sockpuppet7
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The split
Commercial people will tell anything to sell their stuff, and this time it wasn't different. Our salesman was trying to sell our payment application for a store chain that used some hardware with only 100KiB of available memory (this was about 10 years ago).
But our MS-DOS based software required 400KiB, so he promised we would just split the program into 4 executable files. As it was such an easy task he promised it in a week and closed the contract, with a penalty if it isn't delivered in a week, because why not, it's a big sale.
Our developer managed to make it work, spliting the executable as he said, but in 13 executables. Much of the code is shared by different operations so you can't just split that.
When the code reached a split, it would save everything to continue on the next part. I still find some hacks on the code caused by this thing.
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RE: TempleOS and HolyC (Again. I think there's already a thread. Oh well.)
@Zerosquare only admins have an unlimited number of downvotes. @boomzilla abuses that a lot
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RE: Why Windows 10 Sucks
@gąska said in Why Windows 10 Sucks:
Windows loves thrashing your HDD.
This is so vague I don't know what to say.
It means windows is enjoying it when it trashes your HDD. Other systems are more sympathetic to it and feel really sad when it happens.
Latest posts made by sockpuppet7
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@Zerosquare said in I, ChatGPT:
@Bulb said in I, ChatGPT:
Stock photos don't contain unphysical elements.
Stock photos aren't always above nonsense, either:
she's a 🤖
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RE: The Wibble
I'm doing some tests using the AI to translate everything. Now the root (index) page is translated with whatever is in the browser accept language, and can be overriden with a ?lang=xxx.
Whatever the AI understands should work, including things you invent like "en-spongebob", "pt-spongebob", "en-uwu", "it-pirate", etc.
en-spongebob does this:
italian-pirate does this (I dunno if it got piratelike cause I cant read italian):
english-donald-trump:
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RE: Scientific Science
@LaoC said in Scientific Science:
@sockpuppet7 said in Scientific Science:
@dcon said in Scientific Science:
@izzion Academia's "Publish or Perish". Oops. Wrong choice.
Academia importance to science is overrated. Things that matter would still be researched without this theater
Apparently dark matter doesn't.
such a perfect pun that double as a good valid response, you deserve some serious internet points for this one
the scientists behind those big particle accelerators are important. people with loads of crap publications and fabricated bullshit are not
would you pay me big money just knowing the number of GitHub repositories without looking at it's contents? something is weird on publish or perish
maybe the funders doesn't accept that a scientist isn't gonna produce a measurable amount of results if they're truly focused on discovering currently unknown things, and take measurable bullshit instead
a scientist that makes one breakthrough a week exist only on fantasy tv series
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RE: Scientific Science
@dcon said in Scientific Science:
@izzion Academia's "Publish or Perish". Oops. Wrong choice.
Academia importance to science is overrated. Things that matter would still be researched without this theater
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RE: 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.
There is an old sci-fi short story where management is the first to be replaced. I believe like everything else, it doesn't need to straight out replace everything you do, but if it can help a lot less people achieve the same thing the effect is about the same
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@loopback0 said in I, ChatGPT:
@Arantor said in I, ChatGPT:
@HardwareGeek pay peanuts, get monkeys. They will learn that if you don’t pay the money you get crap results.
They didn't learn that with buying cheap developers from 3rd world countries, they won't learn it with AI-generated code.
We are the developing countries, that is the right place for development to happen, right?
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RE: In other news today...
@acrow there is probably some tv trope where a crow is in a tree, watching as someone perform dark, unspeakable things