elephantium
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- Comment on What is love 2 weeks ago:
How about
- Comment on Radon 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I think it checks out. Maybe it should be “fly to space” or “fly rocket ships”, but the point of the job is the trip. Unless – hmm. Did explorers of yesteryear have BS jobs, too?
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s fairly clever but not actually magical. Sometimes you have to go in and take a look.
Actually, the real magic is that it works out mostly ok most of the time. Much better than older systems where you would have to “check out” a file to work on it which would lock others out. I’ve heard older programmers talk about needing to go find someone who had a file checked out and have them check it back in to enable them to do some work.
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 2 weeks ago:
Roughly equal parts “git is clever” and “once in a while, someone has to take some time to figure it out”.
Say the code is split into two files. You and I both make changes, but you’re working on file A and I’m in file B. No problem!
Now we both make changes in file A. Sometimes Git can just “figure it out”, like if all your changes are in the beginning of the file, and all my changes are at the end.
But sometimes we both change the same section. Git can’t figure that part out, so one of us has to sit down and reconcile the changes. Sometimes this is pretty simple, other times…not so much.
Put it all together, and it works out pretty well most of the time.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
silicone, glass, abs
Why do I have Huntrix songs running through my head all of a sudden?
- Comment on YSK about the French Republican Calendar 2 weeks ago:
13! is definitely not a prime number, but it’s too large to be useful in this context (I know, I know, you didn’t actually MEAN 13-factorial, but I’ve studied enough maths that I couldn’t help it).
- Comment on YSK about the French Republican Calendar 2 weeks ago:
Best we can do is 996 with the new 6-day weeks.
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 3 weeks ago:
Only if they’re underwater.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 4 weeks ago:
More to the point, if everyone is tied up at that point, who tied them up?
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 4 weeks ago:
Reading this analysis, I think it’s all but guaranteed that the person at the switch on the last step is Davros.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 5 weeks ago:
Privacy may be dead as you suggest, but that doesn’t compel me to dance on its grave.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 2 months ago:
salt the fuck out of it.
I misread this as ‘fuck the salt out of it’ for just a moment.
- Comment on EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes? 2 months ago:
Many US states have sales tax, but I don’t think it counts as VAT.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 2 months ago:
Oh, yeah, that does make sense. I’m not sure why my brain went up the garden path on that one.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 2 months ago:
Smear? What milk products are you thinking of? What came to my mind was cheese (which you could call metan tofu, I suppose…), but I would usually expect cheese to be sprinkled, not smeared.
- Comment on I wish there was a system to verify that a webpage was written by an actual human before showing me it 2 months ago:
One of my go to sites has a jump to recipe button…works on my computer but fails on my phone 😔
- Comment on The Evidence That AI Is Destroying Jobs For Young People Just Got Stronger 2 months ago:
Eh, I don’t think it’s an outright scam, rather “just” a bad investment / overhype. The language model programs do have some real uses, after all.
- Comment on The Evidence That AI Is Destroying Jobs For Young People Just Got Stronger 2 months ago:
I fail to see how AI can replace any given entry-level SE
You don’t “get it”?
AI is making senior software engineers more productive so they don’t need to hire more devs
Yes, I think you do.
I largely look at this as leadership using AI hype as an excuse to cut staff regardless of actual productivity. The house of cards hasn’t come down quite yet.
- Comment on The Evidence That AI Is Destroying Jobs For Young People Just Got Stronger 2 months ago:
It doesn’t have to be a good implementation, it only has to be good enough for a demo to get the C-suite saying “Oh, slap a chatbot on there and then fire half the department that handles this now”.
- Comment on The Evidence That AI Is Destroying Jobs For Young People Just Got Stronger 2 months ago:
AI isn’t destroying any jobs. Greedy “leaders” in the C-suite are cutting jobs using AI as an excuse.
It’s a sick joke at our expense.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 months ago:
Joke’s on them, my phone only cost $300
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Joke’s on you, I never used that word at all.
- Comment on Nvidia Sales Jump 56%, a Sign the A.I. Boom Isn’t Slowing Down 3 months ago:
People at my office have a bot attend meetings. AFAIK it does speech recognition and generates notes from the meeting. Sembly maybe? I’d have to look again to be sure.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 3 months ago:
Need?
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 3 months ago:
Seems logical. Glue, gluant, sticky.
I hadn’t expected a dictionary search to come up empty, though.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 3 months ago:
What is gluant? I couldn’t find it in the dictionary.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
We have them where I work. I’ve used the standing function, oh, maybe 2-3 times. Is that enough to count?
- Comment on "The Continental United States" should include Alaska since it's still a part of the same continent, but common usage of the phrase seems to exclude it anyway. 3 months ago:
I was going to post to mention “contiguous”, but you beat me to it
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 4 months ago:
The technology isn’t there to accurately assess damage. It’s there to give Hertz an excuse to charge you extra money. It’s working exactly as the ghouls in the C-suite like.
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 4 months ago:
It’s less about technology and more about evading accountability, I’d say. This would be a sort of cyberpunk version of “How dare you accuse the baron’s son of tipping your cows?! He’s a fine upstanding young man, so of course these accusations are groundless.”
