The meme is “science guy doing science”

The joke is that the DC in “Washington DC” also stands for “Direct Current.” Direct Current is usually stable in a circuit.

What our Punny scientist did is make Washington “Alternating Current.” By creating an oscillating image of the Washington DC buildings.

It’s a very funny shitpost for electronic nerds.

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But this guy in particular can’t be fully human. Swims in sewage contaminated water, eats roadkill, has dead brainworm that’s probably controlling his mind. He’s also like one layer of skin away from being one of the nightmare things from “They Live.”

FWIW, probably not a lot of devs willing to tarnish their reputation (well at least tarnish it THAT much) they pay (unlikely very well), and they probably figure people are going to do it anyway (on their own hardware, or on a competitor) so they might as well make money off of it while they can.

And they definitely use it themselves.

No kidding. That’s gotta be at least $2200/mo rent

I’m impressed I can still hear it lol

I have a feeling AI won’t take my role, AI will force me to take ownership of more products. I worry greatly about that.

So something I don’t understand is the logic behind my job. I’m a software engineer, that effort makes sense to me to develop and solution and configure.

But I’ve been given a product owner role. And then I have a product manager I work with who isn’t technical.

I really don’t feel like I do much other than stress out

Yeah I gotta get my workplace to get on board with it. Rust->Webasm is simply amazing

Agile and AI rows look terribly optimistic.

In my experience, Agile you get skateboard wheels. Then you get one pair of skateboard wheels on a bike frame (no handles, wheels, seat, or pedals). Then you get a skateboard next to a bike without wheels, then you get a car with no doors, no transmission, no engine, and no gas tank, a bike with flat tires, a broken skateboard. Next you have a car engine in the car, and windows (but no doors), a duct taped skateboard, but the bike has air in the tires, but the chain is now missing, and one pedal fell off. Then you get a good portion of the car, except you forgot to account for an accelerator or brakes, you now have a bike that works though, except with only one pedal.

Finally you just end up putting the bike inside the car and it works almost Flintstone style. But you also have a new skateboard that is in pretty good shape.

Wait wait wait wait. I know I’ve been surprised by this map numerous times.

BUT RUSSIA RECOGNIZES IT?

Also looking at this map, it seems the majority of the population of Earth recognizes it.

So in my head, that means that Palestine is 100% a nation. With sovereignty. And the US, Europe, and Australia are still “lalala i can’t hear you” and “can’t be a genocide if you aren’t a targeted group of people that we recognize lalalalala.”

It’s apparently a newly vocal (yet previously existing) trend amongst trans and drag programmers, particularly of the linux variety.

I know of one transwoman and she doesn’t do this, though we do work for a “business formal” environment.

Seems to be a bigger thing amongst the younger college CS and fresh out of college folk.

I personally find it a bit funny, but I also have the small bit of me that worries about the social-political climate and how it might impact their careers.

Amongst engineers I’ve still found an uncomfortable amount of conservatives. So even if they don’t support MAGA directly, I’d imagine they still carry a lot of that bias on “what is appropriate” or not.

So no joke, vibe coding has other real world equivalents.

I always struggled to explain how my ex cooked because it was always a toss up if it ended well, but she was definitely a “vibe cook.”

Recipe calls for searing? Fry it on a pan, flip it over fry it on the other side until cooked all the way through. Recipe calls for cream of potato? Cream of celery is fine. The only seasoning is pepper and salt? Eh, can’t hurt to use mixed seasoning salt used for burgers. Saute? Nah, just throw it in a pan.

Braised? Broiled? It’s cooked.

Ribs call for 18 hours on Low heat? 4 hours on high will do it.

Vibe coding is a way to generate crap for people who are crap at coding and for users that are used to crap.

A few others have pointed me in that direction. Rust compiling to wasm is pretty cool, I have a coworker that has done some stuff in it.

Yep. And that’s the route I’m looking at now. Thanks!

Maybe I do mean something else. Web browsers currently implement a JavaScript engine and handle the running and memory of that code on the users machine.

Something like Typescript is a great example of an improvement, but Typescript is essentially JavaScript with rules.

Blazor allows JavaScript like interactions, allows the developer to write in C# but gets rendered serverside.

So essentially, I’m looking for a web engine that provides JavaScript like interaction in some other well defined language like Rust, C#, etc.

Sort of both? Gemini is definitely close to what I’m approaching. Let me dig into it more.

Servo is a great example of what I’m talking about.

Ladybird seems to be aimed at supporting the “legacy web” if you will, and being written in C++ is also getting away from addressing complexity issues in a next generation web I’m imagining.

I did find the servo.org project!

I will start digging into this one, as I see upvotes have been gathering.

If anyone is aware of stuff, I will beg you to share anything in Rust. I have this naive imaginary world where applications this common can be implemented in Rust, and speed the adoption of RISC-V.

I’m now a full-stack engineer. Instead of being ok at any layer, I don’t know what I’m doing in the UI, the Service, the Backend, the Database, the Cloud Infrastructure, and the CI/CD.

But, if anything breaks, I almost always can figure out where it broke very quickly. A fix is always unpleasant though.

And, while tested to extreme limits, somehow the end user still finds ways to break it, creating more things haphazardly stuffed in