Edit: i found the video

A rant on personal engineering projects by BPS.shorts

I’ll try to find a video I saw on the matter that is interesting about our projects.

Most of us learn engineering through school and through work, where the is a product owner and a project manager that gives us work in chunks and manage the project week to week.

When you do personal projects that you can’t finish in a day, you have to be product owner, project manager and engineer at the same time. And it is hard, especially if we hope to produce the same quality of work.

So either it takes a lot more time to get there, or you need to “downgrade” the quality of the work to finish the project in a timely manner.

And in the end, projects in your free time should bring you joy, not dread.

I hope it helps you, or someone reading this, cope with a pile of unfinished projects, that will never be finished. And that’s fine.

If you dual boot, you need to keep the windows partition on a separate disk, otherwise it will most likely fuck your boot partition.

Your argument boils down to : If there is history of colonialism, requiring a basic level of the most spoken language is bad. Otherwise it’s good.

Society at large has been multi-cultural for as long as human written history has existed through conquest, war and trade.

There is a possibility to require people to both learn the country’s main language while keeping their culture. I live in a city where that happens on a daily basis and everyone is better for it.

We can be both upset at what our ancestors and parents did and integrate new arrivant within the current state of the society they arrive in.

Both aren’t exclusive. I get what you are saying, but I don’t see that as hypocrisy.

And again, there is a distinction between integration and assimilation.

So we should only expect immigrants to learn the current local language only if the country they immigrate to isn’t a colonialist country?

What hypocrisy?

The discussion conflates a lots of things. So to be clear :

We are talking about someone moving to a new country, not a country invading another country and forcing them to learn the new language to assimilate them.

We can be mad at China for annexing Tibet for example, forcing them to learn mandarin and forbidding them to talk to their native language.

But if I decide to go live in China, then it is not far fetched to expect me to learn mandarin, regardless of its history. It is two different things.

Context matters.

I live in Canada. Should we make real efforts to restitute Natives? Absolutely. Does that mean that we can’t expect new immigrants to learn the current local language because of our past?

We can’t change the past, but we can make better in the future and integrating new arrivants is necessary and beneficial for everyone.

If I decide to go live in Germany for example, is it reasonable for me to learn German? What about Haïti? Or Jamaica? Is it only acceptable in non colonialist countries?

I understand that the track record about assimilating other culture is terrible. However, not speaking the local language where you live is extremely isolating. If you’ve ever had to live in a place where they don’t speak your native language, you know the feeling.

For everything that is wrong about our immigration system, I believe that asking new immigrants to make an earnest effort to learn the local language is normal. We can’t change the past, but we can do better in the future. And making sure that a new immigrant integrates to his new country is helping both the immigrant and the country that welcomes him.

I run opnsense, so I need to dump pi-hole. But I don’t have the energy right now to do that.

Pi-Hole was pretty straightforward at the time and I did not look back since then. Annoying, but easy.

The post I am replying to is specifying Canada, US and Australia. Not China.

I agree that assimilating vs integration is a different thing.

Genuine question : why do requiring a earnest effort to learn the language of the country a bad thing?

There is a shit ton of bad things about our immigration laws, but forcing immigrants to learn the local language isn’t one of them.

Language barriers isolate people and learning the local language helps reduce the isolation, benefiting everyone.

That’s my case. I send every new subdomain to my nginx IP on pi-hole and then use nginx as a reverse proxy

Tell that to someone starting out and look at their deer in the headlight face. Then you’ll realize that the point went over your head.

My name is French, but my initials are close to an English name (and that’s my everyday nickname as well).

So it was easy to get an English nickname.

I got gifted a P1S, so I use it. But I stopped updating the FW and use Orca Slicer with the printer in LAN mode. Not optimal, but better than completely giving the control away to Bambu Lab

If we burn the planet for more economic productivity, we made more money but made human life worst.

So what is the point of economic productivity if it makes our everyday live worst?

Stifle wasn’t the right word. Sorry about that, I wrote my comment too fast amd English isn’t my first language.

Innovation isn’t an all or nothing thing.

There is a difference between removing all the red tape and saying “fuck it” and making sure that the said innovation isn’t outright dangerous. If we need to take thing slower to make sure that people aren’t killed directly or indirectly, then so be it.

History has shown us again and again that corporations can’t behave decently if let to their own device.

I would much rather have the government stiffle innovation if that means that consumer are safe and benefit from said innovation.

Because none of the ~1000 girls were part of their family or entourage, so they don’t give a fuck.

Unfortunately, like many jobs in the past, ours is changing.

I don’t have a crystal ball, so I don’t know what the future hold.

All we can do is be informed about LLMs and futur techs, produce the best outputs with the constraints we have and hope for the best.

Keep your skills up to date, and hopefully find a job where LLMs aren’t shoved down your throat. Or pivot towards something else.

Coachmen had to learn a new job, and it might be our turn.

I don’t hold a lot of hope for the next few years. It’s gonna be rough. All we can be is ready to the best of our abilities.

You know why the code is wrong because you have the experience to see where the issue is and what it is.

If you’ve learned coding with LLMs from the start, you won’t acquire the experience needed to be able to tell what is wrong.

I’ve worked with a client that tried to generate code for a HCI bluetooth device, trying to recreate the full Bluetooth stack, instead of picking the right product from the start, with a working stack.

And that was a client that had technical knowledge, just not for Bluetooth and HCI.

And if you try to tell the AI what’s wrong, it will create bullshit code until it kinda works, adding more issues along the way.

I’m sure that AI will replace coders one day, but LLMs aren’t AI and they are neat ready to write decent, complex code.