Posts by Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck 1324 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Dec 2024
I haven't worked on a standalone "short" program in 35 years - they're all monster applications with 100's of thousands of lines of code spread across thousands of files.
So you're saying it's only good for Mickey Mouse toys, not real applications.
I finally have a working Spring transactional JPA prototype set up with multiple repositories, each with their own transaction management and connections. I needed to figure out the plumbing because that had always been set up by the time I ever worked on a project, so it was all new to me.
I started with Claude 3.5's ideas about how to set it up. It didn't work. So I used Google's search engine for suggestions as to how to make it work as pure Jakarta JPA, and got that working to some degree, but without transaction management.
Adding transaction management the same way didn't work, so I turned to GitHub copilot with OpenAI 4.x, and started asking questions about what I'd done wrong. It took three long days of querying and coding before it finally worked the way I need it to.
So these tools are utterly useless for creating anything significant unless you have the programming experience to know what to ask and the patience to slog through the process of debugging code you don't really understand.
All told it was a no hurry 6-9 week effort (I'm retired and am just coding for fun when I feel like it - no schedule, managers, or users setting artificial deadlines.)
I recently read a quoted post from the Muskoid claiming that xAI employees just paste a file into Grok and let it fix it. Nice theory, but without the context of the application, that flat out wouldn't work.
But what do you expect from an Apartheid backed con artist who doesn't know jack shit about actually writing code?
People keep thinking "POSIX compliant APIs" mean Unix and Linux. Microsoft's was the only intentionally crippled implementation of POSIX I ever dealt with.
Other rather wildly different systems like VAX-VMS and the AS400 have much better POSIX compliance than even some Unix variants, making the Portable Operating Systems Interface all the more relevant and useful.
Until we see some wildly different processor architectures, the current threads in a process model fits pretty much any OS variant to date.
New systems die almost immediately if they don't have source code compatibility with an existing trove of software, especially open source software.
The thing is, I haven't needed a bleeding-edge powered computer for nearly ten years! Unless I'm doing hard-core gaming, virtually any reasonably current CPU is far more than adequate, right down to the previous generation of AMD's basic 6-core processors for entry level gaming.
It is also worth remembering what the massively multicored systems used to do when CPUs were slow and kludgy (think back to the '386 and '486 days when multicore motherboards were the rage instead of multicore chips.)
But the rah-rah propaganda insists that everyone claim China is "so far behind" the world that they "can't hope to catch up."
Bullshit and balderdash. The Chinese and Japanese are notoriously good at implementing and improving on "western ideas".
Take a look at what kind of processors NASA and the military actually use in order to provide the radiation hardening required. They are not running sub-7nm processors! Yet that is the area where the brain-damaged Drumpf & co. claim that the Chinese are a "threat." (Not that I'm surprised Drumpf is a complete and utter moron in this regard, too. The man never has had a "shining intellect.")
All true, especially that we'll sell our open source souls and work with whatever corporate stack of the week gets thrown our way.
And we love making the crap dance instead of stumbling along like it did out of the box. Ten years down the road, it's no longer the fad of the day, and might even be The Systems Disaster We Do Not Speak Of.
But for a while there, we made it dance!
So the Pumpkin Fuhrer not only arbitrarily took it on himself to throw the US into a war without Congressional approval, today he decided to "unilaterally" declare a "ceasefire" between Iran and Israel.
When are you Americans going to lock up this lunatic in the insane asylum he belongs in? What kind of COWARDS have you got in your government that one jerk-off with a big mouth can hijack 200+ years of Constitutional and legal processes and traditions?
And here's my response to their excuse:
You are nothing but vulturous leeches who create nothing, but buy up products and gouge the ever living shit out of customers that are already "locked in" to the product. You are scum of scum, fully worthy of a punch in the nose or a kick in the ribs from each and every customer you have gouged - one right after the other until the only thing left of you is a bloody smear on the pavement...
The end users of those systems are most like day-to-day "grunt" employees of the company, even if they don't realize those services are runnning on Linux.
Linux on the desktop most certainly does have "fleet management" solutions available. If anything, those solutions are older than Microsoft's because the need for them is far from new; Microsoft just uses lock-in to make sure that once you're on Windblows, you're going to have some serious pain getting rid of it. The Linux versions, on the other hand, expect to be dealing with different distros for different services, and don't expect a monolithic deployment of Blah-Distro Servers like you're expected to roll everything on Windows Server nodes with the Microshill crowd.
You do realize that the "curated" software is just builds for the the distro's collection of software, that most of the distros use the same definitions for apt or RPM production of the builds, regardless of whether they're "mainstream" or downstream distros?
It isn't that the distros do massive changes to the software, with the exception of software that the distro's management consider core to their mission - that might have specific enhancements and custom code that other distros don't have. But something like the GNU Image Manipulation Program is all but identical for all Debian/Ubuntu distros, and again virtually identical for all distros branching off RedHat. The packaging rules for the different package managers change, but that is about all.
The main real difference in distro repositories and support lists has more to do with the philosophy and "morals" of the distribution, not the way the packages are maintained at source.
The problem is newer versions of Windows constantly mess with the boot process, destroying your dual boot, and unless you know what you're doing, you're not going to get it back.
I just wouldn't use that laptop or PC for anything else - treat it as a dedicated, air-gapped box, never to be online again.
'Last year the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis determined that, despite the hype, SMRs were "too expensive, too slow to build, and too risky to play a significant role in transitioning away from fossil fuels."'
Edit: 'Last year the shills for the oil industry "determined" that...'
There. Fixed that for you...
Prohibition is a dead end no matter how many bullshit lies prohibitionists like you spew. Treating addiction as a medical issue instead of a criminal one allows members of society to receive treatment and rebuild their lives; incarceration only gets them in touch with other criminals to learn how to commit other crimes than the ones they've already been caught for.
My 400-series "Artificial Intelligence" course in 1987 at the University of Saskatchewan was heavily focused on the expert systems implementation algorithms so we'd understand what the computer was actually doing - essentially the same kind of processing that spreadsheets do to build out a logic tree for processing cell updates (value "slots".)
I still have more faith in an expert system than an LLM for most tasks because unlike LLMs, they're consistent and predictable with their results, and you never get hallucinating outputs.
You mean like the Pumpkin Fuhrer who has openly stated he wants F35s crippled for foreign nations despite existing contracts? Or who has openly mused about "why can't we use nukes?"
If you have a fascist taking over the government, abuse of process, rights, and basic human decency are just expected. Dictators will use any tool available to hold on to power, and because they're turning over trillions to the business community that used to be government services, the companies are only too happy to do what the dictator asks to keep the revenue flowing.
It's completely useless for remote access to systems, and to be honest, Vulkan drivers are the only thing aside from good old stable X11 and OpenGL that interests me, and that is only because of gaming.
I saw no difference in application availability under X11 and Wayland other than a lot of display issues with Wayland.
We never did need Wayland, so with this move, I can now add Gnome, Ubuntu, and Redhat to the list of things I neither need nor want.
Just what IS the Gnome team smoking anyhow?!?!?
