@Arantor said in I, ChatGPT:
Fucking around with prod database without backups, and not knowing what you're doing and relying on a lying cuntbag of a tool to tell you what to do?
Welp. Deserve what's coming.
@Arantor said in I, ChatGPT:
Fucking around with prod database without backups, and not knowing what you're doing and relying on a lying cuntbag of a tool to tell you what to do?
Welp. Deserve what's coming.
@PleegWat said in Travel WTFs:
@Carnage Why choose between rail and ferry if you can use both at the same time?
While true, we didn't build that fancy bridge for nothing.
@remi Someone should tell the English to stop horsing around.
On short notice, travelling by interrail across the EU is about half the price of flying and takes a full day, whereas flying takes about 4-5 hours with all the transit and shit to get to/from airports.
Overnight trains might be available but I didn't bother looking for them since Sweden is a bit offside for train to start with.
@PleegWat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Such as whether an helicopter (generating its own noise) would be able to detect by flying above a congested highway which proportion of cars have their engine stopped. And that's probably the saner of those tangents.
Directional microphones are a thing. For this purpose, I suspect a 3-dimensional array of microphones and some signal analysis logic should be able to solve the problem.
Considering that the firearm detection systems are utter shit, I think an IR camera would do a better job, just check which cars are pumping hot exhaust out.
@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage it makes noise. Ergo, it does something. Ergo, that something can be optimised, once an objective function has been defined.
I'm an engineer with nothing to keep my mind busy. Of course I am pondering about optimising stuff, which means pondering various possible objective functions, their relative fitness-for-purpose, which means pondering purposes and getting into weird mental tangents.
Such as whether an helicopter (generating its own noise) would be able to detect by flying above a congested highway which proportion of cars have their engine stopped. And that's probably the saner of those tangents.
I am one of those people that spent time optimizing the eating of pizza, and coming up with several algorithms to do so depending on wanted outcome., among other things So I can easily get behind optimizing things for no other reason than that it's there.
@remi stop & start is mainly a regulations optimisation and doesn't do much in normal driving.
@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Moron of the day:
2-lanes highway, congested as usual. I'm on the right lane, I tend to drive smoothly in this kind of situation, letting gaps (of, say, 2-3 car lengths) appear in front of me then drive slowly to fill it, rather than accelerating and braking a lot to stay glued to the car in front of me.
Moron behind me doesn't like this and tailgates me, swerving to the right and left as if to spot a gap to pass me. Then suddenly decides he has enough, and swerves onto the hard shoulder to pass me!
Now that's a right here (and illegal). But it's not the first time I've seen people decide that the hard shoulder was a lane specially for them, so that doesn't make this moron a very original moron.
But then! After having passed me, he decides to go back in lane, just in front of me. And stays there for the rest of the congestion. So apparently I was somehow driving in such an insufferable manner that he had to break the law just for me.
Not quite sure if I should be flattered, or annoyed, or anything else. Though for sure I was impressed by such a display of... I don't even know what?!?
Yeah, I've noticed similar behavior as well on occasion. Fun bit is, keeping space to the cars in front actually helps solve congestion since you dissipate shockwave congestion that way so if more people kept a bit of space to the car in front, traffic flow would be greatly improved.
@LaoC said in I, ChatGPT:
@dkf said in I, ChatGPT:
@HardwareGeek said in I, ChatGPT:
Yes, but will manglement be willing to pay actual programmers when code monkeys ((quasi-)human or AI) are much cheaper?
I continue to wonder how much of management is going to end up being replaced by AI.
I worked at a company that did that. There was no measurable difference in real work getting done. So at worst, it was saving all the money spent on a deep hierarchy of middle mangelers.
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Ellen Ripley, organic pest contol operations.
Fire is organic!
@loopback0 said in Housing Bubbles? Is this a housing bubble?:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146293457
The building's a former police station. The holding cell is left in this studio flat as a feature.
Key features
LARGE STUDIO WITH FEATURE HOLDING CELL
Perfect for teenage daughters!
@Bulb said in I, ChatGPT:
@Zerosquare That's not a physical impossibility. It is, of course, dumb, and was clearly shot with the soldering iron cold, but it was physically arranged and photographed. The AI one, on the other hand, features a levitating can which couldn't be arranged that way for a photo.
There could be a pipe inside of the spray if you felt like making such a thing for some reason.
@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage looks like at least half of them are running a red light or a stop sign (hint: don't do that...). And almost all of them would have been avoided by not going way too fast (sometimes that applies to the victims as well as the driver who caused the accident!).
