Thorry84

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[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 40 points 20 hours ago (17 children)

I don't know, most experimental technologies aren't allowed to be tested in public till they are good and well ready. This whole move fast break often thing seems like a REALLY bad idea for something like cars on public roads.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is it me or is the broadcast quality absolutely awful today? All sorts of ghosting and glitching all over the place.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 3 points 2 days ago

Your mother sucks cocks in hell!

Well it's good she's keeping busy at least

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Whilst I agree with the general message of this article, it does appear to be badly written. Lots of filler and repetition, focusing on unimportant details just to fill out some sort of word count. It feels like it was written heavily assisted by AI.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 20 points 4 days ago

And the war on drugs was extremely effective and didn't cause any bad things at all!

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 3 points 5 days ago

Why do you think that? I think the new leadership is trying to bring stability to the team. Lawson is at the same performance level in the RB as Tsunoda was. The Red Bull car has a very narrow operating window and suits the driving style of Verstappen. Everyone else has a really hard time getting anything out of that car. It takes time to get close to the level of Verstappen and it's hard to get there when the car doesn't perform at all unless you are near his level.

This isn't new, we've seen cars like this in the past. I remember the Ferrari car being a handful back in the day. When Massa was injured in 2009 and had to step out for a while, nobody could drive his car. They tried Luca Badoer, who was very experienced driving the car in the simulator, but was dead slow in the real car. They then pulled in Fisichella, who did pretty well as teammate to Alonso at Renault and had a pole position and podium with Force India that year. He was nowhere in the Ferrari, I don't think he scored a single point. Whilst Raikkonen was fighting at the front regularly in the same car.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 3 points 5 days ago

Checkmate liberals

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 5 points 5 days ago

I don't know, I feel like saying 'kagis' makes you streets ahead of the rest.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

SOURCE!?!?!?!

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My pussy

And my crack

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 6 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Is this going to be improved with the 2026 aero?

Back in the day they would just go racing, but it did lead to some big crashes. But if the alternative is no racing at all, that's not right as well. Is there a middle ground?

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Not below average dev necessarily, but when posting code examples on the internet people often try to get a point across. Like how do I solve X? Here is code that solves X perfectly, the rest of the code is total crap, ignore that and focus on the X part. Because it's just an example, it doesn't really matter. But when it's used to train an LLM it's all just code. It doesn't know which parts are important and which aren't.

And this becomes worse when small little bits of code are included in things like tutorials. That means it's copy pasted all over the place, on forums, social media, stackoverflow etc. So it's weighted way more heavily. And the part where the tutorial said: "Warning, this code is really bad and insecure, it's just an example to show this one thing" gets lost in the shuffle.

Same thing when an often used pattern when using a framework gets replaced by new code where the framework does a little bit more so the same pattern isn't needed anymore. The LLM will just continue with the old pattern, even though there's often a good reason it got replaced (for example security issues). And if the new and old version aren't compatible with each other, you are in for a world of hurt trying to use an LLM.

And now with AI slop flooding all of these places where they used to get their data, it just becomes worse and worse.

These are just some of the issues why using an LLM for coding is probably a really bad idea.

 

I've played a demo of this game or a Shareware version, I never had the full game. It was on one of those 1000 shareware games CDs. It's a top down racing game with a gritty sort of vibe, a bit dark. As you raced there were pickups and bonus items and I'm pretty sure you could fire weapons at other racers. It was a single player game. It was top down in that semi 3D kind of way, but I think the cars were meant as full sized cars, not a micro machines kind of thing.

The one unique feature that never let me pinpoint exactly what game it was, was this very specific sound effect when getting a certain pick up. A voice would say "Booster", but it was pronounced more like "Boostah".

There were jumps on the game and one way to kill other racers was to jump on top of them. I think the track had multiple routes you could take.

I think because of the shareware version I had I only had one track, which was kinda dark, like maybe a cave. And the surroundings were rocks. I think there were also thinks like oil barrels with fire in them and pretty lighting effects for the time.

Very similar to Death Rally, but maybe a game inspired by Death Rally? Because that game was earlier I think and doesn't have the distinct "Boostah" audio clip.

 

She died about 10 years ago. I love and have loved all the pets I've ever had, but Pyxel was something special. She was very headstrong and did whatever she felt like, getting pissed off if you did something she didn't like. But when she was in the mood she would be the sweetest thing in the world.

She was saved from the dumpster, along with her mother and brother. The mother had to be put down and a lot of the brothers and sisters didn't make it from being dumped in a trash bag. But Pyxel and her brother made it and we adopted them from the rescue when they were very young still.

I remember Pyxel sleeping for hours in my lap, or in the cat bed on my desk. When I was working from home, she slept in the cat bed, till she got fed up, went for a drink and a snack only to get back and jump in my lap because it was her time and she would let me know it.

Still miss her every day.

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Rescued old CRT (imgur.com)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Thorry84@feddit.nl to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
 

Rescued old CRT I put a lot of work in. Was totally dead when I got it, rescued it to be almost perfect again.

It still has an intermittent horizontal size issue and the power button has some cosmetic wear. But at least the power button works, it used to only work when you would hold it down.

Be sure to enable the audio for some good retro tunes coming from the monitor.

 

Serious question. I know there are a lot of memes about microservices, both advocating and against it. And jokes from devs who go and turn monoliths into microservices and then back again. For my line of work it isn't all that relevant, but a discussion I heard today made me wonder.

There were two camps in this discussion. One side said microservices are the future, all big companies are moving towards it, the entire industry is moving towards it. In their view, if it wasn't Mach architecture, it wasn't valid software. In their world both software they made themselves and software bought or licensed (SaaS) externally should be all microservices, api first, cloud-native and headless. The other camp said it was foolish to think this is actually what's happening in the industry and depending on where you look microservices are actually abandoned instead of moving towards. By demanding all software to be like this you are limiting what there is on offer. Furthermore the total cost of operation would be higher and connecting everything together in a coherent way is a nightmare. Instead of gaining flexibility, one can actually lose flexibility because changing interfaces could be very hard or even impossible with software not fully under your own control. They argued a lot of the benefits are only slight or even nonexistent and not required in the current age of day.

They asked what I thought and I had to confess I didn't really have an answer for them. I don't know what the industry is doing and I think whether or not to use microservices is highly dependent on the situation. I don't know if there is a universal answer.

Do you guys have any good thoughts on this? Are microservices the future, or just a fad which needs to be forgotten ASAP.

 
 
 
 
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