ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
1hr ago
Out of curiosity, have any of these reports so far suggested that birth control access, abortion, and women's liberation generally might be a contributing factor to the decline in fertility? And have they suggested any solutions to such things that might go against the modern liberal feminist views on such things?
ChickenOverlord
3hr ago
Sorry Eurobro
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
There's something darkly funny about the prospect of the profit motive of the cynical businessman being far more valuable than the truth motive of a good-faith academic for producing actual knowledge or useful research.
Scams like Theranos aside, you generally need something to sell to make a profit, and you need something that at least sort of kind of works to get people to actually buy it most of the time. Or as Ghostbusters put it:
"Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college! You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector. They expect results."
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
Oof, sorry
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
You're lucky you missed the "bring a live chicken to the theater for when Jack Black says 'chicken jockey' in the Minecraft movie" trend
My wife and I make it a point to try and go to movies near the end of their theater run, especially for anime movies. We had the theater all to ourselves for the latest Demon Slayer movie since we saw it in the last week of its run (though we had to drive to a theater almost an hour away to see it since the theater closest to us had stopped showing it a week early).
At least none of these nerds literally yelled at the screen, as I had the displeasure of witnessing during a screening of Akira some years back.
TETSUUUOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! KANEDAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Hopefully I retriggered some of your PTSD there.
Edit: On a more serious note, I can't help but agree with your point. I spend way too much time on /pol/ and have no problem dropping the normie killing word that starts with an N, but I was playing Meccha Chameleon with my wife and some friends the other day on a public server and there was some rando who just kept saying it over and over nonstop in voice chat and not even in a remotely funny way. It's like a certain subset of people find something edgy/cool but don't understand the core of what makes it cool and imitate it in a way that just doesn't make sense.
Yes, anime villain #345647 with long hair, a trench coat, and a big sword is cool. No, you imitating it with your obese body and your dandruff and grease and your katana from the mall ninja shop isn't, and I really don't understand how you can't see that.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
Same, I just got to my third straight year of subscribing this year and it's ~$15 a month from the 3rd year onwards (with the annual billing discount).
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
I wish I could get an IntelliJ license at work, but it is not to be.
If you're willing to pony up for your own personal license (which is much cheaper than what JetBrains charges enterprise customers) the license explicitly allows you to use it at work:
and
https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/206544399-Can-my-company-use-my-personal-license
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
Is that with GAAP accounting?
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
Zig: banned, full stop.
Other full bans include qemu, Bevy, GIMP.
Another I'd like to point out is WINE. WINE already had a strict policy prior to LLMs in that contributors could not have previously worked on Windows at Microsoft, could not have ever so much as looked at any Windows source code leaks, and could not so much as even looked at the source code for ReactOS (a project for making an open source Windows clone) in case any contributors to that project ever worked on Windows at Microsoft or ever looked at a Windows source code leak.
This stance by Codeweavers (the maintainers of WINE) is because they fear their entire project (and therefore their entire business) being shut down by litigation from Microsoft. It's interesting to me that they still see copyright of LLM-generated code as potentially making their project no longer qualify as clean room reverse engineering, while the rest of the industry has effectively pretended that copyright no longer exists even though LLMs can produce the code of open source projects (or the entirety of a Harry Potter book) verbatim: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671
I'm curious if there's going to be a big lawsuit at some point that completely upends LLMs due to copyright issues that will scare a lot of companies that were previously on the "LLM all the things" train.
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
nissed as a pewt
Is this an Irishism of some sort? Never heard this phrase before
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
Ah, I used the Revision mod and didn't realize it bundled HDTP in with it, I assumed it was a different mod.
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
There are already HD texture mod packs for the original Deus Ex that look a million times better than the garbage they had planned for the "remaster". The remaster looked like this meme: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT7KdIf21VCrWUXW6j7fEf_-I1MQCz0W9GcQYPnK8uow8qikhGeVbpohbI1&s=10 There are also mods that revamp the character models that aren't to my tastes but still dona much better job than the remaster.
