edm

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[–] edm@thelemmy.club 32 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The song was written about the public suicide of Pennsylvania state treasurer R. Budd Dwyer on January 22, 1987, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Dwyer had been convicted of bribery charges in December 1986, and was expected to receive a lengthy sentence from U.S. District Court Judge Malcolm Muir. Professing his innocence and decrying the legal system, Dwyer shot and killed himself with a .357 Magnum revolver during a live televised press conference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Man_Nice_Shot

[–] edm@thelemmy.club 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Agreed. Someone said that there is never an instance where law enforcement / military has stood up to their command or leaders and done the right thing.

I believe it. ACAB, and all military is too.

[–] edm@thelemmy.club 3 points 4 days ago

It is a great eco system with great tooling and language features.

[–] edm@thelemmy.club 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ya I agree, there was a time where Satya had a fresh outlook and instilled hope.

Now he cannot take criticism about their AI offerings and they are forcing it into everything.

Boggles my mind that Notepad has a Copilot button. Truly tone deaf.

[–] edm@thelemmy.club 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yea I am not saying the tools are bad. Also use Claude mostly via our internal corporate tooling to do initial generation of things like unit tests and it helps sketch and brainstorm.

I will say it is crazy the amount of trust people/companies are putting in the tools though. It can and will make up straight lies out of thin air. At least with code things don't compile which helps a bit. Even then, have been watching a few MSFT repo's and they have devs just blanket approving copilot generated PR's that have bugs and breaking changes.

The tools are great, but they aren't an excuse to be lazy. And they aren't a replacement for that last 10% like you said, still need devs and real human problem solving.

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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by edm@thelemmy.club to c/programming@programming.dev
 

These last ten years I was really enjoying what Microsoft and its .NET teams were doing. Felt like a good community to be a part of. Huge strides to make things run anywhere and be more involved with the open source community.

While that hasn't necessarily gone away, jamming LLM's into everything is leaving a real sour taste. Pointless copilot button anywhere and everywhere. VS and VSCode pushing the GitHub copilot chats and agents.

We are quickly back to the corporate MSFT that doesn't listen to its users or employees. All that good will has been washed away and now I feel the need to switch off of Windows.

[–] edm@thelemmy.club 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Always assume the worst, I gaurentee it is usually that bad in reality. Companies absolutely hate spending money on IT and security is always an after thought. API logs for the production systems that contain your full legal name, DOB, SSN, and home address? Yea wide open and accessible by anyone. Production databases with employee SSN, address, salary information? Same thing, look up how much the worthless management is making and cry.

Booz Allen just got shit on because of the dude they hired who specifically sought out consulting for the IRS so he could steal Trumps IRS records.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0371

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Littlejohn

[–] edm@thelemmy.club 4 points 3 weeks ago

Not that different from all the innocents the US gov has murdered. We literally just watched ICE gun down two citizens in Minnesota and per usual nothing will happen or change.

[–] edm@thelemmy.club 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Seriously, how do we get these corrupt clowns out of GOV. We need real representation, not bought and paid for people who have zero morals.

This is both sides. Epstein goes back decades and they are all in on the cover up.