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I make the most banging mac and cheese and it only takes like 15 mins.

Make a white sauce - butter, flour into a paste, add milk and mix til smooth and slightly thinner than the eventual intended sauce.

Add grated cheddar, dijon mustard and salt and pepper. Boil the macaroni til al dente. Mix that shit up and top with parmesan. It is incredible every damn time. The issue is that most mac and cheese is made of shelf stable food adjacent powders.

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AI-Generated Code is Causing Outages and Security Issues in Businesses

As stated in the article, this has less to do with using AI, more to do with sloppy code reviews and code quality enforcement. Bad code from AI is just the latest version of mindlessly pasting from Stack Overflow.

I encourage jrs to use tools such as Phind for solving problems but I also expect them to understand what they’re submitting and be ready to defend it no differently to any other PR. If they’re submitting code they don’t understand that’s incredibly unprofessional and I would come down very hard on them. They don’t do this though because we don’t hire dickheads.

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Linus Torvalds shares his thoughts on Anti-AI coding rules

Conversations on this subject will continue to stagnate and miss the important points as long as people continue to act like the discussion of ethics is the same as the discussion of efficacy. People who disagree with AI on a principle of its impacts being negative will often call it “a lying machine which is regularly wrong and offers no utility”.

May I suggest that people with criticisms of the ethics and impact of AI take a charitable position towards the utility offered by AI. Accept something along the lines of a positive account given by an experienced software engineer - it’s useful, it presents risks but also it presents new ways to get certain work done well in much less time etc.

Even if you do not believe this, the point is it is a much more ambiguous argument than the ethical argument or the concerns over the impact of AI on the species, environment or society. You weaken those arguments by putting them along side poorly justified, somewhat falsifiable claims that AI just doesn’t work.

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I guess even Elon has his limit

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Libertarianism at its core is just a rejection of your responsibility for the things you benefit from in society that you didn’t personally play a role in crafting. There’s a reason white supremacists find it fertile ground for justifying their position.

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'It Is Done. Hail Satan:' City Immediately Regrets New Religious Liberty Law That Allows Prayer at City Council Meeting [404 Media]

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My mother was a lifelong devout catholic and always described satan as simply a shorthand for the absence of good rather than a powerful entity. Though I guess she was pretty progressive.

IMO if your conception of god exists primarily in contrast to a powerful demon, you're kind of just building your life around a demon.

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Now that he's changed the name and the founders have moved on....

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Collectively we keep forgetting this and it's so important. This isn't 5D fascist chess, this is a guy who got so high on approval from the masses on Twitter he lost his fucking mind. Everything he does these days is for approval from people. The crowd he has decided are the cool kids, who laugh at his shit jokes, are fascists. I don't even think he's a fascist, I think he's an irresponsible egotist with no stable sense of self-worth who deep down knows he's a fraud.

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It does feel fixating on this guys stupid comment is typical "find the stupidest person who holds a view you disagree with an pile on them and parade it as supposedly representative". In discourse isn't the strongest move to discredit the best arguments you disagree with rather than the worst?

Though he is a dick so who cares.