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I’m in a nightmare scenario where my new job has a guy using Claude to pump out thousands of lines of C++ in a weekend. I’ve never used C++ (just C for embedded devices).

He’s experienced, so I want to believe he knows what he’s doing, but every time I have a question, the answer is “oh that’s just filler that Claude pumped out,” and some copy pasted exposition from Claude.

So I have no idea what’s AI trash and what’s C++ that I don’t know.

Like a random function was declared as a template. I had to learn what function templates are for. So I do, but the function is only defined once, and I couldn’t think of why you would need to templatize it. So I’m sitting here barely grasping the concept and syntax and trying to understand the reasoning behind the decision, and the answer is probably just that Claude felt like doing it that way.

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What about political science? Psychology?

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Nor are a man and a woman.

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I love the jump across the crevasse. Like, if its feet slip (which they will on snow like that), you die.

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God I hate that this is what public discourse has become. This is what court rooms are for.

Edit: My poorly articulated point is that you can go to /r/conservative and they'll look at this footage and come to the exact opposite conclusion. So someone dies and instead of everyone taking a step back and dealing with underlying societal issues, we're just more drawn to our own opinions.

It sucks and it's exhausting.

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Yeah, their website sent me to a store that had one display model and they could order it.

Later found another store that had dozens of them all folded up on cute shelves. I love mine.

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Oh don't worry. That AI is definitely in the commercials.

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Looks like you screwed it all up

Why do servers and supercomputers primarily run on Linux and not on some Microsoft/Apple/Google/Amazon OS?

Most servers around the world run Linux. The same goes for almost all supercomputers. That's astonishing in a capitalist world where absolutely everything is commodified. Why can't these big tech companies manage to sell their own software to server operators or supercomputers? Why is an open, free project that is free for users ...

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Microsoft comes out with Windows Supercomputer Pro.

They sell 6 copies.

When you're running exotic hardware, everything is custom. Linux is the most easily customizable.

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My take has more to do with how accessible the methods of violence are. Most kids playing GTA aren't (dog willing) going to have access to an arsenal of fully automatic weapons or sporty cars. At that point, they might as well be using wizard magic. I think even a young kid can recognize that it's fantasy.

But I remember in GTA3 (or maybe Vice City?), you could use a screwdriver as a stabbing weapon. That's kinda fucked.

I personally remember trying a move from Mortal Kombat on one of my friends when we were rough housing when I was like 7. While he was on his back, I jumped (off his bed I think?) and landed with my full body weight on my knee on his sternum. Probably could have cracked a rib. Certainly knocked the wind out of him. Learned that day that even the non-stabby bits of MK should stay in the pretend realm.

To some degree, I know kids will try to emulate what they see. If what they see is fantasy, nobody gets hurt.

Under communism, what incentive is there to pursue highly dangerous or specialized fields?

Under capitalism, a lot of the time, highly dangerous jobs are also highly paid. Kind of a balance that the individual decides to engage with. Same idea behind getting an advanced degree in STEM or law. I think of my job by example, I'm a power plant operator at a large combined cycle plant. No fucking shot I'd be doing this if ...

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It's spelled "caste," and castes are (critically) hereditary. Leaving a caste you were born into is virtually impossible.

People who do more/harder work can get compensated an appropriate amount. Note that this runs at odds to the current system where a CEO makes 1000x their employees salary despite not working 1000x as hard.

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Because everyone would have access to the same opportunities and same schools etc. Those with better talents or a better work ethic will probably make more money. Instead of today where families hoard wealth through generations.

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The tenets of capitalism say nothing about how much each person makes. Nor do communism. If you're eager to learn more, read something.

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Yeah, actually this is a bad meme. From a recent comment of mine:

9 officers were surrounded by like 300 angry Bostonians who were wielding clubs and other weapons and goading them to fire their weapons while throwing shit at them. The fact that the only punishment for the officers who killed five people following their trial (in colonial court defended by John Adams) was that two had their thumbs branded indicated how two-sided the situation was.

Paul Revere’s famous engraving depicting the incident was intentional anti-British propaganda used to advance the cause of the revolution.

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Back in 2020, my racist uncle's big rebuttal to BLM was that some protestors pulled a dude out of a car and beat the shit out of him. This was after he drove his car into the protest. In trying to find a link to this story, I found this.

I'll tell my uncle that next time they should just shoot the driver.

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Who needs that when you’ve got Dead Or Alive Xtreme 2?

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I remember one review commenting on how the controls were mapped to only need one hand.

