UFODivebomb
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- Comment on Casual reminder 4 months ago:
We have actual multiple audio captures of Trump shitting his pants: reddit.com/…/to_what_extent_did_trump_literally_c…
That’s just one of many!
- Comment on Casual reminder 4 months ago:
Idiotic conspiracy theories like this is troll shit.
I don’t believe you are not an idiot. Let’s be honest.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
Lol.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
You are either a troll or an idiot.
- Comment on Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer 6 months ago:
What is the power bill for running that for one day in, say, San Francisco?
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 6 months ago:
We have transitioned from solving the decision problems with “will it work?” to solving the optimization problems. Definitely a different time for fusion!
- Comment on But how would they be able to live on that? 6 months ago:
Did you mean tax or tactical nuke? Either way
- Comment on tremendous 6 months ago:
I didn’t know you can’t work when the sun is down. Are electricians vampires?!?
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 6 months ago:
I like that it starts with requesting balanced and truthful then switches to straight up requests for specific bias
Yeaaaa
- Comment on Elder scrolls 7 months ago:
My favorite is that you can’t see if content is actually off screen sometimes. No scrolbar to indicate and often those clean lines just look like the end of the content. Horrible
- Comment on What if we added a social component like "Stories" to this calculator app? 9 months ago:
We’ve created an economy where that is not sustainable.
This fact is bad imo, but it’s where we are.
- Comment on What's the best type of food to eat in an active shower? 9 months ago:
Beer.
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Liquid
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Calories
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Uh…
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- Comment on Functional Programming vs. Object Oriented Programming 9 months ago:
Slightly jealous of the F#. Similar set of compelling features minus the JVM.
- Comment on Functional Programming vs. Object Oriented Programming 9 months ago:
I’ll just stick them together.
Signed, a Scala programmer.
- Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly 10 months ago:
Don’t be silly. The laser jet ain’t my brother. That’s reserved for Brother P-Touch ❤️❤️
- Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly 10 months ago:
My brother laser jet still happily prints.
- Comment on Google Reveals Gemini, rival to GPT-4 11 months ago:
Thanks! Here’s the high level description from there:
“Gemini models build on top of Transformer decoders (Vaswani et al., 2017) that are enhanced with improvements in architecture and model optimization to enable stable training at scale and optimized inference on Google’s Tensor Processing Units. They are trained to support 32k context length”
- Comment on Google Reveals Gemini, rival to GPT-4 11 months ago:
Is this a transformer model? Any details?
- Comment on Why do it 11 months ago:
I used to go spelunking… I honestly can’t answer you. Kinda neat but mostly just being in the total dark in a tiny space surrounded by rocks.
On the plus side i can basically fall asleep in an MRI
- Comment on They forgot the LGBTQ... 11 months ago:
Thanks for the “wall of text”! Also, the meme is good.
I didn’t know long form writing was inherently bad to some TIL 😂
- Comment on Keep in mind that social security is set to run out in 10 years time. 11 months ago:
Isn’t “exactly” still means the statement “bankrupt” is false. Don’t move goalposts in the claims. That’s disingenuous and only adds to the misinformation.
- Comment on Keep in mind that social security is set to run out in 10 years time. 11 months ago:
Stop spreading this BS. SS going bankrupt is misinformation.
- Comment on 'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture 11 months ago:
Haha good analogy. The “remaining employed” is a point i missed. Broad layoffs in my company would probably make me do the same i suppose.
- Comment on 'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture 11 months ago:
The googlers i know spend a lot more time than I’d expect on performance reviews. Not really on like… Doing shit. Just reviewing and selling what little is done to get that next pay bump.
- Comment on What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech? 11 months ago:
That is a somewhat tongue in cheek comment. I think time zones are silly and people could easily account for the differences of what a particular time point means for them at their location. More realistically, UTC should be the only way a time stamp is stored.
- Comment on Elixir vs Go: what to learn in 2024 11 months ago:
I use Scala. Huge fan. Both for work and personal projects. Not wildly popular, so i get asked this by my team. This is what i tell them:
Focus on the patterns, design and theory. Those last longer than the language. What is enabled by language? What is difficult? What does the type system let you prove? How do you utilize the type system? How does the execution of the language work? What is the runtime like?
Language development itself has evolved. There is no longer a huge jump from one language to another because, well, we’ve figured out a lot of it. Want to learn rust? The patterns and concepts you learn with Scala will still apply. Go? Same, just a different form and you’ll probably be asking about monads in short order. :)
If i look at future trends. Real far stuff. Stuff that will only become popukar years from now. Well, some of it exists now in esoteric languages. Those languages wont be useful for jobs, but studying them now preps you for the future.
Elixer is further future than Go. Go, like Java was, is not particularly novel but a very solid implementation of what we currently know.
- Comment on What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech? 11 months ago:
ISO-8601 only
UTF-8 only
UTC only
Oh and more self hosting. Clouds are expensive and unnecessary for some stuff.
- Comment on If you had to choose one programming language that you had to use for the rest of your life, what would it be? 11 months ago:
Seconded. The metaprogramming aspect of Scala is getting better and better.
- Comment on Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices 1 year ago:
Raise prices. Blame “the liberal agenda”. Profit.
- Comment on What got you into coding ? (aside from money) 1 year ago:
Hacking early shareware to unlock features because I didn’t have money.
Wait… That’s still about money. Uh… Puzzles.