@Demolishun heh, didn't think about that. Was mostly a service for my own use, though it was Public.

Heh, next time I'll think about how I can keep it public without being searchable or screenable, could be a fun challenge

@retoor
Oh, actually was still linked there, I removed it since It's down rn anyway :D thanks for trying it out though

I had my own service called Void. It's down now due to downscaling my services and bills but it was about shouting stuff into the void. Essentially a temporary short message bulletin board. You'd write a message, max 256 chars, it would get persisted on the server and shown publically, but it would be erased without a trace after 5 minutes. So no matter what you wrote in frustration it would be gone without consequences or traceability later. Was kinda poetic and I created it out of frustration in the first place.

One day I was shouting something there and then decided to look if there are other places similar to that, if other devs had a space they would use to vent.. which is how I found DevRant literally by googling "developer ranting" or venting or something like that. Pretty straightforward path led me here xD

We're all opressed equaly by try-hards and people who just refuse to move on because their entire personality is built around being a self centered, pain-in-the-ass hero of their own life story that constantly need to remind others how high and mighty they are conpared to all the other lowlifes.

@AceDev yes, obviously. Im talking to other people, since a light chat already got Started on this bot post. Just saying that the general idea is not completely bad, spam or no spam. It's just a bit overengineered

To be fair, I was thinking of building something like Easy Trip AI already. We were planning a vacation a couple months ago and went through the same trouble of planning all the flights and rides and AirBnBs because using a travel agency is by a magnitude more expensive...

I considered it, but then I realized that if I could pull all that hard data that the AI would require to make the plan, I might as well just skip the AI and just optimize the tree of travel options... in the end it pretty much just boils down to a version of the traveling salesman problem. It's pretty solvable and pretty cheap to do, except one thing. One single thing really stopped me from working on this and that's the lack of any reasonable open and free APIs for airlines and sites like booking or airbnb... and god damnit, I don't want to write a selenium scraper for all these sites and then deal with all the crappy data...

I still call mine master, and use black and whitelists. But for clusters I do like master/replica or master/worker better than master/slave since I see my machines more as replicating workers than slaves.

I don't think the conputers get much offended by any of these though

I also notices that even the o4 models is actually failing to finish generation now. Happened to me twice so far, it went completely off script in the middle of spitting my config.

I bet that without they hype they are downscaling the models to run cheaper and smaller models, while still charging the same for tokens. But alas that was to be expected, it's always about hooking the customers first and then slowing degrading and downscaling the service. like turning up the heat on a frog in a pot...

I'm glad I never got rolled into open AI in any way, shape or form. I'd rather stick with my small self-hosted but reliable models...

Im not sure, I just know. There's only a handful of people I consider true friends. It's usually people that don't want anything from me, because they are all skilled people. So if they actually do need something from time to time im actually happy to help. I never felt the emotion of wanting to help someone completely selflessly around people I don't consider friends. But as for what the criteria is Im not sure, probably intelligence, self sufficient, not a snowflake, good humor... Something like that

I also really enjoy tuning performane and memory usage. Im looking into cuda programming right now. I tinkered with openCL in the past but now It's time to get serious about these optimizations on gpu.

But overall I think Im good in most software dev stuff, except frontends, I hate frontends

Didn't this happen with samsung already? They made phones so thin they literally bent in peoples pockets when they sat down. Why repeat the same mistake again with apple this time?

Using google colab is free and you get one free T4 GPU there. Or you can pay to get access to more powerful gpus and tpus later. Bud for playing It's plenty. Though I do understand the desire to run your own HW.

The more you know the more you understand you know nothing.

That's one big truth that never fails.

If you think you know, you're too young and inexperienced to know

If only someone asked real engineers and designers first :)))))

They are not code generators (or any generators) they are general purpose transformer language models. They don't generate, they transform. If you think about them like that, you will have more success. You need to give it a painfully precise specification of what you want and then they will do a decent job. That includes giving them specs of the libraries you want them to use if they are not popular and giving them examples and tables of the expected output.

No, It's not "prompt engineering" It's just normal enginnering, just in natural language. You still have to do the whole spec and design of you want anything decent

I never had these issues with KDE. Maybe I was just Lucky to draw a functioning desktop manager as my first distro.

Even Nvidia drivers work really well these days and install out of the box with apt or custom nvidia keyring

maybe if he did whip you more you wouldn't be such a fucking little bitch!

jk, It just sounds funny in my head, kinda verbal slapstick humor

Ah, those are the cloud cages, where they catch clouds to run our platforms. The more you know!

Im using VS Code (VS Codium actually), though I am looking for alternatives but vim nor neovim never clicked with me

That being said, if this was some sort or woke snowflake safe space I wouldnt be here, not because of censorship but because I can't stand people like that for extended periods of time

Small tight-knit community of people with common hobbies and domain language.

I don't think free speech factors into it as much, I say my opinions out loud in your "standard" internet places too. I just come here for the parasocial relationships and dev related jokes and topics :shrug:

Damn, you made me blow a little more air out of my nose than usual. It's funny, but It's also sad and true at the same time

@jestdotty I know a guy that literally got obsessed with a coworker of his, stalking her on social media and got in contact with her, tried to ask her out and got rejected, and since then he was unable to work with her being even in the same building. He would tell me how stressed and sad he felt whenever he seen her around, he would get depressed, still stalking on FB, talking about how she Talks to other coworkers but not him... Just overall gor very bitter about the whole Situation. But he was also convinced he couldnt leave the job cause he though he wouldnt find another well paid job easily ( he was on a decently high engineering position, cause he's actually really good at what he does, though imo underpaid at his then position) took me months to convince him that he created a toxic environment for himself there and he should just find a new and better place. He did and he is better paid now and put that girl finally behind him.. but yeesh.. I warned...

I had that, i stopped Putting ny phone in the pocket for a while and it went away. I also often had keys with my Phone in the same pocket so maybe that was a factor, im not doing that anymore now cause it scratched my screen once. Thus was like a decade ago or so

@Demolishun from my experience It's the guy that ultimately leaves the work after a failed attempt.

@donkulator but It's likely someone already manufactured it and now you can all share the same filthy penetration fix

Do *not* engage romantically with a coworker.

9/10 times this ends badly. Don't shit where you eat no matter how nice she is. Trust me bro, look elsewhere.

We are not in an "AI" era... We're in an ai hype train maybe, but nothing era defining happened yet. AI era will happen when everything is actually done by AI.

Honestly, if someone wants to hire me based on some graph from a proprietary service owned by microsoft that I don't even use anymore, that's on them...

If they asked me I'd tell them that I'm using a self hosted git service for privacy and traffic reasons.

They are totally rad

I thought you're based in India