blackbirdbiryani
@blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world
- Comment on the lifestyle 1 week ago:
Plotly has the most pain-in-the-ass syntax compared to ggplot2 IMHO. And that’s from a guy who uses a tonne of plotly.
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 4 weeks ago:
There are a tonne of apartment balconies that are just afterthoughts by the developer though. I see plenty that are narrow to the point of being useless, or 30 floors up with no enclosed overhang which just generally feels kinda terrifying.
- Comment on I dk lol 5 weeks ago:
Jesus this community has some of the worst jokes, I can’t believe someone wasted time illustrating this.
- Comment on We need a Sponserblock addon for Movies, Tv series and Porn. 2 months ago:
I use antenna pod which is able to download as well, which seems to suggest that at some point the ads get fixed. Also they’re very consistent for me, enough that I can usually cut off the first 30 seconds of ads for certain podcasts (there’s a function to skip predefined sections).
- Comment on We need a Sponserblock addon for Movies, Tv series and Porn. 2 months ago:
Probably too small of an audience but I’m amazed that someone hasn’t released a podcast app that has sponsorblock. Podcast ads are so predictable I’d imagine an ML model would have no issue detecting them.
- Comment on New panic alarm system at Georgia H.S. saved lives during shooting, officials say. Advocates want it nationwide. 2 months ago:
Mate it’s a trivial problem
- Comment on Ceci n'est pas une pipe 3 months ago:
I still have it, you can easily download the original screen saver file and put it in the right folder
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
Idk about you but I have a newish chromecast with google tv and it’s laggy af. So it’ll be good to have something with better specs.
- Comment on Intel's stock drops 30% overnight —company sheds $39 billion in market cap | As of now, Intel's market value is a fraction of Nvidia's worth and less than half of AMD's 3 months ago:
Unless you short. Then you can be -200k!
- Comment on kids are gowing up faster and faster 6 months ago:
I’m a tidyverse zealot and I just cannot stand fixing people’s 300 line base R spaghetti that can easily be refactored into 10 lines of dplyr. Especially annoying when researchers can’t move away from doing everything in matrix format (when it’s unnecessary).
- Comment on A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions 7 months ago:
At that point why not use TSV?
- Comment on California sheriff releases bodycam video of killing of boy, 15, holding gardening tool 8 months ago:
Yet almost every other police force in the world would’ve handled this without shooting him…
- Comment on What is your preferred method for backing up several TB of data? 8 months ago:
Wouldn’t syncing automatically every few days give you the same protection though?
- Comment on Passkeys might really kill passwords 8 months ago:
Only if you’re specifically targeted. I know enough regex to know that nobody is going to bother trying to parse known passwords to identify patterns like that when there’s a billion suckers who use ‘password123’ for their bank accounts.
As long as the pattern is not super predictable, and aren’t dictionary words, nobody is brute forcing that.
- Comment on Why Software Engineers like Woodworking 9 months ago:
Did woodworking before I started software engineering, and I feel like the general attitude to craftsmanship applies well to coding.
- Comment on With the creation and use of ChatGPT and Bard, I bet ELI5 community and subreddit have had less posts, because people can just ask them instead. 10 months ago:
I don’t use chatGPT, but work with colleagues who do. They’re productivity visibly drops and half the time I gotta fix their shitty code.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 11 months ago:
Nah, because when I ask them for info they stare at their directory and have to randomly open files for 20 minutes until they land on the item of interest…
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 11 months ago:
My files are all perfectly stored but it’s impossible to enforce proper naming on your colleagues… No matter how clearly you spell it out they will always mess it up.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 11 months ago:
Honestly this is one I the reasons why I love Google sheets (controversial I know) as it has a built in version control system.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 11 months ago:
I have colleagues who have 20 copies of the same document with slight variations named like this in a folder. I honestly don’t understand how they function at work.
- Comment on YouTube just made it harder to avoid ads with a tiny skip button 11 months ago:
Do yourself a favour and sideload Smarttubenext onto the chromecast. No more YouTube ads.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 5 Adds New Playable Epilogue With 3,589 Lines of Extra Dialogue, Much More 11 months ago:
No save summing on dice rolls anymore though 😢
- Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker 11 months ago:
I wonder if it’s a switch in strategy, i.e. The ad block ban popup gives clear notification to the user to update their adblock but slowing the video load speeds without giving feedback might be a more effective in slowing the arms race.
- Comment on YouTube Premium family plan price update ($17.99/month -> $32.99/month!) 1 year ago:
So many Google bootlickers in these threads these days
- Comment on How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults) 1 year ago:
You do not wanna mess with narcissists though, it’s not worth the trouble.
- Comment on AI will change the way we do everything. All jobs will be replaced. 1 year ago:
I desperately need this. It’s gotten to the point where I don’t even consider search results from 2023 anymore.
- Comment on There once was a programmer 1 year ago:
Don’t get me wrong, it’s incredible. But it’s still a variation of the Chinese room experiment, it’s not a real intelligence, but really good at pretending to be one. I might trust it more if there were variants based on strictly controlled datasets.
- Comment on There once was a programmer 1 year ago:
I write a lot of bash and I still have to check syntax every day, but the answer to that is not chatGPT but a proper linter like shell check that you can trust because it’s based on a rigid set of rules, not the black box of a LLM.
I can understand the syntax justification for obscure languages that don’t have a well written linter, but if anything that gives me less confidence about CHATGPT because it’s training material for an obscure language is likely smaller.
- Comment on There once was a programmer 1 year ago:
For the love of God, if you’re a junior programmer you’re overestimating your understanding if you keep relying on chatGPT thinking ‘of course I’ll spot the errors’. You will until you won’t and you end up dropping the company database or deleting everything in root.
All ChatGPT is doing is guessing the next word. And it’s trained on a bunch of bullshit coding blogs that litter the internet, half of which are now chatGPT written (without any validation of course).
If you can’t take 10 - 30 minutes to search for, read, and comprehend information on stack overflow or docs then programming (or problem solving) just isn’t for you. The junior end of this feel is really getting clogged with people who want to get rich quick without doing any of the legwork behind learning how to be good at this job, and ChatGPT is really exarcebating the problem.
- Comment on Always write comments 1 year ago:
The problem here is that every junior programmer thinks they write clean code when they really really don’t. Often I find the act of writing comments makes you go back to the code and clean things up, so it’s still worth encouraging comments.