• Madrigal@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    2 months ago

    Hah. How about this: trap 1,000 regular web developers in a room. First one to use a proper semantic element instead of a div wins $1 million.

  • ProfThadBach@lemmy.world
    31·
    2 months ago

    Every time I see that face I want to get violent. I want to just bash his head in with an axe handle. That fake ass fucking smile just drives me to rage and I don’t know why.

    • DigitalForest@lemmy.world
      20·
      2 months ago

      The smile doesn’t reach his eyes. When someone is genuinely smiling, the area around the eyes wrinkle up some (especially the outside corners). Fake smiles don’t do that, not without conscious effort. It’s so unsettling because it’s setting off an instinctual urge of “this guy is being deceptive and is likely a threat”. You can check by covering part of the face in the image: cover the mouth, and the eyes just look dead and soulless.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      13·
      2 months ago

      I’m not usually one to knock someone’s appearance but you’re right with this guy’s weird friggin grin. Like it’s not genuine or even appearing to be, in the slightest.

      It’s so cynical, cold, creepy and soulless. How did the A-B testing that drives his every single decision settle on that expression?

  • rylviq@sopuli.xyz
    22·
    2 months ago

    It’s not a difficult task at all without AI. I mean if they can use forms and sites like the og stackoverflow, w3 schools,.etc

    • ivan@piefed.socialEnglish
      37·
      2 months ago

      That’s a big “IF” tho. I’ve been teaching embedded programming classes and had to teach folks some very basic stuff like how to RTFM or how to look for stuff on the internet - people don’t even use search engines anymore. 🌚

      • Jakylla@jlai.lu
        15·
        2 months ago

        Claude has become the search Engine. Stackoverflow doesn’t even exist in the mind of Vibe coders around me. Disconnecting claude means coffee-time until it’s back

        • rylviq@sopuli.xyz
          5·
          2 months ago

          I still use a normal search engine. I use AI chats when I really need it for something. Well it does makes thing easier tho

      • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I’ve been wanting to try embedded programming for a while, it looks fun!
        What would you recommend as a starting point? Any books I should pick up?

        • ivan@piefed.socialEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          If you’re very new to that - I’d just recommend picking up some Arduino (at least UNO R3) starter kit plus some measurement tools - multimeter and maybe an oscilloscope (there are cheap handheld ones like DSO).

          And then you just fool around with what you’ve got - try to read each sensors data, try to use each actuator, think of some useful projects with what you’ve got.

          And from there you can go to stuff like ESP32 to explore wireless stuff (mostly compatible with Arduino too).

    • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      that’s a big IF. few weeks ago I had to teach a junior dev how divs worked, he had no idea. he even initially asked an LLM how they worked and the LLM hallucinated half the responses.

    • ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      I’m a backend engineer that only does minor frontend tasks once in a blue moon, and on the top of my head I know two ways to center a div horizontally (well 3 with the obvious <center>) and one to center it vertically. When I hear frontend developers saying it’s hard, I always start questioning their competence at a basic level.

    • MrKoyun@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      As someone with very little programming knowledge, the existence of all the “Learn how to program in our easy to use course and AI Assistance for $800 a month!” sites baffles me when w3schools is just… there. It has helped me massively, without a dime.

      I also just realised that the about page of w3s has a ChatGPT section of “This is how ChatGPT describes W3Schools”, why???

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 months ago

      Maybe could be interesting to get an AI to create a prompt for another AI, and send that prompt down the line like Chinese whispers.

      Edit : or maybe it wouldn’t be. I havent used LLMs and such for about 5 years. I was fascinated at first and played with them for about 2 days getting them to write limerick and shit, but the novelty wore off fast.

      • Franconian_Nomad@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I‘ d recommend playing around a bit with opencode and their free models, just to see what changed. Oh and you don’t have to use it to code, but a fun experiment would be to run it in a Linux container and see what it can do.

  • somnuz@lemmy.zipEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    solved it:

    take a screenshot of the div in question, set it as a background for the body and make it no-repeat, center center… don’t forget to slap some fancy 100vh for the body too…

    done! It will even render exactly the same so it is cross-browser ready!

    use the option cover and it will work for all screen sizes and resolutions!

    add diabolical-laughter-047.mp3 as the unstoppable music loop and like seven useless frameworks for additional style points, ohh and like three font families… just in case… and definitely some analytics from BIG G

    — profit.

  • Rose@slrpnk.net
    9·
    2 months ago

    “Congratulations, you won million dollars! But first, we’ll, of course, have to deduct the cost of the AI credits you used in this challenge…”