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You shortcut junkies so smart with your little keyboards, guess what? I don't give a shit that you don't use mouse for an app which I use once a month and I have way more important things to remember so don't brag and preach all the time you use them and you spend more time bragging and explaining what shortcut you just used instead of doing the actual function11
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A post with many thumb up reactions with different skin tones, of course counted separately.
👍6 👍🏻3 👍🏼4 …
Because apparently it matters who is agreeing as a white person and how many agree as persons with a slightly darker skin tone. 🤦♂️
This is so fucking dumb.63 -
I bought a Baseus EnerGeek Laptop Powerbank, 145 W, 20800 mAh able to charge laptops and phone at same time. Never have been this relaxed working on something remote. It charges the phone so fast!
It was just around 50,-. Can recommend this device to anyone. Bang for the buck.
Before I had a cheap powerbank having almost the same Mah (20.000) but it was really not comparable, it took ages to charge the phone and laptop did not work on it.
The difference between this powerbank that you can use for everything and the default ones was like 20 euros.
I advise to invest good when buying one. While the good one is like the size of the cheaper one (different form mostly). It' still quite the device with a half kg weight. So you can use it also in a bar fight.
The charger to charge the powerbank itself is not included but your laptop charger will suffice. I did buy the VOOMY USB C Adapter 65W, Oplader USB C with GaN Technologie that supplies three ports (two usb-c and one default usb). From that device i was amazed how small it was being a full laptop charger. That one was around 27,-.
For charging your device on such powers, special cables are required. The powerbank got you regarding usb-cable, it comes with one included. The VOOMY does not include any cables.
But with buying these two products i just mentioned will suffice you to work remotely for several hours very comfortably.
devRant reviews, something new.3 -
One of the most / only satisfying things about frontend web dev is that, whether you're doing:
top
left
right
bottom
or
top
left
width
height
You get one more letter with each word. I am suspicious of anyone who orders these differently.6 -
There was this question I came up with that was very good at inducing hallucinations on what at the time I thought was a *lobotomized* LLM.
I can't recall the exact wording right now, but in essence you asked it to perform OpenGL batched draw calls in straight x86_64 assembly. It would begin writing seemingly correct code, quickly run out of registers, and then immediately start making up register names instead of moving data to memory.
You may say: big deal, it has nowhere to pull from to answer such an arcane fucking riddle, so of course it's going to bullshit you. That's not the point. The point is it cannot realize that it's running out of registers, and more importantly, that it makes up a multitude of register names which _will_ degrade the context due to the introduction of absolute fabrications, leading to the error propagating further even if you clearly point out the obvious mistake.
Basically, my thought process went as follows: if it breaks at something fundamental, then it __will__ most certainly break in every other situation, in either subtle or overt ways.
Which begged the question: is it a trait of _this_ model in particular, or is it applicable to LLMs in general?
I felt I was on to something, but I couldn't be sure because, again, I was under the impression that the model on which I tested this was too old and stupid so as to consider these results significant proof of anything; AI is certainly not my field, so I had to entertain the idea that I could be wrong, albeit I did so begrudgingly -- for obvious reasons, I want at least "plausible based on my observations" rather than just "I can feel it in my balls".
So, as time went on, I made similar tests on other models whenever I got a chance to do so, and full disclosure, I spent no money on this so you may utilize that fact in your doomed attempt to disprove me lmao. Anyway, it's been a long enough while, I think, and I have a feeling you folks can guess the final answer already:
(**SLIGHTLY OMINOUS DRUM ROLL**)
The "lobotomy" in question was merely a low cap on context tokens (~4000), which I never went over in the first place; newer/"more advanced" models don't fare any better, and I have been _very_ lenient in what I consider a passable answer.
So that's that, is what I'm starting to think: I was right all along, and went through the burdensome hurdle of sincerely questioning the immaculate intuition of my balls entirely for naught -- learn from this mistake and never question your own mystical seniority. Just kidding, but not really.
