Cthulhu_

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by Cthulhu_ 12d ago
I'm sure this is already happening. The main question I have is when is enough, enough? I'm not worried about sci-fi AI wars to be honest, as they can just pull the plug. But looking at these incidents, the next big thing will be
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by Cthulhu_ 12d ago
It's white people virtue signaling and forcing ungendered words into a gendered language, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinx > Latinx does not adhere to conventional grammatical gender rules in Spanish, i
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by Cthulhu_ 12d ago
I just... don't like comments like these; it's so much cheaper, easier and better to either have humans build one (out of biodegradeable materials like in the article) or reintroduce beavers. But instead of allocating some money f
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by Cthulhu_ 12d ago
Loads of projects being done for that (at least in Europe) after droughts have become more and more common. Netherlands especially, worldwide experts in water management because for hundreds of years they tried to actually get rid of the wa
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by Cthulhu_ 12d ago
Armchair theory: larger water surface from beaver lakes means larger evaporative surface means things cool down. Depends on the ambient temperature and amount of sunlight as well, of course.
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by Cthulhu_ 12d ago
The way I see it, yeah it's a drop in the ocean, but these individual sites will act as "seeds", safe havens for wildlife that, from there, can spread out far and wide. Like these fish, they don't stay there, they go far
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by Cthulhu_ 13d ago
I wouldn't even use a bot for that, there's price comparison websites and of course I know where to find the cheapest stuff already. Which makes me think: would a generation raised on AI and automating these things even consider
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by Cthulhu_ 13d ago
We have neither AGI nor _things_ I'm afraid. I wouldn't even know what to do with a semi-autonomous automation tool for my daily tasks, I don't really have anything that I'd like to automate. (like, how often do you look
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by Cthulhu_ 13d ago
It's like a (subset of a) generation of parents having youtube raise their kids. But it's probably an improvement over that!
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by Cthulhu_ 14d ago
Arguably, it's democratized people putting things on the internet. But because there's less work involved to do so, there's also less effort put in. It's not new - anyone could write a low effort shitpost in a text input
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by Cthulhu_ 14d ago
Frameworks / forums / CMSes to PHP developers
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by Cthulhu_ 14d ago
At this point the main advantage VS Code has is its ecosystem. I tried to switch back to VS Code a while ago but most of its plugins are outdated / haven't been updated in five years. It's not the whole story of course, but i
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by Cthulhu_ 15d ago
Reminds me of when a guy earned like a million off of cryptocurrency, but the cash was in a foreign account (the exchange, I presume). He couldn't just transfer it to his own account because the bank had issues with it. He opened a new
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by Cthulhu_ 16d ago
And the only 30's - 60's furniture that survives will be mostly solid cabinets; they are neither in style (if you care) anymore, but more importantly they're no longer practical, as they were built for different lifestyles an
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by Cthulhu_ 16d ago
I wanted to move on from ikea furniture, but for TV furniture (tv, consoles, games, etc) there was just nothing out there besides either custom made furniture or ikea sets. I'm very happy with the latter, in the end.
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by Cthulhu_ 16d ago
Laptop stickers, too; I only entered circles where Macs were popular in about 2012 and it became apparent you should personalize it a bit else it gets lost in the other three dozen macbooks in the vicinity, especially at hackathons / c
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by Cthulhu_ 16d ago
I have a theory that's what happened to my company's rebrand, they now use a 4 lettered .com domain name. Not even a word, just an abbreviation.
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by Cthulhu_ 16d ago
I get the origins of low contrast comments - auto-generated stuff in old Java code was basically a box ticking exercise to please checkers that only checked if comments were available, probably for javadoc purposes, making these comments us
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by Cthulhu_ 18d ago
Does he even have his own cryptocurrency? (don't answer that, it does exist because people make shitcoins for everything: https://phantom.com/tokens/solana/4CF8Ek5DEiYtP1YuqomDdhkeSc... )
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by Cthulhu_ 18d ago
It was so bizarre seeing people go from pure SPAs, to the concept of "hydrating" a website (ok still makes sense to a point), to coming up with server-side rendering like it's novel. I mean sure, things like Next, Gatsby, etc
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by Cthulhu_ 18d ago
Relevant WCAG sections: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/pause-stop-hide.... and https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/animation-from-i... . Basically, respect
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by Cthulhu_ 18d ago
Nor just shape, so a warning icon + text message.
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by Cthulhu_ 18d ago
Exactly; consider that only a percentage of users will actually be sitting at a desktop system using your application. Most people will visit your website on a mobile device, and a percentage of that will be in weird lighting conditions try
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by Cthulhu_ 23d ago
The 50 cents is dual purpose, the one is obvious in that it pays for the attendant and them keeping it clean, but the other is like using a coin to unlock a trolley, it cuts back misuse by a lot. Once you've been to free vs 50 cent toi
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by Cthulhu_ 23d ago
For canals, I'd say yes. I mean related, before steam / fossil / etc we'd have a "trekschuit", which was a canal boat pulled by people and / or animals that walked on a path alongside the canals. Wired pro
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by Cthulhu_ 24d ago
While closedness is bad, I assumed peripherals like these were closed anyway; the fact they were hackable implies they were not secure enough. So if closed means they are secure, which 99.99% of end users expect, I'm actually okay with
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by Cthulhu_ 26d ago
This makes me think of the paper-to-media pipeline; scientific papers are high information density. Its press release summarizes the finding. Then the popular science and social media posts come that oversimplify and embellish the findings.
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by Cthulhu_ 26d ago
I think we as professional documentation-readers already skim most content (speaking for myself, I realized I was googling and skimming for answers 20 years ago instead of reading documentation end to end), but AI generated content has the
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by Cthulhu_ 26d ago
I think this is the confirmation bias trap a lot of people fall into; higher quality, hard to detect AI is already ubiquitous but because it's hard to detect people just don't clock it. "I can accurately detect 100% of AI gen
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by Cthulhu_ 26d ago
The book Software Engineering at Google goes into this (all factors of programming at scale / over time), worth a read.

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