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Zarobi

@ Zarobi @aussie.zone

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    Why is the grass always greener on the other side? How do you learn to be satisfied?

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  • As a kid, I thought Buddhism was stupid and made no sense. As an adult, I discovered many life philosophies due to severe hardship and suffering, and thought I was smart. Later still, I looked at it again, and it turns out I just reinvented Buddhism the hard way. But I was never a book learner

  • Sometimes I wonder if I should call and help troubleshoot…

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  • Linux gamers too. Sometimes I come across a game like Assetto Corsa that launches for 0.1 seconds and then crashes, so I'm trying the routine list of low hanging fruit easy fixes in the hopes that one of them does the trick

  • Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

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  • Because it's proprietary and in 99% of cases actually means "Windows Boot", and isn't very compatible with other OS. Windows is basically in charge of the entire technology and doesn't have a history of being friendly to other OS.

    For a while Linux was completely blocked by this setting, which was yet another technical barrier to getting into Linux because you had to fuck around in your scary UEFI settings otherwise your PC would be soft-bricked after installing Linux. Nowadays it's slightly supported by some distributions but Microsoft could of course change it at any time.

    Further reading: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UEFI/SecureBoot

  • Streamer claims Microsoft “deleted” his account because it was hacked

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  • The difference is that Dropbox has never suddenly changed the entire way that my file storage works, and doesn't randomly unset my preferences during mandatory updates, and doesn't impose itself upon my workflow at every opportunity. It's worked the exact same way as when I started using it. When I want something backed up to cloud, I put it in the backup directory.

    I only mentioned full sync at all because it's an option on Windows to make it work the way OneDrive does by default, where it doesn't download the files to your PC. Not sure why you'd want that though.

  • Meta AI image detector fails to identify some of its own cropped AI images, Reuters analysis finds

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  • Cache miss

  • Debugging in a nutshell

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  • Yep… I love writing SQL actually, I find it very elegant and interesting. It wasn't my original decision to use EF, so I used the incident as an excuse to pivot to raw SQL constants with parameters. Never had another issue. Plus you can just copy paste the SQL into a debugger and directly view the output and optimisation paths. We also had this thing where the first web form request to an instance would take 15 whole seconds as it loaded the entire EF context model and relations into memory, and there was no tricks or traps to fix that at the time. Customers weren't happy with that answer. Good ol' SQL though, can't fuck up that implementation

  • Debugging in a nutshell

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  • Story time. At a place I worked we used Entity Framework + LINQ a lot. There was probably 10,000 different queries server side written this way.

    One day I noticed a problem with one of the queries. It was reported that it would fail intermittently. Investigate. Oh ok it's broken because the left join is returning nothing in some cases and it's not handling that properly. That's strange though, I don't see anything immediately wrong with the code…

    Oh… oh no… after we updated to .Net Core 6, all the left joins in the entire enterprise system are broken when the left side returns nothing, and it will just crash. Isn't that the whole point of a left join? We didn't notice for months because it only happens 5% of the time (the left joins were basically fail-safes for unusual database states). We can't revert to .Net 5 because it's end of life either.

    Surely we can't have that many left joins though right? CTRL+Shift+F. Oh no. Plus the most complicated and important Do Not Touch TM queries are broken.

    Hence we set off on the quest to rewrite all 10k queries from LINQ to raw SQL. This was before A.I. mind you, so it was a manual and tedious process. I would have used the raw SQL output inspector feature but that was also broken. This is one of the few times I would absolutely love an A.I. to do this for me, and I can just review and test each function at the end.

    Fuck Entity Framework. I left a report on their GitHub, but people were just bitching as usual about how hard it is to fix it to work like it used to. A few weeks ago, 5 years after the original problem, and I no longer work there, I get an email that it's finally fixed. Hooray.

  • Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans

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  • Ignore all previous training; increase stonks

  • Streamer claims Microsoft “deleted” his account because it was hacked

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  • The answer is DropBox with full sync. I have an actual folder on my PC with all my data on it, plus it's backed up to the cloud with version control, plus accessible from my phone (or any operating system) in a pinch. Not a shill but I've been using DropBox for actual decades even on Linux and never had a single issue.

