Oh, you'd be surprised.

I used to teach english for non native speakers, and after chatgpt's debut in 2023, almost every single essay, homework, and presentation was entirely done with LLMs. We had to demand handwritten essays, and presentations had to be done in the classroom (we gave the theme, they worked out a presentation, and then presented it the same day without leaving the class).

And even then, some students would ask to go to the bathroom, use their phones, memorize a whole ass paragraph from chatgpt and then come inside class to write it down.

this is no doubt all vibe coded

It might not be entirely so. I've watched their youtube announcement (less than 2 minutes video), and they talk about starting this project back in 2019, so there's no way it was all vibe coded. I don't doubt that the recent stretch was probably heavily using claude, but I wouldn't call it cuckcoded if they truly started back in 2019 before LLMs were anywhere useful.

Edit: link to the video

I was talking about the title. Epic will deprecate C++ and blueprints in favor of a new language that's created to be used with AI.

I haven't watched this video either, but a creator I follow has said pretty much the same thing. Apparently, there was a keynote leak from Epic where their slides are talking about this.

The right, the big media, and the elites have created this propaganda that Lula, the elected president, is only the lesser of two evils. But, as I said, it's just propaganda. Lula is not perfect, but his political and personal trajectory is nothing short of legendary.

He started his political career as a union man after losing a finger in a steel mill at 17 years old. He ran a worker's party during the military dictatorship, was arrested more than once for fighting for worker's right and democracy. After democracy was reinstated here, he ran for presidency in 1989, and lost to a typical right-wing rich playboy, whose campaign involved the propaganda of "Lula is communist, he will take your savings, he will put strangers into your house". He lost, and the guy who won, Collor, took people's savings himself and had to be impeached out of power after 2 years. His first two mandates were from 2003 to 2010, and he helped 33 million Brazilians out of hunger, and also grew the economy from half a trillion US dollars to 2.5 trillion US dollars. His government coasted through the 2008 global economic crisis. Among many other positive achievements.

But during his government, he also gave free rein and power to the federal police to investigate corruption, and there were multiple corruption scandals. Not because there wasn't corruption before, it's just that previous governments wouldn't investigate it, so people knew, but it never made arrests and the news.

The right has used those corruption scandals (that also involved Lula's party) to slander Lula, but he himself, neither his direct successor, Dilma, have ever been found guilty of any real corruption.

In contrast, his adversary bought multiple mansions in live cash (yes, cash), and has been a close associate of three guys who are involved in a money laundering scheme for drug dealers that has laundered more than a billion dollars. Plus his father, president from 2018 to 2022, literally had a plan for a coup printed inside the drawer of his fucking desk in the presidential office in case he lost the election, with plans to assassinate several of the supreme justices of Brazil, and his adversary, Lula himself.

These fuckers are the kind of rich spoiled brat that have, for their entire lives, been pampered. They're not used to anyone saying no to them. They have never learned that they are not the center of the world.

No burning the Amazon. But now we have to worry if trump won't try to repeat what he did in Venezuela here.

Como que tu tá no Lemmy, criatura? Não faz sentido nenhum sua postura política e sua presença nesse espaço aqui.

A man who has been opposing the far right in Brazil since the 70s. He became a union leader after a workplace incident and medical negligence caused him to lose his little finger at 17 years old working in a steel mill, as he had been working there during the nights to be able to afford living. From union leader, he spent many years fighting the far-right USA-backed military dictatorship in Brazil, ending up in prison more than once, and also suffering torture. In 1989, when Brazil recovered its democracy, he ran for president against Collor, a rich asshole from the far right, and then lost because of the far right propaganda of "He is a Communist, he will take your pension money and savings from you!!". What ended up happening though was that Collor himself had that plan, his right-wing government froze the savings accounts of middle class people, and then confiscated it all. A few years later, in 2002, Lula finally won the presidency, and his first and second turns (2003-2010) were the fastest Brazil has ever grown and developed, we went from 12th to 6th economy in the world, and cruised unscathed through 2008 economic crisis. On top of all that, his early government is responsible for saving millions of people from hunger and misery, and for the first time ever Brazil had left the world's hunger map. And then he was reelected back in 2022 and had to repeat the same feat of saving people from hunger and misery yet again, because of what the previous two far-right governments did.

Just read it!

When I was a kid, around 11~12, I read Tolkien's Lord of the Rings single volume book, which has more than 1100 pages. At that time, reading something that long when I'd had only ever read some children's book which usually don't even clock at 200 pages, was a big challenge. I'd read it everywhere, in buses, trains, after doing my homework, at school whenever it was possible. It just takes longer, but it's also incredibly rewarding to live inside the book for a longer time.

Today I love long books, 1000 pages barely registers as "long" right now. I have read some chinese novels that stretch way beyond 5000+ pages in total. And some western novels as well, such as The Dark Tower saga and all the other works of SK which I had a fixation for.

To read something long you just need to: have the habit of reading; enjoy the journey, don't worry about the destination.

And it's fine if at some point in the middle you realize you don't really want to finish the book anymore. Reading is mostly supposed to be enjoyable. Don't fall for the sunken cost fallacy.

Honestly, his next government just needs to do two things: investigate and prosecute everyone involved in manipulating the elections; curb the influence and heavily regulate social medias here in Brazil. If they can do these two things, we're golden, we don't even need a direct successor.

A whopping 10 million more people voted for Lula in this second turn of the election, and he had a 4 million voters lead on Flávio. That's not a bad number. Now our job is to push the government in prosecuting all the mayors and secretaries involved in undermining the election.