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DaleGribble88

@ DaleGribble88 @programming.dev

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College Prof in the US, focus areas are Human-Computer Interaction, Cybersecurity, and Machine Learning

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  • OMG, that reminds of one of my first little hobby projects. Using a serial port to light up an LED whenever I had a new notification on... good grief was it Myspace or Facebook back then? Around that transition period at any rate.

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  • The weird text the main bird is rattling off it something called "Assembly". Many programming languages don't really tell the computer what to do, they more or less outline the behavior they want, and then another program called a compiler turns that into 1s and 0s that a computer can actually understand. If you've ever heard of binary, that's what these 1s and 0s are. Assembly is one level of abstraction* above the 1s and 0s. It is a good way for humans to understand what a computer is actually doing without having to look at the original programming code, and without 1s and 0s. So the main bird represents a computer doing it's thing, running some program.

    Then comes the crow with a "Hello It's me. The Keyboard! Someone pressed the letter e." The crow represents something called an interrupt, which is exactly what it sounds like. It interrupts the normal flow of a program to signal to a computer "Hey, you need to deal with this. Like, now."

    The reason why he is a keyboard is because that is how old keyboards used to work. Before USB ruled the world, mice and keyboards used something called a PS2 port. If you ever saw an old mouse or keyboard with a green or purple plug on one end instead of a USB, then that's the old style we are talking about.

    Modern USB keyboards are a little more polite and will wait in a line until the computer is ready to deal with whatever the human just typed, but old PS2 keyboards used interrupts to demand attention. This was really important for old slow computers that needed to respond to user input ASAP. Modern computers can handle that sort of thing a little bit better.

    I think that is enough context to understand the meme.

    *Not really: see ISA layer and micro-ops for more information

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  • Hello it's me the keyboard

  • California farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte collapses

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  • Whatever makes you feel big, buddy

  • What questions do interviewers need to stop asking during a job interview?

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  • Why are you choosing to be so confrontational?

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  • What do you specifically mean by putting people in quotes like that?

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  • Congrats on your child killing it at figure skating :)

  • What is with the pro-AI posts lately?

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  • Those are a different set of questions though. The question shouldn't be if someone is concerned about AI use. Frankly, everyone should be. It has a huge capacity for harm in a growing number of areas in modern society. The question should be about who is using it. Additionally, what are they using it for? Novel problem solving, new automation, replacing older automation, or just for fun? That is what I'd personally be much more interested in finding out.

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  • So this water that gets used, what happens to it? Does it vaporized into elementary particles, or... ?

    I've worked with data centers and super computers. They do use a lot of water! But is used for cooling. It runs through a pipe, absorbs some heat, and then gets pushed back into the original water source. That or it is put into a closed loop system which only keeps the water trapped for the lifetime of the project, and is then recycled back into circulation.

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  • NLP interfaces are nice. It's also great at reformatting data.

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  • I'm not sure about your living situation, but after reading that back and forth, I gotta say, you haven't metaphorically left your mom's basement. Capitalism has a specific meaning, and capitalism is when markets exists is not it.

  • Claude Code's creator is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding.' Suggest your alternative here.

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  • This is my new preferred term!

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  • Maybe not a great example. I mean, most companies riding the dot com bubble went bust, but many if not most of the big players from back then are still around today in some form or another. Not to mention that the idea of the world wide web changing the physical world and the commerce that takes place on it wasn't wrong either.

  • Microsoft Edge loads your passwords into memory in plaintext, but Microsoft says not to worry

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  • Around what year was this issue? Both windows and Linux were pretty unstable until - someone correct me on this - 2012? Windows 8 was the last unrecoverable crash I had. Oddly never had an issue with Linux, but I know it happens, I've just been lucky.

  • What's your favorite childhood cartoon that everyone else seems to have forgotten about?

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  • Silverwing was a show that used to come on Disney XD at like 2:00am. I remember watching it on nights I couldn't sleep. I remember nothing about it other than it being pretty good, at least better than anything else on at that time.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverwing_(TV_series)

  • Those who have ever taken medications for depression or anxiety, how long before it started working from your experience?

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  • Anxiety meds typically a few days to start to notice. Depression meds either had severe negative side effects almost immediately, or positive effects would start showing up after 2 or 3 weeks.

  • Linux lays down the law on AI-generated code, says yes to Copilot, no to AI slop, and humans take the fall for mistakes — after months of fierce debate, Torvalds and maintainers come to an agreement

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  • I consider myself to be more pro AI than not, but I'm certainly not a zealot and mostly agree with the take that it shouldn't be used in artistic pursuits. However, I love using AI to help me create art. It can give great critiques, often good advice on how to improve, and is great for rapid experimentation and prototyping. I actually used it this weekend to see what a D&D mini might look like with different color schemes before painting it. I could have done the same with Gimp, but it would have taken much longer for worse results that was ultimately just for a brain storming session. How do you feel about my AI usage from your perspective? I suppose from an energy conservation perspective, all of it was bad, but I'm more interested in a less trivial take.

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  • Having a slug come into contact with my feet or my socks or my shoes, but only if I am wearing them at the time. Anywhere else on my body is fine. I don't know what harm will come from this occuring. I do know it is fine if a slug is touching my shoe, I pick it off, and then put on the shoe. My fear of snails is likely but unverified.

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  • Not ad brain, just a brain.

    Notice all the little "Well, obviously not those ads" and implied consent scattered throughout your explanation? Did you even consider how much that would entrench current businesses if smaller companies couldn't advertise? Or how that would proliferate enshittifying conglomerates that can package their products under a blanket consent form, locking out advertisements from competitors? How would this work for traditional advertisements like flyers, radio broadcasts, and billboards? If you banned those outright, all that remains is online advertisements, and if you think big tech has an entrenchment advantage now? Just wait until media platforms and ISPs are the gatekeepers of the most effective means of reaching customers and growing their business.

    Lastly, do you have any conception of how much advertising subsidizes modern society? Think of everything from little leagues (which use corporate sponsors to pay for equipment and referees) to social media including lemmy! Every instance I know of includes an advertisement somewhere asking for donations to either support lemmy developers, or cover server cost. You could make them all paid services, but now you've locked out poor people from participating. Organizations could hide all functionality behind a consent form to show advertisements to subsidize cost, but then there is just a formality checkbox you must click before using any free online web service - solving exactly none of the actual issues around malware delivery, intrusive data collection, poor resource management, or even the most basic problem of advertisements being annoying.

    I'm done here. Start thinking, and until then, stop wasting bytes and oxygen.