@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
I just found that on FB but it seems plausible.
Longer writeup by the original author
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
I just found that on FB but it seems plausible.
Longer writeup by the original author
@DogsB To be fair, planning your planting schedule to coincide with appropriate seasonal conditions makes sense, and if you don't have access to a calendar...
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
And one day .... there really is someone at your anus.
Then what?
You'll be notified by a different ring.
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
That's what, one semester?
According to the poster, one day (today).
Oh, so that's why the "like there's no tomorrow" part.
@error Pretty sure there's enough room on that label for "ORTED" anyway.
@Bulb said in I, ChatGPT:
It bumbled something about assigning it to a variable named default—which, this being Python code, makes no sense at all—and then hallucinated a plausible-looking global setter that does not exist.
Not to worry, eventually it will hallucinate it again somewhere that Google will index it, and then that page will be scraped by the LLM and then when it suggests it the next time it won't be hallucinating any more.
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gern_Blaanston The - mentality didn't go anywhere and we are always watching the newest ship with the newest technology putting it through the most difficult conditions. Teething problems are to be expected in such situation.
No, it's lazy, unimaginative writers who can't think of anything other than "something's broken".
I read some — call it fan fiction. It was written as a journal article looking at the Galaxy class design. The class had a design lifetime of a hundred years and six were built, but within fifteen years three of them had already been lost (including the Enterprise-D), and one was taken back in for a complete rebuild. In all three losses, the proximate cause was a failure of the warp core, but poor crew reactions were also a major contributor as they struggled with systems that were too complex for them to cope with.
@Bulb said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?:
But you generally don't care about colour of the light. you care about the colour of the illuminated things. Which is why the colour perception is adjusted for the estimated colour of the light. So you see the white thing as white in direct sunlight, when its overcast and even when illuminated by even more reddish light of a lightbulb. Which with photos and images on screen leads to the above effect.
Which now makes me wonder if the room's ambient lighting where the image is being viewed can play a role in how striking the effect is.
@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Just pump them through the transporter to fix them.
And then you have the ship's doctor who uses the transporter pattern buffer to store his terminally-ill daughter until he can figure out a cure.
@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Watson said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
For those of us who don't C++, the difference is between passing by reference and passing by value.
I don't see the problem since you pass either way. But I doubt some people have anything that could be called a "conscience" nor any values to begin with.
Well, when most people want immortality, they want to avoid death. Making a copy that behaves like you isn't immortality in the way they want it. Even if it's a perfect copy of you that even acts, thinks and feels like you, it's still not you. You will still die.
By reference doesn't make a copy, it just references the original in a new context. And as the image says, this isn't what's gonna happen.That's why in "Upload" they immediately destroy the brain after uploading
One of the perils of allowing more than one copy to exist at a time is that as soon as you do, both have to be treated individually. Because of an accident with a cloning machine, we ended up with 578 billion Lintillas.
Funny you should say that, apparently in Upload they have backups
In one of Greg Egan's stories (it might have been Diaspora) there's a throwaway mention of "hot shadows". Nothing about what they are supposed to be, but if you're physically moving sentient software from memory substrate A to memory substrate B, then you'll want to ensure that the copy at B is intact before deleting the copy at A. At that point you have an impromptu backup of the software, and as long as you don't actually need A to be cleared for storing something else, you might as well keep that shadow around just in case.
@PleegWat said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@loopback0 What do you mean Monday tomorrow. It can't be Monday tomorrow. I've been shopping today, and I never go shopping Sundays. Ergo it cannot be Monday tomorrow.
So you won't be prepared for Monday tomorrow. QED.
@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
For those of us who don't C++, the difference is between passing by reference and passing by value.
I don't see the problem since you pass either way. But I doubt some people have anything that could be called a "conscience" nor any values to begin with.
Well, when most people want immortality, they want to avoid death. Making a copy that behaves like you isn't immortality in the way they want it. Even if it's a perfect copy of you that even acts, thinks and feels like you, it's still not you. You will still die.
By reference doesn't make a copy, it just references the original in a new context. And as the image says, this isn't what's gonna happen.That's why in "Upload" they immediately destroy the brain after uploading
One of the perils of allowing more than one copy to exist at a time is that as soon as you do, both have to be treated individually. Because of an accident with a cloning machine, we ended up with 578 billion Lintillas.
@error said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?:
For me, I see the effect in my peripheral vision, but when I focus directly on it it goes away.
