JCTheDenthog

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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
In JetBrains I limit AI suggestions to just the rest of the line I'm currently writing, tends to work a lot better for me. I also use the older ML models.
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
I agree completely, and I think most debates/arguments around simulation theory and similar ideas are largely pointless, though they can at least be fun sometimes.
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
>If you are in a sim, then the sim execution is an expensive process, it produces heat and consumes energy. If simulation theory (or similar ideas) are real, it's entirely possible that the "real world" running the simulat
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
>I'm doing at least 10 times more, more ambitious, higher quality work. Got any examples you can share?
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
I mean, that does sound pretty crazy. Specific wars are often ill-advised or largely pointless, but "stop doing war" presupposes that all other countries in the world will also "stop doing war", otherwise what you'r
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
Only in certain fucked up moral systems. Though I guess Confucianism would be one of those: >The Duke of She said to Confucius, “Among my people there is one we call ‘Upright Gong.’ When his father stole a sheep, he reported him to the a
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
Purely rumor, but supposedly Valve put tons of pressure on them (no idea by what means, again this is all rumor) because they wanted support for the Steam Machine release.
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
Those are all for security vulnerabilities, OP is talking about bugs with functionality.
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
>the latter is obviously subject to prompt engineering, hallucination, etc -- but so can a human pipeline! ...which is why we write deterministic code to take the human out of the pipeline. One of the early uses of computers was calculat
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
Because it's a huge pain in the ass to get set up (and requires paying Microsoft and providing them with all sorts of personal information). After initial setup it's not too bad, we have a few signed apps at my current employer.
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
"A well-balanced breakfast, being necessary to the health of a free State, the right of the people to keep and use Toasters, shall not be infringed." Who has the right to keep and use toasters? The people, or the well-balanced bre
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
>who enjoy the absurd fiction that a lower receiver is a firearm and the entire assembly they attach on top of it is just "gun parts" It's the ATF and congressional Democrats (who are very much not "gun rights advocat
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
>everything gets a warning until the app has some minimum count of installs Unless the devs sign their app
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
The Steam userbase would appear to disagree, with the recent reviews being mostly negative reviews (and the user reviews for Overwatch have hovered between mixed and negative for years now). And this doesn't appear to be from review bo
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
No one forced them to migrate GitHub to switch to React. And the atrocious sleep bug in Actions long predates the AI gold rush.
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
>What's a bigger joke is Microsoft has Azure DevOps which looks like it might be abandoned? My favorite was trying to figure out how to publish debug symbols with NuGet packages to Azure DevOps artifact feeds. Horrible documentation
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by JCTheDenthog 6mo ago
>And "leared" -- the (unintentional?) pun made me click. I assume it's a reference to the "Quality Learing Center" in Minnesota, one of the questionable daycares at the center of the alleged Somali daycare fraud
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by JCTheDenthog 6mo ago
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by JCTheDenthog 6mo ago
And it's taxpayer funded, to boot. I definitely wouldn't be happy as an Austrian if I knew my taxes were going to something like this (meanwhile hobbyists elsewhere do projects like this on their own dime).
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by JCTheDenthog 6mo ago
>Narrower 4x5 and 3x5 dimensions are possible, but would require sacrificing the M, dotted zero, and reduce U/V/Y distinctiveness. I think 3x5 works well enough: https://robey.lag.net/2010/01/23/t
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by JCTheDenthog 6mo ago
A year or two ago I had a cashier ring up my zucchini as cucumbers because he apparently couldn't tell the difference. Young guy, looked barely 18. I have no idea if he overcharged or undercharged me as a result, but I didn't care
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by JCTheDenthog 6mo ago
Because Mozilla is wasting money on something other than their core product, once again.
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by JCTheDenthog 6mo ago
The maker of that documentary was a massive alcoholic, that's what caused his liver problems, not eating McDonald's.
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by JCTheDenthog 6mo ago
Also the recentish addition of multiple line string literals makes dealing with Postgres's case sensitivity a lot easier to manage.
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by JCTheDenthog 6mo ago
Depends on what you mean by ecosystem, it hasn't been trapped on Windows for about a decade now. The variety of third party libraries available is quite good, while the standard library is robust enough that you don't need NPM non
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by JCTheDenthog 6mo ago
Definitely not for all companies let alone all positions.
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by JCTheDenthog 6mo ago
I would buy this argument if the Play Store wasn't already full of garbage and viruses and scams.
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by JCTheDenthog 6mo ago
My favorite was when Google revealed Project Genie a month ago (which lets you generate video game worlds with AI, basically) and stocks for game companies immediately dropped. Anyone familiar with games and gaming knows that what Project G
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by JCTheDenthog 7mo ago
By that logic Toyota should be liable if someone uses a Tacoma to ram a crowd.
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by JCTheDenthog 7mo ago
Even the lowest estimates (the National Crime Victimization Survey) estimates annual defensive gun uses in the US at 60-80k per year. Highest estimates are at around 2 million. But even then, most usage is at ranges, and far outstrips cri

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