What is an int3

CPU interrupt for breakpoint, https://wiki.osdev.org/Interrupt_Vector_Table

That is surprising. They have come up in every enterprise job i have had. Debuggers and profilers absolutely do help although for distributed systems they are called something else.

Language conventions aside, i have rarely found a comments to be and more often they have lied to me. AI makes this both worse and better.

I know it may be hard for me to understand the need for writing in english what is obvious (to me) in code. I also know i have read a stupid amount of code.

My rule is simple, if the comment repeats verbatim the name of a variable declaration or function name, it has to go. Anything else we can talk about.

I have worked on projects that had 5 layers of buffer/caching all implementing complicated evictions strategies. This is all a browser client. There were 4 caching layers when i started. I added the 5th caching freq network data to disk which massively improved performance.

This is too true. However, often you dont fully know the shape of the domain until you swing at it and fail.

To prove the above person’s point, sap and salesforce have some of the most notoriously bad ux in the market and yes they make bank.

Design is much harder for power user tools compared to consumer. There is far more complexity and the expectation often is users must be trained to even use the tool.

Design only goes so far.

> sap and salesforce have some of the most notoriously bad ux in the market and yes they make bank.

Why ? Since its so notoriously bad why have there been no attempts to improve it ?

Because the people making purchasing decisions for SAP and Salesforce are not people who spend any substantial share of their time using it directly or care about the UX.

There have been but the strength isnt in the ux. Both are effectively enterprise ruby on rails where you can customize and integrate with anything. That is also why they are sticky. They become part of core business pipelines. It is hilarious because the performance is terrible too.

Those are the kind of domains where LLMs as an interface should kick ass.

Describe the idea of what you want to do, not the inscrutable steps the application requires to get there.

I am not so sure. I lean towards client work on desktop/mobile/web and while the initial output is workable as new requirements come in it starts to fall apart largely because the vibe coder doesn’t understand design basics. It is one of those you dont know what you dont know and not that ai cannot write workable css or w/e.

Sbc is not always good for shareholders if anything it can obfuscate actual valuations

It optimizes for binging. Most people watch one channels content as a single session letting autoplay take over. So if they think you are now on a new channel, they will show that channels videos.

If you scroll down on suggested videos after watching something, it is pretty easy to see how it works. Just keep scrolling and eventually it does start to cycle in a loop of only a few unique options.

This doesnt help. Youtube is weird. On one hand, the majority of watch time is Beast brain rot like content but on the other hand, there is genuinely amazing creativity happening. The issue is discovery.

Youtube cannot help with discovery because it does not increase watch time. It is far more likely that an autoplay of a “safe known” video will be watched then something new.

Interesting you say not vs never. It seems this kid thought it was a time where violence was needed. The question i always ask in these situations is about what the line would be that would justify violence?

Things like healthcare, crime, existential ai, have very grey lines as it isnt obvious when one needs to flip the table. How broken must a system be?

> what the line would be that would justify violence

It doesn’t matter where we think the line should be drawn, only where those much worse off draw it.

Violence is an extreme failure state.

If your goal is to improve the system then you always want to move away from it.

Probably a reasonable justification would be self-defense, committing violence to stop worse violence. (Preemptive violence is not self-defense.)

But that is the kicker. As the sister comment said it matters a great deal what others do.

At some point a broken system enacts soft violence on people. So it isnt surprising people act out when they think survival is at stake. With healthcare, it really can be. But where is the line? When someone you know dies? 10 people?

It is messy.

RadioLab did a phenomenal series on illegal immigration years ago. One thing that stuck out to me and has stayed with me ever since was an interview they did with a woman who had been deported multiple times, risked her life multiple times, denied a visa and asylum multiple times. They asked her why she kept trying to get across the border and she said that the alternative was death for her and her family.

Whether or not she was being honest I don't know. But it did make me realize that the broken system has created an all-or-nothing choice for so many people. No punishment or policy could ever outweigh the alternative for them, so you'll never be able to stop immigration, illegal or not.

I'm sure I'm not doing the argument justice, but your comment reminded me of it.

It's not surprising that violence begets violence, in an escalating cycle. But it doesn't end with a better system.

If your goal is a better system, you'll be looking hard for ways to move away from violence, not justifications to escalate it.