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by gazchop 2y ago
I hear a lot of qualitative speak but nothing quantitative.
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by gazchop 2y ago
Careful now. Don't want to upset the future generation of unemployed prompt engineers.
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by gazchop 2y ago
Nailed it. You don’t even have to buy new stuff now. Still rocking my early 90s system. Has required a couple of amp repairs (capacitors and sticky relay) but no big issue. Bought a Bluetooth DAC for streaming stuff. Job done.
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by gazchop 2y ago
Worse. Much worse. Healthcare and social care will be involved almost immediately and forced to suck up all the bad ideas and inappropriate uses to keep interest up. People who raise rational objections will be silenced.
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by gazchop 2y ago
I await JobCentre being filled up with prompt engineers in about 2 years.
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by gazchop 2y ago
The funeral director at my father’s funeral used comic sans for everything. A flop no but used hilariously for a things it shouldn’t be. One of the most divisive typefaces ever. I like it.
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by gazchop 2y ago
It really isn’t. It’s probably not just the tip.
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by gazchop 2y ago
Yep. As far as I understand, all OLED screens are on a flexible substrate (polyamide) but it's bonded to the glass because it wears out.
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by gazchop 2y ago
I don't want to be promoted! At some point you get to the state where you can't perform a work function. We lost more people above me than along side me.
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by gazchop 2y ago
Yeah that's going to end up warped and break 10x easier than anything else. Concept is cool but simple, robust, reliable is needed for portable devices. I refer to my colleague with the foldable that got broken no less than 3 times bef
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by gazchop 2y ago
Yeah this. Also leverage yourself a position where you are well known and indispensable.
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by gazchop 2y ago
You probably have a shitty soldering iron which can’t deliver heat consistently. Try grabbing a used Metcal PS900 or MX500 on eBay. I have done zero maintenance or tinning on either of mine. They just work. I do SMD and TH stuff and rework
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by gazchop 2y ago
Oh there’s cesspits and there’s cesspits. Facebook at least had some small community groups and market place utility.
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by gazchop 2y ago
Yeah if you don't toe the line of the more senior people in the speciality, next thing you know you're outcast from your institution and no one will talk to you. This is why I do mathematics. Most of it is impossible to argue agai
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by gazchop 2y ago
Deleted mine after they refused to let me make a comment on an unrelated group that Gatwick Airport is horrible on a Monday morning. Figured the algorithmic moderation was terrible and likely to waste my time conforming to some narrow and u
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by gazchop 2y ago
I agree that you'd probably see crashes but it still could be power supply related. Crappy SMPS designs do tend to shovel some noise from the primary into the secondary side as well as adding their own. And there's a lot of noise
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by gazchop 2y ago
Yep. A friend of mine was dating one a while back. We went on a double date and had to stop 22 times on the South Bank in London so she could do fish face and get a good picture for Instagram. Not talking about an iPhone here either. A Sony
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by gazchop 2y ago
I haven’t heard anyone utter anything but disgust at accidentally using bing. They know . The fact windows is full of dark patterns to try and get you to use it is pathetic disrespectful hubris not genius.
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by gazchop 2y ago
Athena was much cooler.
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by gazchop 2y ago
Inclined to agree with this. It didn't fall, just sort of withered into other cultural ideologies and empires. Some of it was also fucking bananas which didn't survive enlightenment.
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by gazchop 2y ago
Oh it's really easy to extrapolate stuff. But perhaps they shouldn't. A lot of papers I've seen recently have wild romantic extrapolations based on cherry picked correlations. Some of the social sciences are terrible at this.
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by gazchop 2y ago
Huh. Just used it fine for public transport in 8 European cities recently. Google maps won’t even work properly when there’s no data.
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by gazchop 2y ago
Sounds like ChatGPT had a breakdown when asked to name it.
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by gazchop 2y ago
It can't handle trigonometric identities and any form of calculus at the same time without fucking it up. Also abstract stuff like symmetry groups, nope! And anything which involves vectors is a mess. The big problem is it confidently
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by gazchop 2y ago
Yes I spent a good decade writing domain specific languages and some time maintaining a commercial compiler and code generator for complex state machines. We can do a lot better. More time solving problems, less time satisfying what is effe
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by gazchop 2y ago
You think something which gets 70% of stuff right on a very good day when the planets are all aligned can write assembly that works? I have news for you.
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by gazchop 2y ago
They are probably all avoiding getting dragged into a libel or defamation case and think you won't pay them.
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by gazchop 2y ago
Different take: AI writes a lot of mediocre code for us so we don't have to and we're impressed at that. But that's not the problem we need to solve. All our programming languages are verbose and stupid. It takes too much eff
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by gazchop 2y ago
An external perspective here: I think at best it’s going to be a drunken brawl and infighting resulting in a lot of ass kissing and popularity politics. I don’t think you’re going to get fascism because that relies on some level of competen
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by gazchop 2y ago
Zero aperture control, poor depth of field, internal reflections, chromatic aberrations on the 0.5x, barrel distortion on main lens, poorly corrected vignetting.

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