The problem with the force of belief is it can work both ways, by which I mean, belief that I could be wrong is the reason I bothered looking further into it, whereas belief to the contrary very much compels me to dismiss doubt entirely. I don't need that, I need certainty, dammit. And though I cannot in good faith say that I am _certain_, "sufficiently convinced" will have to do for the time being.
TL;DR I don't know but the more I see it just seems shittier.11 -
I was replaced by AI.
Because I couldn’t be replaced directly, e.g. by using AI to do my job, the job description itself was changed as the business pivoted.
We used to be a software development company. Now, we’re an online AI school. The thing about AI schools is that you can monetize unfinished prototypes — the only thing AI is good at — and the process of making them.
I wasn’t strictly “replaced” — they just found a small-scale way to not need engineers at all.
Well, it’s time to make my own startup!8 -
One thing I like to do online is obscure references to old movies. If someone says or does something in a forum that reminds me of a character from a movie I will say: "Hello <character's name>" If the name is recognized people will say so because it is a fun thing. Or they will respond with quotes from that character. Other people will join in on this too. An example of this is calling someone Raymond who estimates the exact number of things in a picture. This is a reference to the character Raymond from the movie Rain Man. This character was autistic and could could numbers of things instantly accurately.
However there is a chance the name is so obscure that it just sounds weird. Nobody gets it. Maybe they recognize it is a reference maybe not. This goes unnoticed and unheeded.
There is an even more remote chance that this is in fact the person's actual IRL name. However, if they are on a semi anonymous platform then they cannot confront the person calling them by that name because that would out them. Also, if they PM me about it they are outed again. So if this occurs this person will now wonder how the fuck someone knows their real name. Silent torture and wondering about it for a couple of days.6 -
Internet freedom is decapitated.
I miss the old internet so much, it was anarchy and today is a corporate globalist blob of control and censorship.
I feel it's lost and there's no alternative anymore, at least not yet.20 -
I’m ok with a “bad” person. Everyone should have some bit of asshole in them. If you’re too nice it’s gonna creep me out8
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As a sovereign citizen, I hereby declare war on the Federal Republic of Germany.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.5 -
2 margaritas, 1 litre of beer and two rejection letters later. Tuesdays are great.
fucking code tests are retarded. if you just want a programmer, hire a fucking gpt instead. stop wasting my time. hr people send the most retarded emails ever.3 -
Guys let's talk about the discriminatory language some people uses in here. For example an user called "Lensflare" just called me a waffle.
The use of racial slurs against my people will not be tolerated.21 -
Learning embedded C/C++ on some TI chips. Need an httpclient for some specific tasks. The docs for the library are almost non-existent. No examples. I search and find examples from 7 years ago (none official). Wild.
There was another library I was using, but apparently it has internal issues and is not being updated anymore. I am using the "supported" library apparently.
Writing network code for desktop: easy peasy. Writing it for embedded: wtf is this shit?6 -
I spent the past two days running headlong into obstacle after obstacle after obstacle. I found solutions and workarounds for all of them, including for some obscure odd behaviors in Rails, and got everything working — at least as much as is possible.
At the end of it all, the proposed architecture is fundamentally flawed. It amounts to “we want to have our cake and eat it, too.” So I’ll need to argue with management and try to convince them to let me redesign this broken sewage system. I doubt it’ll go well.
I’m tired, boss.6 -
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Italy is apparantly the only place in europe where flow meters dont exist.
Why the fuck are you trying to gaslight me into thinking 48L of fuel fit into a 45L tank that was 10% full!3 -
Randomly, I have to make a selfie when transferring money using the bank, even for 70,-. But very random. I make a joke of it by looking mad in the camera while smoking a sigarette. But damn, what the fuck, like, when was voted for shit like this? Nobody would EVER agree to such shit right? All those tippy tappy things we worry about for privacy but I just literally made a selfie for my bank transaction (ironically it was for smth not legal). Guys, this will get abused the fuck out of one day. They're automated building a report against you. A log, with pictures and accounts and amounts. Hmm, why do you send z, y or z directly to a person? That person was once in jail, hmm, let's see all transactions..
We're so fucked.23