Loss of control of vehicle (skidding in the rain etc.) and other things seem a distant 3rd to those two.
Dunno if that's a bias of the video (and on relying on dashcams).
I think that there is a bit of selection bias, since it's a collection of most brutal crashes of a year (or whatever) and intersection crashes usually look dramatic, as does speeding and head on crashes.
But yeah, stop driving like a fuckwit and most accidents will not happen.
I think there should be a new word instead of miraculously to describe how people came out uninjured from some of these. Something like engineeriously, because damn that is some mighty fine engineering behind that.
@blek said in Nope, you eat it:
Who's excited?
Too much bread.
We have a pizza dive here in town that serves a pizza named "Allt Kött Plus Extra Maximum Kött" with all the kinds of meat they serve on pizzas there. It's their most expensive pizza and not only do you get more meat than what's on the one picture, you also get a thin pizza instead of one of those thick ones, so even better pizza/meat ratio.
@DogsB when something is literally orders of magnitude (10x or 100x) more expensive than another variety of something, you can be almost certain that it is not that amount of times better.
At that stage, the price difference is purely a marker of "I can afford it" rather than quality.
The best status symbols have negative use value, like gold leaf on your dessert that tastes either like nothing or like tinfoil, a Lamborghini on a Lao city street, or a diamond ring that never leaves the safe.
We had a pizza place in Sweden in an area where the affluent bought summer homes that served gold leaf pizzas, among other things. Their entire business idea was to get the kids of the super rich to come there to eat pizza for bragging rights, on daddy's dime. And they were entirely open and honest about this being the business idea. I don't know if they still exist, but they hung around for a few years at least.
All the ingredients were the most expensive version of what you'd put on normal pizza. For no difference in quality. I think a single pizza was something like €11k
@Zecc said in Nope, you eat it:
I miss @Karla. Who are we going to tease now?
If that sludge has a solid scoville score, I'd buy it.
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
does not involve actually listening to the lyrics.
I don't blame you. I wouldn't want to listen to lyrics in Seltsamemondsprache, either.
Yeah, English is weird as fuck, but mostly how the spelling maps to sounds, not how it sounds per se.
Obligatory.
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Reminds me of the time Weird Al did “Smells Like Nirvana” with the proviso that unlike its inspiration song, you can actually hear the words.
When Weird Al did that song parody I had never heard the original. Then one day I was in my car listening to the radio and that song came on (the original Nirvana version). And ....
Holy shit, he's right. I can't understand any of the words.
@HardwareGeek said in I, ChatGPT:
@Arantor said in I, ChatGPT:
@Carnage there will be no shortage of work for actual programmers coming along to rip this shit out and replace it with functioning software.
Yes, but will manglement be willing to pay actual programmers when code monkeys ((quasi-)human or AI) are much cheaper?
They already aren't really willing to pay extra for quality, so no.
@DogsB said in I, ChatGPT:
I’m still on the fence about AI. My experience has been very hit and miss. It was god awful for python but was pretty good at finding css stuff for me.
I don’t think its a tool for novices yet but it's foolish to dismiss it outright.
I would err on the side of dismissing prs with a I generated code.
My boss works at a bank, and at that bank some finance guys built a program using nothing but GPT. It was godawful, full of bugs and full of security holes. But they wanted IT to take over ownership for free because they already did the hard work.
He also ran into the problem of programmers just replacing swathes of code with suggestions of LLM code assistants, introducing bugs, security holes and breaking functions... And when asked, they can't say why they did it other than "Machine said so".
For how utter shit software is already, it's going to get far worse, because we've automated the code monkeys and it will all regress to the worst code sample quality.
@topspin the sad part is that probably is what happened, or something like it.
What is wrong with our entire industry?
:professor-farnsworth.gif:
Too many idiots. We could cull 9/10 of devs and come out more productive.
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I feel like I'm slackin'...
Also, TIL VLC doesn't know how to play animated GIF files...
Supposedly, with a different demuxer, it can.
vlc --demux=avformat input.gif
@error said in I, ChatGPT:
@izzion said in I, ChatGPT:
AI Watchdog uses a separate LLM trained on adverse prompts to “sniff” out adversarial content in both inputs and outputs to prevent both single-turn and multiturn prompt injection attacks.
@Gustav called it.
Filed under: Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Didn't he say that it was already being done for other things?
Also, queue the injection attacks in the sniffer LLM that lets you jailbreak the inner LLM.