For me the effect is visible while the image is moving across my field of view, probably some persistence-of vision effect of the resulting cyan/white/black flickering.
Airport security have their senses of humour removed when they clock on and don't get them back until after the shift.
@kazitor said in Quotes Out of Context:
@Arantor said in Quotes Out of Context:
@Zerosquare said in Quotes Out of Context:
Well, while he's doing that, at least he's not doing PHP
*foot tapping with increasing urgency*
I can quit any time I want
The only way out is...
die — Equivalent to exit
@boomzilla (Hoping you found that out when it suggested the existing class's name and you found it was already being used.)
@Atazhaia said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... :
@Watson said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... :
@LaoC said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... :
Nah, just kidding, it's over 7100 pages,
...which Microsoft Word doesn't fully comply with, giving us
Wait... Microsoft doesn't follow their own standard?
Well, Microsoft's first submission to ISO had a lot of Windows-specific stuff (for supporting all their different versions of Word), and ISO naturally said that such stuff wasn't appropriate for a vendor-neutral industrial standard. Microsoft went away and split their backward compatibility out those 600 pages of "Legacy" @LaoC referred to, and resubmitted the "Strict" part as the standard, with the optional "Legacy" extension. ISO accepted this on the condition that all new OOXML documents adhere to the "Strict" part, with the extension only used as required for backward compatibility. Microsoft said "Okay, sure" with its fingers crossed behind its back.
@LaoC said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... :
Nah, just kidding, it's over 7100 pages,
...which Microsoft Word doesn't fully comply with, giving us
@Gern_Blaanston said in I, ChatGPT:
@Bulb said in I, ChatGPT:
@Zerosquare It is, of course, dumb, and was clearly shot with the soldering iron cold, but it was physically arranged and photographed.
Which makes it even worse, in my opinion. SOMEONE involved in creating that picture should have had enough working brain cells to recognize the problem.
Like, maybe the scorching was a bit of a hint?
@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Watson said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Watson said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
But when presented with 018 it appears to parse it to (decimal) 1 and discard the rest of the literal without printing a diagnostic at any error level, which is bad.
>php -a Interactive shell php > echo (017=='017') ? 'true' : 'false'; false php > echo (018=='018') ? 'true' : 'false'; PHP Parse error: Invalid numeric literal in php shell code on line 1 php >
?
Must be a version thing. I tested on a work box running an ancient version of PHP and I forgot they've been tightening up their game since 5.x
Ah, that would do it. You'll be glad to know then that these days
0=="not zero"
is false,I wonder how many places that change caused things to break.
edit: No I don't
They deserved it.
@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Watson said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
But when presented with 018 it appears to parse it to (decimal) 1 and discard the rest of the literal without printing a diagnostic at any error level, which is bad.
>php -a Interactive shell php > echo (017=='017') ? 'true' : 'false'; false php > echo (018=='018') ? 'true' : 'false'; PHP Parse error: Invalid numeric literal in php shell code on line 1 php >
?
Must be a version thing. I tested on a work box running an ancient version of PHP and I forgot they've been tightening up their game since 5.x
Ah, that would do it. You'll be glad to know then that these days 0=="not zero"
is false,
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You missed the conversation derailing. The original post was in Node, and someone said language meant to be interpreted that even a language like PHP will error on code like that, and everyone forgot it was originally in Javascript.
No, I saw that; I was just wondering how @PleegWat was checking what PHP did, since the "relatively sane language for comparison" did the same thing that PHP does.
@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
But when presented with 018 it appears to parse it to (decimal) 1 and discard the rest of the literal without printing a diagnostic at any error level, which is bad.
>php -a
Interactive shell
php > echo (017=='017') ? 'true' : 'false';
false
php > echo (018=='018') ? 'true' : 'false';
PHP Parse error: Invalid numeric literal in php shell code on line 1
php >
?
@BernieTheBernie said in Programming Memes Thread:
@Watson said in Programming Memes Thread:
@topspin Take a photo, obviously.
And celebrate shitposting.
That's a bonus, yes.
@topspin said in Scientific Science:
So metrics will be cooked up to asses merit,
I think you accidentally something.
So metrics will be cooked up to asses' merit,
@Arantor said in Random Thought of the Day:
I thought the Daleks were just straight up caps LIKE THIS. USING SHORT, EASILY REPETITIVE PHRASES.
Only when they're worked up. Which, admittedly, is most of the time.
For me I always interpret it aS a ReNdErInG oF ToRgO's SpeECh PaTTerNS.
