MirrorGiraffe
@MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social
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- Comment on Woke 1 week ago:
How’s the fighting going?
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 1 week ago:
I’m also a sw engineer so we’re both guessing 😅
I’m guessing those dates centers use that water for cooling whereas most home computers run an electric fan. And furthermore they probably use less electricity per token as they want to maximize profits. I don’t have any numbers to back my hunch up but I’m pretty sure the environment would suffer more if everyone is running their own.
I probably missed a lot of factors such as what type of energy the centers run contra what average Joe runs etc.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 1 week ago:
I’m not too big on these topics and would like to understand. Is a local model less resource intensive?
In my mind, if every gamer runs a model that must be less efficient than a centralised one that has the perfect hardware setup and only lends out the resources needed for each slime or whatever.
I’m thinking that it of course would be better with a dedicated slime model than the entire Gemini monster but why is local better?
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 1 week ago:
I have a ZenFone 8 with stock. I love the form factor but I’m mildly annoyed that I can’t uninstall certain apps and the QA is poor, never have I been forced to repair a phone this much.
I backup photos via immich, passwords vid bitwarden and run calendar, contacts, notes via nextcloud
- Comment on if i had a job 1 week ago:
That image has been floating about without the explanatory text as well so I’m 100% the context is fake.
- Comment on France bids to suspend Shein over childlike sex dolls 2 weeks ago:
If children sex dolls are readily available it risks normalizing the concept of sex with children. Both for potential pedophiles as well as children who browse shein, might get the impression that adults having sex with children is a thing.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 2 weeks ago:
Nah, they’ll just push for streaming compute power and charge you once more!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I don’t get this.
Someone posts an article, someone else enjoys it and tells them not to get discouraged by the crowd that doesn’t like the content and gets downvoted?
Afaik luddite is not an insult but maybe I’m wrong. Anyhow I feel a vocal section of the anti llm crew are just looking to discourage anyone who’s not aligning 100% with their battle.
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 3 weeks ago:
❤️
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I hope I am cautious enough. I use strict db models that were man written and have type checking and sanitation. That along with unit tests that cover everything I’ve been able to think of that can go right or wrong combined with the classic “obscurity===security” motto.
Of course there are always vectors one hasn’t thought of, but that goes for man made projects as well. If I decide to bring it live and scale up I’ll probably order a pen test.
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been writing a slightly larger project with frontend, bff and backend and I need to take it in small batches so that I can catch when it misunderstands or outright does a piss job of implementing something. I’ve been focusing a lot on getting all the unit tests I need in place which makes me feel a bunch better.
The bigger and more complex the projects get, the harder it is for the LLM to keep stuff in context which means I’ll have to improve my chunking out smaller scoped implementations or start writing code myself I think.
All in all I feel pretty safe with my project and pleased with the agents work but I need to increase testing further before bringing anything live.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 3 weeks ago:
You are completely correct, and to be honest I’ve tested commercial product features in prod as well on teams that have the capacity to handle it and make a living on it, unlike this maintainer.
I’m also experimenting heavily with vibe coding and I think it has many uses for a seasoned programmer while getting a lot of flak.
Of course there are issues and problems with it, but for me it had been helping out a lot.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 3 weeks ago:
For sure, the song of the hero who fixed the production bug is oft sang at meetings but the loser who prevented the bug to begin with gets no credit.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 3 weeks ago:
Classic “test in production” strategy, very solid!
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 3 weeks ago:
To be fair they would have needed to spend time testing the manual implementation as well.
The problem I see mainly is that even if this rolls out perfectly, the erratic and changing nature if llms still make it pointless as a proof of concept. Next time Claude might fuck up in a fringe way that’s not covered by unit tests and is missed by manual tests.
On the other hand I guess I’ve been guilty myself on numerous occasions to implement fringe bugs into production code, but at least I learn from it.
- Comment on Docs used to be cool as hell 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 4 weeks ago:
Luckily the best factorio players of the world ganged up and solved it
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 4 weeks ago:
Jeez you really hit a nerve here, with your pretty sane concept about sharing resources communally.
I guess some people really don’t like the word wasteful or something.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 4 weeks ago:
Well yeah it is, but is most likely much harder to solve co-living like that in a way that’s acceptable for almost any people. Whereas what was suggested here is that people pool their resources and lend/rent to each other.
Nothing about forcing anything on anyone, and people who want to be able to have exactly the CPU they need at any given time would probably not be interested.
- Comment on Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shares her gamertag — what it reveals 5 weeks ago:
If anything this proves that the correlation between active gamer and competent gaming CEO might not be that strong with how awesome Xbox is currently.
- Comment on learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what? 1 month ago:
If you have big hands consider a tenor. I had a concert for a long while until I tried a tenor and it get much better for me.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 1 month ago:
Yeah I get that they created roguelite for games that are based on rng runs and has some sort of async progression and I think that has become a pretty practical genre to categorize a wide array of hands that share those traits.
But roguelike should be kept to games like nethack, pixel dungeon etc that share the basic concepts of rogue.
- Comment on "It's going to be a very long goodbye" - Peter Molyneux's last game will be Masters of Albion, but that's not necessarily as simple as it sounds 1 month ago:
I had a blast with populous and dungeon keeper. They’re not god given games with the best design ever but they’re good games with interesting quirks. The other two, not so much.
- Comment on I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too 1 month ago:
Nothing phone has a pretty average repairability score, so I’d assume so.
- Comment on Kid Rock is the people version of an above ground pool 1 month ago:
That’s a wild assumption. Lenmy has a well documented API that wouldn’t pass on frontend-related things.
Making a client scrape the frontend seems like a lot of work for a worse result.
- Comment on VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files 1 month ago:
Been using zed lately. Pretty similar ui, wildly different performance.
- Comment on New study: No-alcohol and low-alcohol beers, and dry pubs, are on the rise 2 months ago:
It’s like vegan meat substitutes.
Sure there are awesome vegan dishes and the substitutes taste worse than the real deal but it’s not wrong to want to interact with the culture you live in in a normalish manner.
I’ll have a af beer with my vegan hotdog and enjoy myself even though they are just substitutes.
- Comment on ARC Raiders - anyone else looting in their sleep? 2 months ago:
I was building a massive pipe systems for fish food and poo In a huge fish tank after my last session of factorio.
- Comment on HyperCard on the Macintosh 3 months ago:
Me and my friends used to make games on hypercard all the time, it was a blast!
- Comment on My review on the AYN Odin 3 3 months ago:
I’m thinking the steam frame will open up pc gaming on arm completely and enable devices like this to go full power.
