noerdman

@ noerdman @discuss.tchncs.de

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8mo ago

Points in Time
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noerdman @discuss.tchncs.de 8mo ago
My thought as well, but alas, this is what my dad's looks like 🤷. Illustrates the point even better though, kind of.

8mo ago

Points in Time

imho, the "seconds" bits are neat because you can see things change... Like, you see that it does stuff. Like the "seconds" hand on an analogue clock, it's mostly practical to see that it's working as expected.

8mo ago

Points in Time

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noerdman @discuss.tchncs.de 8mo ago

It's afternoon, time to call it a day!

8mo ago

Points in Time

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noerdman @discuss.tchncs.de 8mo ago

Yeah, what kind of idiot needs repeating patterns in the time format for repeating times during a day? Just display the unix timestamp on the clock tower and be done with it.

Actually, having 64 bits arranged vertically on a tower seems neat.

8mo ago

Points in Time

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noerdman @discuss.tchncs.de 8mo ago

If that obfuscated something, it wasn't on purpose... it's just literally the clock in my dad's kitchen.

8mo ago

Points in Time

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noerdman @discuss.tchncs.de 8mo ago

... and those who know at base n, "10" can represent literally any number.

9mo ago

Counting

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noerdman @discuss.tchncs.de 9mo ago

Maybe this comic doesn't translate well, just because people don't do the same stuff in different places. In Germany it's tradition to light up one more candle on the four Sundays preceding Christmas. Even people who aren't really religious often do that, because why not? It's comfy and cozy.

11mo ago

HAIM Fans Investigate: "Why Is There a Farter at Every Haim Show?"

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noerdman @discuss.tchncs.de 11mo ago

Yes, and you call them steamed haims, despite the fact they are obviously grilled.

11mo ago

Assistants

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noerdman @discuss.tchncs.de 11mo ago

No worries, and please remain critical.

So, yeah, my mother tongue is German, so the English texts may be a little bumpy here or there. I feel confident enough with my English but that doesn't change the fact that it's a secondary language for me and this is not really a professional project where I could pay some natively English speaking nerd to fix my mistakes.

That said I'm aware how debuggers attach to the processes they're analysing, I just wasn't aware that this would turn the word exclusive if used in this context. Thanks for bringing it up though! Learned something!

11mo ago

Assistants

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noerdman @discuss.tchncs.de 11mo ago

So, as usual this might be a translation issue, but I wasn't aware that an attachment has a direction. The debugger would obviously feed its output to the llm in this scenario, so the two things are attached to each other in the sense of the word that I got from a dictionary. As the debugger gives a filename as well, feeding the files contents as well, asking for improvements and overwriting the original file would be trivial, so automating it should be easy enough. Attachment was meant here only in the sense of "well, they're connected and data goes from a to b".

Would such a setup make sense? Not really. But you know, that's why it's a four-panel-comic and not some overrated ai startup. Or maybe it is, it seems like making sense isn't really a requirement for tech startups anymore.

1y ago

Short

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noerdman @discuss.tchncs.de 1y ago

/chär/

1y ago

Short

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noerdman @discuss.tchncs.de 1y ago

But "bit" isn't a standardised c++ type so wasn't in my train of thought at all...

1y ago

Four Eyes Principle

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noerdman @discuss.tchncs.de 1y ago

Also, there'll be no one to blame for mistakes! Failures are just software errors and can be shrugged off! Increase profits and pay less for insurance! What's not to like?