Thorry84

@Thorry84@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is my bedroom being heated?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on how you use the under floor heating. Some people use them like regular heating, where you turn it off and only turn it on when you want it to get warmer. In this use case the floor is warmer than the room and you will feel the floor getting warm. This is however not the most efficient way to use underfloor heating for rooms that are in use most of the time.

  For rooms where people are most of the time, the most efficient use of underfloor heating is to have the water at the desired temperature all the time. That way it’s very easy to heat up the water, since if only needs to be a bit over ambient and only the heat lost in the system needs to be replaced. In this case the floor and the room become the exact same temperature and won’t feel warm. It just won’t feel cold, like the floor would without the heating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah those job hoppers are the worst. You can always tell right away what kind of person those are. I’ve had to work with a “senior” dev who had 15 years of experience and to be honest he sucked at his job. He couldn’t do simple tasks, didn’t think before he started writing code and often got stuck asking other people for help. But he got paid big bucks, because all he did his entire career was work somewhere for 2-3 years and then job hop and trade up. By the time the company figured out the dude was useless, he went on to the next company.

  Such a shitty attitude, which is a shame because he was a good dude otherwise. I got along with him on a personal level. And honestly good on him for making the most he can, fuck the company. But I personally couldn’t do that, I take pride in my work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. I wanted to test a new config in my router yesterday, which is configured using scripts. So I thought it would be a good idea for ChatGPT to figure it out for me, instead of 3 hours of me reading documentation and trying tutorials. It was a test scenario, so I thought it might do well.

  It did not do well at all. The scripts were mostly correct but often in the wrong order (referencing a thing before actually defining it). Sometimes the syntax would be totally wrong and it kept mixing version 6 syntax with version 7 syntax (I’m on 7). It will also make mistakes and when I point out the mistake it says Oh you are totally right, I made a mistake. Then goes on to explain what mistake it did and output new code. However more often than not the new code contained the exact same mistake. This is probably because of a lack of training data, where it is referencing only one example and that example just had a mistake in it.

  In the end I gave up on ChatGPT, searched for my testscenario and it turned out a friendly dude on a forum put together a tutorial. So I followed that and it almost worked right away. A couple of minutes of tweaking and testing and I got it working.

  I’m afraid for a future where forums and such don’t exist and sources like Reddit get fucked and nuked. In an AI driven world the incentive for creating new original content is way lower. So when AI doesn’t know the answer, you are just hooped and have to re-invent the wheel yourself. In the long run this will destroy productivity and not give the gains people are hoping for at the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes 4 identical sticks, same brand, same series, same type, same physical chips on the stick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends a lot. If you are going from 2 ram slots in use to 4 ram slots in use, usually the max clock speeds go down a lot. So the performance will decrease for just about everything you do, whilst the use case for such a setup is very limited.

  I have a couple of extra ram sticks to get from 32 to 64gb when I need it. I bought them because I was debugging a rather memory intensive tool. Not only did the tool run in debug mode, which added a lot of overhead. The memory profiler needed to be able to make memory snapshots and analyze them. This just about doubled the memory requirement. So with 32GB I often ran out of memory.

  However my Ryzen 5950X does not like 4 sticks of ram one bit. Timings need to be loosened, clocks need to be reduced and even then the system would get unstable every now and again for no reason. So I pulled out the 2 sticks going back to 32GB as soon as the debugging job was done. They are in a drawer in an anti static bag, should I need them. But for day to day 32GB with 2 sticks is a much better experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is AI making us stupider? Maybe, according to one of the world’s biggest AI companies.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You are right, you can’t get dumber if you don’t use your brain in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would do this for just 1.99⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy is better than Reddit in every way. This means the platform itself better, but it also uplifts all users. This leads to better posts, better comments and better voting behavior. It also enhanced the innate abilities of Lemmy users to be toxic as hell.

  So what I’m trying to say is suck it bitch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if you built a billion-story building?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Kira is just too powerful, she must be stopped! A billion floors is too many floors Kira. It’s too many floors!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Bing Testing Dropping AI Labels From AI Answers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually impressive how anti-user Microsoft is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lost in translation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  SHIT

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RTX On⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But how many spatulas can he buy with that sweet sweet GPU money?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patch this Bish!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t just want to fix one human, you want to fix all the offspring as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The deed is done.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And your little brother got peanut butter on the manual so you mom threw it away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s very easy with an incremental improvement tactic to get stuck in a local maximum. You’ve then hit a dead end, every available option leads to a degredation and thus isn’t viable. It isn’t a sure thing incremental improvements lead to the desired outcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smolderin station recommendation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes you can very easily remove the suction bit and the cable. I always leave it unless it gets in the way, it sucks pretty good. When it gets in the way I remove the bit only, which is super easy to do and leave the cable so I can put the suction back again. Just don’t expect it to be a replacement for an actual good fume extractor, I always use both a dedicated extractor as well as the ventilation in my office/electric workstation. Breathing solder fumes is pretty bad in the long term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smolderin station recommendation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve used my old Aoyue 968A+ rework station for 10+ (maybe going on 15, not sure) years now and I’m very happy with it. It has excellent power in a comfortable grip with standard tips so you can switch around easily enough (although I just have a small point tip which is a good allrounder). It has enough power to deal with floodfill and ground planes without crashing the temperature, but still enough control to not overshoot and go way too hot.

