[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Well I loved it!

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

I thought it was funny that Jobe got addicted to short form content. Larry was even like "ya know, there's something to be said for slower absorbsion, like reading a good book."

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

I got permanent damage on a CRT by playing with some magnets neat it. Never left them around it overnight or anything. They were the magnets from the magnetic beyblade arena lol. The sides of the screen got sort of more red. If bright colors, especially white, were on those areas for a long time they'd get progressively more discolored. It would fade back to its mostly normal dull red shade after some time without the bright white. So it wasn't the worst damage ever, but it was definitely permanent damage and definitely noticeable.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago

Magnets can damage CRT televisions and mechanical hard drives (not solidstate ones I don't think). I'm not necessarily going to test it by rubbing magnets all over, but for the most part those two things have fallen out of use. Tech is a lot less... Moving now. I guess is a good way of putting it. With hard drives specifically it would cause the arm inside to move and scratch the disk.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

Not really. A big problem is the energy usage, which would not go away.

Distributed computing is a real thing though. Check out GIMPS and Folding@home if this interests you. The first is looking for extremely large prime numbers. The second is to learn about proteins. I believe amateurs get more benefit from it. I remember a service to help jailbreak your 3ds used distributed computing. Also there are some folks who search for Minecraft world generation seeds with specific properties using distributed computing.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

If you're still in college, try to get an internship. Once you have something on your resume, it's a lot easier to get into places. Plus try to network and stuff. Getting recommended by someone is much more likely to result in an interview.

The AI shit is really rocking the boat right now, but ultimately I don't think it's sustainable. I don't know what the future of dev work will look like or when it'll balance out, but right now, these AI agents are effectively heavily subsidized by investors. At some point, they'll need to either turn to the public (IPO) as a last resort, or actually begin to turn a profit. I think this happened with Microsoft's Copilot. "Tokenpocalypse" was the term that got thrown around. They can't undercharge for this stuff forever.

Even if AI does end up being a significant part of work, actually knowing how to code will make you better at using it. Your skills aren't useless. You'll be better at noticing when the agents make shitty code or shitty decisions. If agentic development ends up being too costly for everyday use, you'll still be able to assist with "manual" code writing.

AI companies over hype their products and say they're world shattering as a way of marketing. They say the idea of developers are over because they want people to invest and buy their product. Agentic coding has gotten pretty fucking impressive in the past few months, but something's gonna break at some point. The bill always comes due.

But yeah. Internship and networking. Learn AI, but don't eschew traditional development practices entirely.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 2 days ago

Lol. "Hide NSFW communities by default" and in the same commit totally blocks blahaj.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago

Pedophile and perchance

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago

Let's be real here, the concerns about what the copyright is of code that's produced by AI is still sort of in the air, especially for a site that wants to host content from across the globe. Codeberg picking its battles and not wanting to deal with that for now seems reasonable.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 34 points 3 days ago

7. You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as Claude, OpenAI Codex). Such projects having an unclear copyright status (see requirements § 2 (1) 1 and § 2 (1) 3) and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code (c.f. § 2 (1) 5).

That feels like a reasonable middle ground. Allow some things with some AI written code, but don't allow stuff that is a majority of AI code.

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When talking about inflation there are two main types. I usually call them treasury and CPI inflation, but I don't necessarily know if those are widely used terms. By treasury inflation I refer to the total supply of money, like the inverse of federal interest rates basically. By CPI inflation I mean the change of the consumer price index over time. Both are useful, but depending on the context one may be more useful than the other.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by JackbyDev@programming.dev to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

If I turn my controller on, it won't connect. But if it's on when I turn my computer on (or restart/wake from sleep), it connects just fine. I am using the "Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows". It's possible it's actually connected but not recognized by Steam or any games, but I am not sure how to troubleshoot that directly. The Arch wiki (linked) doesn't say anything about this specifically.

I am on CachyOS.

Any ideas? <3

Update: This somehow fixed itself. I don't think I even upgraded or anything since it was a problem.

