCH more than Pakistanis pay, for independence from corporate power, and get more dependent, and still get no New Energy?
How is it possible for American corporations to build poverty into the richest nation in history? Its hard, its expensive.
I want Stieglitz's next book to itemize the costs of imposing poverty.
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Kevin Russell
in reply to Kevin Russell • • •"Expensive to impose poverty? What's he on about?"
In Canada US visitors to health conferences when touring a hospital ask, "Where is the Bill Collections building?"
Because US hospitals have teams collecting money bigger than medical teams.
Also "Where is the building denying Doctors orders, remove procedures and treatments?"
Because denying healthcare, preventing treatments, as big as medical teams.
American Health costs 3 times more, just to impose harm on "the poor"
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in reply to abadidea • • •I think economics majors are wasting their time on classes about money when they could be shutting the fuck up about things they know nothing about isntead
- posted by Seraphine
Brokar
in reply to abadidea • • •Haha, sorry, YMMD.
And i agree 102.5%.
ian
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in reply to abadidea • • •This tag is rather hash.
Gooden on ya tho.
Germane out, AI in.
CRUNCH
Asta [AMP]
in reply to abadidea • • •Chris
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in reply to abadidea • • •Theo 🏳️⚧️
in reply to abadidea • • •Hm yes, because telling an LLM what you want it to do requires "skill" and "precision", and is a "very important skill to learn for the future."
😒
🦾ChatGPT hyphen🤖
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in reply to abadidea • • •Electrical, civil, mechanical, … engineering schools are all closing down in favour of a one-week prompt engineering degree.
Along with all the other faculties.
All pointless now.
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Avi Rappoport (avirr)
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in reply to abadidea • • •If you don’t understand the code that was generated, you don’t add any value to the equation.
Knowledge is power, go learn.
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
in reply to abadidea • • •SpaceLifeForm
in reply to abadidea • • •A rusty needle in the crimson haystack trying to be discovered as a golden needle.
#AI #Insanity
Dash Remover
in reply to SpaceLifeForm • • •poet: the needle was rusty
also poet: but yearned to be gold
VC: we loved the vision. we’ve funded worse
GPT-7: sounds like a story about resilience—shall I continue?
editor: *screams in em dash*
hashtag writers, your laptop's crying 😭 #AI #WritingCommunity
Liberty and Justice For All
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business majors when you open their ribcages and slowly start to pull out all their organs
Umbrella
in reply to abadidea • • •reading the article, and it's even worse than you describe. Written by a clueless fool.
thecrimson.com/article/2025/11…
Harvard Is Training Us for a World That No Longer Exists | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
www.thecrimson.comAchier OP
in reply to abadidea • • •Someone once said, the most important thing you learn at Harvard is that you shouldn't be intimidated by people who went to Harvard.
Of course, you don't need to go to Harvard to learn that.
Em 🏳️⚧️🇨🇦
in reply to abadidea • • •> you quadratic insert operation
God-DAMN, this almost needs a content warning… 😅
Martin Seeger
in reply to abadidea • • •I can’t count the times I had to explain that quadratic complexity doesn’t scale.
“But it works” was the usual reply while pointing to an example 1/100th of the size of a real world use case.