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squaresinger

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  • Looking to get my first 3d printer, any suggestions?

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  • You first have to determine what you want.

    • Do you primarily want to print or do you want to tinker? An Ender 3 is not an out-of-the-box printer, especially not an used one where you have no idea what the last owner did to it. So if you want to tinker, that's ok.
    • Do you want great quality or a great price? An Ender 3 is quite outdated and compared to newer devices the quality isn't great. If you are ok with that, it might be ok for you.
    • Do you want a fast printer? An Ender 3 is slow by modern standards. It prints around 60mm/s stock and you might be able to get it to 100mm/s, maybe 120, but quality will suffer hard. Most modern printers do around 300mm/s stock and can be pushed to 600-700mm/s. This can reduce print times from 5h to maybe half an hour.
    • Just to double check: are you ok with buying a potentially abused device with worn-down components that might cause hard to debug and costly to fix problems as your first printer?

    If all that fits for you, then the Ender 3 will be good for you.

    If it doesn't, spend €200 and get a Bambulab A1 Mini.

  • xkcd #3143: Question Mark

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  • That's why in most other languages (and that works in english too), if you don't want to specifically mark the end of your quote, you just say something like "And then he said, I quote, your mom is so fat that she has her own gravitational well."

    No need or point to put an unnecesary "end quote" marker before the beginning of your quote.

  • Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show

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  • Yes, and how many helicopters fly regular passengers over your city?

    There's a reason these are speciality vehicles for speciality operations, and not a generic form of transport used all the time.

  • xkcd #3143: Question Mark

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  • Tbh, I hate in much more when people say "quote unquote" before starting their quote.

    It's like writing ""Here is the quoted text.

    Unquote ends the quote. So "quote unquote" means ""Here's an empty quote, now let me ramble on about something that is not a quote.

  • Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show

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  • Also shouldn't have a bombardier on board.

  • Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show

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  • Now imagine hundreds of them populating the skies over a densely populated city, just to carry a few hundred rich people around.

  • ai dev vs chad dev

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  • Sorry, what's that? Google was of no help.

  • ai dev vs chad dev

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  • It's a really weird team mechanic.

    We have two teams working on the same codebase. The teams are very far apart in terms of organization. We are in different departments.

    That dude is in the other team. Each team does their own code review and is supposed to ask for cross-team review for stuff that affects the other team.

    The guy built himself a reputation as an infallible master programmer in his team by bullying everyone else during PRs. You know, nitpicking tiny non-mistakes like variable names, blocking PRs for weeks by always finding some unnecessary detail, then waiting for a few days after that detail was adjusted to find another one and so on. So his team thinks he's the greatest. Or maybe they are afraid to be his next victim or something. Whatever the reason, they just greenlight everything he does. And he never asks for a cross-team review.

    His boss also completely covers for him, so so far our escalations just went nowhere.

  • ai dev vs chad dev

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  • We have that situation at work.

    Stupid dev creates mega-PRs that do a ton of things that are not part of the ticket and thus aren't tested by QA.

    When it then inevitably fails during release testing or in production, better devs need to spend quite a bit of time to figure out what the hell the stupid dev messed up and the fix is then often just a few lines.

  • Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”

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  • Tbh, I'm active in some modless subs, and apart from the occasional spam or lost redditor it mostly works. r/Arduino (iirc) for example is unmoderated and not exactly small.

    People downvote garbage content and it gets hidden fast.

    Compare that to e.g. r/showerthoughts which is so heavily moderated that you need a masters degree just to manage to post there without getting your content deleted or r/WiiUHacks where the mods ban you for mentioning the wrong Wii U hacking project (e.g. Pretendo) even though you broke no rules.

    The AI moderation is crap as well, but the upvote/downvote system is robust enough to work as a makeshift automoderation system.

  • [PinkAlpaca] Love

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  • Representation is something I get.

    Other than that, I really don't care who is in a relationship with who if it's not my relationship.