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I'll stick with my dog. She'd never snitch on me.

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WTF even is an "AI PC"? I saw an ad for some AI laptop. To my knowledge, nobody is running LLMs on their personal hardware, so do these computers have like...a web browser?

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What kind of consumer-facing software runs on that NPU?

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I'm talking about an ad I saw on broadcast television during a football game. I don't think the broad market of people are downloading models from huggingface or whatever.

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The ad was people doing generic AI stuff. I think it was even showing Copilot.

Either way, the marketing for AI is far to nebulous for it to matter. Just looking for the ad, I found plenty (like this one) that explicitly mention "on-device AI," but show people just searching for shit or doing nebulous office work. This ad even shows generating images in MS Paint which offloads the AI shit to the cloud.

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In my experience, batteries aren't really targets. The folks in Seattle just want the tubing that they can fence it for cash.

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    Yeah, there are a bunch of AI images in this style. It was all the rage with the Harry Potter cast for a while.

    The Dreams of Printers

    waterandsilver: crazy how the printer is the only piece of tech that acts up like that almost every day of its life. and we just accept it. water and silver: i don't think i've ever met a printer that actually wanted to be a printer. i think most printers have dreams of being on the stage. in-the-drowning-deep: I met a printer early in my IT career that did not want to be a printer. it sat in a school reprographics room, sullenly chewing any job it was fed - if it deigned to notice them at all. then one day, a miracle occurred. an exhausted physics teacher, instead of punching in 12 for the number of copies she wanted of the 30-page booklet she had made for her A-level physics class, punched in 1200. and that printer camt o life. this print job was its moment, its magnum opus! it WOULD NOT be parted from it, no matter what we did, until we physically unplugged it from the wall, by which time it had printed almost 200 copies. moral of the story: no printer wants to be a printer unless you also do not want it to be a printer for a bit. netherworldpost: printers do not want to be printers because they want to be problems
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    As much as everyone loves to hate printers, the fact that a printer can grab a single sheet of paper off a huge stack even semi-reliably is more impressive to me than 14nm photolithography.

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    Don’t forget there’s a Ram truck recall going on now, so you might get a free Yeti cooler.

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    The old joke “what was the tallest mountain before Mt. Everest was discovered?”

    “Mt. Everest”

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    I mean I was the Time person of the year in 2006, and I was still in high school.

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    A friend of mine dedicated his life to birds and wildlife. He spent six months in Argentina weighing and banding penguins, worked to design autonomous buoys that track ocean data, and his personal birdwatching species count was over, 10k.

    He passed away suddenly last March at the age of 33. He just got married the month before.

    As tragic as his death was (especially for his widow), part of me thinks that there was some mercy in him dying so young rather than potentially living a long life of watching everything he cared about and worked to save get destroyed.

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    Yeah in this case, he dropped dead in a university lab. Nobody else was with him. Fucker was a marathon runner. Nobody knows what happened, but nobody suspects foul play.

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    Venezuelan Presidents are free. You can just take them.

    Be careful when choosing your profession

    Edited pbfcomics.com "Making amends" comic, where an old american veteran is on death greeted by an angel and informed that he needs to make peace with everyone he's killed, there is a framed picture of him in military uniform and a framed stock image of an exterminator. After embracing an asian soldier, he realizes there's also a colossal swarm of wasps he needs to make peace with.
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    Proceeds to use it exclusively for browsing the web.

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    I started mainlining Linux about a year and a half ago after playing with it for a bit in 2007-ish and running a headless server for a decade or so.

    I just installed Ubuntu because that was what Framework officially supported. I can't think of what a newbie user would find lacking with Ubuntu. It does about everything that Windows does fine. I've heard similar things about Mint. Why do we have to over-complicate things for new users? Just shove them towards a distro and let them know they can probably fix whatever they don't like with a reinstall later.

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    Peaking in 2009

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    Yep. 2011 was really the year we lost the plot.

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    Talk about a sigfig.

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    On the mac, there was Toast (it burns), and Nero had an ad that said that they "Eat Toast for Breakfast."

    What a great era for software branding.

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    Corporate word processing software: Word

    Apple’s photo management software: Photos

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    Here’s a tip. If you’re in a group, record people reacting to the fireworks, not the fireworks themselves.

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    Back in college, we had "Random Standard Time" where midnight was midnight, but it wasn't "tomorrow" until 5am.

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    Also to not fall for pitifully obvious scams.

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    They’d never agree to share the jet.

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    Yeah. That used to be the case in the US, but it’s illegal now.