scubadude

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by scubadude 2mo ago
> i struggle to find an equivalent industry that has been so all over the place and obtuse No surprises, it's fundamentally built on promises and lies
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by scubadude 3mo ago
It's the eating your own dog food. The Open AI guy said it's now better than doctors (he said it, not me lol). He's replaced his doctor, right?
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by scubadude 4mo ago
What about when it just flat out lies to you, how do you sort the right info from the wrong? > recipes when cooking I used it for a recipe, gave it a brilliant and detailed prompt, it told me to put 10x a particular spice and it ruined t
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by scubadude 4mo ago
Then you're testing how good someone is at exams as much as anything
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by scubadude 4mo ago
You can sponsor a promotion; sales on a bunch of games - but it's not "Brought to you by the cool refreshing taste of Pepsi" it's like "Berlin Game Developers".
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by scubadude 5mo ago
GitHub lost me when Microsoft used my shitty code to train shitty AI without my permission.
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by scubadude 6mo ago
Long time Linux user, but I got lazy into the Windows ecosystem for too many years. My son convinced me to move over and I haven't looked back. I haven't found a game that hasn't run, the worst I have to do is change Proton v
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by scubadude 6mo ago
Modern street lighting provides a way clearer view of the scene imo than the old sodium lighting. Maybe it's just brighter now.
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by scubadude 6mo ago
A 29 minute 5K is not trivial
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by scubadude 6mo ago
> high quality medical advice I'll replace my doctor with AI immediately after the tech bros do lol
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by scubadude 6mo ago
Don't buy the shit. You don't need a smart doorbell or robot vacuum at a minimum.
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by scubadude 7mo ago
It just means the phone is massively overpowered :)
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by scubadude 7mo ago
I had wondered about the same for nicotine, being a neurostimulant.
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by scubadude 7mo ago
> instead of feeling animated, these people feel drowsy, and they say that coffee makes them sleep Sounds like ADHD to me
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by scubadude 7mo ago
It's flipped, so you now get a little petrol 4 stroke engine powering the game console in your electric car.
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by scubadude 7mo ago
>Why is everyone using Vercel and the likes anyway? Because you literally connect to a git repo and your site is deployed, and scales with load. Compared to managing a VM, system and application packages, config, backups and then how do
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by scubadude 8mo ago
Why? Not everything is pure mathematics.
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by scubadude 8mo ago
> I really don’t get the sense of urgency Mind-boggling amount of investment needing a return or the promise of a return
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by scubadude 8mo ago
Linux is insanely easy to use these days. So mature. Even for gaming, I haven't encountered a single game that hasn't run, and most of the time I don't even have to think of setting any compatibility stuff like wine version,
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by scubadude 9mo ago
Everyone thought boomers were bad. Gen Xers, tech bros: hold my beer
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by scubadude 10mo ago
We only need a few minutes sun exposure in the Australian sun at a UV Index of 14 for vitamin D. 20 minutes to start burning. Maybe there's a happy medium between a bit of sun exposure and no sun exposure.
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by scubadude 1y ago
100% agree. No direct developer job losses from AI. But if it makes you more efficient, there are indirect job losses. Still borderline as to how much nett efficiency it provides. I needed unit-tests pronto, it saved my bacon in crunch time
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by scubadude 1y ago
Show me a good Unreal Engine game? Supposedly it can be optimised to be decent but so many of these games don't even run properly on top end hardware.
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by scubadude 1y ago
Isn't this pretty much the main reason AI is being pushed so hard?
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by scubadude 1y ago
At a minimum, 30-50% of bogus surveys are bogus but I'm willing to bet it's a lot more.
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by scubadude 1y ago
>AI is two things: 1) software and 2) extremely fast-moving/evolving 3) massive scam
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by scubadude 1y ago
> Stack Overflow has to be actually dead at this point. There's no reason to go there, or even Google, anymore. If, like the meme, you just copied from SO without using your brain then yes AI is comparable. If you appreciate SO for
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by scubadude 1y ago
There's a study from Stanford showing the dropoff based on road traffic volume. The house I tested is 40 metres from a 30,000 cars/day road (2 lanes in each direction). The study suggests that the pm2.5 drops to the equivalent of
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by scubadude 1y ago
It is absolutely not supported by the Greens [1]. "The Greens have also called for: A ban on the targeting, harvesting and selling of young people's data A Digital Duty of Care on tech platforms EU-style guardrails
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by scubadude 1y ago
So powerful, an unequivocal argument for vaccination. Being born mid-1970s, I might have got peak lead exposure, but I'm so lucky to have got the measles vaccine (amongst others).

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