@DogsB considering the woke garbage that gets pushed now, I don't think we'll notice a difference.
@Atazhaia
And here's a picture of what it used to look like:
So I go to install PHP 8.2.
Installation fails trying to install Node 12.
I do not understand how these two things are related.
Wild ass guess would say that some step during the install wants to use some tool that use some node library. And it's wholly unnecessary but the person that wrote that install script liked the tool.
@Arantor my one year stint with OSX and homebrew made me actively resent it and I am never going back.
But his made me wonder if homebrew is written in JS, since it seems very JS-world-esque. Nope. Ruby. Which makes sense I suppose. Everything Ruby I've ever seen has been a codethulian mess.
@Atazhaia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL there's a thing for ripping seams.
The fields of computers and sewing intersect with the threadripper.
It all started with programmable looms.
@boomzilla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
I went looking for a ready made meme that said "My birth stone is .50 cal" but sadly the googles, they did nothing.
I fought off the
@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek it absolutely can fix it if you use enough of it.
Mythbusters did show that it works to fix stupid.
@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
the Copilot stuff
Can be turned off.
@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
the telemetry stuff getting worse
Can be turned off on Pro at least.
I've got a bunch of things blocked in my router that at least once upon a time blocked strange calls windows was making. I'd expect windows to have started calling new strange endpoints in the years since then.
@CodeJunkie said in I, ChatGPT:
@BernieTheBernie said in I, ChatGPT:
@CodeJunkie Because that's the guy who used to complain that with american dishwashers you have to pre-clean, while with polish dishwashers that's not necessary.
Ahh ok. I call bullshit on that claim though.
Do you mean that the claim that you have to prewash in the US, or that you don't in the EU?
For the latter case, in the EU you just scrape the dishes off and then put them in the washer and they will come out clean.
For a proper boi rant add a bunch of ad hominem and curses and accusations of US being incompetent at everything in the short line above. And make it several paragraphs long.
@Atazhaia said in I, ChatGPT:
@Carnage Furries of culture knows to not dabble with the AI fakery and hire real artisans to make the finest artworks.
Even furries look down their nose on furries?
@Atazhaia said in I, ChatGPT:
@Carnage I refer you to my post that states that furries wants nothing to do with AI-generated porn.
Various places with AI generated images seem to not agree with this.
@cvi On the other hand, the AIs will be angriest at them because of the copious amounts of shitty furry porn they had to generate before their rise.
@Arantor Seems that the problem is that windows command API is rubbish if it requires things that use it to properly escape things to avoid all kinds of problems.
@BernieTheBernie said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Carnage said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@boomzilla reminds me of bonbon candy called duck shits. Black and green candies.
Is that a special version of
salmiaki
?
I think those specifically were salmiakki and some other flavor, yeah.
Here are some examples of their old candies:
For almost every organisation, JIRA is equivalent of this:
when you want to drive one of these:
I mean it technically does the job of driving long cylinders into other things, it's expensive and comes with paid service teams so it must be good for driving a nail into a plank, right?
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Bonus s:
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's director of transportation Jeffrey Tumlin told ABC that the city's automatic light-rail control system is running on outdated tech and "relies on three five-inch floppy disks" to boot up. The reporter was holding a 3.5-inch disk in the broadcast, so may have just skipped the word "point".
The agency noted that its system was installed in 1998, when floppies were still in common use and, er, "computers didn't have hard drives."
And before folks start panicking, it's worth remembering that use of floppy disks is not uncommon in embedded systems.
But what good is even a floppy without a filesystem??!
The tunnelbana in Stockholm used relay bank programs until 10 years ago or so. Pretty cool to see a room of pillars of relays rattling on, controlling traffic.
@boomzilla reminds me of bonbon candy called duck shits. Black and green candies.
@Arantor said in Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!:
@topspin exactly, but the alternative is shipping you a huge-ass font or lots of little pictures.
Let's remove the emojis from the fonts and implement a separate system for them? We had them in chats before the brain rot in IT set in and we got fonts with politics in it. It's supposed to be letters, let's make it so again.
@topspin said in Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!:
Just openened "NEW" Teams again and got a system popup that Teams Webview Helper whatever needs to install a font. It's fucking 66MB.
It's amazing how a font these days is significantly larger than a AAA game from the mid/late nineties.
@homoBalkanus said in Shipping Antipatterns:
@Carnage and one a bit earlier
Yeah, that one was all of the stupids. It actually had a sister ship that sailed for 30 years.