Someone Who Writes Every Word In Title Case Is Given The Voice Of A Dalek.
@DogsB said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
I’m out of the loop here but why is it loading files?
When opening a window on a folder it wants to know what sort of files it contains so that it can make up its mind what sort of layout it wants to use. And if those files are images or video, it wants to make thumbnails instead of icons.
What's more, "mum" has had that meaning (its original) for six hundred years now. If anything, it's using it to mean "mother" that's the slang form.
Voyager 1's distance from Earth complicates the troubleshooting effort. The one-way travel time for a radio signal to reach Voyager 1 from Earth is about 22.5 hours, meaning it takes roughly 45 hours for engineers on the ground to learn how the spacecraft responded to their commands.
"Hey! Get back to work!"
"Debugging!"
"Oh. Carry on."
@Arantor said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@DogsB I assume all the clothes are sandwiched in pretty tight?
No, only a pair of loafers.
@Zecc said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
"She fell into a giant barrel and we had trouble getting her out of it.
Not because she was slipping, but because she kept pushing us away."
"She was in there for a long time. So long she actually had to get out twice to go to the toilet."
So you're the sort of person who puts your carry-on on the floor under the seat in front of you. Later, you have to explain to the insurance company how your laptop got damaged during the flight. "There was a flood", you say.
@Zecc The first one goes into more detail than necessary:
MYTH: Total solar eclipses produce harmful rays that can cause blindness.
Most of these can be summed up with "there's nothing from the Sun reaching Earth during an eclipse that isn't reaching it at any other time".
MYTH: Solar eclipses are a sign of an exceptional celestial event taking place in time and space.
Well, it is pretty exceptional considering how unlikely it is that a planet's sun and one of its moons will just happen to have the almost exactly the same angular diameter in its sky.
@HardwareGeek said in Is updating dependencies frequently still good advice?:
@sockpuppet7 said in Is updating dependencies frequently still good advice?:
keep your sanity
In a small locked box way back on a high shelf.
@kazitor Standard to DST. The other is more tricky because there the 2:00 AM is duplicated … now that is the more interesting case to try.
Not in Brisbane, which doesn't observe DST.
@DogsB said in I, ChatGPT:
open the water valve
The devil are you talking about?
The tap? (Though with our machine it has its own upstream connection and a valve under its own control.)
@remi said in Random Question of the Day:
I understand having a noisy engine and going to play on dirt tracks. I understand going up and down the street if you can't go on tracks. I even understand playing tricks in your backyard if you can't go outside. I also understand tuning the engine if you've changed something.
What I don't understand is a neighbour a couple of streets over who has modified their car to dump fuel into the exhaust system where it ignites.
Yes, they want their car to backfire. Frequently.
@dkf said in Programming Memes Thread:
@PleegWat I know. But I was thinking more that if you're going to cite chapter and verse, then adding the other wrappings of religious texts probably ought to be done too. (It all emphasises that this is something that "just is and can't be argued with" despite the fact that, as with all human creations, it very much can be argued with and altered as necessary.)
I hope nobody's done an illuminated C++ standard on vellum. I really hope that.
"So let it be written, so let it be done."
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Really? I always pictured more of a serif font...
Another difference in the way current ML systems work compared with the real thing is that the former is batched and the latter is online.
With an LLM, you give it a prompt, stir it into a big pile of linear algebra, and have a look at what pops out the other end. Done. Finished.
That's not what happens with biological brains where all three parts would be happening concurrently and pretty much all the time.
If your network had feedback loops among its connections, then batched usage would mean the network could churn for an arbitrarily long time while it tried to settle down into some attractor before you could extract a stable "output". Online usage doesn't have that issue since you're just monitoring an ongoing stream of output without having to wait for anything to "finish" (yes, I know you can "monitor output" now, but that's more "monitoring progress toward a final state"; for an online network there is no "final" state as such).
@Arantor said in I, ChatGPT:
“Real artists” or something, except they never finish anything and none of the tools in the world are going to fix the fact they don’t actually want to put the work in, but also they’d never accept it if it wasn’t truly theirs.
As Asimov put it, "they don't want to be writers, they want to have written".
We ran around the corner, found ourselves facing a row of enemy mooks. I turned to my partner (who couldn't decide what style she was drawn in) and found myself on the wrong end of a double-cross. And her shotgun.
When the barrel drifted to one side as she addressed the mooks, I helpfully re-aimed it at my head. I wasn't too fazed. I'd just respawn back at my last savepoint.
This is a game, right?