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And they say there's some sort of so-called mental health crisis... in c/[email protected]

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Someone take this person to jail for their username

Synthwave/vaporwave in pop music in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Vox did a video about 8 years ago on this happening.

I think pop music frequently pulls from more esoteric influences. It's almost inevitable because the people who produce music are music fans themselves

It was cold in c/[email protected]

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I can still hear this in George's voice

Lasagna or doom level? in c/[email protected]

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Hungry for blood

The British be like in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

The fresh prince is an ancient text now. It's a few lines on the wikipedia page of the guy who slapped that other guy at the Oscars

It's true. in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

They're not exactly trying to avoid looking insane so probably the latter

App development in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

'Peoples is peoples' apparently. What's not to get?

Stonehenge not visibly damaged by protest paint. It's clean and ready to rock the solstice in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Pretty sure this guy just runs around Lemmy trying to stir things up. I had a run-in with him recently that was needless contentious and I'm not surprised to see him doing the same thing here

Is there a website where I can upload stuff for free and the files stay there forever? in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Amazing tagline. You should pitch this to their marketing team

Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for superintelligent AI with new company in c/[email protected]

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The point is not that we can't imagine speculative technologies. The point is that this is a grift which distracts from the real and present threat of AI like the threats to privacy, artists' livelihoods and the internet itself which is being poisoned by LLM generated content

Tombili, stray cat immortalized in Istanbul in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Without access to the meme, this is going to be so confusing for people in the future

Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for superintelligent AI with new company in c/[email protected]

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I don't think he plans on delivering much product at all

Well good news. If the product you're imagining is 'Skynet' or a 'god-mommy' both of those are science fiction and we don't need whatever this bullshit is to save us

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Should I quit engineering? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I could use some honest advice from experienced programmers and engineers.

I'm almost at the two year mark as a developer. On paper I might look like a passable Junior Dev, but if you sat me down and asked me about algorithms or anything else I did to get my job in the first place I would be clueless. I can solve problems and always get my work done, but I don't even know the language/framework I use daily well enough to explain what's going on, I can just do things. I don't think I have imposter syndrome, I think I really might have let any skill I had atrophy.

I used to enjoy programming as a hobby in my spare time, but in two years I've opened the IDE on my personal machine no more than twice. People talk about all the side projects they have, but I have none. I feel too stressed out from the job to do any programming outside of work, even though I love it. I feel like I can't level up from a Junior to Senior because I either don't have the headspace or the will to do so. It doesn't help that the job I've had has taught me very little and my dev team has been a shitshow from the beginning.

At the moment I have an offer on the table to do a job that isn't engineering (but still tech) and it surprisingly pays more. Part of me thinks I should take that job, rediscover my passion in my spare time and build my skills, but I fear I might go down this route and never be able to come back to engineering. Not that I'm sure I want to.

It might sound defeatist but I don't think I'll ever be a top 5% or even 25% engineer. I could be average with a lot of work, but not great. I could potentially be great in the new field I'm being recruited for, but that's also hard to say without being in the job.

I know that some people just aren't cut out for being engineers. Maybe I have the aptitude but not the mentality to do this for 30+ years. I want to know if that's what it sounds like to people who've seen that before. If you were in my position, would you walk away and just be a hobbyist programmer or stick it out and hope to be a mediocre engineer one day?