    I don't have to be attracted to that partner, so it doesn't matter to me what gender that person has.

  • Republicans put tech firms in a vise on Kirk social-media posts

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  • You are right that any crisis shakes up things and that even someone looking pretty good right now might get in trouble.

    But on the one hand we are talking about people with wealth in the order of the GDP of a mid-sized country.

    Meta truely is a one-trick-pony, with ads making up almost all of their income, and of course they could be in trouble if a scenario like what you suggested were to happen.

    On the other hand, Zuck has money without end, so he can buy whatever would continue to make him money.

  • Republicans put tech firms in a vise on Kirk social-media posts

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  • And I don't think it will cost them tons of money. Yes, Trump does and will continue to do a ton of damage, no question about that. But the ultra-rich have money enough to weather the storm, and they have money enough to buy out every competitor who cannot weather the storm for discount prices.

    Look at any major crisis in the last 50 years. Every single time without fail the rich benefit from the crisis and make it out with more money and more wealth inequality than before.

  • Low effort meme

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  • Well, compared to grandpa C++ over there...

  • Republicans put tech firms in a vise on Kirk social-media posts

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  • You might have misunderstood what the idiots who run these tech companies want.

    Their goal is to make money, preferrably now more than tomorrow. So if licking some boots now will make them money, they will gladly do so.

    Do you really think Zuckerberg has an actual stance on content moderation? He doesn't like it because it costs money, but if it costs him more money to not do it, he will gladly do it.

    There is no lession to be learned by those parasites.

  • xkcd 1043

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  • The XKCD of decades past.

  • Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption

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  • The fundamental problem with using any kind of AI in decision-making is that they are neither blind to the person nor are they bias-free, nor are they unmanipulable.

    In fact, the fundamental basis of any kind of machine-learning-based AI is that it replicates the training set. If there are biases in the training set (and there always are, it's unavoidable), then you will see the exact same bias in the output.

    LLMs (the kind of AI used here) are even worse than just a pure statistical model, since they are super easy to manipulate. Word your request correctly, and it will always approve whatever you put before it. Word it wrong and it will reject a good proposal.

    They are also not deterministic. Every time you put something before an LLM you will get a different output, even with exactly the same input.

    And they are under the control of the provider of the LLM. That means, whoever provides the LLM can easily manipulate what kind of output the LLM will give.

    Effectively, they just gave a minister position to a mindless puppet controlled by an unelected contractor.

    AI is not an emotion-less pure-rational arbiter of truth. That's science-fiction.

    So the argument boils down to "If AI was something entirely different than the whole realm of AI, machine learning and statistics it's based on, then it could be suitable for the job".

    And if you leave out the bread and the patty and instead added spaghetti, cream, eggs and ham, a burger would be a pretty decent carbonara. But then it has nothing to do with a burger any more.

  • Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption

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  • If implemented correctly, politicians also have neither possibility nor incentive to fall to corruption.

    If implemented correctly, we would live in a flawless utopia.

    The problem is that nothing ever is implemented corrwctly, so the point of any system really is to have the least desastrous failure mode.

  • Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch

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  • Yours is pretty much the best-case scenario for AI:

    • Super small project, maybe a few dozen lines at most
    • Greenfield: no dependencies, no old code, nothing to consider apart from the problem at hand
    • Disposable: once the job is done you discard it and won't need to maintain it
    • Someone most likely already did the same thing or did something very similar and the LLM can draw on that, modify it slightly and serve it as innovation
    • It's a subject where you are good enough that you can verify what the LLM spits out, but where you'd have to spend hours and hours to read into how to do it

    For that kind of stuff it's totally OK to use an LLM. It's like googleing, finding a ready-made solution on Stackexchange, running that once and discarding it, just in a more modern wrapping. I've done something similar too.

    But for real work on real projects, LLM is more often than not a time waster and not a productivity gain.