  It has fume extraction, but that’s kinda weak, they just added it because they could I guess. The suction bit can get in the way, but it’s easily removed when it does.

  The best part is it also has an excellent SMD rework hot air, again with a comfortable grip and lots of tips included. It’s easily adjustable in both temperature and airflow. I use it to pre-heat (and add heat) when soldering large components, for example on old retro motherboards. This way I can get away with lower temperatures when desoldering stuff, preventing lifting pads or damaging traces. It works great for SMD as well, but for larger PCBs I combine it with a cheap hotplate I modified to pre-heat the PCB.

  It’s Chinese made, but made well, more of a high-end Chinese model and is easily gotten for around $150. I’ve used it for thousands of hours and it has never let me down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made a fingernail clipper guard using a paperclip and a couple grooves under the bottom blade.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think he means cutting the nail too short. So the guard stops the nail from going in too far and cutting the nails so short it hurts the nail bed underneath.

  Personally I like my nails to be on the short side, since I do things like machining and woodworking as a hobby. Nothing ruins a fun day of working in the shop as folding or splitting a nail in the first 5 minutes. But I can understand for people who like to have their nails a bit on the longer side if this isn’t a concern.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨41% of companies worldwide plan to reduce workforces by 2030 due to AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember kids, it doesn’t matter if you think AI can do your job, it also doesn’t matter if AI can actually do your job or not. The only thing that matters is that the powers that be think AI can do your job, that’s all it takes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching Enterprise for the very first time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been a long road

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, you're an ass man. I have this problem with my bum. Could you take a look?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And then everyone at the table stood up and clapped #blessed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capricorn Two⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was too heavy to move, except for like the single truck that moved it when it crashed. It didn’t just get heavier over night did it?

  It’s just code for nobody wanted to pay to have their shit cleaned up, so everyone just left it because who cares. I can’t imagine it’s much of an “attraction”, that’s just some smart local politician inventing an excuse to not have to clean it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It would have been interesting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes those brief couple of years in the Roman empire where they had phones and selfie sticks, but drones weren’t around yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*automatic window noises*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the same code as my luggage!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure just saying, not trolling at all.

  Solar drives energy prices down, not up. In the summer the energy price regularly goes negative because there is so much solar available.

  And it isn’t even remotely true, a lot of countries have higher energy prices than Germany within the EU. The Netherlands for example has crazy high energy prices. And that’s in absolute numbers, not even corrected for things like GDP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New social experiment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  homework

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people still call each other at midnight on NYE?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People calling each other at new years was a thing in the before times when texting was non-existent, expensive or not widespread. People would call each other usually on land lines and caused a lot of stress to the network. It could take hours to get through. When mobile phones became a thing, people tried to be trendy and call from a party, leading to total collapse of the local cell network.

  Later when texting became the norm, it would also be easily overloaded and texts could take a while to get through. These days since everything goes through the internet, I wouldn’t expect there to be any issues. The internet can handle sudden increases much better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

  Even in a unjust world mob justice isn’t justice. This means a mob deciding someone is guilty and acting out punishment is unjust. But also a mob deciding a crime should go unpunished is unjust.

  There’s plenty wrong with how insurance works and plenty wrong with the justice system. But instead of giving up, we should be trying to fix these issues. It’s all to easy to give in to our basic instincts and point to someone to blame. We punish them instead of fixing the issues. Killing one ceo might feel good, but it doesn’t really change the big picture and in fact constitutes layer upon layer of failure. We should be better than that. History is full of people (singular and groups) being used as a scape goat to deflect and feel like something is being done, whilst in fact not actually fixing anything and just feeding hate.

  Also in a capitalist world, the people with the most money have the most power. If we collectively decide it’s open warfare, purge style distopia, they are going to have the upper hand. So purely from a self interest point of view, it would be better to work on fixing shit instead of reverting to monke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OLED displays with up to five times better lifespan may be on their way sooner than you think, thanks to a manufacturing breakthrough⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Brighter? Thank god Bandai Namco fixed their logo for Elden Ring, that flashbang can give you eye damage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cowboy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then the cows get made into cow burger no wait ham burger

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Nintendo went belly up today the retro community would have a field day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you talking about? Java runs on millions of devices!