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   SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:04:02 JST SuperDicq

   Instead of getting upset that Github sent you an email to use their garbage you should ask yourself the question why do you have a Github account in the first place?

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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:04:33 JST dilbert 1

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     @SuperDicq side gig work
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:05:25 JST SuperDicq

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     @sun@shitposter.world If some maintainer uses a Github I send my patches to them using git email and if they don't want to use my patch because of that is their loss.

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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:05:55 JST dilbert 1

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     @SuperDicq I admire your purity. I'm not there yet.
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:10:35 JST kaia

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     @SuperDicq when you apply at tech companies, they check your Github page and evaluate your repos and look at the repos you starred. if you have a Gitlab, that's also okay, but I never heard of Codeberg or whatever self hosted stuff you use being considered
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:12:34 JST SuperDicq

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     @kaia@brotka.st I have a full time job and multiple freelance clients lined up. And I don't have Github, LinkedIn or StackOverflow.
     
     If you're actually good you don't need to prove yourself with Github stars and upboats or whatever, let your skills speak for themselves.

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     Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra! (mischievoustomato@mitra.taihou.website)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:18:38 JST Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra!

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     • kaia

     @SuperDicq @kaia there's also no reason to make stuff harder for oneself

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:18:38 JST SuperDicq

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     • Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra!

     @mischievoustomato@mitra.taihou.website @kaia@brotka.st Making things harder?
     
     I feel like I'm the one doing it the easy way using email as my primary form of communication and running my infra on a server in my attic while not having a bunch of profiles on a bunch of proprietary shit platforms that I gotta keep up to date.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:21:10 JST SuperDicq

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     @frogzone@wizard.casa @sun@shitposter.world That doesn't really matter because if you post your code on another website Microsoft will probably scrape it regardless, or someone might repost it to Github anyways. There's really no way to protect from this other than regulation unfortunately.

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     frogzone@wizard.casa's status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:21:11 JST frogzone

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     • dilbert 1

     @SuperDicq @sun i wouldnt give the machine more code to regurgitate, starve the beast, body onto the gears, all that stuff.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:26:54 JST SuperDicq

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     • dilbert 1

     @frogzone@wizard.casa @sun@shitposter.world Like I don't know what the fuck lawmakers are smoking honestly.
     
     If you take a copyrighted work and digest it through a neural network that does not make it not a derivative work.
     
     If I download a picture and add a caption to it with GIMP that is still a derivative work and I don't know why people suddenly think this is supposed to be different if you replace any piece of software with "AI" (also software).
     
     It's still input/output regardless and if your work is used as the input it should be on your terms, like copyleft or attribution.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:36:51 JST SuperDicq

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     • Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra!

     @mischievoustomato@mitra.taihou.website @kaia@brotka.st Also not to mention that if you actually use Copilot or whatever while programming, you will never become better than the average programmer.
     
     Language models only repeat stuff that someone has already figured out before them. Due to the nature of they are trained they are completely incapable of coming up with original ideas or innovations, you still need a human behind the keyboard for that.
     
     I think they are only really useful for implementing very generic and well known solutions, automating chores, refactoring existing code or writing boilerplate classes and such. Still useful, but not game changing.
     
     I also tend to notice that people who rely on language models too much while writing code make a lot of mistakes.

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     Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra! (mischievoustomato@mitra.taihou.website)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:36:52 JST Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra!

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     • kaia

     @SuperDicq @kaia i'll much rather go with the easy way for me (using github, not for employment atm but for fun and what I like) and it'll probably eventually translate to actual employment.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:39:30 JST SuperDicq

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     • Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra!

     @mischievoustomato@mitra.taihou.website @kaia@brotka.st Also it's really easy to notice AI generated code because they will always add super obnoxious and obvious comments to every single thing they do:
     // Initialize the variable var foo = true; // Checks if variable is true if (foo == true)

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     Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra! (mischievoustomato@mitra.taihou.website)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:42:00 JST Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra!

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     • kaia

     ...i... comment my code because I heard it's good practice. But yeah that's overcommenting @SuperDicq @kaia

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:43:07 JST SuperDicq

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     • Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra!

     @mischievoustomato@mitra.taihou.website @kaia@brotka.st I'm not saying you shouldn't comment your code, but you should comment your code in a way where it only explains the stuff that is not immediately obvious, and not like the target audience is Baby's First App.
     
     The people actually reading your code know how to initialize a variable.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:48:28 JST SuperDicq

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     • Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra!

     @mischievoustomato@mitra.taihou.website @kaia@brotka.st I always try to comment my work in such a way that I know that if I suddenly died someone else with a similar skill level, but no knowledge about the specific project could simply take over the wheel.

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     Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra! (mischievoustomato@mitra.taihou.website)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:48:29 JST Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra!

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     • kaia

     @SuperDicq @kaia ya, hence the overcommenting remark.

     I in fact have some crazy code I've written that I forgot to comment and to boot I wrote in a half asleep state so... whatever it does is a mystery.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:49:18 JST SuperDicq

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     • Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra!

     @mischievoustomato@mitra.taihou.website @kaia@brotka.st Or good old "comment your code pretending the next guy is a psychopath who knows where you live"

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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 06:00:59 JST kaia

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     @besserwisser @SuperDicq WHERE'S YOUR GITHUB REPO WITH ALGORITHM EXERCISES??
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     ベッサーヴィッサー :verify: :verified: :verified_flashing: (besserwisser@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 06:01:00 JST ベッサーヴィッサー :verify: :verified: :verified_flashing:

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     @SuperDicq @kaia What should I do if I have no skills?
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 06:15:08 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @SuperDicq @sun And then it gets ignored because Githubs can't apply patches, even GNU+Github: http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?group=autoconf-archive
     
     (And https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/How-to-contribute.html points to Github for sending patches as well…)