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Thorry84

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  • Are IDEs really like this ?

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  • I hate how IDEs with error checking check the code at every character. Like my dude, we got this shit right with text editors having spell check back in 1997. Wait just a moment before checking please. All the time when I'm typing the editor freaks the fuck out, this is wrong, this is wrong, here is an error, wtf is this supposed to mean? And then when I type the ) or whatever, all is well. Just give me a freaking second to work and think.

  • The Copilot Delusion

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  • Having Co-pilot help is like having a junior dev at your side, who is also drunk and high.

  • AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid

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  • And for the most part this is true. People who don't do little calculation puzzles for fun often have trouble with basic arithmetic without getting a calculator (or likely the calculator app on the phone). I know when I'm doing something like wood working and I need to add and subtract some measurements, I use a calculator. I could do it without, but chances are I would make a simple mistake and mess up my work. It's like a muscle, if you use it, it will become stronger. If you don't use it, it becomes weaker.

    However there is a huge difference between using a calculator for basic arithmetic and using AI. For one thing, the calculator doesn't tell you what the sums are. It just tells you the result. You still need to understand each step, in order to enter it. So while you lose some mental capacity in doing the sums, you won't lose the understanding of the concepts involved. Second of all, it is a highly specific tool, which does one thing and does it well. So the impact will always be limited to that part and it's debatable if that part is useful or not. When learning maths I think it's important to be able to do them without a calculator, to gain a better understanding. But as an adult once you grasp the basic concepts, I think it's perfectly fine not to be able to do it without a calculator.

    For AI it's a bit different, it's a very general tool which deals with all aspects of every day stuff. It also goes much further than being a simple tool. You can give it broad instructions and it will fill in the blanks on its own. It even goes so far as to introduce and teach new topics entirely, where the only thing a person knows is what the AI told them. This erodes basic thinking skills, like how does this fit into my world view, is this thing true or false and in what way?

    Again the same concept applies, where the brain is a muscle which needs to be given a workout. When it comes to a calculator, the brain isn't exercising the arithmetic part. When it comes to AI it involves almost all of our brain.

  • The AI-powered collapse of the American tech workfoce

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  • So about half of it is Intel? And that has nothing to do with AI, it's because Intel is struggling bigtime right now.

  • Google's WebP

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  • Papal Optics

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  • Yeah I've used that one, the ash of war on it is great

  • My First Homelab

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  • Just so you know, operating spinning drives this way is a bad idea. If the platters are spinning and the drive tips over, the rotation of the drives resists the movement. This gyroscopic force is enough for the platters to touch the heads which are flying a tiny distance above the platter. Obviously this is a bad thing and will damage the drives.

    A quick fix is to just lay them flat or fix both of them together so they have a more stable base to stand on. Putting it in an enclosure is even better.

  • Google's WebP

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  • Maybe I worded it incorrectly. The feature was released in that version. They just didn't mention it in the release statement they put out to their customers. I'm sure there's some changelog somewhere people can dig into where it says something like what you mentioned. Or it can just be under "Various small improvements" which they always add as a catch-all.

    So I'm happy, I did the job and got paid. Everyone I worked with was happy. And the feature got released. It's was just a let down it didn't get mentioned at all, even though I put quite a lot of work into it.

  • Google's WebP

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  • Thanks, very interesting results

  • Google's WebP

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  • I recently put in a lot of hours for a software system to be able to handle webp just as well as every other image format it already accepted. I put in a lot of work as well. Hadn't heard about it for a while, but saw the feature release statement for the new version I knew my changes were in. It wasn't on there. So I reached out to my contact and asked if there was an issue or did it get bumped to a later version or what? So she told me the marketing team that do the release statements decided not to include it. They stated for one, people already expect common formats to be handled. Saying you now handle a format looks bad, since people know you didn't handle it before and were behind the curve. The second (probably more important) reason was nobody knew what webp even was and it's only something technical people care about (they probably said nerds, but my contact translated). So no regular customer would be interested and it could only lead to confusion and questions.

    I hope somebody is happy with the work I put in tho. Somebody is going to drag a webp into the system and have it be accepted. Someday.... I hope...

  • Google's WebP

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  • How is the size difference after gzip compression? Probably pretty much the same, but I wonder how large the difference is then. Since a lot of folk make sure the contents is gzipped when served to the user.

  • Thanks I hate it. Well, more than I did in the first place

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  • Cory Booker Ripped After Voting to Confirm Ivanka’s Father-in-Law

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  • As long as he isn't slammed, slammed is so much worse than ripped

  • How do i extract encrypted video blobs?

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  • Trump World Is Slamming the Door on Elon Musk: ‘People Hate Him’

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  • But when even the Nazis hate him, you know he's even worse than anyone figured.

  • Locked

    They put A.I. in my truck. It warns me of everything I do wrong verbally. It reports everything to HQ. It is from a company called Solera. I take offense to this. Am I wrong? What can I do? Anything?

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  • Messing with company property is the fast track to getting fired.

  • Corporate calls are full of energy vampires

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  • Buffy is such a good series, one of my all-time favorites.

  • Apple adds red exclamation mark warnings on EU App Store listings for apps using third-party payment systems, not Apple's “private and secure payment system”

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  • The EU can do a lot more than fine them. With the whole USB-C port issue the EU threatened to straight up ban all Apple products from being sold in the EU. That's a hit Apple won't be willing to pay.

  • Cuddle time with Tail

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  • I used to have a cat with a very long tail. He would be laying around and his tail would wrap around and hit him in the face. He would get pissed off about it, so he starts waving his tail like cats do when they get annoyed. But that would just make it worse because he would hit himself in the face with his tail even more. So he would get really pissed off, grab his tail and bite into it. Only then he would realize it was his own tail and start cleaning it, pretending he was cleaning it the whole time and didn't just bite into his own tail like an idiot.