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by nomel 9mo ago
What domain, if I may ask? I assume web?
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I call that lasagna code! From what I've seen, developers start with spaghetti, overcompensate with lasagna, then end up with some organization more optimized for the human , that minimizes cognitive load while reading. To me, abstrac
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by nomel 9mo ago
I genuinely appreciate your response, because there's a good chance it'll result in me changing my perspective, and I'm asking these questions with that intent! > You are thinking of assembly language which is a different
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by nomel 9mo ago
I'm using the industry definition of abstraction [1]: > In software, an abstraction provides access while hiding details that otherwise might make access more challenging I read this as "an encapsulation of a concept". In
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by nomel 9mo ago
Maybe I am? How is it possible to abstract without encapsulation? And also, how is it possible to encapsulate without abstracting some concept (intentionally or not) contained in that encapsulation? I can't really differentiate them, i
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The only people I've known that share this perspective are those that hate abstraction. Going back to their code, to extend it in some way, almost always requires a rewrite, because they wrote it with the goal of minimum viable complex
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The percentage I mentioned was an example of how a very small prevalence can result in a reasonable number of people, like enough to fill a subreddit, because ChatGPT has a user count that exceeds all but 3 countries of the world. Again, do
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by nomel 9mo ago
> highly prevalent phenomenon Any numbers/reference behind this? ChatGPT has ~300 million active users a day. A 0.02% (delusion disorder prevalence) would be 60k people.
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by nomel 9mo ago
When I was a kid, animal documentaries usually had a little bit on animals getting drunk from fermented fruit laying on the ground. Drunk elephants were often the highlight, because a stumbling, drunk, elephant is pretty entertaining to wat
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by nomel 9mo ago
> The last time Windows had such brute-force rendering was in Windows XP, 25 years ago. To be fair, UXGA was a thing 20 years ago . I don't think it makes sense for Apple to care all that much about low DPI monitors. They don'
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by nomel 9mo ago
> And my laptop battery runs for 8 hours I imagine your display is almost entirely black for the majority of the time, with your (most probably) LCD backlight blasting away, trying its hardest to get a few thousandths of its light output
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I'm always curious how much these sorts of things costs each citizen, per year, from a more wholistic view?
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For this case, I'm not exaggerating when I say you would probably have an easier time generating the meshes yourself in python and something like the trimesh library to load the vertices into.
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by nomel 9mo ago
Mini laptops have been a thing for decades [1], some with cool expanding keyboards [2]. They generally kinda suck. If I wanted a weird small portable computer, I would buy a steam deck with a "Decktop" [3]. Or, this awesome modern
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by nomel 9mo ago
Related, here's a globe that uses the earths magnetic field (an a little solar panel within) to spin "forever"! [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-NII1RdlcQ
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by nomel 9mo ago
If you're more interested int the result than the process, Onshape or Fusion are great , free (with use restrictions) parametric CAD. And both support scripting, to some extent. Both have really great documentation/examples.
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by nomel 9mo ago
My very political grandpa definitely received a few emails from the "president", along with a few email from a "government agency" following up on the emails.
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I think this is part of the reason humans are so stupid during any sort of divisions where "sides" emerge. To be able to do commit this genocide, you need a very ugly "switch" in your head that can make your actions just
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by nomel 9mo ago
I stand corrected! In my defense, it's definitely been a long while. ;)
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by nomel 9mo ago
> I know it when I see it. What's the most complex (in an information rich way) tool that you have seen?
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by nomel 9mo ago
Wanting to know how email worked and then stumbling on it being mentioned next to the relevant RFCs was my first exposure! You could easily check pop3 mail over telnet, by sending all the commands by hand. HELO! I then made my first email c
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by nomel 9mo ago
> I know it when I see it. This isn't a reasonable answer. No action can be taken and no conclusion/thought can be made from it. > Do you agree with that restriction? People should be able to perform and be informed about th
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by nomel 9mo ago
"Just jailbreak your phone and install <blank>!" they said. I did that for a while, depending on some random guy in a forum to maintain a working image for my device. He bought a new phone, and that was the end of the update
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by nomel 9mo ago
> Why are you assuming that the general public ought to have access to imperfect tools? Could you tell me which source of information do you see as "perfect" (or acceptable) that you see as a good example of a threshold for wha
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by nomel 9mo ago
> It is irresponsible for these companies I would claim that ignoring the "ChatGPT is AI and can make mistakes. Check important info." text, right under the query they type in client, is clearly more irresponsible. I think th
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by nomel 9mo ago
> Canola oil works in practice for basic tasks From childhood experience, thinking all oils were the same, absolutely not. It goes rancid and gums up after some time.
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by nomel 9mo ago
> But now that most code is written by LLMs I'm sure it will eventually be true, but this seems very unlikely right now . I wish it were true, because we're in a time where generic software developers are still paid well, so
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by nomel 9mo ago
> after your uncalled for 'AI website' dig It wasn't a dig. I found the the verbatim text when I searched for some of your on an AI website, trying try to find a reference, since you didn't provide any. Your entire
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Could you provide a reference for them not being federal law enforcement officers (specifically immigration law)? Note that you provided none, but I do find some of your text on an AI generated website. 18 is for "general federal law&q
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Even National Instruments had this type of bug in their nivisa driver, that powers a good portion of lab and test equipment of the world. Every 31 days our test equipment would stop working, which happens to be the overflow of one of the wi

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