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Hey Adora look I'm Catra (programming.dev)
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by JackbyDev@programming.dev to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net

The initial concept developed by the company involved using heat generated by Bitcoin mining rigs, according to Heata Co-founder and CTO Chris Jordan.

"We literally put a Bitcoin miner in a barrel of mineral oil and plumbed it up to a radiator," he told The Register.

Edit, because I think folks may be confused due to the quote I put in. They are not installing crypto miners into water heaters. That was just their original inspiration. Sorry for the confusion.

"We're not looking at serving real time workloads, we're not doing websites, databases, message queue servers," Jordan explained. "Our ideal job is; here's a chunk of data, go and process that for some hours. And here's the result," he said.

This could still prove useful for 3D rendering workloads, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and others where there is a lot of CPU or GPU processing, he claimed.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by JackbyDev@programming.dev to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

My Keyboard has a chattering problem. On Windows I was able to run a program that would detect this and fix it. I believe I could use the built-in keyboard bounce accessibility feature to solve this, but the lowest setting it will allow me to use is 100 ms. When I type normally I will sometimes push a key that fast (e.g., hitting backspace a lot or in a video game). Is it possible to lower this settings to something like 10 ms? Maybe via the terminal?


Edit:

Potential workaround found. In ~/.config/kaccessrc manually change it to something like 10. Save and reboot. It didn't seem to take hold if I didn't reboot. Even typing this now I am seeing some problems, but I also hear the ding indicating it is working. Change BounceKeysRejectBeep to false to get rid of the ding. A comment on the bug mentioned 40 ms, so maybe that's a good sweetspot.

[Keyboard]
BounceKeys=true
BounceKeysDelay=10
BounceKeysRejectBeep=true
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by JackbyDev@programming.dev to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

For me it isn't working. Single player works fine. If Crossplay is ON I can see other games on the world map, but time out when joining the lobby. When I disable Crossplay I see none at all. (Yes, this is the opposite of what you might guess based on other issues people have mentioned where disabling Crossplay fixed it.)

Update: I switched to Proton 9 from the Cachy version and it works!

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On Windows I use the linked program. I tried using KDE's accessibility settings but the lowest time it can do it 100 ms, which I naturally do on occasion (mashing backspace quickly, for example). Is there any other solution?

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Powering my GPU and rails (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by JackbyDev@programming.dev to c/buildapc@lemmy.world

This will likely have some technical inaccuracies because I've never dealt with something this specific with PSUs. I have two slots for PCIe. I have a 3070 ti which has two 8 pin connectors. Each of this PSU's cords for the PCIe slots (minus that mysterious 600W one which I think is not for anything I'm doing due to the size) goes from the 12 pin on the PSU to two separate 8 pin connectors (well, 6 with the optional 2).

My gut feeling is to just plug a single cord from the PCIe slots I to the two slots on my GPU. But I'm wondering about what would happen if I plugged two cords into the PCIe slots separately and then put a single connector into the GPU from each. Would that be better/worse/the same/catastrophic?

I'm wondering if it has something to do with dividing the current among the different rails in the PSU or something? It has a little jumper to enable "overclocking" which does something like combining the rails, but I'd rather not fool with that. And it also might be totally unrelated to the other question. The jumper is, of course, just out of view of the pic, but it's also not really relevant.

Edit: I went with one and it's working fine.

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I've seen some tools that do things like take snapshots periodically and ones that add snapshots to grub, but not this specifically. Does something exist?

This will probably be on EndeavourOS, not Arch directly, if it matters.

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Sorry for the horrible picture. It's hard enough to see with my eyes, let alone get a pic.

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Using one of those FTDI kenwood adapter programming cables. My gut feeling is no. It would be nice for things like sending/receiving SSTV images.

I am able to transmit if I use a double ended male 3.5 mm cable in the microphone hole of the radio and the headphones hole in my computer, but I have to hold down the PTT button. Also I have to turn the volume on my computer down a lot or else it is distorted. I suspect this has something to do with "line out" versus "headphones" voltage levels (I recall seeing some YouTube video discuss this).

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My guessThe left sort of looks like the outside of the cable so I think that's ground.

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