What a terrible headline. What do you mean usually? Implying there are instances where matter and antimatter come in contact with each other and don’t annihilate? That makes no sense at all.
Also it doesn’t vanish at all, nothing inside our universe can ever be created or removed, it’s a zero sum game. It can only go from one state to another. In case of matter and antimatter, it gets converted into energy.
Greensleeves starts playing in the background.
I love the QFP packaged chips being clearly visible, how delightfully 90s
Hot boiling magma
The time before last I went to the dentist my regular dentist wasn’t available, so they called ahead and asked if I would like to reschedule or just see some other dentist from the same clinic instead. I was fine with another dentist, as I have very good teeth for an old man and nothing special going on.
He asked me if I flossed, I said I used those little poker things that work well, except for a couple of teeth on the bottom that are too close together. So he poked at those teeth a bit and told me I should try harder, a poker could easily get in between those. So he got a poker and wanted to demonstrate, but couldn’t really do it. He started trying harder and harder, really shoving it in there with force, getting a new poker if the previous one bent over. I started bleeding a bit, so the assistant refreshed my catching cloth. Until I started bleeding a lot and a nice line of blood splat all over the dentist.
He was wearing full protection and it’s part of his job, so he didn’t mind. We looked at each other and started laughing out loud. The nurse just sighed and went to fetch new protection for the dentist and something to clean everything up. He said he got why I didn’t try poking in between those teeth, it didn’t work very well.
Luckily I’m not afraid of the dentist or mind pain all that much, or that visit would have put me off going next time.
Thank you for your reply. Or thank your bot I suppose.
No worries about using AI, you do you, just because your opinions and world views are different from mine, doesn’t mean I harbor any negativity towards you personally.
I totally understand using AI as a crutch to write replies, especially if your not good at such things normally. However you should know I would like to communicate with you as a person, even though regretfully our medium is restricted to text on this public forum. I do see it as a personal offense you chose to let your bot talk to me instead of yourself. As I don’t use AI to read your response, all of the waffling added by AI is just noise and wastes my time. I also feel like it serves as a wall between us, preventing me from communicating with you. Nobody here cares if your response is poor, full of typos and maybe wanders a bit, I’d much prefer your personal thoughts than some bullshit generated by the bullshit generator.
Please just give me your personal response in the future, give me the prompt to your AI if that’s easier for you. It would for sure be easier for me.
As to your point. Saying “Everyone does it, so it’s OK” is a flawed argument and I don’t even think that’s true. I also think not at least referring to your old repo is also a mistake. What could have given you a well earned reputation and proof of effort you put in is now gone. Now you’re just one of a million slop projects starting every month, with nothing to stick out amongst the background. If you still have the old repo, please refer to it and say it’s a whole new rewrite of the old project.
I do wish you the best. The good thing about AI slop is, it’s cheap. So even if this project goes nowhere and you and the people around you are the only users, it’s fine. It won’t help you learn Rust tho, if that is still your goal. AI use has been shown to decrease developer skills across the board, not increase them.
I always thought Roko’s Basilisk was a way of debunking religion. Like you can very easily invent a story that would steer if not totally govern your actions and motivations today, for something that might exist somewhere in the future. Like in some religions where you are declared to have an immortal soul and this soul will suffer for eternity if you don’t follow rules written by creepy old dudes.
Oh that’s too far? Not all of the circular financing and manipulated numbers. Or all the shady deals where customers don’t pay till long after delivery and delivery is postponed indefinitely, but we still count it as revenue and units shipped? That’s all fine, but we draw the line at him having an affair with a spy, that’s just going too far. Man this world sucks…
I don’t think this is a very good argument. Because AI is all encompassing in scope, where the things you mention are not.
Sure most people would just use a library to handle TLS and not worry about it. But the library is there, it was written by humans that understand it, people created it for you to use. And if you feel like you can go in and explore it yourself and many people do so. For people brushing up on their assembly skills: Yes many people do that and I would recommend it a lot. For work it’s a more rare thing, unless you are in highly specialized fields, but for hobby programming assembly is used a lot. People love making romhacks or even whole new games for old systems. Z80 assembly is still very much alive and kicking due to the GameBoy. Just like doing recreational mathematics, people do recreational assembly programming.
But where your argument falls down the most is because of transferable skills. Whenever you do any kind of programming you are building up your skills. Your expertise might be NodeJS for example, but if you were to try some C programming, it would take some getting used to but you could easily do it. Because a lot of the skills are transferable.
With AI you get the issue OP described, actual programming skills atrophy. It’s like muscle that needs to be worked. Specializing in a field and simply using a library for another field still works that muscle. With AI you stop working the muscle at all and lose the skills. So presenting AI as just another level of abstraction or automation, like a library or just another tool like a compiler is a false comparison.
His wife will be getting paid tho, getting out at around the absolute peak.
Wtf Teslas are good cars? Debatable. But how does that make Elon a good engineer? He is the hype man and has absolutely nothing to do with the engineering of the cars.
