For what it’s worth, if you didn’t tell me English wasn’t your first language, I would not have known from this comment.

I shoot for this but am detectable by constantly making edits to make my point more understandable, adding something relevant that I thought of later (literally editing this post right now to include “adding something relevant that I thought of later”) or to correct typos.

Stenberg, saying that he’s “had it” and is “putting my foot down on this craziness,” suggested that every suspected AI-generated HackerOne report will have its reporter asked to verify if they used AI to find the problem or generate the submission. If a report is deemed “AI slop,” the reporter will be banned. “We still have not seen a single valid security report done with AI help,” Stenberg wrote.

I appreciate this because I’d hate to get my issue removed as AI slop because I wasn’t enough of an asshole and didn’t make enough English mistakes. All for rejecting AI slop but it’d feel bad being the false positive deemed “not human enough” and getting my efforts tossed out too.

I may or may not be one of those autistic people who tried to compensate for my social deficiencies and inability to read the room by doing my best to be polite, nice, and inoffensive. (It helps that those qualities do not conflict with who I want to be at all.) And “nice and inoffensive” helps you easily subclass/multiclass into corpo dialect…

!books@programming.dev for programming books would like this

If you want to learn the stuff necessary for that certification, here’s a document, the WAS Body of Knowledge listing what you need to know and maybe where you can learn that. Less detailed version in the WAS Exam Content Outline.

Seeing a lot of posts like this did help push me to actually make the switch instead of just talking about doing it someday.

Anecdotal evidence, but as a kid I played the fuck out of edutainment games and not much else with a screen. Did not watch that much TV, did a lot of reading and playing outside and making really bad kid crafts… I think the edutainment games, my primary screen use, helped me in the long run. I say this as someone who definitely uses screens too much as an adult. Screens ≠ bad, as long as it’s an actual good use of time.

There is a big difference between passive mindless scrolling/consumption and using the screen to do something like learning, making art (thanks drawing programs, music making programs, video making programs, IDEs), communicating with people you value who happen to live far away… it’s really nice being able to enter my musical ideas with a computer, a little slower than I come up with them; than to have to write it out all by hand and take forever because my handwriting is crappy and hard to read unless I slow down and take my time. To modify my recipes on my phone quickly and wipe off the screen with no fuss if juices splash on it, as opposed to staining a recipe page forever (possibly even losing information if the stain is bad enough) and crying about it. To type to my friends overseas and it’s okay for them to reply whenever they wake up, instead of strictly scheduling calls because of timezone differences and schedules and maybe forgetting that thing you wanted to share with them because you had the thought 6 hours ago. To access a bunch of open free textbooks or learning resources and how-to articles without having to drive to the library first. If all my screen use was useful I’d still be using them a lot, because it honestly makes my life much easier to have easily searchable and quickly-createable information resources that I can back up on a device I can clean easily, instead of a bunch of physical documents I’ll inevitably lose or dirty and freak out about losing or dirtying especially given how much time I sunk into making them by hand.

Also, I’m forgetful and having reminders I set to go off at specific times or when I leave a specific location is so much more effective for managing this tendency than writing on my hand or asking someone else to remind me of whatever. If I didn’t have the internet I probably would not have figured out gay rights until actually meeting openly gay people in college in an environment that didn’t encourage them to hide, as opposed to figuring it out at ~13 and learning I’m not as straight as I thought I was thanks to the internet. That is a few extra years of less “do what you want in your house but keep it away from the rest of us”-brand homophobia thanks to the internet.

could you tell me what book it is 👀

I’m probably part of the problem because I got the survey on my Mac and not my Linux machine…

Same, I’d prefer to see this from programming.dev. Subbed anyways, because aside from changing my wallpaper I left my PC at a totally default look and would like to pressure myself to change it by following this community.

I figure this community could benefit from an ad in the many Linux communities on Lemmy.

Might be worth telling the various datahoarder communities on Lemmy

would probably be welcome in !javascript@programming.dev

taking apps meant for one thing and using them for something else is my favorite thing

even if this is still very related because it’s physical activity timing

Made me curious if Torvalds at least got some reward for his work besides gratitude from people who use his stuff. I’m not sure how credible internet estimates of net worth are but looking up “Linus Torvalds net worth” keeps showing me stuff from $50–$150 million so hey, at least he’s (probably) comfortable. Not exactly Tony Stark superhero territory but if he wasn’t rich enough to sit at home and sleep for the rest of his life if he wanted to I’d probably be upset on his behalf for a bit, before I moved onto the next outrage of the day. Glad to see he’s well-off.

Also doing something pretty similar to OP and do not anticipate needing any more than 4TB for awhile, first I have seen of external drives being approved. (Only own laptops, very intimidated by all this SATA stuff right now—am new and every time I try to learn more on r/datahoarders I feel slammed by information overload.)

AI thrives in clarity but struggles in ambiguity.

Oof, I guess I’m an AI. As a human who’s not very creative at all your article bodes very poorly for my future in programming. Thanks for your transparency in telling us you are linking to your own blog.

Am local village idiot curious as to why this would be controversial.

First guess: advising change from familiar workflow

Second guess: gotta download a lot of these

Seeing “Etude” out of a musical context feels so wild to me. That book grabbed my attention just because of that.

Hey, I was going to read that person’s recommendations anyways, but thanks for the explanation of why each one matters :)

I really wish this existed for other languages. Python is really Not It for me. Maybe this book will change my mind. I have heard about it a lot. Either way, thanks for the rec!

Thanks for explaining, I didn’t think you were insinuating that they were lying at all! I may have been overly influenced by another comment