Playing Factorio (again), trying out the new quality of life features they're adding in the 2.1 beta branch. 2.1 is the final planned feature update, basically only bugfixes once it's out of beta, sadly.
Already got a rocket launched, currently working on uranium enrichment and getting some space platforms set up. The 2.1 update added logistics between space platforms so I'm planning on making one (or a few) around each planet to save myself a ton of rocket launches by crafting all that stuff up in space. This also means I'll have go to Gleba first (shudder) so that I can get advanced asteroid processing.
ChickenOverlord
6d ago
It wasn't a bad game, but it was really short for what it was. You're better off playing something like Contra.
ChickenOverlord
6d ago
Yeah, we're using type annotations, and they're still pretty garbage too. "Expected type str, actually found 'property'" even though the property is a str lol. Or "Expected List[SomeClass] actually found List[type[SomeClass]]" and the documentation for the type system for how to fix this crap is awful.
ChickenOverlord
6d ago
You type in variable names? Like every letter manually?
Not usually, no. I have the misfortune to work on a Python project right now and we're using SQLAlchemy as an ORM. The parameters get passed in a dictionary where you need the name of the dictionary keys to match the names of the parameters in the query. I transposed 2 letters between what the query had and what the parameter dictionary had. In C#/.NET (my preferred language) this would be impossible with EF Core, and the tooling around Dapper is much better than whatever crap SQLAlchemy has so I'm pretty sure the IDE would have detected it for Dapper.
This is the largest Python project I've ever done significant work on and I hate it. 99% of the pain points I've had are due to the terrible type system. Also I miss LINQ every time I write a loop.
ChickenOverlord
6d ago
I pray for the day that MSFT pisses off their partners so bad that big name vendors like Dell start shipping Linux laptops and big retailers like Best Buy sell them.
The iPhone was the mortal blow to the old internet, and outside of niche communities it has gotten worse every year since.
Or, as a meme succinctly put it, "65% of India isn't even on the internet yet":
Note that this meme was likely made around 2020, now a mere 30% or so of India doesn't have internet access. Also note the lion's share of this is mobile internet mostly being accessed via phones. Good luck running fiber or copper anywhere in India.
ChickenOverlord
7d ago
Did they intentionally bypass the cache, or did they not even know about it?
No clue, when we asked them why they did it they didn't have any sort of coherent answer.
Perhaps he's wondering why someone would sponsor a man for an H1B before employing him overseas.
You're a big guy. And my mistake, I call them all H1B code monkeys even if they're still offshore employees.
ChickenOverlord
7d ago
You'll have to provide some examples.
We had a project that gets some fields from the database. These fields were being cached in memory after retrieval because they literally only change once a year. The H1B code monkeys in Mumbai bypassed the cache and fetched them from the database every single time because they're retarded. They wrote a whole nother SQL query instead of just typing "SomeGloballyAvailableMemoryCache.Get("TheTaxFormFieldsThatGetUpdatedAnnually") or something like that.
Oh and they passed all these fields around in a stringly-typed DataTable instead of the strongly-typed object the cache would have given them. This is one of millions of examples, this shit happens daily in the software engineering world.
ChickenOverlord
7d ago
Nah, it's not just that. There's also a problem with what Casey Muratori has termed "pessimization", where careless devs don't do even the most basic things to make the computer not have to do the same work twice. It's especially embarrassing when the shittier way of doing it is harder to write than the non-pessimized way and retarded web dev monkeys do it anyways.
ChickenOverlord
7d ago
I've found LLMs the most useful in identifying bugs I caused by embarrassing typos (or cooy paste errors where I didn't change the value of something after pasting). Just 10 minutes wgo it solved a bug by pointing out that I had transposed two letters in a variable name. Though in fairness if I was using a real language instead of a toy language like Python the IDE could have caught it for me.
So the Brad Pitt Troy, basically.
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