They are right about the whole datacenters in space thing tho. Getting power and losing heat is very hard in space. And we’re not even talking about the effects of radiation on the hardware, the depreciation making ROI impossible and the added costs of getting it up there. Literally the exact same hardware but on the ground instead of space would make more money. Not to mention the latency and unable to repair or upgrade anything. Anyone who’s ever been to a datacenter knows those things have people coming and going all the time, they require maintenance. And calling it a datacenter is beyond ridiculous, even if they launch the biggest sat ever made, it wouldn’t even have a fraction of what a small modern data center can provide. Just going bigger isn’t a simple thing at all, transporting heat and power around is hard. And materials have limits, a solar panel can only be so large before natural oscillations shake the thing apart.
The only thing datacenters in space do is keep SpaceX in business, which is something Elon wants, so for him they are great. For the rest of the world, not so much. There is zero reason for any compute to be in orbit.
And Musk could have easily scored big points if he invested heavily into solar panels combined with the battery tech they already have. If those datacenters would provide energy instead of taking it away, that’s at least one concern less. And even if the whole AI thing collapsed and the datacenters became useless, they would still make good solar farms and energy storage. If they would help stabilize the grid with their batteries, getting a connection to the grid wouldn’t be as big of an issue. But instead they chose the worst fucking option, gas powered turbines for local energy production. Bad for the environment, making lots of noise and local pollution plus driving up the cost of fuel. At least they aren’t building coal plants, but it’s close.
And the only solar Musk ever promoted was a total scam, nothing of what he told investors about those solar roofs was true. And not of it ever worked, the whole thing was non-functional. How Musk isn’t in jail for that or one of the many other times he lied to investors is a mystery to me. Oh no it’s not, he has money and laws don’t apply to rich people, my bad.
I mean the car is terrible and they are having so many issues, with Bottas having more than Perez. But honestly, even when both cars are working, Bottas is 1 sec per lap slower than Perez. They’ll probably still both end up last, but it’s like Bottas isn’t even trying. On the other hand, Perez messing up his starting position did make them miss out on their first point, so there’s plenty of blame to go around.
Yes I’ve been playing almost every day. This game is a real gem. I’m running around all the time, trying to find all the secrets and the game is taunting me all the time. Look at this loot, you want this loot right? Good luck finding out how sucker!
All the wandering I’m doing it’s very confusing what is actually progression and what is just finding neat stuff. Then I do this crazy shit I half remembered seeing earlier, thinking it was some kind of obscure secret. Nope that was actually progression, lucky I found it. Then you fall down a hole and get ganged up by a bunch of enemies you’ve never seen before. You hit one and the health bar barely moved, Game over! Now how did I ever get there?
I love this game, I love the graphics (have the retro filter on), love the music (shop music = best music) and love the challenge. The game sucks you in and you just want to play more of it. I feel like this might be my GotY for sure!
Sure, we have a word count in our coding guidelines, you need 3000 words per function and 8000 for a class. More is better obviously, but no less. And during code review you aren’t just judged on the information within the comments, prose and grammar is also taken into account. If the reviewer doesn’t at least experience some emotions, pull request DENIED!
Can we get an AI disclosure on your code? You’ve come a long way in a short time, but nobody wants another AI slop project that’s dead and forgotten within two weeks. And I’m getting some real sloppy vibes.
A lot of the AI industry is powered by VC money at the moment. Which means a lot of the services offered are using very low fixed billing. This loses a ton of money, but is seen as an investment. The idea is to get a lot of customers and lock them into the service. Then slowly raise prices, enshittify the service and thus gain back the money lost in the beginning.
However what we’ve seen in this AI bubble is everything is moving too fast for that to be a good option. VC money is running out fast and the price of AI from the large providers is getting higher by the day. This means a lot of those AI startups that were trying to get customers are losing money much faster than expected and either have to raise prices or shutdown.
Especially in sectors where there isn’t a lot of money to be made. Customer support for example is one of those areas that costs money and doesn’t make money normally. So corners get cut, people don’t get paid much and stuff is outsourced to India for example. When the AI solutions are offered at the low fixed price, it’s a good idea for companies to use it. But when the price goes up and pricing becomes unpredictable if token based billing is involved, suddenly it isn’t as good an alternative as the older solutions were.
This is a large part of the AI bubble when people talk about that. It isn’t just the circular investments, way too high spending commitments and overpromising of the tech. It’s also the huge amount of VC based startups and investment programs that can’t economically exist without that continuous injection of funds. Now that the real price of AI is showing up, it looks like a lot of those startups will go bankrupt and large projects funded by investment will stop. With a lot of the market price of the larger tech companies being based on this huge demand that might evaporate in short order, the fear is a lot of them are way overvalued. When the market corrects for this, the impact will be pretty big and the fallout felt by everyone.
You have been misinformed about fluoride in toothpaste and water. Please take the time to inform yourself and trust in facts, not propaganda.
Not meaning any disrespect or negativity towards you, just a heads up.
Damn that was kinda like a joke but not really. Alonso is becoming such an asshole in his old age. Go be bitter somewhere else please.
Posting screenshots from X isn’t my favorite thing in the world, but OK I guess. But do we need to go out of our way to include their (stolen) logo?