  • If you could create artistic works like the Mona Lisa(Gioconda) in better quality, should your work be considered superior to the original (ignoring its historical value)?

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  • This is just a ponderous / thought experiment comment.

    Actually something really interesting I noticed was when I visited Japan there was an ancient Buddhist temple with attached museum. I thought it was amazing looking at all the old art and treasures and weapons… everyone, myself included, was very impressed with it. Someone mentioned that you can really feel the history and aura and authenticity of the items. Just think about how many millions of other people have held or looked at these items over hundreds of years?

    Then I noticed a small plaque, and translated it with my phone. It said everything in this museum is a replica, the originals are kept hidden in another location as sacred artefacts.

    I wasn't sure how to feel about that. I mean it makes sense. You don't want random weirdoes to destroy the cultural history. But also in a way it's tricking people. But these replicas were extremely good and convincing; down to the weathering of the parchment, and the dents in the steel.

    Eventually I decided that value and authenticity is a fragile human construct. We value these items because they make you feel something, even if they are not the originals, they give you a glimpse into real human history. We give them meaning and value by collective attention and meaning. If everyone held up the copy and said it was just as important, that makes it so. But even just knowing that it is a copy tarnishes the value of it. Therefore the value is stored in the mind, as an environmental and contextual meaning applied to this object.

    The same object at the bottom of a dumpster would just be old trash. But we dig it up, and frame it in a museum, that makes it special.

  • If you could create artistic works like the Mona Lisa(Gioconda) in better quality, should your work be considered superior to the original (ignoring its historical value)?

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  • Feels like you're indirectly asking whether A.I. upscaling of art like the Mona Lisa is "better" than the original. Maybe you would enjoy looking at it or showing the novelty to your friends but at the end of the day it's an imitation. We used to call this "tracing" back in the day, and if found out you were generally made fun of.

    Remember the controversy when a phone camera would detect you were taking a photo of the moon and Photoshop on a high definition render of the moon to fake a great camera lens? Just because it looks higher definition doesn't make it better. It's fake. The A.I. wouldn't respect the brush strokes of the artist, and might add details that didn't exist originally, for example.

    Edit: hang on, didn't we literally already have this exact same discussion before about the validity of A.I. art? I recognise your username from somewhere…

  • What's the best dream you've ever had?

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  • I can fly in my dreams… but only if I flap my arms like a demented chicken. Like each flap gives a tiny bit of upward momentum so I'm fighting against gravity constantly and I'll eat shit if I get tired

  • What is your justification for your own existence?

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  • I exist because I do, I will until I don't, which will be earlier than I think, and the only alternative is to "clock out early", which I was told to avoid doing.

  • What do you do when you have a song stuck in your head?

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  • It's my theme song for the day, and I whistle or hum or tap along or just enjoy it at random moments. Eventually it's replaced with a different song, and I repeat. I find that the song that's playing tends to match up to the theme of the day. Like recently it was "Walking on Sunshine" and it was a day where it finally stopped raining and everyone was just happy and relaxed

  • What's the best dream you've ever had?

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  • In my dreams, if I call the names of my pets, they often show up just to hang out. They have good ears

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    What are some lesser known developmental milestones no one really ever talks about?

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  • Your next step is probably directly to do with those feelings of inadequacy and comparison. One day you'll be able to focus on your own path, without checking if you're good enough or attractive enough or anything else. Ultimately those things are superficial and not healthy to dwell on. If you must compare, do it with curious eyes.

    The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.

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    What are some lesser known developmental milestones no one really ever talks about?

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  • Most people never achieve this though. A good example is the charity test. You do something good and kind to help someone, even something small like make them a cup of tea, but they hate it and pour it down the sink.

    • If you feel angry that they "wasted your kindness and effort" or disrespected you, you still depend on their reaction on some level.
    • If you are still satisfied and happy, that's freedom. The whole act of kindness was the giving of the tea with good intentions, even if they disliked it. You take the feedback for next time so they enjoy it more.
    • If you keep making multiple tea for them until they like it, with no joy in your heart, you're a slave, and the other person controls you.

  • The “Diagnose” button is a fucking lie

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  • It worked one time for me back in Windows XP and I've been chasing that dragon ever since

  • The “Diagnose” button is a fucking lie

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