ulterno

@ulterno@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the Lord's problem now.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The poo dropped right on someone’s car.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ya yeet!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I initially started de-upvoting just because it felt weird to have a blue marker on my own comment, which was supposed to be for other’s comments that I upvoted. It then evolved into having a “reason” behind it. But yeah, it just seems weird to upvote one’s own comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ya yeet!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, first you need to define a “person”.
  Then you need to define the starting point and what all environmental features you are considering as zero cost.

  Otherwise, to calculate energy to kill a person, you need to start by creating the universe.

  On the other hand, for a human person, you can either just get a really big syringe and siphon out blood from the heart, or pierce a thin little metal pipe with tactically placed holes, which will let gravity and internal blood pressure do the job. But these require access to a syringe/metal pipe making setup, which has its own energy costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And here I was considering petitioning for an open source UPI app.
  Turns out, the Government is just another company now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like they’d be happy installing yet another spying app, if that means getting to keep millions of data providers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lol, wrong⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Make sure to get her id first. You can then send her a SIGSEGVto get her dumped and then use coredumpctl to recover her dump.
  Even better if her debug symbols are available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason women cover their drinks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Won’t that just end up giving them excuses?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason women cover their drinks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a shitpost.
  If you want to protect your drinks from them, you would be making them yourself, keeping them inaccessible at all times and drinking them only in private spaces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just running a watch ls /proc to get Iive updates on /proc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bartender is sick of your magic tricks everytime you come into the bar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if you are buying the drinks before disappearing them, then of course they’ll love it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, my main point with all those examples was to put the point that “AI” always has been a marketing term.

  Curve-fitting and data-point clustering are both pretty efficient if used for the thing they are made for. But if you then start brute-forcing multiple nodes of the same thing just to get a semblance of something else, that is otherwise not what it is made for, of course you will end up using a lot of energy.

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  We humans have it pretty hard. Our brain is pretty illogical. We then generate multiple layers of abstractions make a world view, trying to match the world we live in. Over those multiple layers, comes a semblance of logic.
  Then we make machine.

  We make machines to be inherently logical and that makes it better at logical operations than us humans. Hence calculators.
  Now someone comes and says - let’s make an abstraction layer on top of the machine to represent illogical behaviour (kinda like our brains).
  (┛｀Д´)┛彡┻━┻

  And then on top of that, they want that illogical abstract machine to itself create abstractions inside it to be able to first mimic human output and then further to do logical stuff. All of that, just so one can mindlessly feed data into it to “train” it, instead of think themselves and feed it proper logic.

  This is like saying they want to install an OS on browser WASM and then install a web browser inside that OS, to do the same thing that they would have otherwise done with the original browser.

  In the monkeys analogy, you can add that the monkeys are a simulation on a computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you noticed this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  NSFW has come to have 2 meanings.
  Even though the 2nd meaning is what people tend to mean nowadays, the original meaning is still in use in some places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you noticed this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Show me yourself wearing a shirt with that visible all day during work hours in the office and not getting weird looks or weirdly less looks or a call from HR (depending upon the scale of your company).
  Alternatively, you could put it on a poster in the office. During work of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you noticed this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it was just invisible to you because you couldn’t see properly at the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They were technically Expert Systems.
  AI was was the Marketing Term even then.

  Now they are LLMs and AI is still the marketing term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If something uses a lot of if else statements to do stuff like become a “COM” player in a game, it is called an Expert System.
  That is what is essentially in game “AI” used to be. That was not an LLM.

  Stuff like clazy and clang-tidy are neither ML nor LLM.
  They don’t rely on curve fitting or mindless grouping of data-points.
  Parameters in them are decided, based on the programming language specification and tokenisation is done directly using the features of the language. How the tokens are used, is also determined by hard logic, rather than fuzzy logic and that is why, the resultant options you get in the completion list, end up being valid syntax for said language.

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  Now if you are using Cursor for code completion, of course that is AI.
  It is not programmed using features of the language, but iterated until it produces output that matches what would match the features of the language.

  It is like putting a billion monkeys in front of a typewriter and then selecting one that make something Shakespeare-ish, then killing off all the others. Then cloning the selected one and rinse and repeat.

  And that is why it takes a stupendously disproportionate amount of energy, time and money to train something that gives an output that could otherwise be easily done better using a simple bash script.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t consider clang tools to be AI.

  They parse the code logically and don’t do blind pattern matching and curve fitting.
  The rules they use are properly defined in code.

  If that was AI, then all compilers made with LLVM would be AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to look for the post but somehow wasn’t able to find it (I thought I commented on it).
  I don’t remember the place, but a part of the policy was that data centers must pay 85% of their projected energy usage.

  Here, found an article: ehn.org/ohio-regulators-make-tech-companies-pay-m…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have said this before somewhere, but this feels like something that would be very well suited for places where electricity prices have gone extremely low due to “too many solar panels”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sensory issues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  oic, so the “last headache” meant the headache during pregnancy.
  I was thinking of something more recent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly I am not in a location where people just discard useful parts.
  If I were to try buying 2nd hand here, I would most probably end up with stuff that has some or the other kind of of damage.

  For instance, in one of the companies I worked at, their policy for getting rid of stuff was:

  1. If unneeded but working, then send to another department
  2. If malfunctioning but fixable, get it fixed
  3. If not worth fixing, then auction it off
  4. HDDs? repurpose or shred

  And the auctions occurred years later after much red tape…
  Mostly bought by other companies, who get to do more red-tape stuff to buy it.

  While on one hand, this is a good thing, reducing wastage, it also means that I have no way to get 2nd hand stuff for hobbyist usage.
  In case we do get 2nd hand stuff, it is usually through a 2nd hand dealer, who then ends up with a higher asking price than what it’s worth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a bit different in this case.

  The responsibility of providing electricity falls onto the nearby power plant, which then also has to increase their production.
  But the maker of the new electricity consumer does not need to pay for the capital or anything else really, apart from the electrical rates (and some minimal fixed rates) that they are using.

  Some governments are coming up with interesting, seemingly effective regulations, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OnLy tWo eLemEnTs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps if we started using SVG or PNG instead of compressed JPG for graphs, it would have helped a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sensory issues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can go a whole day wearing a shirt with a tag in it with no major issues, you are probably not autistic

  Or maybe it is because the tags are made of better stuff?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sensory issues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am unaware of the effects of Tylenol.
  What does it do about shirt tags? How does someone else “sucking up” (what does that mean?) a headache have to do with another’s shirt tags and sensory issues?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, just checked the 2 sites I use for computer components.
  1 had no RAM listed.
  The other had 32GB DDR4 at 2x the price and no 128GB kit (96 was the highest, 64 for DDR4)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the main problems right now, seem to be electricity consumption, causing price hikes in surrounding areas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess I should have bought the 128GB 3600 kit earlier.
  Are DDR4 also affected?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is the type of Q&A that makes the internet so important⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  lemmy.zip/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbr…

  First it redirects me (301) to a similar url but at images.lemmy.zip
  Then the second url gives an internal server error (500).

  The other links work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is the type of Q&A that makes the internet so important⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But now your chest is less clean and you will end up re-dirtying the EXTRA CLEAN areas.