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That was a laughable election. I would've preferred if Harris had won, because I'm not an accelerationist, but that time is past. Where do we go from here? Can the DNC be dragged back towards the left, or is it done for?

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@[email protected] explains why we need compilers (lemmy.world)

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@[email protected] does the math on password cracking (lemmy.world)

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What is your Brown M&M? (lemmy.world)

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If you haven't read about it before, the term comes from the band Van Halen, who demanded that there were no brown M&M's backstage. People thought it was just a crazy rock star thing, but David Lee Roth later explained that it had a purpose:

Van Halen was the first band to take huge productions into tertiary, third-level markets. We’d pull up with nine 18-wheeler trucks, full of gear, where the standard was three trucks, max. And there were many, many technical errors—whether it was the girders couldn’t support the weight, or the flooring would sink in, or the doors weren’t big enough to move the gear through.

… So just as a little test, in the technical aspect of the rider, it would say, “Article 148: There will be 15 amperage voltage sockets at 20-foot spaces, evenly, providing 19 amperes … ” This kind of thing. And article number 126, in the middle of nowhere, was, “There will be no brown M&M’s in the backstage area, upon pain of forfeiture of the show, with full compensation.”

So, when I would walk backstage, if I saw a brown M&M in that bowl … well, line-check the entire production. Guaranteed you’re going to arrive at a technical error. They didn’t read the contract. Guaranteed you’d run into a problem. Sometimes it would threaten to just destroy the whole show. Something like, literally, life-threatening.

My Brown M&M atm is AI-generated comments like this (first comment is referencing something like df = ... that they removed from the code, but left the comment, second comment is super useless):

# Assuming df is your DataFrame

# Show the plot
plt.show()

That probably means whoever I got the code from just copy/pasted whatever the LLM spit out, and didn't actually think about the code at all.

What is a small detail that you pay attention to because it means there's bigger issues to watch out for?

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Replacire - Do Not Deviate (US-MA, 2017) (www.youtube.com)

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The US having ambitions to fight China will never stop being hilarious. (lemmy.world)

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good luck with that lol

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Recommendations for SCP beginners? (lemmy.world)

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Someone asked over here about the best way to get into SCP. I listed a couple of my favorites there, but what do other people recommend?

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Atheist - Mother Man (US-FL, 1991) (www.youtube.com)

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Akphaezya - Dissociative Identity Disorder (France, 2024) (www.youtube.com)

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Lemmy draws a duck (lemmy.world)

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Where can I post a short story and get some serious review? by BitSound in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago

I think [email protected] would be a good place for it. The community sidebar says your own stories are welcome. You might want to add that you're specifically looking for feedback

Is there and Open Street Maps project for ratings and reviews? by BitSound in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago

mapcomplete has integration with this site:

https://mangrove.reviews/

I've also seen this project:

https://lib.reviews/

anti-snap stance is anti-consumer by BitSound in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

That's an interesting comment from a guy that used to work for Canonical, and then went anti-snap pretty hard, to the point that he made this:

https://github.com/popey/unsnap

Everything I need is still in in the old settings windows that haven't changed in 23 years by BitSound in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago

There's some even older UI bits buried around in there:

New Leica camera stops deepfakes at the shutter by BitSound in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago

This is tilting at windmills. If someone has physical possession of a piece of hardware, you should assume that it's been compromised down to the silicon, no matter what clever tricks they've tried to stymie hackers with. Also, the analog hole will always exist. Just generate a deepfake and then take a picture of it.

What is an absurdity that has been normalized by society? by BitSound in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago

Much of the concept of "intellectual property". Here's a good essay by Richard Stallman:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.en.html

Copyright by and large needs to be abolished. Patents in software are nonsensical, and elsewhere they should be drastically scaled back. Trademark is alright, with a few adjustments needed.

But all of the above is hiding behind a concept of "property" that just does not apply to intangible things, and we need to stop using that term to describe them.

which linux distro do you NOT like, and why? by BitSound in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 138 points 2 years ago

You're going to get a lot of comments about Ubuntu and snaps. Definitely one of the reasons I switched away from it.

I easly got the reddit r/place data into a 4.3GIB sqlite database, where can I post it? by BitSound in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 60 points 2 years ago

[email protected] looks active and seems like a good place for it

What law or rule exists because of you? What happened? by BitSound in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 91 points 2 years ago

"Ok class, for the rest of the semester, we're going to use the C89 standard".

I forgot the return 0; at the end of my main function and lost points on a test. Decided to be a point slut to ensure an A in the class and argued that it's allowed in the C99 standard. The professor sighed and gave me back my points, but next class specified the exact standard he was grading by.

How Stuff Works replaced writers with GPT-generated content and laid off editors by BitSound in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 166 points 2 years ago

This seems really short-sighted. Why would I go to How Stuff Works when I can just ask the LLM myself?

Maybe there's just no possible business model for them anymore with the advent of LLMs, but at least if they focused on the "actually written by humans!" angle there'd be some hook to draw people in.

How far from a forest fire do you have to be for a daily temperature record to count? by BitSound in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

The scary temperatures you see in news headlines are basically unaffected by the fires. Wikipedia has a good overview:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surface_temperature

The overall issue with global warming is not that one place gets super hot once and sets a record. Otherwise I could make news headlines by setting my house on fire and getting "hottest temperature ever! (at my house)". Those local hotspots of fire will affect the average global temp only a tiny bit, because the earth is a big place and there's lots of places not currently on fire. The thing to worry about is the reverse actually: because the earth is warming, fires are increasing everywhere, and then everybody will be next to a fire on that blessed record-setting day.