Omgpwnies
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- Comment on Good news. :) 1 week ago:
I’m sure Canada could find a use for a few more provinces…
- Comment on '3d-printing a screw' is a way to describe how AI integration is stupid most of the time 1 week ago:
yeah, it’s the copilot plugin for intellij, basically right click and choose generate tests, it’ll read the file and … well…
Downside to that approach is that it doesn’t know what some function calls do if they’re not part of that file, so it tends to miss places that need to be mocked out.
Occasionally it writes a test that’s “wrong”, and I have to fix the test… very rarely, the “wrong” test is actually “right” based on say a method signature or decision tree, and the method itself needs changing.
- Comment on '3d-printing a screw' is a way to describe how AI integration is stupid most of the time 2 weeks ago:
One thing it’s good for is that if you have the screw/nut on the bed with the part, you can scale both equally and the screw/nut will work with the part still, even if the threading is no longer a standard pitch/size. For a one-off or prototype that’s fine, but if you’re going to mass produce, it’s better to fix it in CAD to a standard size and use manufactured fasteners.
- Comment on '3d-printing a screw' is a way to describe how AI integration is stupid most of the time 2 weeks ago:
There are a lot of things that FDM printing will likely never be better than say injection moulding, and the main thing is speed, as in quantity over time. A single 3d printer might be able to make a plate full of maybe a dozen widgets in a few hours, and in that time, the injection moulding machine will have tens of thousands produced at a higher quality.
On top, 3d printing would require more staff to troubleshoot, clean, re-start prints, remove scaffolding from finished items, sand/polish to remove the layer lines, etc.
What it’s great for in an industrial setting, is prototyping. For example, a case for something can be printed, and the plate can be filled with several variants. If a flaw is found or changes needed, then a new batch can get whipped up on the same printer. Once a design is found that is acceptable, the CAD drawings get sent to have moulds created.
- Comment on '3d-printing a screw' is a way to describe how AI integration is stupid most of the time 2 weeks ago:
I use it to generate unit tests, it’ll get the bulk of the code writing done and does a pretty good job at coverage, usually hitting 100%. All I have to do for the most part is review the tests to make sure they’re doing the right thing, and mock out some stuff that it missed.
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 weeks ago:
It’s not “locked” to a specific distance, it’s fairly elastic and the exact follow distance varies based on speed. So, if traffic slows down, it will gradually close the gap while also slowing down. The end result then is far less drastic speed changes.
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 weeks ago:
I don’t always hang out behind a semi when just doing daily driving, but I will 100% camp out behind one when pulling my trailer - massive fuel savings from reduced wind resistance.
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 weeks ago:
Adaptive cruise control FTW. Matches speed with the person ahead of me (up to the max that I set) and maintains a gap that I can specify. It starts slowing down long before I’d notice the gap closing if I were doing it myself, so the +/- acceleration is a lot smoother as a result.
- Comment on Should I get a second opinion 2 months ago:
… I don’t think there’s any combination of those that are good. Best option still has you shitting blue.
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 2 months ago:
PS/Xbox controllers have more internal space, so their joystick modules are much, much larger than what goes in the joycon. That means they can have more material in the potentiometers, meaning less susceptible to wear and dust/dirt intrusions.
- Comment on xkcd #3101: Good Science 2 months ago:
That can be such an annoying one to get to depending on where the nearest oil patch is.
- Comment on Too bad we can't all act like this 3 months ago:
properly zipper merging sometimes requires concessions of the driver in the lane being merged to
- Comment on Amazing. 3 months ago:
We have that in Ontario, and as a kid my cub/scout troop would go around town and ask people to give us their empties as a fundraiser. We’d return them and use the money to buy camping supplies and stuff.
- Comment on Nvidia debuts a native GeForce NOW app for Steam Deck, supporting games in up to 4K at 60 FPS; in testing, the app extended Steam Deck battery life by up to 50% 3 months ago:
The next four words in the article explains it… “Connected to a TV”
- Comment on What Do They Get From Rock ’n’ Roll? “We might ask ourselves, therefore, just why is it that with the onset of puberty, Americans embrace rock ’n’ roll? What exactly does it do for them?” 4 months ago:
It’s that old time rock and roll
- Comment on C4illin/ConvertX: Self-hosted online file converter that supports 1000+ formats 4 months ago:
Something like this is useful as well if you have a large item to convert since you can offload that processing to your server/NAS and not have it bog down your PC/phone/etc
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 4 months ago:
No different than getting in an Uber or taxi for that matter, except it’s harder to escape a car on the highway.
- Comment on After years of hearing about it, I finally started playing Timberborn. Great chill city builder. 5 months ago:
Timberborn, much like Factorio was, is definitely worthy of an early access purchase, the devs have been constantly updating and improving, and are very proactive with addressing bugs. The next major update adds some really neat features as well.
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 5 months ago:
3d-printed concrete houses are already a thing, there’s no need for human-like machines to build stuff. They can be purpose-built to perform whatever portion of the house-building task they need to do. There’s absolutely no barrier today from having a hive of machines built for specific purposes build houses, besides the fact that no-one as of yet has stitched the necessary components together.
It’s not at all out of the question that an AI can be trained up on a dataset of engineering diagrams, house layouts, materials, and construction methods, with subordinate AIs trained on the specific aspects of housing systems like insulation, roofing, plumbing, framing, electrical, etc. which are then used to drive the actual machines building the house. The principal human requirement at that point would be the need for engineers to check the math and sign-off on a design for safety purposes.
- Comment on Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding 6 months ago:
The real shit deal is if there was a ruling against Meta in this, it would still be worse for everyone because there would be precedent to litigate against people who only consume pirated content (which has been tried in several countries and found to be legal)
- Comment on Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 7 months ago:
You think “most of us” will be dead in … 7 years? That’s pretty doomer if you ask me.
- Comment on ugh i wish 9 months ago:
Finally if you want to make yogurt or cream cheese, you want to work of raw milk because it contains the fermenting bacteria, but that is more of a niche application.
If you’re going to make anything from milk that requires bacterial cultures and the conditions under which they will grow, you absolutely do not want whatever random cultures that are in a raw product. You start clean and add the cultures you want to propagate. Source: ferments things at home
- Comment on Yeasty 9 months ago:
Homebrewer here, they generally don’t die, they just go dormant. It’s quite normal to harvest yeast at the end of fermentation, to the point where many breweries do so to save money. You can even use the harvested yeast to make bread with (which is how bread used to be made)
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 9 months ago:
Train an AI model to produce new shows with him as the host
- Comment on Parasitic Isopods 10 months ago:
I am currently reading The Apocalypse Codex, and immediately thought of that :) Great series so far
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 10 months ago:
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 10 months ago:
Doing interviews when you know you have nothing on the line is a good way to practice, because you don’t need to care if you do badly. Bonus is, you might end up getting an offer for something better :)
- Comment on Proud globohomo 10 months ago:
Do what I do and stash an emergency bottle in the ol’ prison wallet
- Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship 11 months ago:
This is a bad move. The more Russian citizens have access to outside information, the better chance they can learn what’s actually happening in Ukraine and the amount of damage the government is doing to their own country. The more Russians that have exposure to that information, it becomes more likely that the people will show their dissatisfaction. Without VPN, the people only have access to the internal propaganda.
- Comment on "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely 11 months ago:
WFH + satellite internet + solar panels = If you want to threaten violence, you’ll have to find me
